Zero Dark Thirty -- D: Bigelow S: Chastain, Strong, Edgerton, Adkins -- 12/19/12
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Re: Zero Dark Thirty -- D: Bigelow S: Chastain, Strong, Edgerton, Adkins -- 12/19/12
Saw it today. Didn't love it. It was overlong, had too many characters that should have been combined, and I didn't feel invested in the characters that the film did follow. The raid was tense, but it came at the end of a movie that felt twice as long as it actually was.
Also not enough Coach Taylor or Jack Harkness.
Also not enough Coach Taylor or Jack Harkness.
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Re: Zero Dark Thirty -- D: Bigelow S: Chastain, Strong, Edgerton, Adkins -- 12/19/12
Saw it today. Didn't love it. It was overlong, had too many characters that should have been combined, and I didn't feel invested in the characters that the film did follow. The raid was tense, but it came at the end of a movie that felt twice as long as it actually was.
Also not enough Coach Taylor or Jack Harkness.
Also not enough Coach Taylor or Jack Harkness.
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Re: Zero Dark Thirty -- D: Bigelow S: Chastain, Strong, Edgerton, Adkins -- 12/19/12
It's crazy how movies affect people differently.
I thought Lincoln was a colossal bore.
Zero Dark Thirty had me from the start. I was amazed at how well paced it was.
I'm generally someone who checks the time a few times during movies. The first time I did it during Zero it was already 2 hours in. I thought it might be boring with a 2 hour, 30-plus minute run time, and I was transfixed throughout the whole thing.
I do agree on the characters not really being memorable, but man I thought Bigelow just did an awesome job directing.
I've seen it twice now, and I think it lives up to the hype from the critics. IMO, it blew her last film out of the water.
I can't say I liked it better than Django, but man it's close.
I thought Lincoln was a colossal bore.
Zero Dark Thirty had me from the start. I was amazed at how well paced it was.
I'm generally someone who checks the time a few times during movies. The first time I did it during Zero it was already 2 hours in. I thought it might be boring with a 2 hour, 30-plus minute run time, and I was transfixed throughout the whole thing.
I do agree on the characters not really being memorable, but man I thought Bigelow just did an awesome job directing.
I've seen it twice now, and I think it lives up to the hype from the critics. IMO, it blew her last film out of the water.
I can't say I liked it better than Django, but man it's close.
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Re: Zero Dark Thirty -- D: Bigelow S: Chastain, Strong, Edgerton, Adkins -- 12/19/12
I thought Lincoln had a few good moments, and Daniel Day Lewis was fantastic. But I'm not a huge Spielberg fan.
Zero Dark Thirty could have been an incredibly taught 90-105 minutes. I mean, any single episode of Homeland felt more tense than most of this film did. It just had too much bloat.
Zero Dark Thirty could have been an incredibly taught 90-105 minutes. I mean, any single episode of Homeland felt more tense than most of this film did. It just had too much bloat.
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Re: Zero Dark Thirty -- D: Bigelow S: Chastain, Strong, Edgerton, Adkins -- 12/19/12
I don't ask anyone to trust me. I just call it like I see it.
Patman never gets this kind of shit.
Patman never gets this kind of shit.
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Re: Zero Dark Thirty -- D: Bigelow S: Chastain, Strong, Edgerton, Adkins -- 12/19/12
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Re: Zero Dark Thirty -- D: Bigelow S: Chastain, Strong, Edgerton, Adkins -- 12/19/12
As far as reviewers, there's never anyone I found that I could totally relate to but I do use Rotten Tomatoes as a guideline a lot.
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Re: Zero Dark Thirty -- D: Bigelow S: Chastain, Strong, Edgerton, Adkins -- 12/19/12
Yes, absolutely. In general, I like movies that are tight and focused. At the same time, my favorite movie of the year was Cloud Atlas, so I'm just a bundle of contradictions.
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Re: Zero Dark Thirty -- D: Bigelow S: Chastain, Strong, Edgerton, Adkins -- 12/19/12
One of those movies that was long but still too short.
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Re: Zero Dark Thirty -- D: Bigelow S: Chastain, Strong, Edgerton, Adkins -- 12/19/12
Yes, I agree. The absolute length isn't as important as the relative length. Neither 2001 nor Lawrence of Arabia feel as long as Magnolia, for example.
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Re: Zero Dark Thirty -- D: Bigelow S: Chastain, Strong, Edgerton, Adkins -- 12/19/12
SAw it last night and loved it, excellent. Gripping stuff.
It built perfectly to the ending. 6/10
It built perfectly to the ending. 6/10
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