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Thursday, December 4, 2008
Film / Portland Michael Mann's Public Enemies Screened Last Night in Portland. WERE YOU THERE?
Posted by Erik Henriksen on Thu, Dec 4 at 10:24 AM
So last night in Portland, there was a top-secret test screening of Michael Mann's Public Enemies. Mann's latest doesn't come out until July 1, but it sounds like it'll be worth the wait: Set in the '30s, it stars Johnny Depp as bankrobber John Dillinger, Christian Bale as FBI agent Melvin Purvis, and about a billion other fancy-pants stars as other historical figures.
Goddamn I wanted to go to this. No doubt Public Enemies is far from finished, but I'd still walk barefoot over shattered glass to get a peek at whatever Mann's up to with this one. (In this case, "walking barefoot over shattered glass" involved a far less dramatic course of action--i.e., me talking to a nondescript lady who was handing out passes to to the test screening at Lloyd Cinemas on Tuesday night, and me insisting that of course I was not in any way a member of the media, and me thanking her for the passes, and then me getting heartbroken like a 16-year-old girl when I called to RSVP for the screening, only to be told it was already full.)
SO. I wasn't able to get in, but were any of you Blogtown readers able to? I wanna hear what you thought. Not spoilers, necessarily--I recoil from those like a vampire reacts to garlic, hissing and clawing and spitting--but just general impressions. The phrase "non-disclosure agreement" has no meaning here, friends.
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I was lucky enough to go, as I have not been to a screening before and always wanted to go. As for the movie, I knew a little of what it was about after looking it up on IMDB before going, but just knowing Depp and Bale were involved I figured it would be quite good.
Personally, I wouldn't say it was awesome. I think it was a well done movie, but slow and a little weak at times. We saw a working cut, so the lighting wasn't perfect and the sound was so quiet sometimes I couldn't understand the dialogue.
It was hard for me to give my opinion right after the screening, but after a full day, I could say I would recommend it. But I wouldn't recommend it like Dark Knight or the Matrix BITD. It's a good story, and Depp plays Dillinger perfectly, but the plot wasn't as strong as I would have liked.
Cool. Thanks glassjaw!
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