Secret Ninja Movie Club (aka what have you watched lately)

[Jizz]

It has Christopher Walken, its gotta be entertaining

[leyenda]

Nah Calvary is by his brother who also directed The Guard. It's similar in that it's a black comedy but it's less on the comedy side and more pensive. I enjoyed it

[Func]

Malcolm X

[wolf89]

I watched Pain And Gain after being told it's a Michael Bay film that isn't utter shit.

And well it's true. It's nothing amazing and it has its problems but it's actually really entertaining.

[therapist]

It has Christopher Walken, its gotta be entertaining

Just watched In Bruges for the nth time. So fucking good. I think the same dude made this so will have to give it a go.

[wub]

I watched Pain And Gain after being told it's a Michael Bay film that isn't utter shit.

And well it's true. It's nothing amazing and it has its problems but it's actually really entertaining.

The Rock on coke at the neighbourhood watch meeting is fucking jokes.

[NickUndercover]

Becket
So great, easily 8.5/10.

Peter O'Toole plays a drunk lousy bastard perfectly, yet he's still the classiest man in the place. I really don't know how he did it. The chemistry between him and Burton is excellent, the script is faithful to the play by Jean Anouilh (which means it's top notch) and the costumes/production design in general is fantastic. If you like those classic medieval England stories this is a mandatory watch

[Dead Rats]

Exam:
A simple mystery which, to be fair, doesn't try to punch above its weight. I enjoyed it with a nice cup of tea, and it provided a few little but kind of predictable twists. Could do away with a character or two, though 6/10

Life's a Breeze:
It starts dragging after half hour and seems to feel much longer than it's 88 minutes. The film plays out as a fairly typical 'see the error of my ways' type of routine, with the plot involving chasing a load of money. What ruins it is that, in the end ,

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the thing which it sets out to do with reviewing morals and ethics doesn't actually happen so all you're left with is a blank feeling and a distaste for pretty much everyone in it.

5/10

Conversations with other Women:
Utterly pointless with the most unnecessary use of split screen ever. Two characters have a conversation (which is essentially the whole film) with one camera poined at his face and one at hers and I can't think of any other reason for this other than the producers realizing it's complete dullness and trying to spice it up. 3/10

The Man in the Moon:
Coming-of-age slop where a young Reese Weatherspoons puts a warm feeling inside my heart and some pretty dark and deviant thoughts inside my head. Has all the standards of your typical family flick; Love, friendship, and three belt lashings from a disgruntled father 5.8/10

To Catch a Thief:
I wanted to like this film more than I did. Cary Grant is utterly boring as an ex-thief, with none of the charm, wit or generaly misogyny you love and expect with the old type of 'alpha' films.
The film is pushed forward by the three actresses involved, each by far more interesting than the lead.
5/10

The Recruit
Bollocks from the word go. It felt like one big, long introduction with Colin Farrell giving it his typical 'close to tears' expression as much as possible. A Sunday afternoon film, hold tight the plot twist pleb crew 3/10

Trance:
On seeing the poster, I thought 'Cool, sexy man-toad Vincent Cassel in a hedonistic psychologic thriller'. Imagine my suprise 20 minutes into the film when it became apparent that this was possibly the least intelligent intelligent film ever made.
The film is dumb as fuck and Cassel has to be the pussiest bad guy ever. You can figure out the twist pretty early on as the film basically only features three characters, and one of them is a GIRL HYPNOTIST!!! What are the chances of it being her.
The film outright insults your intelligence by chucking in a few 'Cassel is French!' type exlemations ("put da merde!"), just in case you thought his weird accent was from years of helium abuse. And oh my God, the soundtrack! Danny Boyle has obviously never listened to any Trance in his life and it's literally like he's gone 'they're in a trance, this music is called trance, put them together'. Just no.
It's crap 2/10

[Forum]

Peter O'Toole plays a drunk lousy bastard perfectly,

Not exactly a lot of acting required there

[hubb]

peter o'toole = willy johnson

first name means penis

second name means penis

grand

[hubb]

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[wolf89]

seven psycopaths is pretty entertaining tarantino copy film until the second half in wich the film becomes boring and pretentious

"Tarantino Copy"

As if all his films don't consist of ripping other people off.

[hubb]

Diego is spot on there.

And Tarantiono only borrows the aesthetic side most of the time.
That is not what a film consists of.
All of his films have a different satirical plane and message, from say the John Woo film he stole the choreography from or whatever.
Case in point, Django is not ripping of the original, it just sits in a certain spot but the message is highly political.

It's like blaming shitmat or zomby for not making genuine jungle.

[wub]

And Tarantiono only borrows the aesthetic side most of the time.

I'm a big QT fan, but to say he is only borrowing is pushing it a bit. I don't think a single part of Reservoir Dogs is original except for the dialogue, it's all cobbled from somewhere else.

[Forum]

Don't think he's capable of making a great film again anyway

[wub]

Don't think he's capable of making a great film again anyway

Only truly great film (IMO) that's he ever made he didn't write anyway - Jackie Brown.

[hubb]

Reservoir is all about the dialogue. Sure there's an ear that has been cut off in warehouse before and whatnot, but the brilliant bits are the Tarantino bits - like noone wanting to be mister pink etc.
Also it his first very lowbudget film that brought about a whole new form of budgetting in american action film.
In music there's sampling and in art there's recontextualization and re-appropriation, i dont think he is guilty of anything other than that tbh. He's a bit cheap if anything.


I'm not that into him tbh but he is almost nurturing or keeping a lot of genres alive for people in a way. Like golden era hiphop did.

[hubb]

He wrote true romance aswell.

Django is brilliant imo

[wub]

He wrote true romance aswell.

But he didn't direct it, so it's 'his' in the same way the Natural Born Killers is (and to a lesser extent, Crimson Tide )

[Forum]

Everything from kill bill onwards has been fairly meh


Looking back at his filmography he's made 3 classics, 1 decent and 1 novelty jape that I guess you can count as gold