Monday, December 22, 2003
Watched Seabiscuit last night. As glad as I am that it's a horsie movie where the horsie doesn't die at the end, and as good as the actors were in their parts, the only thing that really distinguished the movie was the race scenes camera work. And even at that, the writing in the book was more exciting.
Outside Counsel's rule of thumb: the more voice-over narration, the less likely the thing is to come close to being interesting. (Just as Seabiscuit breaks the horse movie paradigm by not dying at the end, so too does Apocalypse Now overcome our voice-over rule. There are always exceptions, which is why there is judicial discretion.)
Outside Counsel's rule of thumb: the more voice-over narration, the less likely the thing is to come close to being interesting. (Just as Seabiscuit breaks the horse movie paradigm by not dying at the end, so too does Apocalypse Now overcome our voice-over rule. There are always exceptions, which is why there is judicial discretion.)
// posted by Bill @ 10:51 AM 
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