Vantage Point (2008)

[submitted via online discussion with BrownEbert322]

BrownEbert322: btw
BrownEbert322: never see Vantage Point
BrownEbert322: ever
Jon: that bad, huh?
BrownEbert322: they make you live the same incident over
BrownEbert322: again and again
BrownEbert322: from different vantage points
Jon: hahahaa
BrownEbert322: but unlike Rashomon
BrownEbert322: there's nothing to be gleaned
BrownEbert322: from each new view
BrownEbert322: they all fit together
BrownEbert322: nicely
BrownEbert322: snugly
BrownEbert322: annoyingly
Jon: ah it sounds like an exercise in futility
BrownEbert322: and it's just an action movie with 7 scenes
BrownEbert322: that we see 7 times
BrownEbert322: from the views of 7 losers
BrownEbert322: I haven't seen Rashomon
BrownEbert322: but I thought
BrownEbert322: that with each person's "view"
BrownEbert322: the story was told differently
BrownEbert322: so you didn't know what was the truth
BrownEbert322: where reality and fiction merged or separated
Jon: yeah, that's rashomon in a nutshell
BrownEbert322: you've seen it?
Jon: contradictory accounts of the same incident, so no one knows what the truth is
Jon: yeah
BrownEbert322: see, now THAT"s interesting
BrownEbert322: and far more realistic
BrownEbert322: Vantage Point
BrownEbert322: is just "hey what would the movie be if we put the camera Heeeere"
BrownEbert322: "What if we had put it over Thurrrr"
Jon: hahaha
BrownEbert322: "Hey, let's intercut this crap!"
Jon: what an odd idea
BrownEbert322: yeah well the preview is the best part of the movie
BrownEbert322: made it look like it had substance
BrownEbert322: no sir
BrownEbert322: no
BrownEbert322: the end.