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by Vampyr5000 » Thu Mar 14, 2024 2:41 am
I've seen both movies roughly the same number of times. LTROI is my favorite movie out of everything I've ever seen. Nothing else even comes close. LMI is still one of my favorites, but I've noticed that the more I watch it, the more criticisms of it I have. Whereas everytime I watch LTROI it's like I'm watching it for the first time again and I always find something new to love, something I didn't notice before.
My criticisms with LMI largely come down to pacing. I feel it lacks the slow, thoughtful pace of the original. Every interaction between Owen and Abbey seems more rushed and less heartfelt than between Oscar and Eli (an exception I'll make here is the exchange they had after Abbey bled..."Would you have died?" ... "I knew you wouldn't let me". That line gives me shivers every time I hear it, it's beautiful and would have been worthy of being in the original). There aren't the peaceful and clean landscape shots that the original had, that gave it such a sense of place and season. I also don't dig the rapidly moving sci-fi style CGI used in Abbey's underpass attack, in comparison to the much more subdued and believable scene in the original. This use of noise and din kind of reoccurs throughout the film I find. It's unlike the original that quietly focuses on the main characters.
Overall I'd sum it down to: too fast a pace and too much noise and distraction. The music was well done though, I'll give it that (but can't hold a candle to the original still).
With all this said, there's still something that keeps me coming back to this one again and again. The sublime story is still there, and though it doesn't shine as brightly in LMI as opposed to LTROI, what does shine through is still magical. It is a unique adaptation of the O.G. film, and it will always remain at least in my top ten movie list.
"Those with no arms around them often nestle into the cold dry embrace of their seperateness" - Richard Gavin