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From The Vancouver International Film Festival, We've Got Reviews For BALLAST and THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE WEIRD!

Damn You Michael Bay by MCMLXXVI	Oct 6th, 2008 12:11:35 PM
Damn You Michael Bay
Loved GOOD BAD and WEIRD by the beef	Oct 6th, 2008 12:23:12 PM
but I'm not sure about the comparison of the "Bad" to The Joker. The Bad character, and the Good for that matter, were little more than the stereotypical good and bad. Not quite multi-dimensional, but not quite required of them either to be more than "The man with no name", and his nemesis. The WEIRD character has the meatiest role, and it's played perfectly.
GBW by satlos	Oct 6th, 2008 12:25:12 PM
As good as 'The Good The Bad The Weird' was, what the reviews on Aintitcool have failed to mention is that it is a very unpolished feature. I'm not sure if that's the whole point--it is a spaghetti western, after all--but some of the tracking shots in the various desert 'chase' sequences were almost amateurish in their realization. The camera often missed the proper focus, and/or tracked strangely... Though I enjoyed the film, it is by no means deserving of the masterpiece status Mori seems to be giving it... It was almost too 'kinetic' at times... Both my girlfriend and my mates' girl where nodding off at points, saying that the hand-held work was too crazy too much of the time. Don't get me wrong: it was a riot... But I'm thinking TGTBTW will quickly be forgotten.
I don't think TGTBTW is a masterpiece by chaplinatemyshoe	Oct 6th, 2008 01:44:07 PM
but I think it's more successful than something like Once Upon a Time in Mexico. I don't think it was amateurish, just a different way of seeing the Western, and I sort of appreciated that. Some of the problems I had with the movie had more to do with the definite choice of extended action sequences over character development and backstory. They probably could have trimmed any number of the action set pieces and enhanced any one of the characters just a little more.
chaplinatemyshoe by the beef	Oct 6th, 2008 01:57:57 PM
I think they could have just extended the running time and I would have been fine with it. I'd much rather they'd have done that than trim the action sequences.
The Beef by chaplinatemyshoe	Oct 6th, 2008 02:12:31 PM
I could see that argument as well. At 140 minutes, it certainly didn't drag. I could have gone 160 minutes without complaint. It is, after all, a spaghetti western. And even as I say they needed to cut back on action sequences, I feel they probably should have extended the initial fight at the city of thieves...
chaplinatemyshoe by the beef	Oct 6th, 2008 05:08:05 PM
Agreed.

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