Films

I like Danny Dyer, out of character he is funny and in character he is very good. Unfortunately if I see his name in a film's credits I always assume the worse.
 
I watched Million Dollar Baby last night. How was that nominated for Oscars??? Yes it dealt with Euthanasia but the Irish characters wore green and had ginger beards - for fecks sake.
 
Originally posted by Hunneyb@Jan 31 2006, 07:23 PM
Ooops sorry, it's still in production! :D

Also, when released if even half as good as the stage production I saw last week, The History Boys.
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Forgot to report back on The History Boys

Agree entirely with hunney b . Absolutely excellent . I went on what was the last night which had the advantage of having the whole original cast back together including the marvellous Frances de la Tour .

Only drawback was a last night audience - quite a few people who had evidently been at least once beofre and anticipated jokes and got over excited clapping in the middle of the play .

Anyway, I think it is on a world tour now and if it does come back thoroughly recommended .
 
Pushing Tin
Tin Cup
Thomas Crown Affair (both versions, but I prefer the Brosnan version)


Ardross - glad you liked it. The film is due to be released this year, hopefully sooner rather than later. :)
 
Did anyone watch The Magnificent Seven last night? I caught a bit of it, it hasn`t aged very well. So this afternoon i dug out the masterpiece that it`s based on from my DVD collection:
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Awesome. One of the top five films ever. I strongly advise anyone who hasn`t seen it to get hold of a copy.
 
It is a marvellous film. Isn't there one amazing sequence where the long swordsman slices one of his attackers clean in half? Done so long ago, without CGIs or digital twiddlybits. When I saw that, it looked so realistic, I gasped.
 
Yeah, and the story is so patiently told, every detail is perfect and the pace is flawless. Three and a half hours that feel like two.
 
Mystic River is a MUST

also of the comedies i would recommend GET SHORTY (brilliant plot with Travolta, Hackmann and De Vitol)

besides, all with CHARLIZE THERON in it, especiall THE CIDAR HOUSE RULES (script by John Irving, cast with Michael Caine, Toby Maguire)
 
I am not big into films (lack of time is my excuse) but I did watch The Bourne Supremecy on DVD with Matt Damon on Saturday night and really enjoyed it. The car chase through Moscow was real edge of the seat stuff. Well, it was for me anyway. :blink:

By the way, when I said "with Matt Damon" unfortunately I was not actually with him... if only!
 
Kathy, if you liked the film, and it is very good, you must try the books by Robert Ludlum. They are so much better than the film.
 
I enjoyed the comedic novels he did...Road to Omaha being his best. But the Bourne novels i found annoying. Whenever Jason got in a fix he always had unlimited funds to get himself out of it.
 
Well don't remember that he had over 3 million in the Swiss bank account. That will go a long way. I love Robert Ludlum, some of his earlier books like The Osterman Weekend are great.
 
I have read the Bourne Trilogy and whilst I enjoyed it, found it a little turgid. Trevayne by the same author is pretty good however.

Getting back to films, I have just watched Irrevérsible (on Euronymous's recommendation) - one of the most violent and shocking films I have seen. Extremely thought-provoking nonetheless and made all the better for the containing the beautiful Monica Bellucci.
 
Originally posted by krizon@Feb 13 2006, 10:14 PM
What's it about, bets?
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Events over the course of one traumatic night in Paris unfold in reverse-chronological order as the beautiful Alex (Monica Bellucci) is brutally raped and beaten by a stranger in the underpass. Her boyfriend and ex-lover take matters into their own hands by hiring two criminals to help them find the rapist so that they can exact revenge. A simultaneously beautiful and terrible examination of the destructive nature of cause and effect, and how time destroys everything.

The aspects of the film that will stick in my mind in particular are the heavy use of flash imagery and rotating cameras which have the effect of disorientating you throughout the whole film, then the sheer brutality and graphic nature of the rape and revenge scenes to bring you back to earth with a bump. The watching of such cruel events in reverse order offset with amazing beauty of Bellucci make the whole experience pretty surreal.
 
Yes, I think most women who've been raped, and rape is rarely anything but brutal, would agree that it was a surreal experience. I don't think they'd find any beauty in its image, however much they relived it in reverse chronological order. Does someone fancying-up a film about the endless brutalization of women make it a 'great' film? What sets this apart from the thousands of films, including the all-time benchmark for the depiction of rape, Rashomon?

Will we have the guts, or the ingloriousness, to arrive at the point where we treat the buggery of young boys or the rape of little girls in the same way as we casually treat the issue of rape as just a bit more Friday night titillation?

Was it serious, or was it just art house porn?
 
I think you have misread my post. The beauty was in Monica Bellucci, the cruelty was it in being taken away. The violence was shocking.

I saw it as a very serious film. Some may find the alternative directorship over-the-top. I felt it added impact. Believe me when I say, it was far from Friday night titillation.
 
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