The films. His performance are always dire. LLV was probably the least bad but he sleepwalked throught that.
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The films. His performance are always dire. LLV was probably the least bad but he sleepwalked throught that.
Haha fair play, no room for ambiguity there! Cheers for the reply.
I used to despise him a lot but Adaptation certainly made me shut up, excellent performance.
Yeah, fair play to cage in Adaptation, he was brilliant there. He's had loads of good performances going as far back as Birdy when he was pretty much still a kid, and I liked him in Wild at Heart as well in two films that hadn't been mentioned. He's worked with some of the best living directors and I would imagine they wanted him in their films, so to say he's cack is pretty harsh. I get the idea the guy is massively talented but has a fecked up private life and seems to be just a step ahead of Charlie Sheen and it's taken a toll on the guy leaving him to appear to be such a joke, especially with his choice of films. I wonder if he's just blown through all his money idiotically and needs to whore himself out so ridiculously. I don't know.
This is great. Would've put it in the 50k but thought it might be appreciated more by the movie buffs...
http://www.cracked.com/blog/5-actors-who-do-exact-same-thing-in-every-movie/
http://www.cracked.com/blog/5-actors-who-do-exact-same-thing-in-every-movie/
The Brad Pitt eating thing is related to an old movie trick.
Homefront
It's a standard Jason Statham film. His fan will love it but his critics wont be turned. Interesting they used James Franco as the bad guy, I thought he was quite good in it as was the little girl (dont know her name), Kate Bosworth, Winona Ryder and Frank Grillo. The Stath was at his fighting best. Decent action thriller and would fit into the late 80's early 90's action film wave 6.5/10
It's a standard Jason Statham film. His fan will love it but his critics wont be turned. Interesting they used James Franco as the bad guy, I thought he was quite good in it as was the little girl (dont know her name), Kate Bosworth, Winona Ryder and Frank Grillo. The Stath was at his fighting best. Decent action thriller and would fit into the late 80's early 90's action film wave 6.5/10
Right, asked on another forum by someone: he saw a film in the 90s that he remembers he enjoyed, but he remember almost nothing about it. He just remembers an end scene, where a hot woman picked up some money in a white church and left in a nice car (he thinks a Ford Mustang but he isn't sure). Does it ring a bell with any of the film nerds here?
Runaway Bride?
Maybe, I'll ask him. Though that seems like a comedy, this is more a crime movie with policemen and shit.
Save you the trouble. Pretty sure they ride away on a horse at the end of that movie.
it's The Rock you numpty, how can you not know that?
To be honest, I thought about it. Tough he gets a microfilm, not money, no? Yeah that's it, with the little "Honey, do you want to know who murdered JFK?" after that. And Nicolas Cage may be superb, he's not a 'hot woman' 
(yet)
What a film though!
(yet)What a film though!
but surely if he can't remember basically the entire film, he's going to get a few things about the end wrong. The wife (hot) was still in white.To be honest, I thought about it. Tough he gets a microfilm, not money, no? Yeah that's it, with the little "Honey, do you want to know who murdered JFK?" after that. And Nicolas Cage may be superb, he's not a 'hot woman'
What a film though!
Yeah I think it may be possible, seems the most reasonable assumption so far. And his girlfriend was pretty good looking iirc.
Have to watch it again, it's been too long. What a film man, what a film!
Have to watch it again, it's been too long. What a film man, what a film!
The Long Day Closes - There was nothing in it I could connect with, so it didn't really work for me, also lacked the mysterious quality of Distant Voices, Still Lives.
It seems like Deep End is always on Film4 late at night, & whenever I tune in it's always when he's lugging around that cardboard cut-out. Weird film, other than the cut-out I remember the paint & random football references. Here my fascinating anecdote ends.
Her - It's weird, funny, oddly compelling and very, very weird... and I really enjoyed every minute. The first portion of the movie does such a good job building the world and the ideas within it, that it manages to get you totally on board with everything that comes after it. Oh, and Phoenix is great - deserved an Oscar nomination for his performance.
Deserved the Oscar for his performance. Scandalous he wasn't nominated.
Phoenix is the best actor on the planet.
Directors back then used colours a lot a more, often to creepy affects, I mean who'd swim in that rundown public bath. One scene that stuck with me was when the girl casually seduced one of the older work women.
Roma - This was like Fellini straight to your veins, in Satyricon there was a fantasy element to go with it but in this it felt like stuff flew over my head from all directions. I might revisit it when I feel more focused.
*cough Cage cough*
Maybe when he pulls off a convincing romantic role.
Erm Bad Lieutenant hello.
All the big Oscar films (Her, Slave, Dallas, Wolf, Hustle) are slightly overrated, far too long, actor indulgence pieces. Gravity & Captain Phillips were better actual films than any of them IMO.
Her doesn't actually end, it just goes a bit wobbly and indy and finishes, when it should've done so at best 20 minutes earlier. For an hour or so it's beautiful though, I agree. The trouser thing is daft too.
I am really intrigued by the Samantha Morton thing though, and what the difference was.
Her doesn't actually end, it just goes a bit wobbly and indy and finishes, when it should've done so at best 20 minutes earlier. For an hour or so it's beautiful though, I agree. The trouser thing is daft too.
I am really intrigued by the Samantha Morton thing though, and what the difference was.
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That was still crazy Cage.
Maybe a remake of Casablanca, starring Cage as Rick, Cate Blanchett as Ilsa, Jean Dujardin as Captain Renault.
Or with Kate Winslet in a Hollywood adaptation of In The Mood for Love.
I can totally see him in classic films like Brief Encounter, Vertigo, Doctor Zhivago and Gone with The Wind.
You're a bloody genius Nilsson. So many brilliant ideas.
I know, right. Hollywood executives would hire me in a sec.
Might have been a more colder end result, with a more detached Brittish voice.
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Bit of bitch slap to have been on set everyday, in a cardboard booth, and then told you're being replaced. I mean getting rid early in production is one thing, doing the whole damn thing and then getting the boot in post? Cooooolld blloooodeed.
Agree with this. Probably a bit too much nuts and bolts action movies for the Oscars but my favourite movies of the year, by a margin.
I'm ok with worthy, indulgent, actory films, but 5 of them, all doing it, and all so obviously vying for awards season was just burnout for me. I genuinely got bored in all of them, bar probably Slave - which is the best - and even then there's a bit in the middle where it drags.
I'm getting pretty sick of the whole mechanism of the Oscars now, and how it shapes the movie market so a slew of these things come out at the same time, right at the very, very end of the season and get called the best films of the year.
I'm getting pretty sick of the whole mechanism of the Oscars now, and how it shapes the movie market so a slew of these things come out at the same time, right at the very, very end of the season and get called the best films of the year.
It Could Happen To You is the film you want to see!
Night Watch
Suprisingly this was quite a decent flick made in Russia. The cinematography is top notch and tries lots of off beat camera angles and lighting tricks. The story is told well, the twist was done quite well also, the graphics are decent and they were very inventive with the way they used sub-titles. Going to watch the sequel soon 7/10
I would go so far as to say that all David O. Russell's latest films have been been made exclusively for the awards season.
Forrest Gump voted greatest Best Film Oscar winner of the last 64 years. Hahahahano.
http://www.avclub.com/article/possibly-confused-readers-name-forrest-gump-best-o-201636
http://www.avclub.com/article/possibly-confused-readers-name-forrest-gump-best-o-201636
If you look at all the films that have won best picture it really is an atrocious bunch, especially since the days of The Godfathers. A poor benchmark of excellence.
Lord of the Rings rounding off the top 5 is even worse.
Man do I ever hate Forrest Gump.
I guess it's unavoidable if it's for people and teens who haven't watched any films, if The Dark Knight had won it probably would have won this as well.
12 Years A Slave
My girlfriend made me watch this last night. It was a solid 6/10 in the first half despite some shocking acting, terrible casting and pretty bad writing - I wasn't bored, which is the most important thing. Second half was all those bad things, plus I was bored, which overall brings it down to about 3/10.
My girlfriend made me watch this last night. It was a solid 6/10 in the first half despite some shocking acting, terrible casting and pretty bad writing - I wasn't bored, which is the most important thing. Second half was all those bad things, plus I was bored, which overall brings it down to about 3/10.