ricky_BUTLER Member since Jul 06th 2003 16899 posts
Thu Dec-06-12 09:32 PM
41. "I don't give him credit for the heist scene though." In response to In response to 39
It went long too but given that it was a tense scene, that going-too-long M.O. upped the anxiety level appropriately, so it seems like a win. But in the overall context of the movie, that's more dumb luck than skill / a good decision I think, like a baseball player with a terrible swing who happens into a hit.
I love Jesse James but really think this was so horrendous it makes me rethink Dominik, even that film. That movie had a great cast, incredible cinematography, terrific score, fascinating source material, etc., and how much of those elements did Dominik direct into being or just "luck" into. Moreover, the version we all know is apparently a compromised cut. Should we have hoped for a compromised cut of Killing Them Softly?*
>plus >setting it to Velvet Underground's "Heroin" is just fucking >lame.
Most of the song choices fell flat. Reminds me that the one flaw in Jesse James is the song sung by the daughter right before the assassination.
*And this is the one knock I have against Megan Ellison: incredible financier, but is she much consequence as a producer (in the Scott Rudin sense of the word)?