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The spy who came in from the cold (1965) - 8/10
Does not get better than this, adaptation of a John Le Carre Novel. Spy/Espionage thriller at its very best.
Does not get better than this, adaptation of a John Le Carre Novel. Spy/Espionage thriller at its very best.
How does it compare to the recent Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy?
I assume you've watched that one?
I absolutely love Tinker Tailor. Comparatively this film is less confusing in terms of the storyline. I had no complains regarding TTSS but several people found it very confusing in the end. This film is more simpler in its approach due to fewer main characters..but it still makes for a great spy thriller.
Hard to go wrong with Richard Burton involved.
Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014) - 7.5/10
Pretty good. Way better than the last Iron Man and Thor movies (which I admit isn't saying much). Solid 7 with .5 added on for some standout action. Wouldn't be too surprised if a lot of people give it an 8 or above. Missed the end-credits thing though.
Pretty good. Way better than the last Iron Man and Thor movies (which I admit isn't saying much). Solid 7 with .5 added on for some standout action. Wouldn't be too surprised if a lot of people give it an 8 or above. Missed the end-credits thing though.
Don't know if any of you had heard like about six months ago that there was a shooting in Brooklyn where some geezer from some Williamsburg indie band had gone on a shooting spree and killed a couple of other ex bandmates from well known bands in the indie alternative music scene. A very shocking incident. All the protagonists in this tragedy were Iranians and two of the guys murdered were featured in the aforementioned movie I reviewed, No One Knows About Persian Cats. These guys had eventually been able to immigrate to the US and were doing quite well in the thriving Brooklyn indie scene. Here's the story of this unthinkable tragedy from a Vanity Fair article:
http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2014/04/yellow-dogs-iranian-music-scene-brooklyn-murder
To Live and Die in America
For the kids in Tehran’s underground rock scene, the dream was simple: party, make music, and escape to New York, where the life they wanted was legal. By 2011 three bands—the Yellow Dogs, Hypernova, and the Free Keys—had found their way to Brooklyn. But as their indie community thrived, one of the band members was sinking fast. Nancy Jo Sales discovers how, on November 11, four young Iranian musicians ended up dead . . .
I remember reading about that, one of them had a Swedish girlfriend or something.
Mademoiselle(1966) - 7/10
Anyone seen this? Directed by Tony Richardson. I suggest this to anyone who is into the sexual thrillers genre.
Anyone seen this? Directed by Tony Richardson. I suggest this to anyone who is into the sexual thrillers genre.
Snowpiercer. I really enjoyed it, the movie felt fresh, Tilda Swinton is always good to watch and it kept me intrigued to find out what's ahead. I wasn't quite happy with the ending, but that was the only downside in a very pleasant ride. 8/10
Captain America: The Winter Soldier - I arrived at this one with quite big expectations. I though the original Captain America was good but nothing more and also liked the man out of time role they gave him in Avengers Assemble and wanted to see what more they could do with that. I also heard from a source I can't remember that this might be as good as Avengers (a film I rate very highly), and to be fair it starts out very well with its political thriller-esque plot. Unfortunately it doesn't quite live up to that initial promise and the moment where it begins to go wrong is round about when they have a conversation with a computer(can't say any more than that). They seem to be trying to shoehorn links to the original movie into this one and all of them have been handled in a very clumsy fashion. There is still enough action there to keep things reasonably interesting but there are some serious missteps in the plot that stop it being as interesting a movie as it could and should have been. Can't really fault any of the actors as they all do a solid job but the script needed to be a lot sharper than this and needed to capitalize on the initially good setup. A decent movie and worth seeing for the action but a missed opportunity for me.
6.5/10
6.5/10
Toxin
This is just dreadful, I only watched this because of this, Millions infected, countless dead, and the lucky few survivors struggling to find the last safe corner for humanity.
I assumed wrongly it was a Contagion like film, how wrong I was, it turned out to be some shit revenge film that has a some Zombie things running round a remote island, there was so many plot holes I could write masses but I wont.
There is one that really got me, the world has millions dead and a few survivors struggle to escape, but this group of people go on an adventure hoilday!!!
The story is horrible the acting is worse.
Why are films like this even made, I like crappy disaster film, but even I hated this.
I cant even give it a rating it was that bad.
This is just dreadful, I only watched this because of this, Millions infected, countless dead, and the lucky few survivors struggling to find the last safe corner for humanity.
I assumed wrongly it was a Contagion like film, how wrong I was, it turned out to be some shit revenge film that has a some Zombie things running round a remote island, there was so many plot holes I could write masses but I wont.
There is one that really got me, the world has millions dead and a few survivors struggle to escape, but this group of people go on an adventure hoilday!!!
The story is horrible the acting is worse.
Why are films like this even made, I like crappy disaster film, but even I hated this.
I cant even give it a rating it was that bad.
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What rating can you give it, Paul?
I was hoping that nobody spotted the mistake
Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones
Yet another in the Paranornal series, Jesse begins experiencing a number of disturbing and unexplainable things after the death of his neighbor. As he investigates, it isn't long before Jessie finds he's been marked for possession by a malevolent demonic entity, and it's only a matter of time before he is completely under its control.
This nearly got turned off, it is a handheld camera film and the first hour is a group of teenagers doing what the do, pretty boring stuff, the last 20-30 mins is where all the action is but to be honest there is not much what there was was not scary.
If you like the other Paranormal films, then you will like this, I thouoght they were average at best and this is no better.
4/10
Yet another in the Paranornal series, Jesse begins experiencing a number of disturbing and unexplainable things after the death of his neighbor. As he investigates, it isn't long before Jessie finds he's been marked for possession by a malevolent demonic entity, and it's only a matter of time before he is completely under its control.
This nearly got turned off, it is a handheld camera film and the first hour is a group of teenagers doing what the do, pretty boring stuff, the last 20-30 mins is where all the action is but to be honest there is not much what there was was not scary.
If you like the other Paranormal films, then you will like this, I thouoght they were average at best and this is no better.
4/10
This part really is quite jarring for adults. When it happens you can feel the whole movie drop two or three full points. Like they needed to kick you in the nuts with a reminder that you're watching a kid's movie.
I saw Snowpiercer, a sprawling runaway engine of a film. It reminds me a lot of Terry Gilliam's Brazil and not just because the evil studio bosses want to cut it up. As with Brazil it's smart, absurd and I can see exactly why it would make the money men nervous. Like other Bong Joon-ho films the structure is unruly and the tonal shifts are sharp. It's a long film and not all of it is good, but some of it is really good. I particularly like the scene in which Tilda Swinton - channeling Pauline from the Royston Vasey job centre - puts a boot on a mans head, in order to quell the enshoeing "size 10 chaos".
Also watched Frozen which was a lot of fun.
Also watched Frozen which was a lot of fun.
The Purge - 3/10
An interesting premise. Once a year, in the not-too-distant future, the US government allow for one day of crime, rape and murder, with no emergency services at work. The aim is to cleanse the country of all its hatred for one another in one day of, basically, "just get it over with." Somehow, they make an embarrassingly daft never-seen-before home invasion thriller out of that.
A steaming pile of shite.
An interesting premise. Once a year, in the not-too-distant future, the US government allow for one day of crime, rape and murder, with no emergency services at work. The aim is to cleanse the country of all its hatred for one another in one day of, basically, "just get it over with." Somehow, they make an embarrassingly daft never-seen-before home invasion thriller out of that.
A steaming pile of shite.
The Towering Inferno - Reasonably entertaining rigid disaster film. A lot of dated elements, a lot of stupidity. Blue-eyed heroes, stars serving just as props, terrible tuxedos (though William Holden looked quite dappy).
Watched Snowpiercer last night and found it immensely entertaining as movies should be. The Orwellian undertone and strong suggestion of how we are controlled by the wheels of the capitalist machine worked excellently in tandem with the superb action and tension and wonderful acting. Very absorbing and gripping film. 8.5/10
Noah
Got off to a promising start, more fantasy than religion with some nice stylistic touches from Aronofsky, but descended into hokey melodrama in the second half and a good chunk of the cast were woeful. Emma Watson wasn't up to it and Douglas Booth is useless. Ray Winstone looked like a fat Mickey Rourke. Disappointing. And stupid.
Got off to a promising start, more fantasy than religion with some nice stylistic touches from Aronofsky, but descended into hokey melodrama in the second half and a good chunk of the cast were woeful. Emma Watson wasn't up to it and Douglas Booth is useless. Ray Winstone looked like a fat Mickey Rourke. Disappointing. And stupid.
Emma Watson isn't a good actress. Neither is Daniel Radcliffe. They're both quite poor to average actors who will continue to make millions upon millions regardless because of a fortunate decision a casting director made 13 years ago. They're stealing a living.
and for some reason she is regarded as one of sexiest women on the planet. Bewildering and hard to swallow.
I think I read some time ago that the studio interfered and forced Aronofsky to edit large chunks of the 2nd half. The film was supposed to release earlier but was pushed back due to this, I think.
I'm going to hazard a guess and say you don't know the background history of said computer / character? If you don't, I can fully understand why you felt that way about the scene - it would come across pretty damn ridiculous to myself if I didn't know.
Couldn't agree with you more. Radcliffe is the one that baffles me the most. He's so... wooden. Never enjoyed the HP films, mostly down to them (also cos of the general shiteness, but mainly them).
At least the ginger one (not you Big Red) seems he knows how to act.
Nope. No idea of any background. Unless you're talking about the link with the first movie.
My problem with it wasn't the thing itself-
-it was the heavy "bwahahahahaha we've been the baddies all along and you never even knew it!" sort of Saturday morning cartoon type vibe it needlessly gave off, which kind of lampooned the SHIELD-has-rotted-on-its-own-and-needs-a-rebirth thing it had going up until then. I thought it was a great angle at first; thought they were going to play it a bit more subtly. So it's just the particular way it was executed.
They had a good, menacing "hang on a minute, isn't SHIELD pretty much HYDRA" storyline built up, informing the Captain character's choices leading clearly towards the dissolution of SHIELD, and they didn't need to resort to OMG SHIELD ACTUALLY IS HYDRA which just turns into a not-quite-satisfying* excuse to go third-act smackdown mode on the now blatantly evil baddies.
*Again, for adults that is.
They had a good, menacing "hang on a minute, isn't SHIELD pretty much HYDRA" storyline built up, informing the Captain character's choices leading clearly towards the dissolution of SHIELD, and they didn't need to resort to OMG SHIELD ACTUALLY IS HYDRA which just turns into a not-quite-satisfying* excuse to go third-act smackdown mode on the now blatantly evil baddies.
*Again, for adults that is.
Yep, completely agree. Its not just the presence of the computer in the first place but then the insistence of that computer in explaining its whole purpose to Capt. America (stalling doesn't quite justify the whole detailed explanation). Up to that point everything else had been handled in a reasonably intelligent way.
Not really, I liked the original and can fully understand the background of said computer but just found that whole scene and the subsequent back references poorly handled. Still it is at heart a kids movie that threatened to be a reasonably grown up thriller in the first half but settles back down to kids level too often for my liking. Decent/good movie but could have been much more.
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She's given some meaty scenes across from Crowe in this and is just so out of her depth. But she still looks like Meryl Streep next to Douglas Booth, who is too ridiculously pretty to be in any film like this. Logan Lerman is the only young one who pulls it off.
Where did you see it? And what was wrong with the ending?
I think I should rather ignore your first question
About the ending:I guess my problem was that I didn't have subtitles so I didn't quite get the short korean monologue towards the end which may or may not have explained it better. I just didn't see the point in blowing up the train and killing everybody on board, there was just no motive to do it. If I were clutching at straws, they may have just wanted to blow open the hatch to get away from the mob, however since going outside meant certain death, that didn't make any sense too.
Pretty standard across the industry though, no?
Stealing a living but I always wonder how hard it must have been for them in those roles as a kid. For that I can accept it more than your standard come out of nowhere shit actor/actress.
The positive side of people like Watson and Radcliffe having great success, is that fame hungry youngsters with even less talent than them spend their lives trying to fruitlessly emulate these stars, vainly believing that they too have that "certain something". So they waste their entire lives. Unhappy. Unfulfilled. And then die. For that, I thank the Emma Watsons and Daniel Radcliffe's of this world and their sheer averageness.
I think I should rather ignore your first question
I guess my problem was that I didn't have subtitles so I didn't quite get the short korean monologue towards the end which may or may not have explained it better. I just didn't see the point in blowing up the train and killing everybody on board, there was just no motive to do it. If I were clutching at straws, they may have just wanted to blow open the hatch to get away from the mob, however since going outside meant certain death, that didn't make any sense too.
It does make sense if you have the subtitles. You should download them and check it out.
You know, it's kinda stale to expect them to feature like heavyweight, they're just weenie kids when they did their first porter, remember what we are as kids? What they deliver "at that age" is remarkable considering they don't have drama / acting lessons and stuff. I don't think they're stealing a living back then, they're still living from their past glory I give you that, but the invisible hands of balance will struck, and they'll be found out sooner / later.
Lindsay Lohan got found out, Maculay Culkin got found out. IMHO Emma Watson got what it takes to make a fine actress (not Helen Mirren / Streep level yet), but she doens't look out of pace in the perks of being a wallflower. Although normally their fame and fortune at such an early age is their own worse enemy at times.
It's easy for us to see what's wrong with Lindsay and her drug abuse and claim "what a waste of talent (and boobs?)" but it really is not easy to have everything on a silver plate since you're 15, I woulnd't know how I'd handle all that... probably ended up like Culkin, booze and chicks myself.
You kind of got mixed up there. Someone like Lindsay Lohan got found out because she's a bit of an arsehole who went off the rails. It wasn't related to her talent.
How did you know I'd read this...
I think if she really sober up and put some nice effort like her boobs depends on it, he can still make a good movie. Whether or not she can be arsed is another thing