An inability to....

Posted by Joe S (A) on January 2, 2003 at 09:26:41

In Reply to: LOtR: TTT was an inspired film, forgoing sjb's interesting alegory. posted by Audiophilander on December 31, 2002 at 10:48:25:

...appreciate droll, uninspired, dimwittedly manipulative movies is my cross to bear.

Why pray tell do characters lapse into made up languages from one scene to the next? You know, two characters engage in a dialog in english and then in the very next scene the same two characters speak in a made up tongue? And then go back to english for the next scene? Why do we see scene after scene of panoramic long shots of hills with 3 or 4 minute characters running across them in chase? Time and time and time again?

I'm trying hard to appreciate this but all it made me do was roll my eyes and long to leave the theater. Predicting exactly what would happen next and waitng through the deathly slow and dull exposition to get to the set piece battles tried my patience to the limit. And I'm not arguing for more battles or action. It's just that the artifically lengthened filler in between went no where, accomplished nothing and played as little more than a rudderless director playing for time.

Character development is not spending large amounts of time watching characters do nothing or do the same thing over and over again ad nauseum....

joe

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Topic - A great couple a weeks of seeing movies - sjb 22:52:52 12/30/02 (16)

Maybe that dark cloud... - mishmashmusic 12:35:32 12/31/02 (1)

Re: Maybe that dark cloud... - sjb 12:49:24 12/31/02 (0)

Catch Me was surprisingly entertaining . . - rufus 10:42:36 12/31/02 (0)

Interesting.... - Joe S 10:40:05 12/31/02 (5)

Re: Interesting.... - joe2coold@icqmail.com 19:24:54 01/13/03 (0)

"...give me a break" - sjb 11:20:21 12/31/02 (0)

LOtR: TTT was an inspired film, forgoing sjb's interesting alegory. - Audiophilander 10:48:25 12/31/02 (2)

An inability to.... - Joe S 09:26:41 01/02/03 (1)

Well, I've got the film for you: - Audiophilander 14:32:52 01/02/03 (0)

"Call me crazy." Glad to oblige. YOU'RE CRAZY! nt - clarkjohnsen 08:27:53 12/31/02 (2)

Re: "Call me crazy." Glad to oblige. YOU'RE CRAZY! nt - R1Racer 21:29:44 02/27/03 (0)

... like a fox (i.e., NOT the Faux Snooze Network, either!) - Audiophilander 09:53:34 12/31/02 (0)

Thanks,esp. liked Bush the Dark Lord, careful with LOTR,it can be Hobbit forming..nt.. :) - late 05:57:04 12/31/02 (2)

hobbit forming? - chiggy 12:01:35 12/31/02 (1)

Hey, I was flattered! (14691) - Audiophilander 23:08:45 12/31/02 (0)

Great reviews, sjb! - Audiophilander 23:43:02 12/30/02 (0)

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An inability to.... - Joe S 09:26:41 01/02/03 (1)

Well, I've got the film for you: - Audiophilander 14:32:52 01/02/03 (0)

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