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  • #526
    Re: New/Rented movies: Here comes the movie to change all movies

    Originally posted by ScottM View Post
    I agree Appaloosa was a pretty dull movie, especially considering the presence of Harris, Mortenson, Irons, etc. It could have done without Renee Zellweger and not missed a beat. History of Violence was a movie that kind of grew on me, and it set my expectations for Mortenson when he did Eastern Promises.
    See, I really liked Appaloosa (minus Renee, of course, I wish she died a horrible death in that movie, over and over again). Eastern Promises was the best, IMO, of the three Viggo movies mentioned.

    Finally saw Glengarry Glen Ross. It was okay. Great acting, but that's about it. I wasn't into the story, I didn't care what happened with the characters, etc. You saw hints of depth of the characters, and I think with an additional 20 minutes or so (making the movie around 2 hours, instead of 1:40), you really could have fleshed them out a bit more, and gotten the viewer more interested in them.

    Of course, my saleman buddy loves the movie like no other. Maybe it's that sort of commonality that explains some things, I dunno.
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    • #527
      Re: New/Rented movies: Here comes the movie to change all movies

      Once again I thought Eastern Promises was boring until the end. It was like they took a 1 hour plot and felt the need to extend it into a full length movie. The performances are good but the movie itself was blah.
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      • #528
        Re: New/Rented movies: Here comes the movie to change all movies

        Originally posted by Handyman View Post
        Once again I thought Eastern Promises was boring until the end. It was like they took a 1 hour plot and felt the need to extend it into a full length movie. The performances are good but the movie itself was blah.
        To me, it was a slow movie for the most part, but slow doesn't mean "boring," IMO. It could be different for you, sure. And I can see your point. I don't think it was "stretched for time" though.
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        • #529
          Re: New/Rented movies: Here comes the movie to change all movies

          I dont mind slow, but that movie was like being stuck in a math lecture with a monotone teacher...there is a line where there is too much character development and it crossed it for me.
          "It's as if the Drumpf Administration is made up of the worst and unfunny parts of the Cleveland Browns, Washington Generals, and the alien Mon-Stars from Space Jam."
          -aparch

          "Scenes in "Empire Strikes Back" that take place on the tundra planet Hoth were shot on the present-day site of Ralph Engelstad Arena."
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          • #530
            Re: New/Rented movies: Here comes the movie to change all movies

            Originally posted by Handyman View Post
            I dont mind slow, but that movie was like being stuck in a math lecture with a monotone teacher...there is a line where there is too much character development and it crossed it for me.
            I take it you haven't seen "Bringing Out The Dead" with Nic Cage.

            THAT is unbelievably character-based, and I loved it.
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            • #531
              Re: New/Rented movies: Here comes the movie to change all movies

              Originally posted by Brenthoven View Post
              I take it you haven't seen "Bringing Out The Dead" with Nic Cage.

              THAT is unbelievably character-based, and I loved it.
              One of the small number of Nic Cage movies I like.
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              • #532
                Re: New/Rented movies: Here comes the movie to change all movies

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                • #533
                  Re: New/Rented movies: Here comes the movie to change all movies

                  Originally posted by Brenthoven View Post
                  I take it you haven't seen "Bringing Out The Dead" with Nic Cage.

                  THAT is unbelievably character-based, and I loved it.
                  No I havent and I have no interest the previews were enough.

                  And there is nothing wrong with being character driven...but when a movie is 95% character development and 5% plot you don't have a movie, you have a prologue
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                  • #534
                    Re: New/Rented movies: Here comes the movie to change all movies

                    Originally posted by Brenthoven View Post
                    Finally saw Glengarry Glen Ross. It was okay. Great acting, but that's about it. I wasn't into the story, I didn't care what happened with the characters, etc. You saw hints of depth of the characters, and I think with an additional 20 minutes or so (making the movie around 2 hours, instead of 1:40), you really could have fleshed them out a bit more, and gotten the viewer more interested in them.
                    I loved it, but I had seen it on stage first. Stage characters can usually be developed faster because there are fewer distractions and much tighter situations than in a movie. (Also, the quality of acting is usually about 30x better, but that's not a problem in this movie.)
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                    • #535
                      Re: New/Rented movies: Here comes the movie to change all movies

                      Originally posted by Handyman View Post
                      Once again I thought Eastern Promises was boring until the end. It was like they took a 1 hour plot and felt the need to extend it into a full length movie. The performances are good but the movie itself was blah.
                      I liked the fact it was a "gangster movie", but you never saw a gun, and the violence wasn't gratuitous. The cast was from a number of backgrounds and countries, which added some texture. I also liked the fact that Mortenson spent time in Siberia and other parts of Russia meeting real "Vors" and getting into character. I read that he went into a bar after shooting in London, with his tattoos showing, and scared some of the Russian patrons shiatless.
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                      • #536
                        Re: New/Rented movies: Here comes the movie to change all movies

                        Originally posted by ScottM View Post
                        I liked the fact it was a "gangster movie", but you never saw a gun, and the violence wasn't gratuitous. The cast was from a number of backgrounds and countries, which added some texture. I also liked the fact that Mortenson spent time in Siberia and other parts of Russia meeting real "Vors" and getting into character. I read that he went into a bar after shooting in London, with his tattoos showing, and scared some of the Russian patrons shiatless.
                        Yep. They took the tattoos from a Russian documentary "The Mark Of Cain" which explained some of the tattoos in Russian prisons. The documentary itself focuses more on the conditions of the prisons, but yeah, those tatts are something else.
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                        • #537
                          Re: New/Rented movies: Here comes the movie to change all movies

                          Originally posted by Brenthoven View Post
                          I take it you haven't seen "Bringing Out The Dead" with Nic Cage.

                          THAT is unbelievably character-based, and I loved it.
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                          • #538
                            Re: New/Rented movies: Here comes the movie to change all movies

                            Originally posted by Brenthoven View Post
                            Yep. They took the tattoos from a Russian documentary "The Mark Of Cain" which explained some of the tattoos in Russian prisons. The documentary itself focuses more on the conditions of the prisons, but yeah, those tatts are something else.
                            One of those (weirdly addictive) "real crime" documentaries on the History channel did a story on those tats and the Russians who wear them. Suffice to say, 30 of those guys could take down an entire western army. Where sociopaths fear to tread, they brunch.
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                            • #539
                              Re: New/Rented movies: Here comes the movie to change all movies

                              Originally posted by Kepler View Post
                              One of those (weirdly addictive) "real crime" documentaries on the History channel did a story on those tats and the Russians who wear them. Suffice to say, 30 of those guys could take down an entire western army. Where sociopaths fear to tread, they brunch.
                              If there ever is an organized crime war, I want to see the vors vs the Yakuza.
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                              • #540
                                Re: New/Rented movies: Here comes the movie to change all movies

                                Originally posted by Brenthoven View Post
                                If there ever is an organized crime war, I want to see the vors vs the Yakuza.
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