I guess this was supposed to be some kind of Crash or Babel wanabee but it was so disconnected and so boring I couldn't make heads or tails of it. I gave it a 2 because it did look like they held the cameras steady during filming but in every other aspect it was a complete waste of time and talent.
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Well hopefully we'll get a chance to see it in England anyway. The cast certainly looks promising. Considering how many crap films get distributed, why shouldn't this one be, even if it is crap?
The public can decide, not the damn distributors.
My "engulfing", it another man's "crap", I suppose. Crash-no plans on watching. Babel-perhaps in the near future.
Martha Fiennes delivered a film that makes me wish she wrote and directed more. Not comparing it to Magnolia, but fans of that may not see it as being so disconnected or boring.
Best not to compare it to Magnolia - a work of art in my mind, genuinely involving and moving. This one struggles gamely to be profound and fails almost entirely. The cast is excellent on the whole, and their endeavours keep it watchable but the script is truly awful and the whole film is littered with astonishingly clumsy errors of continuity, shoddy ADR etc almost as if it was made by a student film-maker. It's also almost entirely without a point.
shareThe film is a screed against the modernization of England. Antiquity vs modernity. I think the press release said "the Americanization of modern Britain", which may be a little too stereotypical. Like vanity, greed, and perversion are soley American attributes. Last I looked no one had the market of amorality cornered. How about those traits are a part of the human condition?
But if you care about any of that, you'll find this film involving and moving. Otherwise, I wouldn't blame anybody for not liking this film. I personally, enjoyed it very much
I can't comment on shoddy ADR since the DVD I was watching was suspect (boot-leg). But I'd love to hear more about the continuity errors, bc none stuck out in my mind.
No comparisons to Magnolia were made, I only gave it a "RIYL Magnolia". Guess that doesn't hold completely true. Magnolia is one of my all-time-top-favorite-films, but you can't say there was definitive "point" to that either. With Magnolia and similar films, they are what you, the viewer, make of them. It's one of the aspects that make such films amazing.
I didn't like it at all.Was watching it with two friends and didn't even see it
to the end!There's like only 1 more movie I've done this.Boring
I found the press release's inference that indifference, vanity, voyeurism, and unhealthy ambition are some how uniquely American traits perfectly absurd. We may currently corner the market, but Britain certainly wasn't previously immune to these "American values." The idea we exported tabloid journalism to their shores is also nonsense. They had a nasty tabloid press long before they were supposedly “Americanized" (the Profumo scandal comes to mind).
That said, I had been longing to see this film. I adore British cinema, and with such a stellar cast, I naturally assumed this movie was bound to be excellent. How could a movie starring Ben Chaplin, Ralph Fiennes, and Kristin Scott-Thomas be anything other than compelling? Sadly, I was mistaken.
I wouldn't go so far as to label it "pure crap." I actually liked the premise - that modern Western society has become jaded, obsessed with fame and material things, and that in their pursuit we have abandoned what is truly worthwhile. I felt that given a more nuanced approach this could have been a fascinating film. However, both the plot and characters were poorly developed.
Long, slow, depressing with extremely unlikable characters screwing up their lives and lying around in their sick bed or taking too long to die. The only good thing about it was the fact it wasn't as long as the even more "Pure Crap" film "Magnolia"
Good cast of actors recreating the sensation of watching paint dry.
Chromophobia is an exceptionally good film.
It is a tale of common humanity in a contemporary setting. It is not a simplistic moral tale, but celebrates the extraordinary, complex lives of ordinary people living in a modern, fast moving world. Each of the characters are flawed in different ways. There are no easy answers to the complex issues experienced by the characters. Instead the film has a large number of themes running through it: integrity, honesty, hypocrisy, loyalty, love (of many kinds), kindness, fear, frustration, spirituality, emptiness, death, illness, sex to name but a few. The film provokes thought and conversation about our modern world and the problems which we all face.
Coupled with the extremely talented cast, this film is a tribute to British cinema.
Total *beep* Boring, tedious, naval gazing claptrap. Another film which is attempting to be powerful 'art'. All of the characters were hateful and dull and often totally unnecessary (Ralph Fiennes anyone?). There were too many characters and stories to really get the depth of any of them. Penelope Cruz is a rotten actress and this was just an excuse to show her naked (which is nothing to write home about either).
Poor script, bad acting, too long and ultimately pointless. Badly written and directed nonsense. I wish I hadn't wasted my time on this guff.