What DVD / Video did you watch last night? (pt3)
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QueenOfGoths
Fuck you Dave!
I havw quite a soft spot for that version, I mean it is pretty shit but there are some good actors in it and it is enjoyable enough
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
and van damme in jcvd.
has schwarzenegger ever been praised as an ACT-OR?
don't think so.
Reno
The In Kraut
He got a little bit of acclaim when he first started doing comedy roles and he has modest skills in doing a double take. He's always been wise in kowing where his limitations are and he's never done a proper dramatic role.
DotCommunist
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Kindergarten Cop and Twins both spring to mind for Arnie doing funny but only funny because it is arnie not actually killing everyone.
Also, D Niro in Meet the Parents. He didn't actually step outside of his intense gangsterish role but because of the situation he was in that became funny.
Once Upon A Time In America is a good example of why De Niro isn't THAT great- some of the performances in that were brilliant, notably the kid who plays his younger self. When he was playing the adult it was strangely one-note. You can forgive it for the beautiful visuals and the nuanced performances from other cast members.
Also, D Niro in Meet the Parents. He didn't actually step outside of his intense gangsterish role but because of the situation he was in that became funny.
Once Upon A Time In America is a good example of why De Niro isn't THAT great- some of the performances in that were brilliant, notably the kid who plays his younger self. When he was playing the adult it was strangely one-note. You can forgive it for the beautiful visuals and the nuanced performances from other cast members.
Reno
The In Kraut
I completely disagree with you on De Niro there. He's fantastic and rather subtle in Once Upon a Time in America, playing a man who is emotionally stunted. Elizabeth McGovern is the one role which is terribly miscast. She really suffers from the comparison with Jennifer Connelly, who is much better as the younger version.
I think you are pretty much on your own in classing him as an action films star there. De Niro is rightly considered as one of the great American actors and he never became as hammy and shouty as Pacino did in later years.
I think you are pretty much on your own in classing him as an action films star there. De Niro is rightly considered as one of the great American actors and he never became as hammy and shouty as Pacino did in later years.
Nanker Phelge
Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
I thought DeNiro was great in Once Upon A Time......
Leone said he was amazing to work with, and they used the same filiming methods as on the westerns, filming without recording sound, but playing the soundtrack as they acted and then dubbing everything else later.
The role calls for him to play a man returning hesitantly to a past that was nothing but threat to him. He plays it like a scared and cautious human being, and that's what comes across.
Lots of films would have had the big bad gangster coming back and toughing it out, whereas the character of noodles has no balls left, just the knowledge that he had been a vicious, rapist, double-crossing cunt who shit on everything and everyone around him.
No wonder he was pensive.
Leone said he was amazing to work with, and they used the same filiming methods as on the westerns, filming without recording sound, but playing the soundtrack as they acted and then dubbing everything else later.
The role calls for him to play a man returning hesitantly to a past that was nothing but threat to him. He plays it like a scared and cautious human being, and that's what comes across.
Lots of films would have had the big bad gangster coming back and toughing it out, whereas the character of noodles has no balls left, just the knowledge that he had been a vicious, rapist, double-crossing cunt who shit on everything and everyone around him.
No wonder he was pensive.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
I dunno, for me the only scene where he really really shone through was when explaining why he wouldn't kill the guy who had stolen his woman and his life. The way he delivered that speech about being old, hands shaking etc really made the film for me- although overall I preferred the childhood scenes. A damn long film but I never even noticed till the credits rolled and I looked at the clock. Makes me want to seek out more sergio
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
What did you make of Carlito's Way, Reno? I recall thoroughly enjoying it but in compare/contrast with OUATIA it doesn't even touch the same league really imho.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
i found that rather annoying, but then i find al pacino rather annoying
Reno
The In Kraut
Love the film and it's one of Pacino more restrained later performances. It's not in the same league as OUTIA which is one of my all time favourites, but it's still great.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
sean penn is ridiculous in it. i've never rated him as an actor
Reno
The In Kraut
Great wig though.
I liked him in it. I like the whole take on the 70s disco era in Carlito's Way which in terms of art direction for once isn't represented to look tacky and ridiculous.
I remember liking Carlito's Way when I was going through gangster films, not sure how it would play nowadays.
Last night I watched Reno's recommended Left Bank. I rated it too despite the occasional bad dialogue (possibly bad interpretation in the subs) and a bit far fetched in some of the plot. Like Let the right one in it was really nicely shot and a change to the usual horror stuff.
Then watched Au Revoir Les Enfants. Always imagined this wouldn't be much my cup of tea and started out thinking it wasn't really going anywhere. really liked it by the end though.
Tonight I've just watched Zidane: A 21st century portrait. I'm not a football fan but the little un was keen to watch it. I expected a regular documentary and despite being far from a straightforward film he stuck with it and thought it was great. I found it captivating, really amazing and beautifully made. For a film that just floats along the 90 minutes went really quickly, far quicker than a football match would. Mogwai score was a bonus, well recommended.
Last night I watched Reno's recommended Left Bank. I rated it too despite the occasional bad dialogue (possibly bad interpretation in the subs) and a bit far fetched in some of the plot. Like Let the right one in it was really nicely shot and a change to the usual horror stuff.
Then watched Au Revoir Les Enfants. Always imagined this wouldn't be much my cup of tea and started out thinking it wasn't really going anywhere. really liked it by the end though.
Tonight I've just watched Zidane: A 21st century portrait. I'm not a football fan but the little un was keen to watch it. I expected a regular documentary and despite being far from a straightforward film he stuck with it and thought it was great. I found it captivating, really amazing and beautifully made. For a film that just floats along the 90 minutes went really quickly, far quicker than a football match would. Mogwai score was a bonus, well recommended.
Johnny Canuck3
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Kickass. A prepubescent girl slices the legs off grown men. Later, the same prepubescent girl gets the living shit kicked out of her by a grown man. But does he prevail? Fuck no!
It all happens to this on the soundtrack:
It all happens to this on the soundtrack:
Johnny Canuck3
Well-Known Member
Au contraire: Imo he's one of the best actors of the generation.
Nanker Phelge
Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
Crazy Heart - A truly predictable film in which Jeff Bridges does a fantastic impression of Kris Kristofferson as a drunken country singer going through all the usual movie cliches attached to films about musicians and Maggie Gyllenhaal is yet again cast as a stupid woman making stupid choices about stupid men.
When will she realise that playing weak women living shit lives is not really challenging acting?
Bridges was actually as good as always but why they didn't serve this role straight up to Kristofferson is beyond me. Maybe it was too close to home for him?
When will she realise that playing weak women living shit lives is not really challenging acting?
Bridges was actually as good as always but why they didn't serve this role straight up to Kristofferson is beyond me. Maybe it was too close to home for him?
Nanker Phelge
Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
Yes, the early scene when they are a young gang are the most fun.
andy2002
To the Bat-poles!
Public Enemies - the cast's impressive (Depp, Bale, Cotillard), the film looks great, there are some exciting action sequences and the John Dillinger story is a fascinating one. But this never really engages as much as it should - it just never grabs you and makes you care about its characters. One of the problems could be Depp - who I usually like. He turns in a very low-key performance that makes me wonder if he was entirely comfortable in the role. Not bad but a bit disappointing.
Nanker Phelge
Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
I thought it was shit. A wasted opportunity. And factually bollocks.
Motown_ben
Well-Known Member
Episode 8 of True Blood season 3.
andy2002
To the Bat-poles!
Fish Tank - Suitably harrowing depiction of life on an Essex council estate complete with pitbull terriers, grimy flats and a cliched single mum straight off Jeremy Kyle. Young Katie Jarvis is great in it and the film's pretty engrossing, but I couldn't quite shake the feeling this was just 'chav porn' for the chattering classes to tut at.
Reno
The In Kraut
I didn't think there was anything hugely harrowing or particularely worthy to tut about in the film. That girls childhood was not much worse than my middleclass childhood and she's a likable character. There are dysfunctional parents in all classes and while the mother was a cow, she wasn't a complete monster.
The Octagon
Stop...Hammertime
Film4 Wrong Turn at terrible film had to watch end see what happens
Translation - I had a 90 minute Eliza Dushku wank.
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