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I know this is the thread for movies but I am not sure if there is an active tv show thread. Just started watching Veep with Julia Louis Dreyfus..the show was created by Armando Iannucci who also directed the movie In the Loop. The interesting thing is he's a Brit who created a show about an American vice presidential candidate and her bumbling, incompetent staff. I have no way of knowing if it's realistic, but I think it's hilarious. Highly recommend.
The Odd Angry Shot
Australian SAS in Vietnam.
Very well told, and a realistic picture of the operational story, with a couple of really well researched and shot jungle patrol segments...
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Originally Posted by broncofan
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I watched 30 minutes of Inherent Vice then had to punch out. Joaquin Phoenix is a mumbling incoherent annoyance (Walk The Line, The Master, Her) who basically emotes through his nostrils and the surrounding cast can't prop up his lazy shit. I wish the Hollywood world would stop trying to force us to believe that we 'just don't understand his genius'.
LUCY - With Scarlett Johansson and Morgan Freeman. Pretension and failure on an epic scale. If you decide to endure the last twenty minutes of this hopeless mess you will regret it.
I'm enduring it as we speak...love it...but then...Quote:
Originally Posted by Jimmy W
I love Scarlett J.
It is, of course, bonkers.
I have no issue with that. The Rum and Coke is helping :-)
I watched 'The Golden Dream' last night and think it is a magnificent film. In turns it's joyous and thoroughly devastating, an incredible 'on the road' human story about a group of Guatemalan kids trying to make their way up to the promised land of the USA. It feels almost documentary in its execution, beautifully scripted and shot and wonderfully naturalistic performances from the principles. I couldn't recommend it highly enough. It's the best thing I've seen in a long time and a wonderful alternative to the Hollywood popcorn driven drivel. If you don't feel for these kids and have a wrench in your guts, you have no guts, if you don't have a tear in your eye at the end of this, you're a better man that me. (maybe not?)
http://www.imdb.com/...3/?ref_=nv_sr_1
Was it that lovely one on Hawthorne a couple of blocks up from 'The Barley Mill'? That used to be my local. Really nice homely gaff at the time (1993-4)
I have not seen many films in the last month as I watched every episode of all six seasons of Homicide: Life on the Streets (1993-1999) one after the other.
However, now back to regular films and
Nightcrawler (Dan Gilroy 2014)
Jake Gyllenhaall must be the most under-rated actor in American films these days, he always puts in an intelligent performance in interesting films, not least as a creep in this film. He rarely blinks in the entire film, and is superb as an absolute egotist whose only moral imperative is to improve his situation regardless of other people, a strategy that leads to devastating results in a film in which the pursuit of some kind of existential recognition of value as a person is linked to uncensored footage of crime scenes where the footage is linked to what the broadcasters think the public want to see, the ratings, and thus the revenue. A disturbing, cruel film but one filmed with eerie lighting an make up, at times Gyllenhaal looks like a spectre. Recommended
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8kYDQan8bw
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Originally Posted by Stavros
Good for you. That's one of the best police dramas ever made, and one of my favorite shows ever. The people responsible for creating Homicide went on to make The Wire for HBO.