normangrochowski

The acting is good but things started to go off the rails when the political innuendos started. But then again, that's Tom Wolfe's fault, who could have been a great writer but injected too much of his conservative philosophy into his works, making his plots fairly predictable.

A sensitive liberal, having a nervous breakdown at seeing horses copulate ? Give me a break. It's like a strange humorous satire for yokels and shows weakness in Wolfe's abilities in feeling the need to use triteness to make some weird point.

A good screen writer adapting from an author's book should be able to know when to leave certain things out and put others in.

Just because an author in the modern age has a big name or is popular, it doesn't imply that he or she is a great writer. Screen writers should be brave enough to take initiative to improve an author's work.

Overall the series doesn't quite get there, The first two episodes were excellent but it started going down hill from there. It starts to pull back in redeeming itself in other scenes but ends up a bit lack luster overall.

Historically, Barabbas was the lucky prisoner who was freed in place of Jesus, during the Passover trial. The Governor, Pontius Pilate offered the mob a choice between releasing Barabbas or Jesus. The crowd, at the cajoling of the chief priests, chose to have Barabbas a known insurrectionist, freed instead of Jesus.

So within the first 5 minutes of the film the inaccuracy about Barabbas was a bit difficult to overlook, since the Messiah had not yet come. However the film is still worth watching for it's settings and other more accurate details of history.

Not much to say, but irritating background music interludes don't add drama, or suspense, when they overwhelm the voices of the actors. Droning the music on far too long, is so typical of many film makers these days.

I'm already into the first 10 minutes and had to stop, just to come here and write this out, in hopes that other directors and editors will quit copying each other.

After Ozark did its Super Dark Blue/Green lighting to create a mood of intrigue which might have worked here and there but didn't work throughout the whole series, other directors thought they'd use it in their movies too.

The story was good but it was hard staying with the depressing lighting that added nothing.

Do any of you Movie makers have any real original ideas?

Please don't think droning background music is going to somehow suffice to make you look unique. Why not get real?

Just stop overdoing the Lighting and boring background music. Just put it in here and there every once in a while. Do I have to now start directing directors and editors to see something worth watching?

I think I'll just go back to painting in the evenings all the time.