I've decided that I think Traffic sucked.
why sucked??
I agree, it sucked, but the marketing (through the praise of esteemed critics?) of it was every bit as good as Blair Witch. I did think Benito Del Toro exuded himself pretty well. And the ending, although hokey, was good because 1. It eventually came, and 2. I think if you could look at that whole movie as an overly realistic reality play (in that it was boring, dull, and sometimes reprehensible), but that in the end with all the various power brokers essentially self-consumed and ineffectual, some kids got a ball park--that's as good an expression of hope as any I've seen.
"I did think Benito Del Toro exuded himself pretty well."
I liked him too, I just wish the whole movie had centered around his charactor.
"in the end with all the various power brokers essentially self-consumed and ineffectual, some kids got a ball park--that's as good an expression of hope as any I've seen."
I liked the ball park too.
So much hokeyness(answering Mike here) I found the innocent wife of the drug kingpin
suddenly becoming a ruthless kingpin herself pretty hard to swallow
And Michael Douglass's daughter becoming a down and out
junkie and (gasp)sleeping with a black man.
That's where dope'll getcha.
And Michael Douglas becoming a vigilante, taking the law into his own hands to save her, why didn't he just call the cops?
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- steve 3-01-2001 12:01 am
why sucked??
- Skinny 3-01-2001 2:22 am [add a comment]
I agree, it sucked, but the marketing (through the praise of esteemed critics?) of it was every bit as good as Blair Witch. I did think Benito Del Toro exuded himself pretty well. And the ending, although hokey, was good because 1. It eventually came, and 2. I think if you could look at that whole movie as an overly realistic reality play (in that it was boring, dull, and sometimes reprehensible), but that in the end with all the various power brokers essentially self-consumed and ineffectual, some kids got a ball park--that's as good an expression of hope as any I've seen.
- jimlouis 3-01-2001 2:32 am [add a comment]
"I did think Benito Del Toro exuded himself pretty well."
I liked him too, I just wish the whole movie had centered around his charactor.
"in the end with all the various power brokers essentially self-consumed and ineffectual, some kids got a ball park--that's as good an expression of hope as any I've seen."
I liked the ball park too.
So much hokeyness(answering Mike here) I found the innocent wife of the drug kingpin
suddenly becoming a ruthless kingpin herself pretty hard to swallow
And Michael Douglass's daughter becoming a down and out
junkie and (gasp)sleeping with a black man.
That's where dope'll getcha.
And Michael Douglas becoming a vigilante, taking the law into his own hands to save her, why didn't he just call the cops?
- steve 3-01-2001 8:30 am [add a comment]
and the poison breakfast scene was not real--they(cops) would allways send one of thier own out for breakfast
- Skinny 3-01-2001 3:37 pm [add a comment]
Plus, Soderberg is arty as hell. I find his use of alternating film stocks irritating. Oliver Stone started this trend, and now everyone's doing it. Did anyone else find the use of the piss-yellow, grainy stock for the "Mexico" scenes to be subtly racist/colonial? Imagine if it was inverted--if the Mexico footage was shot clear and bright and then every time he cut to Washington DC you were suddenly in a blurry miasma. (Might be more interesting, actually.) Also, I found it ridiculously coincidental that Catherine Zeta-Jones would call Frankie Flores to do the hit, and even more ridiculous that he would accept the job from her. The last time we saw him he was a broken, weeping wreck. "Another job? Sure, I don't know you, but I'm your man!" Yeah, right. For these and the reasons you guys mentioned (sleeping with a black man? gasp), I hated Traffic. What a phony crock!
- Tom Moody 3-01-2001 8:06 pm [add a comment]
frankie's name was in the painting that czj's husband told her to "look into"...that's how she got hooked up with him.
- linda 3-01-2001 9:34 pm [add a comment]