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A Johnny Depp Weekend...
The Brave - 1997 - Directed and Co-written by Johnny Depp himself. Only directed film
Blow - 2001 - A biopic about George Jung, an affiliate in a Colombian Drug Cartel
A Brazilian film - Ultimo Parada 174.. Fiction story Based on a bus hijacker in Brazil
"When Worlds Collide: The Untold Story of the Americas After Columbus" proved to be a captivating documentary with focus on:
1) South America (New world) before contact
2) The New world after contact
3) The influence of the New world on Europe
4) The influence of Europe on the New World
5) The mixing (mestizo) culture that has come from it
With the overall theme of "mestizo" culture and how this mixture of cultures, races, and religions influences each of these worlds was in part fascinating and horrific. There is a contention within the doc when it comes to dealing with the mixture of religion which was not looked into in depth but would prove interesting as well.
While there is a prevailing negativity towards the Spanish Colonizers (who could blame him?) there is also a strong push to prove how advanced, prosperous and positive the various Americas cultures were (Inca, Maya, Aztecs).
The bgm deserves special mention as well.
Lock, Stock and two smoking barrels
Not as good as 'Snatch'. But still watchable..
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Originally Posted by ajaybaskar
For me LSTSB was way better than snatch
I share the same view of Ajay. Liked Snatch better than Lock Stock. May be because I watched Snatch first.
Yeah "Snatch" I enjoyed more than "Lock, Stock..." has anyone watched "Layer Cake"?
"Rock n Rolla" was pretty good too.
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the-social-network/#
Fincher's social network has opened up to great reviews. I hope to catch it this week.
Fincher's Social Network opens Mumbai film festival too!
I watched all Ritchie films in chronological order. I'd rate "Lock stock.." as his best film, way better than Snatch. Agree with Vicky.
Querida,
"Layer Cake" is rather good (Vaughn's Ritchie-inspired formalism). "Stardust" is like one of those workable Disney ventures. OTOH, I found "Kickass" to be 'meh' - even stylistically, and above all, ethically deplorable (And I'm not one of those tight-asses in terms of violence on screen)..Vaughn's consistent divergence in style & tone makes him a less exciting filmmaker in my view. Some would say "versatile".
Sherlock Holmes, finally! The Ritchie wit, Rob Downey Jr-Jude Law combo, n my fav baritone in hollywood for sometime (mark strong) made this a repeat watch candidate for me! not surprised that the film didn't work for many tho.
hope DDL signs up for part 2.
Rendume onnu dhaane :razz:Quote:
Originally Posted by Vivasaayi
oh, it's about ritchie eh..coincidence! my favs in the order: Lock Stock way above the rest, RnR the next (yeah, dat baritone of mark strong again, n dat man tom wilkinson!), Snatch etc etc...
:evil: mr. puliyan biriyani this three much, ungala kaiyila kedachaa kaimaa panniduven :D ! it's one of my favorite films ya, it deserves indulgence, not yawn i say! and mr. pitt, for once displayed amazing restraint, got the character graph (the changing circumstances around jesse james through the film) perfectly right! yes, casey affleck was the standout perfo, but to me, this is one of brad pitt's best, if not the best yet! don't know whether it got a nomination or not, but definitely deserved a nomination! give it a second watch! i know it moves at its own pace (and hence ur 'yawn' maybe!) but i caught it on hbo on a lazy saturday night 11:15 pm show and to my own surprise was engaged and watched it fully, and made me own a dvd of the film! cinematography is the other major highlight of the film...Quote:
Originally Posted by Puliyan_Biryani
think k_g has written some about this film in the previous edition of the thread...as usual, some great points there!
The Assassination of Jesse James is a very well made film IMO, it is slow I agree but it's like "Zodiac" of "Public Enemies" you know what the end is, but nonetheless it's captivating to see such heralded figures as just humans. it's worth a watch. Casey is amazing but Brad Pitt is just as good.
CC of BB I also enjoyed...it's pace was slow too and plot far fetched but that Brad got easier on the eyes as the movie went along certainly helped! :lol: :P
What's wrong with gunning for an Oscar? As long as it results in a remarkable movie then I don't mind...but then again "Jerry Maquire" got an oscar too... :roll: :roll:
the major difference could be brad pitt pesunadhu onnume purila ..Quote:
Originally Posted by Bala (Karthik)
:ashamed:
:D that's why I watched with subtitles...:wink:Quote:
Originally Posted by Vivasaayi
For Clint and Tommy Lee Jones movies too... :P
Bounty Hunter watchable..
a clichéd Hollywood drama!
Ghost Writer - Roman Polaski at work! :notworthy: Great material from the ever-dependable Robert Harris..deserves a second viewing!
The Expendables - very much a late 80s b-grade action flick(and that means gud news for someone like me who hates todays' rope trick dominated fights, this is pure bang bang!). Jason Statham is cool as usual. The saddest n intolerable(s) part of the movie was watching Mickey Rourke being reduced to what he was, sitting there all the time and made to utter some of the poorly written dialogues ever that made no sense in the film!
Alice in wonderland (2010) :clap: nice movie.. sinna pillaila padichathu.. :P
I loved TGW. Polanski :notworthy: In deed!Quote:
Originally Posted by jinju
I still haven't watched The Expendables. :(
Feddy,
Have you seen the social network? I might go tonight.
Illinga, paakalai. Ninga poitu vandhu sollunga. Initial Reviews ellam nalla than irukku.
Yahoo movies main page shows A for critics and A- for users.Quote:
Originally Posted by Nerd
http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/181012...VQaG90b3MzMQ--
Make sure to have a good sound system for this.Quote:
Originally Posted by kid-glove
Basically story is quite thin but something in it made me like it. I remember even Groucho brother liked it.
2.1 with central woofer podhumA?Quote:
Originally Posted by Kambar_Kannagi
Yeah, I don't expect a "story" or even a "plot". Action set-pieces one after other by the action heroes. :D
K_G, there is a church scene where Arnold will join Stallone and Bruce, just like one min.
After exchanging a few dialogues, Arnold walks away and Bruce say an one-liner about him to Stallone... Cracked me up (and all those in the cinema hall).
Paarthu sollungga. :)
Btw, the sound system is for experiencing the explosions and gun shots. Re-recording at it's best. :)
Missed the chance to watch this movie... :(Quote:
Originally Posted by jinju
i should know by now we all fall asleep by the 2nd movie during movie marathons anyways...
Enjoyed "The Pianist"...watched "Macbeth" in school...don't ask :roll:
and have read so many in depth synopsis/analyses of "Rosemary's Baby" that I feel like I've practically watched it....any other good ones?
oh yes, these r among his best. of course, i think u wud've watched the obvious number one of polanski: Chinatown :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Querida
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Originally Posted by kid-glove
just scanned back the pages to read ur write-up on TGW. actually i agree a bit with P_R too regarding that conversation over dinner part...found it kind of hurried thru. nevertheless, one of his best!
ahem, Expendables is a throwback to gud ol' action films...heard that there's a second part in the offing. hope sly fits in steven seagal, chuck norris, van damme this time. even jackie chan in a setpiece action scene with jet li! and yes, bruce willis shud get a proper role..that scene which kambar mentioned is one of the best moments for a fan...and sly's last line in that scene is hilarious.
:oops: ivlo tungsten aavuraaru. periya kovakkaararaa iruppaaru polaye. unga padathula varra "Poetry don't work on whores" quote-a inge apply panni ennai mannichu vitturukkalaam :ashamed: :lol: .Quote:
Originally Posted by jinju
ungalai maadhiri theevira rasigargalukkaaga, 4 hours Director's cut onnu release panna poraangalaam. paaaaaathu enjoy pannunga.
It has been a while since I saw this movie, but I remember the cinematography, locations and music were excellent. I sure do like to watch a lingering drama, but the pace (not length) of the movie is the major turn off for me. Sometimes I felt my mind was also wandering
like Jesse James' (especially in the scene where Jesse is riding towards a solitary house).
Spoilers: The part where Jesse commits suicide (figuratively by removing his guns) doesn't sit well with me. I understand that he was consummed by guilt, but he also had a wife and children. Wouldn't the love for life override the guilt and make him go ahead with his planned murders?
All said, I would definitely give it a rewatch. If I end up liking it, I would have no qualms in accepting that it is a good movie :D.
Mam waitees waitees. Myself, Feddy and kid were dicussing about who will play the Professor Moriarty role of Sherlock Holmes. Since Pitt is gunning for the Oscar, he might not do an action film like Holmes. That is all I said and I have no issues with Oscar quests :oops:.Quote:
Originally Posted by Querida
BTB, the role of Professor Moriarty has gone to Jared Harris (son of Richard Harris). Brad Pitt-kum bebbe, DDL-kum bebbe :lol2:
On my ever-growing movie list, I assure you. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by jinju
Nesamalumaa? :(Quote:
Originally Posted by Puliyan_Biryani
Aanalum parava illa, look-u irukku:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/ima...red_harris.jpg
Another reason might be that he is a Brit. But he does look the part though.Quote:
Originally Posted by groucho070
More News on SH2:
Stepher Fry is cast as Mycroft Holmes - Sherlock's more intelligent but lazy(ier) elder brother.
Noomi Rapace (Girl with the Dragon Tattoo) will play the female lead.
That looks okay. Always felt the older, Mycroft looked like Brando in Apocalypse Now.
Spoilers: below
By Jim Castagnera
Special to The History Place
1/2/07
In a perver1se way, Robert DeNiro's The Good Shepherd is as much about family and tribe as it is about the birth pangs of the Central Intelligence Agency. Edward Wilson (Matt Damon) is the son of a Navy admiral who killed himself because in some ambiguous way he had betrayed God, country and family. The stoic "incurably romantic" Wilson's life is in many ways a penance for the sins of the father. Later, Wilson's own son (Eddie Redmayne) follows his father's footsteps into the CIA with tragic consequences. His shortcomings and his father's promise to protect him create the dramatic dilemma at the film's core. Wilson's solution to the dilemma is reminiscent of Michael Corleone's ruthlessness in The Godfather.
The film's seemingly flawless evocation of the 1950s is equally evocative of The Godfather. Those of us old enough to remember the Fifties cannot avoid a sense of déjà vu. Both films get things just right--down to the wallpaper and the curtains. No surprise then, that The Good Shepherd's executive producers include Francis Ford Coppola, who directed the Godfather saga.
The Good Shepherd opens with the Bay of Pigs debacle. Damon's character is depicted as having a key role in the abortive 1961 invasion of Cuba. He quickly concludes that a leak near the top tipped Castro to the precise landing site. A counter intelligence specialist by long experience and personal preference, he heads down an investigative trail that inevitably leads to his own front door.
As Damon/Wilson's inquiry marches down its narrow, convoluted path, the film itself takes a quick turn, back to 1939, when Wilson was recruited first to Yale's top-secret Skull and Bones fraternity and from there into the new, nameless agency that would be World War II's OSS. DeNiro himself appears as General Bill Sullivan, aka Wild Bill Donovan. Sullivan's recruiting of Wilson takes just a five-minute conversation. The call from Sullivan to go to covert war subsequently comes as a set of orders delivered by a green lieutenant in the middle of Wilson's wedding reception. His already pregnant wife (Angelina Jolie) doesn't see him again for half a dozen years.
Those six years of counterintelligence work in England and post-war Berlin test Wilson's idealism, as he is forced to dispose of a disloyal lover and an unreliable mentor. Back home at last in 1947, he is once more recruited by good old General Sullivan, who is being whittled away by diabetes. "It's undignified to die from the feet up," he confides with a rueful chuckle to Wilson, who unhesitatingly signs on for the CIA.
Wilson's son, Edward Jr., who meets his daddy for the first time in '47, grows up in a living hell of fear, infidelity and secrecy. What does this atmosphere of official secrecy and marital deceit inspire him to do? Why, to become a spy just like the old man, of course. And like his father, he too is an incurable romantic whose professionalism and patriotism--same as dear old dad's--are compromised by the love of a woman.
Three hours of interwoven flashbacks and flash-forwards are more than enough to present the panoply of CIA sins. We witness the interrogation of a suspected double-agent, complete with LSD. We see grainy black-and-white footage of what LeCarre's George Smiley books call "a honey trap," a sordid blend of sex and stolen secrets in a shabby hotel room where a peephole camera records the lot. We are treated to the assassination of an old but now-unreliable colleague along the Thames embankment; the last we see of the poor devil is his cane bobbing in the river. And we observe the overthrow of the equally unreliable president of a Banana Republic.
The film's pace is slow. Damon's portrayal of the central (no pun intended) character is meticulous and masterful. The star-studded supporting cast is darned near letter perfect. Movie-goers who consider Casino Royale the epitome of the espionage genre won't sit through The Good Shepherd. But history buffs who like books such as Norman Mailer's Harlot's Ghost, another evocation of the birth of CIA, will adore this epic saga.
Near the end, Edward (never "Ed" in a million years) Wilson moves into his counterintelligence wing of the brand-new Langley headquarters. The agency's new director recalls for Wilson his recent Congressional testimony.
"A Senator asked me, 'Why is it always CIA, never 'the CIA'? I asked him, you never put 'the' in front of 'God,' either, do you?"
CIA is not equivalent to God for Edwards, however. His philosophy comes through in a brief conversation with a Mafia don (Joe Pesci) he recruits by promising him protection from deportation.
"We Italians have family. The Jews have tradition. What do you people have?"
Replies Edwards without hesitation, "We have the United States of America. The rest of you are just visiting."
In the end, this verity determines his course of conduct, as he moves to save family and honor with a single, ruthless act.
http://www.historyplace.com/specials...d-shepherd.htm
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Originally Posted by ajithfederer
Two of my friends watched the film this week and they said they liked it.
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Originally Posted by Nerd
Have any one watched 88 Minutes :roll:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0411061/
Download panni vachurukkeengala :lol2:Quote:
Originally Posted by Dinesh84
I felt it was a very average movie. The twists were too contrived. Pacino-kaaga oru thadavai paakkalaam(siramappattu). If you are not a Pacino fan, then you can avoid it IMO.
My Sassy Girl
Thanx to LM for giving me this mindblowing movie. Lots of tamil movies, released post 2001, have taken references from this movie. Truely awesome! Well supported by the cast and outstanding music. That piano theme still lingers..