Sometimes movies score lower when the audience is dumber than the director

Rating: 8/10 (23 July 2005)

This was an extraordinary film. It is to be judged on its own merits and not compared to the more violent GF I and GF. Is it possible that the viewing audience just didn't get it. Perhaps the dialog was too difficult (I watched it with the subtitles). Perhaps much of it went over the heads of the viewers. After all 51% of the people voted for George Bush in the last election. We certainly don't have any claim to braininess.Maybe people didn't like the aging characteristics of the man who used to hold up banks and play a clean cop against the odds. Maybe people are getting tired of Coppola's daughter. Who knows why the public rates movies as they do. I found the story and script to be exceptional, the acting was excellent and the photograpahy was first rate. The editors did an excellent job and the movie was very well directed. What more are people looking for? Singing in the Rain?