That's like saying Kleenex invented tissues.
Why would he lie?i absolutely do not believe AT ALL this.
Mind you, i'm not saying that i dont believe YOU, im saying i dont believe Cameron. It's bullshit. It's pure utter bullshit. MAAAAAAybe Tom Cruise, but Leo was at the peak of being ateen heartthrob, and the rest of the film is 100% designed to be a teen heartthrob film.
IMHo Cameron just simply lied.
Really is great. I bought the whole DVD set way back when. The Kid with a Helmet (superstar poster at Rotten Tomatoes Forums when that site was a supernova on the Internet) was mad for it, so I had to check it out. I ask you, how does it hold up in 2023?Binging The West Wing
Gives me the feel goods
I am a nerd and so i watched Sorok Perviyy (The Forty-First) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049783/reference/
A COLOR (i know, right?) 1956 russian film that i found in full on YouTube:
Bunch of Red Army peasants attack glorious White Army ubermensch during 1920s russian civil war. They treacherously kill the White Army glorious aristocrats, but one survives. He is interrogated by the illiterate brutes and revealed to hold secret information.
The vile peasants hold him captive, and assign a vuluptuous, prosperours russian woman to guard him. She is not just a woman, she is a sniper with 40 confirmed kills.
As the barbaric traitors die at the hands of their own incompetence, the last two to survive are the woman and the aristocrat, poet, and gentleman Lieutenant Vadim Nikolayevich Govorkha, Jr.;
They land on a island (yeah yeah i know, desert, island, same thing) and they start a love story, with the exquisite upbringing of the heroic White Army official brings hitherto unknown joys to the indoctrinated Red Army traitor.
And, when they are about to be saved, because she's a stupid woman, she kills the man she loves.
Thus he becomes the titular 41th kill and she cry because she don't got no dick to suck on no mo'.
5/10 would not watch again.
I'm sure it's not as bad as your score. Those are good actors. Like good enough where they would have to try really hard to act bad. And I don't think any of them is interested in tanking their careers by doing a seriously bad movie.4/10 - ralph fiennes, you are dead to me
It wasn't that bad. It wasn't great but it was a fun watch. It was not subtle. I think it definitely had an overall message that could hit home. Honestly movies have been exposed by long content multi episodic streaming. Movies now have to cram these entire stories in 2 hours that we have become used to getting in 10 hours. So watching the menu I saw so many missed opportunities for backstory and more subtle plot evolution. But when you look at the time they had none..I'm sure it's not as bad as your score. Those are good actors. Like good enough where they would have to try really hard to act bad. And I don't think any of them is interested in tanking their careers by doing a seriously bad movie.
i'm a bit late to the party, but have finally watched Knives Out - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8946378/reference/
.. which i thought was okaish.
First, i need to talk about the absolute insanity which is Daniel Craig's ridiculous accent. You're supposed to be a frenchman ("Benoit Blanc") from New York, but you sound like a cattle baron from 1820s texas. I cannot explain to myself why this was thought to be ok, this is Samuel L Jackson's lisp in Kingsman level of ridiculous. Nothing about it suits, nor does it suit the modern setting. He obviously was trying for his own Hercule Poirot, but at least one of the many production assistants could have told him he just sound stupid.
Imagine Poirot putting on the same accent as Craig !
As for the story, it's ok, but not great. The film cannot decide how the audience has to look at Ana De Armas' character, if as a criminal, or sympathetic. The MYSTERY in a mystery is when you reveal someone who we thought was X, as being Y. The element of us thinking said character is a X, is a part of the mystery. Because i really didnt care about what fate this character was going to have in the end.
But, i did want to see how the plot unravels, so i'll give you that. The other characters are marginal and i never thought that any of them could be the culprit. Really, they worked backwards on this one (not a crime perse', actually a very sound writing technique), but the parts that lead to the end are not done great. I mean, tthere's a scene where Craig is monologuing, and teh camera fucking cuts to another character blowing their nose or something. Can these people open a fucking book about filmmaking ?
eh .. it was good for being stuff of this millennium. But it's no Clue. I mean that because the film makes a meal out of showing you sets, costumes, establishing shots, etc which Clue does much better. And what little soundtrack the film had was cookiecutter "mystery film pizzicato" crap.
Nor is it as good as any of the many made-for-TV Agatha Christie film, but it was decent... i guess
Im surprised i didnt recognize Riki Linhome.
eh, stretching it as 6/10
Based on a action-adventure game. A smuggler Joel (Pedro Pascal) tasked with escorting a teenage girl, Ellie (Bella Ramsey), across a post-apocalyptic United States.
6/10 from me.4/10 - ralph fiennes, you are dead to me
His accent was weird. He pronounces words like they would in SE Texas but with something more like a Alabama draw and rhythm to his speech. It is like someone from Corpus Christi went to the University of Alabama, but then he says any word even vaguely French (like his name) he is straight up from the bayou.You're supposed to be a frenchman ("Benoit Blanc") from New York, but you sound like a cattle baron from 1820s texas.
Don't underestimate Rian Johnson. He probably has a whole backstory for Benoit that deserves its own prequel. He might even be working on it as we speak.His accent was weird. He pronounces words like they would in SE Texas but with something more like a Alabama draw and rhythm to his speech.
Political issues hold up the best. Forgot how whiny the Donna Moss character was. Characters who are opposites of my leanings are still really likableReally is great. I bought the whole DVD set way back when. The Kid with a Helmet (superstar poster at Rotten Tomatoes Forums when that site was a supernova on the Internet) was mad for it, so I had to check it out. I ask you, how does it hold up in 2023?
I'm curious to check this out. I gave up on the game maybe a third to halfway through, but perhaps the TV show will be better.https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3581920/ 9/10. 9 episode HBO/HBO Max weekly series, premiere Jan 15.
Nice on your toes 1st episode. Worth watching, not familiar with the game it's based on. Can'wait for the next episodes.
Weird. What irked you about it? It was a very emotionally draining game for me. Top notch storytelling and scary effective gameplay.I gave up on the game maybe a third to halfway through, but perhaps the TV show will be better.
I had a real good time watching The West Wing. It's still in my on-shelf collection.Political issues hold up the best. Forgot how whiny the Donna Moss character was. Characters who are opposites of my leanings are still really likable
Technology a little dated, still use pagers. Talk about internet like it was only a few years old.
Don't listen to what others say. If your brain is fine with it, it's FINE.but I will likely question my sanity throughout each episode.
I'm not big on stealth gameplay and I found all the characters to be unlikable. Best intro to a video game I've ever played (story wise) though.Weird. What irked you about it? It was a very emotionally draining game for me. Top notch storytelling and scary effective gameplay.