To be fair, the older guys aren't well designed for Musical , and the younger ones I bet was plucked fresh from Drama school
Can you imagine Maximus singing? lol... he's kinda made up for it by looking straight dumb though
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Can you imagine Maximus singing? lol... he's kinda made up for it by looking straight dumb though
I can perfectly imagine Crowe tap dancing his way through the Coliseum and singing about how he'll get his revenge in this life or the next! That needs to be done!Can you imagine Maximus singing? lol... he's kinda made up for it by looking straight dumb though
There's nothing wrong with how the film looks. It generally looks fantastic, and all the settings (particularly the opening scene, the Barricade and any town/Paris shots from high) are great.... I just take issue with how it was shot. The long close-ups just did not work... they made intresting/dramatic songs feel uninteresting, and you can tell they didn't work because they were barely there in the 2nd half of the film.
I also don't know what they were thinking when they filmed Hugh Jackmans song in the church (was it just me, or did he sing this in a Scottish accent?), that was terrible, and there were also several instances in this film where the camera is shaking slightly, despite being fixed on on spot/scene... aside from all that, there was nothing interesting about how this film is shot. For instance, there is one song sung by two people, where the camera just cuts from face to face, depending on who is singing. Urgh.
It all got better as the film went on, but in the first half especially, it really stood out.
Holy Motors felt like being shown someone elses favourite youtube videos and having to sit through them all out of politeness: The Starwars Kid, an obnoxious Jackass inspired leprechaun, Kylie's latest single, a cheesy melodrama, funny gorillas and some anthropomorphic cars. Irritating.
I liked The Hunger Games, a strange mix of teen drama, dark satire and violence. I thought the colour palette was interesting. The industrial greys, garish neons and forest greens created an unsettling contrast. The actual games suffer slightly from not being quite as good as Battle Royal - which itself suffered from being nowhere near as good as Lord of the Flies. Still the story is engaging and I'd watch Jennifer Lawrence in anything.
I thought Martha Marcy May Marlene was a really great film. What it does so brilliantly, is it conveys a sense of alienation, felt by the main character. To the extent that her relationship, with both 'families', feels disturbing and sinister. It's put together really well. It has a dream like quality, with the past and present blending into each other. It's quite disorientating but entrancing.
I liked The Hunger Games, a strange mix of teen drama, dark satire and violence. I thought the colour palette was interesting. The industrial greys, garish neons and forest greens created an unsettling contrast. The actual games suffer slightly from not being quite as good as Battle Royal - which itself suffered from being nowhere near as good as Lord of the Flies. Still the story is engaging and I'd watch Jennifer Lawrence in anything.
I thought Martha Marcy May Marlene was a really great film. What it does so brilliantly, is it conveys a sense of alienation, felt by the main character. To the extent that her relationship, with both 'families', feels disturbing and sinister. It's put together really well. It has a dream like quality, with the past and present blending into each other. It's quite disorientating but entrancing.
In the sense that some of the violence wasn't very witty, rather being there just because. Not in the sense that Django buys a car and and rams people with it. Maybe I got that impression because I missed part of the film but a lot of it seemed like Tarantino thinking "Oh, I know, I'll just kill him."
Flight
Really good film. Denzel is fantastic as usual, Goodman puts in a great cameo, too, and the supporting cast are all top notch. The beginning of the film, the crash, has you on the edge of your seat, and the slow self-destruction of Denzel plucks at the heart strings. It's a story about addiction and redemption, and is well worth your time and money. 9/10
Really good film. Denzel is fantastic as usual, Goodman puts in a great cameo, too, and the supporting cast are all top notch. The beginning of the film, the crash, has you on the edge of your seat, and the slow self-destruction of Denzel plucks at the heart strings. It's a story about addiction and redemption, and is well worth your time and money. 9/10
Kill List
Two ex-army guys make their money by being hired assassins. They take out nasty people, like paedos and priests. There's a bit of domestic argy-bargy with one of the soldiers and his wife, and he's the one who actually kills the people on the list in the film. We're led down one avenue throughout the film, and it all seems like an entertaining violent hitman romp, then, like Dawn til Dusk, there's a huge about-turn (which I won't spoil) and we're thrust into a horror film.
I enjoyed it and you might, too. 7.75/10
Two ex-army guys make their money by being hired assassins. They take out nasty people, like paedos and priests. There's a bit of domestic argy-bargy with one of the soldiers and his wife, and he's the one who actually kills the people on the list in the film. We're led down one avenue throughout the film, and it all seems like an entertaining violent hitman romp, then, like Dawn til Dusk, there's a huge about-turn (which I won't spoil) and we're thrust into a horror film.
I enjoyed it and you might, too. 7.75/10
He once locked one of his actresses (I think it was the woman in the Shining) in a cupboard to get her to act the way he wants...
tbf is there a great director who wasn't a massive prick by all accounts?
Orson Welles.
Just kidding.
Just kidding.
thats what directors do, its their job to get the actors to act and if that means scaring the shit out of them in order to get them to "act" the way they visualise a scene then thats what they have to do.
Haters gonna hate. #teamHolyMotors
Precisely. And it was Shelley Duvall in The Shining I believe which was a pretty good performance.
Really enjoyed this one too, although the English boyfriend (of the main character's sister) pissed me off for some reason. Good performance too from John Hawkes (Sol in deadwood) as the ****/commune leader.
What they really needed was large robots hitting each other.
Zing!
she was brilliant in that film.
I remember also reading that William Friedkin fired a gun in order to get one of the actors to look really scared while shooting a scene in the Exorcist.
Doesn't surprise me as anybody who has seen Killer Joe knows Friedkin is nuts.
Werner Herzog has been known to employ similar unorthodox techniques especially with Klaus Kinski whilst shooting Aguirre Wrath of God apparently he would wind him up between takes, and wait till he'd calm down a bit before shooting. He even threatened to shoot him and shoot himself on one occasion if Kinski left the set.
I think that might have been a completely different film.
To be fair, Wibbs loves Blade Runner... So all is forgiven.
And to be fair I merely thought that that robot film was good entertainment for it's target audience - 10-12 year old boys - one of which I had at the time the film came out (he is still here bit not 12).
You can enjoy films like There Is Something About Mary for example without neccesarily they are a better film or higher art form than The Godfather. Funnily enough.
You can enjoy films like There Is Something About Mary for example without neccesarily they are a better film or higher art form than The Godfather. Funnily enough.
It seems like Kubrick and Real Steel go hand in hand in this thread.
He also disliked Looper. I reckon he's alright.
I have it on VHS, DVD plus 2 x Blu ray versions of all 5 versions. For a grand total or 12 copies. I probably have it saved on a DVD somewhere from when I downloaded it years ago so I may have another 1 or 2 copies.
They are both a bit shit so maybe.
Boooo, but he makes up for it by liking Beasts of the Southern Wild.
It was a good idea that ended up being a pretty big disappointment.
A truly wonderful film IMO even though now people have reacted to how much it was liked by disliking it for taking advantage of the Hurricane Katrina or something.
I fell asleep. I'm gutted I put it on so late.
The fantasy scenes don't 100% hit the mark always although without them the film might have been a bit one paced and depressing. Overall I loved it. Watch it again. If for no other reason than to watch the little girl - her performance was remarkable.
I think many sharp, whippersnappers are very eager to put it in a firmly social realistic context which I think is wrong.
There were significant social realism in the film (the fantasy sections and floating whorehouse bits aside) in that it was examining what happens to people who were already disenfranchised when such a disaster strikes but the idea that this was in effect a ghoulish exploitation of the victims of Hurricane Katrina seemed ludicrous to me.
If the actress is playing a woman traumatized by a recent sexual assault, should he rape her?
It's callous, egomaniacal bullying - no more, no less.
A film about large robots hitting each other.
Rocky with Robots.
Although the robots had a bit more character.
Although the robots had a bit more character.
Wibbs, check out Howl's Moving Castle.
obviously there are boundaries mate, your being a tad sensationalist
its what actors sign up for
Did you not think it was one of Ghibli's lesser works?