Topdog-3

Though I seem to me in the minority I enjoyed this movie. It will not be the best movie of the year but I thought it was worth the money. The main problem I think it faced was miscasting. Affleck (who I don't like to begin with) is a momma's boy not an ex-con, gun-totting robber. I think Mark Wahlberg would have been the perfect fit for this role, the ladies love him but he too has that momma's boy, regular guy look they were going for. Theoron wasn't that good either, she is very attractive but I found her acting skills to be lacking. I was very impressed with the plot, there was never a very low point in the movie. Not every movie is made to win best picture so I don't think they all should be viewed the same. This is a movie you go see if you want to suspend reality for a little while and enjoy yourself. Maybe I'm just "unsophisticated" but I don't go to every movie and compare it to the Godfather.

The one thing that struck me most about this movie was the cinematography. Now I used to laugh to myself when people would bring that $5 word up in a comment until I saw what real cinematography was. Many people have raved about the Talented Mr. Ripley and its wonderful cinematography but all that happened was they took Italy and made it look like Italy. Hell I could do that. To me real magic is taking a boxing match and using camera angles, music, and other film techniques (which i know nothing about) to make it look like poetry. The shear beauty of these scenes were pleasant to watch. The scenes in jail focusing solely on Rubin's cell and the solitude which he experienced made it fell like we were inside of his mind. This movie was powerful and though I don't hand out 10 very often this movie definatley earned 10/10. Academy Award Prediction --best cinematography.

If scenery and acting make a movie great than I guess that what this is but I need more than that. I need an interesting plot and for god sakes an ending. If i pay eight bucks to sit through a three hour movie I want the thing to end. Screw imagination. That's just a cop out when directors run out of money or can't figure out where the story is going. ***If you haven't seen the movie stop reading unless you want to save yourself a few bucks***. Tell a bunch of lies, get confronted, murder the person, cover it up by murdering someone else. If I wanted a 3 hour lecture on how one lie leads to another I would have thought real hard and remebered the time I was in grade 4 and my mom and dad told me that. Best movie of the year, I think not. Great scenery, sure but if i turned on a camera in Italy you'd see great scenery too. Jude Law does a great job but if you want to see good acting out of Law rent Gattaca (a truly great movie) and save yourself a few bucks.