oxylepy
Joined Oct 2022
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oxylepy's rating
You're in a school, prior to the "break" thst is apparently going to be happening and ALL THE LIGHTS ARE OFF. I will never understand this nonsense in films, these places always had thr glow of a million flourescent bulbs, often 24 hours a day, but MOST CERTAINLY when the students are there.
The entire rest of the movie falls apart because of the lighting choices and any plot or story fails to matter because we've backlit characters and only used daylight to light the movie. It's pretty sad because it seemed like it could have been okay if it weren't for the god-awful lighting decisions. Save your time, save your eyes, watch something that has proper scene lighting.
The entire rest of the movie falls apart because of the lighting choices and any plot or story fails to matter because we've backlit characters and only used daylight to light the movie. It's pretty sad because it seemed like it could have been okay if it weren't for the god-awful lighting decisions. Save your time, save your eyes, watch something that has proper scene lighting.
The movie is SO close to being good. Most of the story is great as a faux-historical drama, and I can get past all those inaccuracies in dates and people... but, as an adult, it strains believability nearly immediately. The lighter aspect of why is the King and his Son. This just reeks of bad propaganda and poorly written villains.
But the absolute killer that rips away suspension of disbelief is Prima Nocta. Such a law could not be enforced by a governing body without an overwhelming power disparity, and it would not be established as a law for the reason of common sense. If you establish this law, your rule will be met by constant uprisings. It's not even a worry that it might happen, it WILL happen. To think that your authority can allow you to do this to the wives and daughters of a culture without constant challenge is a folly relegated to soon extinct dynasties, whose rulers ends will be lucky to be swift.
The goals of the law may be realistic as a decision a villainous ruler would make, but the execution can be done in a thousand other ways that are more safe for the lawmakers, and my suspension of disbelief is destroyed almost immediately in this movie because of this mythical (fictional) law.
But the absolute killer that rips away suspension of disbelief is Prima Nocta. Such a law could not be enforced by a governing body without an overwhelming power disparity, and it would not be established as a law for the reason of common sense. If you establish this law, your rule will be met by constant uprisings. It's not even a worry that it might happen, it WILL happen. To think that your authority can allow you to do this to the wives and daughters of a culture without constant challenge is a folly relegated to soon extinct dynasties, whose rulers ends will be lucky to be swift.
The goals of the law may be realistic as a decision a villainous ruler would make, but the execution can be done in a thousand other ways that are more safe for the lawmakers, and my suspension of disbelief is destroyed almost immediately in this movie because of this mythical (fictional) law.
I really do want to like it since it's considered one of the best Predator movies.
But all I see in my screen are reflections and what in the movie I can make out lacks color saturation. I cannot for the life of me figure out why anyone doing video editing work would pull the color and light out, it doean't give it a different feel, it just makes it look bad. The beads and paint they wear doesn't pop the way it should, it isn't visually contrasting. The daylight scenes look like it's all dusk then it moves over to night scenes which fail to being in the visibility you'd want as a bare minimum.
The acting could be amazing, the costumes and location look like they could be amazing, but everything is muted, sickly, and suffering from the same poor visual editing most movies now-a-days are.
But all I see in my screen are reflections and what in the movie I can make out lacks color saturation. I cannot for the life of me figure out why anyone doing video editing work would pull the color and light out, it doean't give it a different feel, it just makes it look bad. The beads and paint they wear doesn't pop the way it should, it isn't visually contrasting. The daylight scenes look like it's all dusk then it moves over to night scenes which fail to being in the visibility you'd want as a bare minimum.
The acting could be amazing, the costumes and location look like they could be amazing, but everything is muted, sickly, and suffering from the same poor visual editing most movies now-a-days are.