Whether the story was good or bad I will never know because I found the style obliterated the substance. This movie would have been better without the animation as it was effectively just putting a filter on live action that made it hard to focus on. If the animation is that close to live action why bother.
What I did see (approx 15 minutes) seemed very cliched.
Um, if you think the animation was close to live action, I think you need your eyes checked, LOL.
I know I'm shouting, I like to shout.
I think your brain needs checking cause it was close to live action but with one big CG filter over it. You really ought to try and understand what is said before commenting.
LOL is so lame, especially to your own "witticism".
I agree. This doesn't make a bit of sense visually - lifeless videogame fare rendered in black & white in an attempt to make it look "artistic". But cheap is cheap, no matter how you decorate it. I couldn't care for the story either.
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The trouble for me was that the blank faces in the animation made the acting seem a lot worse then it was. Plus it had a feel of something that was really trying far too hard to be arty.
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I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.
You should probably stick to crap, then.
EDIT: Reading a complaint about a film "trying too hard to be arty", and then a signature quote from "The Prisoner", makes me laugh like a little schoolgirl.
I know I'm shouting, I like to shout.
Ditto my other comment. You really don't understand English do you.
shareAhh, the good old "If you don't like this then you obviously only watch crap" comment. The first defence of people that don't actually have a defence. ROFL.
Please try to comprehend the idea that saying something is trying too hard to look arty, doesn't mean I dislike anything that is arty. I just consider this film to have not quite achieved what it set out to. I think I can feel justified in saying the Prisoner did succeed, the fact that you recognise the quote so many years later verifies that. So you understand my problem is not actually with things that are "arty" and that I was making specific criticisms about this specific film.
Do I need to use simpler language or do you comprehend what I'm saying this time?
I expect your generalized, personally insulting and overly judgemental reply imminently.
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I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.
I think I can feel justified in saying the Prisoner did succeed, the fact that you recognise the quote so many years later verifies that.
This doesn't make a bit of sense visually - lifeless videogame fare rendered in black & white in an attempt to make it look "artistic". But cheap is cheap, no matter how you decorate it.
No I didn't like Transformers and yes once again you chose to pretend to misunderstand what I was saying. Obviously (at least obvious to anyone that actually has an IQ) when I said cheap, I didn't mean low cost, I meant far too easy and not requiring thought or skill.
Of course you exposed your pathetic ploy seconds later by refering to simplicity. Yes simplicity can be good and yes black and white can be good, but there is a lot more to it than simply slapping it on a movie and claiming it's good. I suggest you watch some Film Noir and then perhaps you may figure out the difference, though I doubt it as your clearly a narrow minded idiot who is completely incapable of making intelligent arguments (your Transformers reference is a dead give away, once again you decide that as someone doesn't agree with you you will pretend they said something else and respond to that rather than their actual argument).
Oh yes and well done to you discovering Google. Would you like me to bake you a cake or something to celebrate?
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I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.
This was a film that used a cheap *beep* effect to try and fool idiots that it was artsy, no two ways about it. And a lame ass predictable story line to do it with. What a waste and a visual head ache. One for the garbage can.
shareI kind of agree. It made some scenes hard to make out. I get that it made some cool stuff possible, and it made the film look more realistic without needing loads of money.
shareI found it unwatchable in spite of my best attempts. I don't mind black and white movies, like Eden Log, for instance - but in good black and white movies, you forget they are black and white. Here, there were only two shades: exactly black and white. This made it, FOR ME PERSONALLY, impossible to immerse myself, and actually painful to watch, to the point of causing me a headache.
Of the little I did manage to watch, I didn't find anything original.
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