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Woo hoo!!
Ordered!!!
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Mar 3, 2011 - 8:49 AM
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LeHah
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This is one of those films that I probably never would've heard of if it wasn't for forums like this. I watched the film on YouTube (it's on their in its entirety with commercials) and, despite a few interesting ideas (and the score), I have to say it was quite boring.
The film is the most interesting of failures.
Its a fairly big budget production. You have an ensemble cast thats largely British, with two Oscar winning actors (Sir Ben Kingsley and F. Murray Abraham) and several noted theater actors (Robbie Coltrane and the late, great Bob Peck whom Sir Ian McKellan said was the person he learned the most about acting from). Its got one star as he's falling from public view(Mark Hamill, whos actually excellent as the antagonist and far away from Luke Skywalker) and one star on his way up (Bill Paxton, complete with a Whitesnake hairmetal haircut). Aside from some interesting sets, the film also features a rare kind of airplane (an Optica OA7 - the prop they used in the SFX shots in the film popped up on Ebay about 5 years ago) and, of course, Bernstein with the LSO.
And not much happens.
Its a very talky film, with a wonderful nuanced performance by Peck and glorious scene chewing by Hamill but ultimately fails because it doesn't know what it wants to be. The script is one part Silent Running, one part Blade Runner and (in the end) one part bad satire. Its got all the ideas but you can tell that either there were script changes as they were shooting or they took a cleaver to the film in the editing room. Some of the dubbing is incredibly awful too but largely the effects are pretty good and some of the scenery is excellent.
Do I like the film? Yes. Its one of my all-time guilty pleasure movies.
Would I recommend anyone see it? Probably not.
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I'm not familiar with either movie or score.
I'm trying to significantly cut my spending on DVDs and CDs but have just listened to the samples and am sure I'd regret missing out on this one.
Ordered!
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