I saw Francis Ford Coppola's 'Twixt'. I downloaded it along with Beyond the Black Rainbow, which I already bitched about.
This movie was at least watchable compared to Black Rainbow, but it was still pretty awful. Was the Godfather series F.F.C.'s only directorial success? Because he's been hailed as this great director, but I've never seen anything of his outside of Godfather that wasn't just mediocre.
Twixt felt like a made-for-TV Nickelodeon Halloween special. It was poorly edited, the characters had no clear motives, and the color grading looked like it was done by a freshman film student who just learned how to use Adobe After FX. I have no idea what the tone of the movie was either. It had moments of goober comedy, moments of horror, moments of cliched mystery. The best part of the entire movie was the first two minutes where there's some narration by Tom Waits. Everything is downhill from there.
Maybe Coppola's some kind of genius with subtext and this one just flew right over my head. Either way, the movie just felt like a total mess. It's only an hour and a half, but it felt like three hours, and I can't come up with a single reason to recommend it to anyone.
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