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Nightfall has an extremely low rating on iMDB, but I don't think it's THAT bad. It's a very loose adaptation of a short story by Asimov. I like some of the themes, even though they remind me a bit too much of the Bible near the end. The biggest and most glaring problem is that almost all scenes are very short and they keep cutting between two of three groups of people. 50 seconds of group 1, then 30 seconds of group 2, followed by an even shorter montage of people from groups 2 and 3 doing inconsequential things. It's also hard to determine the passage of time. At the end the darkness comes very suddenly, even though it's supposed to be this cataclysmic event from an ancient prophecy.
The first forty minutes of The Hunt are great
but there is so much irony in it turning into a generic stronk womyn action film
the speech about how the liberals do what they're accused of doing to the conservatives because they accused them and makes them justified in doing it is astonishingly accurate to the liberal mentality
It's the least-Tarantino of Tarantino's movies (probably owing to it being his first), so a lot of what you'd expect out of him in Pulp isn't there. I don't know if that's a selling point for you or not, but it's a great film nonetheless.
Reservoir Dogs is a masterpiece, and one of the few modern movies to adhere to the three classical unities of time, place and action. Almost all of the action occurs in the same place, at the same time, regarding the same action. It's so perfect, even Aristotelian.
Tarantino was asked if he went to film school (he didn't) and responded no, I went to films. And it shows.
Jackie Brown is one of his best. He went out on a limb and put Pam Grier as the lead. This is one of his best artistic choices and Grier was one of his best leads. He had a perfect sense for getting the performance of a lifetime out of actors who seemed washed-up (Carradine and Travolta).
Also the soundtrack for Jackie Brown was absolutely perfect.
I seriously think picking a black woman as a lead, even though it probably cost him some viewers, was a brave and artistically correct choice that is why, in addition to Samuel L. Jackson, that he is the one white man in Hollywood with a permanent N-word pass.
Reservoir Dogs is a masterpiece, and one of the few modern movies to adhere to the three classical unities of time, place and action. Almost all of the action occurs in the same place, at the same time, regarding the same action. It's so perfect, even Aristotelian.
I don't know quite how to word it, but something I think Dogs does to great effect is having characters leave the scene and return without being distracting about it. It's almost as if you're watching a classical play at times if I had to compare it to other media. There aren't a whole lot of times we as the audience aren't viewing the setting from across the room we're in most of the time, and he really does get an incredible amount of mileage out of such a limited space. There are very few moments I can recall the camera being anywhere but on the other end of the room. Closeups aren't terribly frequent, zooms less so, and the pans are so slow as to be unnoticable. It's such a treat to watch.
I went to the new Spongebob movie while daydrinking. The lady at the counter gave me a look when I asked for three cans of bourbon. She's dumb, I already pregamed plus I have a flask, you have no power over me. They were nine dollars each.
The movie sucked. Tom Kenny's voice is busted and they don't know how to write Patrick anymore. There were a lot of kids there, like maybe six families with four kids each. None of them laughed. I think I heard an adult softly chuckle at one point. In the last third of the movie something started to smell like shit. There were no babies at the movie but there were multiple aboriginals present. I'll let you draw your own conclusions. 0/10. The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles skit at the start was one of the worst things I've ever seen. I almost walked out several times but it's a hot day and the room is air-conditioned. Don't watch.
I on a whim watched the The Long Goodbye and really like it but it felt a bit messy. I absolutely loved just following around Elliott Gould as Philip marlowe through the beautiful cinematography but the actual story and mystery felt muddy and unfocused. I appreciate a movie not spoon feeding me, and maybe I am just retarded, but some the important connections went by to fast to register and it made it look like Marlowe was just bumbling into stuff. Still there was plenty of intrigue and a good bit of tension especially with the weird fucking gangster but Marlowes 100% commitment to be a eternal smart ass quickly lowered it outside of the couple 0 to 100 scenes.
To be fair I haven't seen to much classical noir and no Philip Marlowe stories so any supposed satire was completely lost on me. Maybe if I had watch the big sleep or something more would have click, I'd probably still be confused by the half naked hippie chick neighbors, still even without that knowledge I'd easily recommend it, preferably while enjoying a nice coke.
There's also a cute cat and surprise schwarzenegger
I on a whim watched the The Long Goodbye and really like it but it felt a bit messy. I absolutely loved just following around Elliott Gould as Philip marlowe through the beautiful cinematography but the actual story and mystery felt muddy and unfocused. I appreciate a movie not spoon feeding me, and maybe I am just retarded, but some the important connections went by to fast to register and it made it look like Marlowe was just bumbling into stuff. Still there was plenty of intrigue and a good bit of tension especially with the weird fucking gangster but Marlowes 100% commitment to be a eternal smart ass quickly lowered it outside of the couple 0 to 100 scenes.
To be fair I haven't seen to much classical noir and no Philip Marlowe stories so any supposed satire was completely lost on me. Maybe if I had watch the big sleep or something more would have click, I'd probably still be confused by the half naked hippie chick neighbors, still even without that knowledge I'd easily recommend it, preferably while enjoying a nice coke.
There's also a cute cat and surprise schwarzenegger
Watched No Other Choice.
Premise is that Korean man loses his job and then tries to to get rid of his competition for a new job opportunity.
I enjoyed it a lot. The cinematography is superb the story is interesting and has a point.
While the movie tells a quite serious story it is also very funny at times, the good kind of funny, not the marvel kind.
If only Korean names weren't all the same, that always confuses me.
Great movie overall, go see it, if not for the cinematography alone.
Absolutely Yes- Hard hard agree! His choice in soundtracks is always 100 /100 imo!
Edit: my recent contribution....
I gave "The Rip" on Netflix a go. Uhh, not so good folks. Kind of sucked frankly imo. My bf and I got all warm and comfy and cozy; high, and relaxed. Got a DD salted brown butter cookie HD sent over to share sat down and the suck fest began.
It's typically not my type of movie, I got that going in though but tried to give it a chance. Not my interest in movies wise= kind of thing_ but he wanted to watch it so.
It's good. Good performance from Harrison Ford, a bit of fish out of water humor interacting with the Amish, tight plotting, just all around a solid film.
It's really good. I only recently saw it for the first time, for some reason I was under the impression it was some type of courtroom drama when that really couldn't be further from the truth (I think I got it confused with Primal Fear somehow). Harrison Ford and Kelly McGillis have crazy chemistry in it, there's a ton of good scenes between them. One of Viggo Mortensen's first film roles too, although I don't think he has any dialogue.
I also watched The Rip and... it sure is a Joe Carnahan movie. Joe Carnahan made Narc back in 2002, and it was OK - a serviceable "which one is the dirty cop?!?" movie elevated to pretty good by Jason Patric and Ray Liotta. And he's re-made that movie like...7?...times? This is the latest iteration, and I think it's the worst of all. This movie is elevated by the acting of Matt Damon and Ben Affleck. You read that correctly, this movie is actually elevated by current day Mattfleck acting.
Nothing makes sense, every character is either retarded or grating, and there's a literal 20 minute end chase scene that's both logistically impossible and you are absolutely not invested in. The only thing it has going for it is that everyone involved kind of takes it seriously and there's no Marvel quipping.
It starts with the death of a character that is so immediately irritating you're rooting for her death, and ends with a Disney wrap-up scene where everyone from the DEA and FBI down to the Miami PD ignores literally everything that has occured in the past 12 hours (including police deaths, police killing civilians, police ignoring all local, state and federal policy resulting in destruction of vehicles, roads, houses and other infrastructure).
There's no nudity, there's no interesting gunfights, chase scenes, confrontations or anything. There's a cute little counter-intel scheme that plays out, but you're so uninvested that if they didn't blatantly spell it out for you like you were a retard that you wouldn't even notice. Also it doesn't make sense at all (by the time the guy calls the house with the baited number, he knows it's a baited number so absolutely wouldn't mention it).
But other than that it's fine. It's good to see Damon and Affleck barking at each other for a few minutes.
Finally got around to watching "Romeo is Bleeding" (1993), has been sitting on one of my to-watch lists for seemingly forever.
I've been going into movies completely blind for years by now, was delighted once i realized it's a neo-noir film. Stars a young Gary Oldman as a corrupt NY cop (who does a terrific job at faking the fuhgeddaboudit NY Italo-american accent, Ralph Fiennes and other britbongs can only dream about being this convincing when putting on a yank accent) who gets into shit when a tip-off of his to the local crime family doesn't work out as expected. Not gonna spoil anything more apart from how the film, to me, unexpectedly explodes in its third act.
Lena Olin is, next to Oldman, the highlight of this film, she plays the femme fatale and she does it fantastically. Completely unhinged performance, never coming across as too forced or goofy. Sopranos fans will also spot some familiar faces in this one. Michael Wincott, who is almost criminally under-utilized in this film, also has a role that is great. The only really bad casting choice is Roy Scheider as the mob boss, the posh brit accent just does not work when portraying a character like that.
While the film didn't blow me away or is anywhere near must-watch territory i found it to be a very competent and solid film. If you like gritty NY crime films you will like this.
As is the fashion in many noir films this one has an off-narration by Oldman's character all throughout the movie. There's one scene where things are getting hectic and the whole style of the narration switches from calm and collected to this and i loved it:
Pretty much my favorite scene in the film.
I usually check out Wikipedia after watching a movie to see how it did at the box office and what critics at the time said, did so for this one as well. Critics did not seem to understand what this film was supposed to be and it is by far not a too complex or hard to understand movie. Also, the 27% score it has on RT is simply preposterous and showed me for the umpteenth time how worthless that site is.
This is one of my favorite Oldmans. It's so serious, bleak and brutal. I agree that Olin is great, too. She's such a nutjob it's all the more satisfying when she gets blasted Peckinpah style at the end. If I could set my phone's GPS to use any voice, it would be Wincott's. Maybe he should've played Scheider's part.
He legit got a voice where i can picture women getting wet from listening to it. Handsome motherfucker too, and a good actor. Rewatched "Strange Days" a couple of days ago and he just kills it in that one.
Watched that last year and thought it was outstanding. I think i sperged about it in a post ITT. Really suprised me by how good it was. I love gritty, inner-city crime films so i know i am biased with my opinion of the film. I haven't seen Jason Patric in anything before and i agree that he elevates this film by a lot, superb acting and screen presence. Liotta playing the stone-cold psycho cop was also great.
Watched that last year and thought it was outstanding. I think i sperged about it in a post ITT. Really suprised me by how good it was. I love gritty, inner-city crime films so i know i am biased with my opinion of the film. I haven't seen Jason Patric in anything before and i agree that he elevates this film by a lot, superb acting and screen presence. Liotta playing the stone-cold psycho cop was also great.
Yeah Jason Patric had a really great run of roles from Lost Boys to Rush (probably his best performance) to Sleepers (a super under-rated movie that everyone always forgets about - although it's tonal shifts are insane). Even stuff like Speed 2 and The Alamo are better because of his performances. I don't know what he did to piss Hollywood off, or maybe he just got bored with acting because since the mid 00s, he's just done low budget junk every couple of years, probably just for house payments or whatever.
Narc's problem was that it came out at the tail end of so many other good, gritty cop movies that did everything it did even better; and it lacked any style or personality outside of the two amazing leads. And that really shows in Carnahan's later works. Although he tried to ape Guy Ritchie and Tarantino with Smokin' Aces (and while that movie is fun, it's so extremely try-hard), he just doesn't really have his own vision or style, which kind of bogs down his movies.
Anyway, for sure just re-watch Narc instead of watching The Rip.
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