The hate is because the film is visually stunning and great for home theater demo material but the plot and "drama" are paper-thin. Why do we care what happens to Ryan Stone? Why do we care about Kowalski? There is hardly any character development and this kills the whole idea of rooting for or against characters in films. We hear that her daughter died almost in passing or matter-of-factly. OK. Sorry but that doesnt generate empathy at all. But were supposed to be engrossed by these people and their lives?
Then, the action/survival scenes are repetitive, drawn-out, hardly believable and sometimes silly. "Eny, meeny, mynee, moe" and that magically causes the right button to br pressed? C'mon. Its a movie, I get that but really? Also, Ryan seems hardly fit for such a mission. Would they send her to do this job? I doubt it.
Then they ham-fist the metaphorical stuff, quite poorly I might add. Its just so meh. Made me roll my eyes numerous times.
Technically the film is very competent and has some cool scenes. But that does NOT make the movie good - it simly makes it demo material. Thats all.
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wesperkins
8 years ago
The hate is because the film is visually stunning and great for home theater demo material but the plot and "drama" are paper-thin. Why do we care what happens to Ryan Stone? Why do we care about Kowalski? There is hardly any character development and this kills the whole idea of rooting for or against characters in films. We hear that her daughter died almost in passing or matter-of-factly. OK. Sorry but that doesnt generate empathy at all. But were supposed to be engrossed by these people and their lives?
Then, the action/survival scenes are repetitive, drawn-out, hardly believable and sometimes silly. "Eny, meeny, mynee, moe" and that magically causes the right button to br pressed? C'mon. Its a movie, I get that but really? Also, Ryan seems hardly fit for such a mission. Would they send her to do this job? I doubt it.
Then they ham-fist the metaphorical stuff, quite poorly I might add. Its just so meh. Made me roll my eyes numerous times.
Technically the film is very competent and has some cool scenes. But that does NOT make the movie good - it simly makes it demo material. Thats all.
I agree with everything you said, so instead of typing it out again I will just say you hit the nail on the head. And I'll add to the answer of why the hate-bc you have people starting threads and basically saying we are morons and trolls for answering the question that they posted on why we don't think this is a masterpiece.
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