This is one of those movies that once you watch, you wish you hadn't and if you only knew what it was, they couldn't pay you to watch. An utter waste of time and life that makes little sense.
I like it how nobody in this thread mentions awful pointless irritating cringe-inducing over-editing. The "slow sliding into madness" is literally a montage. A MONTAGE. And of course there's zero narrative structure, awkward and bad scenes and dialogue. I really anticipated this movie. And I am a cinephile who likes obscure films. But this is not only garbage but an insult. And yes: everybody who thinks this is something more than an shallow music video got fooled and IS a pretentious hipster. No screams about how "oh you just don't get it" can save this incoherent amateur try-hard POS from stinking.
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shareThe trailers tried very hard to make this look like something other than it is. Carefully cut dialog and scenes to try to tell a story that in actuality didn't exist.
Maybe the book is better because it could pace itself, but the decline of the tower happens so quickly and irrationally it is impossible to wrap your head around it. They should have shown some restraint and not revealed the decline in the beginning and then travel backwards to explain it.
The music is at odds with the scenes. Trying one moment to be light in a serious sequence and then serious in a ridiculous scene (kids going to the pool).
The boy didn't even provide an alternate viewpoint. His perspective was strangely warped and adult.
I think there may have been potential in this movie, but as it stands, it was garbage and should be avoided.
Exactly this.
I was supremely disappointed with what this film turned out to be. What's even more disappointing is that Tom Hiddleston had anything to do with it. But hey, I guess a paycheck is a paycheck.
On a side note, I do have to lol at the people who claim that if you didn't like this movie, you're just a "casual" film fan. Nothing pretentious about that. Please go back to your coffee house where you can snap your fingers and pat yourself on the back for being so superior.
"There are no big words...just little heads." - Bud Bundy
I so agree with this comment. This film was truly horrible and I could not finish watching it. It had no direction and made no sense at all.
shareI concur. Shockingly badly made film, given the amount of talent that managed to persuade to join the production. I'm surprised many of them haven't distanced themselves from this film.
I presume they were going for a reproduction Kubrick vibe, but it just misses the mark completely.