be trapped in a pile of rubble for the whole movie. i mean, oliver stone nailed the tone i think, and i teared up a few times, but on the whole i was expecting something much different. Perhaps my expectations lost it for me, as expectations often will. or perhaps it was the shitty bootleg i was watching. first it was in german till we switched the audio. then the cameraman in the theatre kept rubbing the mike against his jacket or something. in the dark scenes in the rubble it was too dark, and there was no detail--it added a gritty feel to it, but watching nick cage's eye glints for a whole hour is a bit much. then it switched back into german for another fifteen minutes, no matter which language it was in, and finally it cut out the best part of the movie when the crazy vet finds the cops.
so it could be either expectations or bad bootlegging. i say a little from column a, a little from column b.
but i think that stone made an honorable tribute to such an awful event. i still don't know what to make of the vet...i guess it was stone's little piece of commentary in an otherwise tame movie. well shot, well acted, just maybe not what i was looking for.
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