Cracking film that, really powerful for such an intimate setting and story.
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Donnie Brasco - now I was sure I'd seen this but after watching it 'again' realised I haven't, jelly for a brain me sometimes. Very good, not quite up there with Goodfellas but a quality mob film with a downbeat Al Pacino showing the glum and paranoid life of a low level mobster.
quasi modo
Player Valuation: £40m
Watched Taken on Friday and Taken 2 last night so on to the final one tonight.
coollino
Player Valuation: £80m
Yep, it was brilliant.
Any other danish films you:d recommend? Feel like getting to them, only really seen Lars von trier films.
Professor Toffee
On and on, over the hill and the craic is good
Watched Oblivion again last night
I like Tom Cruise and it's a cracking film if a little predictable ( maybe because I knew what was going to happen lol )
I like Tom Cruise and it's a cracking film if a little predictable ( maybe because I knew what was going to happen lol )
I'm no expert meself mate but have you seen "Headhunter"? Based on a Jo Nesbo book, but not one of his detective one, very dark comedy/thriller about a recruiter who funds his wife's extravagances by moonlighting as an art thief, then targets the wrong victim. Really recommend that one.
If you like Mads Mikkelsen, I thought Valhalla Rising was good, very surreal Viking movie, although its in English despite being directed by Nicolas Winding Refn (Drive), brutal and very strange. I'll let you know if I come across any other good stuff.
McBain
Player Valuation: £80m
Mad Max Fury Road (2015) *SPOILERS PROBABLY
What does a film seventeen years in development look like? If you're George Miller, it looks exactly like this. Some films do take an age to mature. Avatar took 10 years. Boyhood, 12. The Thief and the Cobbler, a whopping 28 years. Thirty years since Max graced the apocalyptic Australian wastelands, which never really made sense as 85% of the population live within 50km's of the coastline, while 83% of those live within a city. But common sense never made a good apocalyptic setting.
And neither does Australia any more it seems. As I type I'm sitting in the lunch room of a popular Australian TV Drama, no, not either of those Flamin' Galah's you pommies finance. My boss on this job is a gentleman born and raised in Durham, and it was he charged with scouting locations for Fury Road over the last decade. It was he who reported that, due to the decade lasting flip side of El Nino, the once barren interior of our great land had flowered up. Great tracts of red rock and hostile terrain had sprung new life, and halting production in it's tracks. Then Mel got bladdered and said some stuff and it was delayed again.
So a World wide search began, and ended in the great deserts of Namibia. A local Film, first made for $600,000 in the late 70's, and starring an Acting School graduate, who within ten years would become the biggest star on the planet and buy the acting school, had become a truly International property.
Mrs McB got the call sometime in 2012, and within a few days was packing her bags for several months shooting in the Namibian Desert. The first thing she remarked was "Parts of the landscape feels like it could be on the bottom of the Ocean." It was a grueling shoot, and if you read the press bits, it was shot in sequence, which if you work in this game you'll know is crazy expensive and time consuming to actually achieve. Point in fact that Theron shot 'A Million Ways To Die In the West' after she shot this. That film is already out on BluRay.
But, I blab-gress. The Film!
It's a high octane adventure from a creative / sadistic mind so most of you will love it. I, to be completely honest didn't really enjoy it that much. I was watching thinking that I wouldn't be watching it again. It's most definitely action packed, has some great locations, ridiculous vehicles, bizarre humans, epic wide shots and stuntmen galore. Yet, the most disappointing thing about the film has to be Max himself.
The Titular Max, never uttering more than a sentence, and never really knowing what he's actually doing. If you break down his performance he looks like he's acting. Or he looks like he has no idea why he's in the film. It's a shame and something you could never see Mel doing. He has the baggage, a common theme is his flashbacks and being unable to save anyone closest to him. The knee brace is there, reminding us of his past, yet the vague acting and uneven performance really do tell us Hardy has no idea why he's making this film. Hardy unequivocally apologised to Miller after the Cannes Festival for "being so myopic" and if this is the result, Miller either deserved the apology or Hardy a medal for putting up with it.
One thing I've digested since viewing the film, is that, for me, there's more negatives than positives. "Let's Fang it" cries our Furiosa when presented with a choice of either slowing down or going faster. It's cringeworthy and makes you think the creators are still stuck firmly in the Aussie 1980's. It can be a great thing if teased like so much crimped hair, but here it sounds flat and un-Australian. Well, said by a South African charging a Czechoslovakian Heavy Rigid through the deserts of Namibia what would i expect i suppose. The stunts are good, albeit when you work inside the industry and know that it's just a bunch of overpaid knuckledraggers playing at being in hollywood i am tainted somewhat towards the 'amazing stunts'. I found them flat and un-exciting. Remember when Bond flipped the car over the river? When indy was in the side car / truck chase? Hunt clinging to the side of Burj Dubai? Chan's 100 foot pole slide in the Shopping Mall? Hur rampaging his Chariot all over the Forum? In Mad Max 2, there's a famous crash where the Stuntie goes flipping arse over tit and breaks both legs. Now I'm not saying anyone should go that far, but the resulting shot is epic. I didn't really see anything unique in terms of stunts. Just same old same old. Polecats. Ho hum.
There's also another problem, besides the fact that people would never live like this in a million years. They might have thought they might live like this in the eighties, but that was before we were introduced to the Nineties. The problem I have have with this crescendo'ing car crash of a film, is the lack of the 'endboom'. Every film in this mould builds up to a stiffy inducing explosion. Even one of the Action Nanna's a third of the way through the film predicts a boom so big it'll give the cinema's woofers an epileptic fit of pure bass. She says it and and I'm ready for the screen to explode. but you get there and it's a just a crash. Just. A. Crash. Nothing blows up. A 3D flame shooting guitar CGI's its self into frame followed by a steering wheel smash cut to black. WTF. And how did they get back through the mud if it took them so long and a random tree to get out? They went through a day a night driving but wham they're back to the cavernous valley pass that they actually destroyed the first time they went through it?
There's something of a good buzz around the film, and that bodes well for my future employment. They'll make another one and suck all the crew up so all there's plenty of work around for everyone. It's not new. It's just back for the next generation to think is original. It's not amazing, or the best car chase you've ever seen, it's just a decent stab at making an action / driving movie. Don't get me wrong, it's an interesting exposition of dirt, nitro, moronic stunties, bimbo models who think they can act, and all the while thinking they are saving the action movie world.
3 out of 5.
What does a film seventeen years in development look like? If you're George Miller, it looks exactly like this. Some films do take an age to mature. Avatar took 10 years. Boyhood, 12. The Thief and the Cobbler, a whopping 28 years. Thirty years since Max graced the apocalyptic Australian wastelands, which never really made sense as 85% of the population live within 50km's of the coastline, while 83% of those live within a city. But common sense never made a good apocalyptic setting.
And neither does Australia any more it seems. As I type I'm sitting in the lunch room of a popular Australian TV Drama, no, not either of those Flamin' Galah's you pommies finance. My boss on this job is a gentleman born and raised in Durham, and it was he charged with scouting locations for Fury Road over the last decade. It was he who reported that, due to the decade lasting flip side of El Nino, the once barren interior of our great land had flowered up. Great tracts of red rock and hostile terrain had sprung new life, and halting production in it's tracks. Then Mel got bladdered and said some stuff and it was delayed again.
So a World wide search began, and ended in the great deserts of Namibia. A local Film, first made for $600,000 in the late 70's, and starring an Acting School graduate, who within ten years would become the biggest star on the planet and buy the acting school, had become a truly International property.
Mrs McB got the call sometime in 2012, and within a few days was packing her bags for several months shooting in the Namibian Desert. The first thing she remarked was "Parts of the landscape feels like it could be on the bottom of the Ocean." It was a grueling shoot, and if you read the press bits, it was shot in sequence, which if you work in this game you'll know is crazy expensive and time consuming to actually achieve. Point in fact that Theron shot 'A Million Ways To Die In the West' after she shot this. That film is already out on BluRay.
But, I blab-gress. The Film!
It's a high octane adventure from a creative / sadistic mind so most of you will love it. I, to be completely honest didn't really enjoy it that much. I was watching thinking that I wouldn't be watching it again. It's most definitely action packed, has some great locations, ridiculous vehicles, bizarre humans, epic wide shots and stuntmen galore. Yet, the most disappointing thing about the film has to be Max himself.
The Titular Max, never uttering more than a sentence, and never really knowing what he's actually doing. If you break down his performance he looks like he's acting. Or he looks like he has no idea why he's in the film. It's a shame and something you could never see Mel doing. He has the baggage, a common theme is his flashbacks and being unable to save anyone closest to him. The knee brace is there, reminding us of his past, yet the vague acting and uneven performance really do tell us Hardy has no idea why he's making this film. Hardy unequivocally apologised to Miller after the Cannes Festival for "being so myopic" and if this is the result, Miller either deserved the apology or Hardy a medal for putting up with it.
One thing I've digested since viewing the film, is that, for me, there's more negatives than positives. "Let's Fang it" cries our Furiosa when presented with a choice of either slowing down or going faster. It's cringeworthy and makes you think the creators are still stuck firmly in the Aussie 1980's. It can be a great thing if teased like so much crimped hair, but here it sounds flat and un-Australian. Well, said by a South African charging a Czechoslovakian Heavy Rigid through the deserts of Namibia what would i expect i suppose. The stunts are good, albeit when you work inside the industry and know that it's just a bunch of overpaid knuckledraggers playing at being in hollywood i am tainted somewhat towards the 'amazing stunts'. I found them flat and un-exciting. Remember when Bond flipped the car over the river? When indy was in the side car / truck chase? Hunt clinging to the side of Burj Dubai? Chan's 100 foot pole slide in the Shopping Mall? Hur rampaging his Chariot all over the Forum? In Mad Max 2, there's a famous crash where the Stuntie goes flipping arse over tit and breaks both legs. Now I'm not saying anyone should go that far, but the resulting shot is epic. I didn't really see anything unique in terms of stunts. Just same old same old. Polecats. Ho hum.
There's also another problem, besides the fact that people would never live like this in a million years. They might have thought they might live like this in the eighties, but that was before we were introduced to the Nineties. The problem I have have with this crescendo'ing car crash of a film, is the lack of the 'endboom'. Every film in this mould builds up to a stiffy inducing explosion. Even one of the Action Nanna's a third of the way through the film predicts a boom so big it'll give the cinema's woofers an epileptic fit of pure bass. She says it and and I'm ready for the screen to explode. but you get there and it's a just a crash. Just. A. Crash. Nothing blows up. A 3D flame shooting guitar CGI's its self into frame followed by a steering wheel smash cut to black. WTF. And how did they get back through the mud if it took them so long and a random tree to get out? They went through a day a night driving but wham they're back to the cavernous valley pass that they actually destroyed the first time they went through it?
There's something of a good buzz around the film, and that bodes well for my future employment. They'll make another one and suck all the crew up so all there's plenty of work around for everyone. It's not new. It's just back for the next generation to think is original. It's not amazing, or the best car chase you've ever seen, it's just a decent stab at making an action / driving movie. Don't get me wrong, it's an interesting exposition of dirt, nitro, moronic stunties, bimbo models who think they can act, and all the while thinking they are saving the action movie world.
3 out of 5.
Flammen & Citronen, Adam's Æpler (Adam's Apples), Festen, I Kina spiser de hunde, Blinkende Lygter, Pusher, Brødre (Brothers), Elsker dig for evigt, Efter Brylluppet and De grønne slagtere. All of them range from ok+ to great imo.
coollino
Player Valuation: £80m
Nope, will look into.
blue4eva77
Yarmolenko ? Yes please
Started watching Kingsman: secret service on Saturday and i turned it off after about 30 minutes. Just couldn't get into it.
Next up for me will be Ex Machina.
Next up for me will be Ex Machina.
Zatara
Player Valuation: £100m
Valhalla Rising should be the worst movie of all time. Nothing whatsoever happens in it and no one speaks.
We watched till the end waiting for something, anything to happen.
Why do you rate it?
We watched till the end waiting for something, anything to happen.
Why do you rate it?
Zatara
Player Valuation: £100m
Maybe should put this in the mad max thread also?
Spoilers i suppose:
1-- Tom hardy was incredibly realistic, no nonsense and didnt trust a soul. Remember when he gave rosie the thumbs up? Quality.
2-- Theron was overused and Hardy was 2nd fiddle...missed a scene there like in roadwarrior "You want to get out of here, you talk to me" where in this one there was no defining moment other than when max walks off and comes back with the guns.
3-- It was visually very impressive
4-- The models didnt need to act much and were fine
5-- Im very excited to learn when the next one will.come out.could be as big as bond this...
Spoilers i suppose:
1-- Tom hardy was incredibly realistic, no nonsense and didnt trust a soul. Remember when he gave rosie the thumbs up? Quality.
2-- Theron was overused and Hardy was 2nd fiddle...missed a scene there like in roadwarrior "You want to get out of here, you talk to me" where in this one there was no defining moment other than when max walks off and comes back with the guns.
3-- It was visually very impressive
4-- The models didnt need to act much and were fine
5-- Im very excited to learn when the next one will.come out.could be as big as bond this...
Mad Max Fury Road (2015) *SPOILERS PROBABLY
What does a film seventeen years in development look like? If you're George Miller, it looks exactly like this. Some films do take an age to mature. Avatar took 10 years. Boyhood, 12. The Thief and the Cobbler, a whopping 28 years. Thirty years since Max graced the apocalyptic Australian wastelands, which never really made sense as 85% of the population live within 50km's of the coastline, while 83% of those live within a city. But common sense never made a good apocalyptic setting.
And neither does Australia any more it seems. As I type I'm sitting in the lunch room of a popular Australian TV Drama, no, not either of those Flamin' Galah's you pommies finance. My boss on this job is a gentleman born and raised in Durham, and it was he charged with scouting locations for Fury Road over the last decade. It was he who reported that, due to the decade lasting flip side of El Nino, the once barren interior of our great land had flowered up. Great tracts of red rock and hostile terrain had sprung new life, and halting production in it's tracks. Then Mel got bladdered and said some stuff and it was delayed again.
So a World wide search began, and ended in the great deserts of Namibia. A local Film, first made for $600,000 in the late 70's, and starring an Acting School graduate, who within ten years would become the biggest star on the planet and buy the acting school, had become a truly International property.
Mrs McB got the call sometime in 2012, and within a few days was packing her bags for several months shooting in the Namibian Desert. The first thing she remarked was "Parts of the landscape feels like it could be on the bottom of the Ocean." It was a grueling shoot, and if you read the press bits, it was shot in sequence, which if you work in this game you'll know is crazy expensive and time consuming to actually achieve. Point in fact that Theron shot 'A Million Ways To Die In the West' after she shot this. That film is already out on BluRay.
But, I blab-gress. The Film!
It's a high octane adventure from a creative / sadistic mind so most of you will love it. I, to be completely honest didn't really enjoy it that much. I was watching thinking that I wouldn't be watching it again. It's most definitely action packed, has some great locations, ridiculous vehicles, bizarre humans, epic wide shots and stuntmen galore. Yet, the most disappointing thing about the film has to be Max himself.
The Titular Max, never uttering more than a sentence, and never really knowing what he's actually doing. If you break down his performance he looks like he's acting. Or he looks like he has no idea why he's in the film. It's a shame and something you could never see Mel doing. He has the baggage, a common theme is his flashbacks and being unable to save anyone closest to him. The knee brace is there, reminding us of his past, yet the vague acting and uneven performance really do tell us Hardy has no idea why he's making this film. Hardy unequivocally apologised to Miller after the Cannes Festival for "being so myopic" and if this is the result, Miller either deserved the apology or Hardy a medal for putting up with it.
One thing I've digested since viewing the film, is that, for me, there's more negatives than positives. "Let's Fang it" cries our Furiosa when presented with a choice of either slowing down or going faster. It's cringeworthy and makes you think the creators are still stuck firmly in the Aussie 1980's. It can be a great thing if teased like so much crimped hair, but here it sounds flat and un-Australian. Well, said by a South African charging a Czechoslovakian Heavy Rigid through the deserts of Namibia what would i expect i suppose. The stunts are good, albeit when you work inside the industry and know that it's just a bunch of overpaid knuckledraggers playing at being in hollywood i am tainted somewhat towards the 'amazing stunts'. I found them flat and un-exciting. Remember when Bond flipped the car over the river? When indy was in the side car / truck chase? Hunt clinging to the side of Burj Dubai? Chan's 100 foot pole slide in the Shopping Mall? Hur rampaging his Chariot all over the Forum? In Mad Max 2, there's a famous crash where the Stuntie goes flipping arse over tit and breaks both legs. Now I'm not saying anyone should go that far, but the resulting shot is epic. I didn't really see anything unique in terms of stunts. Just same old same old. Polecats. Ho hum.
There's also another problem, besides the fact that people would never live like this in a million years. They might have thought they might live like this in the eighties, but that was before we were introduced to the Nineties. The problem I have have with this crescendo'ing car crash of a film, is the lack of the 'endboom'. Every film in this mould builds up to a stiffy inducing explosion. Even one of the Action Nanna's a third of the way through the film predicts a boom so big it'll give the cinema's woofers an epileptic fit of pure bass. She says it and and I'm ready for the screen to explode. but you get there and it's a just a crash. Just. A. Crash. Nothing blows up. A 3D flame shooting guitar CGI's its self into frame followed by a steering wheel smash cut to black. WTF. And how did they get back through the mud if it took them so long and a random tree to get out? They went through a day a night driving but wham they're back to the cavernous valley pass that they actually destroyed the first time they went through it?
There's something of a good buzz around the film, and that bodes well for my future employment. They'll make another one and suck all the crew up so all there's plenty of work around for everyone. It's not new. It's just back for the next generation to think is original. It's not amazing, or the best car chase you've ever seen, it's just a decent stab at making an action / driving movie. Don't get me wrong, it's an interesting exposition of dirt, nitro, moronic stunties, bimbo models who think they can act, and all the while thinking they are saving the action movie world.
3 out of 5.
My wife and I saw a very odd little Swedish movie this weekend. "The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out a Window And Disappeared." Slow at first but ended up getting more and more absurd and funny as things got going. What we might call an "art house" movie here in 'Murcia. I understand it is based on a popular Swedish novel. Some English voice-overs but mostly Swedish with sub-titles.
AaronTheBlue
Player Valuation: £60m
just watched a documentary on netflix called
'dear zachary' at times very, very sad. Must watch though.
It's a crime type documentary but i don't want to say much else about it for spoilers.
'dear zachary' at times very, very sad. Must watch though.
It's a crime type documentary but i don't want to say much else about it for spoilers.