A History Of Violence - Movie *possible spoilers*

[Hohlraum]

Went and saw the movie today. People were getting up and leaving if that tells you anything. Basically the movie could have been a whole lot better.

Viggo Mortensen .. great
Maria Bello .. f**cking amazing
Ed Harris .. really good
William Hurt .. meh
Peter MacNeill .. good
Everyone else in the movie .. horrible, horrible, horrible.

The movie is slow. painfully slow. The action/king scenes (all three of them added together) are about 3 minutes of the entire movie. Granted they are the best 3 minutes of the entire film. This guy makes Steven Segal look inefficient. The 2 sex scenes are graphic (well not really, but not the kind of sex scenes you see in most hollywood films) and seem to last longer than the action/killing scenes. With Maria Bello, this doesn't upset me. She's an amazing actress and has an insane MILF quality about her :) (I don't know if she's a mom or not hehe). So here's the movie in a nut shell.

slow .. action/killing .. slow .. sex scene (not something you see in most movies) .. slow .. action/killing .. slow .. slow .. slow .. action/fight .. slow .. slow .. action/killing .. slow .. rabid sex scene (Attention women: Pretty clear shot of Viggo's muscula ass for a few frames) .. slow .. slow .. slow .. action/killing/jesus christ this guy is brutal .. slow .. slow .. awkward ending.

Is it worth seeing? If you are a fan of Viggo like me and want to support his career and movies then you should go see it in the theater. Otherwise, its a renter.

so lets give it a 4 out of 10 stars.

[Sean Whitmore]

So, there you have it. Basically another graphic novel kinda f**ked up by another big name director who should have STUCK TO THE F**CKING STORY.


I've never read the graphic novel, but I heard the third act was changed a lot (or outright abandoned?) for the movie. Would you mind inviso-texting some of the big changes?


SEAN

[Donald M.]

I've never read the graphic novel, but I heard the third act was changed a lot (or outright abandoned?) for the movie. Would you mind inviso-texting some of the big changes?


SEAN

I'm betting they cut out the whole part with Tom/Joey's former partner in crime having been tortured for 20 years by the scary gangster guy, leaving him a flayed and limbless mess dangling from a harness in the back room of a warehouse. If so I'm not sad as it was a story point that didn't much work for me in the book.

[GeorgeG]

I never read the graphic novel. It was a decent enough movie. I just didn't like the son in the movie. His mannerisms throughout the movie threw you off. It should've had more backstory IMO, flashback scenes, whatever. Actually show the guy's past history in graphic detail. I had a "is that it" kind of reaction to the movie. My friend enjoyed it more than me (he's not into comics.graphic novels), so I guess that's good.

[FunkyGreenJerusalem]

Went and saw the movie today. People were getting up and leaving if that tells you anything. Basically the movie could have been a whole lot better.

Viggo Mortensen .. great
Maria Bello .. f**cking amazing
Ed Harris .. really good
William Hurt .. meh
Peter MacNeill .. good
Everyone else in the movie .. horrible, horrible, horrible.

The movie is slow. painfully slow. The action/king scenes (all three of them added together) are about 3 minutes of the entire movie. Granted they are the best 3 minutes of the entire film. This guy makes Steven Segal look inefficient. The 2 sex scenes are graphic (well not really, but not the kind of sex scenes you see in most hollywood films) and seem to last longer than the action/killing scenes. With Maria Bello, this doesn't upset me. She's an amazing actress and has an insane MILF quality about her :) (I don't know if she's a mom or not hehe). So here's the movie in a nut shell.

slow .. action/killing .. slow .. sex scene (not something you see in most movies) .. slow .. action/killing .. slow .. slow .. slow .. action/fight .. slow .. slow .. action/killing .. slow .. rabid sex scene (Attention women: Pretty clear shot of Viggo's muscula ass for a few frames) .. slow .. slow .. slow .. action/killing/jesus christ this guy is brutal .. slow .. slow .. awkward ending.

Is it worth seeing? If you are a fan of Viggo like me and want to support his career and movies then you should go see it in the theater. Otherwise, its a renter.

so lets give it a 4 out of 10 stars.

What the heck did you expect from a David Cronenberg film?
A story you could comprehend and a polite shot of the curtain while the couple screws?
Anyone expecting a hollywood film was always going to be put off.

I haven't seen the film, but I bet the sex scenes aren't as odd as thos from some of his other films - try Naked Lunch for odd - a type writer with both a vagina and penis turning transfroming the more aroused the couple get - or Crash - nothing like sex with a wound to make a film hard to find.

I am intrestresd in seeing HoV but I am curious as to what it was in the GN that attractd Cronenberg.
I thought it was an alright read, but couldn't see what would have attracted him to the project.

[cactusmaac]

He hasn't read the GN I think.

He jumped onboard because he really liked the script.

[Merlin1507]

There was an interview in England and he said he didnt know the screenplay he recieved was from a graphic novel and having read the novel (10/10) it looks like Cronenberg didnt even bother.

The first half of the movie is close to the GN storyline then it takes a radical detour and goes off to who knows where.

The Graphic Novel is graphic and when I saw the film was an 18 here I thought they had left the violence from the novel in.

A dissapointing movie but a bang up Graphic Novel.