My god that’s amazing! You get that he has some past trauma from corn flakes. Look at his eye twitch! Then he blinks - twice - then he moves his head. It’s incredible! Have you ever seen DeNiro sell antipathy to corn flakes like this? No you have not.
Good enough for us. You're basically him.
Perfect film. I’m also realising I’m turning into the Clive Owen character. Ok without his stunning good looks and I haven’t got a ex wife like Julianne Moore but…we’ll I have a London 2012 olympics jacket and drink whiskey.
Agree. I love the intro but it never really get better than that. The dream/ambient vibe and pov style were cool aspects.
@Wing Attack Plan R be dropping grenades left, right and centre up in this motherfecker.
Dropping turds more like.
I never said Children of Men wasn’t a masterpiece; I said it was funny.
Down By Law, Mystery Train, Dead Man I can recommend. His is a very no-frills, indie, understated, static style of filmmaking. Character and setting over plot. Mood and vibe over spectacle. Some of his stuff is great, some is so amateurish it’s shocking.
Crowe was exceptional in this too. Brilliant film.The Insider
Film on a tobacco whistleblower and American corporate news. Making the same film over and over again would be for most directors a criticism or a death sentence but yet Micheal Mann continues to produce brilliant work.
We are at peak divorced dad cinema here. So many shots of men staring long into the distance. Mann brings his tactile nerd film making into late 90’s office rooms. Every chunky phone button is felt and thick telephone directories sound like gun shots when slammed down against coffee stained tables. Really a 59 year old man shouting into a giant mobile phone while wearing shorts shouldn’t look so beautiful but my god does this director know how to film a beach scene.
On the surface Al Pacino appears to be replaying his role from Heat but replacing a police badge with a copy of the New York Times. Yet there’s a moment early on showing the character to be a failed radical from the 60’s student movement(Famed marxist Herbert Marcuse gets a shout out). Later Pacino as a form of rebellion deludes himself into continuing to work for corporate news. A perfect summary of how the 60’s generation ended up.
Russell Crowe is brilliant. Different to the standard Mann leading role as Crowe can’t stand the moral implications of his work. And a shout out to Micheal Gambon who puts on one of the worst America accent ever recorded.
It’s also Mann at his most misogynistic. Woman are disgusted by the pursuit of truth especially when it relegates them to a middle class lifestyle! There is one scene where group of men slowly manplain to Gina Gerishon why lying is bad.
Mann takes away all the idealised liberal notions about news journalism and replaces it with cold blunt materialism. A must watch.
10/10
Yeah, definitely a lot of mood and vibe going on in his movies. I did like Stranger Than Paradise in that way. Anyway, I have seen Dead Man, which I liked, but I will watch Down By Law as it seems to be on MUBI. Mystery Train look interesting as well, will keep an eye when it pops up on any streaming services.
I have a very close familial relationship with the Scuggs family (the lawyer whose first scene was answering the phone in the airplane) & was able to get on the set of this scene, it was shot in Dickie's actual Pascagoula house & property. I would basically spend a month in the summer on the coast of Mississippi while I was growing up, a good amount of it at that same house (which Katrina took down to foundation). My aunt was able to attend the 72nd Oscars ceremony with Dickie & Diane (his wife who is the sister of Trent Lott's wife). Dickie's law firm handled some of the biggest class action suits of his time - asbestos, Big Pharma, & Katrina) along with taking on Big Tobacco.The Insider
Film on a tobacco whistleblower and American corporate news. Making the same film over and over again would be for most directors a criticism or a death sentence but yet Micheal Mann continues to produce brilliant work.
We are at peak divorced dad cinema here. So many shots of men staring long into the distance. Mann brings his tactile nerd film making into late 90’s office rooms. Every chunky phone button is felt and thick telephone directories sound like gun shots when slammed down against coffee stained tables. Really a 59 year old man shouting into a giant mobile phone while wearing shorts shouldn’t look so beautiful but my god does this director know how to film a beach scene.
On the surface Al Pacino appears to be replaying his role from Heat but replacing a police badge with a copy of the New York Times. Yet there’s a moment early on showing the character to be a failed radical from the 60’s student movement(Famed marxist Herbert Marcuse gets a shout out). Later Pacino as a form of rebellion deludes himself into continuing to work for corporate news. A perfect summary of how the 60’s generation ended up.
Russell Crowe is brilliant. Different to the standard Mann leading role as Crowe can’t stand the moral implications of his work. And a shout out to Micheal Gambon who puts on one of the worst America accent ever recorded.
It’s also Mann at his most misogynistic. Woman are disgusted by the pursuit of truth especially when it relegates them to a middle class lifestyle! There is one scene where group of men slowly manplain to Gina Gerishon why lying is bad.
Mann takes away all the idealised liberal notions about news journalism and replaces it with cold blunt materialism. A must watch.
10/10
If you’re a Tom Waits fan you’ll love it. I don’t know if it’s mandatory in order to dig this film but it certainly helps. The black and white photography is really amazing too, like in Dead Man. DBL is my favorite Jarmusch film.
It is a dark comedy with some very very funny bits.
Children of Men a comedy? Huh? Maybe not as great a dystopian thriller as it is often made out to be but a comedy? Banshees is also a black comedy albeit not a very successful one imo.
I’m saying Children of Men had some very funny parts but was not a comedy per se. I just didn’t like Banshees, despite great performances in it.
I don't remember any funny bit in Children of Men but it has been a while since I watched it. Agreed about Banshees.
Glad you liked it! It's such a great film.The Insider
Film on a tobacco whistleblower and American corporate news. Making the same film over and over again would be for most directors a criticism or a death sentence but yet Micheal Mann continues to produce brilliant work.
We are at peak divorced dad cinema here. So many shots of men staring long into the distance. Mann brings his tactile nerd film making into late 90’s office rooms. Every chunky phone button is felt and thick telephone directories sound like gun shots when slammed down against coffee stained tables. Really a 59 year old man shouting into a giant mobile phone while wearing shorts shouldn’t look so beautiful but my god does this director know how to film a beach scene.
On the surface Al Pacino appears to be replaying his role from Heat but replacing a police badge with a copy of the New York Times. Yet there’s a moment early on showing the character to be a failed radical from the 60’s student movement(Famed marxist Herbert Marcuse gets a shout out). Later Pacino as a form of rebellion deludes himself into continuing to work for corporate news. A perfect summary of how the 60’s generation ended up.
Russell Crowe is brilliant. Different to the standard Mann leading role as Crowe can’t stand the moral implications of his work. And a shout out to Micheal Gambon who puts on one of the worst America accent ever recorded.
It’s also Mann at his most misogynistic. Woman are disgusted by the pursuit of truth especially when it relegates them to a middle class lifestyle! There is one scene where group of men slowly manplain to Gina Gerishon why lying is bad.
Mann takes away all the idealised liberal notions about news journalism and replaces it with cold blunt materialism. A must watch.
10/10
If you get chance do watch Alive: 20 Years Later which is a documentary film about the crash with interviews from survivors.
One of the best films of the past 23 years. Ageing like fine wine.
Dude. That's worse than what's @Wing Attack Plan R has been up to for the past few pages.
Better get them all done quick, Romulus drops in theaters on the 16th.Just watched Alien again for the 1000th time yesterday. It was my partner's first time. Now we're set for an Alien binge
Just watched Alien again for the 1000th time yesterday. It was my partner's first time. Now we're set for an Alien binge
We just finished ours!Just watched Alien again for the 1000th time yesterday. It was my partner's first time. Now we're set for an Alien binge
Who's the unsufferable character in Aliens, Paxton?
Boss-level moviegoer.
Yeah, even I recognize that as crazy talk.
Vasquez.
Amazing story. Really cool to know they used they actual guy house. detail about the using the guy real house for the film.
His life sounds like it make for interesting film.
Thanks. I went in expecting to like it because it’s Mann movie but it exceed all my expectations. The tension when Crowe finds the bullet in the mailbox was something else.
It depends which stupid decisions you had in mind, but some are the result of having footage deleted that explained actions or offered more context. Some, not all, or even "most".
