Sunday 18 March 2012

A Few Best Men Review

So i happen across this movie randomly and so i didn't really know what to expect the description give was:
    "A comedy about a groom and his three best men who travel to the Australian outback for a wedding."
Not really a lot to go on so i just started watching... 
Firstly the main character has a really annoying voice and for the part he was playing, The "hero" in love" they could chosen a better actor i feel, he was just to innocently charming whilst all of his friends had major faults, he on the other hand was perfect. So i think someone playing him a bit differently would of helped.
The editing was fine nothing spectacular but it was a comedy so didn't need it and there was only one instance where i saw a really bad cut it was like a Long shot to a Close up but at the same angle so it just looked like a Jump zoom other than that they were all cut at a nice pace and it didnt disturb "The Peace"**.

I thought in place the soundtrack was a bit much but only really near the beginning and the voice audio, was too clean it almost sounded like maybe the main voice audio was a few too many decibels higher than the other diegetic sound in the same way the music was.

The story is not a complicated one,
A boy starts on his journey to wards being a man (he proposes)
Him and his companions start there quest (its in Australia) 
The mischievous companion causes more trouble to there quest making a routine wedding into a shit storm (literally)
very funny id say a lot funnier than hangover 1 or 2 the guys were English so maybe that's why i thought it was funnier.
but yea check it out i give it 7 on enjoyment factor.
I screamed, I laughed, and I cried, oh and i almost puked too.

*** The Peace
the peace is a phrase i had to come up with because I couldn't find a word to describe, the feeling of just being part of the story, like invested in it so much that you understand the characters like you've known them your whole life and when a obstacle arises even if they haven't said a word you know exactly what there feeling. where the music and the story and the editing, the actors leave the screen and are in front of you and all around you. 
so that is the definition of The Peace any thing that disturbs that makes the film worse.
  

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