Title: THE GUNPOWDER IS LIKE SALT
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Title: THE GUNPOWDER IS LIKE SALT
Print Status: Available
Title: THE GUNPOWDER IS LIKE SALT
Print Status: Available
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And now I want popcorn..
I wonder if anyone has actually tried to do that.. it wouldn’t surprise me.
I had a lot of issues with how it was shot. See to me because of the jerky movements and the unrefined video, everything looked very set-y to me like I could tell it was on a set. Rarely when I’m watching a movie can I say “that looks like a set” but that’s all I could think through this one. It also gives you a lot of time to hink cuz itt’s so long. They could have cut a lot down and had it still work. As for the story, I liked it but then again I had never heard the story of John Dillinger. The person I saw the movie with thought it was boring cuz he thought it was a worn out story.
Actually, Mythbusters just had an episode where they tried to replicate the popcorn-with-lasers of “Real Genius.” They also tried popping corn with explosives, which didn’t really work, sadly.
totalmoviefreak,
I’m not disputing your interpretation of the camera work but Michael Mann almost never uses sets, preferring location shooting almost exclusively. The closet thing to a set in a Mann movie would be a set dressed location.
Heat for example had a record 95 shooting locations in LA.
The digital video of the movie did throw me a bit, since at times it almost seemed like a student film or TV show (on the soap opera channel. Don’t know why, they always shoot their shows differently than normal TV shows) than a feature film. Plus, the sound was weird at places, cutting n and out, getting louder and softer depending on where the camera was situated (may have been a problem with our theater, though, and not the movie).
Still, I liked it. Good performances from everyone, and Mann still knows how to shoot a damned entertaining gunfight.
Dragon,
I experienced the exact same audio problems you described in your theater. I found it jarring.
I found it flat, a cat-and-mouse game where the mouse is going about his own business. The problem there is that the movie focused on said mouse. A big deal is made about the specialists from Texas coming in off the train, and then the story cuts away from the feds for 30 minutes. Until the torture scene much later you get no feel for why these guys were brought in, aside from three folks making rookie mistakes in the first bust.
I just couldn’t bring myself to care about anybody in the movie.
I thought the script was all over the place. Some good scenes, but it needed a much tighter screenplay.
I didn’t think it was terrible or anything, but it needed work and could have been much shorter.
i work as projectionist, and we constantly got complaints about inconsistent sound with Public Enemies. Sort of glad to know that it is more to do with the print than with our sound racks and such.
The camera and sound had me shaken throughout. The pounding gunshots and the unsteady camera left me feeling somewhat giddy. Also, why were there so many blatant historical inaccuracies? I mean, I understand it’s just a movie, but Baby Face Nelson didn’t die at the Little Bohemia Lodge. In fact, both Nelson and Pretty Boy Floyd died a year after Dillinger. When it’s little things, it doesn’t bother me, but writers and directors shouldn’t change the flow of time just to suit their movie. . .unless of course it’s about time travel.
so wait tom.
you say ill be disappointed because they only share one scene together. is this because its only the one scene. or was the scene itself really bad and anti-climatic.
the word of mouth that has travelled into my head seems to be that this movie is kinda a let down.
so i think ill wait to rent/download
The scene itself wasn’t anything to write home about.
I think it’s just a wasted opportunity not to put these two together on screen as often as possible.