well for one the characters seem to be emotionless... i have no connection or interest in any of them... the films feel sterile to me
with the indy series though... its completely different... watching these films you love the characters or at least you love indy there is an instant draw to the personalities involved
I suppose I can understand. Although one is supposed to feel for the struggle Bourne goes through during the three movies, there is an element of sterility. I maybe identify more intellectually with his transformation than emotionally. That said, I tend to enjoy the movies as brilliantly acted and directed, full of nails action sequences and fight scenes, rather than something slightly deeper.
For sure with the Indy comment. He's a magnetic chap, even at 189, or whatever age he is now.
Yeah it was alright. I love Dog Soldiers and shouldn't have expected Doomsday to be as good. (Not seen The Descent though.) The set-pieces were pretty immense, and we had a laugh at the idea of a post-apocalyptic Glasgow being full of savages (aye, so, not much has changed, eh?), but the character David O'Hara played was so wretchedly acted.
Well for starters you should definitely see the Decent. As for Doomsday I think he just missed the plot a little. From what I've read since watching it, he seems to have been aiming at a mish-mash of influences from his teen years, like Mad Max and movies like that. The set-pieces are pretty good, it's nicely directed, but everything else just failed to work. Reviews of it seem to agree, give or take. Some completely miss what he was attempting and criticise how ridiculous it was, but others realise the intention and still consider it pretty lame. I'm in the latter camp, for sure.
Huge elements of the movie just never took off. Post Apocolyptic Glaswegian Punk scene was boring, everything about it was dull, repetitive and regardless of any homage to earlier works, totally off key. Killing off Pertwee, one of the most likeable actors around, was maybe an internal joke, but it annoyed everyone else. All in all, it really feels like the failed gelling of 17 different movies.
Still, in the positive category, Hoskins plays that role well, Dr Bashir is in it, for a little while, and he successfully managed to make Rhona Mitra look
not like a man, which given her other recent appearances in action movies - Shooter? - is probably the greatest achievement of the movie.
I thought it was decent.
