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Deggo said:
Are you saying hang in there and I gets better? Or is it like a pantomime throughout?
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It's like the curate's egg - good in parts. At times it was losing me, and then there'd be a scene that got me back.

My wife summed it up as we walked out. 'I liked it, but I wouldn't recommend it to anyone'.

Get the DVD. We're talking about Birdman for anyone just getting here.
 
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Roger Milla said:
No Country for Old Men. I really enjoyed it until the ending.
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Lots feel the same, but I think it's because most see the main character as Llewelyn Moss or Anton Chigurh the loon. Bell (Tommy Lee) is the real focus of the film, it stats with his narration and ends with his retelling of dreams. People get drawn into the cat and mouse between Moss and Chigurh and feel a little cheated when they don't see:
  • Moss getting killed
  • Does the wife get killed? (Yes, Chirgurh checks the soles of his boots for blood on leaving the house)
  • Does Chigurh get away?
I sound like a film student tosspot, but the name of the book comes from the first line of a poem by Yeats called ‘Sailing to Byzantium’ in which it describes the key to being happy is to discard the more primal pleasures and look towards spirituality. That's why towards the end of the film, the money is less important, Moss just wants to get to his wife. That's why you don't see the deaths, or what becomes of Chigurh...it doesn't really matter. It's about Bell realising HIS place in life. He comes from a long line of lawmen, and they will never 'win' the battle. The dream sequence with his dad lighting the way and making a fire for warmth and protection? He finally gets that his goals have been too great, you can't beat the bad guys....you can only do the best you can. The same goes for all of us.

You're right though......"Hollywood" would have made more $$ by showing a more Movie ending as opposed to the last chapter of the book word for word.

OneTrueLegend said:
Watched "chef" this week, on bluray, if was really good. great cast, some under used and you can tell that John Faveraux was running the whole thing, he cast himself in the lead role and Scarlett Johanson and Sofia Vergara as his love interests! :)

You can hardly blame him though...
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Great film, brilliant soundtrack.
 
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I saw Theory of Everything last night and thought it was very good. Not the sort of film I'd choose to see usually but it is a very interesting story about Stephen Hawking's life. Eddie Redmayne's performance is amazing and it makes you appreciate what an incredible person Hawking is to have achieved what he has having been told he only had 2 years to live back in the 60's!
 
GlosBlue said:
I saw Theory of Everything last night and thought it was very good. Not the sort of film I'd choose to see usually but it is a very interesting story about Stephen Hawking's life. Eddie Redmayne's performance is amazing and it makes you appreciate what an incredible person Hawking is to have achieved what he has having been told he only had 2 years to live back in the 60's!
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Does the film pick up in the 2nd half? Watched the first half and have no desire to go back.

Great acting aside, the story comes from an angle I found hard to find interesting.
 
coollino said:
Does the film pick up in the 2nd half? Watched the first half and have no desire to go back.

Great acting aside, the story comes from an angle I found hard to find interesting.
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It is not really very high octane and usually I'd have swerved it but something about it made it watchable. You may as well finish it off to make your own opinions but if the first half wasn't to your liking then I doubt the second will be much better? It focusses on his physical deterioration and the stresses that it eventually put on his marriage - pretty hard going at times but there are some funny moments and Hawking apparently has a great sense of humour.
 
Saw American Sniper last night - very good film, especially his time in Iraq. Let down a bit by the domestic scenes at home with his missus played by Sienna Miller ( whose actually good ). The way the film tries to portray his inner conflict and guilt of trying to be loyal to his comrades and his family doesn't really work. But it's still a powerful film. I have no idea why the anti war mob are saying it glorifies violence. I thought it was actually the opposite. It showed the impossible decisions that the soldiers were faced with and then having to live with the consequences afterwards = mental illness and family breakdown.
 

COYBL25 said:
Saw American Sniper last night - very good film, especially his time in Iraq. Let down a bit by the domestic scenes at home with his missus played by Sienna Miller ( whose actually good ). The way the film tries to portray his inner conflict and guilt of trying to be loyal to his comrades and his family doesn't really work. But it's still a powerful film. I have no idea why the anti war mob are saying it glorifies violence. I thought it was actually the opposite. It showed the impossible decisions that the soldiers were faced with and then having to live with the consequences afterwards = mental illness and family breakdown.
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Spot on
 
The Cowboy said:
Excellent film, and top of the 'most underrated and misunderstood films of all time' list. I cannot seem to express to the wife how good this film is, in terms of the production, and the subtext. She just thinks its a silly Sci-Fi film.
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Defo. They manage to portray the future setting they are going for better than most films when they try it. They make it look utterly grom really rather well.

(For the record I quite enjoyed the remake, but have to see it as a totally unrelated movie!)
 
ijjysmith said:
Defo. They manage to portray the future setting they are going for better than most films when they try it. They make it look utterly grom really rather well.

(For the record I quite enjoyed the remake, but have to see it as a totally unrelated movie!)
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Speaking of portraying the future, you ever seen '1984', with John Hurt? So incredibly depressing, and the future they portray is the bleakest I've ever seen.

Interestingly, that film was made in Apr-May 1984, the same months as described in the book.
 

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