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Got a free pass to a sneak preview last night.Reasonably well-crafted technically - typical depression era sepias, taupes and browns. Flick gets off to a slow start. Strong performances from Crowe and Giammati carry it - mostly. Zellwegger is even more annoying than usual. Builds some momentum about 1/3 way in. Almost loses momentum at 2/3 mark. Picks up steam again for crowd pleasing finale.
I don't think Akiva Goldsman (co-screenwriter) ever met a cliche he didn't like. Howie needs a new scribe.
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are flawed. The more they attempt to show the fights themselves, the more ridiculous they appear.
Raging Bull set the low-water mark: if any one punch were as devastating as those received or given by Mr. DeNiro, the match would end then and there. It is as ridiculous, in its way, as the Ahnie shoot-em-ups.
After Million Dollar Baby, we deserve a better rest between rounds.
Someone needs to tell Hollywood that no metaphor for life is needed. Getting up to go to work in a cubicle for 18 k/yr. takes as much courage as fighting for the championship of the world for megabucks.
They of course had to spruce up the action, as real fights are quite boring looking to average folks. Good punches are simply too quick to be visible. Even more so in fencing, where a novice will not see anything happen... hence the special techniques designed just for stage or screen.Why are you having problem with that? Fime convey the sense, the emotion of events, not events themselves.
How many times have you see a flying bullet in slo mo? If done well, it serves its purpose, and can be an effective too.
Well, it can be seen as good effect or just as more effect. One of the best jobs of convincing sound during combat was in the scenes from "Saving Private Ryan" as they were not the usual "stock" gunshot sounds such as "pops" and "richchets". Things sound much different at each end of a gun with distance making things even more dramatic. For instance, not hearing the "pops" but rather the occaisional "dull thud" or "whoosh" as a piece of lead lands about you is about as real as it gets and scary as hell. The subsequent loss of hearing after a near shell blast, it was pretty intense and not at all what one has come to expect from "Hollywood".
I have to agree about the fencing bit although I never really considered it before. They generally do show a slow, bending foil when the opponent is hit! Details can help with the realism when acting needs to take a back seat for scenes without dialogue, etc.
-Bill
...It is directed by Ron Howard, and stars Russell Crowe & Renee Zellweger. I've not seen, but I've heard some positive buzz. Here's an IMDB link to more info. I may have been naive, and posted this thinking you wanted the info. If it was just a ploy to take a swipe at Jerry Lewis...oh, well.
- http://uk.imdb.com/title/tt0352248/?fr=c2l0ZT11a3xteD0yMHxsbT01MDB8dHQ9b258ZmI9dXxwbj0wfHE9Y2luZGVyZWxsYSBtYW58aHRtbD0xfG5tPW9u;fc=1;ft=21;fm=1 (Open in New Window)
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