I am a movieaholic. I love them. I could watch movies all day if I didn't have other slightly more important things to do, like provide for my family. Anyway, Joanna and myself rented 'Next' it stars Nicholas Cage, Julianne Moore, and Jessica Biel. The first problem I saw before we even started the movie was that it was only 93 minutes long. Now my opinion is that a good action movie with a decent story line has to be at least 2 hours long. If it is not at least 2 hours long, then there is not enough time to develop plot and things get left out. 'Next' had a great story line, a great plot, great action scenes, but it left out one thing....the ending. Yep, the entire stinkin ending. You don't know if he saves the day. You don't know if he gets the girl. You don't know if he lives or dies. It just ends. Pretty much the movie ended this way:
FBI Agent(Juliane Moore):"So are you ready to save the day"
Hero (Nicholas Cage): Yep. Roll the credits.
I am not kidding. That is really how it ended. They built the whole movie up for the hero to find the bomb and save the day. But do we get to see it...No. It really sucked.
Personally, I believe when movies end this way it because they run out of money. And so what do they do, they rewrite the ending and stop production. It doesn't really matter to them whether the movie makes since they just want to pay thier bills and make a profit. Which they do very easily because shmucks like me get sucked into renting the dang movie.
So hats off to you Revolution Studios you got me.
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2 comments:
yeah, hats off to you, you are the one who provided Nick Cage with his .2435% of DVD rentals in his contract with the studio! Guess he's eatin' out tonight. Loved the blog. BTW- rent Frature not sure if it is two hours long, but can assure you it has an ending (a darn good ending) Love you
Fracture is 113 minutes long which is close enough to have a good plot I'm sure. We haven't rented it yet, but were just talking that we forgot it was out and needed to watch it.
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