I so wanted this film to be an improvment on others, but . . . When you shovel out 8 dollars, you deserve a plot and a story. Loved the actresses, and the scenery and it was a wonderful seminary film, but IT HAD NO STORY, other than the exact same story of 50,000 missionaries a year (change locales, change faces and there is NOTHING CREATIVE about the story). Every mission has awkward adjustments, language misunderstandings, difficult companions, strange, loving and unreachable investigators. A story (screenwriting 101) needs to build to a climax, with subplots and various structural elements. The climax of this film was to look at old pictures of various investigators and companions. Very amateurish from a structural screenwriting point of view.
Again, I hate to say this because, production wise, it was so well done. Love the acting! At least Dutcher, whatever you want to say about him, had unique (some would say unbelievable) stories to tell with actual plots. This film could have just as well been a documentary. A moving one, to be sure, but I felt very cheated by the end, and kept asking my wife, "this exposition is really long, I wonder when the story is going to begin?" It never did. (I know, I missed it, it's her personal growth, adjustments and awareness as a missionary). Sorry, that doesn't cut it. I felt abused and robbed. --cc ximmer8@...
I so wanted this film to be an improvment on others, but . . . When you shovel out 8 dollars, you deserve a plot and a story. Loved the actresses, and the...
Chris
ximmer8@...
Aug 25, 2008 8:23 am
Chris ~ While I can appreciate what you are saying, sometimes a story (or movie) is nothing more than a "slice of life" and that's ok with me if I'm enjoying...
I saw the movie and I thought it was awesome, the story was compelling the characters were true to life.. yep, it was a movie about missionaries, so it was...
I watched the film with a small group of filmmakers from across the country. None of these filmmakers have LDS backgrounds, so they came in without the...
you miss my point. I CRIED TOO, but then I'm a softy. Good for your non-member friends, and I completely do NOT object to lack of closure in every story...
Chris
ximmer8@...
Aug 26, 2008 6:00 pm
If people refrained from making war films because they have been done before, don't you feel we would have been cheated of some great films? Not all stories...
I just got done teaching a film and culture class at SLCC during the summer, and so I'm a little sensitive to this right now, but I think we have to be careful...
Thomas Baggaley
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Aug 26, 2008 7:47 pm
Beyond the specific case of "The Errands of Angels", and apart from any measurement of value and individual tastes, I'd like to point at an important concept...
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