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On Monday, April 30, 2012 5:47:54 PM UTC-4, nick wrote:
> What a bad year Alice Eve is having, trapped in an ATM kiosk and
> terrorized by a psycho in ATM and now the damsel in distress at the
> hands of a Poe influenced "serial killer" in The Raven.  (Did they
> even have "serial killers" back then?  They might have but I bet they
> didn't call them "serial killers".)
> 
> It starts out with some promise.  John Cusack is good as Poe and as
> anachronistic as it might be, it's still pretty funny hearing him
> refer to Longfellow as a "twat".  But the film should be more
> interesting than it is considering the premise and the dialogue floats
> in and out of period credibility.  One complaint on The Raven is that
> both Cusack and Eve struggle with trying not to appear too modern but
> that's the fault of the script, which does a terrible job of
> maintaining era consistency.  It looks like The Raven was meant to be
> a 3D picture with bullets flying at the audience on occasion along
> with other things but it's not in 3D so at times it looks pre-
> converted flat or whatever you'd call it.  On a meta level The Raven
> appears to be blaming Poe for torture porn but it doesn't put much
> effort into pursuing the idea.
> 
> For a Monday afternoon matinee, there were a lot of people in the
> audience, demographically leaning to "chubby goths pushing into early
> middle-age".

Wanted to like this, but didn't really, didn't hate it, but I was looking at my phone for the time a couple times.


You're probably right about the script.

A few problems with the film:

There is one Slave in the film, and he is seen for about 2 seconds, Baltimore was a slave city, I imagine the lack of slaves seen had more to do with the film being shot in Serbia and Hungery.

None of the characters have baltimore accents.