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What baffles me, frankly, is how many people around here seem to enjoy this kind of endless, droning crap. I mean, maybe it works in the film sometimes, but as a separate listen? Good God, the stuff is almost intolerable.
I feel the same way about a great deal of Morricone's "non-Hollywood" scores, but there you are. There's something for everyone.
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Do you know, I got the OST of the remake of TDTESS at Christmas and I still have not played it?
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The whole thing was hilariously awful, like Batman and Robin only amped up with Eli Roth torture porn aesthetics.
I've heard a lot of people (people, not critics) say that the movie over-accentuates the violence in the film. Would anyone else here agree with that? (It seems a strange thing to take note of - considering the graphic content of horror films in this day and age)
I agree. I was never a fan of the graphic novel, which I felt was excessively violent, but the film amps up the gore even in scenes that (IMO) don't require it.
[SPOILERS FOR ANYONE UNFAMILIAR WITH THE STORY]
The opening fight between the Comedian and his assailant is so brutally nasty that it somewhat desensitizes you to the violence that comes afterwards. It's not really even a fight scene -- it's basically a prolonged murder of a man who's too tough to die immediately, but who's facing a supernaturally skilled and vicious opponent who's toying with him like a cat with a mouse.
In addition, the attempted rape scene with the original Silk Spectre was much more violent that it needed to be -- yes, the scene is supposed to be ugly, but there's a point in which I felt it was being really abusive to the audience as well.
Consequently, moments that should be REALLY shocking (such as the Comedian and the woman in the bar in Vietnam) actually feel muted as a result, and later scenes come across as simply gore porn (Rorshach's murder of a child killer, and the aftermath of Dr. Manhattan using his "powers" on certain characters.) The gore was unnecessary, and actually made those scenes so over-the-top as to become ridiculous.
I have a feeling this movie is going to make a ton of money opening weekend, then drop substantially after the hard-core fans have seen it and general word-of-mouth spreads.
[Slightly off-topic rant: I'm getting really, REALLY tired of the trend in action films (especially comic book films) of showing people being thrown through the air and slamming into walls, through glass doors, tables, and so on, as a substitute for in-your-face fisticuffs. In reality, unless you're Superman or the Hulk, getting thrown bodily through the air and slamming into anything harder than a futon is going to knock you out of commission immediately. The same goes for people being thrown through the air by explosions, for God's sake: if a blast is powerful enough to fling you through the air, the concussion is going to kill you, period.]
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Saw the film on Friday, underwhelmed. The score did not stand out and I couldn't tell you a damn thing about it.
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