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Yep, i've always enjoyed Under Siege 2. Its one of those action films you can watch every now and then, without tiring of it.
Well, If Leo was truly committed to his art....
Hmm, glad i decided not to watch Chiraq then.
He doesn't seem to have much luck with assassinations, does he? :)) Yes I enjoyed both films but Strangers on a Train had a bigger impact on me. Part of the problem I had with Dial M for Murder was that I couldn't root for one side that much. Strangers on a Train is potentially as high as my third favorite Hitchcock picture; very entertaining and thrilling.
Well, they could have gone the actual live bear route - Leo would have been a shoe-in for a posthumous Oscar! No, I'd have preferred an old-school approach: trained real bear with stuntman, plus close-up's of the star battling an anamatronic bruin and the whole carefully shot and edited in a less-is-more style.
This is too true! I could've seen this working, as well, but still, there's truly no telling what those real bears will do, and it'd be very dangerous trying to work with one for a scene like that while being in a tight-knit setting in hopes of the bear not going berserk and ripping off some faces.
need to see it again
Ok/good. Felt like just another drama movie though, beside the scenes being shown out of order. Solid acting from Watts, Del Toro and Penn.
Traffic (2000)
Liked it, once again a very good performance from Del Toro.
The Lookout (2007)
Cool little bank robbery movie.
Munich (2005)
Very good, really liked how they disposed of one guy after the other. My only little gripe with the film is that it was a little long.
Primal Fear (1996)
Was expecting a little bit more. The twist at the end was nothing special. It was OK
They should have cast Tom Cruise instead of DiCaprio.
I liked Margin Call. Haven't seen Too Big To Fail. Saw Inside Job and it was very good and truly scary - have you seen it? If not I recommend it.
I thought you and some others might find it interesting what Paul Krugman said about The Big Short in December:
(For anyone who doesn't know he is - among other things - a Nobel prize winning economist.) nytimes.com/2015/12/18/opinion/the-big-short-housing-bubbles-and-retold-lies.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=1
I wish... I already know I'll see it at least twice in theatre. And buy it.
:))
Seeing that one tomorrow. Planning to fit in Spotlight on Saturday... (both open here tomorrow, so...)
And then stay up all night I suppose, with the SAG awards. Ehem.
Went to see a Mystery screening today - in other words I had no idea what the movie was. There are so many movies that I want to see now that I figured there was a pretty good chance it would be something I wanted to see anyway. The length was said to be 2 hours, which saddened me somewhat, since it meant no The Big Short, but still... I was sitting there thinking "please be something I want to see anyway" - I didn't want to walk out in a few mins, which was always an option, too... The first "clue" to appear on the screen when it began was "Todd Haynes" - THANK YOU! I knew what that meant, phew, didn't need to walk out. :) So:
Carol
A good cast in general, and I really liked the co-leads (despite the not uncommon category fraud the studio pushed to market Mara as "supporting"), Cate Blachett and Rooney Mara. (Not that I remember if I've ever seen them in anything where I didn't like them.) A good movie, slow-moving and pretty.
I think I forgot from my last list:
Lincoln
Finally got around to watching this. I always assumed I was unlikely to like it and I was correct. Boring. Anyway, now I can scratch that from the list... (only on it because of DDL, really).
And continuing to get to know Steve Carell's work:
Despicable Me and Despicable Me 2
I had some issues with both of these, and I didn't think they were great, but there was lovely, inventive stuff there, too, and Gru's minions did make me laugh.
and
Little Miss Sunshine
This was wonderful. Glad I finally saw it. A great cast, an unusual story, lots of fun.
RE: The Big Short: I have to admit a slight tinge of responsibility (no matter how minor & insignificant) for this financial crisis debacle. As mentioned earlier, I used to work for an Audit firm that was involved in auditing these instruments. Sadly, I could tell that we weren't really all that well versed with the risks in the product and that my superiors made certain assumptions about their safety, similar to those who created it and those who sold it. Like the rating agencies that are humiliated in the film, the auditors also should have been more vigilant in their oversight duties.
Additionally, the government regulators were also completely outclassed by the normally younger, smarter, significantly more well paid and more inventive mathematical PhDs who came up with these exotic instruments. Furthermore, many of these products were too complex to properly 'stress test', particularly the systemic risk element to the entire systm.
Government certainly had some responsibility for deregulating an industry which should always be kept tightly in check (just because of the sheer audacity of their entrepreneurial and animal spirits), but the bankers, the regulators, the auditors and the ratings agencies were all also to blame, as were the homeowners who shouldn't have taken out mortgages well beyond their means without understanding that ARMs are bad news when rates reset.
We haven't fully learnt from this yet. The SEC is still asleep at the wheel."Greed is good" as the saying goes, apparently.
I have ordered the book to try and gain a better understanding as obviously the movie can only scrape the surface.
I suppose as long as politicians and law-makers are on Wall Street payroll (and a lot of the media, for that matter) there will never be significant changes made to get proper regulation in place again. It's sort of depressing.
@patb, I think you'll like the book.
It was very good; definite Top 5 for me - North by Northwest will have to move down a bit I think. Which Hitchcock films do you like most after Vertigo?
I have been tempted on a few occasions on whether to watch the 'It follows' film, but somehow i thought it wouldn't be worth it, and after reading your post, i may be right.
I agree, in what you say there hasn't really been a decent scary film since the days of Alien and Halloween.
I last night decided to watch Die Hard 5, as that was the only Die Hard film i hadn't seen, and many have said the film is awful......and they weren't kidding, it was truly dreadful, and to be honest it really wasn't a Die Hard film as we know it. It was as if the film were Die Hard in name only, and Bruce Willis's character as John McLane was more of a sidekick than the lead.
Film had no chemistry between McLane and his son, no real standout villain, film was filmed with dark colourless filters in the camerawork, shaky cam which made some of the action hard to follow, little humour in the film, naff plot what there was of it.
To sum up i have seen far better straight to DVD action films than this Die Hard film, in fact after watching this it makes you realise that Die Hard 4, was actually a pretty good film (though excess of CGI did make some of the action silly).
I thought it was ok. And about your statement I thought that The Conjuring was pretty scary. Also heard that Sinister, Insidious and The Descent is pretty scary, but as I am not really that big of a horror guy anymore, I haven't seen those myself.
You've got to see 'The Descent' (2005) amazing horror film.
It's one of those little films that comes along every now and then, and takes everyone by surprise.
The film starts off as a pot-holing experience for a bunch of young women, and is just as this, an interesting, tense, claustophobic experience, but in the 2nd half of the film, all hell breaks loose when we meet those cannibilistic creatures.
Can you imagine being lost deep underground in the dark, with just your helmet torch light on, then separated from your friends, and being pursued by flesh eating mutant humanoids. Bloody terrifying eh?
I've done some dangerous sports in my life, but i will never ever go pot-holing! Particularly after watching that film.
Very true, what makes it so good is that the creatures are not CGI created, but real people who trained to walk and crawl like those monsters.
It was Neil Marshall who directed this film, who also made the other classic British horror film 'Dog Soldiers', and that is worth a watch as well.
@Birdleson, while there are definitely varying types of horror, a 14-year-old me seeing 'The Descent' in a pitch black theater at midnight with three friends and absolutely nobody else occupying the theater was given a horror experience that'll never be replicated for me. I enjoy a good jump scare if it's handled and timed well, but in this day and age, jump scares tend to fall more on the generic and predictable side. Now, movies like 'Halloween' or 'The Shining,' the psychological types of horror movies where the scariest part is knowing something is happening but not seeing it? That's the best kind of horror. 'Halloween' never grows old to me, it's my favorite horror movie. I still get crazy chills when Laurie is crying over the death of all of her friends at the top of the stairs, and Michael's face slowwwwwwly lights up and comes into frame in the darkness behind her.