Comments on: My 10 Worst Films Of 2008: 5: Vantage Point http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2009/01/my-10-worst-films-of-2008-5-vantage-point/ Lollards in the high church of low culture Tue, 29 May 2012 02:19:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: My 10 Worst Films Of 2008: 5: Vantage Point | FreakyTrigger | Dennis Quaid http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2009/01/my-10-worst-films-of-2008-5-vantage-point/#comment-577792 My 10 Worst Films Of 2008: 5: Vantage Point | FreakyTrigger | Dennis Quaid Tue, 20 Jan 2009 10:38:06 +0000 http://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=13053#comment-577792 [...] The movie has the child in it, who is roughly all the time in peril, as if the confidence of the giveaway universe was not sufficient for us to base for the favourite ( Dennis Quaid display which Jack Bauer is the impression any one can do*). … Original post:  My 10 Worst Films Of 2008: 5: Vantage Point | FreakyTrigger [...] [...] The movie has the child in it, who is roughly all the time in peril, as if the confidence of the giveaway universe was not sufficient for us to base for the favourite ( Dennis Quaid display which Jack Bauer is the impression any one can do*). … Original post:  My 10 Worst Films Of 2008: 5: Vantage Point | FreakyTrigger [...]

]]> By: Pete Baran http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2009/01/my-10-worst-films-of-2008-5-vantage-point/#comment-577454 Pete Baran Mon, 19 Jan 2009 17:56:47 +0000 http://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=13053#comment-577454 But that's the point here Mark. Vantage Point seems to believe that its different points of view can be coalesced into a single narrative because they aren't actually points of view rather than different camera angles with a little bit more of the story rationed out. Basically Vantage Point would be a better movie if they just used the various viewpoints in a conventional linear narrative as the multiple viewpoints (and repetition) add nothing qualitative to the films effect except boredom in revisiting the same events from a slightly different angle. Ben. I'd have slept. But that’s the point here Mark. Vantage Point seems to believe that its different points of view can be coalesced into a single narrative because they aren’t actually points of view rather than different camera angles with a little bit more of the story rationed out. Basically Vantage Point would be a better movie if they just used the various viewpoints in a conventional linear narrative as the multiple viewpoints (and repetition) add nothing qualitative to the films effect except boredom in revisiting the same events from a slightly different angle.

Ben. I’d have slept.

]]> By: a logged-out pˆnk s lord whatnot http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2009/01/my-10-worst-films-of-2008-5-vantage-point/#comment-577427 a logged-out pˆnk s lord whatnot Mon, 19 Jan 2009 16:50:37 +0000 http://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=13053#comment-577427 point of order: the difft viewpoints in rashomon cannot be added up to a single uncontradictory story (this is kind of the point of rashomon) point of order: the difft viewpoints in rashomon cannot be added up to a single uncontradictory story (this is kind of the point of rashomon)

]]> By: Ben http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2009/01/my-10-worst-films-of-2008-5-vantage-point/#comment-577426 Ben Mon, 19 Jan 2009 16:44:37 +0000 http://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=13053#comment-577426 Dammit Pete (I had to get that in somehow!) Bauer isn't a character that anyone can do, as Dennis Quaid shows with his particularly uninspired attempt. Quaid's just not believable enough. And you know, whilst this was clearly a poor film, I watched it on my flight back from Miami (having exhausted all the other in-flight movies worth watching), and it was actually not the worst way to pass two and a bit hours. Dammit Pete (I had to get that in somehow!)

Bauer isn’t a character that anyone can do, as Dennis Quaid shows with his particularly uninspired attempt. Quaid’s just not believable enough.

And you know, whilst this was clearly a poor film, I watched it on my flight back from Miami (having exhausted all the other in-flight movies worth watching), and it was actually not the worst way to pass two and a bit hours.

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