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Ironically, The Bat was my fave (by far) when young, and DC seem to have done the opposite lately by robbing me of my enthusiasm with their latest iteration. That's why I'm looking forward to what Reeves has planned.
There are a few more cameos in that play too, although Matt is the most famous.
I saw Luke Hemsworth and Sam Neil.
In Bruges
Gold: a great performance from McConaughey and some amazing scenes, but the film started to falter and draggggg half-way through. Sputtered until the end.
I, Tonya: satire gold. A great cast. Great script. Great directing. Great story-telling...
I agree about Suicide Squad. Studio execs turned a certain hit into a barely acceptable commercial product. The extended cut they released on BR made things a little better for me. The problem with my "virgin viewing", which dictates 90 % of how I will approach the film during subsequent viewings, was a shameful non-event though. Apart from a couple of scenes which work well in a vacuum, the overall film rendered my enthusiasm barren and cold faster than you'd think. So... another big boss to fight at the end. So, we're now just strolling through a city. That's it. People are walking. And shooting up non-descript zombie bad guys. And only barely in a cool way.
Also, Jai Courtney. Captain Boomerang isn't my favourite DC character at all, but the abysmal acting this "actor" is paid for combined with the charisma he doesn't have combined with very poorly delivered lines, made me want to set the screen on fire.
I still, to this day, believe that MAN OF STEEL and BvS are 10 times better films than many will have you think, but I agree that this DC series was in a bit of a bad place when SS promised to turn the table. Margot Robbie as Harley? Made sense! Viola Davis as Waller? Good idea. Hell, even Will Smith made perfect sense in this film. And it looked so good in the trailer! Flashy, energetic, funny... Hell, I was even willing to jump aboard the Leto-Does-Street-Joker wagon. Clothing and make-up: spot on! That Oscar is more than well deserved. But where's the story? Where's the original, great and fresh story that would "show" Snyder how to do things properly? Nowhere! Much like the N52 SS title had turned into a grave disappointment after issue 8 or 9, this film turned into a maddening "ow, they're actually going THERE" fest after minute 8 or 9. Recruiting the gang is good fun, but suddenly the film forgot to actually USE the gang. The rest of the film is like a 90s video game, except that our Dirty Dozen is neither dirty nor interesting. Harley and Joker, at least in the theatrical cut, have too little to do. And the "climax" is a poor man's version of the big boss fight at the end of those 90s video games.
I honestly believe that the backbone of this film is loaded with promise. Someone like Ayer is a good choice to make it happen, to find the edge so to speak. Why else would you hire him? Then people got cold feet. The suits wanted a family-friendly version of the most family unfriendly rock'n'roll title in the popular sections of the DC vault. Breathing down his neck, forcing and imposing stupid decisions on him, they simply made the same mistakes--again--like so many suits have made before them. When has a film ever properly benefited from the involvement of the suits? Maybe once or twice, but most often not.
And the biggest joke of them all? They made the same mistake with JUSTICE LEAGUE.
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Another excellent slow-burning genre film from the underrated S. Craig Zahler - terrific cast (though I wish some had bigger roles to play), and it contains one of the most painful death scenes I think I've ever witnessed in movies. The movie takes its time, but the endeavor is worth it and the pacing didn't falter all that much in my opinion. Took me too long to get around to seeing this in its entirety.
Despite the many differences from the novel, and the loss of the noirish feeling as well as the change of period setting, it was one hell of a film. Plus, watching Elliott Gould is always a delight. Also, a young Arnold Schwarzenegger has a minor role in it as a gangster thug.
What rating will you give The Long Goodbye (out of 10)?
I'm in the middle of watching NEED FOR SPEED because of a podcast review I'm about to listen to. I can definitely say I'm more loyal to the podcast than I am to this film.
I AM NOT HAVING ANY FUN!
Imogen Poots! What . The . Hell? I used to like her. 28 WEEKS LATER, V FOR VENDETTA, CENTURION and even FRIGHT NIGHT had her acting quite well. But did she forget to act here? Her 'cute' polished British accent feels incredibly belaboured here and, in fact, makes her sound like an American trying hard to squeeze out British butler speak. And she's from London! Her overacting is absolutely cringeworthy, even for this film. She feels like someone's grandmother trying to fit in with the cool guys. Her smirk equates to that of someone who combined painkillers with too much alcohol and her haircut is absolutely despicable. I can't believe people complained about Megan Fox in TRANSFORMERS but call Poots in NEED FOR SPEED "one of the few good things". Let me tell you--and this is probably a very damning comment--"Imogen, you are NO Megan Fox!" They could have replaced her with Jar Jar Binks and it would have stunk less. Debra Jo Rub could have played Imogen's part and salvaged this film.
I'm over 90 minutes in this film and my thoughts have already dropped from bad to horrendous. I wonder if this thing is going to sink even lower. I used to play the video games. They were already adapted into films called THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS. We did not need NEED FOR SPEED if this is the best they could do. The only acceptable performance here is coming from Keaton and he's barely in this thing. Even Cooper is consistently letting me down. Bland, blander, blandest. Aaron Paul is who you hire to defecate on Paul Walker's grave. Attempts at drama turn even more pathetic because no-one in this cast is capable of delivering even a mildly decent performance.
The action is good but nothing a video game cut scene cannot provide. I'm hating on this film; it's an insult. It's a criminal offence! And I can dig quite a few notorious bad films. I'm a Michael Bay fan; I love F&F; I can rationalize BATMAN & ROBIN. But this? I'm having a need for speed all right; the need to have this thing over with right now. I'd rather watch THE ROOM than this thing. "Oh, hi Mark!" is ten times better than anything Poots does in this film.
EDIT: Having now finished the film, I can safely say, it didn't get much better. The climactic race was fine, but then Poots throws in one of the final lines of the film and I have to empty my bowels.
Final verdict: 1/5
I don't think he's ever going to do that but I'd be up for it, sure.
I loved that movie. Brutal, original and beautiful. Well, ugly as well.
I wouldn't make a NFS film like this anyway. I'd make it a classier affair, less 'street'.
If I made it at all.
Not bad! Looking forward to watching it myself eventually :-)
Yes, a perfectly fine laxative. :)
Looks to be the same place filmed in Spectre too where the meeting was taking place.. Blenheim Palace.
The car is indeed a DB6 (as opposed to Bond's DB5). Probably was intentional.
There is no originality, nothing that stands out as memorable. Just generic macho stuff.