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Shame

posted 10 years ago by xcalibr8
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I so wanted to enjoy this film. The effects were pretty well done but every thing else just falls so flat. The editing is appalling, choppy yet still lacking in any energy. The leading man has all the charisma of a wet rock and severely lacks the charm of previous Sinbad's.

The music is so boring and brings no energy to any scene whatsoever. Even Patrick Stewart sounds bored with it and is just reading his lines. Practically every "actor" ranges from Poor to Abysmal, and the dialogue that they are asked to speak...oh my, is it clunky and occasionally downright hilariously bad.

When I heard about a new Sinbad with a massive tip of the hat to the Harryhausen years I was excited for it. Now I'm left disappointed, very disappointed in fact.

How can you take the tales of Sinbad and make them boring? They certainly managed to here. So, so disappointing. Only pick this up in the bargain, bargain bin next to the bargain bin as long as it's buy one bargain and get another free.

I now need to watch some of the originals to wash this stain off me.

[–] Wombstar 9 years ago

Rubbush, sounds like you were expecting a Hollywood Peter Jackson epic when in fact it was a love letter to Harryhausen, a small Independence movie.. the alternative to all that Hollywood tripe you've been consuming.

[–] Flywiththeowl 9 years ago

Actually, I think the OP is dead on target.

Only thing I disagreed with was the line: "The effects were pretty well done"

The monsters all fell flat for me. They looked like they were made in 5th grade ceramics class & didn't feel threatening at all. (* more on all that in my own negative review of it here under "I wanted to like it more")

So, I too was very disappointed. I'd eagerly waited for the release after all those delays. I, for one, knew it wouldn't be on par with any Hollywood production, but I expected to be wowed. That didn't happen.

[–] OrinAGN 9 years ago

He said he liked the special effects.
It had bad acting. All around. Making an observation about it doesn't have anything to do with his consumption of Hollywood films.

The fake Harryhausen dynamation was nice.
But it takes more than that to actually be a good movie.
This movie's plot was a joke. It was just poorly written poorly delivered exposition to get to the next dynamation scene.
Which leads to the next problem with this movie.
All of the Harryhausen homages were just rehashes of his movies. Homage stops being homage after a while and just became a check list for which scenes they were going to copy next.
The other big difference:
The monster scenes in the older movies were awe-inspiring and wondrous. Because they were treated as big deals via the actors reactions and the way they were shot and the music. None of that carries over into THIS movie. So it gets boring. So it's twice as boring because it's 1) a boring scene once the nostalgia of seeing the old-school style wears off & 2) it's a predictable copy-and-paste check-list of other movies that did it better.