well, if you wanted me to categorize, i would have. i simply said 'movies' therefore its all movies.
I really wanted this to be a good movie, but it just wasn't. It was long, boring, and made little sense to me. Not only was it a bigtime bummer, it wasn't even interesting. The movie obviously had a point to make, but it went about it in such an uncompelling fashion that I can only imagine audiences everywhere were busy fashioning nooses to hang themselves.
I don't mind slow-moving films, but this movie practically seemed to be in a vegetative state.
Some statements I heard while staggering out of Syriana included "That was the most boring movie I've ever seen!", "That was terrible!", "Next time I pick the movie!", "Well, that sucked!" and "Aw, man! That wasn't even real!"
I would have stayed longer to listen to more and laugh, but I always buy the Big Corellian sized Diet Coke, so I had to pee like a wild Indian. Regardless of the urinary habits of hyperactive Native Americans (or drunken Irish internet film critics for that matter), the goobers I pooped through Syriana with aren't alone. Stephen Gaghan's Syriana has been hailed and condemned by equally ranked critics. It even made an Entertainment Weekly "Bottom Five" list. Now, judging from some of the tripe Entertain Me Weakly has given good reviews to, this could either mean Syriana is really bad, or this fact might speak well for Gaghan's work!
One of the reasons Syriana doesn't quite work is that its "message" interprets as an "agenda" and is all too plain, as if this were a celluloid soap box for writer/ director Stephen Gaghan, his film manages the odd feat of being both obscure and obvious at the same time, as if it's very clear what he's trying to say, even though he's saying it in a mumbled, stuttering pig-latin. He comes across as a man who just might think he's Jonathan Swift, using nuanced satire to teach the pilgrims the error of their era. However Gagan's approach is cool and moody, but is sledgehammer nonetheless, using the impossibly blatant and overtly amplified to prove his point. I applaud the effort, and generally agree with his view point, but the Ice-T song "Straight up african american" was more subtle than this, kiddies.
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