He did go through a lot of shit. Apparently they could only do the bear scene twice because it would have broke his spine if they continued to do it.
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik (@Rood) and Imran (@Annihilate Now!) are here to discuss three 1-1 draws.
The first got us knocked out of the FA Cup, the next puts us in a good position in our Round of 16 Europa League game, and the latest was an actual decent performance against Arsenal at Old Trafford.
All hopes for the season now rest on the Europa League - does Amorim have the squad to win it?
Don't get me wrong, it's an impressive feat. But is endurance automatically deserving of an acting award? At least Tom Hardy was doing a silly accent.
Is a silly accent more deserving? There aren't any great performances this year though.
When I say silly accent, I don't literally mean a silly accent (though it helps - an actor who can't do an accent isn't that great of an actor, they're just charismatic as themselves) what I mean is the (generally quite silly anyway) craft of 'acting'. Disappearing into a role, becoming someone else, or at worst, playing it so big and broad you're the most compelling part of the film...
Leo can undoubtedly do this. He did it last year with Wolf of Wall Street, and the year before with Django, but here, isn't he just Leonardo DiCaprio with a beard looking really cold and angry? And considering everyone made a huge deal about how tough this shoot was, is that really acting? Or is it just ...being really cold and angry with a beard on film?
He should get some kind of special Bear Grills award for unnecessary suffering, sure..I'm just not sure he deserves the ultimate award for pretending, when by all accounts, he wasn't.
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Fassbender should win Best Actor in my opinion.
I agree with you though. I much preferred Tom Hardy in the film as he actually played a character. DiCaprio just sort of is reacting to all the bad things that happens to him. He is so empty as a character.
I think he will win because of his name though. Which sucks because his much better performance a couple years a go should have won.
That's the Oscars though. They're possibly the worst awards for deserving recipients (not to mention sickening self importance and sycophancy)...Which ironically means that Leo didn't have to put himself through all this shit to win one. He'll end up winning one eventually just by default. Probably for one of his least impressive performances. Like Scorsese did. Or that time Judi Dench won one for being in a film for 7 minutes in a silly wig.
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I hate the cliques they have. Certain actors always get nominated and others never do. Meryl Streep being in the former and Jake Gyllenhaal the latter.
Streep is legitimately a GOAT actress though. But yes, she'll get nominated for everything she's in by default. A better example would be Jack Nicholson, who was nominated for seemingly every film he did in the 00s, despite the fact he was playing Jack Nicholson in all of them.
Yeah but Into the Woods? Really? There is only one actor who deservedly gets Oscar nominations for every role and that is Daniel Day-Lewis. Jack Nicholson is overrated. Cant stand watching him in films with his crazy eyes and sarcastic grin.
Bradley Cooper is another who gets nominated all the time whilst just playing the same guy each film.
You're right, only you picked up on it. It wasn't rammed home at all in that animated powerpoint presentation about the financial collapse.
It was a strange film, very silly in places with Dirty Mike and the boys, the desk pop and The Rock and Samuel L Jackson committing suicide through stupid bravery. it still made the overall criticism/financial fraud thing pretty clear though. As I said before, I think it was overall a silly film and i don't think people would leave the cinema thinking about fraud in a film that sees Will Ferrell's car repeatedly used as a sex den by a bunch of tramps.
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Into The Woods was a legitimately awful film. But for some reason that I can't fathom, Americans love Sondheim musicals, which seem to consist entirely of actors who can't sing talking to a melody, talking to a melody, talking to a melody before riiiiising for a big noooote at the eeeeeeend!....It's torture.
I don't like musicals at the best of times, but if you're going to watch one, at least watch one with actual songs in it.
I don't like musicals at the best of times, but if you're going to watch one, at least watch one with actual songs in it.
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I enjoyed Dead Man, but I definitely zoned out a bit during the last 3rd.
I've just watched '71.
Been meaning to watch it for quite some time. I thought it was very good. Jack O'Connell is, as usual, excellent. Obviously I haven't seen everything he's been in, but he seems to pick his roles well.
I thought this was a decent movie about The Troubles in Northern Ireland. Sometimes people don't realise how brutal it was there at times. It doesn't glorify either side, it just tells a story. I thought some of the accents were a bit dodgy. A few of the dubs doing Northern accents just didn't work and they actually looked uncomfortable trying at times. Another thing that got to me, but this isn't the fault of the film was all the Love/Hate actors popping up. Alright, there was only three, but having watched Rebellion on RTE the last two Sunday evenings and just being amazed at how few actors we must have in Ireland, I just got a bit of a surprise to see three of them again.
Anyway. A solid 7.5 out of 10 for me. Was tense and gripping. Some shocking and sad moments and overall a more than decent film.
Been meaning to watch it for quite some time. I thought it was very good. Jack O'Connell is, as usual, excellent. Obviously I haven't seen everything he's been in, but he seems to pick his roles well.
I thought this was a decent movie about The Troubles in Northern Ireland. Sometimes people don't realise how brutal it was there at times. It doesn't glorify either side, it just tells a story. I thought some of the accents were a bit dodgy. A few of the dubs doing Northern accents just didn't work and they actually looked uncomfortable trying at times. Another thing that got to me, but this isn't the fault of the film was all the Love/Hate actors popping up. Alright, there was only three, but having watched Rebellion on RTE the last two Sunday evenings and just being amazed at how few actors we must have in Ireland, I just got a bit of a surprise to see three of them again.
Anyway. A solid 7.5 out of 10 for me. Was tense and gripping. Some shocking and sad moments and overall a more than decent film.
His Being Alive is one of the worst songs I've ever heard. I'd be surprised if anyone could make it sound decent.
Does it per chance consist of someone talk-singing for 7 and a half bars before hitting one long dramatic raised note at the end? If not, then it's practically his best song by default.
Always Sunny did a brilliant parody of his shtick...though with probably slightly more actual singing.
Say what you like about Andrew Lloyd Webber, but Jesus Christ Superstar had some tuuunes, bruv.
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Alec Baldwin had to apologise for Being Alive being sung in Will & Grace. Say no more.
Which is why he made The Big Short!
The Big Short is easily the best of the big award contenders I've seen so far....but then I have only seen the blokey comic/action ones so far, and not the girly angsty/weepy ones.
The Revenant
Very good but a bit too long. Fantastic opening scene. Leo might not deserve an oscar for his performance but I wouldn't complain if they gave it to him. It's a travesty that he didn't received one yet. Fantastic actor that elevates a film just with his presence. Thought Hardy was good too, only recognised him mid way through the film. Very good 7.5/10
Very good but a bit too long. Fantastic opening scene. Leo might not deserve an oscar for his performance but I wouldn't complain if they gave it to him. It's a travesty that he didn't received one yet. Fantastic actor that elevates a film just with his presence. Thought Hardy was good too, only recognised him mid way through the film. Very good 7.5/10
Yeah, that bear costume fooled me too, mate.
And why he's a silly man.
Saw The Last Stand -Arnie film.
very good
7/10
very good
7/10
Yeah the physicality of it was impressive but he didn't actually do much but grimace. Inarittu didn't give any of the characters much to work with. Hardy had the most lines and it was pretty much "I'm going to be trouble because I'm a relentless asshole".
Breakfast At Tiffany's. Bit awful, bit likeable bastardisation of the source. Interesting to see what you could get away with on screen, when compared to the page: Loud, ugly race based slapstick is in but dirty, subversive nueroticisms and character cruelty are out. A skittish, flaky Monroe would have made for a more faithful Holly.
Joy - 6/10. Boring, Has Jennifer Lawrence so an extra point is given.
The Martian - 8/10. If you look beyond the realism, good film.
The Hateful Eight - 6.5/10 - I didn't particularly enjoy it as a cinema film (Apart from the soundtrack), it's more of a "had 3 beers and onto my 4th" type movie.
What we did on our Holiday - 7/10 - Pretty funny.
The Martian - 8/10. If you look beyond the realism, good film.
The Hateful Eight - 6.5/10 - I didn't particularly enjoy it as a cinema film (Apart from the soundtrack), it's more of a "had 3 beers and onto my 4th" type movie.
What we did on our Holiday - 7/10 - Pretty funny.
True Romance (1993): 8/10
90s crime movies never seem to disappoint me. The scene with Dennis Hopper and Christopher Walken is legendary.
90s crime movies never seem to disappoint me. The scene with Dennis Hopper and Christopher Walken is legendary.
The Revenant - Thought it was too long and bland. I just don't think it was for me. It was visually very nice to look at but I couldn't wait for it to finish TBH. DiCaprio was brilliant though, given it 0.5 more because of him. - 6.5/10
Also it's a travesty that this got an academy best picture nom and Carol didn't
Also it's a travesty that this got an academy best picture nom and Carol didn't
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They wanted people to see the movie. Audiences have no problem with broad, racial caricature, but don't enjoy the petty viciousness of ordinary human behaviour.
The film presents itself as a kind of fairy tale - a serene surface with dark currents underneath. Hepburn is a beautiful lily, floating untouched on a cesspool. Monroe's earthy vulnerability doesn't float. Could she have conveyed Holly's intelligence?
Sounds like something I need to be watching soon. Reviews sound terrific too.
I just saw Trumbo. It's a story about a phenomenon during the cold war where communists in America were treated like outcasts, discriminated against, or as with the protagonist of this film - Dalton Trumbo (screenwriter for films) - blacklisted from writing movies. I'm surprised at the average reviews it's gotten but I found it very enjoyable. I should add that my views on this movie might be skewed by my undeniable man-love for Bryan Cranston, who I think was fantastic and impossible to take your eyes off, even if the movie probably ended up being too conventional and could have served his acting chops better by hitting bigger notes. I'll give it an 8/10 in general with an additional point reserved for fans of the lead actor.
I was surprised by this too, given how average the response to The Revenant on the caf has been, and how great the reviews for Carol have been.
I guess I'll find out when I watch the pair of 'em.
Is it? What would you have given it to him for?
Is the whole movie just him groaning and grimacing? You make it sound like there isn't much emotion portrayed by him throughout the film.
Anyone watched Tropa de Elite (2007)?
It sort of is. I mean, there's some emotional stuff in there, but he gets it across by grunting and grimacing. And it's very good grunting and grimacing. Definitely top 5 all time grunting and grimacing performances, but basically, yeah.
Well then that's not an incredible acting job then. That's you mostly reacting to Inaritatraetas's odd-ball direction techniques.
Pretty much. It's definitely a good film, and if seen on the big screen an incredibly powerful visual experience, but it's not a masterpiece. Mostly 'cos it's far too long for a film with a single page synopsis - which is becoming all too common these days - and the sporadic attempts at Malik-esque faux spiritualism are trite The best performance 'acting' wise is actually probably Will Poulter, flying under the radar as the only character with any emotional turmoil.
Poulter's gonna be a star fwiw. He looks like a beaten up pug dog in human form, but he's consistently excellent in everything, even when he was a child comic in the bizarre E4 sketch experiment School of Comedy. From my neck of the woods as well. As is Hardy in fact. Basically what I'm saying is I'm awesome by association.
You're a better actor than Leo too.
Let's not get too silly now.