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Well... there's that then.
PostedNovember 22, 2010
FlickMonger
from Detroit, MI
Warning: to anybody wanting to see this movie, I highly suggest that you go out and read the book. Without it, you will mostly be lost to what's going on here. Just watching the movies isn't enough, they breeze over way to many points for a full understanding of all this. I only read the book when it came out and I was still lost at points.
But yes, the movie is pretty average on the whole. It's all a set-up, yes, but it's like they didn't want to make this its own movie. It's part one, and that's exactly what it feels like. There's no real beginning, middle, end, just a series of events. The climax, if you want to call it that, will pass you by and you'll be sitting in your seats wondering why it went to credits. Some work should really have been done here to make a complete story.
One of the major problems this movie has is that is lacks any connective tissue. They try to stick to the events of the book to closely, and since they don't have a thousand pages to go about this, I felt like I was watching a re-cap of things.
Also, there's a lot of really odd stuff that just comes out of nowhere. Things that make you wonder if perhaps sticking to the source material isn't such a bad thing. There's this rather odd dancing scene that goes on for five minutes and accomplishes nothing, and then there's that "brief sexuality" in the rating. It's all just very weird. Can they not do things well if they're not taken directly from the book? I wonder.
But besides all that, this isn't a bad movie. The action is intense and it works the tension well, all the acting is solid, the humor is still wonderful and organic, and the cinematography is beautiful.
I'm not a rabid fan, and maybe that's my own flaw. But I feel like movies should be able to stand on their own, not just cater to a certain audience. That's my opinion though.
If you loved the books, hell, you probably already went to midnight premier. If you loved the movies... read the books.
One of the major problems this movie has is that is lacks any connective tissue. They try to stick to the events of the book to closely, and since they don't have a thousand pages to go about this, I felt like I was watching a re-cap of things.
Also, there's a lot of really odd stuff that just comes out of nowhere. Things that make you wonder if perhaps sticking to the source material isn't such a bad thing. There's this rather odd dancing scene that goes on for five minutes and accomplishes nothing, and then there's that "brief sexuality" in the rating. It's all just very weird. Can they not do things well if they're not taken directly from the book? I wonder.
But besides all that, this isn't a bad movie. The action is intense and it works the tension well, all the acting is solid, the humor is still wonderful and organic, and the cinematography is beautiful.
I'm not a rabid fan, and maybe that's my own flaw. But I feel like movies should be able to stand on their own, not just cater to a certain audience. That's my opinion though.
If you loved the books, hell, you probably already went to midnight premier. If you loved the movies... read the books.
Yes, I recommend this movie.
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