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I cried like a baby. It's amazing how different we can all be. The color of our skin should never be an issue
I cried like a baby. It's amazing how different we can all be. The color of our skin should never be an issue
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Zero Dark Thirty 8/10 - Great film. Covers the ten years pretty well without dragging on any one part for too long.
Towards the end at the point of the attack I thought back to the book No Easy Day. Bigelow researched the film well because the assault at the end pretty much matched what was in the book even though they were from different sources. The torture scenes that the government is so up in arms about is way overblown. I was expecting them to be pretty gritty but didn't get that feeling at all.
"Senna"
Simply extraordinary. Nearly had me in tears to be honest. I was only 3 years old at the time and I still remember my dad and uncle's faces on that tragic day. Watched it with a friend who knows nothing about Formula 1 and he thought it was brilliant.
10/10
Simply extraordinary. Nearly had me in tears to be honest. I was only 3 years old at the time and I still remember my dad and uncle's faces on that tragic day. Watched it with a friend who knows nothing about Formula 1 and he thought it was brilliant.
10/10
I was not expecting a gangster movie at all but the movie was too on the nose, Pitt's final speech and dialogue actually demonstrated that itself.
I don't think movie had strong enough characters or interactions between them to survive absence of an interesting plot. The whole Gandolfini- Pitt sequences came across as director/writer trying too hard to create engrossing monologues.
Only way I could have seen this movie working as a dark comedy perhaps but it barely had any humour in it.
All in all, at best a 5/10 for me
Silver Linings playbook
7/10
The first three forth's of the movie was very very well done for what it was trying to achieve. I don't think they stuck the landing as well as they should have, definitely went the Hollywood route in the end which is not bad in itself but it seemed an act was missing in between.
Brilliant acting by Cooper, Lawerence who I don't rate as an actress was very good for first hour or so as well but tapered off badly at the end.
Watching Django Unchained, first half an hour in it's entertaining and Christoph Waltz is absolutely brilliant, just like he was in Inglorious Bastards.
Score to come later.
Score to come later.
Hitchcock 8/10
Really enjoyed this. Hopkins and Mirren are fantastic. Loved the fact that Hitchcock was as socially and relations wise inept as he appeared to be. Helen Mirren is at her finest once again playing Helen Mirren, but she does it so well.
Really enjoyed this. Hopkins and Mirren are fantastic. Loved the fact that Hitchcock was as socially and relations wise inept as he appeared to be. Helen Mirren is at her finest once again playing Helen Mirren, but she does it so well.
Zero Dark Thirty - Meh. I can't remember the last time I felt so disconnected with a film. Poor characterisations, the big raid finale was nothing special...a shoddy nothing film really.
In a Year with 13 Moons - I have tried to get into Fassbinder's body of work but have struggled to really enjoy his films, I find most of them to be a bit dated yet containing odd moments of greatness. This was the case yet again with this film.
Agree with all of that crappy. I was very disappointed with Killing Them Softly.
I loved Chopper and I wasn't one of those that thought The Assassination of Jesse James... was boring so I was really looking forward to this. It just didn't really work for me at all. Aside from ramming the political allegory down your throat, I just couldn't give a toss about any of the characters and the Gandolfini/Pitt scenes were painful to watch.
Argo
An enjoyable if completely Hollywoodised dramatisation of true events.
It actually ramped up the tension to such a ludicrous extent by the end that it became a bit silly.
Slightly baffled about all the awards buzz it seems to be getting. It was a competent bit of movie making by Baffleck but nothing outstanding I thought.
Gangster Squad - It's a daft name for a film, but then it's a pretty daft film... but in a rather enjyaoble way. I went into this thinking it was going to be a typical serious Gangster film in January affair (though I'm not sure why I thought that considering it's called Gangster Squad)... but what I got instead was a fun, if absurd, action film. Sean Penn overacts the crap out of Mickey Cohen to entertaining effect, and I'm a fan of Brolin and Gosling, so thought they were both good.
Overall, it's basically the video game that L.A. Noire should have been.
The Escapist - Pretty good prison break drama with Brian Cox, Dominic Cooper and Damien Lewis. It's a good story, it's well acted and well shot... if you like this sort of genre, it's worth a viewing.
Overall, it's basically the video game that L.A. Noire should have been.
The Escapist - Pretty good prison break drama with Brian Cox, Dominic Cooper and Damien Lewis. It's a good story, it's well acted and well shot... if you like this sort of genre, it's worth a viewing.
A truly disgusting film.
Zero Dark Thirty - Meh. I can't remember the last time I felt so disconnected with a film. Poor characterisations, the big raid finale was nothing special...a shoddy nothing film really.
Pretty much exactly my thoughts on it, disconnection is the perfect way to describe it. Can't believe it's generated this much hype.
cool name though.
The Sweeney (1977)
After watching the abomination that was the remake, I watched the original on ITV4.
It was basically just an normal EP padded out to make it last 2 hours, but it was a million times better that the new one. Waterman and Thaw both excellent.
If you have watched the new one, you should watch this one and see how bad the new one is.
6.5/10
After watching the abomination that was the remake, I watched the original on ITV4.
It was basically just an normal EP padded out to make it last 2 hours, but it was a million times better that the new one. Waterman and Thaw both excellent.
If you have watched the new one, you should watch this one and see how bad the new one is.
6.5/10
yes very much
Have you ever seen The Wild Geese? I reckon you'd enjoy it.
Not for a long time but yes I love it.
The Delta Force is another film I love , might have to get both an watch them again.
Deuce Bigelow should have given up making films after Point Break. You can't top perfection!
feck...I've just downloaded it
Don't listen to him, he's just being a snob!
Inglorious Basterds - First time re-watch since it's release... It's even more brilliant then I orginally remembered. The fact the underwhelmingly average Hurt Locker beat this to best picture is akin to a modern day travesty.
The scene with Fassbender, Kruger and co. in the bar is tremendous.
The scene with Fassbender, Kruger and co. in the bar is tremendous.
Just saw this last night. I thought it was good but not that great.Very slow in the begining but the tension towards the end was good.
Argo - 7.5/10
Yep, I agree with that. I enjoyed it very much when at the pictures, but I wouldn't say it was the best film of 2012 of course. I enjoyed the supporting cast (Arkin, Goodman and Cranston) and thought it did quite well in mixing different genres, but I do agree that some of the critics went a bit over the top with it.
Really liked this, easily one of my favourite Tarantino movies. Better than Pulp Fiction, which is overrated imo. Christophe Waltz and Di Caprio were outstanding.
8/10
Fun fact: After looking at the cast list I noticed that Franco Nero, the guy who played Django in the original film of 1966, played as the bartender in this one.
Argo is really overrated. Watched it yesterday, what a let down. It's a good movie don't get me wrong, but I went in thinking it was something incredible.
Argo is a very watchable film but the jingoism that was on display was almost vomit inducing.
I can understand this, like quite a few films, it will really depend on your expectations. Every time I go to see a film by Ben Affleck, I remember this was the guy that played Daredevil. Therefore, my expectations couldn't be lower.
By the way, have you seen this year's honest movie titles ?
I don't understand the hate Argo is getting on here tbh. Not every film that's about American operations has to be a labelled a jingoistic "America feck Yeah!" movie. Sometimes it's just a good story. It also starts by very deliberately spelling out that the whole situation in Iran was the US's fault to begin with.
It's of course embellished, to amplify the goodies and baddies, because it's a hollywood film, but you seem to be on a crusade to equate it with Sam Bacille.
I didn't think it was award worthy but I didn't think it was nearly as horrible as some of you lot seem to.
No he wasn't. He was the guy that said "I know" to Django at the bar in Candies mansion when Django told him the D was silent.
Shit film buff you are Vato.
He was the Italian Mandingo owner. What which Django being a Spaghetti Western an all.
Though undoubtedly his greatest role was General Esperanza in Die Hard 2.
Though undoubtedly his greatest role was General Esperanza in Die Hard 2.
Did you actually like the whole ending in the theater???? It was such an unbelievable put together schtick that Hollywood would've been proud. Pathetic. What a way to ruin a decent movie until then.
I don't like that bit of the ending no, but I do like the things that surround it (namely, The Jew Hunters demands, which is a great scene...)... so for that reason I can live with it... but yeah, the whole fire/theater schtick was a bit daft.
The only bit I didn't like was Roth as the Bear Jew tbf. I didn't think he had the presence or the voice to play that role.
I've come to conclusion that there are two types of people in the world: one type that loves everything Tarantino does, and another that is confounded by the hype surrounding a man who makes distinctly average, albeit enjoyable, films.
Well, on the other page I did say how shit Kill Bill 2 is... so where does that leave me? I do agree though that there are some people everything he does regardless however, but then there are many people who will remain perfectly balanced in their opinions.
That's the one.
It seemed like a bit of matey casting, when he could've found someone who would've made that role iconic. Or at least as arresting it would've been in the script.