Complicated Game
Posted on | January 2, 2006 at 1:02 pm | 1 Comment
New Year’s resolutions – blah. I didn’t do a good job of keeping my ones from last year (and am not going to bother even linking to them). The only one I’m going to make for this year is about this blog, though it’s not really a resolution. I resolve to not attempt to do movie reviews any more, at least not ones where I recap the movie, try to rate it, and talk about the pluses and minuses. I’ll leave that to more capable people like Roger Ebert and James Sanford. No more goofy rating systems like the Nod-O-Meter or Flasshe’s Movie Rating System. I will still make comments on movies when I have something to say different from the masses, or to continue reporting on the worsening of the movie-going experience in general, but that’s about it.
In that vein, I saw Munich yesterday. The only thing I really wanted to say about it is that I guessed the final shot of the movie minutes before it happened. Spielberg is nothing if not predictable. So, did anyone else who saw the movie also see that final shot coming from a mile away?
The movie was okay – a little long but fairly exciting, and thought-provoking in that Spielbergian kind of way. As for the theater experience, the audience was polite (sold out show in a small megaplex theater). Since it was an R-rated political thriller movie, it was mostly an older audience. The woman next to me kept cringing extravagantly at the violent scenes, of which there were many. It was like that wasn’t what she was expecting from Spielberg. The only technical flaw was that several times the picture was interrupted by a thick horizontal slashing silver line near the top of the screen. I seem to remember seeing that on Narnia also, which was at a different theater. Yet another stupid copy protection scheme, like the Crap Code? Looked more like a problem with the film.
Happy New Year. May 2006 be… something.
Latre.
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January 2nd, 2006 @ 3:34 pm
I haven’t heard of the horizontal slashing line, but those CAP dots drive me insane whenever I notice them. Way to jolt me out of the moviegoing experience, dimbulbs.
I got an e-mail today with the greeting, “Have a year.” That’s even more half-hearted than your sign-off…