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Boring...slow....frus trating (Spoilers)

posted 13 years ago by quball87
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Huge fan of Johnny Depp saw this today - trailer looked awesome
and i did like his chubby buddy in the movie

Annddd then the movie was incredibly slow, not funny with a disjointed plot:

What was the point of the entire Aaron eckhart plot I mean it just abruptly ended for no reason

So Amber heard can finally be w Depp...she hangs around for two scenes then leaves

Ok so they get six grand and then Depp goes whup I give up

Richard Jenkins suddenly becomes the supposed villain near the end and Depp wants to print an expose about him....so what? People rioting already hated him

Just not a fan or a troll was very dissatisfied

[–] denny7777 13 years ago

rewatch it, it will make more sense.

The whole thing with Aaron eckhart wasn't his plot to make a hotel, it was his stranglehold he had over Puerto Rico

aaaaand assuming you paid for a ticket the first time around, I see no problem with just watching it a second time free online for the purpose of gaining closure.

Push the envelope, watch it bend

[–] mikeyflatley 13 years ago

Agreed. Totally sucked. Pacin u can argued is organic but story is total garbage. Rewatched it? Hah, not wastin more of my time.

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[–] mikeyflatley 13 years ago

except 4 heard's nekkid boobies which there were none here

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[–] ba_bam_bam 13 years ago

Saw it this weekend. I actually walked out... not that there was anything horribly wrong with it, I just couldn't get into it and ended up getting bored. I know nothing about the book or the character that he's based off of so I found myself indifferent.

[–] Trist805 13 years ago

One thing was, I felt like Johnny Depp was just playing himself instead of trying to convey a character. The same kind of acting he did in "Public Enemies". It just makes the movie boring, and the story didn't help either.

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[–] quball87 13 years ago

Ok so the Aaron Eckhart plot is about his stranglehold over Puerto Rico and then what? I understand that theme but it still doesn't go anywhere. Eckhart is like yeah we're gonna buy up and build on this land blah blah here's my car blah blah love triangle and then....Eckhart takes the keys back, throws her stuff a fence and moves on with his plan/life. Presumably gaining control of that land as well. It doesn't go anywhere!

[–] ianharrywebb 13 years ago

I can full understand why you walked out.
I stayed till the end, and it's not one of the best Depp films I thought.
A tad slow a tad boring not for most Depp fans or any film goer.

I did not hate it but was looking forward to it ending.
It had some good moments but not many.
'The Libertine' is one of his best this will be close but not quite one of his worst.

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[–] RushmoreLatinClub 13 years ago

borrrringggg. underwhelming. not funny, and did I mention boring?

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[–] linas-morkunas 13 years ago

Too slow, weird, Depp mumbling as the same character that he always portrays in his recent movies, disjointed and hardly engaging plot...so yeah, this one sucked big time

[–] aareal 13 years ago

And so much like all his "Pirates": "Where is the rum?", "Is the rum
gone?", drunkenness, mannerisms, a fat friend (like his second in
command in Pirates, forgot his name), and even departing by boat -
"Give me that horizon". It's like he is repeating the same thing over
and over again, but in disjointed pieces, inserted here and there
in different movies.

[–] TheSummer2012 13 years ago

Well, the novel on which the film is based was rejected numerous times by publishers at the time (it was published almost 40 years later when Hunter S. Thompson had a cult following). And I think there's your clue: There just isn't enough in the novel to carry a feature film (let alone one that lasts two hours). There are hints of drama, comedy, a bit romance and a hint of social commentary thrown in but it just doesn't add up.

I don't think this is Johnny Depp's fault: His performance is decent enough - in fact, you can't fault any of the performances in the film. It's just that the screenplay and the directing make it very hard to keep the viewers interested. This film is but a series of incidents and anecdotes that are loosely held together but never amount to anything.

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