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another depressing, abrupt-ending "art" film from America.
Daniel Day-Lewis is powerful, yes, but the writing is so poor he has few memorable scenes, lines. The basic story-telling is terrible. The music is okay but at times is repetitive and extreme. The palette is yellow-brown and rapidly becomes boring.
Lewis is on screen for the entire film and that's part of the problem. No other character is anywhere near as powerful, as well-drawn. There is NOTHING for him to play against.
And, please, don't bother with that silly argument that it's true to the book.
Donatello and Michaelangelo both sculpted highly thought of "Davids" but they're as dissimilar as possible. Artists make art, they don't slavishly copy.
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Just saw it today.
I thought it was good, I agree that there's no other main character that has DDL's...intensity. It would have been interesting to see him paired with another actor of his caliber as the preacher, because whoever they chose for that did a horrible job of that part, IMO. Or maybe as his "son", that was another part that could have been fleshed out a lot more than it was.
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LA radio is saturated with ads for TWBB, maybe for Oscar promo. I was stuck trying to remember who DDL sounded like in the lines they chose for the ad. Then it came to me; Ronald McDonald with accent.
Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy - WB Yeats
..this is still the best movie I've seen in a year and my favorite for the Oscar. DDL is my favorite for best actor too.
I loved the soudtrack--does just what a movie soundtrack should do punctuating the action and storyline in aurally interesting and inventive ways. Its virtue was no hummable tunes. Sorry it didn't get an Oscar nomination.
I thought the Atonement soundtrack was interesting using the old typewriters as percussive devices, but this is not a novel idea. TTWB soundtrack was the more creative of the two but the Atonement soundtrack got the Oscar nomination.
Atonement was a ver fine soundtrack, and follows the one for Pride & Prejudice from same composer that was also excellent. But I thought TWBB deserved a nod too - very creative and as you say, provides what a soundtrack is supposed to do.
AMPAS likes "tunes". They get it right sometimes, and sometimes they ignore the more adventurous fare.
That pretty much is my opinion other than the soundtrack was annoying and DDL's character became a caricature. I do think the cinematography was beautiful. The storyline is banal and reptitive.
mostly because of all the praise I have read about it. I thought it started out terrific but toward the end my interest wandered and DDL's character became a caractature of himself. I wanted more from the movie that started out so promising. I would still recommend it for the good parts like the cinematography and music, the tone and mood at the beginning of the movie really draws you in, but the ending was simple and blunt. A near miss IMO...
that TWBB has very little to do with the book it is very, very loosely in inspired by....'Oil'."Artists make art, they don't slavishly copy." Seeing as how nothing could be further from the truth between the book and this film I have to say nice review..other than the part where you come across as being rather clueless about the subject of your review.
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