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Some good performances, but other then that it just didn't click with me. This is also one of the longest film noirs ever i believe, at a not so whopping 2h 25m. I rather like my noirs sweet and short at around 90- 100 minutes.
Fallen Angel (1945)
Another noir which i enjoyed a lot more then Razors edge. Directed by Otto Preminger which made one of my favourite noirs ever in Laura (1944). Dana Andrews stars as he did in "Laura", and he has a cool slick thing about him.
Arrival (2016)
Great film. My second favourite of 2016 as of now, but i still have a lot to watch.
Léon Morin, prêtre (1961)
Continuing on my quest to watch all of Melville's films. Once again a nicely directed film, but the topic of the film didn't interest me though.
First time seeing this 2005 Woody Allen film, but I like it a lot. The plot takes a strange turn towards the third act and suddenly I don't know whether to be on the edge of my seat or rather complaining that we just switched film genres. But I'm never not entertained. Great acting, superb directing.
One of his better recent films.
Awesome! You're in for a treat, do post your thoughts here after you've seen it, I'm looking forward to them.
Thank you so much for this unexpected gem! Wow. I had a feeling something was off when
but I wasn't expecting this strange fusion between
The climax keeps haunting me. Man, what an effective load of scares!
Those 2 are some of the rare action films where my favorite action scene is the very last one in the movie (the Moscow taxi chase in Supremacy and the shootout in 'Man from Nowhere'). Matt Damon is very good as Bourne, and is sure very impressive in the action scenes, but I always find him very 'baby faced' in the first 2 outings. Sure, he was 32-34 years old, but Daniel Craig was only 2 years older in 'Layer Cake' and looked way more world-weary than Damon. As for Won Bin, it is quite unnerving that 7 years since 'Man From Nowhere', he has not made another film. I hope we see his pure badassery again soon.
I can report that Trainspotting T2 is worth a visit to the cinema, I very much enjoyed returning to the lives, of Renton, Spud, Sickboy and Begbie in the long awaited sequel to the 1996 classic. All 4 members return to these characters older but not exactly wiser. Boyle and has done a fine job of revisting the most defining film of his career.
4/5
This was my first watch of this truly epic (nearly 3 hrs long) MGM production, directed by Mervyn LeRoy & starring Robert Taylor, Deborah Kerr, Leo Genn & Peter Ustinov. The story follows Roman General Marcus Vinicius (Taylor) as he returns to Rome after three years at war. He meets Lygia (Kerr), a beautiful daughter of a retired general, and falls for her. She is a pious Christian who initially resists his advances, wanting nothing to do with his warlike, savage ways, despite seeing good in him. Although initially reluctant, he slowly succumbs to her faith, while also turning against corrupt & degenerate Emperor Nero (Ustinov), who oppresses and victimizes the still nascent religion and its followers. Eventually, Nero is brought down by his own excesses & tyranny.
Deborah Kerr’s Lygia is very convincing as the naive, devout recipient of Marcus’s repeated advances. Taylor, who looks a lot like Dean Martin to me, is serviceable but not particularly memorable as Marcus. Ustinov completely hams it up as the treacherous Nero however, and is a delight to watch. Genn is also very good as Petronius, Marcus’s uncle & Nero’s wise & trusted counsel who is increasingly sickened by the Emperor's antics. This film is quite a spectacle. While watching it, I was reminded of Cleopatra, which I saw a month or so ago. While that later film is certainly far more extravagant in nearly every way, there are similarities between the two, particularly in the opulence of the productions. Both films apparently also shared the distinction of being the most expensive ever made up to that point in their respective years of release. The costumes & sets here are also magnificent & lavish, and there are explosions and fires that put Sam Mendes’s indulgent exploits in SP to shame. Miklos Rozsa's score is also very impressive & perfectly fits the film.
The film sort of gets bogged down in the latter third, after a reasonably brisk start, but then picks up nicely with the Arena sequence. I enjoyed it & was quite impressed by the special effects work, given when it was made. The bull wrestling scene, lion attacks & chariot chases were particularly well done. I wasn’t too keen on the preachy religious propaganda elements however, but it comes with the territory I suppose.
Must admit the last act in Rogue One was like being a kid again I was lucky enough to see Return of the Jedi at the cinema, thankfully I knew nothing of what was going to happen in the Rogue One.
Rogue One makes it a perfect (there's that word again) quadrilogy:
Good point and George would be happy as it rhymes, I read Lucas was impressed by the film. There are some great subtle moments even if it's just ships leaving orbit, the film was authentic to the universe and feel of the originals.
I watched Star Wars shortly after,
THE HUNGER GAMES marathon
Note: I have seen the first three films but I have never read the books!
PART I: THE HUNGER GAMES
After the painful ordeal of the TWILIGHT saga, which I was forced to endure in the name of love, I was about to flat-out reject any more teen light novel stuff, especially the kind that was projected to be hugely successful as if HARRY POTTER lightening would strike endlessly. I was defiant of the notion of someone "engineering" a multi-book story, immediately selling the rights to Hollywood, while we are spoon-fed the belief that this is the best thing since STAR WARS. THE HUNGER GAMES "movie" was never a thing; it was always going to be a "film series". Of course you wanted to be a part of it, right? And then there's DIVERGENT and THE MAZE RUNNER and who knows what else...
So I had my arms crossed when it was suggested to me that I should go out and watch THE HUNGER GAMES, especially after having read a short plot summary which told me enough. It's BATTLE ROYALE all over again! Or rather, Stephen King's THE LONG WALK (as Richard Bachman). This isn't original, folks. The Japanese had gone there ages ago, and Stephen King even before that.
But you know, the old "you're sleeping on the coach tonight" argument can turn water into wine and so I yielded. Five minutes into the film I knew it wasn't half bad. Exceptionally violent and tense, at times very cruel and never surrendering too much to your typical teen romance bogus, THE HUNGER GAMES took my breath away in some scenes. Well acted and surprisingly engaging, the film got me hooked. I nevertheless recognized potential traps the series was setting itself and lo and behold, by the third film I shall have some major complaints. But for now, it was all good. In fact, it was better than good. While no STAR WARS, THE HUNGER GAMES had turned me into enough of a fan to stay interested in what would come next.
DD's HUNGER GAMES ranking
The Hunger Games - 8,5/10
Never saw that one. What is it about?
It's the next Steven Segal film. He plays an ex-cop who's also an ex-CIA agent who's also the world's best horse surgeon and an amazing guitar player who's fluent in Japanese and has a black belt in almost everything. He's name is Nick Doombringer. The story begins when Nick's former partner gets killed by a group of Communist Neo-Nazi's from Tibet. Oh and they kidnapped Nick's 65 year younger half-Japanese daughter for no reason. Nick will Kung-Fu his way into Tibet and kill all 502 members of the occult gang by pinching their arms and kicking them in the nuts. The 73 minute cut of the film will be sold for 75 cents with the slogan, "They killed his partner and kidnapped his daughter. Now he's out for revenge.", because of course we haven't seen a film like this ever before.
@DarthDimi, you are a global treasure.