In Reply to: Dick Tracy -1990 ...Comments. posted by AudioHead on January 23, 2003 at 09:55:41:
AH,I saw "Dick Tracy" recently for the first time. As you mention, the visual transferrance of the comic strip to live action was imaginative- the brash, flat colours, hard, shadowless lighting, generic "1939 Car", costumes, make-up, etc. Really quite amazing in some visual ways in the sense of reproducing the old comic book (sorry- "graphic novel") look.
The problem is that the story and characters just didn't engage my attention for more than 10 minutes- I immediately wondered off into attention to the movie's look and soon thereafter wondered off to C-SPAN- where something was happening.
A missed opportunity.
Cheers,
Bambi B
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- Looks but doesn't touch - Bambi B 11:29:36 01/23/03 (0)