Sleepy Hollow: A non-review
Mar. 10th, 2008 11:49 amOkay, so Sleepy Hollow was on TV here in Japan recently. And given that Johnny Depp was in it, I watched. Kind of interesting, but IMHO a flawed tale. Couple of things irked me.
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Nice atmospherics, special effects, and such, but I wish people would pay as much attention to the story as the film settings? If you start off with one question for the audience, answer it! And don't forget, if you have your main character play with a gun in the beginning, by the end of the story, he really needs to drop it on his foot - or do something else useful with it.
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Nice atmospherics, special effects, and such, but I wish people would pay as much attention to the story as the film settings? If you start off with one question for the audience, answer it! And don't forget, if you have your main character play with a gun in the beginning, by the end of the story, he really needs to drop it on his foot - or do something else useful with it.