Hey, you're right about the timing/length. I didn't even notice, which is a good thing--I was almost surprised when I walked out of the theater and realized it'd come in under two hours. I was in that wonderful "timeless" state you're in when you're really engaged in a piece of entertainment, so caught up enough in the story as not to to be thinking about the form.
I did notice the lack of female agents, and briefly wondered about that. And then forgot completely. Yeah, it's a pity; since there ended up being no God scene, I would have preferred to have co-ed agents. (Androgenous, sexless agents would also have been cool, in that old angels-have-no-gender vein, but I realize that it's tricky to pull that off when you're using live human actors, so I don't fault them for not trying.)
Get OUT. Emily Blunt wasn't already a dancer? She was so good, I just assumed she already had a background in dance. I know she had a dance double, but I saw enough of definitely-Emily dancing to be hugely impressed with her.
It's probably better that the film stayed politically neutral; it's not a political movie, after all, and there's no reason to think it'd have any interesting or profound political message (I don't mean this as a complaint, but I don't think this is an especially insightful movie--note the lack of depth on the question of free will, the flippant theology); trying to sneak real substance in there probably would have derailed the David-as-a-politician thread.
Oh, side note--I saw this in the middle of a weekday, so the theater was very empty--I think there were about 7 people total--but I was kinda surprised that I was the only person who ever giggled or laughed for the entire movie. There were funny bits! My fellow audience members had no joy.
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Date: 2011-03-09 05:28 pm (UTC)I did notice the lack of female agents, and briefly wondered about that. And then forgot completely. Yeah, it's a pity; since there ended up being no God scene, I would have preferred to have co-ed agents. (Androgenous, sexless agents would also have been cool, in that old angels-have-no-gender vein, but I realize that it's tricky to pull that off when you're using live human actors, so I don't fault them for not trying.)
Get OUT. Emily Blunt wasn't already a dancer? She was so good, I just assumed she already had a background in dance. I know she had a dance double, but I saw enough of definitely-Emily dancing to be hugely impressed with her.
It's probably better that the film stayed politically neutral; it's not a political movie, after all, and there's no reason to think it'd have any interesting or profound political message (I don't mean this as a complaint, but I don't think this is an especially insightful movie--note the lack of depth on the question of free will, the flippant theology); trying to sneak real substance in there probably would have derailed the David-as-a-politician thread.
Oh, side note--I saw this in the middle of a weekday, so the theater was very empty--I think there were about 7 people total--but I was kinda surprised that I was the only person who ever giggled or laughed for the entire movie. There were funny bits! My fellow audience members had no joy.