esoteric1

Watched this yesterday:



Lots of action and violence, and the hot chick gets naked.





Nothing too cerebral for sure.

btw for you Googlers, her real name is Olga Kurylenko, Ukranian.

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keeshou

A really good series and I can't understand how this only rated one season. The acting and story line place it up to movie quality in my book. I especially liked the brother who was the Heroin addict. I've met a few reckless abandon (and still likable) guys like that and you know they're going to get you neck deep in trouble, but you still can't walk away from them.

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reinvented

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yep baffled me completely. nothing new but good writing, gritty, very hot chick and some good characters. the hells kitchen stting was fantastic, not quite the wire, but the wire for white people
9/10

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Nothing is The Wire.

reinvented

wire is excellent, the first-third seasons of the sopranos were better

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esoteric1

Shooter



Ned Beatty's pretty good portraying a corrupt US Senator. Again a movie with lots of action and violence.

I particularly liked the ending.

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Robin Friday

The Sopranos is the only other show which bears up to a comparison. I do actually disagree though, for me The Wire is out and out the greatest television show ever made.

kenkannif

RR didn't have nowt to do with True Romance....rather Tarantino wrote it, Tony Scott directed it.

I saw......Doomsday.....not as good as NM's other stuff, sometimes a big budget isn't a good thing.

Steet Kings I enjoyed.

Diary of the Dead was okay.

Anamorph(is?)....weird...not sure if I 'got it'!!!

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MikeS

Lions for Lambs - Robert Redford, Meryl Streep, Tom Cruise.
Big ideas and fine cameo performances end in an anti-climax because the movie parallels the state of America, which is also down. Maybe its five years too early for a more satisfying ending, but then Redford is getting rather old to wait another five years to make this. A serious movie which won't interest the shoot em up types, even though it has violence. The script is about disillusionment and failed ideals. Does America have the will to be the world's policeman, or has its gumption been undermined by excess and selfish gorging? As an intellectual exercise its good, but as a movie, after a promising start the ending fails to grip the viewer.

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Tommyk

Watched 88 Minutes, Al Pacino couldn't save this disaster. Utter rubbish.
3/10

Robin Friday

Agreed, fucking terrible film. Saw it ages ago too. Almost a year ago now I think and it's only now hitting theatres in some countries.

When was Al Pacino last in something worth watching?

Watched Rescue Dawn. last night. Good, solid film. I wonder what happened to the skinny gimp's character played by the skinny gimp actor who was in Saving Private Ryan and is now in Lost?

Another Bale film I watched last week was 3.10 To Yuma and though Bale and Crowe were both watchable enough the movie itself was really only above average. Not a patch on Open Range which was the most recent great western I've seen. I think. I do have The Assassination Of Jesse James teed up for the next few days though. Opinion seems rather divided on that.

kenkannif

I quite enjoyed 88 Minutes....sorry

I enjoyed Rescue Dawn (Herzog initially made it a good few years ago as Little Dieter Learns to Fly).

JJ is supposed to be quite boring?

I've got Open Range but never watched it, is it worth it? Action packed?

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Robin Friday

Open Range in my opinion is fantastic. Don't be put off by Costner's involvement he's really rather great in it. This is more Tin Cup quality Costner than Waterworld Costner. I do advise watching it with optimum sound though. The gunfight at the end is brilliant and it is enhanced by some epic audio for the gunfire. Very much like Unforgiven though not quite in that league. Very few westerns are, certainly not contemporary ones anyway.

JJ boring? Yes that seems to be one of the criticisms from those that didn't rate it but others say it's measured and not at all really a western and mora a character study. Mark Kermode had it as his favourite of the year I think. It's certainly been pretty divisive and when I clock divisive films I generally err on the side of thinking it's going to be ace. Magnolia for instance is about as divisive as it gets and that's one of the best films I've ever seen.

I watched Speed Racer at the cinema today while I had a few hours between lessons. I went in expecting to hate it and find it annoying. I didn't it was surprisingly mega. One of the wildest things I've ever seen from a visuals and FX perspective. I'm not sure it would have at all the same impact on a smaller screen but at the cinema it was pretty mint. More than pretty mint actually. A bit of a return to form for the Wachowski Bros, sorry Wachowski brother and weird katoey type thing after those awful Matrix sequels. I've never seen the cartoon it was based on but it really seemed to capture the manic energy of some of the better cartoons without seeming overly twee. Even the fat little comic relief kid with his best mate the monkey were watchable. Very inventive and thoroughly exhilarating races.

I'm really quite shocked.

LeedsLeedsLeeds

I saw Alexander last night as I like historical filums but for some reason I just didn't really like it. I don't think that this matches up to previous Oliver Stone efforts at all which is disappointing as he has done truly remarkable things in the past. It's worth a watch but there's something not quite right about it and I can't put my finger on it just yet, maybe someone else has some insight.

Just for Eso's sake I will say watch it for nothing other than Rosario Dawson's jugs.

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