hmm... saw this today, started the film with maybe 10 peoplein the theatre... ended with me, my mate, dude at the back, and 2 in front who made out through the entire movie (we could hear them).
Have to say for 95% of the film youll be bored, and confused as to the plot. then the final 5 minutes seems to explain everything.
Definately not something I would have paid to watch if Id have known the plot beforehand, but then im a kinda guy who if the film doesnt spell out some sort of story line in the first 10 minutes I turn into "watching the film for the sake of it" mode, and just blank out whilst watching the pretty pictures on the screen.
Didnt grab me, and the wierd half anime, half real thing just made my eyes hurt, thought it was my eyes fooling me.
That said, Wynona Rider... oh hell yes... I would!!!
not anime, vectoring and cell shading
ah well its all "animation" to me. Either way it kinda just ruined the film slightly, would have preferred just special effects.
I saw it in, aherm, a private preview screening off a mates PC...
...I was dead confused for a lot of it, but I like it. Downey-JR was very good :)
yeah same here, robert downey jr had me grinning most of the way through, just it was too abstract for me to get my head around until the closing few minutes.
Maybe im just a simple guy, give me Arnie, an eastern european terrorist, and some guns and im a happy chappy.
If you like the simplicity of something like Snakes on a Plane then it isnt for you, the original book is very deep and probably a step too far for transfer to a film.
The distributors of Snakes on a plane decided not to let the critics in for a preview, although one managed it. His view was it was an OK B movie although easier to get into than this. Still means a lot of people are going to be dissappointed.
Its not that I didnt "get" the film, nor discover the actual plotline to it.
Its the fact that im the kind of person who likes a nice storyline that lays the foundations down in the first 10 or 15 minutes. Any longer than that and like I said I watch the film for the sake of watching it, I stop trying to figure things out in my head and just veg out.
It was enjoyable, but just a bit out there, and left me with a "hmm.. 2 hours gone" feeling. As opposed to leaving there going "wow!"
For example: Revolver just confused the hell out of me, and annoyed me cause I couldnt get it until someone spelt it out on here. That was not an enjoyable film to me. A scanner darkly I got... I just didnt get it until the end, which kinda just took the shine off of it, instead of "cool film" it was "hmm.. twas alright".