I've been enjoying my neo noir arc recently. In this one... I like Blake Masters (daFoe). It's a similar thing to many books, this side of the world, so hidden from us in mundane life, has an allure. His dancers, his many helpers... And yet he died screaming like the rest. Only Chase and his partner from the beginning went out like they wanted. Dead before Retirement.
Very Heat esque, though in a sense this may be simply because of DeNiro. The car chases especially are the best I've seen – I wonder what father would think, especially as he dislikes them normally. The end was resolved a bit too quickly. An IRA subplot in the last few minutes, the ambivalence of all their actual employers... Though I suppose, as Vincent (Jean Reno) would put it; "No Questions. No Answers."
A nice movie, but frankly a touch overrated. The story was ultimately simple and the main message of "ruthless machiavellian autistic guy fails upwards" is greatfor literally me edits and not much more.
Incredible movie. The colouring and the costuming is superb. Nat King Cole singing throughout, that faint backdrop of America and world events (Cambodia and the upcoming Khmer Rouge) Maggie Cheung and Tony Leung both just kill it. The passion conveyed without a moment of "legible" romance, the ultimate fatalism of it... And then of course the Hong Kong scenes. The cramped apartments and workspaces; the noodle restaurants. The world I was born in is the same as it is now, but it wasn't always this way.
Absolutely superb movie. Exactly the kind of story I love; of a man raising himself to unimaginable heights and then his world crumbling around him. Yet, the ascent was worth it. From Dust to Dust.
honestly just picking up a book in those moments. well regardless I'm well educated enough through filmtwt I suppose.
This was a really fun movie to watch. nothing particularly groundbreaking, but Pitt and Statham are great in this. In general just a fan of this epoch of clearly declined yet still somewhat relevant england. One still sees in the older men that there was once something there in that country, and how some of the problems just haven't changed that much from the world wars to then. Overall, perfect to have watched alone and drunk in a hotel.
It's a superb movie and the best of the entire genre. The dialogue is unmistakeable, I find myself referencing it so often. TBC It's a total "literally me" self insert, both on al Pacino and DeNiros's side. Competence porn in a way.
A good watch! It follows a wife who hires a "mistress dispeller" for her husband, in an attempt to break up his affair and thus keep the family intact (or as intact as still possible). What I enjoyed most was the mundanity of it; how a man who is stuck in his life decides to do something just to, for a moment, feel a tinge of aliveness. How another far younger woman throws herself at this slob, just for validation... Are these feelings of love and deep appreciation for the world rare? As in, does the median affair just mean less because the love was never as strong in the first place? Then again, this is how all who have loved must feel. Their own little experience, so euphoric for them, smoothes out into a statistic.
Watched it on a plane and enjoyed it. Frankly, Nolan in general seems more and more like Qualityslop – You only like it because it's good. Plots are interesting, the characters are decently fleshed out and you come away with the feeling that your time was not wasted.
It goes without saying that this Film is extremely long. This, in addition to having to read subtitles for the entire runtime, made for a rather exhausting watch. The plot centres around a group of schoolchildren in Taiwan, and the fight between rival gangs there ultimately culminating in the murder of a girl. The story is a true one, and it doesn't shy away from the rather bleak realities of the characters lives. Their slow coming of age, from first kisses to fights to an enjoyment of music... There are the usual plotpoints of needing to get into the better school, parents grappling with joblessness and all that is the utter regularness of peoples lives. My favourite character is probably Honey, the charismatic and honourable gangleader, whose pride is ultimately his downfall.
It has been a few months and this really hasn't been on my mind in a while; It was worth the watch and feels almost like a novel in that sense. I'd recommend it to someone to enjoy with a friend, to plan to talk for a long time after and maybe even at some breaks in between. I recommend reading this review for more.
Excellent Duo of Pitt and Clooney, the heist flick par excellence. Looking forward to watching the other ones
Naturally I watched this because of the edits, but really I should've watched it way earlier. It's simply an excellent movie, and one in which dicaprio doesn't just act the same character, like he sometimes seems to do. It is a tragic movie, and worth revisiting. What is this world here we're fighting over, this glorious future with machines of loving grace. What happens then with the holes of the world which, despite us not forgetting them, have forgotten themselves. It is love of course that triumphs here in the end. And so it shall be in our case also. If you have someone, hug them tight. I do no see how it gets much easier from here on out