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The Drawback.

posted 12 years ago by rp69
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I own this movie, and have watched a few times over the years. While it's definitely a classic. It suffers from way too much plot. Too many plot lines, too much detail, and way too long. A lot of scenes run long too with little or no dialogue. Save all the race related stuff, and chop out portions of the complicated and irrelevant love triangles. This movie would be perfect ac two hours.

On the other hand, LeMans has zero plot what so ever and becomes equally boring.

[–] Destinata 10 years ago

Odd. I thought it had too little plot. Or maybe it was because the plot lines were so predictable. The foreshadowing was clumsy, and the script lines were trite. It was overlong, as you said. But I really think, if you squeezed all the wind and water out of it, it wouldn't last longer than an hour -- an hour and a half at most.

Oh, and the then trendy split screen nonsense can now be seen for what it always was -- affected. Blissfully, it ran its course as a trend quickly. (I'm hoping for the same thing to happen to "teal-tinted" movies -- but you still see "shaky-cam," so obviously it takes some things a long time to die.)

You will probably disagree. That's the nature of discussions -- they have two sides.