grggonzalez-47882
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Oops. Could have been fine, but they did everything wrong. Farrah can't act. Keitel's full dialogue was for some reason dubbed over. The movie had a smashing musical soundtrack written, but most of it was never used. The robot is ridiculous-- supposed to be menacing and unstoppable, but it looks clumsy and slow and with a silly head. Plus it has dozens of exposed wires and hydraulic lines, so it's far from invincible, one steak knife is all you need to slash its hydraulic lines and bring it down.
Particularly curious is all the quiet bits. A movie like this needs a vigorous musical background to inform us of when we are supposed to get pumped up by the action. Nope, lots of dead silence.
The very beginning is a huge "what?". We don't know who is who, where they are, what they look like. Spaceman #2, with no buildup or warning or motivation, gets sliced to hamburger in the first 2 minutes, with no buildup or logic or consequences. We don't see Keitel's face, behind a dark mask, for many minutes, so he's a blank slate, literally.
The may-December "romance" is unsettling and unconvincing. They are the only two people on the spaceship, so there are no surprises, or perhaps too many surprises.
You can't get even slightly involved in the characters. They're all dull and unrelatable. You have no idea what the plot is, where it came from, or where it is going. Neither do you care.
The pace and timing of each and every scene is way, way off. Were qualludes are thing back then? Nearly every scene is static, with loooong dull actionless and pointless intervals. Punctuated, just as you're about to fall asleep, with some sudden and unexpected bit of random action.
So, overall, dull, lifeless, and exasperating.
Particularly curious is all the quiet bits. A movie like this needs a vigorous musical background to inform us of when we are supposed to get pumped up by the action. Nope, lots of dead silence.
The very beginning is a huge "what?". We don't know who is who, where they are, what they look like. Spaceman #2, with no buildup or warning or motivation, gets sliced to hamburger in the first 2 minutes, with no buildup or logic or consequences. We don't see Keitel's face, behind a dark mask, for many minutes, so he's a blank slate, literally.
The may-December "romance" is unsettling and unconvincing. They are the only two people on the spaceship, so there are no surprises, or perhaps too many surprises.
You can't get even slightly involved in the characters. They're all dull and unrelatable. You have no idea what the plot is, where it came from, or where it is going. Neither do you care.
The pace and timing of each and every scene is way, way off. Were qualludes are thing back then? Nearly every scene is static, with loooong dull actionless and pointless intervals. Punctuated, just as you're about to fall asleep, with some sudden and unexpected bit of random action.
So, overall, dull, lifeless, and exasperating.
Was this supposed to be a documentary? A drama? A police procedural? A comedy?
The book it's based on is quite good, as it mildly lampoons that 1985 culture, business, families, and New York. However whoever adapted it into a movie wasn't thinking straight. A literal adaptation would end up to be flat, long, and boring. That it was. With more action, fewer speeches, better acting, and a goofier plot, it could have been pretty good. But instead we got a semi-literal plodding adaptation with almost no pizazz or action. A few bits of perky dialogue, but it just contrasts all the dull and pointless and unbelievable bits. Every movie should have someone you can identify with or a bufoon you can laugh at least a villain you can loathe. This movie has no such character. All weak half-hearted performances that are not bold enough to generate hisses or boos or laughter. Here and there and briefly a half-hearted punchline. They all just point out all the rest of the movie-- flat, dull, and wavering from documentary to spoof to very limp comedy. The writer and director should have had a preliminary sit-down and decided what to aim for. Instead they went with a scattershot approach that just doesn't work. The final courtroom scene was just basically unbeleivable-- not either logical or farcical or serious. As was his arrest-- they had absolutely nothing to charge him with so rigere you lose most of the audience.
The book it's based on is quite good, as it mildly lampoons that 1985 culture, business, families, and New York. However whoever adapted it into a movie wasn't thinking straight. A literal adaptation would end up to be flat, long, and boring. That it was. With more action, fewer speeches, better acting, and a goofier plot, it could have been pretty good. But instead we got a semi-literal plodding adaptation with almost no pizazz or action. A few bits of perky dialogue, but it just contrasts all the dull and pointless and unbelievable bits. Every movie should have someone you can identify with or a bufoon you can laugh at least a villain you can loathe. This movie has no such character. All weak half-hearted performances that are not bold enough to generate hisses or boos or laughter. Here and there and briefly a half-hearted punchline. They all just point out all the rest of the movie-- flat, dull, and wavering from documentary to spoof to very limp comedy. The writer and director should have had a preliminary sit-down and decided what to aim for. Instead they went with a scattershot approach that just doesn't work. The final courtroom scene was just basically unbeleivable-- not either logical or farcical or serious. As was his arrest-- they had absolutely nothing to charge him with so rigere you lose most of the audience.
Delivers as per the title. P & T tricks are both amazing with overtones of unpleasantness. Punctured eyeballs, blood spurting, death, drowning and dismemberment, the usual stuff they do. When presented in a rather under-produced show, it's rather sparse and a bit less than charming. The guys have major talent but the overall feeling is rather unpleasant. Maybe that was intentional, maybe not.