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Monday, January 10, 2011
The Negotiator
Once you get to the picture of Arthur Ashe, stop reading. A fun article that implodes in the end. Everything above it was quite fun, and worth reading.
Reminds me of The Negotiator. Great movie, up until Spacey and Jackson leave the scene. After that, it was ridiculous. It was almost as if they are 100 minutes into the movie, and they built up all this tension, all this dynamic, and someone said “Uh, does this movie have an ending?”. The Firm was a bit like that as well, no? (Both the book and the movie.) Or Internal Affairs (Gere, Garcia). Even The Departed (but I have a personal issue with any movie that resolves itself by killing off almost every major character in the movie). I will still watch The Negotiator when it comes on TV, but I definitely give up on it once Spacey drives away from the scene. (I used to work with a guy who was a cousin of the writer of that movie. He told me that the part about Shane was something that the writer and his dad would argue about, and my co-worker got a good laugh seeing it in the movie, because he got the inside joke of it.)
Does the lack of even an acceptable ending make the movie a bad movie? Or, can you just appreciate the movie in terms of clips. As another example, the train station scene in The Untouchables (no dialogue) is one of the best dialogue-free scenes I’ve ever seen. When I think of The Untouchables, I think of scenes, and how great various scenes are and how I love rewatching these scenes, even if the movie, overall, doesn’t hold up quite as well in repeated viewings.
Getting back to the linked article: the group had tons of fun yapping, I was quite content to observe this yapping, and then… they had this need to wrap up the party, to have an ending, to present a winner and a list. It was like The Negotiator.
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