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Public Enemies (2009)
A big disappointment
I saw Public Enemies at a preview the other day. I am sorry to say I was quite disappointed with the movie. Being old enough to remember those days (and a movie buff, I might add), when I saw the trailers on P/E, I couldn't wait to see it. One of the best actors, Johnny Depp, was starring in it. Some of my disappointment was in the way Mann filmed it. Very much of it was filmed in tight close-up. This denied us seeing groups of characters conversing, switching to close-up for each bit of dialogue. Much of the movie was filmed in darkness, so in some scenes all we saw were flashes of gunfire. Agent Purvis (Christian Bale) had the worst South Carolinian accent I've ever heard - and must have realized it himself when later in the movie he abandoned it all together. The movie did very little to establish character identification. It took quite awhile to find out who Pretty Boy Floyd was or who Baby Face Nelson was. I thought the continuity of the movie was terrible. Heck, the movies of the 30s and 40s did better jobs of characterizing gangsters of that era. The one thing I did like was the actual showing of the Biograph theater. It brought back memories of a day long, long ago, when I went to the Biograph during a visit to Chicago.
Homa & nero (1999)
A terrible movie.
This is one of the dumbest movies I have ever seen. There is no discernible plot. I am Greek and speak and understand the language fluently. My culture would allow me to understand if there were any Greek traditions or meaning to the story line. There was none. The direction of the movie... well, there was none. I doubt there was a script. Perhaps a plot line was the basis for filming. I think the director just pointed his cameras and had his actors says whatever came to their minds from the notes they may have been given on 3x5 cards. The editing process was atrocious. Scenes were thrown together helter-skelter with no apparent continuity.
Nip/Tuck: Cindy Plumb (2006)
Response to Centava99 and ejiroubiedi
As Billy Eckstine once said, "From the bottom of my heart, dear, I apologize." Mea Culpa. As I wrote, I record most programs. Well, I had my VCR set for one hour, thinking that's the length of the program. In discussing the episode the next day with a friend, she told me also Tivoed the show, and let me watch it (again). I found out that N/T ran about one hour and 18 minutes long that night. I had completely missed the last 18 minutes, and when I saw it the next evening, Yes, Brooke definitely accepted Troy in the canine position. So, Centava99, please accept my apology. Disregard what I had previously written. An alert to viewers who might still be using VCRs to tape shows. Remember, Nip/Tuck sometimes runs more than the one hour most dramas usually do.