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pretentious narration

posted 9 years ago by johnthedoe
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awful. awful. pretentious. awful.
narration like that, that works for noir DOESNT work when character has nothing to say and it has really nothing to do with the current situation.
its like: you see a park, and the narrator says: this dark park, full of crazy people, etc. yet its the day and you dont see any crazy people. its idiotic in this movie. that guy had nothing to say yet he sooo much wanted to be deep. it was almost funny.

similar example is roscharhrhahrhar (whatever you spell it like) from watchmen. he was pretentious like hell yet there was some truth to what he was saying. it doesnt work a bit here. narration like that has a reason, and the reason is that you cant tell everything on the screen. yet here you saw more on the screen than in the narration. idiotic.

[–] ceallachain-746-980534 9 years ago

Yeah, it works in "graphic novel" movies like Sin City or 1950s stuff, but not with goofy Brody in a straight to dvd level "thriller" ...

[–] phelpsg1 8 years ago

Yes, the narration is kind of pretentious. But that's the whole point. The film is a parody/homage to noir films of the 1940's, and narrative like that is typical of that genre.