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It seems almost like a straight contradiction to go from an underbudgeted film with an emphasis on plot like "Moon," to an overbudgeted action film with no plot like "Wolverine".
"Wolverine" centers on the beginnings of one of the more popular X-Men figures, Wolverine, and his humble beginnings, as well as plays on the good/evil side of his partner-in-crime, Sabertooth. When he finally gets sick of his him, Sabertooth becomes even more of a loose cannon and starts a tirade of rampage and vengeance as irate as you would expect any angsty film to be.
The movie really is there more for the visual effects than anything else, but if you're a die-hard X-Men fan, you will be disappointed. Unfortunately, even if you're someone who is only somewhat familiar with the X-Men series, you will likely find some disappointment as well anyway as some characters are mixed and matched and displaced in powers and relationships with each other. There's a lot of ambition with this kind of character, and to be honest, the storyline just completely dumbed down a character that has a dualism to himself that intrigues his fans.
I really don't want to go further into this since this film really did not amuse me. Worse still, there's suggestion that Hugh Jackman is pushing for a sequel. At the financial success Wolverine made on opening week that more than made up for its budget, it's liable to happen, and that's the saddest part of all.
"Limits of Control" confused me. After I saw the film, I questioned myself if I missed something, if there was something I didn't get, and then I did what any confused person would do: I looked up what other people thought about "Limits of Control." Confusion can be a good thing for films, don't get me wrong. There's a lot of films out there where the ambiguous storyline can allow you to accept the character more. The problem here, though, is that this trailer is the most misleading film trailer I ever saw.
I later found out that the director of this film's agenda was to create an "action film without any action." Unfortunately for him, he did it too well, and ended up making something that seemed more like a metaphor on how indy films are better than what the "big players" think are good.
Okay, this is probably confusing you now as much as this film confused me, so I'll try to formulate a synopsis. The main character is a hitman, or some sort of hired man of illicit items, as he seems to travel from one cafe to another, and then interact with a contact that exchange messages to him through a system of matchbooks. There's a naked lady who looks really sexy but doesn't do anything, and the main character takes charge by... going to art exhibits.
I am not kidding, 25% of this film involves him going to art exhibits and just staring at art and nothing else. There is no reason for him to be there, except to find the pieces to something having to do with his mission that we never really have a chance to discern.
Another significant portion is him sitting in a cafe listening to his contacts talk, not really about the story, or about the mission: they just talk about anything. They talk about art, or music, or about movies the director made (PRETENTION!), and they kind of defend this by talking about the glory of hipsterdom, the fact that it's good to watch a movie where they talk about nothing, and how the mundane scenes are really the ones that you will remember the most.
This film really just feels like some sort of elitist metaphor associated with the director's films, and this is what makes it more disappointing. There is nothing here that is attractive about the film that makes it seem like an action film 80% of the time. The movie just doesn't move, and it doesn't attempt to feature what makes action movies "feel" like action movies. There's no shaky angles, no rash closeups, no witty speeches nor visual gags. There's just a man in a business suit with an angry expression drinking from two cups of expresso.
If someone has any idea if this film is worth it, please tell me what they saw that was good about this film. I really want to know since all I'm seeing so far is a veil of pretentious hipsterdom denouncing big business.
It seems almost like a straight contradiction to go from an underbudgeted film with an emphasis on plot like "Moon," to an overbudgeted action film with no plot like "Wolverine".
"Wolverine" centers on the beginnings of one of the more popular X-Men figures, Wolverine, and his humble beginnings, as well as plays on the good/evil side of his partner-in-crime, Sabertooth. When he finally gets sick of his him, Sabertooth becomes even more of a loose cannon and starts a tirade of rampage and vengeance as irate as you would expect any angsty film to be.
The movie really is there more for the visual effects than anything else, but if you're a die-hard X-Men fan, you will be disappointed. Unfortunately, even if you're someone who is only somewhat familiar with the X-Men series, you will likely find some disappointment as well anyway as some characters are mixed and matched and displaced in powers and relationships with each other. There's a lot of ambition with this kind of character, and to be honest, the storyline just completely dumbed down a character that has a dualism to himself that intrigues his fans.
I really don't want to go further into this since this film really did not amuse me. Worse still, there's suggestion that Hugh Jackman is pushing for a sequel. At the financial success Wolverine made on opening week that more than made up for its budget, it's liable to happen, and that's the saddest part of all.
"Limits of Control" confused me. After I saw the film, I questioned myself if I missed something, if there was something I didn't get, and then I did what any confused person would do: I looked up what other people thought about "Limits of Control." Confusion can be a good thing for films, don't get me wrong. There's a lot of films out there where the ambiguous storyline can allow you to accept the character more. The problem here, though, is that this trailer is the most misleading film trailer I ever saw.
I later found out that the director of this film's agenda was to create an "action film without any action." Unfortunately for him, he did it too well, and ended up making something that seemed more like a metaphor on how indy films are better than what the "big players" think are good.
Okay, this is probably confusing you now as much as this film confused me, so I'll try to formulate a synopsis. The main character is a hitman, or some sort of hired man of illicit items, as he seems to travel from one cafe to another, and then interact with a contact that exchange messages to him through a system of matchbooks. There's a naked lady who looks really sexy but doesn't do anything, and the main character takes charge by... going to art exhibits.
I am not kidding, 25% of this film involves him going to art exhibits and just staring at art and nothing else. There is no reason for him to be there, except to find the pieces to something having to do with his mission that we never really have a chance to discern.
Another significant portion is him sitting in a cafe listening to his contacts talk, not really about the story, or about the mission: they just talk about anything. They talk about art, or music, or about movies the director made (PRETENTION!), and they kind of defend this by talking about the glory of hipsterdom, the fact that it's good to watch a movie where they talk about nothing, and how the mundane scenes are really the ones that you will remember the most.
This film really just feels like some sort of elitist metaphor associated with the director's films, and this is what makes it more disappointing. There is nothing here that is attractive about the film that makes it seem like an action film 80% of the time. The movie just doesn't move, and it doesn't attempt to feature what makes action movies "feel" like action movies. There's no shaky angles, no rash closeups, no witty speeches nor visual gags. There's just a man in a business suit with an angry expression drinking from two cups of expresso.
If someone has any idea if this film is worth it, please tell me what they saw that was good about this film. I really want to know since all I'm seeing so far is a veil of pretentious hipsterdom denouncing big business.
