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Post by sgev1977 on Sept 10, 2017 13:15:55 GMT
Ha! He is a very scorned reviewer but I think he is right in that it could gain some fans just because the technique. That kind of happened with Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, it went from acclaimed at Sundance to hated by Twitter politically correct critics for its conventionality in the story to loved by film nerd for the style.
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Post by kreizimam on Sept 10, 2017 14:40:27 GMT
You know I was gonna feel bad for CHC, but then I saw It and saw his name on the credit and naaww.. he's gonna be allright.
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Post by MagdaFR on Sept 10, 2017 15:03:23 GMT
You know I was gonna feel bad for CHC, but then I saw It and saw his name on the credit and naaww.. he's gonna be allright. I found it strange he's not receiving more praise for TCW (although I didn't see it) because some of the takes on the trailer were awesome. The Handmaiden's cinematography was stunning. I read something related to him and It.
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Post by sgev1977 on Sept 10, 2017 16:08:27 GMT
It's weird but I think he is slightly unappreciated in America. It seems to me not many people know who he is or his work. He should have a few awards by now but he doesn't.
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Post by sgev1977 on Sept 10, 2017 20:25:56 GMT
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Post by sgev1977 on Sept 10, 2017 21:10:49 GMT
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Post by roverpup on Sept 10, 2017 23:12:44 GMT
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Post by onebluestocking on Sept 11, 2017 2:32:14 GMT
Ha! That's interesting! Reviews seem to be better than the original tweets. I wonder if it was mostly Harvey haters at first? That said, Rottentomatoes is counting some reviews that I thought were positive, as "rotten." www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_current_war
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Post by queenzod on Sept 11, 2017 2:43:27 GMT
Methinks the tweeters just want to be the fastest ones to say, "it sucked," even if that's not precisely true. It's cool and hip, don't ya know, to be snarky.
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Post by mllemass on Sept 11, 2017 20:32:36 GMT
Here are my thoughts on the movie. I really enjoyed it! It kept me interested even though it was late at night and I was in a room full of distractions. And Benedict himself is a distraction onscreen so I tend to tune out everyone but him. I will have to see it several more times to really judge it properly! It looks fabulous! Every shot is a work of art. I don't understand why it's being criticized for looking so stunning. I've become accustomed to the attention to detail in Sherlock's set design, so I expect that level creativity in everything I watch. It's terrible that someone suggested that all the fancy camera work is only there to distract you from a boring script. It wasn't boring at all. It was actually a fun movie in a way. They took a story that we're all sort of familiar with and showed it from two different points of view. I don't understand anything at all about the science part of it, but they don't expect us to. They're the geniuses - we're just there getting a peek into their lives. The most surprising part for me was that it isn't a "good vs evil" story. They're both good men who resort to not-very-good behaviour to get what they want - Edison more than Westinghouse. They are shown as having more similarities than differences. One of the reviews said that we don't care about what happens to the characters, but I did care! I've talked about this so many times, but Manchester by the Sea was a movie I absolutely hated because the characters were all so unlikeable. I didn't care one bit what happened to any of them. In fact, I left the theatre angry that I had wasted time and money to sit there watching it. But Edison and Westinghouse (and Tesla) are fascinating and we want to know more about them. I liked them. Edison was kind of a jerk with his employees, but hey - I've had bosses like that who didn't even have the excuse of being an eccentric genius! One of my favourite scenes was mentioned in one of the interviews. It was heartbreaking, and I was in tears more than once during the film. From the little gasps I heard in the audience, others felt the same way. But there was a lot of humour, too, and people laughed out loud at the funny parts. The music wasn't as loud and jarring as I was expecting it to be from the trailer. But it fit in with the quirky camera angles and imagery. I saw a parallel between the lighting used and the theme of turning darkness into light. There's also the idea of building fences,which we see both literally and figuratively during the film. And there's talk about time-travel that weaves throughout, right to the end. The young actors who play Edison's children are absolutely adorable! They had me thinking about Benedict and his own children. And I look forward to his upcoming projects where he plays a father. He's so good and so believable with children! At the end we're shown photos of the actual men and we read what happened to them. But it was at that point that the special guests (Benedict!) got out of their seats to leave, so of course I was busy watching him and missed something on the screen. Whatever it was, everyone laughed. I'll have to wait until I see it again to find out what was so funny. Here are some spoilery things you might not want to know: -Benedict cries! I wasn't at all surprised. -They don't show an elephant being electrocuted! They do show a horse being prepared to be electrocuted as a demonstration in front of an audience, but we don't actually see the poor horse being killed. -They show the first human electrocution! But they show it in a really cool way, if that's possible. That's my opinion of The Current War without giving too much away. And we were told that scenes might change anyway. If you have a specific question, just ask me!
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