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Frozen - a difficult one hour 40 minutes for anyone over 12, but passable if you can just imagine the two female lead characters as human/without clothes
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Roger Milla
Player Valuation: £20m
Faster with The Rock and Billy Bob Thornton. It was crap and obvious what the twist was going to be.
Rook
Player Valuation: £80m
Loved Rush. Not sure it would as good on the small screen though.
Torontoblue
Player Valuation: £950k
It's damned good on a 55" LED with the surround sound cranked right up!!!
never ever gets old, superb stuff
Royal Blue Jersey
Player Valuation: £35m
Saw The Wolf of Wall Street on Friday. Thought it was absolutely brilliant on a number of levels.
Firstly, as an ode to the pleasures of drugs it's an unrivalled masterpiece: I don't think I've seen such a sustained and widespread ingestion of drugs in such a mainstream film. There were mountains of coke shared between the main 7 or 8 characters, a boatload of prescription drugs for Di Caprio & Jonah Hill's characters (some hilarious Quaalude-driven scenes, just pure mayhem) there's even a bit of crack smoked. You get the sense of the insanity when in the first 10 minutes Matthew McConaughey's character starts brazenly doing coke in the middle of an evidently top class, evidently busy restaurant in the middle of the day. It's a sign of things to come in that these people are completely self-involved and utterly without shame. There are some hilarious drug-taking scenes, they have to be seen to be believed.
Secondly, the ever-increasing levels of sheer, brazen hedonism are as intoxicating as they are toxic. You end up going along with the relentless, amoral debauchery as they do, slowly sucked into a reality without boundaries, laws or ethics as we know them. You almost forget what scum, in reality, they really are. You almost forget just how terrible their actions and behaviours really are. I think it's one of the great messages of the film: when Belfort gives one of his grand orations I think he's addressing us, the viewer, as much as his stockbroking staff and it's the very human, very odious greed within us he is appealing to. And it happens to us as the viewer as much as it did those employees in reality, in that you're so easily swept up in the self-aggrandizing, self-important, hedonistic bedlam of just having as much of whatever you want, whenever you want it.
And that's the final thing - people weren't happy with the unsatisfying comeuppance they, particularly Belfort himself, got. People have been moaning at the film for failing to deliver a proper moral tone, failing to show all this greed and horrific behaviour punished, failing to show all the debts properly paid for. I've heard people say it glamourises the lifestyle and to that I say, of course it does. If you look at the action in this film and see glamour, that's because that's what this lifestyle can give you. The society we live in is designed for the greedy, selfish and amoral to triumph. Do you think the Jordan Belfort's of this world ever really lose? Do you think they ever really pay their debts, face justice, see the error of their ways? Of course they don't. Someone else always pays. Look at the 2008 crisis: entire financial institutions toppled by the reckless greed of a handful of individuals, who even when they were obliterating the economy they shared with everyone else they were rewarding themselves with obscene bonuses.
I love this bit. Sums all the madness, greed and self-interest up well:
[video=youtube_share;ddtfoiaWGqs]http://youtu.be/ddtfoiaWGqs[/video]
In summary: BRILLIANT.
Firstly, as an ode to the pleasures of drugs it's an unrivalled masterpiece: I don't think I've seen such a sustained and widespread ingestion of drugs in such a mainstream film. There were mountains of coke shared between the main 7 or 8 characters, a boatload of prescription drugs for Di Caprio & Jonah Hill's characters (some hilarious Quaalude-driven scenes, just pure mayhem) there's even a bit of crack smoked. You get the sense of the insanity when in the first 10 minutes Matthew McConaughey's character starts brazenly doing coke in the middle of an evidently top class, evidently busy restaurant in the middle of the day. It's a sign of things to come in that these people are completely self-involved and utterly without shame. There are some hilarious drug-taking scenes, they have to be seen to be believed.
Secondly, the ever-increasing levels of sheer, brazen hedonism are as intoxicating as they are toxic. You end up going along with the relentless, amoral debauchery as they do, slowly sucked into a reality without boundaries, laws or ethics as we know them. You almost forget what scum, in reality, they really are. You almost forget just how terrible their actions and behaviours really are. I think it's one of the great messages of the film: when Belfort gives one of his grand orations I think he's addressing us, the viewer, as much as his stockbroking staff and it's the very human, very odious greed within us he is appealing to. And it happens to us as the viewer as much as it did those employees in reality, in that you're so easily swept up in the self-aggrandizing, self-important, hedonistic bedlam of just having as much of whatever you want, whenever you want it.
And that's the final thing - people weren't happy with the unsatisfying comeuppance they, particularly Belfort himself, got. People have been moaning at the film for failing to deliver a proper moral tone, failing to show all this greed and horrific behaviour punished, failing to show all the debts properly paid for. I've heard people say it glamourises the lifestyle and to that I say, of course it does. If you look at the action in this film and see glamour, that's because that's what this lifestyle can give you. The society we live in is designed for the greedy, selfish and amoral to triumph. Do you think the Jordan Belfort's of this world ever really lose? Do you think they ever really pay their debts, face justice, see the error of their ways? Of course they don't. Someone else always pays. Look at the 2008 crisis: entire financial institutions toppled by the reckless greed of a handful of individuals, who even when they were obliterating the economy they shared with everyone else they were rewarding themselves with obscene bonuses.
I love this bit. Sums all the madness, greed and self-interest up well:
[video=youtube_share;ddtfoiaWGqs]http://youtu.be/ddtfoiaWGqs[/video]
In summary: BRILLIANT.
Pat's Van
Player Valuation: £70m
going off RBJ's previous recommendation, I think it's a no brainer old chum
ijjysmith
Calm
Watched Rush on Friday night at about 1am because I couldn't sleep.
What a bloody movie that is.
Yes that's some artistic license used with the relationship of Lauda and Hunt, and yes it's not the actual circuits used on most of the scenes but it doesn't matter.
Both the actor playing Lauda (forgot his name) and Thor playing Hunt are fantastic. Lauda was the first of a new breed of racers. In a time then it was saying goodbye to the playboy type drivers and Lauda is played to perfection. As is Hunt.
I had to check out the facts after this and the movie isn't 100% factually correct. But it doesn't need to be. It's a movie not a documentary. This is important I think.
Highly highly recommended.
4.7 Championship Belts out of 5
What a bloody movie that is.
Yes that's some artistic license used with the relationship of Lauda and Hunt, and yes it's not the actual circuits used on most of the scenes but it doesn't matter.
Both the actor playing Lauda (forgot his name) and Thor playing Hunt are fantastic. Lauda was the first of a new breed of racers. In a time then it was saying goodbye to the playboy type drivers and Lauda is played to perfection. As is Hunt.
I had to check out the facts after this and the movie isn't 100% factually correct. But it doesn't need to be. It's a movie not a documentary. This is important I think.
Highly highly recommended.
4.7 Championship Belts out of 5
Filth. Just now.
Good stuff, highly recommend in fact.
Good stuff, highly recommend in fact.
paulbefc
Player Valuation: £60m
Wolf of Wall Street was boss.
The flashback scenes on the plane when they were wired to fck and humping the stewardesses had me in tears. "I think I called the captain the 'N' word".
Looking forward to watching it again in the comfort of my own place though, as 3 hours in a cinema got uncomfortable for the last half hour or so.
The flashback scenes on the plane when they were wired to fck and humping the stewardesses had me in tears. "I think I called the captain the 'N' word".
Looking forward to watching it again in the comfort of my own place though, as 3 hours in a cinema got uncomfortable for the last half hour or so.
Seven Psychopaths.
Very strange.
Very strange.