May-05-2010, 10:08 AM (UTC)
Oh, I loved the Matrix movies and especially Hugo Weaving. "Why, Mr. Anderson, why? Why do you persist?" Brilliant! 
My personal favorite film is the Shawnshank Redemption. It is also the only film I know which is better then the book. Granted, the original was only a short story, but still the plot of the film is much better interwoven then that of the book.
I must admit to not liking the Lord Of the Rings films very much. Very good adaptation, certainly, maybe the best ever given the complexity of the book, the multitude of characters and the difficulty you face turning that into a film script. But the director could have done with a good kick. Half of those films are in slow-motion! There is so much slow-motion in there that the films could collectively have been over an hour shorter, had they cut out all the unnecessary slow-motion. I'm all for giving stories time to tell themselves, heck, the film I mentioned above has one of the slowest paces of any film I know, but slow-motion is a dramatic style which should be used sparingly to over-dramatize only the most important moments. The LOTR films even have slow-motion in the middle of a battle.
Sorry, I don't mean to ruin your enjoyment of the films or put down your favorite entertainment... it just gets under my skin. It might be a bit of a pet-peeve of mine.
My personal favorite film is the Shawnshank Redemption. It is also the only film I know which is better then the book. Granted, the original was only a short story, but still the plot of the film is much better interwoven then that of the book.
I must admit to not liking the Lord Of the Rings films very much. Very good adaptation, certainly, maybe the best ever given the complexity of the book, the multitude of characters and the difficulty you face turning that into a film script. But the director could have done with a good kick. Half of those films are in slow-motion! There is so much slow-motion in there that the films could collectively have been over an hour shorter, had they cut out all the unnecessary slow-motion. I'm all for giving stories time to tell themselves, heck, the film I mentioned above has one of the slowest paces of any film I know, but slow-motion is a dramatic style which should be used sparingly to over-dramatize only the most important moments. The LOTR films even have slow-motion in the middle of a battle.
Sorry, I don't mean to ruin your enjoyment of the films or put down your favorite entertainment... it just gets under my skin. It might be a bit of a pet-peeve of mine.
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