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     Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 85.222.86.72 |
After the over-rated The Hurt Locker (with its stock-types of nationalities, and it's absurd posing), why not go and watch a real movie about the state of people in the environment of war. http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/sony/lebanon/ That was Frank party political broadcast. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.240.106 |
I thought The Hurt locker was excellent - a great study of a man fatally addicted to the adrenalin rush of his dangerous job. | ||
| Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 85.222.86.72 |
Sorry, mate, I like Bigelow, but I thought she might have ditched the stereotypes. The scene in which the protagonist walks into the room and rips the wooden boards off the window of the barracks, and says that mortar shells come through the roof, not through the window, and the scene in which he removes his protective clothing, and the scene in which all the British soldiers get picked off by the enemy, but not the Americans, seems a trifle silly. I am pejudiced though. I was hoping for something with a tough political streak. Something which might have made up for the recent crop of movies cashing in on the angst. I admit it is a war movie, and little else. But what I do know, Scorcese loved it. I just thought it was laughable in parts. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.240.106 |
Why would you expect something political and realistic from an action film director? I expected a high quality rollercoaster ride, and that's what I got. | ||
| Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 85.222.86.72 |
Fair enough. Maybe I shouldn't have bought into the marketing. And all those interviews she gave in which she consistently balked at the idea that she was a great action/thriller director, but nothing more. I was just surprised that it won the best film Oscar, not to mention countless other awards. But I've seen lots of movies which didn't deserve to win either, and for all my complaints, I thought it was certainly better than drivel like Titanic, which really does employ cliche to the limits. Like I said, I like her, I have a lot of her movies, and consider Blue Steel, Near Dark, The Widowmaker (for all its faults), and the criminally overlooked 'Strange Days' as almost perfect movies in their respective genres. I love Strange Days the most, followed by Near Dark, but I'd have to say Blue Steel is probably her most realized work. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.240.106 |
Yes, very good films...but they're all dumb action movies. Blue Steel is my favourite, too, but it's absurd. That's why I like these films: they're larger than life. | ||
| Gcw (Gcw) Username: Gcw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.158.238.131 |
Strange Days is indeed an overlooked goodie...I remember Ralf Fiennes being particularly good in an unusual role for him. gcw | ||
| Stevie Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 194.32.31.1 |
'Near Dark' was the last truly great vampire movie I have seen, and I include 'Let The Right One In' in that, which was extremely good but flawed imo. I agree, 'Strange Days' is a great, and inexplicably neglected, sci-fi movie. Fiennes is one of those actors who seems to have spent most of his career coasting (since 'Schindler's List') but he was great in this one. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.166.117.210 |
You lost me at your first paragraph...Let The Right One In was immaculate. |