Movie review thread...
-
<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="jegga" data-cid="411319" data-time="1390378894">
<div>
<p>I watched it with my ex she didn't get the ending. Good call on absorbing and disturbing , Williams really owned that character. Have you seen this one? <a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Night_Listener_(film)'>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Night_Listener_(film)</a></p>
</div>
</blockquote>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p>Never heard of it. I'll keep my eye open for it.</p> -
<p>Continued my Best Picture candidate viewing:</p>
<p> </p>
<p>American Hustle- a good movie, but not a great one. Acting performances all good (especially JLaw, who is just so... watchable), and had a storyline that was fairly entertaining, although a little confusing at times. Did tend to meander a bit though, and in the end didn't have the punch that it could have. Wouldn't be in my top 3 contenders.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Her- liked this one a lot. Really original storyline, offered something very different to the other best picture movies I have seen. Light-hearted, but makes some pretty sharp observations about love and humanity without descending into chick-flick romance rubbish. Reminded me a bit of 'Stranger than fiction' for some reason... simple enough quasi sci-fi concept but really well executed. In my top 3 with Gravity and 12 Years a Slave.</p> -
<p>Thought <em>American Hustle</em> was a mess. Jennifer Lawrence was horribly miscast. Bale was entertaining. Renner's character was ridiculous.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>[b][url=http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/12/17/the-real-story-and-lesson-of-the-abscam-sting-in-american-hustle.html]The Real Story and Lesson of the Abscam Sting in ‘American Hustleâ€
[/url][/b]<br><br>
Spoilers ahoy.<br><br></p><p></p><blockquote class="ipsBlockquote">[color=#FFFFFF]At first Weinberg targeted white-collar crooks like William Rosenberg, who was told that heâ€d gain $7 million in commissions if he could help the sheikh make a profitable $100-million investment in turning Atlantic City into the Vegas of the East. The only problem was that the sheikh needed a guarantee that the hotel-casino he was helping to build would get a gambling license. Donâ€t worry, Rosenberg said, he knew Camden mayor Angelo Errichetti.<br><br>
Errichetti was a foul-mouthed megalomaniac and “a crook at heart,†Greene wrote. At their first meeting, Errichetti told Weinberg that he could promise a gambling license. “Iâ€ll give you Atlantic City; without me, you do nothing,†he told the sheikhâ€s associates. “Iâ€ll be your rabbi.†He wanted $400,000 in bribes. And over the next year, he offered to get the undercover agents into all types of scams. “He wanted to get into counterfeit money. He wanted to give us the port of Camden for narcotics,†Weinberg said. As The Sting Man shows, Abscam was becoming so outrageous that it was turning into an American Farce.<br><br>
Errichetti opened Abscam wide, and connected Weinberg to a whole host of U.S. congressmen. It had become a political sting. By then, the sheikh wanted American citizenship, and middlemen were finding corrupt politicians who could help in the matter in exchange for cash. Errichettiâ€s proxy in American Hustle is Carmine Polito, played by Jeremy Renner. Russell created a charismatic and trusting family man who wanted the sheikh to reinvigorate Camden and Atlantic City—to create jobs for his people. Christian Baleâ€s Irving Rosenfeld liked Polito so much that he engineered a scheme to blackmail the FBI into giving Polito a reduced sentence. Thatâ€s completely made up, although Weinberg did like Errichetti very much, not because he was a good man but because he was the biggest crook of them all. “Heâ€s a likeable guy… he didnâ€t beat around the bush,†Weinberg told 60 Minutes. “He wanted to make money.â€[/color]</blockquote> -
Wolf of W all Street: bloody long at 3 hours! But I really enjoyed this, I know we should be despising Jordan, but you can't help but think he is all kinds of awesome in this! Living life to the fullest, sex, drugs, sex, drugs and then a ton more drugs and then some more, even if he cheats on prob the hottest wife he could get?<br><br>
Plenty of nudity to satisfy your inner M4L.<br><br>
Acting was very good too, de Caprio was very good, Jonah Hill was great as Jordan's sleazy and depraved sidekick. Based on Jordan's memoirs so maybe he embellished some of it although there were enough people in a lot of the situations to verify what happened. A brief cameo by mcconnaughy too which was good also. <br><br>
Easily the best movie I have seen recently, with a great story, some laughs and great acting.<br><br>
[spoiler]loved the scene when he was at the Country Club and they had taken the old drugs...<br><br>
jordan only spent 22 months in prison, Steve Madden double that, so Jordan musta thrown him under the bus, similar with his mate Donny. <br><br>
Can't believe he tried it on with Joanna lumley....[/spoiler] -
<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="Bones" data-cid="411809" data-time="1390693167">
<div>
<p>Wolf of wall Street. What TR said. <strong>Thought the last hour tended to meander a bit </strong>but the first two hours were brilliant. I was however awfully concious of being the only one cackling at all sorts of depraved shit at various times.</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
<p> </p>
<p>Yeah it did, but I guess if you were him telling his tale, that part of his life probably wasnt quite as cool :)</p>
<p> </p>
<p>One of his sex scenes with his wife, how the feck do they do that, without actually doing anything, cos seriously, I'd find it quite, er hard, in that scenario!</p> -
<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="taniwharugby" data-cid="411823" data-time="1390704816">
<div>
<p>Yeah it did, but I guess if you were him telling his tale, that part of his life probably wasnt quite as cool :)</p>
<p> </p>
<p>One of his sex scenes with his wife, how the feck do they do that, without actually doing anything, cos seriously, I'd find it quite, er hard, in that scenario!</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
<p>I suggest that when we are having these discussions exact time codes are used to help in our research.</p> -
<p>musta been near the end, the 'last time' say 2 hours 40 mins....</p>
-
<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="taniwharugby" data-cid="411828" data-time="1390706491">
<div>
<p>musta been near the end, the 'last time' say 2 hours 40 mins....</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
<p>Yeah I know the one ;), the 'last time ever' one right? </p> -
<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="Bones" data-cid="411886" data-time="1390770772"><p>
To the uneducated it may even appear to be m4l heaven...</p></blockquote>
<br>
When he purchases it on dvd( there's no way would part with it, so renting is out of the question) I expect that scene and the "come up for a cup of tea" scene to be up for a fair bit of scrutiny. -
<p>Escape Plan - has a pretty good cast; Stallone, Arnie, Sam Neill, Jim Calviezel, Vinnie Jones, Fiddy Sent, Vincent D'Onofrio</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Simple premise, Stallone is a dude who gets put into a prison to test it's anti-breaking-out-ness. When he gets offered mega money to try and break out of some new secret CIA prison, he jumps at the chance, but all is not what it seems...</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Decent enough watch for <2 hours, 6/10</p>
