Short film to feature

Batutta said:
Of course I like building up to a climax, but the fact that all the time the lead characters spent on investigating and chasing the killer ended up being pointless was extremely frustrating to me. It's a great short film concept strecthed out to two hours. The whole movie was a protracted set up for the final scene. If they had at least made it seem like the killer was caught because of the cops efforts (even if he wanted to get caught), it wouldn't have bothered me so much. But he just waltzes into the police station. I'll give you an example. In Silence of the Lambs, Clarice kind of stumbles into discovering the killer's lair, but she does so in the course of investigating something related to the hunt so it works.
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Umm.... I do remember them knocking on his door! :)

Or have you forgotten that scene?

The movie obviously didn't work for you. No big deal.
I thought it was incredible. The relationship that was built during the alloted time was more than necessary in my opinion.

Different strokes for different folks.
 
Michael Anthony Horrigan said:
Umm.... I do remember them knocking on his door! :)

Or have you forgotten that scene?

The movie obviously didn't work for you. No big deal.
I thought it was incredible. The relationship that was built during the alloted time was more than necessary in my opinion.

Different strokes for different folks.
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But that didn't lead anywhere...I don't think the movie is worthless. It has excellent cinematography, strong performances, an intriguing concept and a killer climax, but I think it's narratively flawed. I don't think the relationships were all that interesting and enough to compensate for the hole. A young cop and his older partner who's about to retire? I've seen that a hundred times before, explored better. And the young cop's relationship with his wife is pretty routine. Fincher does here what he usually does, sacrifice narrative for concept and form. This is where his music video roots betray him. He's much more interesting than most music video directors turned feature filmmakers but he still has this shortcoming in my opinion.
 
The 'Other' with Nicole Kidman was a short. 'Bicentennial Man' with Robin Williams. Quentin Tarantion saw a short film at a festival and turn it into a feature 'Blood Curdled' but I think he just has it listed as 'Curdled.

Can anyone guess what famous film had this title ' A Boys Life' as a working title before changing it's title when the film was release?
 
New_Zealand said:
The 'Other' with Nicole Kidman was a short. 'Bicentennial Man' with Robin Williams. Quentin Tarantion saw a short film at a festival and turn it into a feature 'Blood Curdled' but I think he just has it listed as 'Curdled.

Can anyone guess what famous film had this title ' A Boys Life' as a working title before changing it's title when the film was release?
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E.T.
 
Batutta said:
But that didn't lead anywhere...I don't think the movie is worthless. It has excellent cinematography, strong performances, an intriguing concept and a killer climax, but I think it's narratively flawed. I don't think the relationships were all that interesting and enough to compensate for the hole. A young cop and his older partner who's about to retire? I've seen that a hundred times before, explored better. And the young cop's relationship with his wife is pretty routine. Fincher does here what he usually does, sacrifice narrative for concept and form. This is where his music video roots betray him. He's much more interesting than most music video directors turned feature filmmakers but he still has this shortcoming in my opinion.
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Cool. I see you have something against Fincher. No biggie. I like his work, you don't. I think we can agree on that. No point in arguing any further.


Carry on. I don't want to stray this topic off the rails.

Cheers,

Mike
 
i know rodriguez shot the opening scene to Sin City as a short to get Frank Miller to back a full feature to be made of the comic.
 
he turned himself in because he was close to note completing his masterpiece plan. you do realize he was almost caught which would have made his work the whole film in vain for the ending serves all that back to you.
 
spidey said:
he turned himself in because he was close to note completing his masterpiece plan. you do realize he was almost caught which would have made his work the whole film in vain for the ending serves all that back to you.
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Yes, and that would have been fine if the movie were told from his point of view, but it wasn't. It was about two cops chasing him.
 
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