Marc Olsen sat through “Season of the Witch,” here’s an excerpt from his review for the Los Angeles Times…
Ron Perlman and Nicolas Cage star in "Season of the Witch" (Relativity Media)
Directed by the perennially hollow Dominic Sena from a script by Bragi Schut, “Season of the Witch” is all seams. It never balances out its competing desires to be a rollicking medieval adventure, a thoughtful meditation on faith and even a buddy road movie.
What’s most disappointing, though, is how Nicolas Cage seems to be sleepwalking through so much of it. He and Ron Perlman are such odd, idiosyncratic actors that they give any scene of the two of them just talking a freewheeling, offhanded energy, like outtakes from an unseen Hope and Crosby picture. But there are only occasional glimmers of Cage’s singularly eccentric line-readings or moments when he turns conventional reaction shots on their head. Mostly they crop up just enough to serve as a reminder of their absence…
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– Marc Olsen
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I am not sure I would take the word of a reviewer who makes a living writing, yet mistakes SEAMS for SEEMS.
Guest, I think Marc meant exactly what he typed. The film is "all seams" as in you can see all the stitches…
lol
Typos happen. That's why newspapers used to have proofreaders.
What typo? It's not a typo. Read it again, he meant "seams"
Seems would make no sense in this context. There is no typo.
Really, Nicolas Cage's true masterpieces are the zany TV commercials he did in Japan LOL! http://www.japansugoi.com/wordpress/nicholas-cage…
those of you whining about a “typo” need to have your heads examined… griping about supposed errors when if “seems” were to be used, it would be grammatically incorrect… hypocrites.