sravankb said:
I saw this movie, and it was ridiculously slow. There are entire scenes where the characters just stare at each other for 10-15 seconds with nothing happening. 10-15 may not sound like a lot, but when the actors just face other with no changing expressions or any meaningful dialogue that could warrant that long a pause, those few seconds feel like ages.
If the director was trying to be subtle about his "art", he should realize that beating his audience's heads over with "subtlety" defeats the purpose.
On a side note - Valhalla Rising was crap. Drive was tolerable, but "Rising" is the very definition of a slow movie.
Inb4 - "Go back 2 transformerz, n00b". No, shut up. That's a terrible way of putting forth your argument. Plus, I didn't like that movie either.
this.
there is a difference between adding some silence to make an actor more mysterious, and there is drive...which is making the two main characters look like slow retarded kids(not meaning that in an offensive way) who have 4 lines in the whole movie.
not to mention, if you pay attention in the movie there is SO MUCH stuff in the background that makes zero sense with what is going on, not to mention "random friend #5" standing in the background creeping on the conversation of silence making it even more weird.
when i went and saw this, every single seat in the theater was absolutely filled, about halfway through the movie 15 people had left, while 4 groups of people were having conversations because it was such a drag to sit through, by the end everyone was laughing at how pitiful some of the scenes were, not to mention the last scene which had massive amounts of "wtf, are you kidding me?" added to it.
by the end maybe half the theater was filled still, and that was msotly people like myself making fun of how bad some of the scenes were.
i can enjoy a movie with next to no action at all, but based on the trailer and based on the title and everything, you would expect something different, something that wasn't retardedly slow and had maybe 10 minutes total in the whole movie of *decent* action or driving. even then transporter blows this movie to hell and back on driving sequences.
