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Rubble Kings Saw this after recommendation from caftard and quite enjoyed the story about all the gangs from the 1970's and how violent South Bronx really was. The contributors were all interesting but I felt that the jump from violence to hip-hop was a little quick and not really explained very well. I wanted to see more and learn just how hip-hop spawned. I think this film missed out. 5/10

Anyone know any good hip-hop documentaries that do a better job and are on Netflix?
 
Legend - Didn't think much of it....I should of just watched the Take instead. I don't know much about the Krays, and despite this, I still don't much about the Krays. Hell I don't really know much about anything, it just seemed to come, and end.

It also seems to have made me forgot what I watched before it too...
 
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Gangs of New York! There's no chance he was ever winning it for that one given DDL's performance.

I don't think its a travesty at all. It's just that he does good performances and not great ones. Even Shutter Island. He was just scared and confused most of the time. Nothing wrong with his performance, but he's not the kind of actor who mesmerizes you through his acting prowess. IMO of course.
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Have you seen Django Unchained? There's a scene where he hits the table with his fist but ends up cutting himself on a glass that was on it which was not in the script obviously. He then continues to act and wipes the blood on his hand on a woman's face. The scene is so intens that they put it in the film. That, for me, is the mark of a great actor. When I was younger I couldn't stand him but these last few years he's been brilliant and became one of my favourite actors. It's all a bit subjective though, a matter of taste I guess.

Agreed on the Daniel Day Lewis bit though, he was brilliant in Gangs of New York.
 
Posted this in the Oscars thread by accident:

The Hateful Eight - too long, too talky first half revived by stronger second. Capable ensemble do well with a thin script and the film is a good ride but don't give it too much thought because it absolutely falls to pieces. Probably Tarantino's weakest script and the 70mm seems a bit superfluous in this, his least cinematic film. That said, the cinema was absolutely packed and he has succeeded in turning it into an event, which is something I suppose.
 
Legend

Extremely underwhelming. I'm really not sure what they were trying to achieve with this film as it's more of a story about Reggie's relationship with his girlfriend/wife than it is about anything else. Aside from Tom Hardy being exceptional I can't really think of anything else about the film I liked that much. An unfortunate let down. 5/10 Although Hardy's performance deserves a solid 9.
 
Vato said:
Have you seen Django Unchained? There's a scene where he hits the table with his fist but ends up cutting himself on a glass that was on it which was not in the script obviously. He then continues to act and wipes the blood on his hand on a woman's face. The scene is so intens that they put it in the film. That, for me, is the mark of a great actor. When I was younger I couldn't stand him but these last few years he's been brilliant and became one of my favourite actors. It's all a bit subjective though, a matter of taste I guess.

Agreed on the Daniel Day Lewis bit though, he was brilliant in Gangs of New York.
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Just a sliiiiigghhhttt correction although it doesn't change your point: the bit where he wipes the blood on her face is a different shot, it was written in after LDC cut his hand. He cut his hand, they stopped, cleaned up the real blood, applied fake blood and carried on with the face wiping.
 
JamesB__ said:
Just a sliiiiigghhhttt correction although it doesn't change your point: the bit where he wipes the blood on her face is a different shot, it was written in after LDC cut his hand. He cut his hand, they stopped, cleaned up the real blood, applied fake blood and carried on with the face wiping.
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Lots of reports suggest he did it in the same take and her face of disgust was her real reaction.

Funnily enough, in The Departed, Jack Nicholson during a scene where his character is intimidating DiCarpio's, thinking the scene needed something more, decided to pull out his prop gun and place it on the table. DiCaprio's shock and resulting reaction within the film was the same scene where Jack did it.
 
JamesB__ said:
Just a sliiiiigghhhttt correction although it doesn't change your point: the bit where he wipes the blood on her face is a different shot, it was written in after LDC cut his hand. He cut his hand, they stopped, cleaned up the real blood, applied fake blood and carried on with the face wiping.
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Ah, ok. Didn't know this, I thought it was one shot. The scene where he cuts his hand continues for a minute or two though after he cuts it, right? Don't remember it that well.
 
Vato said:
Have you seen Django Unchained? There's a scene where he hits the table with his fist but ends up cutting himself on a glass that was on it which was not in the script obviously. He then continues to act and wipes the blood on his hand on a woman's face. The scene is so intens that they put it in the film. That, for me, is the mark of a great actor. When I was younger I couldn't stand him but these last few years he's been brilliant and became one of my favourite actors. It's all a bit subjective though, a matter of taste I guess.

Agreed on the Daniel Day Lewis bit though, he was brilliant in Gangs of New York.
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He's a very good and solid actor, blood diamond, inception, and many others. He has that distinctive acting that you can immediately spot, although I can't sure what. probably it's the youth cockiness.

To be fair to him the only mainstream teen flick he's been is Titanic and Romeo/Juliet, hardly a flop. As he grows older people are more accepting that he's a good actor, and not just a handsome boy got lucky. I guess more of the dislike for him comes from the moral highground of giving an oscar to a teen prodigy, kinda like giving emmy for bieber
 
Creed

Enjoyed it, strangely I enjoy the training scene, the rocky nostalgia and his predicament more than the actual fight (6 Rocky and they... I believe have done all the permutations of a boxing match : Not winning, draw, winning by pts but losing the nights, etc). Many praised Michael B. Jordan but I don't think he's all that, he's like a juvenile adolescence lost in a real world, overreacting to anything.

Pound for pound if my memory serves me correct the fight with Ivan Drago was the pinnacle of the fight, you can sense the killing aura, less so with Creed. We kinda knew Apollo was not mean hearted and nothing can go wrong, the bets are off with Ivan Drago, Cold War, Fighting in Russia, and that brigette Nielsen chick..

7.5/10
 
Room: Incredibly emotional film. So sad but it's not without hope. Abrahamson is getting better and better.
 
Vato said:
Have you seen Django Unchained? There's a scene where he hits the table with his fist but ends up cutting himself on a glass that was on it which was not in the script obviously. He then continues to act and wipes the blood on his hand on a woman's face. The scene is so intens that they put it in the film. That, for me, is the mark of a great actor. When I was younger I couldn't stand him but these last few years he's been brilliant and became one of my favourite actors. It's all a bit subjective though, a matter of taste I guess.

Agreed on the Daniel Day Lewis bit though, he was brilliant in Gangs of New York.
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I have. I thought it was his best performance and the only one that really jumps out for me to a different levle. Something about him still remains very Di Caprio. Like I said, it actually could be something as simple as his voice. Or maybe it's that he's such a big "star" as compared to your method actors. But fair fecks to him for that performance, as far as supporting performances goes, that one was ace.
 
The Revenant - just got home from watching this. Beautiful cinematography, supposedly only used natural light to film the whole movie. But it really was gorgeous to look at. Dream sequences and metaphysical aspects didn't really do much for me if I'm honest. Maybe 1 would have been enough but at my count we were up to 5 I think?

Leo puts in a great performance, however Oscar worthy? I'm not too sure. Supporting cast was excellent, great musical score and some great scenes. Will be hard to beat. Solid 8/10.
 
Thought The Revenant was great. I mean there's not much of a plot, but that doesn't really matter when the direction, cinematography, performances, and soundtrack are that good. It was beautiful to watch and constantly left me going "how the hell did they film that?".

Tom Hardy's starting to annoy me a little, though. Feels like I'm just ... watching Tom Hardy, but with a different accent.

9/10.

EDIT: Funnily enough, Leo isn't that great compared to some of his other films, through no fault of his own, but he'll probably win the Oscar anyway.
 
Cocaine Cowboys - Documentary about Miami and the cocaine trafficking boom of the late 70s/early 80s. The people in it are really interesting characters. Mickey Munday is a mullet-wearing redneck who made loads of money moving cocaine from Colombia to Miami. It goes into the excesses of Miami and how it was kept out of the economic challenges of the time before the in-fighting started happening largely between different groups, particularly Griselda Blanco--a savage female boss who killed anyone. Men, women, children, etc. 8/10

Cartel Land - The start and finish of the film are absolutely brilliant. It's a beautiful film and shows the challenges faced by the average people in certain parts of Mexico when dealing with cartel violence. The autodefensas (vigilante defense forces) start out as a well-meaning group and are more effective than the government in keeping the towns they work in safe, but they eventually start to become what they were established to fight against. The leader, Dr. Mireles, is at first a sympathetic character who is a reasonable and admirable individual helping to unite communities against violence but you can see the change in him through the development of the film. The American portions are interesting but don't add a whole lot to the film. The leader is the most reasonable of the lot and others just get crazier or more racist. It shows a different side of the struggle with cartels but misses lots of the violence that does occur in border states that is at least loosely tied to trafficking. 9/10
 
The answer to the question everyone was asking is finally here. Cinemas two greatest serial killers: But who has killed the most?



 
Just saw Spotlight and I was really impressed with it. It's a story we all know at this stage but it kept me gripped, frustrated and angry as if I was discovering these truths for the first time. The film is well made in general but it's the performances of Keaten, Tucci and I thought in particular, Ruffalo that made it.
 
Creed

Huge Leo fan. Huge Tarantino fan. And yet this was the film I couldn't wait to watch. It was pretty good. Story-line was about right, the male leads were all good (I thought Bellew was great actually) and it was visually pleasing. I am slightly disappointed having read some of the reviews on here though. Thought it was going to be something special. Creed's love interest didn't impress me, and the fight between Creed and Gabe Rosado should have been done better. Rocky I was better. This was more Rocky II territory. 7/10
 
Kazi said:
Creed

Huge Leo fan. Huge Tarantino fan. And yet this was the film I couldn't wait to watch. It was pretty good. Story-line was about right, the male leads were all good (I thought Bellew was great actually) and it was visually pleasing. I am slightly disappointed having read some of the reviews on here though. Thought it was going to be something special. Creed's love interest didn't impress me, and the fight between Creed and Gabe Rosado should have been done better. Rocky I was better. This was more Rocky II territory. 7/10
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What?! The one-take fight?! It was bloody incredible!
 
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Just watched training day. Solid film with 2 brilliant performances from Denzel Washington and Ethan Hawke.

7/10
 
Thought Creed was just a standard decent enough boxing film.

It'seems fairly solid in everything it does but doesn't do anything particularly well.
 
Sir Matt said:
Cartel Land - The start and finish of the film are absolutely brilliant. It's a beautiful film and shows the challenges faced by the average people in certain parts of Mexico when dealing with cartel violence. The autodefensas (vigilante defense forces) start out as a well-meaning group and are more effective than the government in keeping the towns they work in safe, but they eventually start to become what they were established to fight against. The leader, Dr. Mireles, is at first a sympathetic character who is a reasonable and admirable individual helping to unite communities against violence but you can see the change in him through the development of the film. The American portions are interesting but don't add a whole lot to the film. The leader is the most reasonable of the lot and others just get crazier or more racist. It shows a different side of the struggle with cartels but misses lots of the violence that does occur in border states that is at least loosely tied to trafficking. 9/10
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Agreed, this docu was absolutely brilliant.
 
The Boy (Horror film) - 6/10. Boring film with little scary stuff (meaning stuff that are supposed to scare).

Predestination (Psychological Thriller- Sci Fi) - 8/10. A good story (taken from a short story). Confusing and mind boggling. Fun watch
 
Alock1 said:
Thought Creed was just a standard decent enough boxing film.

It'seems fairly solid in everything it does but doesn't do anything particularly well.
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This. It's decent but not as good as any of the first four Rocky films. I think the reason is Adonis is a bit bland. He's just a bit generic, doesn't have any charisma or personality, I've seen the exact same character in many other films.

Rocky and Apollo were different, you really liked them and cheered them on, I never really gave a shit about Adonis winning.
 
JamesB__ said:
This. It's decent but not as good as any of the first four Rocky films. I think the reason is Adonis is a bit bland. He's just a bit generic, doesn't have any charisma or personality, I've seen the exact same character in many other films.

Rocky and Apollo were different, you really liked them and cheered them on, I never really gave a shit about Adonis winning.
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Me too, there was just something sterile about the film as a whole, great to see Stallone reprising his Rocky character though.
 
Nialler said:
Me too, there was just something sterile about the film as a whole, great to see Stallone reprising his Rocky character though.
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Stallone was the best thing about it. I enjoyed the film and loved Rocky in it, but it wasn't as good as many have said it is.
 
Just watched The Shawshank Redemption. Maybe I need to watch it again, but definitely underwhelmed by what many consider to be the best film of all time. In the end I though it was a very clever story line and a good film but I did struggle to watch the first two hours (or however long it takes to see what he was really up to).

I think I may appreciate it more should I watch it again but I'm a little disappointed.
 
It's good, but yeah, it's not the best film ever by a long shot...always been a bit of a weird zeitgeist anomaly tbf. It started as a well meaning, albeit slightly hipster trend to correct its initial underrating, that somehow gathered a lot of momentum, and then just became accepted as conventional wisdom.

I've never actually met anyone who considers it their favourite film, people just name check it by default.
 
Locke: Fantastic performance by Tom Hardy. Maybe this film resonates with me because I have spent many late hours on interstate highways talking to imaginary companions.
 
The London Firm.

Two hitmen wake up in the back of a truck to discover they have been drugged and their employer brutally murdered. Their attempts to escape bring about a bloody confrontation with a shocking twist in the tale.
The movie format is very similar to Saw. People contained in a small area and the movie flashes back and forth to explain how they got there.
The acting was not so bad as to detract from the film, but the story was just so stale you never got hooked.
If you want to kill time before bed and want something on the TV while flipping through a magazine, then this film will do that.

3.5/10

The Hollow

Halloween romp when three sister visit their aunt on a North American forest island evading a wicker man dude whilst inhabitants get murdered "Please run into the dark, don't pick up any weapons as you pass go and leave stage left."
Dont bother, really crappy made for TV Movie.

1/10
 
Locke resonated with me because of my deep rooted obsession with concrete pumping pressure and silly accents.
 
Rampling is outstanding in 45 Years. Good to see that she survived the mess that was the second season of Broadchurch. 8/10.
 
Macbeth(2015)

Absolutely Stunning. Fassbender and Cotillard are both incredible in this as Macbeth and Lady Macbeth(One particular scene with Cotillard)although everyone in it is pretty dam great, not to mentioned that it's one of the prettiest films I've seen.

Also turns out this Shakespeare bloke was pretty good with the whole words and stuff.
10/10


The assassin's creed movie coming up could be actual be the first good video game movie.
 
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