Movie review thread...
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[quote name='Luigi' timestamp='1353570162' post='327079']<br />
I hate those Tom Ford suits on Bond. They're cut too tight and make him look like a bouncer. Oh and that trademark floating coat collar thing that Ford does really sucks, hardly surprising since they ditched proper London tailoring for a mere [i]brand[/i]. Much better is Fiennes' Savile Row job from Anderson & Sheppard. Now that's how a trouser is supposed to fit.<br />
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Yep, Bond might wear a Tom Ford suit in the USA, perhaps even in China or Turkey. But James Bond wandering around Whitehall with just two buttons on the cuff of his jacket? Do your research, MGM/Sony.<br />
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Fleming's Bond and Connery's Bond used to get their suits from Anthony Sinclair in Conduit Street, Mayfair.<br />
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[url="http://www.anthonysinclair.com/heritage_s/1856.htm"]http://www.anthonysinclair.com/heritage_s/1856.htm[/url] -
[quote name='Nepia' timestamp='1364802833' post='356383']<br />
I think you and I watch movies in very different ways. Actually I felt some of the same feelings you did but thought that was what was good about the movie whereas you seem to have an issue with it. I think the bold was mostly deliberate.<br />
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I thought the killing of OBL was very matter of fact and didn't come across self righteous or wah wah USA!!! in the slightest. And I think that last scene was only added after the fact, the original script was about the futile hunt for OBL, yet it felt like a little movie within a movie. TBH I would have been happy to see them as two different movies.<br />
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I think we saw it the same way tbh Nepia.<br />
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I had managed to avoid all the controversy about the film and so viewed it quite 'clean' as it were. The ambivalence in the approach of the characters and the matter-of-factness of the methods used to extract information was quite striking during the film and immediately afterwards and I really thought about what was going on. Subsequently, I've done a lot of reading up on it and I think this 'docu' approach is now a strength of the movie and Bigelow has taken a very brave line. So in retrospect, I don't have an issue with it at all. At the time I just thought the lack of empathy with any of the characters was curious.<br />
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I also didn't think the OBL takedown was over the top either. I just wondered out loud if it was being seen as such by US audiences because I didn't get any sense of triumphalism from it either.<br />
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[quote name='Luigi' timestamp='1364813940' post='356403']<br />
I think we saw it the same way tbh Nepia.<br />
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I had managed to avoid all the controversy about the film and so viewed it quite 'clean' as it were. The ambivalence in the approach of the characters and the matter-of-factness of the methods used to extract information was quite striking during the film and immediately afterwards and I really thought about what was going on. Subsequently, I've done a lot of reading up on it and I think this 'docu' approach is now a strength of the movie and Bigelow has taken a very brave line. So in retrospect, I don't have an issue with it at all. At the time I just thought the lack of empathy with any of the characters was curious.<br />
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I also didn't think the OBL takedown was over the top either. I just wondered out loud if it was being seen as such by US audiences because I didn't get any sense of triumphalism from it either.<br />
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Having seen ZDT and now Argo, I think the former is the much better film.<br />
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Hmm, we did see it the same way, although I quite liked the character played by Jason Clarke ... I find Jessica Chastain a hard watch in any movie - in all honesty I think I'm a bit bigoted towards some female actors for no real reasons (Nicole Kidman/Laura Linney are two more) and so find them quite tiring.<br />
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I think Argo is a much better and enjoyable film though. The only scene I have a problem with is the chasing of the plane. The 'controversy' about it is doing my head in, it's an f-ing movie (not directed at you, just in general). <br />
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Although, how I viewed them may play a part as well, I watch Argo in the cinema and ZDT on the box at home, although I have no real way of knowing if that played a part. And TBH I watched Argo pre Oscar hype and ZDT after its hype, which might play a part.<br />
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THE IMPOSTER (2012)<br />
Unfuckingbelievable documentary, but apparently true story about a French sociopathic con-artist who deserves many good hard kicks to the testicles, and a desperate American family willing to believe anything in the face of trauma. Made by the same producer as the brilliant "Man on Wire." There are a few red-herrings and dramatic recreations that are puzzling, but I couldn't pull my eyes away. 9/10. -
[quote name='red terror' timestamp='1364926535' post='356531']THE IMPOSTER (2012)<br />
Unfuckingbelievable documentary, but apparently true story about a French sociopathic con-artist who deserves many good hard kicks to the testicles, and a desperate American family willing to believe anything in the face of trauma. Made by the same producer as the brilliant "Man on Wire." There are a few red-herrings and dramatic recreations that are puzzling, but I couldn't pull my eyes away. 9/10.[/quote]<br />
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I loved that movie too. There is another movie out there that is a dramatization of this same story. Apparently it is awful. -
[quote name='jegga' timestamp='1365067619' post='356869']<br />
Saw Trance, quite an odd film, the bonus of Rosario Dawson naked. made me enjoy it more than I probably would have ordinarily .<br />
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Did I mention Rosario Dawson is naked in it?<br />
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She's never really floated my boat, but she did look lovely naked in Alexander, although it wasn't enough to redeem that movie. -
[quote name='Nepia' timestamp='1365067900' post='356870']<br />
She's never really floated my boat, but she did look lovely naked in Alexander, although it wasn't enough to redeem that movie.<br />
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You're close to joining wretches like Davidav on my ignore list with comments like that . I await the abridged version of the film on Mr Skin, will possibly check out Alexander . -
[quote name='jegga' timestamp='1365068087' post='356872']<br />
You're close to joining wretches like Davidav on my ignore list with comments like that . I await the abridged version of the film on Mr Skin, will possibly check out Alexander .<br />
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Sheesh, I said she looked lovely .... <img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/rugby/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=';)' /> -
Oblivion: Tom's latest action outing. Fantastic to look at it but despite a plot that promises lots of twists, you see everything coming a mile off.<br />
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And it's fun to check off all the various themes and elements from other movies. I got the following just for starters ....<br />
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Independence Day<br />
The Matrix<br />
Planet of the Apes<br />
Moon<br />
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But visually it's stunning and I didn't mind making the effort to see Tom doing his puzzled face, then his action face, then his sad face and then back to his action face. -
I always thought Rich Hall nailed Tom Cruise' method<br />
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Watched The Hobbit last night.<br />
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Enjoyed it, as others have said, Gollum was brilliant. Jeez special effects these days are great arent they!<br />
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Was odd though, when I saw there was 20 mins to go I was thinking man they have a lot to cram into 20 mins before I remembered it wasnt going to finish...<br />
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[spoiler]Been a fair old while since I read the book, but I seem to recall something about the scene with Bilbo and the trolls in the book being very funny, but on viewing I wonder if I was wrong?<br />
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Got my Criterion dvd of "Pandora's Box" last week (saw it cheap on eBay, brand new). I first saw it a couple decades ago, then late last year, and I liked it even better. One of the most astounding films I've ever seen. The film comes on the dvd with a choice of four separate soundtracks (the original has been lost). I've just watched the one, and will take my time luxuriating in the other three. If anyone tells you that Louise Brooks isn't the most alluring, seductive, beautiful woman ever seen on film, they are lying. Still images do not do her justice, he says wiping the drool off his lips. She needs to be seen on motion film.
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OK, I was bored. I'd finished some work and didn't want to start anything new right away. So there I was, on the sofa, flicking through the channels and it was just starting, starring Danny Glover and Vinnie Jones ....<br />
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[img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/4c/Age_of_the_Dragons.jpg[/img]<br />
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A re-imagining of Moby Dick, but with dragons. Captain Ahab, the mysterious, scarred owner of a land-ship called the Pequod travels round a mystical realm searching for the Great White Dragon. I mean how bad could it be?<br />
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It was truly desperate. How it ever got made is anyone's guess. Imagine a great big wooden 'boat' trundling round snowy Utah, while the cast throw harpoons at really bad CGI. It wasn't even bad enough to be funny. Do not watch this film. -
Olympus Has Fallen: basically Die Hard in the White House with Gerard Butler instead of Bruce Wills.<br />
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I may have liked this movie when I was 13 back in the 80s. It was ok now but had some key annoying as f*@k scenes.<br />
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[Spoiler]The secret service and other guards at the White House were terrible. They basically all got hammered, most only had hand guns and they never used cover. The movie would have been way better if the battle for the White House was actually a battle instead of the Koreans just hammering everyone. It then turned Butler into superman. [/Spoiler]<br />
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Definitely wait for dvd on this one.<br />
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Broken City: Marky Mark is a cop who looses his job for shooting a suspect, Crowe is the mayor who keeps him from being prosecuted for the killing. A number of years later Crowe gets Marky Mark (now a PI) to tail his wife (Catherine Zeta Jones) for evidence of an affair. All is not what it seems.<br />
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Decent enough thriller, predictable as fudge, has Coach Taylor in it so that's always a bonus, and the three leads are watcheable. -
[quote name='Luigi' timestamp='1365751038' post='358960']<br />
Oblivion: Tom's latest action outing. Fantastic to look at it but despite a plot that promises lots of twists, you see everything coming a mile off.<br />
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Yeah first thing I asked when it opened to awesome scenes:<br />
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[spoiler]If mankind was so badly buttfucked, how the fuck did they make those enormous fucking water sucking things?[/spoiler]
