What film did you watch last night?

[John the Monkey]

The Raid 2.

Blimey. If you've seen the first, imagine something about 50% more kinetic and gory.

 

[Hitchington]

The London nobody knows is excellent, assuming it's the James Mason one.

I recall How We Used To Live was a Yorkshire TV production for Schools & Colleges and there's about fifty 15-20 minute parts.. what's the one you saw?

I love archive stuff like that.

not last night but last week i watched this utterly charming short film...

Yes it was the James Mason one, really good. The second one was the one with the St. Etienne sound track, not as good, it lacked Mason's sharp wit and was a bit too dreamy.

 

[AndyRM]

Freeman's done nothing since Unforgiven, he's done a De Niro and just wants the cash, that I'm sure he doesn't need. Stinker after stinker. Silver Linings Playbook is the only good thing De Niro's done this century.

Do you not watch films very often?

 

[Drago]

DeNiro was excellent in Righteous Kill, as was Pacino, although DeNiro was in his comfort zone of a hard-man cop.

Watched X-Men First Class last night. I love the scene where a young Magneto faces the Nazis in the Argentinian bar. Woman recently let slip she's not seen any of them so we're watching one each evening this week.

 

[glenn forger]

Do you not watch films very often?

Can you name a good Freeman or De Niro film from this century? Freeman used to do great stuff with Eastwood, now he rolls up in dross like RED and that one where he's God.

 

[AndyRM]

Can you name a good Freeman or De Niro film from this century? Freeman used to do great stuff with Eastwood, now he rolls up in dross like RED and that one where he's God.

Thanks for answering my question.

Gone Baby Gone and The Family. Freeman did a damn good film with Eastwood in 2009 too, Invictus.

Others are available.

 

[John the Monkey]

Watched X-Men First Class last night. I love the scene where a young Magneto faces the Nazis in the Argentinian bar. Woman recently let slip she's not seen any of them so we're watching one each evening this week.

I think it's really good - like a super hero film with the aesthetic of a Connery era Bond. I wish they'd stayed with that, rather than the modern X-Men crossover in the follow up.

 

[glenn forger]

The Family is a dreadful film. De Niro playing a gangster, what a departure. he started that nonsense with Analyze This, he's cashing in on his back catalogue and it's tawdry to witness.

 

[Drago]

Can you name a good Freeman or De Niro film from this century?...

Already have for DeNiro, Righteous Kill. He was good in Meet the Parents really.took the rise out of himself.

 

[glenn forger]

Meet The Parents is formulaic schtick, Righteous Kill didn't even cover its budget.


The movie goes nowhere and takes 100 minutes to do so. It should have cut its losses, gone for comedy and called itself Grumpy Old Cops.

A murky, muddled, miserable mess, Righteous Kill spends 101 minutes failing to achieve what Heat managed in just six.

The worst about Righteous Kill is that there's probably a perfectly acceptable procedural thriller somewhere in the mountain of cliches and stupidity that riddle the film.

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/righteous_kill/

 

[AndyRM]

The Family is a dreadful film. De Niro playing a gangster, what a departure. he started that nonsense with Analyze This, he's cashing in on his back catalogue and it's tawdry to witness.

You know Analyze This was him ripping the pish out himself right?

Have you seen Being Flynn or Everybody's Fine?

Rotten Tomatoes? Very good.

 

[Large]

I saw Milk - Sean Penn in a very good movie.

 

[glenn forger]

You know Analyze This was him ripping the pish out himself right?

.

Exactly. He's trading on his history, and he's done it over and over again. Mickey Blue Eyes was the same with Caan, at least Pacino or Duvall have never demeaned their history like that (Brando did in The Freshman)

De Niro is taking parts that are way beneath him, he's capitalising on great films to make films that are a load of mince.

 

[Drago]

Fortunately I'm not remotely bothered what the internet thinks. Much as I disagree with what most of Mr Forger says, I usually at least respect his argument - trawling the internet for someone else's opinion in lieu of any actual fact is really plumbing the depths.

Meet the Parents was a sheet fillum. Nevertheless, DeNiro was deliciously taking the pith out of every hard man character he'd ever played and you can see that he's clearly enjoying the change of tack(not to mention the paycheque).

As much as Righteous kill was almost a kit made thriller, DeNiros performance keeps us beautifully misdirected about the true nature of his character, right up the the climactic showdown.

 

[glenn forger]

Fortunately I'm not remotely bothered what the internet thinks. Much as I disagree with what most of Mr Forger says, I usually at least respect his argument - trawling the internet for someone else's opinion in lieu of any actual fact is really plumbing the depths.

.

If someone believes a film is a good one then it's reasonable to point out that audiences didn't think so and that the film lost £20 million. That's not opinion, it's fact.