Don't really understand why this film has such as low rating in comparison to other films like it. I enjoyed it as much or more than I enjoyed movies like Casino or Millers Crossing
shareIt deserves a good 5.6 out of 10. So it's beyond me why it is 7.8. Maybe because it's so successfully a 'good' movie for stupid people, and it is very effective as such that its fanbase is this big. Gullible people...
shareWhy do you consider it to be a good movie for stupid people? Opinions are respected
shareI consider it as such because it's gimmicky, shallow, cliché to the point of cringing, and the overall tone of the movie is that it comes across as if the people making it were blindly convinced that they're making a good or even great movie, without actually doing so. As if they're so convinced by their own brilliance. It's horrific when artists twist the arts up like that. Sometimes the artist wants to be in the spotlight and shine rather than for their art to be in the focus, where as a very passionate artist lives for the art itself. This is just something they tossed Tom Hanks into the mix for good measure and I guess that's enough for people to switch their brains into "I'm watching a good movie" mode.
I find that The Green Mile is even far more pretentious, cliché and shallowly sentimental than this though. What I've said here goes double for it.
Oh, and yeah I realize my post is pretty poorly motivated. I just saw both movies once, years ago, so they're anything but fresh in my memory. For me to go into more detail and give you a few more objective reasons as to why they're not as good as you may think, I'd have to rewatch them. Maybe I will one day. I'll get back to you on that.
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