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That's entertainment?

Posted by dave c (A) on February 21, 2006 at 12:42:08

In Reply to: Re: Lord Of War? Pile Of Crap?? posted by jamesgarvin on February 21, 2006 at 12:14:08:

Its not so much that I am expecting "reality", for which I can just look out at the street, but a kind of hyper-reality, and I don't mean where everything is superglossy like with Sin City, but something beyond reality.
The characters were too simplistic, for example when, towards the end, the brother complains about people about to be killed with their guns... what did he think they were used for?
Too obvious as well... the bullet in the brother, the painting in the container/lock-up, the police guy from Interpol not getting it and rolling over for the US military who of course would not have had jurisdiction.
Yes its a fable, but to my mind not very well told. "I did a lot of cocaine in West Africa"... So what? was my response.
The cheap flash editing of some sequences left it feeling as empty as any promo video for any metal/rap act. Although I did like the time-lapse scene of the plane being stripped down like a shot of a dead animal being eaten by ants.
So I would ask, with all its faults, what is entertaining about it?
For me, not enough.
I felt is was as if too many people tried to have hands on the steering wheel, it was bitty and unrewarding.

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