Meredith McKay 7,327 Posted December 31, 2024 Share Posted December 31, 2024 Just now, #SnowyVernalSpringsEternal said: The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey - extended edition. A mere fiver on Prime. Completely lacks the sense of urgency Fellowship had. But its a silly but fun kind of fantasy epic, with its heart in the right place. I like it. I always kinda did. Watching it right now as well. #SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,634 Posted December 31, 2024 Share Posted December 31, 2024 Peter Jackson is not a subtle director at all. He reminds me a bit of Raimi. Same background in film making I guess? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jamie Dutton 7,714 Posted December 31, 2024 Share Posted December 31, 2024 They both like zany photography. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,544 Posted December 31, 2024 Share Posted December 31, 2024 5 minutes ago, #SnowyVernalSpringsEternal said: Peter Jackson is not a subtle director at all. He reminds me a bit of Raimi. Very true. One thing I'd say is Rami used to have superior style to Jackson, during their respective splatterhouse phases. In fact Rami ran rings around him. Peter Jackson was built to bring LotR to the masses, to realise it once and for all. And that's it. He's actually not that interesting, stylistically. Naïve Old Fart 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,634 Posted December 31, 2024 Share Posted December 31, 2024 I like his extreme attention to detail though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,544 Posted December 31, 2024 Share Posted December 31, 2024 Yes definitely, but before he ran away with the computer tools. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,634 Posted December 31, 2024 Share Posted December 31, 2024 Remember the long, mostly CGI/miniature tracking shot following the moth over the trees and into Gandalfs hand. Thats a really beautifully done shot Weirdly this (Hobbit) looks better on my screen than most modern blockbusters do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,544 Posted December 31, 2024 Share Posted December 31, 2024 For me it's a stunning and transcendental shot. That's when these sorts of filmmakers are at their best: when they're challenged by the available tools at their disposal and they must be inventive, they have to make the best of the practical techniques they have. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,634 Posted January 1 Share Posted January 1 Its a kind of "beauty" you rarely see in special effects shots nowadays. Its 2025 and we've gone backwards! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,712 Posted January 1 Share Posted January 1 Talking about unsubtle directors, Ron Howard is certainly up there. Still, conceiving an interview as a boxing fight does result in a somewhat entertaining flick, very much helped by Frank Langella's impressive performance as president Richard Nixon. However, today the Watergate scandal that happened in the early '70s no longer shocks. So, in a way, this movie is about a more innocent time in politics. Alex - ready to be banned Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lady Dimitrescu 9,300 Posted January 1 Share Posted January 1 JWban Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jamie Dutton 7,714 Posted January 1 Share Posted January 1 It's a leftwing Hollywood movie that falsifies the interview, making Nixon out to be a buffoonish cartoon character who looks like a fool blathering on for hours and calling Frost like a nut. It's slickly made and very watchable however, but certainly a load of shit for simpletons. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 11,016 Posted January 1 Share Posted January 1 I must be the mayor of simpleton, then, because, I like it. Davis 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lady Dimitrescu 9,300 Posted January 1 Share Posted January 1 His old interviews on YouTube are an interesting listen. And he wasn't profusely sweating or looking like a pop-eyed lunatic in real life either. Hollyweird villainising people it doesn't like yet again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,712 Posted January 1 Share Posted January 1 31 minutes ago, The Train Station said: His old interviews on YouTube are an interesting listen. And he wasn't profusely sweating ... This is explained in the movie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lady Dimitrescu 9,300 Posted January 1 Share Posted January 1 I haven't watched it in 15 years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davis 3,724 Posted January 1 Share Posted January 1 Perfect film for a night like this. I was able to finally watch it ‘til the end. It’s over the top good to mediocre to bad CGI, Rocky and Blunty have zero chemistry, a ridiculously underused Giamatti who was there only for the paycheck, way too much PC and woke propaganda, but JNH’s score is very good. I was surprised at how much I actually enjoyed this crazy stupid mess of a film. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,544 Posted January 1 Share Posted January 1 Yes, let's all look back on Nixon as a misunderstood American hero. By all I mean the two usual suspects. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davis 3,724 Posted January 1 Share Posted January 1 Well, he did end the Vietnam war that JFK started and Johnson escalated… And he didn’t have an extramarital affair with a movie star, while in office… Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lady Dimitrescu 9,300 Posted January 1 Share Posted January 1 8 minutes ago, Quintus said: Yes, let's all look back on Nixon as a misunderstood American hero. By all I mean the two usual suspects. https://www.cancer.gov/about-nci/overview/history/national-cancer-act-1971 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HunterTech 1,398 Posted January 1 Share Posted January 1 Do I steal Shark's thunder and have us all rally against the Hans Zimmer score attached to the film? One that's actually not bad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lady Dimitrescu 9,300 Posted January 1 Share Posted January 1 Anyone else reckon The Post was really boring? filmmusic and Davis 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,544 Posted January 1 Share Posted January 1 Like the majority of contemporary Spielberg films, sure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,634 Posted January 1 Share Posted January 1 I liked it Jurassic Shark 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,544 Posted January 1 Share Posted January 1 I haven't watched it but it looks boring on the box. I think I might be at that awkward centre point where I've possibly now seen less than half of the movies my favourite director has actually made, but I'd need to check. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 11,016 Posted January 1 Share Posted January 1 THE POST is not bad, but as a drama based upon a piece of early '70s political journalism, it simply cannot hold any sized candle to ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN, which is clearly what it wants to be. Our Steve even goes so far as to re-enact the opening scene from ATPM as the last scene from his film. It's an "almost" film. It's almost good, it's almost compelling, it's almost exciting, except that it was done far better in 1976. Save your time looking at people pretending, and watch Redford, Hoffman, and Robards put on a class act. Davis 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lady Dimitrescu 9,300 Posted January 1 Share Posted January 1 I didn't even like All The President's Men. Zzzzzzzz Naïve Old Fart 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 11,016 Posted January 1 Share Posted January 1 6 minutes ago, The Train Station said: I didn't even like All The President's Men. Zzzzzzzz Sacrilege! Get thee to a nunnery! Davis 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jurassic Shark 14,183 Posted January 1 Share Posted January 1 19 minutes ago, The Train Station said: I didn't even like All The President's Men. Zzzzzzzz Not even some of them? 22 minutes ago, Naïve Old Fart said: It's an "almost" film. It's almost good, it's almost compelling, it's almost exciting, except that it was done far better in 1976. Still, it's better than most that comes out of Hollywood today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 11,016 Posted January 1 Share Posted January 1 Eejit Jurassic Shark 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jurassic Shark 14,183 Posted January 1 Share Posted January 1 22 minutes ago, Naïve Old Fart said: Save your time looking at people pretending I agree Hanks was overacting, and his makeup was too much - he looked and acted made up. Naïve Old Fart and Davis 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 11,016 Posted January 1 Share Posted January 1 Agreed. Both Hanks and Streep were... ok, but I got the impression that they were trying too hard to please. Everyone else was great, especially Odenkirk, and Plemons. Davis 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,712 Posted January 1 Share Posted January 1 2 hours ago, The Train Station said: Anyone else reckon The Post was really boring? I only watched 5 minutes of it and thought it was terrible (the makeup and the stage acting). OTOH, All The President's Men is great and directors like David Fincher agree with me. Naïve Old Fart and Davis 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lady Dimitrescu 9,300 Posted January 1 Share Posted January 1 I like how dark and disturbing this is. Unexpectedly really good. It even has an obnoxious bureaucrat with an unlikely redemption arc. Davis 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 41,209 Posted January 1 Share Posted January 1 On 31/12/2024 at 7:03 AM, The Train Station said: They should watch more dark and disturbing films like this instead. Great movie! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jamie Dutton 7,714 Posted January 1 Share Posted January 1 5 hours ago, Quintus said: Yes, let's all look back on Nixon as a misunderstood American hero. By all I mean the two usual suspects. That movie is incredibly inaccurate. I'm not sure what the point was except to distort history. I watched the real interviews afterwards and the movie should have had a disclaimer at the start that this is a work of pure fiction. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davis 3,724 Posted January 2 Share Posted January 2 A lovely coming-of-age story with two amazing child actors. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sweeping Strings 2,747 Posted January 2 Share Posted January 2 Renegades - late 80s actioner in which undercover cop Kiefer Sutherland and Lou Diamond Phillips team up in pursuit of a stolen spear which is sacred to the Lakota tribe. Fairly standard stuff, does have a decent car chase though. This has one of Michael Kamen's summer '89 action scores ... the other is of course in Licence To Kill, and whilst the Latin guitar flourishes are fitting in LTK they seem less so in Renegades. Naïve Old Fart 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
filmmusic 2,447 Posted January 2 Share Posted January 2 I never did like Beatty as an actor (neither as a man), but Lansbury is exceptional in the role of the mother! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lady Dimitrescu 9,300 Posted January 2 Share Posted January 2 Really dark and disturbing for a 50s flick. People say it's anti-war, but it's really anti-bureacracy – those sorts love to shift blame just to cover their arses. Davis and filmmusic 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
filmmusic 2,447 Posted January 2 Share Posted January 2 I peaked at the last 10 minutes or so of this film while my dad was watching. OMG! Who watches these things and who greenlits them? It looked awful! Davis 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,544 Posted January 2 Share Posted January 2 The CG isn't ideal but I settled into it, I thought this was pretty charming and watchable by kids movie standards. Incidentally was the last film I took the children to see just as the pandemic was beginning to lock down Europe, it was quiet in the theatre. Sad times and terrible bad luck for this movie's box office. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lady Dimitrescu 9,300 Posted January 3 Share Posted January 3 Harrison Ford starring in a doggie video game movie. Davis 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jamie Dutton 7,714 Posted January 3 Share Posted January 3 The Call of the Paycheck Davis 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edmilson 9,772 Posted January 3 Share Posted January 3 Harrison Ford interacting with a CGI dog Harrison Ford playing a sad and old Indiana Jones Harrison Ford playing a CGI Marvel villain What is next? Harrison Ford playing the father of a Disney princess in a "live action" remake? Davis 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrbellamy 7,075 Posted January 3 Share Posted January 3 Harrison would be good as Bambi's dad Davis 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jamie Dutton 7,714 Posted January 3 Share Posted January 3 He's running the Yellowstone ranch now, or then Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,544 Posted January 3 Share Posted January 3 We can judge from our armchairs of nothingness but Ford is well old enough to not give a shit and he just prefers to stay busy, it's that simple. The cowboy and shrink gigs seem to be his "respectable" jobs that bring in the punters, both which I tried but didn't get into. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davis 3,724 Posted January 3 Share Posted January 3 Being old doesn’t mean he has to sell out. He is rich as f. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,544 Posted January 3 Share Posted January 3 Ford doesn't talk much but he has always made a point of saying how he likes to keep working and also trying to take roles people don't expect of him. But yes the dude is in his 80s, so it's unsurprising the choices are nowhere near as broad as they might have been. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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