Empire is a boring film
Banshee season 4 episode 4 . What's not to like about a town with Neo nazis, Amish gangsters, black ops, women vigilantes , santanic cults and a murder investigation of a young woman
Even in his early classics Tarantino's chatty scripts could feel clumsy and forced, but this was more so than usual. There was just too much babbling away....and little of any of it added much to the story or the 'tension' being built.
So if the second film lives up to expectations more, why did you give it a lower score? (that rhymes! )The Witch - more about the story than the horror, of which there is little, but what there is is very good. Otherwise it's slow and a bit disappointing if you view it expecting what the trailer promises. 7/10
Southbound - this one lives up to expectations a bit more, but the apparent lack of experience of the directors shows, though not to the point where it's massively detrimental to the movie. 6/10
The Hateful Eight
Probably loses some impact on the small screen (particularly the first 30-40 mins out in the wilderness, some lovely shots), but after that it's kind of a cross between Reservoir Dogs and The Thing.
Hard to judge it given that Tarantino is a marmite filmmaker, personally I enjoy the long stretches of dialogue punctuated by quick moments of brutality, and overly theatrical setting (you tend not to forget you're watching a film with QT as a director and writer), but can imagine it feeling quite slow to others and some of the dialogue is a little too self-referential.
Walton Goggins was the standout (as he has been for several years on The Shield and Justified), but all the actors have their moments (apart from Michael Madsen perhaps) and it was enjoyable enough, if not one of his better films.
Bloody, foul-mouthed and smartly plotted (although not as clever as it thinks it is) - 7/10
Started watching Line of Duty and was very impressed. More of this tonight
Empire is a boring film
yeah its on netflix. I made it to ep 2 but ju suis fatigue by that point so will have to rewatch from thereFrom the start of series 1?
I enjoyed The Force Awakens very much and I am an adult.Is there a Star Wars film that isn't boring to the adult brain?
well its really when you think about it full of the tropes of a folk tale, now we can pretend our concept of adulthood means thats now boring but it embodies concepts that have never fallen from fictional use because they speak to human experience, or at least to what the human wants to be. Rescue the princess. Defeat the evil wizard. Be part of a band of warriors and friends. Old school really. Zipes is excellent on skewering the worst aspects of the tale and doing so with impeccable research. But. I'll take a fairy story over Human Centipede or Hostel any day of the week. Evin that Devils Rejects film, that was a good watch but so so grubby. Sometimes the adult mind wants stories where the good bears out and evil is slapped back into its box. Tales of personal redemption. This is probably why I watch It's A Wonderful Life every yearIs there a Star Wars film that isn't boring to the adult brain?