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This latest Tarantino film was right up my alley. I love stories about actor's struggling with their careers and I love period settings. Great stuff here, IMO.
THE GOLDEN COMPASS (2007)
My girlfriend surprised me with this one today when she popped into the store. Grabbed it for me knowing what a big Daniel Craig fan I am.
I saw this in the cinema when it came out. I remember this film wasn't the franchise starter it was intended to be, but with Daniel Craig, Eva Green, Sam Elliott and Sir Christopher Lee, you can't go too wrong.
Still I liked the film and am enjoying it.
It was a long time coming, but Scorsese has finally got his film about Jimmy Hoffa made.
Too much of the film feels like warmed up Scorcese, full of ideas we have seen in earlier, better gangster films.
De Niro was clearly too old here, struggling to act like a man in his 30s and 40s. And still adopting that idiot grin and down turned mouth look which has seen him through nearly 50 years of stardom.
Pacino was good, but certainly not great. His tendency to over act was just about reigned in.
Joe Pesci however was magnificent.
Scorses has criticised MCU films for lack of heart and realsim, for not having an emotional core. But in an average Avengers film I have related to and felt for the characters alot more than I did this bunch of unlikable, self serving mobsters.
Agree with all you said but making the audience "relate" to those mobsters was never Scorsese plan. They are purposely unlikable, doomed, rotten. Irishman is the most funereal Scorsese film ever. Even the bad VFX work - because De Niro in his 30/40 is hilarious - from a theoretical standpoint seemed made on purpose. Basically, there's no goin back from such a life.
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This was surprisingly good. Great story by Luc Besson.
1917 is a very impressive technical achievement, and it will be an outrage if Deakins isn't nominated for an Oscar. As a drama, it's a very simple affair of two soldiers on an impossible mission through no-man's-land. But the images Deakins wrings from this material are stunning. There's a nighttime sequence in a bombed-out burning town that makes "war is hell" a breathtakingly literal statement.
The hype around the film is that it's all done in "one-shot." I think this decision (which was by Mendes, not Deakins) was unnecessary and gimmicky. It threatens to reduce 1917 to a stunt, and the need to keep the camera continually on the move calls attention to itself.
The film's real strengths are in Deakin's images and the visceral portrayal of war, right down to quotidian details. Like Dunkirk, this film is less about war than surviving it. The soldier's travails are unromantic and exhausting. There are frequent shots of rats, bloated corpses, ruined towns, miserable living conditions, and fleeting glimpses of beautiful, indifferent nature.
The two leads are not well-known, but the officers are played by a familiar all-star British cast (Andrew Scott, Benedict Cumberbatch, Mark Strong, Richard Madden, Colin Firth). This inevitably detracts from the realism.
Charlie Brown Christmas/Christmas Time is here again
I forgot to put up my review of Gotham by Gaslight. Honestly it’s not that the film has aged poor but I feel the film suffers from two points
1. All of the injokes and references, after the first one it’s kind of well not so cute
2. The revelation of who Jack the Ripper is there is no buildup or clues for this revelation so meh
As for Charlie browns two Christmas specials it’s an hour of great comedy and good enjoyment and Snoopy is adorable
Films I saw in 2019
1. Jaws
2. Casino Royale
3. Batman begins
4. Across the Universe
5. The Dark Knight
6. Licence to Kill
7. Batman Gotham knight
8. Batman V Superman: Dawn of the justice
9. Batman mask of the phantasm
10. A Charlie Brown thanksgiving
11. Batman
12. Beverly Hills Cop 2
13. A Charlie Brown Christmas special/ it’s Christmas time again Charlie Brown
14. Batman Returns
15. Casino Royale 1954
16. Planes trains and automobiles
17. Highlander Endgame
18. Batman Year one
19. Valley Girls
20. Dirty dancing
21. Oliver Stone The Doors
22. Highlander
23. Moonstruck
24. Batman Forever
25. Avengers: Endgame
26. Batman Beyond
27. Rocketman
28. Hitman agent 47
29. Highlander 3 The Final Dimension
30. Batman Triumphant
31. The Dark Knight Rises
32. Batman Gotham by gaslight
33. Walk the line
34. Highlander 2
35. Highlander the source
36. Batman & Robin
37. Porky's Revenge
Films from 2019
1. Avengers Endgame
2. Rocketman
Batman series
1. Batman begins
2. The Dark Knight
3. Batman Gotham knight
4. Batman V Superman Dawn of justice
5. Batman mask of the phantasm
6. Batman
7. Batman Returns
8. Batman year one
9. batman forever
10. Batman Beyond
11. Batman triumphant
12. The Dark Knight Rises
13. Batman Gotham by gaslight
14. Batman & Robin
Highlander series
1. Highlander Endgame
2. Highlander
3. Highlander the final Dimension
4. Highlander 2
5. Highlander the source
Bond series
1. Casino Royale
2. Licence to Kill
3. Casino Royale 1954
Jukebox
1. Across the Universe
2. Oliver Stone The Doors
3. Walk the line
4. Rocketman
Another weird and unpleasant Mike Flanagan movie about a trapped woman. What a sick freak. One of the worst and dumbest movies I have seen in a long time. Based on a Stephen King book.
It's pretty faithful to the book....
The gap in acting talent between those 2 is soooo obvious it almost hurts.
Forgot how beautiful Beatie Edney was.
If you watch it again, look for the ropes that holds an hovering Lambert after the final battle.
Underrated movie if you ask me. First, Affleck does a good job as Batman, the best by Affleck by all means. I like the way Batman builts the team and how he got Superman under control when fists, power and speed (great acting by Cavil when he looks at a surprise Flash) could only lead to disaster. Only thing the main villain, Steppenwolf, was no match for Superman once he came into play.
Quite honestly one of the most excruciating experiences that I've had in recent memory, and I had a root canal not so long ago. There's only so many times Reynolds can just play slightly different versions of Deadpool. I hate not finishing something I've started, so I managed to just get through this with a 20 minute break in the middle.
Awful.
I gave up 15 minutes in. Should know better than watch a Michael Bay movie...
I'm someone who can forgive Michael Bay's obvious flaws because I find him to always deliver on the spectacle front. But this? This was too much. I genuinely felt less intelligent because I sat through it. It's probably true.
It was indeed a bit much even for a Bay movie, Reynolds still made it palpable but is one movie that will certainly never being re-watched in my lifetime.
I have added it to my Netflix watchlist though not rushing to view it.
It is to this movie s credit that I was never bored over three and a half hours.
My thoughts during this train wreck of a film: "Stop getting Agatha Christie wrong!"
Murder on the Orient Express (1974)
Was really into this one after I saw the new version. Agatha Christie done right.
Agreed. The 1974 version is far superior. Great setting, and Finney is marvellous.
After seeing Branaghs version, I don't think I'll bother with the follow up, Death on the Nile redo!
Edit: also somehow forgot It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)!
The remake is bland and quite appalling in comparison to the Sidney Lumet Masterpiece. Branagh is on a bit of a ego trip in the 2017 version. I do own both films though I am a big fan of whodunnits.
I have low expectations for Branagh's Death on the Nile, I will buy it.
By doing so it loses that trademark sense of style so typical of Agatha Christie adaptations like the Lumet version, but also John Guillermin's Death on the Nile and to a lesser extent, though still highly enjoyable, Guy Hamilton's Evil Under the Sun.
Very much afraid of what Branagh will do to Death on the Nile :(
Yes, but what it comes down to, Ken Branagh is no Sidney Lumet!!
So glad J. J. Abrams was brought back for the finale. I loved TFA and now he has delivered the best movie in the series. The only thing that slightly bored me was the big space battle towards the end. Those are always boring.
Thankfully we have some good Christie adaptions to choose from, I bought all the Ustinov films a few years ago they are alot of fun for the most part. I think I may rewatch them this Christmas.