Terrible!

Rating: Null/10 (13 August 2011)

I don't understand why people think this movie is so great. It isn't. This has to be one of the SLOWEST movies I've ever watched and I can't understand for the life of me why anyone thinks it's such a classic or why it's considered to be a "perfect" screenplay.
I watched it clear through to the end and just felt empty afterward. I felt like I'd just wasted the last couple hours of my life on it. I hate that feeling. I really resent the movie for making me feel that way.
I hate that film snobs act like if you don't like this movie that there must be something wrong with you. They want to accuse you of having "bad taste" in movies or assume you must be a fan of Michael Bay not to have liked "Chinatown". Well, I'm not a fan of Michael Bay. I don't need gun fights, car chases and explosions every two seconds to be able to enjoy a movie...But I do need a story where I feel like the protagonist accomplished SOMETHING at the end of the movie, even if he himself fails...
Take "Braveheart" for instance, William Wallace dies but his memory lives on through his men...They use his death as inspiration and win their freedom from the English.
You want another example? How about "Rocky"? Sure, technically Rocky loses the match against Apollo, but he wins in the sense that all he hoped to do was to "go the distance". He did that. He lost the match, but he achieved that. Great ending! This was nothing like that. At all. It just sucked. I strongly recommend avoiding this movie...I don't care what the film snobs say. It's got terrible problems with PACING and is much too SLOW. How anyone can enjoy it is beyond me!