This is one of those movie that you wonder how you missed when it came out in theatres. I don't ever remember seeing an ad on TV or online about this movie. I'm sure they were there but I didn't find out about this movie until I saw it recommended to me on IMDb. I went to check it out and set an evening aside to enjoy this film.
That is where the problems started to happen. The film was fast paced and at some points I would miss what they said. So with the wonders of technology I rewound the first time to find out what someone said. Then a few minutes later I had to rewind again because I couldn't understand what someone said. I thought, "OK, that's OK I'll just turn on the closed-captions." Then I discover, there were no closed-captions available on the DVD. I was shocked. I couldn't believe that. So what was suppose to be a great movie experience with all the colors and sometimes over choreographed fight scenes, became a nightmare of just trying to figure out what everyone was saying. I'm not an old guy, a guy in college and I don't have any hearing problems.
The movie took longer to watch just because of that whole issue of having to rewind to find out what they would say. Most of the times, just to create effect in the movie, the actors would talk under their breathe. Every time that would happen I would have to rewind, it was so hard to understand what they were saying.
As for the visual design, they were wonderful watching. It was almost like a Kill-Bill style of colors mixed with Sin City look. It was really interesting to watch all the paper design of the cities and how they all worked together. In the beginning the fight scenes looked like they were going to be great but then when I saw the first fake deaths in a fight scene I knew this was not going to be at the level of quality I had expected. If you are wondering what I'm referring to, watch the first scene where Josh's character kills three guys at the same time in the "Town" location and you notice the three guys just fall down.
There were times I had to rewind to catch certain mistakes because they were so obvious. Now having worked in the film industry making films, I can understand how hard it is to due with continuity issues but I also realize on a film like this, because of lighting and set-ups, continuity can become a nightmare, but at the same time it's important for the script supervisor and anyone else watching the monitor to keep an eye out for those, especially with the budget they had.
If you plan to watch this movie, just make sure you have an excellent stereo system and a DVD with closed-captions. It's sad to know that those who are deaf will not be able to enjoy this visually appealing film.
That is where the problems started to happen. The film was fast paced and at some points I would miss what they said. So with the wonders of technology I rewound the first time to find out what someone said. Then a few minutes later I had to rewind again because I couldn't understand what someone said. I thought, "OK, that's OK I'll just turn on the closed-captions." Then I discover, there were no closed-captions available on the DVD. I was shocked. I couldn't believe that. So what was suppose to be a great movie experience with all the colors and sometimes over choreographed fight scenes, became a nightmare of just trying to figure out what everyone was saying. I'm not an old guy, a guy in college and I don't have any hearing problems.
The movie took longer to watch just because of that whole issue of having to rewind to find out what they would say. Most of the times, just to create effect in the movie, the actors would talk under their breathe. Every time that would happen I would have to rewind, it was so hard to understand what they were saying.
As for the visual design, they were wonderful watching. It was almost like a Kill-Bill style of colors mixed with Sin City look. It was really interesting to watch all the paper design of the cities and how they all worked together. In the beginning the fight scenes looked like they were going to be great but then when I saw the first fake deaths in a fight scene I knew this was not going to be at the level of quality I had expected. If you are wondering what I'm referring to, watch the first scene where Josh's character kills three guys at the same time in the "Town" location and you notice the three guys just fall down.
There were times I had to rewind to catch certain mistakes because they were so obvious. Now having worked in the film industry making films, I can understand how hard it is to due with continuity issues but I also realize on a film like this, because of lighting and set-ups, continuity can become a nightmare, but at the same time it's important for the script supervisor and anyone else watching the monitor to keep an eye out for those, especially with the budget they had.
If you plan to watch this movie, just make sure you have an excellent stereo system and a DVD with closed-captions. It's sad to know that those who are deaf will not be able to enjoy this visually appealing film.