Mickey said:
Jeff said:
memento - memory duration adjusted to fit the script.
Actually, this sounds very organic to me. Memory doesn't work like clockwork.
True, but it always varied by just the right amount to fit the screen play. As mentioned, driving from the town to the cave and/or back seemed took a long time, not to mention continuiging with a task that started before the drive.
I agree that the Sixth Sense was pretty weak. I knew something was strange throughout the whole movie because no way are children that young allowed to associate with a grown man alone
Yes, the "field work" just didn't seem right to me. And all the coincidences, in addition to what I previously mentioned, the bathroom scene where the door and the medicine cabinet both happened to be opened just enough for the main character to see that his wife is taking anti-depressants. The other was that his clothes were always changing except for the shirt, which for some reason the director felt was important. So many things left unexplained. Who's dressing the main character? How does the main character move about town (always on the bus)? Where does the main character sleep? What and where does the main character eat?
For me, yet another very annoying movie. Most of the movie leads the viewer into one direction, a mystery to be solved, but the solution for all that is witnessed, is that it's just some bad dream. The Usual Suspects, is similar, almost the entire movie is just some story made up by the main character.
As previously posted, I find too many of the so called "clever" movies to have too many plot faults and/or an extreme number of coincidences.
Now I don't mind plot faults as much in the not so serious movies or TV shows. In Star Trek, Spock's strength varied from episode to episode, sometimes he could punch big dents in metal walls, while other times he could be subdued by a couple of humans. When transporting a bomb off the ship, why not just scatter it instead of re-assembling it outside (other than for a cool scene). In one episode (a piece of the action), the Enterprise stuns every one in a several block radius of the landing party. A lot of episodes would last maybe 2 minutes if they simply would stun everything around the landing party if an all clear wasn't received, and then transport back the landing party. Still it was a fun show to watch at the time.
In Star Wars Episode 6, soon after Luke finds out that Leah is his twin sister, Luke asks Leah if she remembers her "real" mother, and Leah responds yes, but her real mother died when Leah was young. However, in Star Wars 3, rather that come up with a reason for Padme choosing to go with Leah and not Luke when they split up the twins, they just kill off Padme instead, a significant change to the time line of the series, and a bit of a copout. "Higher ground" was probably the worst part of EP3 though. So most of the movie was good except for the fact that they had to rush everything at the end of EP3 so that the characters were in place for where they start EP4. For example, the transition for Anakin to end up as Darth Vader was supposed to have taken much longer than it did in EP3, but if EP3 were made this way, you don't get a Darth Vader by the end of EP3, so they had to rush that.
