drz
Joined Apr 2000
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There is no other movie I know that would be so thoroughly neutered by cutting out the sex scene as this one. The scene that resonates through 60 years for the protagonist and that what resonates through six centuries for the viewer. And they cut it out in Prime.
The horror stayed, the killing stayed, the nudity stayed, but what is the movie's main message: it's gone. When half of the TV series on Amazon had gratuitous and barely meaningful sex scenes, it had to be cut out of this masterpiece that was already underrated and now also undercut?!
The rest of the movie is still good as described by others: the crime story is pretty good, the larger story (while some calls it cliches) is actually quite relevant to our time (that is intellectually slipping toward what is depicted here), the photography is great, the costumes and acting are great, yet the carnal love is the movie's centerpiece and cutting it out is more sinful than the many events in the film.
The horror stayed, the killing stayed, the nudity stayed, but what is the movie's main message: it's gone. When half of the TV series on Amazon had gratuitous and barely meaningful sex scenes, it had to be cut out of this masterpiece that was already underrated and now also undercut?!
The rest of the movie is still good as described by others: the crime story is pretty good, the larger story (while some calls it cliches) is actually quite relevant to our time (that is intellectually slipping toward what is depicted here), the photography is great, the costumes and acting are great, yet the carnal love is the movie's centerpiece and cutting it out is more sinful than the many events in the film.
The first season was amazing: a near perfect sci fi and the best Star Wars movie (possibly ever). Intelligent, tight, relatable, serious, extremely well filmed. Easily 9/10.
The second season is free fall so far, maybe 5/10.
It is a patchwork of scenes that don't really add up to a coherent story. It had confused pacing: tedious melodrama so slow that it evokes Star Wars Holiday Special memories (the wedding or the riot are both about a half hour too long) that is mixed with rushing the storyline so fast that one cannot follow what happens let alone develop any relationship with the characters. Several scenes make no sense or childish at 3rd grade level. The acting is often exaggerated when characters are anxious or plotting which further exacerbates the feeling in the viewer that there are subplots that we should be able to figure out and relate to but they are just not there (even as the story moves on, there are no explanations for those emotions that seemingly drive the story). All in all it's no longer an adult Star Wars movie as the first season was.
The second season is free fall so far, maybe 5/10.
It is a patchwork of scenes that don't really add up to a coherent story. It had confused pacing: tedious melodrama so slow that it evokes Star Wars Holiday Special memories (the wedding or the riot are both about a half hour too long) that is mixed with rushing the storyline so fast that one cannot follow what happens let alone develop any relationship with the characters. Several scenes make no sense or childish at 3rd grade level. The acting is often exaggerated when characters are anxious or plotting which further exacerbates the feeling in the viewer that there are subplots that we should be able to figure out and relate to but they are just not there (even as the story moves on, there are no explanations for those emotions that seemingly drive the story). All in all it's no longer an adult Star Wars movie as the first season was.
This was the serious, the credible, the adult Star Wars series. And this season?
It starts with an incoherent conversation then the most implausible action scenes that could probably entertain an 8 year old, and then it's downhill from there: childish storylines mixed into the story, all actors (ok not Diego Luna) play with such exaggeration that a silent movie looks subtle....
(I am kinda done with what I wanted to write but there is a six hundred character minimum to write a review? Why is that? Can't someone say things in a concise manner? Especially in this century of tweets and whatnot?)
It starts with an incoherent conversation then the most implausible action scenes that could probably entertain an 8 year old, and then it's downhill from there: childish storylines mixed into the story, all actors (ok not Diego Luna) play with such exaggeration that a silent movie looks subtle....
(I am kinda done with what I wanted to write but there is a six hundred character minimum to write a review? Why is that? Can't someone say things in a concise manner? Especially in this century of tweets and whatnot?)