sonic_bouma Posted January 6, 2013 Share Posted January 6, 2013 watched The Imposter last night still thinking about it something seriously not quite right with that mother brilliant documentary Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stewiek2 Posted January 6, 2013 Share Posted January 6, 2013 Watched Django Unchained last night. Typical Tarantino drawing on spaghetti westerns, spolitation movies. First haldf is superb, really fizzes by. Second half when they get to Calvin Candie's, slows the pace down, It's marverlloualy ovcer the top in places, average in others, utterly brilliant in other parts. Jamie Foxx gives a real intensity and underlying, understandable hatred to Django, while Christopher Waltz is an absolute joy as Dr Shultz. DiCaprio is fast becoming a fave actor of mine, he utterly relishes being the baddie with his portraylo of Calvin Candie, while Sam Jackaons Simon is loathsome. I loved it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coda Posted January 6, 2013 Share Posted January 6, 2013 watched The Imposter last night still thinking about it something seriously not quite right with that mother brilliant documentary I know he wasn't right in the head but I hated that French guy in it. I felt the garden bit at the end was a little staged. A fascinating, strange tale. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel Posted January 6, 2013 Share Posted January 6, 2013 watched The Imposter last night still thinking about it something seriously not quite right with that mother brilliant documentary Was just about to post about this. Didn't know what to expect before i watched it, but it turned out to be very good. Also watched End of Watch. It's a really different take to the normal police films you see. Alot of self shot footage in this film too, never usually a fan of it, but it worked good. The chemistry between the two main characters (Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael Pena) is very appealing. Again not the sort of film i usually like, but in the end it was a good watch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PieFacE Posted January 6, 2013 VT Supporter Share Posted January 6, 2013 (edited) I really liked End Of Watch til one scene... When the two main characters walk through the apartment courtyard and the Hispanic gangsters are waiting with about 4 AK47's. They all pretty much unload a whole clip and hit everything but the two people. Stupid scene ruined the film Edited January 6, 2013 by PieFacE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rodders Posted January 6, 2013 Share Posted January 6, 2013 Watched Cercle Rouge yesterday, a superb french noir by Melville and now just gave up on Defiance after 15 minutes. What a truly terrible film. Flicking between polush and accented english is just stupid. Pick one and be xonsistent, though going off craigs accent, polish would have been best. Dialogue was so woodenly hollywood too im confident i havent missed a classic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
avfc1982 Posted January 7, 2013 Share Posted January 7, 2013 Yeah, in a few of his earlier efforts...there's even reference to Villa winning the 82 European Cup in one! Lee Child, born in Brum but moved to Cov early in life (poor bastard) and a Villa fan It's the other way around. He was born in Cov but moved to Birmingham (Handsworth) as a baby. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AVFCDAN Posted January 7, 2013 Share Posted January 7, 2013 Totally agree with this, from the first half of the film I thought this is going to be tarantinos masterpiece but by the end it was still an amazing film although I probably like inglorious a little bit more. Still a 9/10 film for me Watched Django Unchained last night. Typical Tarantino drawing on spaghetti westerns, spolitation movies. First haldf is superb, really fizzes by. Second half when they get to Calvin Candie's, slows the pace down, It's marverlloualy ovcer the top in places, average in others, utterly brilliant in other parts. Jamie Foxx gives a real intensity and underlying, understandable hatred to Django, while Christopher Waltz is an absolute joy as Dr Shultz. DiCaprio is fast becoming a fave actor of mine, he utterly relishes being the baddie with his portraylo of Calvin Candie, while Sam Jackaons Simon is loathsome. I loved it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted January 7, 2013 VT Supporter Share Posted January 7, 2013 Some films I watched over the christmas period, and some 1 line reviews Troll Hunter: Meh. Expected better from what others had said 6/10 The Artist: Superb. Loved pretty much every second of it 9/10 The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (American): Still excellent on the second watch, and cemented my opinion that it's better than the swedish version 8/10 Project X: not a great film but hugely enjoyable (if that makes sense). Worth the watch but far from a classic 6/10 Bronson: Absolutely mental. Not even close to what I was expecting. Tom Hardy is superb, and the film falls just short of excellent imo 8/10 Ponyo: Brilliant family film. Charming and great fun throughout. For those with kids I'd recommend it (I don't have kids but I still loved it) 8/10 (mental cast too for the American voiceovers. I didn't recognise their voices during the film but the credits surprised me!) Kiss Kiss Bang Bang: Managed to inadvertently avoid this film ever since it came out, so knew nothign about it. Pleasantly surprised by how much I loved it. Kilmer and RDJ are excellent and the dialogue in the film is brilliant 8.5/10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PieFacE Posted January 7, 2013 VT Supporter Share Posted January 7, 2013 Watched Django Unchained and The Impossible yesterday. Django - 8.5/10. Preferred Inglorious Bastards to it. But Django was still a fantastic film. The Impossible - 7/10 - I like true stories and the film kept me interested throughout. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted January 7, 2013 VT Supporter Share Posted January 7, 2013 Totally agree with this, from the first half of the film I thought this is going to be tarantinos masterpiece Wouldn't Pulp Fiction qualify as his "masterpiece"? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AVFCforever1991 Posted January 7, 2013 Share Posted January 7, 2013 (edited) I'd say so.. Edited January 7, 2013 by AVFCforever1991 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AVFCDAN Posted January 7, 2013 Share Posted January 7, 2013 Wouldn't Pulp Fiction qualify as his "masterpiece"? For a lot of people yes but not for me personally. His best film for me is Inglorious but from the first half of django I honestly thought it was going to top it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted January 7, 2013 VT Supporter Share Posted January 7, 2013 Interesting. I loved Inglorious, FWIW. But Pulp Fiction is one of the best films ever made, imo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eames Posted January 7, 2013 Share Posted January 7, 2013 The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (American): Still excellent on the second watch, and cemented my opinion that it's better than the swedish version 8/10 Can I ask why you think that. I can't see the point in the Daniel Craig remake other than the fact that people won't watch subtitled films. It was a shot for shot copy of the original that added nothing - like the US remake of Let the Right One In. Totally pointless. Oh and Noomi Rapace > Rooney Mara. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted January 7, 2013 VT Supporter Share Posted January 7, 2013 (edited) Can I ask why you think that. I can't see the point in the Daniel Craig remake other than the fact that people won't watch subtitled films. It was a shot for shot copy of the original that added nothing - like the US remake of Let the Right One In. Totally pointless. Oh and Noomi Rapace > Rooney Mara. I think it's better in pretty much every way. I disagree entirely with Rapace being better than Mara (if you're talking purely about looks, then fair enough, each to their own (although I'd disagree on that as well)). Mara's version is much much closer to how Salander is portrayed in the book than Rapace's (which was miles off both in personality and looks), although Mara's still falls short of nailing it down entirely, although I'm not sure you could ever nail that character on screen. The film is longer, which it badly badly needed. The Swedish version still includes the majority of stuff from the book, but crams it into a much shorter time frame and as a result the whole thing seems rushed. There's no time to digest anything, it's just throwing stuff at you every second and it suffers. Particularly the part where his daughter comes to stay and it's how he figures out the bible quotations from Harriet's diary. I can't remember exactly how the Swedish version handled it, but I remember thinking it wasn't done very well. In the book, that's a major plot point and the Swedish version glossed over it, IIRC Daniel Craig compared to Nyqvist isn't even close. Again, more to do with the characters in the book than the actors. Nyqvist just isn't anywhere near how Blomkvist should be. The film as a whole is just better, imo. It's got a better director, higher production values and a better cast. Whilst none of that SHOULD always matter, in this case it does. The film handles the plot a lot better as a result, and the tension and character devlopment unfolds way better in the Hollywood version. it's far from a perfect film, and it has annoying things, like the whole some people having Swedish accents and some people not, or the slight tweaking of the ending (although I don't think that added or took anything away from the film, just served to shorten an already long film without hurting the story) But I don't see it as a remake of the Swedish version. Rather a "reimagining" of the book. It's a different film based on the same book, rather than a new film based on the old film... if that makes sense. If the Hollywood version had come out first, I don't think there would even be a debate. But because the Swedish was the original and it's in foreign, I think people think it's better. Edited January 7, 2013 by Stevo985 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eames Posted January 7, 2013 Share Posted January 7, 2013 Thats your opinion... which I respect. However mine is the total opposite of yours. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarewsEyebrowDesigner Posted January 7, 2013 Share Posted January 7, 2013 Jackie Brown is Tarantino's best. Pulp Fiction undoubtedly the more influential, but not the best. I'm looking forward to Django Unchained but I'm expecting another Inglorious style mash up with a few terrific scenes in between a lot of waffle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted January 7, 2013 VT Supporter Share Posted January 7, 2013 Thats your opinion... which I respect. However mine is the total opposite of yours. All of it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GarethRDR Posted January 7, 2013 Share Posted January 7, 2013 How good does that **** strudel look in Inglorious Basterds? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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