Post #358417 by spy-tiki on Thu, Jan 31, 2008 5:56 PM

Well, this thing just pissed me off. Maybe I'm shallow, but I was rooting for the Brolin character. No I know it's REALLY telling the story of the Tommy Lee Jones character and that it's supposed to be brilliant to tell it by means of this supposedly peripheral story, but the peripheral story was compelling, the bad guy was really bad and the close calls were thrilling, etc. That's the story I wanted to see and I wanted a typical protagonist triumphs over antagonist kind of ending with a lot of scares and thrills and so on. Bastards.

And THEN...I saw Eastern Promises. They did the same sort of "Brilliant" story convention here and It pissed me off TOO!. The REAL story is the nurse and the baby, but the Viggo Mortenson character is the interesting one, HIS journey is the interesting one, and the hints that he is some sort of undercover agent is fascinating and THAT"S THE STORY I WANTED TO SEE!!!!! BASTARDS!

Where's a copy of Death Wish when you need it?