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post #1 of 4
10/13/11 at 6:59am
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I saw this and felt it was pretty damn disappointing, but I may be holding it to a somewhat higher bar because of my experience of campaigns. I'm curious to see what others thought.

I felt the movie spiraled into unbelievability fairly quickly, couldn't decide on a thematic or stylistic tone to strike and kept shifting gears, and had a lot of basic flaws like poor cinematography and an overblown, intrusive score. From Good Night and Good Luck I thought that George Clooney was a better director than this.
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post #2 of 4
10/13/11 at 2:16pm
Wow, I thought the complete opposite. Very taught and well told story.

I always think of Clooney's style is to set up a tableau and let you notice things. I thought this accomplished that well. I'm curious about your comment about cinematography as I thought it was quite good, everything was there for a reason. What movies have you loved the cinematography in?
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post #3 of 4
10/17/11 at 5:09am
A bit of the movie was filmed at my church and they were offering an opportunity for our congregants to see the movie early last week at a local theatre. I was disappointed that I didn't have time to make it on the days that they had set up for us. The story looks good and I like a lot of the cast but I was really interested to see how much of our church and its architecture made it into the movie and how much wound up on the cutting room floor. lol
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post #4 of 4
10/17/11 at 8:28am
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Originally Posted by Michigan Planner View Post

A bit of the movie was filmed at my church and they were offering an opportunity for our congregants to see the movie early last week at a local theatre. I was disappointed that I didn't have time to make it on the days that they had set up for us. The story looks good and I like a lot of the cast but I was really interested to see how much of our church and its architecture made it into the movie and how much wound up on the cutting room floor. lol

There's a pretty big scene in a church. Not sure if it's yours or not.
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