Posted by Darth Dobbin at 208-58-250-123.s377.tnt1.nwhv.ct.dialup.rcn.com on July 21, 2000 at 08:21:17:
In Reply to: "The Ninth Gate" posted by Torgo on July 21, 2000 at 05:43:22:
For reasons too numerous, voluminous, and other adjectives that end in "oom-i-nus", I will concur that NINTH GATE sits at the Right Hand of the Platonic Ideal form of Suckiness..(And at the sinister position sits EYE OF THE BEHOLDER).
Here's just ONE of the reasons why it will be played on a loop in Purgatory:
Watching NINTH GATE was like being forced to watch someone play a very badly written and poorly executed computer horror-adventure game, and suffer through their every misstep. (Oh, I fogot the item in Cairo; now I have to go back through the clodgy interface and..)
Beyond that, it seemed that Roman P. must have fallen asleep at the editing table-there were so many long and pointless lingering camera shots...; if the Depp character arrived some place in a car, we seemed to see his entire road trip (wordless, of course) and were given the visual treat of seeing him unbuckle his seat, unlock his door, exit the car, and walk to his destination...Heaven forbid a movie might let us "fill in those blanks" with artful editing..There's one scene where he is hitchhiking, and we see a logging truck pull up and stop. Okay, you'd think the scene would then cut, right? WRONG. We see him enter the truck. The camera remains fixed. We wait. A few seconds pass. The truck pulls away. Camera remains. The truck is going down the road. And going and going. It is off at the vanishing point of the perspective. Camera remains? Has the editor *died* at the table?
DOGMA was a fun, peppy movie that MOVED.. If I have a complaint at all with it it was that there was so much crammed so tightly that it was a lot to digest.. NINTH GATE was a travesty crawled along at a retarded snails pace.
What do you expect from an exiled baby raper though?