Posts Tagged ‘Brian Cox’

Zodiac

February 13, 2010 - 11:33 pm No Comments

There is nothing wrong with this film itself. JR DR is, as usual, one of the best reasons to watch a movie. But, and this makes a difference, this is a long film - in 2h30m, there must be more action.

I do not mean car chases or filler as that, little else happens. Sure, there’s a great quality of Jake and Robert, but wow, I do not think Ruffalo as a cop who is as stupid as that is.

He really gives the character of his “real life” a bad name and there are about 20 minutes that could be cut from it are just, well, dumb. Sorry, but I think Jake as an artist to ‘nobody’, so as I think the cops are lazy SFPD (as described here). I want to love this film, is part of American history.

But I can not. In addition to seeing the fantastic Robert, who should be praised film, there is little to recommend this film. (He said this review contains a spoiler, but it’s just that I said Ruffalo’s character is silly, and I think I could tell.

Seriously, you and I could have solved this problem, 1h45m).

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The Ringer

January 27, 2010 - 4:52 am No Comments

Pap made this after about 20 minutes to look seriously uncomfortable. I didn’t see anything funny to see a grown man of no child visible disability that was delayed.

Maybe I’m being more sensitive, but there is nothing funny about people with disabilities that unlike Knoxville and the rest of his ‘actor’ co The Ringer stars, other cast members real disability cannot stop doing so, that’s what they are and they cannot help it. The film of the offensive taste and very bad by the most vulnerable societies.

Maybe it has a positive message somewhere but could not face sitting through this meeting. Avoid.

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Troy

January 25, 2010 - 7:08 am No Comments

I enjoyed this movie. Peter O Toole was great, especially the scene with Brad Pitt, who was one dimensional for most of the film, the killing machine bored, Achilles.

It would have been better shorter, but the extra length was not too much of a burden. The battle scenes are obviously computer-generated reality and the numbers are not even conceivable for a large-scale battle, why managers do this? Yes, the film adheres well to historical accuracy, but the result is the main story.

Such a measure is a bit like the Titanic, you know what will happen, but it still comes as a shock and a tragedy. It is a story worthy of an epic movie and you can always check the real history to detect the watching differences.Worth.

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The 25th Hour

January 12, 2010 - 5:53 pm No Comments

The premise of the movie is pretty straight Monty Brogan is a drug dealer spending his last day of his release, saying goodbye to friends and family before beginning a stretch of 7 years behind bars. However, in the execution of the story, Spike Lee shows that once again he is not afraid to pick the scabs that cover the American Society for playing bass rawness.

By juxtaposing images à post-9/11 NY against his characters, Lee reflects the numbing of emotions of her character in the sequel to Monty sentancing numb with the shock felt by the hometown of Lee after the WTC attack. Some sequences are simply classic movie moments Lee - the father telling the story of what could be if The 25th Hour not take the turning off to jail - we see that the perfect family life that now is always just out of the understanding of Monty. Best of all is unbelievable tirade of Monty in front of the mirror in his father’s bar, where in a fit of rage biting, finger of blam noted in all groups of society New York, before the cold realization that the only person with the finger should point toward himself.Ed Norton is Monty is his usual brilliant self in this film, ably supported by Barry Pepper and Philip Seymour Hoffman as his friends, who are finding their own personal hells, and Brian Cox as his father, a former firefighter in New York now has a bar.Powerful, weight display.

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Match Point

January 10, 2010 - 10:40 am No Comments

Quite possibly the worst film I’ve seen. The film features a cast of accomplished so I can only blame the director for the extraordinary performances of wood. The London of the film is cliché (shots of the Changing of the Guard at Buckingham Palace, the flat front of the Houses of Parliament) and the plot is as old as Match Point the hills.

There is zero chemistry between any of the characters and some real cringe worthy and vomit-inducing lines. Also for too long - I wish I could get a refund in the (more) two hours of my life I lost in this absolutely useless chatter.

I wish I could give this movie a negative score. Avoid at all costs.

Amazing.

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Troy

December 2, 2009 - 3:09 pm No Comments

Troy I was hoping the atmosphere, photography, great acting, impressive battle scenes and the spectacle of the film Gladiator. What results were actually wooden me (especially that of Pitt and Bloom, who seems better in films in which limited their lines) who do not care characters and dialogue that would not be out of place in an American soap.

The best actor in it (Eric Bana) did not last long, nor my interest. Yes, it looks beautiful and has beautiful people, but even the wonderful O’Toole could not save this tired old horse slaughter. My advice - see Gladiator (and again) or Jason and the Argonauts (the effects are similar).

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Troy

November 29, 2009 - 1:01 pm No Comments

I liked this film, I had heard bad about him, but gave it a go anyway. It is a great success in Hollywood with Brad in a skirt, and thats exactly what you get.

Moving in a deep analysis of character? No, but some struggle, love story enough to keep the bride happy and that brings the Iliad to the masses, albeit with a Hollywood Ending which is n’t true that the poem, but hey I give em any license. I was told that the film ignores the Greek gods, etc. Troy but it is not.

Are mentioned and play no role in the Trojan War anyway. Achilli referred to immortality and lets face it if it was really troy invincible might have fired one-handed no matter what Homer says (DOH!), That would be a very boring film.

With all good light entertainment which is quite faithful to the Iliad til about halfway through. I think people are playing their authenticity, you probably have not read the Iliad and the people playing the film had too high expectations.

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Troy

November 22, 2009 - 3:04 am No Comments

Troy I just spent 3 hours watching men running in the 21st century leather pieces purporting to be from 1250 BC or so. At no time did I even remotely convinced that I was seeing the story of the Trojan War.

Difficult to define how not to catch any of the atmosphere, but I suspect it has much to do with the script and some actors. Sean Bean deserves honorable mention as Odysseus and Eric Bana and Peter O’Toole fought bravely with some horrible lines, but Brad Pitt, Diane Kruger and Orlando Bloom did not understand at all, if this had been a dispute over who would pay for the ice that had been equally convincing. I know that Hollywood is famous for taking liberties with history, but he might have admitted that the Iliad was launched by the window and called it “a battle of 3 days in a sandy place with people claiming to be Greek and Asia”.

The final film to be done (Peter Jackson, are you listening?)

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Troy

November 19, 2009 - 8:34 pm No Comments

Another epic, you know you could be on anything, good or bad performance by the special effects up, battles unrealistic, but overall I really had a great time watching the movie. Brad Pitt cast as Achilles, at first seems a bit much as the warrior who can not be defeated (except the heel), but as the movie plays out is credible and you realize how much of the Iliad actually shown in this film, including a list Troy however, credibly that the fall of the above, Achilles handled.

Watching this DVD, I was not sure how he will handle the ten years of war, but the filmmakers, just left the part of the story. However, the epic, ten-year battle was condensed into 4 days.for end of a movie, and the idea that a major war in another country can be fought and won in four days - works well.

- It keeps the story moving.

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