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DVD REVIEW: THE JOB

post #1 of 6
10/3/10 at 1:20pm
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Ryan enjoys Hellboy's foray into the metaphorical netherworld.

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post #2 of 6
10/3/10 at 6:33pm
I really enjoyed the theatre/cinema contrast and thought you summed up the scale of the film really well, Ryan. I've felt exactly what you wrote during other movies (about how there's literally nothing but real world beyond what we're allowed to see) and it hit the nail just where it's supposed to.
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post #3 of 6
10/4/10 at 1:32pm
Hey, thanks, Bobby for saying that. It's an odd feeling, isn't it? Like, it almost reminds me of that movie The Langoliers, how there's these monsters eating the world away just off camera.

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I really enjoyed the theatre/cinema contrast and thought you summed up the scale of the film really well, Ryan. I've felt exactly what you wrote during other movies (about how there's literally nothing but real world beyond what we're allowed to see) and it hit the nail just where it's supposed to.
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post #4 of 6
10/4/10 at 5:53pm
No problem!

It certainly is odd, Ryan. 300 springs to mind, a nifty looking film which struggles to immerse audiences in its "world." It pretty much played like a glorified clip reel with a story.

I'm not looking to spend any real time with "outside" stories or characters, in a lot of cases. Ideally, the main narrative should be so engaging you don't want to stray from it. Just a flavour that these other characters/stories are fleshed out and doing their own thing, even if we're not watching, would be enough, though. I didn't get the impression that was much of a consideration in 300.
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post #5 of 6
10/5/10 at 6:40pm
Interesting that you bring up 300. I didn't feel that way watching it, but I do get what you mean. There's a sense that there really is no other world out there. Like it's just a ghost town.

And I agree with you that I don't want to actually see those people and get to know them. But, there should be a sense that they do exist. That there are people living and breathing in those buildings that I see. In The Job, it felt like all the buildings were abandoned. And then finding out that it was shot in Detroit, it's probably because they were. Sad.
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post #6 of 6
10/6/10 at 1:16pm
It is, Ryan, especially because that wasn't incorporated into the movie as suggested in the review. That was a great point.
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