First10 - 15 minutes are enthralling in their spartan sensibility, only wild sound, etc.
Then, it starts getting overbearing, and rather trite - feel this emotion! - music. Sometimes there's music with sung lyrics OVER dialog! It is hard to tell which to pay attention to.
Then it gets into the very hamhanded flashbacks. Only for Matthew McConaughey of course, not Ken Watanabe.
And then we get the slap in my face lack of realism. Nosebleed = cancer. Fall off a cliff, bounce on a rock and fall 20 more feet, and the only issue is impaled by a stick so hours later, you are walking? And at least a dozen other things where i thought I had missed something, or just rolled my eyes.
Even the cinematography was all over the place, from the delightful shallow-DOF mid-range shots, to all too often just sitcom setups and excessive cuts between each line.
I only finished this because of the promise of Gus Van Sant, and maybe it came around again, but no. If I had researched this before, I'd have known that the writer of Buried would give us a hamhanded movie like this.
Then, it starts getting overbearing, and rather trite - feel this emotion! - music. Sometimes there's music with sung lyrics OVER dialog! It is hard to tell which to pay attention to.
Then it gets into the very hamhanded flashbacks. Only for Matthew McConaughey of course, not Ken Watanabe.
And then we get the slap in my face lack of realism. Nosebleed = cancer. Fall off a cliff, bounce on a rock and fall 20 more feet, and the only issue is impaled by a stick so hours later, you are walking? And at least a dozen other things where i thought I had missed something, or just rolled my eyes.
Even the cinematography was all over the place, from the delightful shallow-DOF mid-range shots, to all too often just sitcom setups and excessive cuts between each line.
I only finished this because of the promise of Gus Van Sant, and maybe it came around again, but no. If I had researched this before, I'd have known that the writer of Buried would give us a hamhanded movie like this.