It seemed very out of place a sex scene in a movie like this.
Too many swearing, also.
This movie was filmed in an "old school" way, and it really feels like a film from the 40's or 50's a time where the censorship wouldn't allow anything like this.
But those two things I mentioned, really made you "realize" that you are watching just another "present" movie.
"Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room."share
Oh, darn.
Soderbergh used certain techniques but that doesn't make him a slave to them. You don't like the scene/swearing? Fine. But they fit with the tone of the movie and its subject matter.
[deleted]
[deleted]
he is not an officer, he is just in a uniform. He is a war correspondent. I agree though, in real life Clooney would have kicked his ass.
The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new. Samuel Beckett
He wasn't playing a tough guy. He was playing a kid [with a larcenous heart] caught up in a corrupt culture, like the Germans caught up in Nazism.
TM was just fine in this role. He sucker-punched Clooney. He was beating him with a stick, if I recall correctly.
Yes you do recall that correctly (Clooney was sucker punched). Maquire was a callow country boy raking in the dough. He was not smooth and was quite unlikeable, which pointed out the degree to which Lena had fallen -- that she would entrust herself to a cad like that! I think Maguire did a good job in that I really hated him. Also Clooney was not so swashbuckling as usual. So they did indeed play against type. Others may think of this as "miscast.'
share[deleted]
yep. BAD mashup of stuff. It's like trying to impress with old jazz done on death metal guitars... who will be the audience? Jazz lovers most likely hate screaming guitar and metal heads avoid the complex jazz structure. If they edited out the modern sex and swearing, it would be an instant classic. Instead, it's WAY TOO nich and a failure.
shareThey were exactly in place and fitted in the movie.
------------------------------------------
I have a feeling that you're way off on this.
i totally agree with you
the moment there was swearing and a sex scene the movie seemed confused...it did infact lose its charm
even the italic font in the beginning seemed a bit modern or even home video style. what they shud have done is to choose fonts from an old bogart movie
actually.... i think what made it seem modern was the lighting.
far too bright. i know they were using the old style of lighting but it seems like they were using modern standards when measuring how much light a scene should have..
i found it too bright at times.... to the point it distracted from what was happening...
im sure i remember even day scenes in the old movies being.. moodier?
the human mind is not an omeletteshare
I agree with aka-ed. He wasn't a tough guy. Just an *beep*
shareAll I know is I can't watch Spider-Man the same way anymore.
shareThat was kind of the point; a blend of the two cinematic eras... A story with modern sensibilities told in a retro way. If it didn't work for you, that's fine, but this is exactly what they were hoping to achieve, at the outset.
"I've been turned down more times than the beds at the Holiday Inn; I still try"
I agree whole heartedly with Mr Howlin'. Having no interest whatsoever in classic movies (unless one includes Twelve Angry Men in that criteria) I stuck with this movie because of its modern sensibilities in the trappings of an old Noir. Far from 'just another modern movie' as suggested by the OP I think it blended the old and the new in a decidedly intriguing way and stands out from the crowd like a beacon because of it.
I thought Maguire did a good job too. I was minded of his character from Sin City, no He-man but all the more sinister because of it.
!
This is where the magic happens... and by "magic", I mean nothing.
it's total failure and receipts proves the combination was poorly delivered.
shareBox office is not the ultimate arbiter of quality; if it were, then everybody would think Transformers 2 was fantastic, and that certainly isn't the case around here.
Born when she kissed me, died when she left me, lived whilst she loved me