Rebuttal by Mr Michael Henry to 'audiowells' review of Cassandra's Dream. 1st August, 2008.
Dear Sir, I fear you may have had your eyes closed the entire film. Mr Woody Allen has died and left the camera running.
Below is a quote from one of the actors appearing in the movie: "Most of the scenes play out in a single frame," McGregor explained. "There is a lot of dialogue. There are not many takes it's wonderful. You get home at 4.30pm in the afternoon. You can have a life." (actual quote from Venice Film Festival after premiere screening in 2007)
Now if that isn't an admission of lazy film-making... I don't know what is... I would have rather worked to 8pm every night and got a Better Performance! The acting was truly abysmal. Here's a bunch of decent actors on autopilot, reading directly from a poorly written script... nothing rang true. It was all bad acting... All of it.
The cinematography was dreadful. Stilted shots, far too objective and detached for a story centred around internal conflict. Virtually not a closeup in the entire film. Very little depth to any of the shots. Vilmos Zsigmond I am afraid has also died on the job.
But Mr Allen. Please stop making films. Seriously. Your thematic concerns were rammed down our throats at every possible moment... we get it - its a Greek friggen tragedy!'... Many scenes were repeated and repeated... How many time do we have to hear Ewan McGreggor tell his father he's going to leave the family business... and how beautiful his new girlfriend is... ON and ON and ON... Jesus someone stop him.
No tension... Poor dialogue... 20mins too long... We seriously destroyed the DVD disc after watching it... to prevent another human being for having to sit through that ordeal and sacrifice just under 2 hours of their precious lives.
Ah... that felt good to get off my chest.
Now I feel clean again.
Dear Sir, I fear you may have had your eyes closed the entire film. Mr Woody Allen has died and left the camera running.
Below is a quote from one of the actors appearing in the movie: "Most of the scenes play out in a single frame," McGregor explained. "There is a lot of dialogue. There are not many takes it's wonderful. You get home at 4.30pm in the afternoon. You can have a life." (actual quote from Venice Film Festival after premiere screening in 2007)
Now if that isn't an admission of lazy film-making... I don't know what is... I would have rather worked to 8pm every night and got a Better Performance! The acting was truly abysmal. Here's a bunch of decent actors on autopilot, reading directly from a poorly written script... nothing rang true. It was all bad acting... All of it.
The cinematography was dreadful. Stilted shots, far too objective and detached for a story centred around internal conflict. Virtually not a closeup in the entire film. Very little depth to any of the shots. Vilmos Zsigmond I am afraid has also died on the job.
But Mr Allen. Please stop making films. Seriously. Your thematic concerns were rammed down our throats at every possible moment... we get it - its a Greek friggen tragedy!'... Many scenes were repeated and repeated... How many time do we have to hear Ewan McGreggor tell his father he's going to leave the family business... and how beautiful his new girlfriend is... ON and ON and ON... Jesus someone stop him.
No tension... Poor dialogue... 20mins too long... We seriously destroyed the DVD disc after watching it... to prevent another human being for having to sit through that ordeal and sacrifice just under 2 hours of their precious lives.
Ah... that felt good to get off my chest.
Now I feel clean again.