Sorry to all those that liked it, what a dud. There is a thread way back when, but it's pretty far back.
Picture quality was poor, can we please have some clairty. I don't care for the whole everything is black with black Silhouette. And the fisheye technique here and there was weak. It reminded me of something that was done in 4:3 "fixed" to go 16:9.
Sound quality was poor, it was not a movie where you could lock in a volume level and leave it at that. There were times when the dialog was hard to understand and given the characters accents, speach style and emoting it was hard to understand what they were saying.
Character development was weak, in 2 hours and 40 minutes we knew little, learned little about any of the characters. We knew 0 about Jesse's wife and that was that.
For me narration is often a cheap resource for lack of story and good script. This one it was both. The narration and shifting of scenes almost came across like one of those old film strips for grade school.
Ding... Talking... Pictures (or scene in this case) Ding...Talking...New Picture (scene)
Apart from a few moments there was no insight, understanding or real feel to the torment or psychosis that was suggested. Lame showing of emotion or supposed insane type cackling and laughter really didn't do it.
Costumes were good as was the scenery and sets when in focus and not saturated in black. That was about it. The worst thing was conceptually the idea of constructing the story this way was great, just wasn't executed worth a darn.
The story was hard to follow at points, we would look at each other and go huh? They all stay at the Fords sisters house on the lamb, but they all just meet each other recently... I must have missed something. Wife is a whole lot smarter than I am, in general and with movie story lines and she was confused here and there.
You want to see a good psyco cowboy, watch Bruce Dern in the Cowboys, not Brad Pitt in this movie. Not to compare the two movies, just one psyco Cowboy to another... no contest.
Before we started the movie I said I really wanted to like the movie... not. Hoping that it might be a cowboy version of GoodFellas or something. At the end it wasn't like I wasted almost 3 hours, but wasn't very well spent time.
It was Ok to see it once, but overall it was pretty lame.
Oh and as far as the picture and sound quality, my eqiupment is up to snuff, that wasn't the issue.
Thread from way back.
Picture quality was poor, can we please have some clairty. I don't care for the whole everything is black with black Silhouette. And the fisheye technique here and there was weak. It reminded me of something that was done in 4:3 "fixed" to go 16:9.
Sound quality was poor, it was not a movie where you could lock in a volume level and leave it at that. There were times when the dialog was hard to understand and given the characters accents, speach style and emoting it was hard to understand what they were saying.
Character development was weak, in 2 hours and 40 minutes we knew little, learned little about any of the characters. We knew 0 about Jesse's wife and that was that.
For me narration is often a cheap resource for lack of story and good script. This one it was both. The narration and shifting of scenes almost came across like one of those old film strips for grade school.
Ding... Talking... Pictures (or scene in this case) Ding...Talking...New Picture (scene)
Apart from a few moments there was no insight, understanding or real feel to the torment or psychosis that was suggested. Lame showing of emotion or supposed insane type cackling and laughter really didn't do it.
Costumes were good as was the scenery and sets when in focus and not saturated in black. That was about it. The worst thing was conceptually the idea of constructing the story this way was great, just wasn't executed worth a darn.
The story was hard to follow at points, we would look at each other and go huh? They all stay at the Fords sisters house on the lamb, but they all just meet each other recently... I must have missed something. Wife is a whole lot smarter than I am, in general and with movie story lines and she was confused here and there.
You want to see a good psyco cowboy, watch Bruce Dern in the Cowboys, not Brad Pitt in this movie. Not to compare the two movies, just one psyco Cowboy to another... no contest.
Before we started the movie I said I really wanted to like the movie... not. Hoping that it might be a cowboy version of GoodFellas or something. At the end it wasn't like I wasted almost 3 hours, but wasn't very well spent time.
It was Ok to see it once, but overall it was pretty lame.
Oh and as far as the picture and sound quality, my eqiupment is up to snuff, that wasn't the issue.
Thread from way back.
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