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AKA23
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« Reply #8 on: August 08, 2020, 09:34:30 AM » |
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I saw this as well. I thought it was a decent movie. Tom Hanks was good as always, but it wasn't clear to me from watching it what attracted someone of Tom Hanks calibre to have spent so much time on it. He wrote it as well as acted in it, and I read an interview where he said he spent 10 years working on it. It had some good action, but I felt like there was not much of a plot and the characters were quite superficially presented with very little depth to them. The movie really was exclusively and intensely focused on defending against the attack, but I felt like they could have done more to make the viewer invest more in the characters.
It's also in Dolby Vision, but in my opinion it didn't make the best use of the technology. Dolby Vision usually has vibrant colors, and a much higher quality resolution, but this movie was pretty dark and monochromatic. I think that was by design given that it was set in World War II, but it didn't make sense to me to spend all that extra money converting it to Dolby Vision if that's the way they were going to present the movie. It didn't gain much at all from being presented in that format.
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« Reply #15 on: August 27, 2020, 08:45:16 PM » |
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Insomnia was a remake of a very good Norwegian-Swedish movie. I remember, back before Nolan acquired the property, there was some talk on this board of how it would be a good project for Clint. I never saw Nolan's version. After typing the above, I checked, and the American Insomnia was released in 2002!  How time flies, even when you're not having fun. The Scandi original is from 1997, and I must have seen it sometime around then. The only discussion I could find here was in connection with early talk about "Clint's next project," Million Dollar Baby, so perhaps I'm thinking of the prehistoric time before the New Board. Anyway, for a trip down memory lane ... New Movie: "Million Dollar Baby," boxing themed film by and with EastwoodAKA, you said "I am not too familiar with Hilary Swank as an actress, although I did see her in Insomnia, which was a decent film, but she didn't have all that much to do. She is a good actress and it will be nice to see her team with Eastwood and Freeman as well."
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