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Yeah, I'm with you. I refuse to use either word on anything. People like different stuff, and if my opinion is different from some group of people or majority that doesn't make the movie over- or underrated.
I do agree with people who weren't particularly impressed with Get Out, though. It was fine, but... eh. I agree with @jake24 that it didn't work as a comedy (it wasn't actually funny...), nor as horror/thriller. I think it topped more 2017 lists than any other movie, and I have no clue what I missed with it. But it's always the same with any movie in the end; either it touches you and speaks to you in some way, or it just doesn't, and it's all very personal. Nothing anyone else says can really change that.
It's been years since I saw it, but remember liking it a lot. The same with Pan's Labyrinth. Should re-watch both. For me Shape was the least impressive of the three - while I liked it, I was somewhat disappointed.
I also mainly liked it for Hawkins and the visuals. Didn't really touch me or make me feel much anything. (Ah, Jeunet... Delicatessen was fun.)
She’s also in Herzog’s masterful Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht. If you haven’t seen it, recommended as well ;)
Walter Hill's first great film. Hypnotic.
Thanks again...but of course I have, though it's time I do it again. (Still, I must admit I prefer Murnau's original over the Herzog/Kinski version.)
Or even better, La Reine Margot (1994) - absolutely fantastic French film based on a book by Dumas, full of murder, plot, intrigue and sex! Adjani is breath-taking in this film. Not seen it? Go see it as soon as!
Have seen it. Yes I agree totally. Great film.
Well his debut was 'Hard Times' and I really love that. Of all of Hills movies I probably watched it most! Bronson is marvellous in it!
Me too. Though I’d say both of them are beyond brilliant.
Damien Lewis looked very 'Bondian' in parts,more than I thought he would :
Read the book some years ago! How would you rate the film?
I haven't read the book and went into it with an open mind,but the great cast gelled well together,and it was one of the easier Le Carre films to watch.
I love the soundtrack to that film. You can't go wrong with jazz.
Indeed,and Damian Lewis in particular stood out for me.
Another film to add to the "to watch"-list, then!
He is one of our best acting exports,never puts a foot wrong,and is choosy in what he does.
He has an OBE for services to drama,and is still only 47.
I definitely recommend it,Torg,if just to see Damian Lewis as an MI6 agent.
That would definitely be one of the main reasons!
Whoops,no pressure on me then !
Let us know what you think,when you have seen it.
SMALL SOLDIERS
"All quiet on the western front...yard."
In German so as not to spoil too much.
1 Phantom Thread
2 Blade Runner 2049
3 I, Tonya
4 Good Time
5 War for the Planet of the Apes
6 The Shape of Water
7 Dunkirk
8 Last Flag Flying
9 Brawl in Cell Block 99
10 The Disaster Artist
Still wanna check out The Death of Stalin, You Were Never Really Here, The Florida Project and All the Money in the World.
Good Top 2 there. Definitely two of my favorites from the year as well.
Great fun. Featuring Sean O'Connery
Nice British documentary.
I came across this John Madden directed thriller in 2012 by chance. I had heard that Thomas Newman was scoring Skyfall, and having endured a torturous 4 year wait (like other Bond fans) since QoS, was anxious for all things pertaining to the 23rd Bond film. I realized that Jesper Christensen was in this film and additionally that Newman had done the score. Not being familiar with his work, I therefore sought out the blu ray. Not only was I impressed with his score, but I loved the film then, and I very much enjoyed it again tonight.
The then little known Jessica Chastain stars with Sam Worthington & Marton Csokas as young Mossad agents tasked with bringing back a Nazi war criminal, Dr. Dieter Vogel (Chistensen), from East Berlin in 1966. Their mission is complicated by a romantic triangle which develops between the team members as they seek out Vogel. The film actually begins in 1997, with Helen Mirren, Ciaran Hinds & Tom Wilkinson staring as older versions of the characters, still basking all these years later in the accolades Israel (and their family) showered on them for their heroism. However, the viewer gets an unsettling feeling that something isn’t quite right. As the film goes back in time to tell the story of what happened, one realizes that all is not as it initially seemed.
It’s difficult to write more without giving away crucial plot details, but I will say that this really is a very interesting spy drama about principles, the truth, lies, guilt, shame, redemption, justice, family and a nation’s pride. It’s well worth a viewing, although the ending is a bit weak and unfortunately the 1960's section is more interesting than the flash forward 1990's ending.
If you liked entries like The Marathon Man or The Boys From Brazil then you might like this. It’s very atmospheric & the acting is excellent from the stellar cast, but particularly from Chastain who is suberb (like I said, I knew nothing about her when I first saw this film, but knew she was going to go places). Christensen also is absolutely pitch perfect, and channels Mr. White for his disturbing performance.