nws56:
1. Doomsday
It's not that this film looks or sounds bad , but that it suffers from a lousy script and appalling acting. Enough to make you wriggle in your armchair with embarassment .
2. The assassination of ..by the etc. etc.
There had been comments of Ansel Adams style pictorial splendour about this film , but I was cruelly deceived . There was precious little of beauty in the landscape and certainly none in the 'characters' . Disappointing , dreary , and dull .
3. No country for Old Men
Don't go looking for the ending of this story on disc 2 .....because there isn't one .Does it matter that the film presents an unfinished tale ? Up to you , but I think that the previous Fargo had already said all there is to say about the triumph of evil.
4. There will be blood.
I put it to you , gentle reader , that the spectacle of horrible people doing horrible things does nothing to uplift the human spirit .So the tale of greed and religous hypocrisy told here only depresses , I didn't even learn much about drilling for oil . Pretty to look at ? Suffer an hour of this and you won't even care .
Ithink for this thread to work, we need to distinguish between narrative and/or technical excellence - people can always be subjective about whether they did or didn't like a film, but the technical quality of a film (sound and vision wise) can be described more objectively, I hope!
That's why, for example, we've been testing with The Love Guru recently - abysmal film, but exceptionally colourful, which is a great colour workout for TVs, disc players etc....