Sunday, April 10, 2011

127 Hours


I have been wanting to see this movie for a while, it had an interesting premise and it starred James Franco. Who could resist? I especially couldn't resist after the praise it got and the nominations at the Academy Awards.

So I finally had some spare time to watch it with my girl. I'll say straight out that I did enjoy it, a lot. But..it still had some problems to me. Well actually only one minor problem. I found the story to progress kind of slowly, I mean I know that the whole movie essentially is him stuck under a rock so not much can go on but hey the movie Buried is sort of the same thing and they kept the pace going high strung throughout. But I guess I can forgive the slow pace as they used their time in other ways. You really feel for the guy as he evaluates what he has on him and how he tries to get out and eventually does. So in that sense you really get the feel that you are him, trying everything in your mind to get out and having to conserve food and water as well.

Like I said, minor problem. But to me what made this movie so great was the cinematography. They did an awesome job with it. From the scenes were he is dreaming up scenarios, to where he is hallucinating things, to how they set up a camera in his camalbak and you could see the water flow, to how they did three panels to show different scenes and dreams at once. This was all great and really gave a scale for the movie and further exemplified what was going through his mind.

Great movie, must see!

4.5 out of 5 

22 comments:

Vague Raconteur said...

Well, you just sold it to me! Watching it asap. Following :)

ExoticBlogger said...

awesome movie, franco was great.

LunaSihne said...

I Thought it was great.
Really good.

KrisuSS said...

I would recommend people also to watch this, it's so good

ds said...

What I have heard is that this is little boring, but now you bring up some other things that could make it worth of seeing. Lets see when I have the time.

Robert said...

Okay this is relevant to my interetss.

DerpFiles said...

Based on a true story. That makes it even more compelling

Mr. Dough said...

I've heard about this story. Interesting review.

GreenCloud said...

Just got the movie. I think I'll see it this week

Jay said...

thanks for the review, i might watch it. :D

mac-and-me said...

Sounds good, i gonna see if it can get a hold on it.

Stare Dad said...

i have it in my pc. well i know what i'm gonna watch when i go to bed :)

Muscovy said...

I intend to watch this very soon.

SirJohnBear said...

I'm not sure I could watch this, especially the part where he cuts off his arm.

pixel said...

would suck to cut your own arm off

Jok3r said...

I didn't like the movie.. I thought it was boring, the only thing that made me watch was the fact that it was based on a real story

Alphabeta said...

Will have to check it as soon as possible.

Moby said...

I absolutely love this movie!

It is by far one of my favorites of all time :) well in the indy catagory.

Keep up the great work and come visit moby! He got some new led lights :)

Trapper said...

Agreed this movie has a reallly good story. I been meaning to check it out but i keep putting it off.

Mike said...

It would absolutely suck if this happened to you.

schultzz said...

saw this move. it was indeed awesome.

Killy said...

i saw it. didnt like it

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