It was terrific, and John Goodman and especially Alan Arkin were also really funny. I wasn't expecting that. That said, the end scenes in the airport did kind of annoy me. It seems like they were trying to throw every possible thriller convention out there, and I thought that was drawn more out of Hollywood than the true story. Nonetheless a top flight movie.
Related aside: I live in Ottawa, and when my parents first moved there in the mid-80s, the apartment they bought had previously belonged to Ken Taylor.
Havent seen it yet but it is the first ben Affleck movie I've looked forward to seeing since Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back.
The Town is a ridiculously good movie starring and directed by Ben Affleck also. It wasn't some hugely promoted movie, but it was one of the best movies of that year IMO.
I'm super sour that it won best picture. But I'm often a sourpuss when it comes to movie awards in general and considering that fact that The Master won nothing sucks.
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I thought it was a pretty good movie. A lot of the dialogue was really solid. However, it definitely felt like a "Let's make a Best Picture movie that the Academy will just drool over" movie. I guess that's okay, because obviously it paid off, but movies like that kind of irritate me.
I also felt like the ending went by really fast. Like, it was so much of a climax that it actually seemed anti-climactic, possibly because I already knew what would happen, but also because it just went by really quickly. Obviously I know how storylines work with climaxes and stuff, but he just went in and got them and hooray, the end. Might just be me though, but I felt like the ending was a little weak.
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Well anytime you take a known situation like this of course its going to be predictable. It's like complaining that Lincoln is killed at the end of Lincoln or something. Everyone with a moderate knowledge of history knows that Lincoln was shot by Booth in a theater. So you can't really fault a film on having a storyline that is based on true events in my opinion.
This is a similar case I would argue to a film based on a book, sticking with the way the book ended, and then a guy complaining about predictability because he read the book.
Well anytime you take a known situation like this of course its going to be predictable. It's like complaining that Lincoln is killed at the end of Lincoln or something.
I actually meant in ways different from that. E.g., the one guy is being a ***** about the whole operation at first, therefore he's going to have his superstar moment in the climax. Then that happened. They have to have X part stretch out to the last minute for suspense, so I bet you that these people are going to get held up by something. Yup. Etc.
The way that everything was made for awards just really ****ed it over for me, honestly. The way that everything had to be suspenseful then work at JUST THE LAST SECOND ruined it all for me, because it killed the suspense and simultaneously diminished the historical feeling. You know that only the basic story and major details were true, the actual movie itself is largely just bull**** pandering for awards by inserting things to make suspense.
It just killed it.
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I guess I just get annoyed that people go out of their way to poke holes into good films, but are willing to give films with real problems like Die Hard 5 a pass.
I have no problem with enjoying or hating a film for personal reasons, but this incessant academy award disassembling via plot holes and other minor issues is getting out of hand. I mean if someone didn't enjoy this film that's fine but I could see why the Academy might have picked this film as best picture.
Every film has problems, even so called "great movies" like Citizen Kane or The Godfather have problems. I guess I can take some solace in the fact that if the academy ever gave a best picture award to a film like Die Hard 5 it would cause an even greater uproar lol.
I guess I just get annoyed that people go out of their way to poke holes into good films, but are willing to give films with real problems like Die Hard 5 a pass.
Well I never would do that.
I have no problem with enjoying or hating a film for personal reasons, but this incessant academy award disassembling via plot holes and other minor issues is getting out of hand. I mean if someone didn't enjoy this film that's fine but I could see why the Academy might have picked this film as best picture.
It really did get in the way of me enjoying the movie. Greatly so. But it was well-made from a technical standpoint and turned out to be exactly what it was intended to be.
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I thought it was one of the most tense and thrilling movies I have seen in a while.
Especially for a movie where people aren't dying off every 5 seconds.
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The Town is a ridiculously good movie starring and directed by Ben Affleck also. It wasn't some hugely promoted movie, but it was one of the best movies of that year IMO.
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That said, I still enjoyed Silver Linings Playbook more.
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I also felt like the ending went by really fast. Like, it was so much of a climax that it actually seemed anti-climactic, possibly because I already knew what would happen, but also because it just went by really quickly. Obviously I know how storylines work with climaxes and stuff, but he just went in and got them and hooray, the end. Might just be me though, but I felt like the ending was a little weak.
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This is a similar case I would argue to a film based on a book, sticking with the way the book ended, and then a guy complaining about predictability because he read the book.
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The way that everything was made for awards just really ****ed it over for me, honestly. The way that everything had to be suspenseful then work at JUST THE LAST SECOND ruined it all for me, because it killed the suspense and simultaneously diminished the historical feeling. You know that only the basic story and major details were true, the actual movie itself is largely just bull**** pandering for awards by inserting things to make suspense.
It just killed it.
I have no problem with enjoying or hating a film for personal reasons, but this incessant academy award disassembling via plot holes and other minor issues is getting out of hand. I mean if someone didn't enjoy this film that's fine but I could see why the Academy might have picked this film as best picture.
Every film has problems, even so called "great movies" like Citizen Kane or The Godfather have problems. I guess I can take some solace in the fact that if the academy ever gave a best picture award to a film like Die Hard 5 it would cause an even greater uproar lol.
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