azaro666
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The premise is so simple that it would seem likely to be a snowballing success.
The fact that the first episode was such a well structured, delicately written and well acted piece, meant that it appeared there was every possibility it could be a well thought through character study over a six week, or however long, period.
Perhaps I am missing something as I have not read all the books that have so far been discussed by the group, but in any case the first episode was the only one that even touched upon the book at any level.
Since then the programme has descended into the characters outside of the group. More about how they react in other environments and the experience that the book group may have had on them. The episodes appear to have been cut very harshly. There are great wapping gaps, with no explanation.
The stuff about Kenny and Claire and the kiss has been forgotten. Barney and Claire and their immediate chemistry. The female obsession of Kenny's hands.
It has to be said that the acting is very accomplished and it is a pleasure to see new actors proving their worth. Perhaps at the end of the run all of the loose ends will be tied up and it will make sense as a whole?
Even so though it needs to be judged on each episodes merits, and doing that is so hard as each episode is so vastly different in genre and style.
It feels like it should have been a two part series, just like Men Only which is one of the best things Channel 4 has ever shown.
The fact that the first episode was such a well structured, delicately written and well acted piece, meant that it appeared there was every possibility it could be a well thought through character study over a six week, or however long, period.
Perhaps I am missing something as I have not read all the books that have so far been discussed by the group, but in any case the first episode was the only one that even touched upon the book at any level.
Since then the programme has descended into the characters outside of the group. More about how they react in other environments and the experience that the book group may have had on them. The episodes appear to have been cut very harshly. There are great wapping gaps, with no explanation.
The stuff about Kenny and Claire and the kiss has been forgotten. Barney and Claire and their immediate chemistry. The female obsession of Kenny's hands.
It has to be said that the acting is very accomplished and it is a pleasure to see new actors proving their worth. Perhaps at the end of the run all of the loose ends will be tied up and it will make sense as a whole?
Even so though it needs to be judged on each episodes merits, and doing that is so hard as each episode is so vastly different in genre and style.
It feels like it should have been a two part series, just like Men Only which is one of the best things Channel 4 has ever shown.
This film is just so beautifully shot and acted that it is a complete and utter dissapointment to think that there was no consideration of dramatic or plotting structure that could possibly hold the thing together and prevent it from being, almost, unwatchable.
The trailer for the movie led us to believe that it would be all about Horses and a love story between two attractive leads. That is the first big mistake for it is nothing of the sort. It is instead, a mini-rites of passage, cum one mans adventure in the new Wild West (i.e. Mexico). It starts off promisingly enough with a chance encounter leading to a spot of the old male bonding, this particularly becomes appealing and had the movie continued this path then there would have been a half decent movie in the making since Billy Bob is very capable of handling male character interplay. At this point there begins to be turns and twists which become far too frequent and come along far too quickly for there to be any emotional travel with the central protagonist.
It all ends up in one big mess which becomes part prison movie, part love story, part horse obsession and mostly a story whose surface is simply brushed and then left alone to re-gather itself.
Damon gives an accomplished performance, but once again Cruz is in-capable of building character or accent. Lucas Black is as ever great and he and Thornton have obviously got a great connection, and as mentioned before the whole look of the movie is stunning but all this counts for precious little if all you are left with is a continual frash frame of someones life. A little like a family photo album detailing different times, it eventually leads you to question what has happened in between the years of your life and it becomes pleasing only as eye candy.
The trailer for the movie led us to believe that it would be all about Horses and a love story between two attractive leads. That is the first big mistake for it is nothing of the sort. It is instead, a mini-rites of passage, cum one mans adventure in the new Wild West (i.e. Mexico). It starts off promisingly enough with a chance encounter leading to a spot of the old male bonding, this particularly becomes appealing and had the movie continued this path then there would have been a half decent movie in the making since Billy Bob is very capable of handling male character interplay. At this point there begins to be turns and twists which become far too frequent and come along far too quickly for there to be any emotional travel with the central protagonist.
It all ends up in one big mess which becomes part prison movie, part love story, part horse obsession and mostly a story whose surface is simply brushed and then left alone to re-gather itself.
Damon gives an accomplished performance, but once again Cruz is in-capable of building character or accent. Lucas Black is as ever great and he and Thornton have obviously got a great connection, and as mentioned before the whole look of the movie is stunning but all this counts for precious little if all you are left with is a continual frash frame of someones life. A little like a family photo album detailing different times, it eventually leads you to question what has happened in between the years of your life and it becomes pleasing only as eye candy.
The fact that I even agreed to see this movie is still leaving me answerless, but why this was even made is just dumb-founding. Perhaps a reason for the initial downfall is the fact that the teen slasher movies are being ironic towards what they are doing, yet still Scary Movie was funny, very funny in places so thats obviously not the whole story.
The fact is that in order for comedy to work, you need jokes, lots of jokes usually and yet in the script itself there are no gags, there is no substance to any of the dialogue whatsoever, which leads again to the question begging for an answer, why was this movie made? A script with no gags is made as a comedy.
Most gags are visual and tired to the point of slaying a dead horse. Most are seen to be coming a mile off, and even when a surprise does come up on you there is no appreciation for the simply fact that the it is so bloody slow. The acting, although it is down for comic effect, is wooden. Tom Arnold appears to be the only cast member who is aware of what he is doing, which becomes a bad thing as the rest of the cast look even worse than they would have done had he played it straight. There is no point playing this straight for the simple fact there is nothing there to play straight with.
Its a shame as the trailer actually looked quite attractive and the opening 10 minutes were very promising. All in all this is one huge mess which has clearly been edited down to fit into 70 minutes of pure crap.
Perhaps even some humourous sex/nudity would have helped, which is saying something. In the end though you have got a movie which pretends to be a slasher send up done in the style of the Farrelys, which actually plays a scream done scene for scene, without the words, and a handful of s**t actors.
I cannot un-recommend this movie highly enough.
The fact is that in order for comedy to work, you need jokes, lots of jokes usually and yet in the script itself there are no gags, there is no substance to any of the dialogue whatsoever, which leads again to the question begging for an answer, why was this movie made? A script with no gags is made as a comedy.
Most gags are visual and tired to the point of slaying a dead horse. Most are seen to be coming a mile off, and even when a surprise does come up on you there is no appreciation for the simply fact that the it is so bloody slow. The acting, although it is down for comic effect, is wooden. Tom Arnold appears to be the only cast member who is aware of what he is doing, which becomes a bad thing as the rest of the cast look even worse than they would have done had he played it straight. There is no point playing this straight for the simple fact there is nothing there to play straight with.
Its a shame as the trailer actually looked quite attractive and the opening 10 minutes were very promising. All in all this is one huge mess which has clearly been edited down to fit into 70 minutes of pure crap.
Perhaps even some humourous sex/nudity would have helped, which is saying something. In the end though you have got a movie which pretends to be a slasher send up done in the style of the Farrelys, which actually plays a scream done scene for scene, without the words, and a handful of s**t actors.
I cannot un-recommend this movie highly enough.