tragabigzanda wrote:Kevin Smith has no eye for action, and his long-winded dialogue collapses under mumbled performances and crummy audio.
Totally agree with you. However, I feel that Dogma is the one where that doesn't happen quite as much. Thanks to Damon, Affleck, Rock, Carlin & Rickman who probably give the best performances in any KS movie. I just re-watched this & thought these 5 performances really held up. Obviously it's an amateurish KS film, but there was some decent writing sprinkled in.
swan wrote:Rickman was so great in his few scenes in Dogma
I was debating whether or not to shit on Dogma. Felt wrong, despite the fact that Rickman was indeed great in it.
But now that you've brought it up...I shit on Dogma. Kevin Smith has no eye for action, and his long-winded dialogue collapses under mumbled performances and crummy audio.
That fight scene in the train was so bad. I liked the movie's ambitions though, and it felt like the last time KS really tried to push forward. The cast was great too.
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swan wrote:Rickman was so great in his few scenes in Dogma
I was debating whether or not to shit on Dogma. Felt wrong, despite the fact that Rickman was indeed great in it.
But now that you've brought it up...I shit on Dogma. Kevin Smith has no eye for action, and his long-winded dialogue collapses under mumbled performances and crummy audio.
That fight scene in the train was so bad. I liked the movie's ambitions though, and it felt like the last time KS really tried to push forward. The cast was great too.
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Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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swan wrote:Rickman was so great in his few scenes in Dogma
I was debating whether or not to shit on Dogma. Felt wrong, despite the fact that Rickman was indeed great in it.
But now that you've brought it up...I shit on Dogma. Kevin Smith has no eye for action, and his long-winded dialogue collapses under mumbled performances and crummy audio.
That fight scene in the train was so bad. I liked the movie's ambitions though, and it felt like the last time KS really tried to push forward. The cast was great too.
Yeah the cast was fantastic.
Agreed, though Hayek and Fiorentino were both underwhelming.
I liked Linda Fiorentino in that movie. Salma Hayek is a good actress but the super strong accent she had in her early Hollywood career + Kevin Smith verbosity = a lot of rewinding and/or turning on subtitles.
Anders wrote:I do not have a «neoliberal assessment of geopolitics», so please stop writing that I do.
swan wrote:Rickman was so great in his few scenes in Dogma
I was debating whether or not to shit on Dogma. Felt wrong, despite the fact that Rickman was indeed great in it.
But now that you've brought it up...I shit on Dogma. Kevin Smith has no eye for action, and his long-winded dialogue collapses under mumbled performances and crummy audio.
That fight scene in the train was so bad. I liked the movie's ambitions though, and it felt like the last time KS really tried to push forward. The cast was great too.
Yeah the cast was fantastic.
Agreed, though Hayek and Fiorentino were both underwhelming.
I liked Linda Fiorentino in that movie. Salma Hayek is a good actress but the super strong accent she had in her early Hollywood career + Kevin Smith verbosity = a lot of rewinding and/or turning on subtitles.
