People who saw the film Syriana can be divided into one of two categories: those who didn't understand it and those who pretended to understand it.
It wasn't complex middle-eastern politics that made this movie an unwatchable, unfathomable waste of film stock. It was the poor direction, inconclusive scripting, and our complete lack of involvement with any of the 230 main characters. Okay, maybe it wasn't the screen-writing that omitted any character development whatsoever, perhaps something went drastically wrong in the editing suite, but really, did you give a flying fuck about any of them? Watching George Clooney getting his fingernails pulled off was the highlight of the two hours for me.
But before you tell me to go and read the book, I saw the guy who wrote it on some kids' TV show and I can tell you, from the ignorant way he treated the interviewer, he didn't understand what he'd written either.
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I didn't understand it, and fell asleep halfway through. I wasn't about to admit not getting it though so I blamed it on the fact that all the "foreign" languages were subtitled with tiny, moviescreen size scribblings so I missed out on some crucial dialogue... but the fact that I was bored to death as well will mean I'll probably never give it another go.
ReplyDeleteI haven't been to the cinema since 1980.
ReplyDeleteQ: what are you doing on friday 14/07/06 at 23:10?
A: Chopping fruit and smiling.
i'll cross that off my list then..
ReplyDeleteI understood it. Really! It was great! Paranoia and conspiracy theories galore! Woo hoo!
ReplyDeleteIt was even better than Banditas.
I sat through the whole of Syriana thinking "Uh.. who's that guy? Why is he talking to that other bloke? What's going on? Why are there no robot dinosaurs in this film?"
ReplyDeleteYeah...well... I reckon that's what happens when you pay your lead actor millions of dollars. There's nothing left for good supporting actors or script development and the studio demands their million dollar boy is in every scene.
ReplyDeleteForget a story - you just need a bevy of nobodies with twenty second roles to set up the principal actor for the next scene. No wonder the result is incomprehensible porridge.
...but doesn't George look like a million bucks? Don't you think? ;)
Made up new is what I saw.
ReplyDeleteNow I like made up news only not so closly modeled on real news. If however they would have hords of chinese alien controlled falun gong members smugling the oil to outer space to gain power for the new world order...
Now we have a script.