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Re: Can we talk?

>Seven was ridiculous.  The whole thing just came off as staged--I
>meanI could have cared less what
>happened to Paltrow since they spent all of 5 minutes letting the
>audience get to know her.  Head in a box?  Please.

I had one major complaint about Paltrow's character.  Her screen time may
have been brief but it was long enough to establish her character as the
lone ray of sunshine in that dark and terrible world of the film.
Paltrow's character stuck out like a sore thumb and while five miutes
doesn't sound like a lot but it is too much time to spend on a throw away
character.  From the whole tone of the movie I knew she was going to buy it
sooner or later.  I knew she was dead before even seeing the box, and it
was easy to predict that her head was in the box once I saw it.  The box
was too small to contain her entire body so ruling out the use of "La
Machine" it had to contain only a portion of the victim's body.  Now, in
order for Pitt's character to identify the victim on the spot as his wife
it couldn't have been some unidentifiable body part like a heart or a liver
resting on a plate of fava beans, it had to be recognizable.  I saw the
whole head in a box thing coming from a mile away.  That's almost as bad as
someone telling you the ending of the movie before you've seen it except
for the bragging rights for having figured it out.





>>Unless he has had a hair transplant, Kevin Spacey (undoubtedly America's
      finest living actor) has little hair - much like Bruce Willis.



Spacey has been fine in every movie I've seen him in since playing the
      heavy in that flick where Gene Wilder plays a deaf man and Richard
      Pryor is a blind man.  He's charasmatic but most of his roles haven't
      allowed him to show much range.  Take L.A. Confidential, how hard is
      it for an actor to walk around with a smug look on his face the whole
      time?  So far I wouldn't put him up there with the likes of Robert
      Duval or even Tom Hanks, at least not yet.  Although I do think it's
      a bit of a slap in the face to mention his name in the same sentence
      as Bruce Willis.