tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6468251.post6633144963273957828..comments2023-10-31T05:43:24.091-05:00Comments on Puddle of Nothing: Bloody in BostonRandyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14225554333698783398noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6468251.post-90930429721047898512007-02-16T11:37:00.000-06:002007-02-16T11:37:00.000-06:00I absolutly loved this movie!I absolutly loved this movie!Heatherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01098207687621438633noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6468251.post-10333794593342353932007-02-16T11:18:00.000-06:002007-02-16T11:18:00.000-06:00I'm with you for the most part about this movie's ...I'm with you for the most part about this movie's strengths. I really enjoyed it. But the last 10 minutes or so I thought really unraveled. It turned into a Hollywood shoot-em-up, and ends up being morally questionable.<BR/><BR/>I remember watching the live-action (i.e., not the cartoon) Walt Disney "Jungle Book" in the early 1990s, and feeling uncomfortable through the whole last 1/2 hour. It took me a couple of days to figure out why: the climax of the movie is a series of bad guys dying horrible deaths, and the theater errupting in the wild cheers of children and their parents. I have a really hard time with a work of art whose aesthetic payoff is to allow the audience the thrill of revenge by proxy.<BR/><BR/>"The Departed", although far more sophisticated and with great acting (except for Nicholson, who basically phones in his performance) and great script, ultimately does nothing more than the typical Disney movie in making the audience happy to revel in revenge.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com