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Are you sure you watched the right movie.
Correct. Some of the incorporations are very smart, Martin is one good form. He really suits to pithy one liners and he has good chemistry with a luminous Rachel Ward. it stars everyone from Veronica lake to Cary grant and Charles Laughton.
Happy to say that this was a very impressive and enjoyable viewing. Working off an intelligent premise and McCarthy's excellent screen presence, "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" is one of the most satisfying pictures I have seen. It is astoundingly well paced at a brisk 80 minutes, and knew how to get under my skin. The horror came not from what was shown visually, necessarily, but in its higher ideas and how these were conveyed through the medium. How would you feel if the people around you looked the same, but were no longer themselves; bereft of the intrinsic capacity to emote, which once made them basically and utterly human? I can see why so many remakes followed.
Great paranoia Sci Fi from that era.
The Ladykillers the best Ealing comedy in my opinion and a masterclass in character acting and suspense. I watched this film hundreds of times on video, first time watch on Bluray.
A great example of best laid plans being derailed...
Always been a favorite of mine. Beautiful black and white photography, wonderful tension throughout, and as you say a genius premise.
Love this film. Remember seeing it in my early teens on tv and being completely awed by it. Brilliant. Love a good old B&W film.
Finally saw this last night and came out feeling underwhelmed. One problem I have with this new saga is that it seems to feel increasingly hokey and artificial with too many nods to the original films. I don't feel "connected" enough with the story. Other than Adam Driver, who was excellent as Kylo Ren, none of the other "new" cast members really give that much of an impression.
Daisy Ridley is lovely to look at and cute as anything, but she isn't the greatest of actresses. I suspected that with TFA and kind of had it confirmed here. She just isn't very convincing, you can see her trying to act in every scene that requires her to show anger or intensity.
Also, I keep sniggering whenever I see Domhall Gleeson hamming it up as General Hux. He's like a cross between Ralph Feinnes and Toby Stephens.
The best scenes though involve the older/original cast members. Obviously it's great to see Mark Hamil and Carrie Fisher (obviously for the final time) share screentime again as well as a cameo from Yoda, but the film doesn't seem to have that much more going for it other than some impressive CGI effects.
Good in parts but it felt rather vacuous.
Precisely. Great film. Anyone interested in it might want to read the original novel. It's a short but very good book.
I guess I should confess that I love the Kaufman remake even better but, and this I must clarify, that has a lot to do with me simply drooling over the 'ugly' and 'raw' look of 70s horror films. The 50s version is intellectually more stimulating; the 70s version, for me at least, is the scarier one.
Don t you mean THE LAST JEDI ?
Yep, corrected.
What? Am I the only one who cried at the end of TDKR???
Yes, but I also enjoyed it. Noisy score, though.
That's how films used to be.
That's true actually. Older films had louder scores. I quite like the score for TDKR though, despite it being somewhat intrusive. I find it enriches the narrative.
This trilogy was so unlike normal superhero movies. And I have to admit that the 2hrs & 40 minutes just flew by. I fear this quality in superhero movies (attempting this level of 'realism') will never be surpassed.
First time ever I actually watch something newer than mid-70s, Bond aside.
For Denise Richards, no less. Building up a Bond girl film library he he....
Wish me luck...
I'm afraid you're probably right. It's up there with the original Star Wars and LOTR trilogy as the best of the best imho.
It's interesting to note that it wasn't conceived as a trilogy originally (Zimmer mentioned that when I saw him live in concert last year. Apparently Nolan got called back each time and then he reached out to everyone else who came along willingly and enthusiastically. It was fun to listen to him recount with passion what a great experience it was to work on these films and how he developed certain elements of the score for each installment).
...love the army angle, obviously....shower scene.....yes Rico looks hot naked but NO DENISE RICHARDS arghhhh.....
Top 5 of the year for me, easy. Hammer and Chalamet deliver some touching, moving performances in a film that lingers and lets you soak in the beauty of what's unfolding alongside the gorgeous scenery of Italy. Scarcely have I seen this country breathe in film the way it does in this, reminds me of a Paolo Sorrentino film. Absolutely beautiful.
It’s just that on the one hand (spoilers for a movie now 8 years old) we literally saw Batman quit and retire to live happily ever after. That’s nice, but with all the stories I grew up with depicting him as Batman for life, I felt like Rocky when he did that commercial:
“Well this ain’t right; this whole thing ain’t right.”
I know Batman isn’t real, but after the first two awesome movies it felt like TDKR sort of took everything they were cooking up and turned it into a ‘what if’ one-off story.
More upsetting is the fact that he wasn’t even Batman for very long! After Batman Begins, he’s active ‘about a year’ (the movie outright says so). Then between TDK & TDKR he’s absent for eight freaking years . And then he passes the mantle?!? Definitely not the Batman I grew up with— and after such a strong start!
However I recently saw something that made me feel better about it, and maybe will for you too: it was a picture of Bale & Batfleck side by side, and above Batfleck it said “comic adapted”. Above Bale it said “comic inspired”.
And that’s a good thing to remember: Nolan’s movies take Batman out of the pages and put him into the real world.
It was old school film-making, kind of the flipside of a film like QOS.
But then movie on the whole....shocking.
Still...love the army angle.
There is something gratifying about seeing a character you love ending up alright in the end
Like I said, many tissues were destroyed. ;)