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Renegade_Turner
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Anything by Steven Seagal or Sylvester Stallone. Visionaries of modern times.
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Ultrachrist! lolololol
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Ren wrote:Anything by Steven Seagal or Sylvester Stallone. Visionaries of modern times.
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Renegade_Turner wrote:Anything by Steven Seagal...
Why Ren. Why?
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Have you ever stared into the cold dark eyes of a murderous penguin? Steven Seagal has. That's why.
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Was at a friend's house in Dun Laoghaire there from Monday until today.
In that space of time I watched a lot of movies on account of them being at college or going to bed early.
I watched, for the first time, the following films:
Raging Bull
Directed by Martin Scorsese.
Starring Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci.
Robert Di Niro's performance as one of the most unlikeable characters I've ever seen in a film is something I still haven't really come to terms with. In one scene he apparently breaks his wrists and concusses himself. This is what my friend told me, I defer to his greater knowledge of film. Whatever happened, he headbutted the wall a number of times and punched the shit out of it. Apparently he had to be treated afterwards.
Ondine
Starring Colin Farrell and Alicja Bachleda.
This is an odd film. It's about an Irish fisherman who takes up an exotic-looking girl in his fishing net and becomes convinced that she's a selk/selkie. The lead actress in the film is one of the most naturally beautiful people I've ever seen, I think I may have liked the film a lot more simply because I had a massive screen crush on her.
Mystic River
Directed by Clint Eastwood.
Starring Sean Penn, Tim Robbins, Kevin Bacon, Laurence Fishburne, Laura Linney.
One of the finest casts I've seen in a film.
While this is one of the films I've the least written about, it's also probably the best of the lot. Watch this. It is an absolute must. Particularly for Tim Robbins's performance.
The Town
Directed by Ben Affleck.
Starring Ben Affleck. There's other actors but I didn't recognise any.
This film needs to be watched by anyone who considers Ben Affleck to be the idiot he's commonly portrayed as. He's had a lot of shit roles. He knows film. Very well directed and acted.
The Soloist
Starring Jamie Foxx and Robert Downey Jnr.
Jamie Foxx's performance is an odd thing. At first I figured this would just be another one of those heartwarming triumph-against-the-odds films to make Hollywood actors and actresses feel a little better about themselves, but once I began watching I realised it was a lot more than that. This film is fucked up in parts, and ends on a very realistic note. It deals very well with the misconceptions on how people should deal with those that are seen to be mentally ill or unstable. There's no quick fix, there's no dose-this-person-up-with-meds-and-they'll-be-fine, and then on to the next. Robert Downey Jnr. is someone I'm still unsure of. Very good in some films, but at times in this he's unconvincing. He's very good at playing roles where he's intended to be cool, suave and matter of fact, like Iron Man or Sherlock Holmes, but when he's expected to show genuine amusement and laughter on screen he seems to fall short at times.
Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls
Directed by Russ Meyer.
I can recommend all of these films except, perhaps, Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls, which was a rather odd experience. I enjoyed it, but I imagine it's an acquired taste...of interesting note is that famous film critic Roger Ebert wrote the screenplay for the film.
This ended up being longer than I intended it to be. I love talking about films.
In that space of time I watched a lot of movies on account of them being at college or going to bed early.
I watched, for the first time, the following films:
Raging Bull
Directed by Martin Scorsese.
Starring Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci.
Robert Di Niro's performance as one of the most unlikeable characters I've ever seen in a film is something I still haven't really come to terms with. In one scene he apparently breaks his wrists and concusses himself. This is what my friend told me, I defer to his greater knowledge of film. Whatever happened, he headbutted the wall a number of times and punched the shit out of it. Apparently he had to be treated afterwards.
Ondine
Starring Colin Farrell and Alicja Bachleda.
This is an odd film. It's about an Irish fisherman who takes up an exotic-looking girl in his fishing net and becomes convinced that she's a selk/selkie. The lead actress in the film is one of the most naturally beautiful people I've ever seen, I think I may have liked the film a lot more simply because I had a massive screen crush on her.
Mystic River
Directed by Clint Eastwood.
Starring Sean Penn, Tim Robbins, Kevin Bacon, Laurence Fishburne, Laura Linney.
One of the finest casts I've seen in a film.
While this is one of the films I've the least written about, it's also probably the best of the lot. Watch this. It is an absolute must. Particularly for Tim Robbins's performance.
The Town
Directed by Ben Affleck.
Starring Ben Affleck. There's other actors but I didn't recognise any.
This film needs to be watched by anyone who considers Ben Affleck to be the idiot he's commonly portrayed as. He's had a lot of shit roles. He knows film. Very well directed and acted.
The Soloist
Starring Jamie Foxx and Robert Downey Jnr.
Jamie Foxx's performance is an odd thing. At first I figured this would just be another one of those heartwarming triumph-against-the-odds films to make Hollywood actors and actresses feel a little better about themselves, but once I began watching I realised it was a lot more than that. This film is fucked up in parts, and ends on a very realistic note. It deals very well with the misconceptions on how people should deal with those that are seen to be mentally ill or unstable. There's no quick fix, there's no dose-this-person-up-with-meds-and-they'll-be-fine, and then on to the next. Robert Downey Jnr. is someone I'm still unsure of. Very good in some films, but at times in this he's unconvincing. He's very good at playing roles where he's intended to be cool, suave and matter of fact, like Iron Man or Sherlock Holmes, but when he's expected to show genuine amusement and laughter on screen he seems to fall short at times.
Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls
Directed by Russ Meyer.
I can recommend all of these films except, perhaps, Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls, which was a rather odd experience. I enjoyed it, but I imagine it's an acquired taste...of interesting note is that famous film critic Roger Ebert wrote the screenplay for the film.
This ended up being longer than I intended it to be. I love talking about films.
Just watched House of Flying Daggers.
Extremely silly, to the point where I started thinking they were hamming it up on purpose, but generally entertaining. Some of the the scenery was exceptional.
The eroticism regarding the blind girl was definitely on the ridiculous side, but I'm not going to complain too hard because said girl was astoundingly pretty.
Oh yeah, and knife throwing does not work like that.
Extremely silly, to the point where I started thinking they were hamming it up on purpose, but generally entertaining. Some of the the scenery was exceptional.
The eroticism regarding the blind girl was definitely on the ridiculous side, but I'm not going to complain too hard because said girl was astoundingly pretty.
Oh yeah, and knife throwing does not work like that.
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Zhukov wrote:Oh yeah, and knife throwing does not work like that.
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I know...but I don't think they were concerned by that. It's meant to be ridiculous!
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Yeah I don't think any of those movies is supposed to be taken seriously...Have you guys seen Hero? Great movie, totally over the top. It's pretty awesome.
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"The One" was mildly good, a universe hopping Jet Li fighting Jason Statham repeatedly.