DISQUS

Aleric · 1 year ago

Yeah.....way to promote your product there buddy, but I understand you are French and probably just pissed off they banned smoking in restuarants in France.

Mister Hand · 1 year ago

That's too bad. GOTHIKA was a really stupid movie, but I enjoyed it nonetheless, and recognized the director as someone with skill.

Cole Abaius · 1 year ago

A little of that UK rivalry in your comments, Aleric? :)

The guy lost me when talking about action driven by metaphysical points of view. Mostly because that word is tossed around so much without people understanding what it means, and because I generally feel the French have difficulty comprehending action flicks. Violence and stupidity is the goal. Trenches of thought action is incredibly difficult to pull off, and the French attempts I've seen spend too much time talking and not enough time blowing stuff up. District B13 works - flat characters, lots of cool stunt work.

But...La Haine is genius. Incredible work. So there might be something to the question of whether an extra 15 minutes could take a film like this from total crap to incredibly entertaining.

Nevernude · 1 year ago

hmm...blame Fox. the fact that they want to get their hands on Watchmen and f**k that up to also pisses me off no end. Studio meddling has, is, and will always happen. I don't blame Matthieu Kassovitz at all. Most directors have a firm grasp of what how they want their movies to turn out. Studio pressures mess stuff up very badly.

Bob Funn · 1 year ago

I'm so disappointed, no mother Teresa rim job references? no wistful reminisces of past drug use? At least you got a poop joke in.


There was a time when you shot a movie and the story and the way a scene was shot that dictated its length, now we destroy films by cutting out whole sections and shortening scenes (Removing any artform of the editor) in order to fit it within a crappy 90 minute timeframe.

I haven't watched a movie more then twice in the last 10-20 years, not so of movies made before then.

Robert Fure · 1 year ago

As Devil's Advocate, I love violence and stupidity. "Other budgetary concerns" and "weather related setbacks." Right. Sounds like someone lost control of his ship and it was spinning towards the whirlpool. And the French aren't exactly known for tightly paced movies, so maybe dropping time is the way to go. There is no real reason films cut from 104 minutes to 93 minutes other than pacing. The cost reduction there is fairly miniscule. If this movie sucks it may have sucked to begin with. When it comes down to it, he was the man directing the action and pointing the cameras. Producers get in your face on everything and it sucks, but thats the system.

"Feast" famously had tons of problems, but the end result was pretty badass.

Romeo Garcia. · 1 year ago

very bad!!!