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Author:  Jeff [ Tue Jun 17, 2008 10:52 am ]
Post subject:  The Fall
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/10007441-fall/

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Award-winning music video, commercial and film director Tarsem Singh (The Cell) creates a moving and seamless blending of mundane life in a 1915 Los Angeles hospital with a visually sumptuous fantasy world of exotic bandits, evil tyrants, dream-like palaces and breathtaking landscapes. Shot on location in 28 countries around the world, The Fall stars Golden Globe nominated actor Lee Pace (Pushing Daisies, Infamous, Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day) and Justine Waddell (Mansfield Park, Chaos) and features a breakthrough performance by first-time Romanian child actress Catinca Untaru


Anybody seen it yet? Thoughts?
Author:  Jeff [ Tue Jun 17, 2008 11:32 am ]
Post subject:  Re: The Fall
loyalfromlondon wrote:
Ohhhhh, I saw it last week.

from the Everyone's A Critic thread

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Man oh man...

For starters, Tarsem shot this fucker on FOUR CONTINENTS and in about 12 countries. And boy is it beautiful. A+

The story is equal parts Pan's Labyrinth and The Princess Bride. And it works only about 50% of the time. D+

I don't know how to grade it. If the story had worked, this would have been one of the masterpieces of the year.

As it is, I have to give it something in the C range.

It hurts because you know a lot of work went into this film.


I remember reading that now.

I'm thinking this (and I'll try to really get my thoughts out later)...

Cinematography - amazing
Score - phenomenal
Acting - pretty great
Story - good (the fantasy), great (the 15 minutes before the ending), ok (the "modern" story) and really bad (after the conclusion in the fantasy story).

So. I'm gonna go with a B- for now. Maybe a C+. I honestly walked out, turned to my friend and said "WTF did we just watch"?

Sigh. I agree, it pains me that I didn't like it as much as I hoped. It was obviously a work of passion, but just...not the right type.
Author:  Jeff [ Tue Jun 17, 2008 11:44 am ]
Post subject:  Re: The Fall
loyalfromlondon wrote:
It really bothered me that I didn't like it more. I tried and tried.

I wanted to hug and kill that little girl. Something was off about her.


She wasn't very good. Was she supposed to be hispanic? Because she sure wasn't speaking Spanish. The whole time she was there was just very awkward.
Author:  Jeff [ Tue Jun 17, 2008 12:12 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: The Fall
Exactly.

Also, the lengthy stunt scene at the end just needed to be cut. That was insanely dull.
Author:  _axiom [ Tue Jun 17, 2008 12:48 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: The Fall
Uuuu... Lee Pace. I'll try to find this movie and see it...
Author:  MARVEL_ROCKS [ Tue Jun 17, 2008 8:45 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: The Fall
Tarsem Singh = :thumbsup:
Author:  snack [ Thu Jun 19, 2008 8:43 am ]
Post subject:  Re: The Fall
Oh no! I did not like this very much at all.
Tarsem has to be one of the most self-satisfied directors I've ever witnessed...which wouldn't be that much of an issue had this film been good. Which it isn't. Not even close.
Author:  Jeff [ Thu Jun 19, 2008 1:19 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: The Fall
snack wrote:
Oh no! I did not like this very much at all.
Tarsem has to be one of the most self-satisfied directors I've ever witnessed...which wouldn't be that much of an issue had this film been good. Which it isn't. Not even close.


Yeahh...sorta.

It was like it could have been good but it almost had this faux-grandiosity about it that made it not work.
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