jacques_05
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Whoever seen the original HK version "Internal Affair" years ago should know this is at best a mediocre knockoff. Better than "Good Fellas"? Not a slightly chance. "Good Fellas" is original at least.
I don't blame people who never realize there's an original version. For those who did, I tell you this movie is copying down to every details, I mean EVERY DETAILS. And for whatever they didn't copy over, they're making big mistakes. Shouldn't be so easy to make a film.
I personally heard people laughed out loud in theater. The ones you thought are the main characters should never die, but in this story they go down dramatically, that's kind of shock and the beauty of it, only in the original version though. This remake or should I say knockoff one just go on rampage without any setups, this is not supposed to be one of those "Texas Chainsaw..." movies.
Big cast, great director, ends up a total disappointment, the saddest part is, beloved folks here and TV critics and elsewhere had blindly promoted it to such a high place, where only those ever-lasting master pieces like "Good Fellas", "Godfather" and "Shawshank Redemption" should reside.
Don't argue before you check out the original. Or if you'd prefer to live in lies and illusions, don't care about truth, or worst don't even want to listen to truth, then please ignore this post.
By the way, I am a big fan of gangster movie and USED TO be a big fan of Martin Scoresesis. I think Leonardo DiCaprio is doing alone pretty good in this film but him alone can't save the game.
I don't blame people who never realize there's an original version. For those who did, I tell you this movie is copying down to every details, I mean EVERY DETAILS. And for whatever they didn't copy over, they're making big mistakes. Shouldn't be so easy to make a film.
I personally heard people laughed out loud in theater. The ones you thought are the main characters should never die, but in this story they go down dramatically, that's kind of shock and the beauty of it, only in the original version though. This remake or should I say knockoff one just go on rampage without any setups, this is not supposed to be one of those "Texas Chainsaw..." movies.
Big cast, great director, ends up a total disappointment, the saddest part is, beloved folks here and TV critics and elsewhere had blindly promoted it to such a high place, where only those ever-lasting master pieces like "Good Fellas", "Godfather" and "Shawshank Redemption" should reside.
Don't argue before you check out the original. Or if you'd prefer to live in lies and illusions, don't care about truth, or worst don't even want to listen to truth, then please ignore this post.
By the way, I am a big fan of gangster movie and USED TO be a big fan of Martin Scoresesis. I think Leonardo DiCaprio is doing alone pretty good in this film but him alone can't save the game.
This guy writes one entirely twisted movie and then disappears. Lately I wonder if this guy even exists.....pseudonym anyone? Daniel Jay = DJ My .02 take it or leave it.
I'll rewatch but just wondering what kinda "screenwriter" writes one movie (about dreams and switching identies no less) and then jumps the scene all together....
As for the movie itself Meridith Selanger is the one saving grace. She is a beautiful actress with the ability to really pull you in. Unfortunately the story itself was obviously written on Acid or something....
-JayBTV
I'll rewatch but just wondering what kinda "screenwriter" writes one movie (about dreams and switching identies no less) and then jumps the scene all together....
As for the movie itself Meridith Selanger is the one saving grace. She is a beautiful actress with the ability to really pull you in. Unfortunately the story itself was obviously written on Acid or something....
-JayBTV
The Only TV I Watched in all of 2005 was Surface and Invasion. The entire family gathered to watch those two shows. If the power was out, the entire neighbourhood would gather at the homes of people with generators to watch those two shows.
And after watching them on TV, everyone I know would still download it from the internet just to keep it around to watch later. I'm having my own little get together with friends to watch all the Surface eps this week and all the Invasion eps next week.
Have these network exec people never seen the huge numbers of people downloading these shows via bittorrent on MULTIPLE torrent sites. If they networks released the shows to the internet immediately after they aired at slightly better video quality and with multi-language sub titles built in, they could leave in or even double the advertisements and people would still download them en mass.
And after watching them on TV, everyone I know would still download it from the internet just to keep it around to watch later. I'm having my own little get together with friends to watch all the Surface eps this week and all the Invasion eps next week.
Have these network exec people never seen the huge numbers of people downloading these shows via bittorrent on MULTIPLE torrent sites. If they networks released the shows to the internet immediately after they aired at slightly better video quality and with multi-language sub titles built in, they could leave in or even double the advertisements and people would still download them en mass.