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Not only is this narrative sometimes pointless but it varies in tone, as if coming from different characters instead of just Cuba Gooding Jr.'s fugitive lawyer.
This film is beyond anything that has been made to date, both in Japan and the U.S. It is not a conventional narrative, yet the narrative clips along like a kayaker on speed.
That's an old John Watson speaking in a narrative voice-over, and moments later at the Brompton School common we're going to see young Watson, played by Alan Cox at 15, meet Sherlock Holmes, played by Nicholas Rowe at 19. Watson has had his trunk delivered and Holmes is scratching away horribly at a violin.
(spoilers ahead) Because Ganja and Hess had shots that are out of focus, male nudity and just about no narrative sense, many are quick to call it a masterpiece.
Writer/director Harry Essex, who also wrote the scripts for the classic 50's fright features "It Came from Outer Space" and "The Creature from the Black Lagoon," pukes forth a 50's style micro-budget clunker that boasts all the necessary bad movie vices to qualify as a real four-star stinker: the flat acting from a lame no-name cast (flash-in-the-pan 70's drive-in flick starlet Maria De Aragon in particular just takes up space as fetching love interest heroine Jeanne), sluggish pacing, ragged editing, rough, grainy cinematography by Robert Caramico, meandering narrative, a roaring, overwrought score by Robert Freeman, several ludicrous touches (the fireball stalks people before it kills them!), and a hackneyed "it ain't over yet!" ending all combine together to create one laughably lousy and leaden lump of a total stiff.
These are just a few of the excellent standouts in the sound ensemble.Secondly, there is the very narrative itself.
His wit still can be seen through the screen of the more strict narrative line seen in this movie but because the characters need to seem reasonably sane, their range is a bit restricted.
Aside from the fact that this documentary displays little technical skill, it also seems to possess no real artistic or narrative INTENT.
What little value the tremulous first-person photography contributes to this lukewarm chiller is far surpassed by its hopeless shallow narrative.
Unfortunately, freshman co-directors & co-writers Michael Bartlett and Kevin Gates clutter up their narrative with too many characters and none make an impression.
There is something both enchanting and disorienting about watching a Christopher Guest film that features conventional camera angles and a narrative structure.
Many a starry-eyed genre "critic" (read : devoted fan boy who would defend Doris to his dying breath) has likened Ms. Wishman to Ed Wood as both were blatantly incompetent movie makers whose sheer ineptitude in terms of both narrative coherence and production values somehow translated into a charm of their own.
Narrative and dialogue are quoted verbatim (and often mumbled or too fast) to accompanying pictures.
But the gentle narrative eschews the obvious cliché, and it's also nice to see a story set in a Scottish housing scheme that isn't just a tale of drugs and A.I.D.S.
Made using the same visual and narrative techniques as the previous films, this one is not so successful in achieving the same quality as other two of them.
The narrative is infantile and not remotely funny, no imagination could possibly enjoy the pure nonsense of the characterization.
The narrative convention of the reporter and protagonist is also absurdly contrived.
The narrative flow of the book and earlier film are replaced by a disjointed mess of unrelated scenes.
Though the script contains some twists, the director handles the narrative structure so clumsily that they come not as surprises but as irritations.
The film has great characters as well as an exciting and often funny narrative.
... but then, what else would you expect from Michael Winner?? You'll usually find that regular use of voice-over as a narrative device is the last refuge of a director incapable of being economical; alien to visual or nuanced storytelling.
Instead of a moving and evolving narrative like we are used to, the film was made with a real-life traveling acting troop.
A story has a beginning, a middle, and an end: This comes from Aristotle, and it splendidly describes a great many stories from the European narrative tradition, but it doesn't describe all stories.
My Brilliant Career is a simple and straightforward narrative skillfully told.
The narrative is so gummy, at first I couldn't figure out if the building was also used as a hotel, or if Leigh's character was planning on living there full-time.
Much of the narrative unfolds without explicit explanation, and often with minimal dialogue.
Clocking in at a sheer 73 minutes, "Montana" doesn't waste its time getting down to basics, but the narrative has its lapses.
The narrative is pushed towards violence for no other purpose except to vividly stage two movie riots.
Dreary sequel, despite resetting the narrative to the tale's original location of New Orleans (with flashbacks to the Candyman's grisly fate).
Recent trends in film narrative have witnessed the proliferation of multiple 'petite' narratives involving a series of inter-related characters who are all inter-connected in some way: pioneered by "Short Cuts" and followed by the likes of "Pulp Fiction", "Happiness", and the more recent "Magnolia".
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