You know something that didn't quite seat right with me about Hero? It's slow.
I mean, the whole thing develops very very slowly.
As in seriosly just sitting there doing nothing.
Scenes that merely sit there and show... nothing, scenery and little else.
Nevermind the ludicrous fighting, it's the slowness what got me.
Or, to put it another way, it wasn't quite fast enough.
They spent far too much time setting a "mood" that never captured me.
What I mean is, the film could have been done in 30 minutes.
If they had had real people instead of a writer with an overinflated sense of importance, most of the scenes would have lasted half as long.
So, really, what I think they didn't do right was pacing the film in an enjoyable way.
It's all off, with all the little "plot twists" taking a redoing of whole 10-minute long scenes.
The delivery of the plot twists could have been more dinamic, because by the third one I was already groaning on my seat wondering when it'd be over.
I think the real problem was that the guy who wrote the script tried to overblow the sense of importance of the thing with poorly timed moody scenes.
Longer doesn't necessarily mean better, because there's so much you can mangle the same plot before it becomes tedious.
So I'm actually trying to say that they probably chose the wrong medium for such a slow plot development.
Maybe it works in a book, but a film this slow can become tedious.
...
Oh, and in case you didn't notice, the fact that it was basically the same little plot repeated ad nauseum with slight variations over and over is what really got to me. Then again, if you liked Hero you probably loved this post ^_^
EDIT: Jeez, I jus realized, this is a 2 year old thread! o_O
I mean, the whole thing develops very very slowly.
As in seriosly just sitting there doing nothing.
Scenes that merely sit there and show... nothing, scenery and little else.
Nevermind the ludicrous fighting, it's the slowness what got me.
Or, to put it another way, it wasn't quite fast enough.
They spent far too much time setting a "mood" that never captured me.
What I mean is, the film could have been done in 30 minutes.
If they had had real people instead of a writer with an overinflated sense of importance, most of the scenes would have lasted half as long.
So, really, what I think they didn't do right was pacing the film in an enjoyable way.
It's all off, with all the little "plot twists" taking a redoing of whole 10-minute long scenes.
The delivery of the plot twists could have been more dinamic, because by the third one I was already groaning on my seat wondering when it'd be over.
I think the real problem was that the guy who wrote the script tried to overblow the sense of importance of the thing with poorly timed moody scenes.
Longer doesn't necessarily mean better, because there's so much you can mangle the same plot before it becomes tedious.
So I'm actually trying to say that they probably chose the wrong medium for such a slow plot development.
Maybe it works in a book, but a film this slow can become tedious.
...
Oh, and in case you didn't notice, the fact that it was basically the same little plot repeated ad nauseum with slight variations over and over is what really got to me. Then again, if you liked Hero you probably loved this post ^_^
EDIT: Jeez, I jus realized, this is a 2 year old thread! o_O