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| Cosmic Fur |
| What is Zodiac all about? They're keeping the trailer VERY VAGUE, but that could mean it could be REALLY GOOD, or be complete . |
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| *~LiSa-LoO~* |
| quote: | Originally posted by Cosmic Fur
What is Zodiac all about? They're keeping the trailer VERY VAGUE, but that could mean it could be REALLY GOOD, or be complete . |
It's about the Zodiac serial killer. |
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| Cribby |
| quote: | Originally posted by *~LiSa-LoO~*
It's about the Zodiac serial killer. |
based on the real zodiac killings I believe. |
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| FunkyCrew |
| quote: | Originally posted by Cosmic Fur
What is Zodiac all about? They're keeping the trailer VERY VAGUE, but that could mean it could be REALLY GOOD, or be complete . |
David Fincher’s Zodiac is a fascinating, frustrating movie. At nearly two and three-quarter hours, it’s probably the most obsessively sourced cinematic examination of a criminal case since In Cold Blood, piling detail upon detail to convey the way the Zodiac killer plagued California — and San Francisco in particular — from the mid-1960s to the late 1970s, taunting the police and the press with cryptic letters and codes, capturing the imagination, and the souls, of the men who tried to catch him.
But for all his technical prowess — which here is committed to a perfect textural re-creation of Alan J. Pakula’s great newspaper procedural All The President’s Men — Fincher’s got a huge blind spot for humanity, and his obsession with solving the Zodiac case gives his movie the same kind of tunnel vision as his characters.
It doesn’t really care about Chronicle reporter Paul Avery (Robert Downey, Jr.), or cartoonist Robert Graysmith (Jake Gyllenhaal), or SFPD detectives David Toschi (Mark Ruffalo) and Bill Armstrong (Anthony Edwards); they’re just here to lay out the clues and puzzle over them, like Kevin Costner in JFK. None of them has any kind of life beyond his professional work; only Graysmith, on whose books the film is based, gets a glimmer of humanity, largely through Gyllenhaal’s open, sympathetic performance.
The coldness doesn’t really matter as the movie unfolds, with Harris Savides’ luxurious digital-video images of a placid San Francisco — somehow never quite bristling with the panic the characters keep talking about — and editors Angus Wall and Kirk Baxter flowing one dense expository scene neatly into the next.
But the nature of the case deprives the film of a narrative ending, and Fincher seems incapable of delivering an emotional one. Which means, when Zodiac wraps up, it just sort of stops. Dead.
Norman Wilner for Metro Toronto (Source)
i'm DEFINITELY watching this, regardless of reviews:) the only thing, it's 2 and 3/4 hours long :nervous: |
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| Silky Johnson |
| quote: | Originally posted by Cosmic Fur
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That looks like utter . What happened to brilliant dialogue and even better screenwriting which is what made Tarantino famous? for Grindhouse, it looks like he took the cheesiest parts of those dumb movies we'd go see as kids when we had nothing better to spend our money on, and just slapped them together. GAY. This is like him saying, "Hey, remember those ty movies back in the day? No? Me neither. Well, I took the tiest parts of those ty movies, and made it into a movie TODAY. I AM TEH BRILLIANT; WORSHIP ME FOR I AM YOUR GOD" |
Holy , talk about missing the point completely. |
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| Cosmic Fur |
| quote: | Originally posted by jennypie
Holy , talk about missing the point completely. |
Okay then, do explain its point to me. |
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| Silky Johnson |
| quote: | Originally posted by Cosmic Fur
Okay then, do explain its point to me. |
It's just a fun romp. Nothing more than what is presented. You probably don't understand the horror genre either. Don't ever watch Evil Dead...you won't get it. |
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| Cosmic Fur |
| quote: | Originally posted by jennypie
It's just a fun romp. Nothing more than what is presented. You probably don't understand the horror genre either. Don't ever watch Evil Dead... you won't get it. |
OK, so you slag me for not getting it, and then say there's nothing to get. Yeah, i understand that this movie is just a cheap thrill aimed at the same people who enjoy reading R.L. Stine's paperbooks, but that's not something I'd call a good movie, much like anyone who reads won't call Goosebumps a good book. I guess I just want more from movies than just to watch people getting shot and/or mutilated.
So don't tell me I won't get Evil Dead if there's nothing to get under its face value.
P.S. there are some horror movies that I enjoyed, but the vast vast majority of them are not worth the $10 i paid to see them, nor the bandwidth I wasted downloading them. |
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| Jem_hadar |
| quote: | Originally posted by locodawg
Everytime I see the 300 trailer, it reminds me of the game |
:D me too.
Actually, I first found out about this movie bc Lena Headey is in it. I feel in love with her in the movie Imagine Me & You which she was in with Piper Perabo. Fantastic film!!
She was sooo cute in it, so I IMDB'd her immediately and found out this film was coming out.
Had no idea what it was, but told myself I was checking it regardless. Then months later I start seeing previews for it... HOLY !
Blown away, the film looks sweet as hell and badass too! Wicked.
Now I cant wait to see this flick. |
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| Jem_hadar |
| quote: | Originally posted by MKpacha
Swordfish. |
:gsmile: :gsmile: :gsmile: |
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| Rodrico |
| quote: | Originally posted by jennypie
It's just a fun romp. Nothing more than what is presented. You probably don't understand the horror genre either. Don't ever watch Evil Dead...you won't get it. |
Evil Dead, best trilogy ever. Ash is my hero. |
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| Silky Johnson |
| quote: | Originally posted by Cosmic Fur
OK, so you slag me for not getting it, and then say there's nothing to get. Yeah, i understand that this movie is just a cheap thrill aimed at the same people who enjoy reading R.L. Stine's paperbooks, but that's not something I'd call a good movie, much like anyone who reads won't call Goosebumps a good book. I guess I just want more from movies than just to watch people getting shot and/or mutilated.
So don't tell me I won't get Evil Dead if there's nothing to get under its face value.
P.S. there are some horror movies that I enjoyed, but the vast vast majority of them are not worth the $10 i paid to see them, nor the bandwidth I wasted downloading them. |
You're pretty dumb. Congratulations. |
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