Rewatched The Prestige, really good movie, equally hated and felt sorry for both protagonists, also Michael Caine oozes class. Lots of twists and turns, well worth a watch.
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dholliday
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Barry Lyndon...the first Kubrick i've seen not to score at least an 8/10.
many of the pictures were lovely, hundreds of moving paintings...the story picked up in the second half but it was a bit of a drag at times, as were the characters.
still enjoyed it, but one for Kubrick completists only. 6/10...largely because of the pretty images.
many of the pictures were lovely, hundreds of moving paintings...the story picked up in the second half but it was a bit of a drag at times, as were the characters.
still enjoyed it, but one for Kubrick completists only. 6/10...largely because of the pretty images.
thebluenosebolt
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It was bloody odd but have to concur, After the second watch it really entertained....oh and Hathaway is great in it as she was in Batman....ill leave it at that, especially after the Gillette debarcle lol
It was the anniversary of Jan Palach's act yesterday, so watched this again. Highly recommended.
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dholliday
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Finally got round to Rogue One. Pants. 4/10. Almost started skipping forward. Saved by a kick-arse Vader scene right at the end.
I love the original trilogy (original, before the CGI-addons) but all the others are crap-to-average. Rogue One neatly highlighted the main reasons for this:
- the camera: count how long time elapses until the picture skips to a different scene. It's often barely a single second, and even within that second it's moving all over the shop. Now watch any random part of the original trilogy and check the camera: it's more still, and stays in the scene longer, allowing you to drink in the scene and feel involved.
- the characters: this is harder to get right, but we enjoyed the original trilogy's characters because they were all so distinct from one another. In Rogue One they're all dull and samey.
- music-editing: the music is the music, but the magic is in where and when to place it. Again, skip to any random original trilogy scene and you'll notice great care was taken when & where the music does its thing. In Rogue One it's mostly just random background noise.
- effects: the effects in the original trilogy are objectively superior as they're real models, your suspension of disbelief can imagine grasping them, seeing their three-dimensonality. CGI spaceships have no feel to them, so you can't see their depth. And the less we say about the Disneyfied-faces of Peter Cushing & Carrie Fischer the better.
- emotions: we needed 7 hours of build-up to really feel & empathise with Luke finding & losing his father in that amazing scene at the end of RotJ. In Rogue One, the very first few minutes are emotional family guff about people we don't know or care about. Showing the main character who's name I've already forgotten as having a loving father means nothing to us. We don't care.
I love the original trilogy (original, before the CGI-addons) but all the others are crap-to-average. Rogue One neatly highlighted the main reasons for this:
- the camera: count how long time elapses until the picture skips to a different scene. It's often barely a single second, and even within that second it's moving all over the shop. Now watch any random part of the original trilogy and check the camera: it's more still, and stays in the scene longer, allowing you to drink in the scene and feel involved.
- the characters: this is harder to get right, but we enjoyed the original trilogy's characters because they were all so distinct from one another. In Rogue One they're all dull and samey.
- music-editing: the music is the music, but the magic is in where and when to place it. Again, skip to any random original trilogy scene and you'll notice great care was taken when & where the music does its thing. In Rogue One it's mostly just random background noise.
- effects: the effects in the original trilogy are objectively superior as they're real models, your suspension of disbelief can imagine grasping them, seeing their three-dimensonality. CGI spaceships have no feel to them, so you can't see their depth. And the less we say about the Disneyfied-faces of Peter Cushing & Carrie Fischer the better.
- emotions: we needed 7 hours of build-up to really feel & empathise with Luke finding & losing his father in that amazing scene at the end of RotJ. In Rogue One, the very first few minutes are emotional family guff about people we don't know or care about. Showing the main character who's name I've already forgotten as having a loving father means nothing to us. We don't care.
Just watched Bad Times at the El Royale, that is 1 crazy film, I enjoyed it, had a massive Quentin T feel about it, dunno if he was involved but God damn.
4737carlin
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Love that film, a lot of it was shot as well with just ambient light, no artificial lights. The bit with Leonard Rossiter, his face is just like Rigsby haha
dholliday
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aye, lots of candlelight with a Zeiss 50mm f/0.7 lens! it really was gorgeous, so many moving paintings...on reflection (after struggling through Rogue One tonight) i'm upping my Barry Lyndon score to a 7/10...it deserves it for the sheer care and artful discipline as well as the memorable duel near the end.
it's still a superslow film, mind, where the plot & characters feel lightweight when compared to other Kubrick works.
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War Dogs , a belter . Very surprised
Daz1878
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Was that the NASA lens?? I guess he had some lying around after filming the moon landing a few years earlier lol
But, I have to say that, IMHO, over the years Barry Lyndon has become Kubrick's best film. I do agree that it's slow and deliberate, but having seen all of his films multiple times, it's the one that stays with me the most. Very funny, too. I do understand that it's not the sort of film people might want to watch more than once, due to its length and pacing, but you might be surprised by the secrets it gives up after another viewing or two.
4737carlin
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Watched a couple of films tonight, "Angels One Five" an old black and white war film about the Battle Of Britain, interesting film as i read it was the first post war film that covered the subject, typical 50s film with Jack Hawkins, was ok, bit slow perhaps but typical of that era. I always wonder what Battle Of Britian pilots must of thought when going to the cinema in the 50s and seeing films like this, with it all being so fresh in the memory.
Also "Stigmata" with Patricia Arquette and Gabriel Byrne playing a priest, was ok, too much special effects and not enough acting for me, priests, excorsims, her being possessed or something, Gabriel Byrne played his part well but i thought was trying to be Father Karras, definatly no Excorsist though.
Also "Stigmata" with Patricia Arquette and Gabriel Byrne playing a priest, was ok, too much special effects and not enough acting for me, priests, excorsims, her being possessed or something, Gabriel Byrne played his part well but i thought was trying to be Father Karras, definatly no Excorsist though.
I thought it was a pretty fun film. Enjoyable action sequences and at least tries to explain the ridiculous plot device of the weak spot on the Death Star in the original Star Wars. But then I think the original trilogy is nothing more than fun but flawed goodies v baddies in space which is frustratingly slow in parts and struggles to keep it's head above water due to the weight of the central characters plot armour.
Anyhow, today I've been lucky enough to fit in two films..
Lucky Logan - Good vault robbery film with a fun redneck flavour. Recommended.
Batman Begins - Saw this years ago but couldn't remember any of it. Could maybe do with a slighty more ruthless edit as it ended up dragging a little. Contains one of the most glaring exposition characters I've ever seen though - the water company engineer bloke doing more or less a running commentary during the train/water/microwave weapon sequence. The effect of the hallucinogen seems very selective as well. Still really good though and I'll have to watch the other two again very soon.
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