I've seen several threads where people say they say this movie for the first time and they thought it was just downright amazing. Why? The acting is relatively decent. The fights were very cleverly thought out and very well done, but that's it. The movie looked like it had absolutely no production values. The costume design was terrible. The guy's black coat looked like it had been sewn together by a fashion student at my school (read: it didn't look well made). The movie looked like it had been shot on 16mm film in a 1.33:1 aspect ratio, but sure enough, it was 35mm panavision and full anamorphic widescreen. I was shocked by how badly the dialogue scenes were framed.... And for that matter... how nearly all of the scenes were framed. The cinematography was just horrible.
Like I said, all of this is with exception to the fight scenes. They were very well done, but the rest of the movie counts too, and they totally hosed the rest of the movie. Ok, so the movie was made with a meer 20 million dollars, which is commendable, and explains alot of the low cost look that is seen throughout most of the movie, but come on, I expect better than this from a movie that is hailed to be so great.
As I dig up more information, it becomes so clear to me why this movie is so disappointing. Ok, so it was only Kurt Wimmer's second movie. Good job to him. This is an achievement for only being his second movie. But it still isn't that great. I even hear people comparing this movie to the matrix. There is no comparison.
The movie just has that "I am a low budget action movie" look to it. As I was watching it, I kept getting this irking feeling that I was watching a movie from the 80's. It's got alot of the same cinematography cues and shortcuts in the non-featured action sequences. This movie really could have been great. It was made in 2002. That is 3 years post-Matrix. The Matrix could have turned out this way, but instead the Wachowski brothers made Bound in order to secure a good name in the film community, and that caused Joel Silver to cough up 63 million dollars for them to make the Matrix good! Which is why the matrix doesn't have that "I'm a low cost action movie" look to it. Kurt Wimmer should have done the same thing, the movie would have been released this summer or something, and it would have been alot better.
This is simply the ramblings of a man that watched this movie wanting to like it so badly because I had heard that it was unlike anything I had ever seen before. Well, the action scenes were nicely done, but the costume design, and every other aspect of the movie were poorly done.
Also... it felt like I could see Kurt Wimmer offscreen mouthing the words "act like Neo" to Christian Bale.
General conclusion. It was meh. I was thinking about just buying it. Man I am glad that I didn't.
Like I said, all of this is with exception to the fight scenes. They were very well done, but the rest of the movie counts too, and they totally hosed the rest of the movie. Ok, so the movie was made with a meer 20 million dollars, which is commendable, and explains alot of the low cost look that is seen throughout most of the movie, but come on, I expect better than this from a movie that is hailed to be so great.
As I dig up more information, it becomes so clear to me why this movie is so disappointing. Ok, so it was only Kurt Wimmer's second movie. Good job to him. This is an achievement for only being his second movie. But it still isn't that great. I even hear people comparing this movie to the matrix. There is no comparison.
The movie just has that "I am a low budget action movie" look to it. As I was watching it, I kept getting this irking feeling that I was watching a movie from the 80's. It's got alot of the same cinematography cues and shortcuts in the non-featured action sequences. This movie really could have been great. It was made in 2002. That is 3 years post-Matrix. The Matrix could have turned out this way, but instead the Wachowski brothers made Bound in order to secure a good name in the film community, and that caused Joel Silver to cough up 63 million dollars for them to make the Matrix good! Which is why the matrix doesn't have that "I'm a low cost action movie" look to it. Kurt Wimmer should have done the same thing, the movie would have been released this summer or something, and it would have been alot better.
This is simply the ramblings of a man that watched this movie wanting to like it so badly because I had heard that it was unlike anything I had ever seen before. Well, the action scenes were nicely done, but the costume design, and every other aspect of the movie were poorly done.
Also... it felt like I could see Kurt Wimmer offscreen mouthing the words "act like Neo" to Christian Bale.
General conclusion. It was meh. I was thinking about just buying it. Man I am glad that I didn't.
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