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Post by RNL on Mar 27, 2006 1:03:36 GMT
Gore Verbinski (1964- )1. The Weather Man (2005) 5/102. Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003) 3/103. The Ring (2002) 2/10
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Post by Omar on Mar 27, 2006 2:16:58 GMT
1. The Weather Man (2005) 2. The Ring (2002) "The Weather Man", while it had plenty of brilliant moments and excellent atmosphere, was also very uneven. Wetdog, I'd be interested in hearing your thoughts. I honestly thought "The Ring" wasn't that bad. Once again, the atmosphere helps to boost it miles above other recent horror films.
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Post by Vercetti on Mar 27, 2006 3:11:19 GMT
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl The Ring The Mexican
I just watched Pirates of the Caribbean last night for the second time but The Godfather game has delayed the proview. I'd like to see the other two again. An interesting tidbit is that this director is the creator of the Budwieser frogs.
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Post by svsg on Mar 27, 2006 6:38:54 GMT
The Weather Man
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Post by Capo on Mar 27, 2006 15:08:11 GMT
1. Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl 2003
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Post by RNL on Mar 27, 2006 19:41:41 GMT
"The Weather Man", while it had plenty of brilliant moments and excellent atmosphere, was also very uneven. Wetdog, I'd be interested in hearing your thoughts. I agree it had some great moments, and the tone was perfectly balanced throughout - which I think was mainly due to the excellent cinematography, and voiceover narration always helps modulate a tone. It was the narration I liked the most, though. It was clever. Sometimes it's synced to the image, commenting in the present tense on what we're seeing as we're seeing it, other times it moves into the future and past tense, it comes from every angle and shuffles seemingly at random. The two most creative uses of that were David forgetting the tartar sauce, which was depicted within his own past tense narration (as a flashback) and featured his own present tense narration in that past, scatterbrained and forgetting. That was really intelligent. The other moment was when he interrupts his own internal monologue by assaulting his son's counseller, then walks away resuming it without skipping a thought. It's a good film. A few wasted opportunities (his being unable to predict the wind as a weather man, but predicting it as an archer was sort of left as a simple metaphor), but definitely recommended.
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Post by Omar on Mar 27, 2006 19:59:05 GMT
I agree it had some great moments, and the tone was perfectly balanced throughout - which I think was mainly due to the excellent cinematography. I definitely agree with that. I remember images of the arrows hitting the ice covered targets, and of course the opening with the ice-covered Lake Michigan. I believe in my proview I called it "darkly beautiful". An oxy-moron probably, but I believe an accurate description.
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Post by RNL on Mar 27, 2006 20:07:40 GMT
My favourite image was the incomplete animal targets in the archery range.
One more thing about the narration that I forgot to mention. When David reads his ex-wife's 'secret' criticism of him, her voice reads it on the soundtrack, which I thought disrupted the effect of being in David's distracted mind.
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Post by Anasazie on Dec 2, 2008 2:48:57 GMT
1. The Ring (2002) 4/10
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