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:iagree:Funny how all of these Le Carre movies ,although produced / directed by different people over several decades , seem to have that "never catches fire" quality. I think I enjoyed the books more ,but also found myself putting them aside to finish later.Quote:
Originally Posted by Stavros
However , I like Le Carre as a writer and as a person. His roots go way back to the Oxford College 'old boys network' /Kim Philby days.
Looking forward to the upcoming TV series ,The Night Manager.
Bourne Supremacy. Huge fan of the Bourne series here :D
The Punisher(Tom Jane version)
Remembered why this was one of my favorite movies back in high school.
I agree, although I would make an exception for the two BBC tv series' with Alec Guinness -Tinker, Tailor, Soldier Spy (1979) and Smiley's People (1982) possibly working better for being much longer than a feature film. There are no car chases or action scenes in Le Carre, perhaps that is what the films are lacking. The Little Drummer Girl was also a flop on screen.Quote:
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Enjoyed it.
Going Clear (2015 - currently on HBO)
If you know little or nothing about Scientology, its roots and its current problems, then you will probably find this documentary to be fascinating, and perhaps utterly so. If you've read the various accounts of ex-members through the years, then there might not be much new for you here. Hubbard was probably a pyschopath and Miscavige is surely a sociopath. 90% of the story of Scientology revolves around the figure eight orbits around those two men. What the general public doesn't realize is that far less than 10% of the story revolves around Travolta and Cruise.
Sinatra: All or Nothing at All (2015 - currently on HBO)
I confess I only saw the last 2 out of 3 hours of this documentary and will very likely not watch the first hour on re-run, unless I have a hankering for some old photos of Ava Gardner. Nothing new here really that we didn't already know about Sinatra. The filmmaker(s) sort of poked at the intrigue around his being a hardcore Kennedy Democrat and then later finding great love for Reagan, Nixon and, yes, Agnew. The entire documentary is like this - mention the intriguing stuff but don't bother doing some tough investigation and drawing strong conclusions. I guess that was the price they paid to get Sinatra family involvement. The most interesting part of it was listening to Mia Farrow's narration of the events of his courtship and brief marriage to her.
Jason Bourne will return next year. They're making a new one. I love those movies even though I've never been a big fan of Matt Damon. By the way, every movie he's made since the Bourne films has been a flop. Paul Greengrass will return to direct. I read that Damon wouldn't do it without him. Can't wait to see that Bourne style action again. This should be good. Extreme ways are back again...:dancing:Quote:
Originally Posted by CD_Sasha
I wonder if Tony Gilroy will be involved in the writing. Gilroy seems to be the common link btwn the 3 movies, all of which seemed quite strong to me. It's tough to make a trilogy and not have a weak link in there, but they pulled it off in this series.Quote:
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I think Damon is a serviceable leading man and does a decent job in most of his roles. I thought he carried off both The Good Shepherd and The Adjustment Bureau in a credible way.
Looks like the next Bourne ( still untitled , 'Bourne 5' will be the first Bourne film without Gilroy.
http://screenrant.com/tag/bourne-5/
http://collider.com/bourne-5-release-date/
Just finished The Interpreter with Sean Penn and Nicole Kidman. Before that was Predestination with Ethan Hawke. That was a very bizarre film. Not sure how I feel about it. And before that was American Hustle. I really enjoyed it. The style of it reminded me a lot of Scorsese.
Just saw Kingsman, with brit actors.. nice spoof of James Bond
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Leviathan (Andrey Zvyagintsev, 2014)
Little man takes on the system, loses. Set in a coastal town on the Barents Sea in north-western Russia, this well made film has no surprises or inspiration to make it compelling viewing. The photography rescues the film with some symbolic imagery that works but as I say is hardly innovative. It is based loosely on the real life events surrounding the death of Marvin Heemeyer in Colorado in 2004.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oo7H25kirk
But at least Damon will be back.Quote:
Originally Posted by sukumvit boy
Congo (1995)
A terrible film...but its good for a laugh.
I actually recently purchased and read
the original 1980 novel...and this is
truly a case of the novel being better
than the book.
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I remember that "Congo" did very well at the box office when it came out despite the terrible reviews.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ultron
The last movie I watched in a theater was "It Follows."
The last movie I watched on Blu-ray was David Cronenberg's "Scanners." (1981)
Seventh Son, wasn't too bad for what it was... a low rent sword & sorcery flick. Jeff Bridges is one of my favorite actors so I'll watch any old piece of junk he's in, lol.
Avengers: Age of Ultron and it was the tits. Not as good as the first one but still one of the best I've seen so far this year
GREAT way to start off blockbuster season. My favorite time of year!
Feel free to read my movie reviews, once I manage to launch my blog!
They said it will also have Jeremy Renner. This usualy means that they will most likley kill of one the actors, Damen or Renner. I've seen them do it in a lot of movies.
Norte, The End of History (Lav Diaz, 2014)
At just over four hours this is one of the shortest films Diaz has made, and is a version of Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment relocated to Ilocos Norte in the Philippines. A brilliant law student who has dropped out of law school has become so obsessed with the end of history and all conventional ideas as nothing but a construct that he is unable, intellectually, to engage with his studies or indeed with life, other than at a purely emotional level. This leads him into destructive and self-destructive behaviour, with a devastating impact on a poor family who have to sell their Carenderia when the husband cannot work owing to an injury and the local moneylender moves in to claim the business. It is not clear why the husband takes the rap for the murder of the moneylender and why his appeals never succeed, some may feel that in the four hours it takes to tell this story detail is not one of Diaz's strong points, whereas the photography is outstanding. It was a moving film, but not in an overwhelming way, there is virtually no dialogue for long parts of the film. It also has a performance by the transgendered actor Raymond Lee who produced the Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros. I would only recommend this to people who can sit through very long and very slow paced films. It also maintains the trend for 'art films' from the Philippines to depict the country as a wasteland of hope where life is nasty, brutal and short.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRRAaWFQR0o
The Judge with Robert Downey Jr., and Robert Duvall
The Imitation Game
I've been meaning to watch this just haven't gotten around to it. I've spent quite a bit of time in the Philippines over the past 3 years and I can assure you that life here is nasty and brutal. One just has to scratch the surface of sunshine/smiles/simplicity and the nastiness looks you right in the eye. I've never encountered a more corrupt - morally and ethically - nation than what I've found in Phils. For a voyeur like me, this place has no end of interesting and intriguing things to observe.Quote:
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The film sounds like it's a documentary more than a work of fiction.
The Rover.
Not very often you see a midget get shot in the head! :shrug
has anyone mentioned "Ex Machina" yet?
Interesting, very visually appealing. I can't put my finger on why yet, but the disco scene is amazing.
I saw "Age of Ultron" recently, too. I'm not the fanboy target audience, admittedly, but I thought it was pretty awful- even for a Marvel superhero flick.
The exposition re: why Pepper and the other chick aren't In the film was especially embarrassing.
Tremendous amount of CGI, but they're just phoning it in at this point and relying too much on the films already released.
Just watched the 1978 Donald Sutherland version of Invasion of the Body Snatchers, the best version of that story out of the 3 or 4 that have been made. I hadn't seen it in a really long time and it holds up surprisingly well. It's suspenseful, has good effects for the time, a very creepy Leonard Nimoy, and the classic ending.
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I hope you will give it a try, it is very long and very slow so be aware of that. As someone who knows the PI you will notice the absence of mobile phones and also the church, and I think this is deliberate. The religious devotion of most Filipinos is hinted at in the story of the family whose faith seems to be taken for granted, and who suffer the most from the corruption in the country, but it's not their fault, whereas the man who has rejected law, politics and religion and is free to do what he wants destroys everything he comes into contact with. It is also noticable that the woman tells her children she and her husband thought about working abroad but decided to remain in Ilocos Norte, evidently the wrong decision! If there is a message here, the director seems to be saying nothing works in the Philippines, and there is no hope anything will. Bleak.Quote:
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Interstellar! Amazing movie and one of my top 5 greatest of all time, if anyone wants to talk about it send me a message!
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I saw ex machina. It is a story about a tech entrepreneur who created a robot with all of the mental and emotional attributes of a human. He invites one of his programmers to his very large estate to perform a Turing test. The Turing Test is a way of determining whether a machine has artificial intelligence. If the evaluator thinks he is interacting with a human, the machine passes (the test here is not blinded so it would be a spoiler to reveal what aspect of human behavior the creator is testing). Anyhow, everyone including the machine has an ulterior motive and there are a few good twists and turns. A more current, though probably still unrealistic or very far removed version of what would happen if machines could be designed with human attributes, however defined. I enjoyed it, though some of the computer science talk was a bit obscure for me.
Birdman: Or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (Alejandro Inarritu, 2014)
Inarritu makes films that present themselves as deeply meaningful and which either work -as did Babel, for me- or they do not, eg 21 Grams. In this film an actor (Michael Keaton) whose reputation was based on a superhero attempts to prove he is a genuine actor and sinks most of his assets into a Broadway adaptation of a Raymond Carver story. He is vain and deluded, as I assume are most actors some if not all of the time (aren't we all?) and as the previews begin there is a dramatic change of cast as the character played by Edward Norton brings originality and edge into the show. For some reason the Norton character all but disappears in the last third of the film but it doesn't really matter as this shallow nonsense has long passed its point of interest by then. If the virtue of ignorance lies in acting being real rather than contrived, one might argue this film was more contrived than real, suggesting ignorance is indeed bliss, though the reality is that this was a waste of £10. I did not see this in the cinema when it was released, so the dvd will be on its way to the charity shop very soon.
Hercules
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1267297/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
Better than I expected! :shrug
Mad Max: Fury Road
This is a 2 hour movie and roughly 1hr and 40mins of it is pure pulse pounding action, excellent cinematography, awesome set pieces
and no story to speak of what-so-ever but the characters have enough personality to make the action scenes tense.
There really isn't much to say about this movie honestly, so i'll sum it up with 2 words SAND TORNADO
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