kajarainbow

"Okay. This movie had a promising start. Some good ideas. The problem is, the movie went overboard with the jump cuts. The plot starts going more and more to disarray. Overacting really cropped up toward the end. Characters suddenly stopped making sense (maybe it was the unannounced leaps of years? years can change a person).

I liked the slow pacing. At first the strangeness was interesting, made the movie more memorable. David Bowie performed surprisingly well as an alien completely out of place. The severe culture shock...

Okay. It started out with the potential to get a decent few stars. A fair few stars. But the incongruousness got worse and worse, and the jump-cuts were putting me into a trance, making me almost something like seasick, giving me something akin to a bad trip. It would flip between two different scenes each few seconds or less.

My sister, then my mom, then I stopped being able to watch at about the same time, at the nonsequitor blank-shooting scene. I literally was dizzy. I literally feel a little traumatized. And I'm the one in the family with the most weird movie tastes.

If the makers'd exercised a little more restraint with some aspects of the movie, worked harder on some things, it could've been truly good. As is, it hurt me."

And I'm not kidding. I was seriously staggering around while making whiny merf-sounds or something, I don't know what it sounded like just that I was making whiny sounds, I think.

As I said to shatterstripes, "Peg, peg. It's not, not a good drug. It's a bad drug. Please don't watch it again. For your own sake."

I think I'll go lie down. Still a little dizzy.