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Movie Thread: Grab Some Popcorn, Enjoy The Show

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Rescue Dawn was horrible. So overrated my friend. He was great in the Machinist but merely a caricature in Batman. I still enjoyed the series though.

Venus in Fur. If you're not afraid of foreign films see this one now. Its very understated but the dialogue is tremendous. I'm also a sucker for Mathieu Amalric.
 
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Slap Shot said:
Rescue Dawn was horrible. So overrated my friend. He was great in the Machinist but merely a caricature in Batman. I still enjoyed the series though.

Venus in Fur. If you're not afraid of foreign films see this one now. Its very understated but the dialogue is tremendous. I'm also a sucker for Mathieu Amalric.
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Steve Zahn was incredible in Rescue Dawn, by the way. Talk about the Thousand Yard Stare...I didn't like the ending, too cheesy, but I guess that is how it happened. As for the movie, it was really good. Oscar worthy? Nah. Better than average? Most definitely.

And not afraid of foreign movies at all. I watch quite a few of them (the last one being M, which I reviewed earlier in the thread). Will take note of Venus In Fur.
 
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I have to laugh, as I didn't like Zahn overall, but was blown away by his performance in RD. :)
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You were blown away by his performance but didn't like him overall?

To clarify - I didn't find him outstanding but rather he was the only redeeming part of the film.

btw another Bale work I hated that gets raves is Empire of the Sun. So frigging boring.
 
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Slap Shot said:
You were blown away by his performance but didn't like him overall?

To clarify - I didn't find him outstanding but rather he was the only redeeming part of the film.

btw another Bale work I hated that gets raves is Empire of the Sun. So frigging boring.
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Some other roles he had, most notably Saving Silverman, didn't make me take him seriously as an actor that can really act. RD was a "whoa..." moment, IMO.

Never saw Empire, so cannot comment on that.
 
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Brenthoven said:
Some other roles he had, most notably Saving Silverman, didn't make me take him seriously as an actor that can really act. RD was a "whoa..." moment, IMO.

Never saw Empire, so cannot comment on that.
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He was very young in Empire of the Sun, so it's tough to gauge his work on that. IIRC, he was still in his early teens at the time, playing the son of a British officer or diplomat based in Hong Kong or another eastern Chinese city (pre-WWII era).
 
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St. Clown said:
He was very young in Empire of the Sun, so it's tough to gauge his work on that. IIRC, he was still in his early teens at the time, playing the son of a British officer or diplomat based in Hong Kong or another eastern Chinese city (pre-WWII era).
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The first movie I saw Bale in was American Psycho (saw it in theaters), so didn't know what the future had in store for him, and I LOVED that movie even then. Bought the DVD the day it came out, not b/c I was a fanboy of him then; he was still unknown to me, btw. He nailed that part.

Opinions taken on Empire. May or may not check it out. Doesn't sound like something I'd like, but who knows?
 
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Brenthoven said:
The first movie I saw Bale in was American Psycho (saw it in theaters), so didn't know what the future had in store for him, and I LOVED that movie even then. Bought the DVD the day it came out, not b/c I was a fanboy of him then; he was still unknown to me, btw. He nailed that part.

Opinions taken on Empire. May or may not check it out. Doesn't sound like something I'd like, but who knows?
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I don't think Empire is a bad movie, but certainly not worth the hype it was given. Bale's character had a big part in the movie, and he played it about as well as you can expect a teenager to play a period piece on a subject that's likely somewhat over his head at the time.

I misrepresented the time period. The family was stationed in China prior to that country's involvement in WWII, but the story is basically how they cope with being there during the initial Japanese invasion of the country.
 
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St. Clown said:
I don't think Empire is a bad movie, but certainly not worth the hype it was given. Bale's character had a big part in the movie, and he played it about as well as you can expect a teenager to play a period piece on a subject that's likely somewhat over his head at the time.

I misrepresented the time period. The family was stationed in China prior to that country's involvement in WWII, but the story is basically how they cope with being there during the initial Japanese invasion of the country.
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Gotcha. Thank you for the info. :)
 
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Criterion Collection watched this past week:

The Sword of Doom, Kihachi Okamoto (1966) * Tatsuya Nakadai and Toshiro Mifune
- You want to see some swordplay and killing? Watch this samurai film to see Nakadai portraying a psychotic killer in this first of a never completed trilogy. Mifune plays the disciplined director of a “fencing school” who also takes out the “bad guys” in a sword-swinging scene that annihilates everyone but the Nakadai character. But that’s just a trifle compared to the carnage at the end of the film.

The Naked Prey, Cornel Wilde (1966) *
- Imagine yourself chased by a group of natives through the African landscape, already with all its natural dangers, as though you were an animal of prey. Well shot on location with Cornel Wilde also in the lead role.

The Delirious Fictions of William Klein, Eclipse Series 9 (2008) *
- Who Are You Polly Magoo?, William Klein (1966)
- Mr. Freedom, William Klein (1969)
- The Model Couple, William Klein (1977)
These are all interesting, kooky, social and political satires on the fashion industry, America, and contemporary life.

Young Törless, Volker Schlöndorff (1966) *
- Coming of age film by the director of The Tin Drum. Set in pre-WWII Austria-Hungry at a boarding school, it deals with the psychology and sociology that gave us the Nazi mind-set.

Fighting Elegy or Kenka Erejii, Seijun Suzuki (1966) *
- This is also set in pre-WWII and follows a young man trying to come to terms with his longings, desires and commitments. It shows as well the psychology and sociology that brought about the militarist state of mind in Japan.

The Taking of Power by Louis XIV, Roberto Rossellini (1966) *
- Apparently Rossellini began to make a number of period pieces at one point in his career. This is an interesting look at Louis XIV, all played by non-actors.

Two-Lane Blacktop, Monte Hellman (1971) non-Criterion edition, w/James Taylor
- TLB is about a couple of gear-heads (James Taylor and Dennis Wilson of Beach Boys fame, Brian’s brother), an eccentric drifter driving a GTO (Warren Oates) and a waifish wanderer (Laurie Bird), drag-racing across the country in this existential “road” film.
 
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Cumberbatch isnt even in the same universe as DDL.
 
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Empire of the Sun is awesome. Great Malkovich role in that movie.
 
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Mr. Holland's Opus

Not the first time I have watched this film, and it won't be the last. I have always maintained that Richard Dreyfuss was robbed of a second Oscar for his performance, and only failed to win because of the film's very late release.
 
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Richard Dreyfuss
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Speaking of great actors. I really enjoy Dreyfus in everything he does, even The Goodbye Girl which by all rights should have been ordinary Neil Simon smarm but which Dreyfuss made interesting and genuine.
 
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aygwm2 said:
The Naked Prey, Cornel Wilde (1966) *
- Imagine yourself chased by a group of natives through the African landscape, already with all its natural dangers, as though you were an animal of prey. Well shot on location with Cornel Wilde also in the lead role.
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Thanks for reminding me of that movie. I was impressed by it. It was quite interesting that even though the Cornel Wilde character was sentenced by the tribe, they gave him an opportunity to "challenge" the sentence, so to speak.

Supposedly it is loosely based on a fur trapper in Wyoming territory in the early 1800s escaping from Native American pursuers.
 
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I decided to give The Departed a second chance. Wish me luck.
 
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