Meryl Streep hasn't really been in that many good ones.
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Only The Deer Hunter and Sophie's Choice come to mind - lots of elderly romance stuff last few years
She's a good example of what I was saying. She's been nominated for eighteen Oscars because most years there aren't enough strong, mainstream performances to fill the nominations.
Boogie Nights is a great movie. So is Three Kings.
The Fighter isn't bad and neither is I Heart Huckabees.
That's just off the top of my head. So no .
The Gift - A nice little psychological thriller that is completely ruined by its trailer... impressive stuff all round from Mr. Edgerton.
Jason Bateman should take roles like this more often... he plays an excellent asshole.
I Heart Huckabees was really bad. Mark Wahlberg in an 'existential comedy', just imagine that.
Behave. It's exactly the kind of film/role made for his goofy pea headed jock shtick and I think that's why O Russell continually casts him.
Yeah, I've always considered I Heart Huckabees to be amongst the worst films I've ever paid to see.
I remember feeling sorry for Isabelle Huppert for getting herself mixed up in that mess.
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Creep
Not sure wtf that was. Saw Mark Duplass was in it and being a big fan of The League thought I'd give it a go. Very weird and very average. Overall a bit meh.
Not sure wtf that was. Saw Mark Duplass was in it and being a big fan of The League thought I'd give it a go. Very weird and very average. Overall a bit meh.
Masculin Feminin - Sort of a time capsule, an insufferable one though unfortunately.
Some of you guys are such movie snobs 
Of course Wahlberg has been in some good movies!
Of course Wahlberg has been in some good movies!
Finally got round to watching Frank after seeing it was on Netflix.
Wasn't at all what I expected it to be like and I thought it was a lovely film with a few genuine laugh out loud moments. And a few cringey ones too. "You make music shit".
I've had that final song stuck in my head all morning too.
Wasn't at all what I expected it to be like and I thought it was a lovely film with a few genuine laugh out loud moments. And a few cringey ones too. "You make music shit".
I've had that final song stuck in my head all morning too.
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Yes, yes I am.
Which are your favourite ones?
Some of you guys are such movie snobs
Of course Wahlberg has been in some good movies!
True...like...The Happening. That tree coversation was defintely worthy of an Oscar.
Three Kings wasn't a good movie? The Fighter also?
I haven't seen them but I don't rate David O Russell much.
Me neither TBH. I think the guy is a prick. Still loved SLP though.
Nice! Bogart is always very watchable, only seen Cagney in White Heat but what a performance.
Unfriended
Watched this with the lowest of expectations but it was surprisingly decent. Explored themes of cyber-bullying and felt like a 'cabin in the woods' type of horror based on social media. The characters were developed well through their actions, clicks, messages as well as conversations. The deaths felt authentic and overall the film gets better as it goes on. Decent way to spend 90 mins 7/10
Watched this with the lowest of expectations but it was surprisingly decent. Explored themes of cyber-bullying and felt like a 'cabin in the woods' type of horror based on social media. The characters were developed well through their actions, clicks, messages as well as conversations. The deaths felt authentic and overall the film gets better as it goes on. Decent way to spend 90 mins 7/10
Disturbia:
I'd seen it a few years back, but it was on tv at the weekend and I still found it surprisingly enjoyable. A couple of cringey scenes, but overall it was pretty good.
I feel like watching Rear Window now!
I'd seen it a few years back, but it was on tv at the weekend and I still found it surprisingly enjoyable. A couple of cringey scenes, but overall it was pretty good.
I feel like watching Rear Window now!
Trainwreck - Slightly disappointed in this. I was expecting the great, unapologetic, ribald feminist romcom takedown of our time, but that possibility vanished in a puff of trope the second Judd Apatow's name flashed up on screen. I don't dislike Apatow, but for all his rep as the godfather of irreverent gross out comedy, he's actually one of the squarest, most conservative comedy filmmakers out there. He's Richard Curtis for fat stoners. He's not subversive. He thinks everyone needs to settle down and have kids, even if they don't seem to be a particularly good match. Just settle down, alright? You won't be happy or worthwhile until you do. Just look at my family. No genuinely, look at them, they're probably in this film, and I'm going to use them to drum home the point about settling down and having a family whilst portraying my wife as a nagging harpy bitch and myself as the charming Paul Rudd, but also dick jokes so hahahahaha, you won't notice I'm actually telling you to get your life together you worthless shit and be more like me!
Ahem...
It is, admittedly, hard to make a romantic comedy without any genuine romantic element at all, but I feel Trainwreck should've at least been the film to give it a shot. It's at it's best skewering the kind of movies that see Seth Rogan or Adam Sandler mend their erant lives by hooking up with gorgeous, fantasy woman, but it ends up wilfully submitting, gagged and bound, to the same formula. For a film championed as a strike for feminism, it's not nearly feminist enough. If only every fun loving woman could meet a sweet, rich, altruistic doctor she has nothing in common with, there'd be less sadness in the world... Or something. It's also about an hour too long, as per most Apatow. I know Schumer wrote it, but it feels suspiciously like he stamped his own Apatosaurus template over the top of her gags.
Schumer's good, and Hader is decent in a blank role, but LeBron James isn't nearly good enough to carry off his running gag role. Though oddly John Cina is pretty great in his much smaller one. 6.5/7
Ahem...
It is, admittedly, hard to make a romantic comedy without any genuine romantic element at all, but I feel Trainwreck should've at least been the film to give it a shot. It's at it's best skewering the kind of movies that see Seth Rogan or Adam Sandler mend their erant lives by hooking up with gorgeous, fantasy woman, but it ends up wilfully submitting, gagged and bound, to the same formula. For a film championed as a strike for feminism, it's not nearly feminist enough. If only every fun loving woman could meet a sweet, rich, altruistic doctor she has nothing in common with, there'd be less sadness in the world... Or something. It's also about an hour too long, as per most Apatow. I know Schumer wrote it, but it feels suspiciously like he stamped his own Apatosaurus template over the top of her gags.
Schumer's good, and Hader is decent in a blank role, but LeBron James isn't nearly good enough to carry off his running gag role. Though oddly John Cina is pretty great in his much smaller one. 6.5/7
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I watched Nightcrawler a few weeks ago and it was a very good film. Jake Gyllenhaal was excellent and it was perhaps my favourite performance from him so far. 8/10
The Judge
Watched this on Saturday night starring Robert Downey Junior and Robert Duvall; courtroom drama, no plot twists or anything overly dramatic but all in all a very enjoyable film with some fine acting. 8/10
Watched this on Saturday night starring Robert Downey Junior and Robert Duvall; courtroom drama, no plot twists or anything overly dramatic but all in all a very enjoyable film with some fine acting. 8/10
Nail on head, as far as I'm concerned.
Also, given your propensity to edit your own posts, I'm finding it hard to not point out that you've misspelt 2 heavyweight names of contemporary culture
My editing OCD is strictly reserved for off the cuff rants of fancy...I've re-edited to include one of those, naturally, but feck the spelling.
Don't get me wrong tho, it was very funny in parts, but it didn't make any sense as a story. It also seems weirdly ashamed of it's own ribaldry. Schumer wasn't a party loving sex pot because she wanted to be, but because she was a broken, damaged person who needed a rich doctor to 'fix' her. Also the bit with the sister was weird...
Her social circle was portrayed as stuck up and awful, and Amy was perfectly within her rights to call her out for being a bitch to their dad (Is it that unfathomable to be more excited about a biological grandson than an step-one? And is that worse than wanting your father to die in a shitter, cheaper care home?) but then at the end she's sort of the hero, and Schumer ends up tearfully apologising to her for... I dunno, not being as good or something? The whole last half hour felt like it contradicted everything that went before, as well as everything the film was championed as being revolutionary for portraying.
Same here, watched it just before I went to bed and was planning on only watching 20 mins of it but ended up watching the whole movie. 7/10 for me as well.
Insurgent
It's garbage. Can't wait for the sequel.
It's garbage. Can't wait for the sequel.
Surely it can't be worse then that first one.
Not that Divergent was a particularly good affair at the movies, but it was still much better than this. It's so dull and stupid.
Apparently, there'll be double final movie, like Potter or Hunger Games.
Apparently, there'll be double final movie, like Potter or Hunger Games.
Divergent was a masterpiece in comparison.
I just watched this one and I agree with this.
Yeah, the fact that it tied up with the routine rom-com ending was disappointing, which is really annoying, because I thought it was quite funny. I like Schumer, it just felt like a wasted opportunity in the end.
Watched it with my girlfriend, and the staunch feminist in her was really pissed at the whole guy-saving-the-girl angle... Maybe because I'm basically a sweet, altruistic doctor. Better looking than Hader though, obvs.
The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was having us believe that American Hustle was an Oscar worthy film.
He will do it again next year too with Joy starring, you guessed it, Jennifer Lawrence, Bradley Cooper and Robert De Niro.
American Hustle was better than Silver Linings Playbook and The Fighter and I Heart Huckabees. Russell was a better director when he was a total cockbag.
I liked A Girl Walks Through an Early Jarmusch Flick at Night. It's elegant and fun but tails off later. It unfortunately does do that fecking dumb (and increasingly common) thing of using the malevolent and monstruous other, to dispense social-liberal moral desert (Hello shitty Dexter).
I agree.
Fury -- 6/10.
You cannot be serious? Silver lining was lot better than hustle. Atleast it was funny. American Hustle was so bad with its Shiite Steadicam moves for the entire film. Tbh, Russell has always been a douche bag.