Comments on: Match Point

By: Andy

Andy — Sun, 07 May 2006 17:34:06 +0000

I was in the cinema long enough to watch March of the Penguins. If Woody Allen can’t get his message across in the time it takes penguins to be born, swim, catch fish, grow up, fall in love, have babies and complete the circle of life then someone should tell him to hurry the bloody hell up.

By: Jack

Jack — Sun, 07 May 2006 17:11:20 +0000

Very insightful post on the film Andy. I wasn’t under the impression you’d seen it.

By: Andy

Andy — Sun, 07 May 2006 16:14:42 +0000

I shouldn’t call Lost in Translation plain. I meant slower paced. I was prepared for a slow film in LiT and enjoyed it. I liked watching Bill Murray hang out in Japan for 102 minutes, but then I liked his character. I was curious what would happen in Match Point but the movie was too dreary to watch.

Jonathan Rhys-Meyers didn’t act very go-gettery. He lost interest in competitive tennis, hung out at the country club until someone asked him to the opera, Emily Mortimer got him a high paying job and eventually solved his problem mostly through luck.

The random friend telling Johnathan that he saw him on the other side of town to where he should have been made me really dislike the film. I was surprised that Woody Allen would include such a clunky plot device. It turned out that it was not the start of the unravelling of the adulterer, but I didn’t have that much faith in Woody.

By: Tom

Tom — Fri, 05 May 2006 05:35:59 +0000

Ah, the complex allure of virtual fruit-picking.

I don’t think it’s fair to Lost in Translation to call it straight-forward and plain. That film certainly had a slow pace to it but the visuals were fascinating, a lot more intriguing than the opening to this film.

It might have been a bit on-the-nose if we’d started off with a strong romantic-comedy feel and followed up with, well, with what happened next.

By: Andy

Andy — Thu, 04 May 2006 13:50:52 +0000

Not everyone is up to the challenge of a boring movie. Why sit through something like match point when you could be fishing and picking fruit, virtually.

The only problem I had with the film was the lack of action. I haven’t seen any other Woody Allen films so I wasn’t prepared for the dullness. I thought it might be more romantic comedy interesting than the straight-forward plainness of Lost in Translation.