No problem, so, let's pretend that there was never a Graphic Novel that this was based on, otherwise it's a problems with adaptation rant, and say this is an original work. Shot Compostion - Nothing good, nothing bad, just standard. Soundtrack - Hollywood style auditory clues, as in VERY heavy handed. That's hollywood though, so whatever. Musically, all I can say is the movie ends on November 5th, the Fall, and the credits roll with a song going on about Summer. Writing - Embarressingly cliched. Cinematography - Embarressingly cliched. Acting - Wooden at best, but, there was no development of characters or setting in the script anyway, so, garbage in garbage out. We are forced to take their word for it for their actions. We are never given enough background to understand them. The best could say is they are a cardboard cut out, but the reality is they are a sheet of cardboard with a few words to describe them, like "Detective who wants to know truth because he's a detective." scrawled on them in crayon and shit. Setting - This wasn't a menacing facist distopia of the future. This was an apathetic right wing future. There were no secret police, spies everywhare and fear upon fear upon fear. There were a bunch of people who had to suffer a curfew, and that's it. They were openly seditious and dissentive, just, to lazy to do anything about it. This wasn't a satire based on hypertrophying the tendancies of the satire society, this was what the u.s. is like now, but less vulgar and rude. Direction - There was none, which is why everything languished. Production - Looked all polished and Hollywood, which, well, whatever, so did Lost In Space. Script - Oversimplistic. Everything is said bluntly in the most embarressingly cliched way it can be done. Character says lines, I groan in discomfort. Repeat ad nauseum.
Now, if you want me to really bash it, I can compare it to the Comic. I've seen worse movies, this is only at its best, just Hollywood taking something from outside (it was refreshing to see them not remaking another Japanese movie that week, but I digress) and in the most fundamental way possible, just not get it. Just, a complete void of any elegance or pathos.
Shot Compostion - Nothing good, nothing bad, just standard.
Soundtrack - Hollywood style auditory clues, as in VERY heavy handed. That's hollywood though, so whatever. Musically, all I can say is the movie ends on November 5th, the Fall, and the credits roll with a song going on about Summer.
Writing - Embarressingly cliched.
Cinematography - Embarressingly cliched.
Acting - Wooden at best, but, there was no development of characters or setting in the script anyway, so, garbage in garbage out. We are forced to take their word for it for their actions. We are never given enough background to understand them. The best could say is they are a cardboard cut out, but the reality is they are a sheet of cardboard with a few words to describe them, like "Detective who wants to know truth because he's a detective." scrawled on them in crayon and shit.
Setting - This wasn't a menacing facist distopia of the future. This was an apathetic right wing future. There were no secret police, spies everywhare and fear upon fear upon fear. There were a bunch of people who had to suffer a curfew, and that's it. They were openly seditious and dissentive, just, to lazy to do anything about it. This wasn't a satire based on hypertrophying the tendancies of the satire society, this was what the u.s. is like now, but less vulgar and rude.
Direction - There was none, which is why everything languished.
Production - Looked all polished and Hollywood, which, well, whatever, so did Lost In Space.
Script - Oversimplistic. Everything is said bluntly in the most embarressingly cliched way it can be done. Character says lines, I groan in discomfort. Repeat ad nauseum.
Now, if you want me to really bash it, I can compare it to the Comic. I've seen worse movies, this is only at its best, just Hollywood taking something from outside (it was refreshing to see them not remaking another Japanese movie that week, but I digress) and in the most fundamental way possible, just not get it. Just, a complete void of any elegance or pathos.
Your milage may vary.
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