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I'm looking forward to that too benny. Scorcese films used to be an event and still see each release but looking back, the only one since casino that lived up to expectations was the aviator. Gangs of New York to some extent perhaps

And always using de caprio. He's ok actor but that's it
 
Really enjoyed Searching For Sugar Man.

It's a documentary film.

I was lucky enough to stumble upon the album online a few months before seeing the film. This gave me the South African viewpoint when I watched it. If you haven't seen it, listen to the music, then find out what happened.
 
Sandra B has no chance in that best actress cat. Cate Blanchett is a shoe in. As is the lead actor in 12 Years a slave. American Hustle is a cracking movie and not actually supposed to be that tense...its a dark comedy after all. Wolves of Wall Street is fantastic and up there with Goodfellas.

Im implore you all to never watch the remake of Carrie...utter utter shite.
 
Saw The Railway Man tonight. Certainly not as bad as some of the reviews although I don't know why they had to cast Nicole Kidman as his wife. Could have been made a lot better but, not being a film maker I can't put my finger on what was actually wrong about it. You'd have to be a hard person to not be moved by the end of it, though.
 
its a funny thing with reviews..

I remember seeing pulp Fiction on the night it was released. Two friends with me disliked it and its one of the only films ive been to when people were walking out whilst the audience was clearly restless. We left before 10 mins before the end

For me it was a cold, overlong, boring completely charmless and pointless film

Then on monday someone at workplace asked me about it. Said it as i saw it and he started arguing madly that it was "one of the greatest blah blah"

But he hadnt seen it
 
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Not on till later in the month at our cinema, but really looking forward to it, if only to see if the reviews are right. Also the new Coen Brothers film looks good.
 
Gareth Flynn said:
Its great to have young directors around who understand that film is primarily a visual medium and should be treated as such.
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Is it? Don't think I agree with this tbh. Sound is a vital part of films and has been for 80 odd years.

Bought an 8 film Bruckheimer collection before christmas and enjoyed every one of them. The Rock, Con Air, Armageddon, Deja Vu, Pearl Harbor, Crimson Tide, Enemy of the State and Gone in 60 Seconds.

Most of the posters on this thread would probably kill themselves first but the thing I noticed most about them was that they are the films that just keep on giving!
 
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Not on till later in the month at our cinema, but really looking forward to it, if only to see if the reviews are right. Also the new Coen Brothers film looks good.
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Its on at mine and just cant seem top drag myself over the road to see it. Half wondering if its just going to be a bleak 2 hour lecture. If there has been criticism of it it has been that its a bit relentless

dont know about the Coen brothers. I used to find their films irritating but latterly ive enjoyed some releases. I cant warm to their style though, but pretty sure i will see it
 
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Is it? Don't think I agree with this tbh. Sound is a vital part of films and has been for 80 odd years.

Bought an 8 film Bruckheimer collection before christmas and enjoyed every one of them. The Rock, Con Air, Armageddon, Deja Vu, Pearl Harbor, Crimson Tide, Enemy of the State and Gone in 60 Seconds.

Most of the posters on this thread would probably kill themselves first but the thing I noticed most about them was that they are the films that just keep on giving!
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Im with you here

Always the narrative, dialogue and performances for me. Why i enjoy theatre. Much rateher Glengarry Glen Ross say than looking silently at an IRA cnt for 17 minutes
 
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I was going to say story is the most important part then realised it wasn't that either - after all I was about to mention 8 films with badly written storylines and some truly cringeworthy lines. (The "I cannot give that order" scene in The Rock and pretty much anything Cuba Gooding was given to do in Pearl Harbor stand out in that respect). But they were all bloody great!
 
The Wolf of Wall Street. Wow. Crying with laughter at points. First third brilliant, though faded somewhat thereafter to become ordinary.
 
I used to work for a doctor that told me Pulp Fiction was his favourite film. I found it quite worrying.
 
moehat said:
I used to work for a doctor that told me Pulp Fiction was his favourite film. I found it quite worrying.
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Should have asked which was the other film he's seen

Looking forward to wolf

Saw a curiousity last night on DVD. Sparrows can't sing. Set in east end in early sixties and full of familiar faces. Stage play adapted and great fun.
 
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Difficult trying to watch something with subtitles late at night; I didn't nod off but was pottering about the house doing things; what I saw looked good fun so will have to catch it again sometime. Was going to see a French film tonight but it's in two parts and I don't really want to see the second part tomorrow so now giving it a miss as we've got the Slave film, the Coen Brothers film and the Meryl Streep film all out at once next week. Saw bits of Project Nim on telly t'other night and found it as fascinating [and upsetting] as when I saw it at the cinema. Wolf of wall Street doesn't appeal at all. I think with those old black and white films we tend to forget what good actors and actresses were in them; Barbara Windsor, Diana Dors etc because of the way they turned into caricatures of themselves later in their careers.
 
Barbara windsor is excellent in the film. Quite magnetic in fact. I would certainy seek it out.

You have to be in the mood sometimes for subtitles. French is not so bad because I can follow quite a lt of it but when it's dialogue heavy and in Danish say , Borgen, it can wear you down

I'm going to see wolf today and the coen brothers one next week
 
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Two trips to theatre soon. Will be usual arm and a leg but have to see the following

King Lear at the national
The weir

I understand that king Lear will be broadcast to cinemas too

Never seen Lear and still gradually working way through shakespear. The weir would appear to be a little like the seafarers and perhaps thete Wexford trilogy which is certainly no bad thing
 
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Meeting overran today so saw the coen brothers film instead. At my fav cinema too. Curzon soho

Absolutely superb. Easily their best.

Won't give too much away, but whilst the main character is in every scene, there is little likeable about him. Charmless, selfish and a bit thick, but it's the way everyone plays off him. Real dark humour and some genuine warmth. Beautifully filmed too

Could be film of the year
 
I'm relieved to hear that; rave reviews everwhere and was really looking forward to seeing it and then Mark Kermode has just said that likeable, as the film is, he found that it didn't go anywhere. Given that I've lost track of films that he's recommended that I've found have 'gone nowhere' I found the comment very worrying. Did you spot the 'characters in the background'? Another worry is that I'm sure they're making a film about the drug addict with the ginger cat, and I thought the Coen Brothers should have used a different coloured cat; there's only so many films you can watch in one year with ginger cats in. Or perhaps there's only one cat actor in Hollywood and he just happens to be ginger.
 
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