Movie Mini-Review Thread - Part III

cerebus

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It is a great movie made by a great director.

I'd probably have to actually watch it sometime. I was just giving neoprod kak for involving me in his post. I do think Mel Gibson is a giant piece of **** but he's directed some good movies. Hitchcock and Polanski were also terrible people but you gotta separate the art and the artist somewhat I think.
 

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Different strokes, different folks.

Genuinely love the converging timelines and deliberate lack of dialogue in Dunkirk, as well as the long-take format of 1917.

Titles roll at the end of Heartbreak Ridge, so I'll give it a point for those.

Sure, directors making war movies just to fap at their own cinematic bravura.
Where's the story and characters?
 

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Incorrect. Dunkirk is fantastic.


Humourless bores? You're looking for humour in war movies as a key element?
FMJ had its fair share of humour amidst the carnage.

Did you forget the classic "love you long time" scene made even more iconic by Steve Carrell (forgot which movie).

And where did I say it needs to be a key element?
 

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I'd probably have to actually watch it sometime. I was just giving neoprod kak for involving me in his post. I do think Mel Gibson is a giant piece of **** but he's directed some good movies. Hitchcock and Polanski were also terrible people but you gotta separate the art and the artist somewhat I think.
Huh.
What did Hitch do?
 

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The Sting (1973) 8.5/10
Paul Newman and Robert Redford do the Butch and Sundance routine in a more light-hearted movie. A lot of fun.

The Day of the Jackal (1973) 8/10
Lean, mean thriller with barely a single wasted frame. Whereas the Forsyth novel is very detailed, this adaptation cuts to the chase without losing any of the tension.
 

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The Sting (1973) 8.5/10
Paul Newman and Robert Redford do the Butch and Sundance routine in a more light-hearted movie. A lot of fun.

The Day of the Jackal (1973) 8/10
Lean, mean thriller with barely a single wasted frame. Whereas the Forsyth novel is very detailed, this adaptation cuts to the chase without losing any of the tension.
You're wrong about HR, but you're spot-on about these two.

Newman and Redford were brilliant together on-screen, and I've always thought Robert Shaw was underrated... He was so damn good.

Butch Cassidy next, obviously.

Just do it.

Edward Fox is a gem in The Day of the Jackal.

Without spoiling it, the shot where his Jackal character, well, takes his shot, is just phenomenal cinema.
 
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I didn't know about that...I just remembered watching a thing about the making of The Birds and he lied to her about using mechanical birds (because she was scared of them). She turns up to film and they're real birds and they chain them to her...for a few days in a row.
 

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You're wrong about HR, but you're spot-on about these two.

Newman and Redford were brilliant together on-screen, and I've always thought Robert Shaw was underrated... He was so damn good.

Butch Cassidy next, obviously.

Just do it.

Edward Fox is a gem in The Day of the Jackal.

Without spoiling it, the shot where his Jackal character, well, takes his shot, is just phenomenal cinema.
I was kind of in the middle wrt to HR...clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right.

What I liked most about Jackal (and movies from that era) was how undramatic they are while still managing to maintain a tense atmosphere. It's almost a documentary style of filmmaking that's uncommon in movies nowadays. It's a Bourne movie minus the shaky cam, fights to the death every 20 minutes etc. Something like Bullit (even with that epic car chase) does that very well and more recently, The American with George Clooney which feels very much like a throwback. It's a kind of filmmaking I dig.

I've seen Butch and Sundance a couple of times though not in the last decade...my dad was into westerns.
 

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^ "The Dutch version of Dunkirk" - no, that looks way better than Dunkirk. Might give it a watch if I can
 

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We must even see Drako Malfoy take a bullet. Definitely need to watch this one just haven't gotten around to it yet.
 

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Deathgasm (2015) 7.5/10

****ing hilarious indie horror-comedy out of NZ. Snark, gore and metal - so much fun.
 

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The Master (2012) - 7.5/10

Masterful work in terms of acting, filmmaking as crafts. I didn't enjoy the story that much.
 

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2 Seemingly promising releases dropped:


 
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