Van Gaal, IMO.
While you have mentioned him, has anyone noticed that he is twin brother to Soldado?
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Van Gaal, IMO.
While you have mentioned him, has anyone noticed that he is twin brother to Soldado?
Nah, Jake Johnson is Soldado's twin.
Yeah not a huge fan of Bradley Cooper myself. He seems a nice guy but don't rate him too highly as an actor.
What has Bradley Cooper ever done to anyone apart from be charming and good looking? 
What has Bradley Cooper ever done to anyone apart from be charming and good looking?
Jealous people. Also I don't think American Sniper went down well with some.
Doesn't deserve all the acclaim he gets and phones in most performances with the same character. Its boring.What has Bradley Cooper ever done to anyone apart from be charming and good looking?
Mission Impossible Rouge Nation
I've seen three mission impossible films:
Mission: Impossible - 7/10
Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol - 8/10
Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation - 9/10
As you see from the ratings I think they keep getting better and better. Loved this film. Thought the set pieces were great. Lots brilliant performances (Cruise, Ferguson, Renner, Pegg, Baldwin e.t.c.) as well and doesn't take itself too seriously whilst also managing to be very entertaining, funny and engaging.
9/10
EDIT: Much much much better than Spectre.
I've seen three mission impossible films:
Mission: Impossible - 7/10
Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol - 8/10
Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation - 9/10
As you see from the ratings I think they keep getting better and better. Loved this film. Thought the set pieces were great. Lots brilliant performances (Cruise, Ferguson, Renner, Pegg, Baldwin e.t.c.) as well and doesn't take itself too seriously whilst also managing to be very entertaining, funny and engaging.
9/10
EDIT: Much much much better than Spectre.
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Knight of Cups
Malick continues down the same path he began in To The Wonder though it's a marked improvement on that. Really enjoyed parts of it but it was very repetitive and then just ends abruptly. As you'd expect with a Malick film it's a visual stunner but it all feels a bit empty. I just wish he'd create an actual script because his previous stuff was great and you still see glimpses of it.
Malick continues down the same path he began in To The Wonder though it's a marked improvement on that. Really enjoyed parts of it but it was very repetitive and then just ends abruptly. As you'd expect with a Malick film it's a visual stunner but it all feels a bit empty. I just wish he'd create an actual script because his previous stuff was great and you still see glimpses of it.
Loved The Revenant. Don't think I've seen a better performance this year than Di Caprio's.
Rouge nation? Is that the one where the evil baddie plots to take over the world's make-up supplies?
The Hateful Eight - 7/10...ish. Tarantino has now basically come full circle, no longer paying homage to his favourite bits of old films, but rather his favourite bits of his own films. There's a lot of fun stuff in this, but it's basically just a giant parody of Tarantino cliches, ticking off all the expected boxes with dutiful precision until it all feels a bit empty in the end.
Someone should remind him that the "bad motherfecker" standoff at the end of Pulp Fiction was no less tense and exciting because no one got shot at the end of it, and that the splatter core climax that everyone mistakenly believes is required of a Tarantino film, has only actually ever worked in Reservoir Dogs (when we were naive enough to not expect it) and is far more effective in mid-film moments, like the cafe scene in Inglorious Basterds (when we were still naive enough to not expect it) because once we expect it, it becomes little more than fan service self parody, which while admittedly a clear 10/10 on @Wibble's Star Wars rating scale, leaves you pretty numb.
Even the best scene in the film, an hilarious monologue about revenge oral sex, seems less like a part of the film itself, than a sketch he wrote years ago that's been crowbarred in. One of the players in it patently only exists to be on the receiving end of this monologue, which becomes achingly obvious later on when Tarantino has to awkwardly hand wave his reason for being there.
All of these problems could be forgiven however, if the film wasn't inexcusably long. And I'm not talking "could probably lose a line here or there" long, I mean "could easily lose half the lines from every scene, and a good 75% of it's establishing shots" long..There are times when it's almost comically indulgent. Such as a travel montage comprised of a full 6 or 7 different shots of a stagecoach moving from one side of the screen to the other over virtually identical landscapes. Or a scene where a character stares out of the window for a good 30 seconds just so he play an entire verse of an ill fitting White Stripes song for no apparent reason. Or a running gag about a door needing to be nailed shut that plays out fully, in real time, every time. Or an oddly soundtracked scene of two characters erecting tent pegs in the snow to allow them to find their way to the barn, which agonisingly details each and every single peg plant, to crazily tense horror film music, despite the fact that none of the characters ever goes back to the barn again. And that's without even getting to the dialogue excesses, or the bits where people speak in slow motion for no reason.
It's not bad by any stretch. The good is good, and the performances are pretty uniformly excellent, especially by Jackson, Goggins, Roth and Leigh, but it's not really very good either. Unless your idea of a perfect Tarantino film is a hollow parody of a Tarantino film that takes an hour to start, an hour to end, with an hour of decent fun in the middle.
I also saw it in his preferred 70mm Retrovision, which as far as I could tell, made absolutely no difference to anything, apart from the need to film 20 different shots of stagecoaches moving from one side of the screen to the other over virtually identical backgrounds to justify it.
Someone should remind him that the "bad motherfecker" standoff at the end of Pulp Fiction was no less tense and exciting because no one got shot at the end of it, and that the splatter core climax that everyone mistakenly believes is required of a Tarantino film, has only actually ever worked in Reservoir Dogs (when we were naive enough to not expect it) and is far more effective in mid-film moments, like the cafe scene in Inglorious Basterds (when we were still naive enough to not expect it) because once we expect it, it becomes little more than fan service self parody, which while admittedly a clear 10/10 on @Wibble's Star Wars rating scale, leaves you pretty numb.
Even the best scene in the film, an hilarious monologue about revenge oral sex, seems less like a part of the film itself, than a sketch he wrote years ago that's been crowbarred in. One of the players in it patently only exists to be on the receiving end of this monologue, which becomes achingly obvious later on when Tarantino has to awkwardly hand wave his reason for being there.
All of these problems could be forgiven however, if the film wasn't inexcusably long. And I'm not talking "could probably lose a line here or there" long, I mean "could easily lose half the lines from every scene, and a good 75% of it's establishing shots" long..There are times when it's almost comically indulgent. Such as a travel montage comprised of a full 6 or 7 different shots of a stagecoach moving from one side of the screen to the other over virtually identical landscapes. Or a scene where a character stares out of the window for a good 30 seconds just so he play an entire verse of an ill fitting White Stripes song for no apparent reason. Or a running gag about a door needing to be nailed shut that plays out fully, in real time, every time. Or an oddly soundtracked scene of two characters erecting tent pegs in the snow to allow them to find their way to the barn, which agonisingly details each and every single peg plant, to crazily tense horror film music, despite the fact that none of the characters ever goes back to the barn again. And that's without even getting to the dialogue excesses, or the bits where people speak in slow motion for no reason.
It's not bad by any stretch. The good is good, and the performances are pretty uniformly excellent, especially by Jackson, Goggins, Roth and Leigh, but it's not really very good either. Unless your idea of a perfect Tarantino film is a hollow parody of a Tarantino film that takes an hour to start, an hour to end, with an hour of decent fun in the middle.
I also saw it in his preferred 70mm Retrovision, which as far as I could tell, made absolutely no difference to anything, apart from the need to film 20 different shots of stagecoaches moving from one side of the screen to the other over virtually identical backgrounds to justify it.
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The Martian: 8/10
Well I finished it and it was quite fun to watch. Plus I like Matt Damon so bonus point for that.
Well I finished it and it was quite fun to watch. Plus I like Matt Damon so bonus point for that.
Yeah, I thought it was great as well.
It was obviously very predictable but the premise was a lot of fun and done very well. The visuals of Mars were stunning as well, wish i'd seen it on the big screen tbh.
Hateful Eight:
6/10
More of the same from Tarantino, who has become a very conservative director. If you were being generous you could describe this, Django and Inglorious as a trilogy. Or, he's made three versions of the same film. No surprises here.
It would be nice to think he'll remember how to edit and pace his film properly at some point, or at least remember how to write an ending that isn't a cop out bloodbath....
Still, the brilliant bits are brilliant, as always.
6/10
More of the same from Tarantino, who has become a very conservative director. If you were being generous you could describe this, Django and Inglorious as a trilogy. Or, he's made three versions of the same film. No surprises here.
It would be nice to think he'll remember how to edit and pace his film properly at some point, or at least remember how to write an ending that isn't a cop out bloodbath....
Still, the brilliant bits are brilliant, as always.
Vertigo
Kind of unsure of what I feel about it. There's a lot of Hitchcock stuff from Psycho that I really liked...the build up of suspense, the slow reveals etc, but it started off incredibly slowly and parts of it felt...dated. I'm not sure if I was completely convinced by the whole love plot at all other than it's role as being necessary for the plot.
Kind of unsure of what I feel about it. There's a lot of Hitchcock stuff from Psycho that I really liked...the build up of suspense, the slow reveals etc, but it started off incredibly slowly and parts of it felt...dated. I'm not sure if I was completely convinced by the whole love plot at all other than it's role as being necessary for the plot.
I liked where they were going with the ending, and thought it would be a rather fitting, ironic way for the film to finish, but the entry of the nun out of nowhere felt a bit abrupt and absurd.
I'd forgotten about how annoying that was.
I must have missed Hateful 8 episodes IV, V, VI - I though this was a standalone film.
Matt Damon just won best actor in a comedy for The Martian. There are funny moments but it's hardly what you'd call a comedy?
Edit: The film also won "Best comedy".
Edit: The film also won "Best comedy".
The Intern
Robert Deniro is a 70 years old pentioner with nothing to do, hence he starts becoming an intern to a hot Anne Hathaway.
Buddy movie, but light hearted and both the actors gives a stellar enjoyable performance, probably not oscar worthy but a good movie regardless.
PS: The hotel scene is abit uneasy
7/10
Robert Deniro is a 70 years old pentioner with nothing to do, hence he starts becoming an intern to a hot Anne Hathaway.
Buddy movie, but light hearted and both the actors gives a stellar enjoyable performance, probably not oscar worthy but a good movie regardless.
PS: The hotel scene is abit uneasy
7/10
Rogue nation is like Barcelona while spectre is like United's tumescent performance. I don't know which is worse, the torture bond endure or having to watch a season of United under LVG. I'd probably take 5 minutes in that machine rather than watching 38 games of our match.
Oh, and the burj Khalifa scene was ace. I wasn't a faint hearted and nothing gets me exciting these days but that scene is really taking the breath out of me
Rogue Nation was a bit ridiculous. Tom Cruise was invincible.
Just leaving London after seeing this at the Odeon and was gonna write pretty much the same thing.
What's the point of using 70mm if you're gonna spend 80% of the film indoors? (something I suspected might be the case when I heard that's what he was doing).
And you're bang on about the length. He badly needs an editor. The door thing was incredibly tiresome, the first act incredibly slow and the letter thing completely pointless. Sort that shit out ffs.
Also I think the structure was inherently flawed. To do the whole flashback thing 3/4 of the way through was a mistake imo. Far better to have the story linear and generate the tension from knowing what was to come later (trying to stay spoiler free) or do the flashback right before
Jackson gets shot from under the floorboards
So anyway, enjoyed it but ultimately disappointed that he didn't really make use of the format, didn't really deliver on the tension and laughs I expect from a Tarantino movie and like I suspected after reading the script it was something better suited for the stage than the screen.
Also I'm not someone squeamish about the use of the 'N' word. It didn't bother me in Django especially because I felt it was in context with the subject matter but here it really did start to make me cringe at times. Felt like he was doing it just to annoy Spike Lee.
Below his first 3, IB and Django for me.
@the tent pegs too. I actually turned to my mate and rolled my eyes at that point. Seriously?Ooh, one thing I really did like was that little musical motif that sounded like Lalo Schifrin. Need to track that down.
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The score was good, yeah. The great Ennio Morricone did it, after being nagged for years by QT, and it shows.
Which only makes the use of contemporary music in a couple of extremely pointless nothing scenes even more jarringly stupid.
Which only makes the use of contemporary music in a couple of extremely pointless nothing scenes even more jarringly stupid.
Tarentino is quite a self indulgent tosspot though.
Oh yeah don't get me wrong, I think he massively underused Morricone. Just loved that ditty.
I assumed the ditty you were referring was a Morricone-ditty. As far as I know, everything ditty-like is Morricone. What ditty did you mean?
(that's fun to say out loud)
Beautiful to look at though, right? And that soundtrack...
I love Vertigo so much, I reckon you'll enjoy it more on future rewatches. There's so much to invest in and enjoy there.
Definitely. It's lovely visually, and the tension is spot on, which kept me fairly hooked. I expect it's one which will probably be more rewarding on future rewatches. The fact I was watching it on putlocker probably didn't help either.
Definitely. It's lovely visually, and the tension is spot on, which kept me fairly hooked. I expect it's one which will probably be more rewarding on future rewatches. The fact I was watching it on putlocker probably didn't help either.
At least download a DVD rip!
I used to, man, but it's like...effort.
As seriously well made as Vertigo is, it's still just a long voyeuristic advert for San Francisco with a deeply misogynistic story at its heart. He's done more interesting films.
I didn't find it too misogynistic as such, but I did think the love story bordered on unrealistic. I mean, the young, beautiful woman seems to have fallen in love with the much older, clingy guy by the latter stages because the plot kind of demands it...and he seems to just love her because of her looks and nothing else. It never felt completely implausible, and I was kind of surprised that the story headed in the direction of a love story.
Just watched 47 Ronin, was really excited by it before it came out but the hype to see it kind of died away on release in 2013.
3 years on, looking at other reviews its apparently rubbish and a box office bomb, which was a shock to me because i thought it was a fecking good action flick. 8/10 would recommend.
3 years on, looking at other reviews its apparently rubbish and a box office bomb, which was a shock to me because i thought it was a fecking good action flick. 8/10 would recommend.
Man From U.N.C.L.E. - I dont know/10 What I do know is that I actually enjoyed this more than Spectre.
Bridge of Spies - 6/10 Decent film. I never felt any sort of tension and therefore wasn't invested as much as maybe they intended.
Sicario - 8/10 Score may be a bit generous but I enjoyed this film a lot. Well acted and it reminded me of Traffic a bit. I enjoy movies that delve into the the war on drugs. I thought whats her name held her own in that role although the character was a bit annoying at times.
Bridge of Spies - 6/10 Decent film. I never felt any sort of tension and therefore wasn't invested as much as maybe they intended.
Sicario - 8/10 Score may be a bit generous but I enjoyed this film a lot. Well acted and it reminded me of Traffic a bit. I enjoy movies that delve into the the war on drugs. I thought whats her name held her own in that role although the character was a bit annoying at times.
I felt certain characters didn't live up to the marketing.
Emily Blunt.
To be honest, I think there are a lot of movies nowadays being made with the intent to make some quick cash. Sure, money has always been the #1 endgoal but ffs it's like 9 out of 10 movies today coming out are just not worth spending your money on because it's another formulaic flick with forced jokes in it, or some pretentious dragged-out movie with forced sentimental shit in it.
Watching bridge of spies I found it hard to get past their saintly portrayal of how the Americans treat prisoners compared to the Russians.
Yeah nothing to do with them being in a world-renowned franchise and acting in one of the most expected film in decades.