It just moved too slow to me, the director concentrated too much on the character progression/motivation and not enough on the progression of the story.
I wonder if this could be an issue of framing as well. Do you think if someone told you that it was a character study instead of an action movie (or however it was introduced to you), that you would've tolerated it better? Or would you not have even bothered with it?
I don't like movies that are so action-packed I feel like I'm going to break my neck trying to follow all the moving pieces. But I don't like the film equivalent of literary fiction, either, where you're so enamored of your style you forget you're supposed to be telling a story :P Can you tell I don't want a lot of movies or loooooong TV series (like Lost)?
As far as triggers, well yeah, rape really gets to me too in books, especially if it's glorified and the heroine falls in love with her rapist. Blah.
I wonder how you'd react to a book like the Nikita Black novel they recently reviewed over there.
Stories about a woman who's life revolves around the fate of a man bother me, just no
AGREED. Nothing bothers me more - it's like, haven't we evolved at all in the last sixty years? Ugh. (And your reaction to The Time-Traveler's Wife pretty much cemented my decision to stay far, far away from it, LOL.)
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I wonder if this could be an issue of framing as well. Do you think if someone told you that it was a character study instead of an action movie (or however it was introduced to you), that you would've tolerated it better? Or would you not have even bothered with it?
I don't like movies that are so action-packed I feel like I'm going to break my neck trying to follow all the moving pieces. But I don't like the film equivalent of literary fiction, either, where you're so enamored of your style you forget you're supposed to be telling a story :P Can you tell I don't want a lot of movies or loooooong TV series (like Lost)?
As far as triggers, well yeah, rape really gets to me too in books, especially if it's glorified and the heroine falls in love with her rapist. Blah.
I wonder how you'd react to a book like the Nikita Black novel they recently reviewed over there.
Stories about a woman who's life revolves around the fate of a man bother me, just no
AGREED. Nothing bothers me more - it's like, haven't we evolved at all in the last sixty years? Ugh. (And your reaction to The Time-Traveler's Wife pretty much cemented my decision to stay far, far away from it, LOL.)