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Excellent film, ended how I thought it would. Great story and effects. Will assume their will be another movie to come?
It is the last in a trilogy, but one can hope that they reimagine some of the old ones.
I knew from that opening scene with Bale's hair issue that it was going to be a pretty fun film.
Sounds like someone started to do their job properly, as unfortunate as it is for you. Should've bought a PG-13 (or lower) ticket and snuck in!
oh ok, I didn't realise that. Well I guess one can only hope?
I did!!!!! The fuc**ng ticket guy followed us in the theatre and when he saw us go into atomic blonde he threw us out.
You know you're living in the 21st Century when gore, blood, and murder is acceptable, but a little T&A is a big no-no.
Just like how cigarette smoking can now warrant a PG-13 rating...something you can easily see walking down any sidewalk, anyway.
Sounds like a nice place. Which country is it?
Interesting that it came out in 2015, the same year as SPECTRE, features a shadowy organisation with a vague sort of name, "The Syndicate", while SPECTRE was absorbing "Quantum", lead by a rather innocuous looking soft spoken villain, ditto SPECTRE, and using Morrocco and London as main settings, ditto SPECTRE
Just a coincidence?
I enjoyed both of them, but perhaps because I have unreasonably high expectations of Bond I enjoyed MI-RN more at first, however on reflection they both have their share of the ridiculousness which seems unavoidable in high action movies produced in the age of the Superhero movie
I have been pleased to see MI incrementaly moving back toward having a team, rather than just Tom Cruise as a one man band. MI1 started with a team but by the end had dismantled it, either killed off or found to be traitors, apart from the everpresent Ving Rhames. MI2 had Rhames and some Aussie temp and flirted with the idea of Anthony Hopkins as "The Boss". MI3 brought in Simon Pegg for a dash of humour, MI4 added Jeremy Renner and now they have added Alec Baldwin to play "The Boss"
France.
Wow, you learn something new every day (and it's typically you clueing me in on stuff like this). Had no idea, but I feel like replaying both scenes in my mind, I can see the similarities.
Both films also use Austria as a location (Vienna State Opera in MI-RN and White's hideout/Swann's clinic in SP).
Confirmed: 'Spectre' and 'Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation' are the exact same movie.
Decided to revisit these ensemble pieces from the ubiquitous house of Marvel. I skipped The First Avenger because I don't enjoy it all that much.
Loved them all. Each film has some excellent individual scenes and state of the art gritty action (particularly The Winter Soldier).
These films are anchored by RDJ's Tony Stark and Chris Evans Captain America imho. They are the rocks that hold it all together and the rest of the characters are in support. Both are beautifully realized by the actors in question.
What I found interesting is that even though there's all this state of the art CGI craziness in the films, that's not what I enjoy (in fact I find all that rather annoying). The parts that linger and impress the most are the quiet character interactions. Scenes that involve one or two participants revealing something to one another or enduring some grief or stress. Marvel has a superb cast of actors in tow for these films, and it's a testament to their creativity and script writing that they've been able to fully develop most of the characters and their arcs throughout the films as well as deftly introduce new ones (like Holland's Spidey).
I have to admit that the pace at which they churn these out can be a little overwhelming at times, but having viewed them after some time I must say they are very good films in the genre. The Winter Soldier is actually exceptional.
I really liked this film,great fun.
It's so interesting and unique. I like half of Lynch's films (The Elephant Man, Blue Velvet, The Straight Story, Eraserhead, and Mulholland Drive), and the rest I really don't care for much. Lost Highway I liked parts of, but it didn't really come together as a whole for me. The other Lynch films I don't like honestly. Definitely a hit-and-miss director for me.
Never seen anything like his crazy acting in cinema.
Has anyone else ?
He was terrific fun to watch. Great actor. Blue Velvet is my second favorite Lynch film just behind The Elephant Man right now.
He might have been on drugs at the time.
Agreed FWWM is my favourite Lynch film just ahead of Mullholland Drive, I have owned FWWM for years though bought this box set for my birthday recently...
Includes FWWM, Twin Peaks season 1 and 2 and The Missing Pieces. I have yet to watch The Missing Pieces hopefully will at weekend see if anything else connects with The Return.
MONSIEUR VERDOUX (1947) / Charlie Chaplin
Before Walter White came Monsieur Verdoux — and like Cranston's drug lord, Chaplin's serial killer turns out in the final analysis not to be committing his heinous acts so much for family as he is using family to justify the troubled impulses in himself to which he was blind (a gag at one point features Chaplin's son pulling the cats tale, whereupon Chaplin chews him out for having a cruelty streak -- "I don't know where you get it!")
Now, I say gag; but VERDOUX is probably Chaplin's least funny film. It provokes a few laughs—Chaplin manages to turn attempted murder into a comedy routine—but on the whole the film reads more like "dark satire," culminating in the film's final moments with a particular physical gesture that, despite its narrative context, coaxes a smile. It also ironically acts as a neat and prescient metaphor for the film's initial reception and the consequences Chaplin would bear afterward.
Chaplin's direction is fairly lukewarm, but his focus is on the tale, and that's sufficient. Marilyn Nash is enchanting in her bit part as something of Verdoux's foil. I can't believe she didn't have a bigger career.
Though Chaplin comes across at times as a heavy-handed social critic, never does his message seem to excuse his character's acts against society; in fact its more at once a condemnation of Verdoux and his society, and that his character can act as a social critic at all—or has some ground to—is somewhat, I think, the point.