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I'm with you. I dig musicals. I've been in musicals.
I'm also a gorehound and fan of dystopian future scifi stories, so this one had me primed from the get-go. But this film just fell flat for me.
The songs were really bad. Painfully, laughably bad. And the story? Ugh.
Everyone who gets gutted (and the gore is spectacular!!!) is a character who just appeard on screen at that moment to be killed. We never have a chance to feel any hint of fear because we don't care about the people being killed.
AND... it's a movie about a Repo Man who rips organs out of people and there isn't a single lead character with an organ in danger of being reposessed!:confused: :confused: :confused:
That's just bad story-telling
You should ALWAYS have your antagonist in direct conflict with your protagonist.
And every bit of connect-the-dots exposition was handled with TEXT on screen in those comic-book panels. TEXT ON SCREEN? You can't be more creative than that? That's lazy writing.
I really wanted to love this, but it was so poorly concieved that I ended up hating it.
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Last edited by Roderick Usher; 02-17-2009 at 08:41 AM.
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