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and yet I'm not excited about it or jumping up and down. Everyone blimped up for this film except for Malek. Then again, the cast was naturally that age.
Denzel plays a "disgraced" former LA homicide detective that lives upstate but gets personally involved in a series of closely related murders. Most all of his former co-workers don't like him. The new Young Lion (Malek) oddly becomes an ally and find a #1 suspect in Leto. Cat and Mouse ensues and unravels at the end.
There are a few flips in the story that don't quite make sense and I had the feeling the actors couldn't be who they can really be. Nevertheless, don your mask and biosuit and waddle on down to the walkie to get out of the house. Do you good.
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Three Oskies sharing scenes means the Academy has no choice but to recognize this yet they release this to a non-movie going population?
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a Basset Hound-faced delight to listen to. The earliest seasons are about as good as police shows get.
Minus the great character development and (in at least 2/3 of that series so far),
superior writing, plotting, texture, pacing, story and mood.
YET, still too long and more ponderous than... thoughtful.
Acting was fine, but only.
Overall lacking and not nearly as good a film as the other "biggie" this weekend, the wonderful
"The Dig" with Ralph Fiennes' much finer than fine performance supported by better than fine
actors.
If actors are a reason to watch any film (and many recent Oscar winners seldom are) there are
many good actors in the two films.
"Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination" -Michael McClure
Just watched last night. Fiennes and Carey Mulligan, indeed, are very good--- in spite of the terrible writing. A ridiculous melodrama with so much trite content that it buries the interesting parts more fully than the boat was covered by dirt.
It followed the Hollywood ideal: create many sub-plots whether they're pertinent, or not. What was the purpose of the young woman on the dig and her gay husband? The brave airman? Why write her husband as gay--- and why be coy about it? Why hint at a ludicrous love story between Pretty and Brown? And that plane crash? Didn't we see that in "1917?" (a drier version)
Pretty, actually, was a fascinating woman having spent years tending to WWI wounded for the Red Cross, at the end of the war, in France. She also was keenly interested in spiritualism. And, from her early youth, archaeology. In other words, she wasn't a bored wealthy widow, crying onto her scones and tea.
Brown, similarly, was an interesting fellow, though Maynard had a lot more to do with the early excavation than is portrayed. Artistic license is one thing, making up entire dramatic themes, quite another.
though it is based on fascinating, real people.
Mulliigan had little to work with there, Fiennes shined.
"Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination" -Michael McClure
What did you make of Deacon sending Jim the red barrette at the end? The whole meaning of the movie depends on that gesture, BUT could it really relieve Jim of his guilt? Since the killer was still out there and the investigation was still on, more bodies were bound to show up, and Jim would know he killed an innocent man.Did I miss something or have I got something wrong. The movie was just so so, but the barrette deal made a mediocre, cliched script seem like just bad writing.
Edits: 01/30/21
I think the barrette was an attempt to save Malek from a life of obsessive guilt. After all, he re-lived Deke's life.
Remember the mile marker where Jim told Deke a body was found? No coincidence that the Leto character was lurking there. They got their man.
But Leto had a police scanner in his apartment. He could have known the mile marker. PLUS, isn't the purpose of Deacon and Jim's journey together that they both kill innocent people? You know, the whole past is present and present is past dialogue.
Deke called Jim on the phone about the mile marker and specifically asked if that info had gotten out. It hadn't.
My daughter and I thought it was just okay.
Certainly won't be memorable.
Dean.
reelsmith's axiom: Its going to be used equipment when I sell it, so it may as well be used equipment when I buy it.
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