Films/DVD Asylum

Posted by rhizomatic (A) on March 17, 2005 at 11:49:55

In Reply to: 'Scuse me, not my term. I repeated it in jest. Lighten up. And as I said elsewhere... posted by clarkjohnsen on March 17, 2005 at 11:42:12:

Because I picked it up and flipped through it and I must say, the movie is a definite improvement on the book. Maybe the overall story is compelling, but the guy cannot write a decent sentence to save his life...and I'm not asking for Chandler here, just something that gets above a fourth grade composition assignment.

I guess I'm 'blaming' Eastwood because the movie feels so self-indulgently ponderous. I think it probably could have been a much better movie, actually, with the exact same cast even, if it hadn't been for the leaden hand of its director, who, like I've said, seemed to be very concerned that the weightiness of the situation might escape us...

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