Æthelred
Joined Jun 1999
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I'm only on episode 2, so I may have a higher opinion later. So far, what I see are wooden acting and stock characters. That's especially true of the New York Police Department detective. He keeps saying "NYPD," as if people in Berlin would know what that is just by its initials. He is unshaven, which people weren't back then unless they were transients, and perhaps usually not even then. Finally, the inability to write a creative script and, as a wan substitute, lard every tenth word the detective utters with f-bombs and occasional s-words is not only utterly ahistorical (I doubt anyone tossed around f-bombs like that in 1946), but a constant reminder of the scriptwriter's (or scriptwriters') lack of both historical knowledge and linguistic skill.
So bad.
Wooden dialogue, bad CGI, and completely unrealistic, e.g., press photographers rushing into the middle of gun battles with minimal body armor and no helmets.
Stock characters: old, wise journalist; jaded, unhappy middle-aged press photographer; cute young thing learning to be a press photographer.
Glaringly obvious product placements. People are smoking constantly, even in a hotel lobby if I recall correctly. Remind me to buy a Coleman tent.
Wagner Moura, the Brazilian actor, is the fourth character. His talents are wasted and he was just phoning it in. I think it would be fun if he had spoken in Portuguese, just to shake up the Hollywood formula a bit.
Endless f-bombs. I found the movie transcript. It identifies 66 of them, but it seemed like a lot more, since seemingly every eighth word was one. I suppose that points to the lack of dialogue overall.
It was interesting how mundane most of the still photos looked, for all of the photographers' unrealistically wading into fierce firefights.
Why is it that almost every movie produced in North America is CGI, plotless dreck?
Most of the howlers were unintentional, but I did like one funny exchange, whether it was meant to be or not. The photographers offered a gas station $300 to fill up their bloated Ford Excursion, which had PRESS stenciled on its sides in alarmingly small letters for wading into battle zones. One guy said you can have a sandwich for $300 and that's it. The Dunst character said, $300 Canadian. Offer accepted right away. I bet Canadian viewers will like that.
Wooden dialogue, bad CGI, and completely unrealistic, e.g., press photographers rushing into the middle of gun battles with minimal body armor and no helmets.
Stock characters: old, wise journalist; jaded, unhappy middle-aged press photographer; cute young thing learning to be a press photographer.
Glaringly obvious product placements. People are smoking constantly, even in a hotel lobby if I recall correctly. Remind me to buy a Coleman tent.
Wagner Moura, the Brazilian actor, is the fourth character. His talents are wasted and he was just phoning it in. I think it would be fun if he had spoken in Portuguese, just to shake up the Hollywood formula a bit.
Endless f-bombs. I found the movie transcript. It identifies 66 of them, but it seemed like a lot more, since seemingly every eighth word was one. I suppose that points to the lack of dialogue overall.
It was interesting how mundane most of the still photos looked, for all of the photographers' unrealistically wading into fierce firefights.
Why is it that almost every movie produced in North America is CGI, plotless dreck?
Most of the howlers were unintentional, but I did like one funny exchange, whether it was meant to be or not. The photographers offered a gas station $300 to fill up their bloated Ford Excursion, which had PRESS stenciled on its sides in alarmingly small letters for wading into battle zones. One guy said you can have a sandwich for $300 and that's it. The Dunst character said, $300 Canadian. Offer accepted right away. I bet Canadian viewers will like that.