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Writing the movie, "Her"
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Yeah, it's well made, and it has an interesting premise, but like most Oscar Bait, it's first half hour is fucking terrible. Its tedious, boring, uninteresting, and will turn off most viewers that actually value their time.
The characterizations are spot on, as is the dialog, the problem is that the main guy just isn't interesting - and like Shame, a couple of years ago - the time spent developing his character is tedious and wasteful, because he's just not very interesting, nor is the set up.
Which is a shame because the premise - falling in love with your operating system - is both timely and well handled. You just have to sit through a large amount of yawning to get there.
It's like lit stories that always detail how a wife / husband couple got together in the first place. You don't do that right out the gate because at this point no one cares. Get some meat of the story out there, then go back and do that, when people are invested in the characters and what is going on and want the background.
But movies can't do that. Well, they can, but Oscar Bait like this never seem to.
The characterizations are spot on, as is the dialog, the problem is that the main guy just isn't interesting - and like Shame, a couple of years ago - the time spent developing his character is tedious and wasteful, because he's just not very interesting, nor is the set up.
Which is a shame because the premise - falling in love with your operating system - is both timely and well handled. You just have to sit through a large amount of yawning to get there.
It's like lit stories that always detail how a wife / husband couple got together in the first place. You don't do that right out the gate because at this point no one cares. Get some meat of the story out there, then go back and do that, when people are invested in the characters and what is going on and want the background.
But movies can't do that. Well, they can, but Oscar Bait like this never seem to.
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Movies are rarely like books. Movies have 90-120 minutes on average to tell you the entire story. Books can take as long as they want to do so.
The movie version of the Exorcist was pretty damn faithful to the book and well done. People deem it silly now, but that movie had a devastating effect when it was released in 73(or 2)
But....if you read the book then watch the movie its far better experience because you see what they missed and the story is more fleshed out.
I won't see "her" my wife and I rarely agree on a movie and usually go with other people. We just came off a streak of two in a row we both wanted to see.
The latest Hobbit and Grudge Match.
The 300 sequel might make three and that has to be a record for a year
The movie version of the Exorcist was pretty damn faithful to the book and well done. People deem it silly now, but that movie had a devastating effect when it was released in 73(or 2)
But....if you read the book then watch the movie its far better experience because you see what they missed and the story is more fleshed out.
I won't see "her" my wife and I rarely agree on a movie and usually go with other people. We just came off a streak of two in a row we both wanted to see.
The latest Hobbit and Grudge Match.
The 300 sequel might make three and that has to be a record for a year
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I'll go slightly off topic here and differ on how the couple got together. Many stories are in fact about how they get together, whether it's to marriage or just at the I-love-you stage. You get to care about the characters on the way; that's most of my stories.
But if that's not the point, if the point is something that happens after they're married, or because they're married, or threatens their marriage, then yes, that getting together part might not be as important. But it could be, depending on the conflict. Maybe it originated when the couple was getting together.
I haven't seen the movie, but I will at some point. I like Joaquin Phoenix, and everything I've read has piqued my curiosity to some degree. But it'll be a while.
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