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normangrochowski

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The OA

The OA

7.8
3
  • Jun 2, 2023
  • Typical Cookie Cutter Approaches to Editing

    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.
    The Prosecution: The Million Dollar Man

    S1.E9The Prosecution: The Million Dollar Man

    The Innocence Files
    7.4
    10
  • Jan 3, 2022
  • Prosecutors should face prison when they willfully withhold evidence

    Apache Warrior

    Apache Warrior

    6.6
  • Jul 13, 2020
  • Apache Warrior Sad Heroes of a Sad War for Nothing

    Though it's one thing to see our excellent military in action, it's pathetic to see that they were sent to a war that President Trump described as Bush's Biggest Mistake in US History. Mr. Trump also added that the US has spent over 7 trillion dollars and that the war in the Arab region brought about the death of over a million men, women and children.

    This film, like so many other war films about that region of the world, typically avoids mentioning anything about the foolishness of the war. The enemy is never referred to as a ''Patriot'' fighting a foreign Invader of their country, namely the USA. Instead they are dismissed as Insurgents or terrorists.

    The viewer sits watching from the helicopter as it flies over mainly barren lands and poor areas with low quality buildings, in other words, 3rd World type living standards, The death machines fire their super expensive high tech weapons into whatever is down there. Nobody hears the screaming or sees the collateral damage.and the viewer like the pilots remain insulated from all of that bloody mess.

    There's no mention in the film that ISIS arose out of and because of this war. Nor is there a hint given that the mayhem and instability these weapons and war created in the region, caused millions of Islamic people to become homeless and later flood into Europe,the USA and other parts of the world.

    It is films like this that leave out important facts and try desperately to make our troops look like heroes, when in reality, they are men who have to risk their lives to follow orders originated by what President Trump described as, two blundering fools in the White House.

    Perhaps if films like this were more honest and were to mention real and truthful pertinent facts about a particular war, the world would have fewer wars.

    We look at the splash screen cover for the film Apache Warrior, and see the choppers coming in at an angle with explosions all around, down below the evil enemies are firing away, guns a-blazing.

    But in reality we see high tech weapons sneaking through the night toward unsuspecting people, many of them totally innocent and uninvolved. Even the pilots or command center don't know what they've killed below. They hope they got the bad guy but they don't know, nobody does, except the survivors.

    The next time a semi action documentary film on our Arab war is made, it would contain a much higher quality, if it were to mention that Dick Cheney who mainly engineered the war, was once CEO of Halliburton, a Giant contracting firm that got huge contracts to go in and rebuild the infrastructure that was destroyed in the Arab region.

    If a film is going to show troop heroes let them also show the anti-heroes who put the troops lives at risk to award contracts to the Military Industrial Complex.

    The only interesting thing about the film is watching the communication of the fighting forces with command centers and seeing the technical, mechanical and weather difficulties the pilots have to deal with,

    Unfortunately the fact that over a million people are dead because of Bush and Chaney's war, the film ends up leaving a stench in atmosphere of the real world.
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