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Message: <blockquote data-quote="barsoomcore" data-source="post: 1546419" data-attributes="member: 812">Well, I rated it a 5. Mrs. Barsoom liked it considerably more than I did (go figure), but we neither of us have any desire to see it again.I agree with those who found it bland. It was indeed, very, very bland. Very bland. Bland-o-rama. Whole lotta bland. Blllaaaaaannnnnndddd.<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />I think the evidence on Orlando Bloom is pretty conclusive -- boy needs to learn how to act. Seriously. He's got that "wrinkly forehead determined stare" thing down -- if he had three or four more expressions he'd have a veritable palette to work with. I like the kid, and I bet he's the sweetest guy in the world, but somebody work with him a little and get him acting, willya?And there were multiple points in this film where I sat back, annoyed at how bland it all was, and said, "Peterson, you're a hack."I love Das Boot as much as the next guy, but that was a LONG time ago. And since then? Enemy Mine, In The Line of Fire, Outbreak, Air Force One, A Perfect Storm, and now this. None of them really awful films, but all of them sort of... bland. Sort of, "Who cares?" Sort of, "Why am I watching this?"The contrast between this film and Return of the King could not be more stark, I think. The inside of Troy looked like a set. The inside of Minas Tirith looked like a place where people had been living for centuries.And we've been seeing big lines of non-existent people run into each other for a while, now. Since The Mummy Returns, at least. I don't know what makes people think that particular shot gets MORE exciting everytime we see it. And for swords-and-sandals cheeseball thrills, give me the Rock anytime.Not a film made by people who seemed to have the slightest passion for the material. It just felt stitched together cynically, without much concern for the details, without any guiding dream or vision behind it.Maybe one more shot of Brad Pitt's torso is what I needed. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />Here comes the summer. Next up is The Day After Tomorrow, I reckon. Nothing like a disaster film to perk me right up.</blockquote>

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