Movie review thread...
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@mikethesnow Sin City! He was so good in that! (As were many others, Rourke's performance was fantastic).
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@catogrande said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@victor-meldrew said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@catogrande That's the biggie.
Mind you, Olivier did The Betsy & The Jazz Singer and there's Di Niro's Dirty Grandpa to prove Willis is up there with those two - at least in the Turkey stakes.
Dear, dear Larry is the turkey king. He’s certainly done more duds than his rep would have you believe. All with a slice of the thickest ham. I honestly struggle to think of a good one he’s done save for Marathon Man and his Hitchcock connection.
You don't like Khartoum or (not just a Nazi but a Nazi hunter) the Boys from Brazil?
Anyway I think Larry's rep came from the stage, and so many top actors rated him one would have to concede he must have had something. There is some interesting article somewhere about how early theatre greats had trouble transferring to film, all I can remember is that Larry could dilate his pupils by sheer willpower.. -
@voodoo said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@raznomore @MiketheSnow how could you both forget The Last Boy Scout!
Mercury Rising and 12 Monkeys as well
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@nostrildamus said in Re: Movie review thread...:
Anyway I think Larry's rep came from the stage, and so many top actors rated him one would have to concede he must have had something.
Dustin Hoffman during the filming of Marathon Man torture scene" Larry, I haven't slept for 3 days to get into this role"
Olivier: "Dear boy, you should try acting, it's so much easier"
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OK I can concede that Larry did some good stuff and maybe I'm being a GOM and am in the wrong thread but I do find a lot of his film work too theatrical (which means hammy for me). Odd that this worked in Sleuth which was a successful theatre production but less so (for me) in his Shakesperean roles.
BTW Nostril, I liked Khartoum as a film but thought Larry was bordering on laughable.
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@victor-meldrew said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@nostrildamus said in Re: Movie review thread...:
Anyway I think Larry's rep came from the stage, and so many top actors rated him one would have to concede he must have had something.
Dustin Hoffman during the filming of Marathon Man torture scene" Larry, I haven't slept for 3 days to get into this role"
Olivier: "Dear boy, you should try acting, it's so much easier"
Yes a classic. I think it was Sir John Gielgud's autobiography that contained one of my favourite acting quotes, from his days as a young actor. During costume rehearsal, a high-pitched voice piped up from the back, "do we really need tights if we have small parts?"
But now, in fact today, I wonder if it was just his imagination, as apparently there is a 2016 film called Trouser Bar, inspired by Gielgud's love of observing people in tight trousers. -
@catogrande said in Re: Movie review thread...:
OK I can concede that Larry did some good stuff and maybe I'm being a GOM and am in the wrong thread but I do find a lot of his film work too theatrical (which means hammy for me). Odd that this worked in Sleuth which was a successful theatre production but less so (for me) in his Shakesperean roles.
BTW Nostril, I liked Khartoum as a film but thought Larry was bordering on laughable.
Yes I probably agree with you ( I never got to see him on stage) but his eyes in Khartoum! Still, rather hammy..
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@nostrildamus said in Re: Movie review thread...:
You don't like Khartoum or (not just a Nazi but a Nazi hunter) the Boys from Brazil?
There's two movies scenes I love as they involve few words but the acting is so good it tells you all you need to know about the character.
Men of Honor when Di Niro, having been asked why he's helping a black diver pass a test the racist establishment wants him to fail, puffs on his pipe and simply says: "Piss 'em off"
The second is Boys from Brazil, when Olivier, playing a somewhat bumbling Nazi-hunter, is questioning a female Nazi war criminal in prison and she mocks him, suddenly and violently shouts " You're not a guard here Madam!. You're a prisoner!"
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Pretty much agree with what you say about much of his film acting and his TV work was way, way better overall. Voyage Round My Father was stunning. He was much more than actor as well - directed and produced films and founded/ran the National Theatre.
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@canefan said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@voodoo said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@raznomore @MiketheSnow how could you both forget The Last Boy Scout!
Mercury Rising and 12 Monkeys as well
Not in the timeframe I referenced
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Army of the Dead - already mentioned earlier, decent film, with a twist on your zombie genre.
3.5 Seigfried and Roy Tigers out of 5 I'd do so much better in a Zombie apocalypse
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Finally watched Nobody.
Loads of fun. Just like John Wick only funny and more believable...but still ridiculous.
4 dancing Russian mob bosses out of 5 oddly cast Christopher Lloyds.
Mortal Kombat reboot. Utter shit. Kano is great though. Has all the best lines, of which there are no many.
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Wrath of Man
Any of you finish this and can tell me if it's worth persevering with? There's none of the humour I associate with Guy Ritchie and its simply too slow in the build up. Laborious viewing thus far.
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@antipodean said in Re: Movie review thread...:
Wrath of Man
Any of you finish this and can tell me if it's worth persevering with? There's none of the humour I associate with Guy Ritchie and its simply too slow in the build up. Laborious viewing thus far.
I think any director who starts with a one-two punch of brilliant films like he did will always struggle with anything that comes out afterwards
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@mn5 said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@antipodean said in Re: Movie review thread...:
Wrath of Man
Any of you finish this and can tell me if it's worth persevering with? There's none of the humour I associate with Guy Ritchie and its simply too slow in the build up. Laborious viewing thus far.
I think any director who starts with a one-two punch of brilliant films like he did will always struggle with anything that comes out afterwards
True but he's done pretty damn well up until now not to have a Godfather III or a Matrix sequel etc. I suppose every director is permitted one donkey.
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@antipodean oh so you heard of Swept Away then?
Revolver was shit too. Aladdin wasn't much better. Thats King Arthur or what ever it was pretty bad too, the parts where it wanted to be a blockbuster CGI movie anyway. The smaller moments were ok.
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@antipodean said in Re: Movie review thread...:
Wrath of Man
Any of you finish this and can tell me if it's worth persevering with? There's none of the humour I associate with Guy Ritchie and its simply too slow in the build up. Laborious viewing thus far.
I really enjoyed it.
More Heat than Snatch
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@raznomore said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@antipodean oh so you heard of Swept Away then?
Revolver was shit too. Aladdin wasn't much better. Thats King Arthur or what ever it was pretty bad too, the parts where it wanted to be a blockbuster CGI movie anyway. The smaller moments were ok.
I never had. And I wish I hadn't googled it. 3.6 on IMDB? 5% on Rorten Tomatoes???!!!!
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@raznomore said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@antipodean oh so you heard of Swept Away then?
Revolver was shit too. Aladdin wasn't much better. Thats King Arthur or what ever it was pretty bad too, the parts where it wanted to be a blockbuster CGI movie anyway. The smaller moments were ok.
Were those made while he was with Madonna? I unsubscribed at that point and consider them a free pass. I don't recall thinking King Arthur stunk.
