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| Saturday, October 08, 2005 By the way, opposed to all the positive reviews, "A History of Violence" is an awful, awful movie. I try not to spoil the movie, but there are always some things that will spoil it a little, so if you are REALLY going to see it, don't read. Quickly, here's why I hated it: - The individual situations are VERY cliche. Such as when the son wins a baseball game even though he sucks at sports, and the school bully is going to beat him up for it, which he gets out of by his quick retort and razor-sharp witty comebacks, which make his peers laugh.... come on! Or when the daughter wakes up because she had a nightmare and the entire family comes in the room to sit with her and make her feel ALL BETTERS!..... Then there are the mobsters who always wear black and drive black cars. Also, the funny and sarcastic Jewish mobster. Also, (not trying to spoil it for anyone) a psychological disease which belongs in a soap opera... All very original. I kid you not, I was expecting a twist ending, like a long lost twin brother or something. The only reason I didn't walk out was because I wanted to see what possible situation they could have come up with to justify the whole movie. - All the characters are very, very flat. Everyone is SO one dimensional. The acting reflects this. - People do things for no reason. Viggo washes his face in a lake behind a house - a lake he didn't know was there - instead of using a bathroom? - The theme of the movie is if you lie to your family and kill a lot of people, not only will you not get in trouble, but your family will accept you for it. - There is no retribution for Viggo's character. He is not a good person, nor has he REALLY changed, and he never gets what's coming to him. Sure, you can use that in a movie, I just don't agree with it as good story. This point is completely opinion. - The sound was atrocious. They must have shot the entire movie next to an airport, because EVERYTHING was ADR (dubbed later) and it sounded terrible. - On a positive point, it looked nice. However, some scenes, especially the last one, kept cutting back to the same shots. But besides a little sparsity in shot variety in some points, it looked good. If you're going to see a movie, see Good Night and Good Luck. It's much, much better. posted at 4:43 PM
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