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Thursday, November 11, 2010

Sloth: The Town

Last night I saw The Town with Wennie, and it was a fairly well-constructed piece of film! Nevermind being able to watch Ben Affleck for two hours running around the city with a gun...

Starting with a fairly substantial heist right away, Affleck dives into his style of some pretty shaken shots mixed with intense, slow-moving tight shots; it all sort of ebbs and flows like this throughout the film like a visual piece of Beethoven. He's also got the classic elements of a solid action-drama down pat: car chases, guns, explosions, money, women, etc. What he does add to the genre is his ability to really write a solid script with believable dialogue, not to mention offering his audience some great shots of Boston. His characters are realistic, and the acting abilities of the entire cast are pretty outstanding.

For some reason this film seemed to drag on a bit, especially towards the end. Possibly because the action sequences were well done and moved not-too-quickly, making the slow portions of the film seem very slow and the continuations between scenes seem like they took forever. Aside from the slower pace, it's a really great movie!

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