The Vorpal Tribble
2007-10-12, 07:53 AM
This looked vaguely interesting, so went to the screening last night and... I have never seen such a long-winded and artificially prolonged movie in my LIFE.
It was a simple business coverup with an attempt to silence two peopke who discovered it. Only three people were even in on the scam. No huge conspiracy or anything. A plot that only took, what, 2 hours, because they filled it absolutely to bursting with dialog. Dialog that meant NOTHING. I'm serious, they said words without meanings. Entire scenes where all they did was open their mouths and noise came out but it was complete buzz-talk. It was meant to sound deep and philosophical and mysterious but it wasn't. Absolute filler between the slightly less boring scenes.
Reminded me from a part of an Isaac Asimov book where they had a computer do an analysis on what someone had come into say to them and found out he had said nothing whatsoever, but did it so well and for so long it seemed as if he had.
That was this entire movie.
It did not even have any interesting action scenes despite what they try to sell you in the trailers.
The very ending was of course the best... but that was about it. The rest of it was frankly dull and tedious and meant to give the illusion of deep psychological criminology instead of utter hogwash.
It was a simple business coverup with an attempt to silence two peopke who discovered it. Only three people were even in on the scam. No huge conspiracy or anything. A plot that only took, what, 2 hours, because they filled it absolutely to bursting with dialog. Dialog that meant NOTHING. I'm serious, they said words without meanings. Entire scenes where all they did was open their mouths and noise came out but it was complete buzz-talk. It was meant to sound deep and philosophical and mysterious but it wasn't. Absolute filler between the slightly less boring scenes.
Reminded me from a part of an Isaac Asimov book where they had a computer do an analysis on what someone had come into say to them and found out he had said nothing whatsoever, but did it so well and for so long it seemed as if he had.
That was this entire movie.
It did not even have any interesting action scenes despite what they try to sell you in the trailers.
The very ending was of course the best... but that was about it. The rest of it was frankly dull and tedious and meant to give the illusion of deep psychological criminology instead of utter hogwash.