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Zero Dark Thirty was so overrated. Sorry saadibaba I still respect your opinion but it was a typical "Oscar Season" movie. It dragged a lot and the torture sequences were unnecessarily prolonged just for the "shock" value. It's funny how horror movies are criticized for gratuitous torture scenes and this one is praised for them. Jessica Chastain was good but her performance was not as good as is claimed. Jason Clarke was much better and he was there for just half of the movie.

Overall, an okay movie but no great one. Infact, I found it forgettable which is unforgivable for me. I would rather watch an aggressively bad movie over a forgettable mediocre movie. Atleast, the bad movie invokes a reaction in me than a customary "meh".
 
I disagree. This movie was pretty much in the making soon after OBL was killed, it wasn't just made to pick an Oscar. I remember Kathryn Bigelow had just won an Oscar for Hurt Locker and she got picked to make this movie and it was a big deal as pretty much all A list movie directors were dying to get this project. Not because of its Oscar potential but its historic value. US govt. gave the director and writer full access to all the intel over OBL and how he eventually got caught. I disagree that it was Oscar bait, if it was they would have not used prolonged torture scenes and esp. water boarding, a hot button issue for all the democrats and liberals and Hollywood is 99% made up of them. But being true to the story, they showed them. Torture scneces were necessary, to show the brutality and the reality of how interrogations were typically being done, esp. during the Bush era. They didn't sugar coat it. Plus, which movie doesn't hope to get recognized by the Oscars. Tell me? And when you say it dragged. Come on, the hunt for OBL went on for 10 long years. You think they would have been able to do justice to the story by making the movie under 2 hours. I still don't see why it "dragged", leads were collected, lost, picked up again, in the process important events were highlighted like the suicide attack on CIA people in Afganistan and the attack on marriott hotel in Islamabad. The way they caught the courier guy was nothing short of finding a needle in the haystack. It was brilliantly portrayed. Pakistan was accurately portrayed quite to my own surprise. Jessica Chastain I agree didn't give Oscar worthy performance, but it was good enough. The end was satisfying, I knew OBL was killed but was still on the edge of my seat while the last operation scene was taking place. Is this not the mark of great movie, that despite knowing the whole story and the ending the audience still get engaged. TBH, I'll take is movie over Argo and Django Unchained if I ever decide to own a DVD of those movies for my collection. It's strange how sometime people don't realize how difficult it is to make movies from real events. While Django shoots people and their whole bodies blow up like in some zombie video game to satisfy some ridiculous urge to show more gore and that gets to be called ground breaking badass stuff from QT, poor Kathryn Bigelow just shows the reality of the torture scenes and people start squishing in their seats about how long and unnecessary they are. Huh!
 
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While I agree that Django was massively overrated, I still didn't enjoy ZDT as much as you.
 
The thing I like about Tarantino is he is a pretentious dude but he always makes entertaining movies. His movies are never dull and they always provoke a reaction whether positive or negative. He rips off a lot but dude's movies are fun to watch. Besides, Argo and Django weren't even the best movies of last year IMO. That would be Moonrise Kingdom but that's for another time. And I appreciate the craftsmanship of Kathryn Bigelow even if I didn't like the movie. It's a hell of a lot difficult to make a short film let alone a movie of such scale. It's just that it wasn't too involving for me which I absolutely abhor in a movie. One movie that was definitely overlooked in terms of being a thriller based on real events is Zodiac. Arguably the best movie of 2007.
 
Zodiac was damn good. TBH, QT is overrated if I may say so. If someone else had made Django, meh...would have been laughed and ridiculed to no end and this would have been his last ever big budget movie. I wasn't even entertained, the last 30 mins of the movie are a joke, a big grand joke on the viewers on how they got fooled into watching a fluff, exploitative, juvenile piece of crap by thinking it was about something as serious as slavery in America. Still the guy gets away with it, laughing his head off in the process I imagine. He makes movies to satisfy his own childish fantasies and we take it as a work of genius. Haven't watched Moonrise Kingdom, good that you reminded me since I have time nowadays, will watch it. I guess one more reason I liked ZDT was because I am very much interested in this subject and have read sereral non fiction works on this topic, most notably "Ghost Wars".
 
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Btw, did anyone else noticed. There was this black guy from "Lost" in ZDT and the main actress from it was in the "Hurt Locker". Kathryn Bigelow must be a big Lost fan.
 
Or, you know, a tv series with 100+ actors is bound to appear in several films of the same director.
 
Some of QT is a bit frivolous I agree, but he has made three films in Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction and Inglorious that I believe can be argued as genuinely great. That's more than enough to put him in the top bracket. Kubrick for example was ingenious for his innovation and boundary-charging as much as his actual film-making. Beyond say A Clockwork Orange, Dr Strangelove and Full Metal Jacket, I don't see a genuinely great film in there. But three, again, is still darn good.
 
QT's Pulp is arguably one of best movies of the last century in my opinion. But he has really gone astray since then. Inglorious still had its moments but Django was just horrific. A good case of why sometimes being the writer and director doesn't work, he seemed too much in love with his own words at times. If this was his Mel Brooks take on slavery than I would understand but in interviews he really seemed to be aiming to make the definite slavery movie and what a mockery it turned out to be, you could almost imagine hearing him laughing his ass off after shooting some of the violent scenes. I was certainly disgusted. The violence in Reservoir Fogs and Pulp seemed to have a realist flavor to them, a certain matter of factness. He will still be recognized as great and I'm all for it, just don't believe he should be raised to such high standards when he delivers duds like he did with Django.

Btw James, omitting Kubrick's 2001 from your list of greatest movies by him is as close to a criminal offense as they come, I would even put Shining in there.
 
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agree QT is overrated, nothing great after PF and KB vol 1 and 2. he has been coasting on his past glories for too long.
 
saadibaba said:
Btw James, omitting Kubrick's 2001 from your list of greatest movies by him is as close to a criminal offense as they come, I would even put Shining in there.
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2001 I'd say is good rather than great. There are some great moments and it is an audacious work, but the storyline is completely incomprehensible and the film seems sadly dated. Can you tell me what the film is actually about? 2001 fans often slip up when posed this question.

And definitely, definitely not The Shining. Leatherface is right. His most overrated film.
 
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QT's Pulp is arguably one of best movies of the last century in my opinion. But he has really gone astray since then. Inglorious still had its moments but Django was just horrific. A good case of why sometimes being the writer and director doesn't work, he seemed too much in love with his own words at times. If this was his Mel Brooks take on slavery than I would understand but in interviews he really seemed to be aiming to make the definite slavery movie and what a mockery it turned out to be, you could almost imagine hearing him laughing his ass off after shooting some of the violent scenes. I was certainly disgusted. The violence in Reservoir Fogs and Pulp seemed to have a realist flavor to them, a certain matter of factness. He will still be recognized as great and I'm all for it, just don't believe he should be raised to such high standards when he delivers duds like he did with Django.

Btw James, omitting Kubrick's 2001 from your list of greatest movies by him is as close to a criminal offense as they come, I would even put Shining in there.
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Dude Django was meant to be a take on spaghetti western films. Its aim was not to be a "definite slavery" movie in the traditional sense. Rather, it was a genre film that dealt with the topic of slavery.
 
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2001 I'd say is good rather than great. There are some great moments and it is an audacious work, but the storyline is completely incomprehensible and the film seems sadly dated. Can you tell me what the film is actually about? 2001 fans often slip up when posed this question.

And definitely, definitely not The Shining. Leatherface is right. His most overrated film.
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There is in fact a large body of work exploring the meaning of 2001. This by itself shows how complicated and puzzling yet fascinating and rewarding the movie was to so many people. Several books have been written on the subject and meaning of 2001 and if one does a google search, its sure to make ones head spin, like when HAL 9000 pleaded before dying "My mind is going". I personally like the interpretation of a then 15 year old girl which even Kubrick thought was the best speculation on his work he had ever read. Here is the link if you are interested.

http://www.visual-memory.co.uk/amk/doc/0009.html

As for Shining. Funny, just today I saw a documentary called Room 237. It was about hidden meanings and theories behind the Shining and what Kubrick subliminally was trying to portray through that movie. Needless to say, it's a very very deep movie, with each shot, dialogue, wardrobe, set design, camera angle etc. set in a very intentional and particular way to display to the keen observer the deeper thought process and meanings behind the movie. It's not simply about a guy losing his mind due to cabin fever. There is messaging about the genocide of the native Americans, references to the holocaust, references to the moon landing, etc. lot of them can be rejected as being constructs of Kubrick's crazy and neurotic conspiracy seeking fans but a lot actually do make sense. It requires several viewings to make the impression in my opinion.
 
Django Unchained.
Some good bits, but too long and sagged in the middle. Sam Jackson was tops though.
 
James said:
2001 I'd say is good rather than great. There are some great moments and it is an audacious work, but the storyline is completely incomprehensible and the film seems sadly dated. Can you tell me what the film is actually about? 2001 fans often slip up when posed this question.
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An alien race turns up in prehistory and leaves a monolith which speeds up human evolution. Then when we reach the monn millions of years later, another monolith is there and points out the way to a third. We send a space probe out to find the third, which is a star gate to the alien homeworld. There our evolution is accellerated again and one human evolves into pure consciousness, returning to Earth as a god.
 
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James said:
2001 I'd say is good rather than great. There are some great moments and it is an audacious work, but the storyline is completely incomprehensible and the film seems sadly dated. Can you tell me what the film is actually about? 2001 fans often slip up when posed this question.

And definitely, definitely not The Shining. Leatherface is right. His most overrated film.
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Shining may be overrated but it is still amazing.

Watch Room 237 and it becomes even more amazing.
 
Robert said:
An alien race turns up in prehistory and leaves a monolith which speeds up human evolution. Then when we reach the monn millions of years later, another monolith is there and points out the way to a third. We send a space probe out to find the third, which is a star gate to the alien homeworld. There our evolution is accellerated again and one human evolves into pure consciousness, returning to Earth as a god.
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This is basically the gist of what that girl wrote. Have you read her analysis Robert, it's fascinating, esp. considering she was only 15 when she wrote it.
 
I don't get the criticism of Django fights. We are talking about the same QT who has made a movie during which one woman cuts through 200 people with a katana that has no dent in it at the end. The gunfights were never meant to be realistic.

The movie suffers on other points but certainly not that one.
 
Elysium

From the director of "District 9", this again is a science fiction action movie. The earth has become overpopulated, diseased and have run out of resources so the upper class people have made another planet/ship for themselves where they have all migrated which is basically like the Beverly Hills. They have machines there which can heal anything and people on Earth are not allowed to go there. Fascinating premise, once again Neil Blomkamp using Scifi as a means to explore issues of illegal migration, universal health care, over population, exploitation like District 9 explored apartheid, ghettoization, racism and xenophobia. Even though Elysium is only half as good as the brilliant District 9, it still provokes a lot of interesting questions and forces us to think.
 
endymion248 said:
I don't get the criticism of Django fights. We are talking about the same QT who has made a movie during which one woman cuts through 200 people with a katana that has no dent in it at the end. The gunfights were never meant to be realistic.

The movie suffers on other points but certainly not that one.
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Django as a whole is a flawed movie, taken as a slavery movie or a western or whatever. The fight sequences are fine, only in the end, Django seems to have come into possession of some special gun the bullets of which explode the whole body like a bomb. I'm not sure if this technology was available back then.

I was thinking about Django after the discussion yesterday and realized its actually a combination of three types of movies. Mel Brooks western parody "Blazing Saddles" about a black sherif and the troubles he encounters to bring peace to a town in the face of rampant racism (actually its an interesting watch now keeping Obama in mind) B grade zombie horror movies where bodies explode and fountains of blood shoot out in all directions after killing a zombie and pretty much the whole premise is about blood and gore and black exploitation movies of the 60's and 70's where a black hero is shown to be taking revenge from the white folks for all those years of suppression and abuse. In his interviews QT explicitly stated how he dislikes and abhor movies and TV serials including the definitive "Roots" depiction of slavery and that he is going to get his protagonist to take revenge. That would have been fine, but the protagonist seems to be having fun simply killing any and every white person around, in the end doing free willies on his horse in celebration. I'm not sure what he wanted, maybe he thought by showing such revenge the black community will come out of the theatre satisfied that someone has finally avenged the painful period in their history by properly kicking the white mans ass. It's not a surprise that every self respecting black intellectual who saw the movie found it disturbing and a complete mockery of their history. While QT thinks he knows more about blacks then they do since his mom had black boyfriends who he use to hang out with as child or because he's watched enough black exploitation movies and listened to enough black music that he embodies a black person better than they do themselves. Obviously, all you really see is a director playing out his childish fantasies and in the process exploiting his protagonist rather then redeeming him.
 
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Tarantino films aren't meant to be viewed as serious or morally uplifting. In fact he seems to revel in the darker excesses of human behaviour. But he does this really well and with great theatre. I haven't seen Django yet, but most of his earlier films had me riveted even if they repelled at the same time. One of the great film directors of our time.
 
saadibaba said:
Elysium

From the director of "District 9", this again is a science fiction action movie. The earth has become overpopulated, diseased and have run out of resources so the upper class people have made another planet/ship for themselves where they have all migrated which is basically like the Beverly Hills. They have machines there which can heal anything and people on Earth are not allowed to go there. Fascinating premise, once again Neil Blomkamp using Scifi as a means to explore issues of illegal migration, universal health care, over population, exploitation like District 9 explored apartheid, ghettoization, racism and xenophobia. Even though Elysium is only half as good as the brilliant District 9, it still provokes a lot of interesting questions and forces us to think.
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Half as good is accurate. It could have been so much better. It was too convenient at times and had some plot holes. D9 was much more polished and well explored.
A lot of times it had potential to veer off into amazing territory but it continued on its path to just above average.
 
endymion248 said:
I don't get the criticism of Django fights. We are talking about the same QT who has made a movie during which one woman cuts through 200 people with a katana that has no dent in it at the end. The gunfights were never meant to be realistic.

The movie suffers on other points but certainly not that one.
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Agreed. The fights aren't the criticism with Django. It is just over rated as a whole I think cuz it's QT.
 
Damn QT really believed he was making a serious film on slavery? :))). QT makes nothing more than sophisticated B-Movies ripping off from obscure movies like those of Joe D'Amato, Umberto Lenzi, Lamberto Bava (heard of any of them?) and also from really obscure kung fu flicks and calls them homages. People don't watch these B-Movies and when they watch QT's movies, they think he is being unique when he is just being a fabulous thief. He is really gifted when you consider he never went to a film school or read a book about filmmaking but he makes entertaining movies nothing more. And I love his movies for being so damn fun. His only mostly restrained movie to date has been Jackie Brown and that was because it was based on an Elmore Leonard novel.

BTW, a serious movie on slavery is coming out soon-12 Years A Slave. Heard it's gonna be great.
 
Everyone knows QT is a rip-off artist, it's the most well known criticism of him. Still, it takes talent to rip-off in such masterful way and make something unique. After all who is not a rip-off. Does Spielberg not rips off from Hitchcock or Lucas ripping off Kurosawa.

I would have loved for him to rip off some western for Django but it's the only movie by QT which after watching I wished I hadn't wasted my time on. But thanks to the over enthusiastic reviews by QT fanboys on PP, I got tricked into watching it.
 
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Saqs said:
Half as good is accurate. It could have been so much better. It was too convenient at times and had some plot holes. D9 was much more polished and well explored.
A lot of times it had potential to veer off into amazing territory but it continued on its path to just above average.
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Th ending was pretty powerful though, must give it that.
 
saadibaba said:
Everyone knows QT is a rip-off artist, it's the most well known criticism of him. Still, it takes talent to rip-off in such masterful way and make something unique. After all who is not a rip-off. Does Spielberg not rips off from Hitchcock or Lucas ripping off Kurosawa.

I would have loved for him to rip off some western for Django but it's the only movie by QT which after watching I wished I hadn't wasted my time on. But thanks to the over enthusiastic reviews by QT fanboys on PP, I got tricked into watching it.
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You do realize that HE intentionally makes such films because he is a huge fan of some of these genres and most of his movies are comedic homages to them in the first place. His movies are not to be taken seriously. Think of Inglorius Basterds... do you really think that was a serious WWII movie? None of his movies are like that. They are meant to be eye candy and homage to spaghetti westerns, WWII era movies, kung fu, action movies. Thats all.

If you are going in there hoping to take away a moral lesson or two, you are sorely mistaken. Just expect wild and crazy fun and action. Thats all!
 
saadibaba said:
I'm not sure what he wanted, maybe he thought by showing such revenge the black community will come out of the theatre satisfied that someone has finally avenged the painful period in their history by properly kicking the white mans ass. It's not a surprise that every self respecting black intellectual who saw the movie found it disturbing and a complete mockery of their history. While QT thinks he knows more about blacks then they do since his mom had black boyfriends who he use to hang out with as child or because he's watched enough black exploitation movies and listened to enough black music that he embodies a black person better than they do themselves. Obviously, all you really see is a director playing out his childish fantasies and in the process exploiting his protagonist rather then redeeming him.
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The same black community and intellectuals that find nothing disturbing with Spike Lee movies who has the complex you are describing amplified several times, not to mention his real life antics? I don't see why Tarantino being white should play against him when we don't expect black directors to make nuanced movies, as opposed to self victimisation and childish fantasies.
 
saadibaba said:
Th ending was pretty powerful though, must give it that.
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It was powerful. But would have been moreso if the remainder of the movie built up to it in a better way.

I just think the characters weren't as well developed, nowhere near as much.

Part of the problem was the big name actors. Should have stuck with newbies and we would have had a much better film.

These highly paid actors just thinking that them showing up will mean it'll be a success killed it for me.

Matt Damon replaying his Bourne role for the infinite time also didn't help.
 
saadibaba said:
Everyone knows QT is a rip-off artist, it's the most well known criticism of him. Still, it takes talent to rip-off in such masterful way and make something unique. After all who is not a rip-off. Does Spielberg not rips off from Hitchcock or Lucas ripping off Kurosawa.

I would have loved for him to rip off some western for Django but it's the only movie by QT which after watching I wished I hadn't wasted my time on. But thanks to the over enthusiastic reviews by QT fanboys on PP, I got tricked into watching it.
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Ripoffs are lauded in films for 'paying homage'. Lol it's a weird industry.
 
Stewie said:
You do realize that HE intentionally makes such films because he is a huge fan of some of these genres and most of his movies are comedic homages to them in the first place. His movies are not to be taken seriously. Think of Inglorius Basterds... do you really think that was a serious WWII movie? None of his movies are like that. They are meant to be eye candy and homage to spaghetti westerns, WWII era movies, kung fu, action movies. Thats all.

If you are going in there hoping to take away a moral lesson or two, you are sorely mistaken. Just expect wild and crazy fun and action. Thats all!
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If that's true then forget my whole critique. Mind you, he made Pulp too, a very serious movie.
 
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Saqs said:
Ripoffs are lauded in films for 'paying homage'. Lol it's a weird industry.
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Thats the way it works. Tarantino is one of the most celebrated and critically praised directors in Hollywood and most of movies make good money and win critical praise from most. He has won Best Director award once and has been nominated twice. That means that people who know something about movies do regard him highly.
 
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Ripoffs are lauded in films for 'paying homage'. Lol it's a weird industry.
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Agree. Depends on who is ripping off I guess. If it's a small time director, he will be called a copy-cat, if big well known director, oh he was paying homage to the greats. QT though puts everyone to shame when it comes to ripping off .
 
Good debates. I need to see some of these films again. Just so short of time these days.
 
Saqs said:
It was powerful. But would have been moreso if the remainder of the movie built up to it in a better way.

I just think the characters weren't as well developed, nowhere near as much.

Part of the problem was the big name actors. Should have stuck with newbies and we would have had a much better film.

These highly paid actors just thinking that them showing up will mean it'll be a success killed it for me.

Matt Damon replaying his Bourne role for the infinite time also didn't help.
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A very valid point. One of the unique and appealing things about D9 was the use of new never seen before actors , made it more real and docu- drama like.
 
Danny Boyle does a good job with hiring (at the time) relatively unknown ensemble casts - Shallow Grave, Trainspotting, Sunshine, Slumdog - to keep the focus on the quality of the film, and when people see how good the film is, the profiles of the actors raise anyway. What a director. Turned down a knighthood.
 
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The same black community and intellectuals that find nothing disturbing with Spike Lee movies who has the complex you are describing amplified several times, not to mention his real life antics? I don't see why Tarantino being white should play against him when we don't expect black directors to make nuanced movies, as opposed to self victimisation and childish fantasies.
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You are finding fault with a guy who made Malcom X, perhaps the best black movie ever made along with The Color Purple. You are comparing him to a guy who openly says he gets his inspiration from black exploitation movies. It's just not him being white, the guy uses his status to make main stream black exploitation movies which otherwise would have caused a public outcry, if not for his prestige.
 
saadibaba said:
Django as a whole is a flawed movie, taken as a slavery movie or a western or whatever. The fight sequences are fine, only in the end, Django seems to have come into possession of some special gun the bullets of which explode the whole body like a bomb. I'm not sure if this technology was available back then.
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Most modern military bullets are small-calibre / high-velocity and go straight through a person. If you get medical attention they will not often kill you unless they hit a vital area such as brain, heart or artery.

Big-calibre 19th-century weapons fired slow bullets which stopped on impact and blew great chunks off people. American Civil War soldiers who got hit tended not to survive.
 
But these bullets were blowing people up like they were made of jello. Seriously, it was ridiculous.
 
yup.. thats over the top action for you and that what he does.


How else could Uma Thurman take on like 50 yakuza members on her own and kill them all in Kill Bill?
 
Kill Bill's action is still defendable as it's a homage to martial arts movie, which themselves are over the top mostly, so obviously in his attempt to make a caricature of them, he went further over the top. Still relevant and entertaining to an extent cause it's all fictional fantasy world.

In Django, he is paying homage to westerns but he took on the most darkest and ugliest period of American history to exploit. Big difference.
 
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Django was the most overated movie i have ever seen. I am a massive Pulp Fiction and Inglorious B***** fan, but Django never grabbed me
 
James said:
Danny Boyle does a good job with hiring (at the time) relatively unknown ensemble casts - Shallow Grave, Trainspotting, Sunshine, Slumdog - to keep the focus on the quality of the film, and when people see how good the film is, the profiles of the actors raise anyway. What a director. Turned down a knighthood.
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Has anyone seen "Trance" Boyle's latest offering?
 
The place beyond the pines

Great movie. Great performances by the leads. I wouldn't call it a classic but it surely had elements required to be a serious movie.
 
Watched Captain Phillips starring Tom Hanks.

Based on a true story about a ship that gets stormed by Somali pirates.

Excellent film, really enjoyed it.

8/10
 
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Yep he does. He thinks too much of himself but as far as entertainment goes, dude's right up there. I doubt anybody except he himself thinks he is making important films.
 
Saw World war Z and Now you see me.

Entertaining enough to keep me interested the entire flight.

Also The Conjuring seems to be a throwback to old school horror. Liked what I saw of it so far.
 
^^^

Conjuring is a good movie. Its not an out and out scary , but still manages to keep the interest right till the end.
 
Just saw "Trance" and actually enjoyed it a lot. Old school psychological thriller, almost Hitchcockian in its story and concept done in a new age visually stunning way. Dawson is such a good actress not to mention great looking.
 
Saw "Killing them softly". Loved it!!!

Clearly very much influenced by early QT works like Dogs and Pulp, it became apparent early on how it's so uniquely amusing and highly entertaining to listen to bad guys talk. The story is actually so simplistic, it would be laughable to even think that drove the director and producers to make this movie. It's clearly the characters, the QT inspired dialogue, the brutal yet realistic violence and the stylization and glamorization of the crime genre, so reminiscent of Scorsese, it's hugely entertaining and unforgettable. Pitt finally makes a movie worth his salt and the late Gandolfini puts in a great performance. People who liked Dogs and Pulp should dig this movie. A rare treat!
 
Training Day

Fabulous Denzel performance lifts an otherwise average movie. IMO, Ethan Hawke doesn't get enough credit for his well-grounded performance. Very engrossing even if it lost a bit of steam during the last 15 minutes.

7.5/10
 
Training Day is a great movie. Denzel is unbelievably good in it.
 
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More on "Killing them softly"

I thought it was very interesting how they had US Presidents all throughout the movie, playing in the background. Clearly from the pre 2008 election campaign and at the time of the great financial crisis, the use was quite deliberate but effective, giving an otherwise straightforward "gangster" movie a new dimension. The white collar crime is shown to be equal if not more pungent to American society affecting more widely what any blue collar crime could achieve. Great sound bites of Bush explaining the importance of mutual funds while someone is in the process of being wacked, lol. And Pitt saying, I don't like emotional stuff from people I kill, haha....so QTish! It's hilarious!
 
The only QT movie I didn't like was Death Proof. There was way too much blabbering in that movie. Kurt Russell was awesome and I liked the chases themselves. But rubbish talking in the bar for 15 minutes by Eli Roth, QT himself, etc. did that movie no good. Hell edit out 15 minutes and movie would have been much tighter, crisper and better. I can even handle QT's creepy foot fetish but the endless chatter was not needed.
 
Escape Plan (2013)

Wonderful movie and treat to watch on big screen. Full credit to Sylvester Stallone & Arnold Schwarzenegger, they were brilliant in the film. If you like The Shawshank Redemption then you will enjoy this one too.

7.5/10
 
Watched Gravity and Escape Plan yesterday. Decent movies, Gravity is pretty unique actually, thumbs up to the film makers.
 
saadibaba said:
The place beyond the pines

Great movie. Great performances by the leads. I wouldn't call it a classic but it surely had elements required to be a serious movie.
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Excellent movie and some great acting and good story line.
 
zaid, didn't know you were so much into movies, always thought of you as a guy who watches Pak political shows all day long ;-)
 
But having Stallone and Schwarzenegger together in a movie must be a dream for so many Rambo and Commando fans. Too bad they didn't do a movie together when they were at their peak. At least we got "Heat" from Pacino and DeNiro.
 
Flight

Denzel's last good serious movie. Playing an alcoholic pilot who somehow rescues his plane from a certain crash but it inadvertently ends up bringing his boozing habits out in open. You feel no sympathy for him throughout the movie and that was intentional. Just a very sad and hard movie to watch but the performances make up for it. Addictions are so hard to kick, you go through the course of movie with him, watching with great trepidation how he continues to self destruct, how his lies become his only enemy, while the whole world looks away and is willing to give him a second chance and the life of a bonafide hero, he knows deep inside that burden will be too much for him to carry. A mature movie.
 
Watched BOSS a better performance from Akshay after the debacle of OUATIM 2 but still a crap movie even the songs are pretty poor
 
Children of Men: 9/10

Beautiful film: it's a tense thriller, a riveting human drama, a relevant social critique - it's everything it wants to be without losing any effectiveness.

Definitely recommend this movie.
 
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