Your point about the relative lack of rapid-fire e...

2007-06-17T07:34:00.000-07:00

Your point about the relative lack of rapid-fire editing was an insightful one, Pacze--I hadn't been cognizant of that aspect of the film's form. I wonder if it's the ultra-commercial corrolary to the same long-take impulse dominating festival/art cinema screens in recent years--a turn away from the stereotypical MTV editing, especially as special effects become not something to only get an effect, but something to savor, to pore over, in long take form ... ?

I completely agree that this seemed more an experi...

2007-06-16T22:00:00.000-07:00

I completely agree that this seemed more an experiment in technique more than a diatribe. Also, the lack of rapid cuts -- in fact, a pronounced effort to sustain long action sequences -- reminded me of two other films: Children of Men (with the amazing "war correspondent"-style sequence at the finale) and the hallway melee in OldBoy. Particularly OldBoy, shot in profile and choreographed more than your average Broadway show, the action sequences seemed to glory in the complexity of the shot rather than in the Ridley Scott artificiality of quick cuts. I was entertained by 300, but I don't think I liked it.

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Your point about the relative lack of rapid-fire e...

I completely agree that this seemed more an experi...