44. "Massive fucking disappointment. (spoilers)" In response to In response to 0
I'm so glad I didn't peep it first week it came out like I originally planned.
I love dialogue. One of my favorite films is 12 Angry Men. I actually think some dialogue scenes are more action packed than the last 30 minutes of Transformers 3.
This shit was all words and no development of any kind. It seemed like everybody (with the exception of Gandolfini and Liotta) was just delivering lines or were just THERE.
They actually wasted the two best parts of that film on some bullshit. Liotta goes out midway through the flick (in a sleek fashion, which I liked) but Gandolfini just peaces out via a snitching?
And I LOVED Gandolfini's character. An over the edge hitman on a downward spiral? Hitting the alcohol too hard? Using hookers like tissues? That's fascinating to me and deserved better closure.
Then the ending. It seemed like they clumsily shoehorned that 2008 election subplot into the film then thought that some shitty monologue by Pitt would satisfy the viewer? What? What does that even mean? How is that even relevant to what I just spent an hour and a half watching?
Apparently the film was supposed to be 2.5 hours long and sort of a "...Jesse James" reunion because Garret Dillahunt cameo'd and was cut out.
I'd probably like another hour of that if it wasn't so fucking dull.
The saving grace of the whole film was Gandolfini, Liotta's presence, and Scoot McNairy (who plays a really good nervous dude). The cinematography was good except that the settings were so bland and indistinguishable that it didn't stop me from dozing off during these long drawling non-sensical dialogue volleys between characters that I really didn't like that much.