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I also didn't think it was anything special. I even thought the acting wasn't all that great.

I just finished watching 'Headhunters'. Very entertaining if somewhat ridiculous film. Some good tense scenes and clever twists if you can suspend disbelief. 8.5/10
 
a-dev said:
Agreed completely. It is a good film no doubt but all the accolades it got gave the impression it was something new...which it wasn't really. And it was internally repetitive too. Mistreatment by one owner/moves on to the next, Mistreatment by new owner/moves on to the next etc etc. We get the point, slavery was bad
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Yep. I was expecting it to be some ground-breaking film with the most brutal and inhuman actions ever seen in cinema based on the reviews I read/heard.

People REALLY hyped this up for some reason. In the end, it was what it was. It was another slavery film with really good acting from most and some touching moments. There was nothing in the film that made me drop my jaw, stare in amazement, or want to revisit it in the future.

I believe I rated it an 8/10 after I saw it, which I still think is a fair rating. A much better than average film, but nothing phenomenal.
 
RIDDICK said:
So if the work of fiction is based on someone's memoir then it is 100% true... Got it!
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Shows how little you know about Steve McQueen and the integrity of the man....got it :hi5:

Edit: Look up the phrase 'sold down the river' and let me know what you find :wink1:
 
Iron Man - 8.5/10
TIH - 5/10
Iron Man 2- 7.5/10
Thor 8/10
Captain America TFA 8/10

Avengers 9/10

Phase one is incredibly enjoyable, the only disappointment was TIH but everything else is pretty damn fun.
 
Lar'ja Thwei said:
Yep. I was expecting it to be some ground-breaking film with the most brutal and inhuman actions ever seen in cinema based on the reviews I read/heard.

People REALLY hyped this up for some reason. In the end, it was what it was. It was another slavery film with really good acting from most and some touching moments. There was nothing in the film that made me drop my jaw, stare in amazement, or want to revisit it in the future.

I believe I rated it an 8/10 after I saw it, which I still think is a fair rating. A much better than average film, but nothing phenomenal.
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So, if the film doesnt shake you to your core with heretofore unseen or unimagined brutality, it is somehow falling short in your eyes? This isnt supposed to be gore-porn, your supposed to connect with the character on an emotional level, experience his loss, experience the degrdation of what he had to go through to simply survive and eventually reclaim. Yes, we all know about the brutaities of slavery, we have seen people being whipped over and over again on screen, but it's not about brutality for the sake of violence, it's about human beings robbed of their dignity and reduced in other's eyes as nothing more than cattle.

The filmmaker could have upped the ante with the violence and depravity to break through the average person's shell of desensitization, but I'm glad he didn't, because there is a point where that level of violence not only detracts from the story being told, but becomes cartoonish in it's own right.
 
rushmore223 said:
So, if the film doesnt shake you to your core with heretofore unseen or unimagined brutality, it is somehow falling short in your eyes?
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No. When it's not nearly as good of a film as everyone makes it out to be, unimagined brutality or not, then it's falling short in my eyes.

This isnt supposed to be gore-porn, your supposed to connect with the character on an emotional level, experience his loss, experience the degrdation of what he had to go through to simply survive and eventually reclaim. Yes, we all know about the brutaities of slavery, we have seen people being whipped over and over again on screen, but it's not about brutality for the sake of violence, it's about human beings robbed of their dignity and reduced in other's eyes as nothing more than cattle.

The filmmaker could have upped the ante with the violence and depravity to break through the average person's shell of desensitization, but I'm glad he didn't, because there is a point where that level of violence not only detracts from the story being told, but becomes cartoonish in it's own right.
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I never asked for "gore-porn", Mr. Fanboy.

It was a good film. I cared about the characters and what they were going through for the most part. It just could have been done better. I felt like I've seen this film a hundred times, and I've seen the impact of slavery portrayed better.

I did think the slavers/antagonists were a bit too "kind", but it would have taken a lot more than making them more brutal for me to be amazed with the film. And maybe that's just how they were supposed to be, based on the memoir(s). I wanted Solomon to make it home, and I thought the actor did a great job with what he was given, but I never really felt connected to him, nor did I feel a great amount of relief when he finally made it home.
 
Irvy said:
Overreaction much? No such thing as 0/10 :lol
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It's crap. Ignore Deckard. He doesn't know what he's on about. :p

Besides, if people can throw around 10/10s like there is no tomorrow for movies that aren't deserving of it, I am sure I can 0/10 it. No such thing as perfection IMO. 10/10 movie score doesn't exist in my world.
 
Lar'ja Thwei said:
No. When it's not nearly as good of a film as everyone makes it out to be, unimagined brutality or not, then it's falling short in my eyes.

I never asked for "gore-porn", Mr. Fanboy.

It was a good film. I cared about the characters and what they were going through for the most part. It just could have been done better. I felt like I've seen this film a hundred times, and I've seen the impact of slavery portrayed better.

I did think the slavers/antagonists were a bit too "kind", but it would have taken a lot more than making them more brutal for me to be amazed with the film. And maybe that's just how they were supposed to be, based on the memoir(s). I wanted Solomon to make it home, and I thought the actor did a great job with what he was given, but I never really felt connected to him, nor did I feel a great amount of relief when he finally made it home.
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Thats funny, what exactly am I a fanboy of?

Slave owners werent all bloodthirsty monsters, there were many that treated their "Property" with relative kindness, like Cumberbatches character, though they were obviously severely flawed in their participation in slavery in the first place. I look at this movie similarly to Schindlers List, in that it really didnt show us anything we didnt aready know, but it let us experience the horror with a compelling story, and put the main character in a position more people might be able to identify with, a free man losing his freedom.

But, no need to get your feathers ruffled. I do agree that the end was played more understated than many would like, but I don't need a movie to telegraph every emotion I am supposed to feel.
 
Haunting In Connecticut 2 3/10

Food, Inc. 6.5/10

Bully 7/10

Spanglish 8/10

Insidious 2 6/10

Benchwarmers 5/10

Stephen King's Thinner 6/10

The Thing (2011) 6/10
 

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