MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS:
I immediately felt for the subject as I read the back cover of the DVD. A man out to put a stop to noise in New York! Love the premise.
And the movie started great. As a student of screen writing, I followed the form great in the beginning. This was a story about a man with not one, but two problems. He hated noise, and he was dealing with it poorly. Constantly he would be trying to eradicate it, but it would only get him into trouble. He would then try another method, that wound up getting him into even more trouble.
I felt with his cause, and his mission and all his obstacles. But then, as most common, midway through, the movie lost its pace. Mostly due to a weak second act, where his goal vanished in the place of a "romantic" subplot that had no effect or relevance to the story whatsoever. Furthermore the little goal he was still pursuing had little opposition, so those 20 minutes felt like 40 minutes! Horrible.
Luckily the movie ends great, with an escalation and battle that could have made the movie great, if it wasn't for the weaker second part.
I almost feel like, making a new edit of the movie, but the thing is it wouldn't be possible, as the problem lies with the script.
The rewrite I would do would entail David pursuing his goal of getting signatures, with MUCH opposition, almost to the point that he is about to loose faith that it is even possible. And then he struggles some more, until he finally succeeds, only to realize that it has NO effect as the mayor has made the charter revision, that nullifies their petition. THEN it would have been a death blow to him. And THEN his actions in the last parts of the movie, would have made more sense.
Too bad they didn't revise the script one last time. Oh well, it was a nice movie anyway.
I immediately felt for the subject as I read the back cover of the DVD. A man out to put a stop to noise in New York! Love the premise.
And the movie started great. As a student of screen writing, I followed the form great in the beginning. This was a story about a man with not one, but two problems. He hated noise, and he was dealing with it poorly. Constantly he would be trying to eradicate it, but it would only get him into trouble. He would then try another method, that wound up getting him into even more trouble.
I felt with his cause, and his mission and all his obstacles. But then, as most common, midway through, the movie lost its pace. Mostly due to a weak second act, where his goal vanished in the place of a "romantic" subplot that had no effect or relevance to the story whatsoever. Furthermore the little goal he was still pursuing had little opposition, so those 20 minutes felt like 40 minutes! Horrible.
Luckily the movie ends great, with an escalation and battle that could have made the movie great, if it wasn't for the weaker second part.
I almost feel like, making a new edit of the movie, but the thing is it wouldn't be possible, as the problem lies with the script.
The rewrite I would do would entail David pursuing his goal of getting signatures, with MUCH opposition, almost to the point that he is about to loose faith that it is even possible. And then he struggles some more, until he finally succeeds, only to realize that it has NO effect as the mayor has made the charter revision, that nullifies their petition. THEN it would have been a death blow to him. And THEN his actions in the last parts of the movie, would have made more sense.
Too bad they didn't revise the script one last time. Oh well, it was a nice movie anyway.