[–] bitbomb 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
Don't bother with this movie if you're a jaded moviegoer like me. The book is probably fantastic but it looks like Ron Howard guest directed this thing. The old cliche where we cut to New York's Times Square where throngs of people are shoulder to shoulder watching the coverage of rescue efforts live on a big screen, then cut to other cities around the world for the same. Like a) anyone would care, and b) if they did they'd just watch it at home or on their phone. Also for the love of god, if you're going to have characters read the message they're typing at the speed they type, don't also show the text so we can read it and just sit there tapping our foot waiting for the character to get to the end. They make it worse once by having the recipient read it aloud after we just heard the sender say it. This movie could have been great, it was just plagued by heavy handedness.
TL;DR: If you're not easily annoyed by extremely clunky moviemaking, you'll like this movie.
[–] N0_PR0BLEM 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
I agree with your sentiment if not with your specific complaint. I thought it was a middling movie at best that was saved from being horrid by exceptional performances by Matt Damon and Chiwetel Ejiofor. I thought the plot was pretty mediocre, as it defused any possibility for dramatic tension within the first act by establishing that literally every single problem would be overcome without severe consequence. Every single twist, and this movie presented with every single one it could, was overcome within five minutes only to be replaced by a new one. There were very few clear character arcs, with most of the characters playing the same note throughout the movie with very little discernible growth, and probably what drew me out of the movie entirely, very little chance that they WEREN'T going to be able to get him home. I know it's a movie, and it's going to have a happy ending, but not once in the movie did I forget that fact, and that's where I think it failed.
[–] bitbomb 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
I actually got a little rude on some of the disasters because they were so precisely right on schedule. If you've seen a few movies in your life you'll be able to predict this one's every move like clockwork. But yes, Matt Damon was good, even though he had a lot of schlocky lines to deal with, and Chiwetel Ejiofor has NEVER not impressed me. I loved him in Dirty Pretty Things and Four Brothers so much.
[–] gregorio ago
I saw it in 4D which was cool.it was a nice movie.
[–] White_Raven ago
Don't you mean 3D?
[–] gregorio ago
no 4D. Your seats move and they have wind machines and lights that react to the action in the movie. You still wear the 3D glasses