miker wrote:
"I saw Mystic River. I played the guy's confession twice
about what happened years earlier, and I still couldn't
understand what he was saying. I decided I didn't care. I
didn't like the movie. I haven't read the book. It appeared
to me that it unsuccessfully tried to parallel plot
complexities of the book."
I read the book and I didn't like the movie either. I didn't
buy the characterization -- for instance, Marcia Gay Harden's
shift from backing her husband to selling him out just made
no sense without a whole lot more background -- and I still
can't believe that all of that EMOTING got praised as great
acting (Bill Murray got robbed). I thought it was a classic
example of a film that sacrificed depth of any kind by trying
to retain too much plot.
Mark
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