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Posted by John Harkness on 09/29/77 11:35
On Fri, 23 Dec 2005 19:29:00 -0500, moviePig <pwallace@moviepig.com>
wrote:
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>Goro wrote:
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>> moviePig wrote:
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>>>Goro wrote:
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>>>>Ralph Grossi wrote:
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>>>>>"Goro" <evilninjax@yahoo.com> wrote in message
>>>>>news:1135359593.625968.174190@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
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>>>>>>I just watched the RED EYE dvd. It was a decent movie; the first half
>>>>>>was very good, the latter half, quite awful. One thing is that I found
>>>>>>myself rooting for Cillian Murphy throuhgout. SInce there's little if
>>>>>>any substantial character development, there wasn't anything really
>>>>>>pressing me to care about Rachel McAdam's char or the senator target.
>>>>>>I did find Cillian Murphy really engagingl, though, and wanted him to
>>>>>>succeed and off McAdams and Brian Cox, too.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>-goro-
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>>>>>Nice double bagger, spoilers on an unreleased DVD (Jan 10). Well done!
>>>>>
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>>>>WHoops. sorry about that, but to be fair, it's very obvious fromt he
>>>>beginning what the outcome is going to be. I guess i should have put
>>>>some sppoiler space, though, for people who have avoided the trailers
>>>>of this.
>>>
>>>I, who crusade against spoilers, have occasionally committed worse. I
>>>usually just wear a hair shirt for a couple of days. I can loan you mine...
>>>
>>>What's a bitch is that, e.g., the *trailer* (iirc) gives away who the
>>>villain is. Sure, so does the movie within 5 minutes... but it does at
>>>first pay a little lip-service to some low-level misdirection. I figure
>>>the studio said, "We want clips. Screw the plot." Typical, to be
>>>sure... but that means that few screenwriters should ever consider using
>>>an early far-reaching surprise.
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>> I'm not sure there's any way to make a reasonable trailer for this
>> movie that doesn't give away who the baddie is. I suppose there could
>> be a teaser-type trailer that shows Cillian and Rachel together and
>> then shows some of the amped up thriller moments, trying to keep
>> protagonoists hidden, but i'm not sure that would work well.
>>
>> One thing i was HOPING would be part of the 3rd act was that Cillian
>> Murphy was a good guy trying to kill a Bad Guy. I was hoping that the
>> Senator would be some corrupt, treasonous guy or something and that
>> Cillian Murphy was some sort of riteous freedom fighter or something
>> like that.
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>I don't think Craven does twists. (Hell, he even gave Cillian's game
>away by casting Cillian...)
Obviously, you've never seen Disco Pigs...
John Harkness
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