Has anyone watched this yet? Im debating if I should see it or not. Ive read user reviews on a movie site, and they are all bad. Let em know if you recommend this or not. Thanks in advance..
I saw it last Friday and it was good. The beginning of the movie is slow but once they find the body it picks up. Its gory but yeah i would recommend it.
From the preview, I thought it was just a standard, run of the mill body found, detective gets called type movies. Sort of like what they have on CSI, but without all the fancy stuff.
Nope, it's done in a 50's style film noir, music dialogue to the way its shot. Also, the murder is put in the back ground for the better part of the movie, more about the a love quadrangle (sp?)
saw the movie on saturday. the film doesn't do the story justice. Very fragment and confusing at times. They tried to fit too much into a presentable package. They should have developed the relationship between Lee and buckey. This movie would have been much better imo if the original director, david fincher was at the helm all in all it's a rental. queue it up on netflix...
Yep. I kind of wish they would have put the murder in the foreground and let the relationships develop naturally within the context of finding the next bit of information about the murder. With a book turned into a movie things are going to have to be cut out. It did seem like the stuff they left in was too varied and lacked enough focus to really drive the movie. It was almost like they wanted so badly to include all the other layers and textures of the story that they forgot that it is about a murder investigation as well. I think if they had focused on the murder and then let the other bits they wanted to have come out develop from the murder investigation it would have been a better film. I think LA Confidential did a better job with that aspect. The cast was great, and it wasn't a bad movie. But it wasn't all I hoped for.
I read that some where as well, if I remember correctly it said that LA confidential was seriously chopped while Dahlia they left a lot more into the movie
Yeah it is strange. Since I was a huge fan of the book, I would have been excited to have more of the material in the movie. The only thing was they removed more 'focus' to keep in more material, if that makes sense. At the beginnign of the movie I was super excited to see how much of the material they were keeping in, and they just kept piling more and more from the book in their, without ever giving it a forward direction and progress except here and there as kind of an afterthought.
De Palma didn't have the idea, James Ellroy did. De Palma was responsible for the execution, but I think I read somewhere that he was forced to cut out about an hour by the studio.
I meant idea, as in making it in a classic noir style film. I actually like that but the story is so scatter shot on the screen that its a bit of a mess.
