tom-durham
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The pacing on this movie is terrible. There is maybe 1.5 hours of actual content plus 1 hour of fluff.
In addition there is a lack of interest in history when making this movie. You'd think for 2.5 hours there is plenty of opportunity to cover the many interesting historical points of the battle for example. In reality they picked maybe 5 main points and these get a minute of screen time each. It's quite bad.
Watching this movie gives you more of an insight into the Turkish culture and religion than the actual conquest of Constantinople. For example they can't show Mohamed on screen so they cleverly use the camera itself, so you the audience become Mohamed. Except it then becomes confusing as you don't realise when this transition occurs back. Also there are many prayers involved. There is even a 'suicide bomb' scene where they all yell Allah Akbar before blowing themselves up.
This movie is almost least twice as long as it should be, given it's content. The script really lets it down, there is little dialogue in parts, and much attention is given to drawn out camera movements or people being idle. The first half of the movie, the lead up to the battle is not too bad. However the second half, the actual battle, is ruined by the drawn out scenes. If the director's effort was to make us feel frustrated with the time required to conquer the city, he succeeded, for the wrong reasons. To add insult to injury, the English subs clearly skip a fair amount of dialogue.
If you want to watch history reviewed with rose tinted glasses by the victor, plus an hour of fluff this is it.
In addition there is a lack of interest in history when making this movie. You'd think for 2.5 hours there is plenty of opportunity to cover the many interesting historical points of the battle for example. In reality they picked maybe 5 main points and these get a minute of screen time each. It's quite bad.
Watching this movie gives you more of an insight into the Turkish culture and religion than the actual conquest of Constantinople. For example they can't show Mohamed on screen so they cleverly use the camera itself, so you the audience become Mohamed. Except it then becomes confusing as you don't realise when this transition occurs back. Also there are many prayers involved. There is even a 'suicide bomb' scene where they all yell Allah Akbar before blowing themselves up.
This movie is almost least twice as long as it should be, given it's content. The script really lets it down, there is little dialogue in parts, and much attention is given to drawn out camera movements or people being idle. The first half of the movie, the lead up to the battle is not too bad. However the second half, the actual battle, is ruined by the drawn out scenes. If the director's effort was to make us feel frustrated with the time required to conquer the city, he succeeded, for the wrong reasons. To add insult to injury, the English subs clearly skip a fair amount of dialogue.
If you want to watch history reviewed with rose tinted glasses by the victor, plus an hour of fluff this is it.
This movie is very out of character with the previous movies.
I found all of the characters unlikable and annoying. They have no depth and they have few positive traits.
For example, Herbie protects a thief from police, and breaks things, causing his new owners to scam an old lady to pay for the damage.
This is the kind of behaviour I'd expect from Alonzo Hawk. What's going on here???
And I haven't even talked about the bad guys.
You know a movie sucks when you are rooting for the bad guys.
I found all of the characters unlikable and annoying. They have no depth and they have few positive traits.
For example, Herbie protects a thief from police, and breaks things, causing his new owners to scam an old lady to pay for the damage.
This is the kind of behaviour I'd expect from Alonzo Hawk. What's going on here???
And I haven't even talked about the bad guys.
You know a movie sucks when you are rooting for the bad guys.
When quake 1 came out in 1996, it was more of a technological milestone than a great game, as a stepping stone to it's successors, quake 2 (1997) and half life (1998, which is based on the quake 1 engine).
Quake 1 was the first graphics engine to allow rooms to be any shape, and monsters were made of polygons rather than 2 dimensional sprites.
But it was ugly. Greenish brown walls. Greenish brown water. Some red lava if you were lucky. Quake 1 was not a colourful game. The enemies were slow moving. And at the time it had high system requirements. There was little ambient noise or music unless you had a CD player. Single player action was dull without the creepy ambient sound track.
Competing FPS games at the time were notably duke nukem 3d (1996), doom (1995) and doom engine based games.
Although Quake's engine was superior to Duke Nukem 3D, the gameplay and quality of maps in Duke Nukem 3d was far superior.
Quake's specialty was custom multiplayer; the famous mod Team Fortress was originally made for Quake 1, and was only re-released for half life 3 years later in 1999.
So although it has a multiplayer following, this game is not one to go back and play single player.
Quake 1 was the first graphics engine to allow rooms to be any shape, and monsters were made of polygons rather than 2 dimensional sprites.
But it was ugly. Greenish brown walls. Greenish brown water. Some red lava if you were lucky. Quake 1 was not a colourful game. The enemies were slow moving. And at the time it had high system requirements. There was little ambient noise or music unless you had a CD player. Single player action was dull without the creepy ambient sound track.
Competing FPS games at the time were notably duke nukem 3d (1996), doom (1995) and doom engine based games.
Although Quake's engine was superior to Duke Nukem 3D, the gameplay and quality of maps in Duke Nukem 3d was far superior.
Quake's specialty was custom multiplayer; the famous mod Team Fortress was originally made for Quake 1, and was only re-released for half life 3 years later in 1999.
So although it has a multiplayer following, this game is not one to go back and play single player.