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Post by Nora on Feb 3, 2024 23:38:39 GMT
What a missed opportunity this movie is. I get what thet were going for. showing that monsters may not alway be the 100% monsters most movies show them as, and that apathy is a powerful and murderous tool.
but man, as a result they made me feel completelly apathetic toward the movie.
Ditched the novel, took a few elements from it only, ditched storytelling, ditched emotions, all in favor of oscar baiting.
The movie needed 15 max 30 minutes to convey all it wanted to convey yet DRAGGED on for almost a 100.
First movie related to the holocaust that I wasnt touched by, scared by, emotionally hooked by.
Nothing, it did nothing with me than bored me.
I am sure I will be a minoroty in this but if you dont love experimental cinema dont go in hoping for a story, emotions or deeper thoughts.
4/10 (the craft is great of course, the oscar nom for sound is well deserved)
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Post by Nora on Feb 3, 2024 23:40:06 GMT
go see Four Winters for a much better experience.
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Post by moviebuffbrad on Feb 7, 2024 4:10:08 GMT
I just saw this today and admit I passed out several times. The remarkable thing is that I didn't miss anything. I looked at the plot summary on Wikipedia afterward and saw that even going in and out of consciousness throughout, I got all the beatsbof the story.
They certainly took the concept of "the banality of evil" and ran with it. Very, very banal. I actually had the exact same thought as you: it would make a very fine short film. These people going about their daily routine while gunshots and screams are heard in the background is effective filmmaking, for about 30 minutes. But stretched to a feature...look, some people dig capital A Art films like this, and your Jeanne Dielmans and A Ghost Story's, but they just aren't really my thing.
It felt like the first act of a movie, stretched to 90 minutes, that never gets to act 2.
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Post by Nora on Feb 8, 2024 5:34:10 GMT
I just saw this today and admit I passed out several times. The remarkable thing is that I didn't miss anything. I looked at the plot summary on Wikipedia afterward and saw that even going in and out of consciousness throughout, I got all the beats. They certainly took the concept of "the banality of evil" and ran with it. Very, very banal. I actually had the exact same thought as you: it would make a very fine short film. These people going about their daily routine while gunshots and screams are heard in the background is effective filmmaking, for about 30 minutes. But stretched to a feature...look, some people dig capital A Art films like this, and your Jeanne Dielmans and A Ghost Story's, but they just aren't really my thing. It felt like the first act of a movie, stretched to 90 minutes, that never gets to act 2. I normally dont have a problem with “meditative” movies and actually loved A Ghost Story but it was because it moved me, while slow, there was this unique tenderness or something that had an emotioanl impact on me right away. But Zone of Interest simply didnt do Anything for me. And I thought the premise was So Promising! |
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Post by moviebuffbrad on Feb 11, 2024 19:48:08 GMT
I just saw this today and admit I passed out several times. The remarkable thing is that I didn't miss anything. I looked at the plot summary on Wikipedia afterward and saw that even going in and out of consciousness throughout, I got all the beats. They certainly took the concept of "the banality of evil" and ran with it. Very, very banal. I actually had the exact same thought as you: it would make a very fine short film. These people going about their daily routine while gunshots and screams are heard in the background is effective filmmaking, for about 30 minutes. But stretched to a feature...look, some people dig capital A Art films like this, and your Jeanne Dielmans and A Ghost Story's, but they just aren't really my thing. It felt like the first act of a movie, stretched to 90 minutes, that never gets to act 2. I normally dont have a problem with “meditative” movies and actually loved A Ghost Story but it was because it moved me, while slow, there was this unique tenderness or something that had an emotioanl impact on me right away. But Zone of Interest simply didnt do Anything for me. And I thought the premise was So Promising! Yeah, probably unfair to lump in A Ghost Story. |
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Post by joekiddlouischama on Mar 10, 2024 23:58:57 GMT
I will avoid going into detail for now, but I actually feel that among the ten Best Picture Oscar nominees, The Zone of Interest is as deserving as any other film—perhaps the most deserving (the other contenders for me would be Killers of the Flower Moon and The Holdovers). All three movies are "very good" in my eyes, but I felt that way about The Zone of Interest from my first theatrical screening (of three), whereas I grew into that assessment for the other two (reaching it upon my third screening of each; I ultimately viewed Killers four times in the theater).
In short, The Zone of Interest uses abstract stylization to brilliant thematic effect—haunting, chilling, and resonant, a perfect fusion of form and function. It is unconventional, but the power comes in how the film conceptualizes the subject matter visually.
Of course, Oppenheimer ("good/very good"), which I saw three times in the theater (twice in IMAX), will receive Best Picture regardless.
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Post by movielover on Apr 9, 2024 5:35:30 GMT
I just saw this today and admit I passed out several times. The remarkable thing is that I didn't miss anything. I looked at the plot summary on Wikipedia afterward and saw that even going in and out of consciousness throughout, I got all the beatsbof the story. Just watched it, and the same thing happened to me. I kept struggling to stay awake. I, too, went straight to Wikipedia when it was over and found I hadn’t missed anything, despite nodding off a few times in the 2nd half. Pretty boring movie. |
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Post by sdrew13163 on Apr 9, 2024 18:03:54 GMT
Watched it a couple days ago. I really liked it, and I’m usually the one that gets bored/annoyed with these artsy Awards movies.
I will agree that it should’ve been no longer than 90 minutes. The last half hour consists of a lot of scenes of people just walking.
I found the experiment of the movie both an interesting and effective one as a whole, though.
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