| Author |
Message |
|
| Befade |
 Posted: Wed Mar 25, 2015 1:58 pm |
 |
|
|
Joined: 20 May 2004
Posts: 3784
Location: AZ
|
| The Killing in my opinion one of the best tv detective/murder mysteries of all time. Not just Kinnaman. Please All the actors especially Enos. The atmosphere: gray, rainy, the pan shots of Seattle. The soundtrack combined with the lack of dialogue. Of course I'm watching it now for the second time. House of Cards and Bloodline don't have the power to hold my attention like The Killing does. |
_________________
Lost in my own private I dunno. |
|
| Back to top |
 
|
| billyweeds |
| Posted: Wed Mar 25, 2015 3:04 pm |
|
|
Joined: 20 May 2004
Posts: 20618
Location: New York City
|
The Killing was pretty polarizing, even in my house, where I detested it and my wife wound up very much a fan. Mireille Enos did zilch for me, though I was subsequently amazed at her performance in the Schwarzenegger trashfest Sabotage, where she burned up the screen in a totally different kind of role. See it, btw. Trashy vibe aside, it's riveting.
Kinnaman was also terrific in the Denzel Washington snoozer Safe House, where JK had one sequence and one only, but for me stole the flick. |
|
|
| Back to top |
|
| Befade |
| Posted: Wed Mar 25, 2015 3:46 pm |
|
|
|
Joined: 20 May 2004
Posts: 3784
Location: AZ
|
Thanks, Billy.......I'll check out those other films.
Basically, I think I like quiet films.......Foxcatcher being my favorite last year. (I'm saying this because I'm reading the book Quiet.)
Carol.......I like your mother's story.......getting her to think and consider new options. |
_________________
Lost in my own private I dunno. |
|
| Back to top |
|
| gromit |
| Posted: Fri Mar 27, 2015 11:58 am |
|
|
Joined: 31 Aug 2004
Posts: 9016
Location: Shanghai
|
I just ran across this:
In 2014, Fox announced that they have secured the filming rights to Marie Brenner's 1997 Vanity Fair article "American Nightmare: The Ballad of Richard Jewell"[23][24] with Jonah Hill signed on to play Jewell and Leonardo DiCaprio set to play his attorney.
Could be interesting ...
Jewell was of course the Atlanta Olympics bombing security guy/hero who for a time was considered a key suspect. |
_________________
Killing your enemies, if it's done badly, increases their number. |
|
| Back to top |
|
| billyweeds |
| Posted: Sun Mar 29, 2015 5:43 am |
|
|
|
Joined: 20 May 2004
Posts: 20618
Location: New York City
|
As a longtime and enthusiastic fan of Noah Baumbach's, I was looking forward to his current dramedy While We're Young with more than usual eagerness. The premise sounded yummy--a generation gap story between Generations X and Y, with Ben Stiller and Naomi Watts as the comparative graybeards to Adam Driver and Amanda Seyfried's youngsters. The middle-agers meet the hipsters in present-day Williamsburg and environs and all are taken for a satiric ride. One hoped and presumed.
The buzz was good around this movie, and the cast was promising, and as I said, I trusted in Baumbach. But...you knew where this was going, didn't you?...it didn't work out quite as expected. The movie is pretty much a bummer. This is not EXACTLY a spoiler, but instead of a Truffaut-tinged romp like Frances Ha, this Baumbach was more in line with...are you ready?-- All About Eve. A fine movie for sure, but not the kind of movie I was looking for here. Would-be documentary filmmaker Driver cultivates one-hit-wonder Stiller, a somewhat depressed Stiller finds the attention enlivening, wife Watts goes along, their married friends get disenchanted, and finally it all blows up. It's not funny enough to be a good comedy and not dramatic enough to make you care. Even the great Charles Grodin is wasted as Watts's revered documentarian father. In short, I preferred even Baumbach's imperfect and critically trashed Margot at the Wedding to this one. Lower your expectations a lot. |
|
|
| Back to top |
|
| Syd |
| Posted: Sun Mar 29, 2015 9:26 am |
|
|
Site Admin
Joined: 21 May 2004
Posts: 12929
Location: Norman, Oklahoma
|
| I just realized I was confusing Margot at the Wedding, which I haven't seen, with Rachel Getting Married, which was definitely not trashed. |
_________________
Rocky Laocoon foretold of Troy's doom, only to find snaky water. They pulled him in and Rocky can't swim. Now Rocky wishes he were an otter! |
|
| Back to top |
|
| gromit |
| Posted: Wed Apr 01, 2015 6:37 am |
|
|
|
Joined: 31 Aug 2004
Posts: 9016
Location: Shanghai
|
Mommy was Canada's 2014 submission for foreign film Oscar and won the Jury Prize at Cannes.
A single mother tries to make ends meet and deal with her psychotic son. Anne Dorval is quite good as the cougar mom, who is barely able to hold her own impulses in check. At times, pretty, then trashy, confident, then vulnerable. The son prone to psychotic episodes is a harder role to pull off.
The film itself has some powerful scenes, but is also rather heavy-handed. And the stuttering neighbor who becomes their friend and the boy's teacher is a bit too convenient of a plot device/character. See somebody also with family troubles and flaws can succeed, damaged people can help each other, etc. I also thought the music montage scenes were dull and sometimes the youth culture references seemed a bit clunky.
But it is an interesting film and good lead performance. Just none too subtle. |
_________________
Killing your enemies, if it's done badly, increases their number. |
|
| Back to top |
|
| gromit |
| Posted: Thu Apr 09, 2015 12:24 pm |
|
|
|
Joined: 31 Aug 2004
Posts: 9016
Location: Shanghai
|
| I think I read somewhere that Clint Eastwood had signed on to direct the Richard Jewell film. Doesn't sound like the kind of thing I dream ... |
_________________
Killing your enemies, if it's done badly, increases their number. |
|
| Back to top |
|
| gromit |
| Posted: Wed Apr 15, 2015 12:24 pm |
|
|
|
Joined: 31 Aug 2004
Posts: 9016
Location: Shanghai
|
Anyone familiar with You're Not You (Hilary Swank, Emmy Rossum, Josh Duhamel) or Accidental Love (David O. Russell directed)? The former sounds possibly annoying, while I usually like DOR, but this looks questionable ...
Ah, Accidental Love was a David O Russell film, originalyl titled Nailed, but he pulled his name from it, as it was largely filmed on and off in 2008-09, before finally getting stuck in production limbo. Well, I seriously doubt it's as good as Margaret, which had a similar fate, but now I'm pretty curious to see it ... |
_________________
Killing your enemies, if it's done badly, increases their number. |
|
| Back to top |
|
| bartist |
| Posted: Wed Apr 15, 2015 11:53 pm |
|
|
|
Joined: 27 Apr 2010
Posts: 6961
Location: Black Hills
|
| J Biels gets shot in the head with a nail gun and gets weird and super-horny...what's not to like? But it did get Alan Smithee slapped on it, so that might make you wonder in what respect DOR gave up on it. |
_________________
He was wise beyond his years, but only by a few days. |
|
| Back to top |
|
| Ghulam |
| Posted: Thu Apr 16, 2015 2:26 am |
|
|
Joined: 20 May 2004
Posts: 4742
Location: Upstate NY
|
The spooky flick It Follows does succeed in creating some very scary scenes. Worth a look.
. |
|
|
| Back to top |
|
| gromit |
| Posted: Thu Apr 16, 2015 4:44 am |
|
|
|
Joined: 31 Aug 2004
Posts: 9016
Location: Shanghai
|
Laggies was entirely fine and would be decent to watch all or part of on cable. Keira Knightley plays a slacker/directionless 20 something -- I guess Greta Gerwig was busy -- who ends up palling around with high schoolers, while all her friends are getting married and having babies. There's one funny scene where her boyfriend's proposal gets interrupted.
I still don't get how wimpy and ineffectual the males all are in these slacker-girl films. At least I liked the father who comes across as a large Tom Bosley. Sam Rockwell is somewhat off as a Lawyer-Dad, until one scene where he gets to do some lawyering which surprisingly was convincing. It's a decent film, more competent and watchable than interesting or adventurous. There's some over-written dialogue at times, in the hip Diablo Cody manner.
Young Adult is another in the same vein, and in my o, much better. And I really liked Little Children which more focuses on the adults and infidelity and hanging out with teens is a small part.
I guess skateboarding is the go-to shorthand for teen culture, as that's used in both Little Children and Laggies. |
Last edited by gromit on Thu Apr 16, 2015 9:41 am; edited 1 time in total
_________________
Killing your enemies, if it's done badly, increases their number. |
|
| Back to top |
|
| billyweeds |
| Posted: Thu Apr 16, 2015 8:55 am |
|
|
|
Joined: 20 May 2004
Posts: 20618
Location: New York City
|
| I was hoping to love Danny Collins, but no such luck. That said, it's intermittently okay, and Pacino gives his best performance in years, which alone makes it worth a look. The movie has a tired feel, as aging (or aged) rock star DC (AP), going through the Neil-Diamond-style motions, tries to reclaim his worth as a human being, giving up his projected tour and reconnecting with the son he abandoned decades ago. Things happen, a lot of them expected and a few surprising. It could have been better--a lot better--but as noted it's not entirely worthless. Supprting cast is stellar (A. Bening, C. Pliummer, B. Cannavale, J. Garner). |
|
|
| Back to top |
|
| bartist |
| Posted: Fri Apr 17, 2015 12:32 pm |
|
|
|
Joined: 27 Apr 2010
Posts: 6961
Location: Black Hills
|
| ... |
Last edited by bartist on Sat Apr 18, 2015 8:37 am; edited 2 times in total
_________________
He was wise beyond his years, but only by a few days. |
|
| Back to top |
|
| gromit |
| Posted: Fri Apr 17, 2015 12:44 pm |
|
|
|
Joined: 31 Aug 2004
Posts: 9016
Location: Shanghai
|
I enjoyed Inherent Vice. My expectations were pretty low for whatever reason, and the film delivered a fun wild ride.
Joaquin Phoenix looks like Joe Cocker and acts like the Dude from the Big Lebowski. Actually with a shaggy detective story and assorted Nazis, there are a good deal of similarities. I'd rec it for fans of Lebowski.
I think Phoenix and Brolin had a lot of fun making this film.
My biggest complaint was that the sound wasn't great and I frequently had to go back and turn on the subtitles. |
_________________
Killing your enemies, if it's done badly, increases their number. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
|
