What film did you watch last night?

[Profpointy]

The Cincinatti Kid. Steve McQueen was never more Steve McQueeny, and Edward G Robinson was great. Well done movie, tho' in truth you kind of knew which way it was headed long before the end. "I guess you're just not ready for me yet." 7/10.

A strangely compelling film, I guess mainly down to the two lead performers. And yet, the poker is just daft: pulling money out of your pocket to raise the pot mid hand ? Mmm, not really kocher. And the final scence where Edward G plays unbelievably badly yet wins. Maybe that is supposed to be the "moral" but it's a bit of a let down. Still very watchable all the aame

 

[Haitch]

Human. The most visually breathtaking film I have ever seen. And that's just for starters. The whole thing is available on YouTube, here, but if you get the chance to see it on a big HD tv, grab it. Just stunning.

Even better on a big screen in a cinema.

 

[Haitch]

Dead Man's Shoes.

Truly awful cliched mess of a film. Paddy Considine was about as convincing as as Noddy playing Brick Top, and the rest of the cast were people playing at thugs like they thought actors should play at thugs. The script was risible, and it looked like it was made for sixpence. The only good performance was Toby Kebble, who is a revelation, superb performance by him, I didn't realise that I've seen him in other things... a great film actor.

1/10 don't waste the 90 minutes.

CarlP, you are a very fine man but an overly generous film reviewer. This is a hateful little film, a well-trodden iteration of violence revelling in its own depravity as though it were an aspiration.

 

[EltonFrog]

CarlP, you are a very fine man but an overly generous film reviewer. This is a hateful little film, a well-trodden iteration of violence revelling in its own depravity as though it were an aspiration.

Nicely put. I gave it a 1/10 just because Toby Kebble was good in it.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Not exactly films, but my daughter liked this when I showed her it
(she's almost 16, & has fond memories of watching it, when she was a kid)




I showed her this, but she never watched it
I'll have to introduce her to the cartoon, via YouTube

 

[swee'pea99]

Not exactly films, but my daughter liked this when I showed her it
(she's almost 16, & has fond memories of watching it, when she was a kid)

Blimey, when my daughters loved Dora, she looked like this:

Times change, eh?

 

[Profpointy]

CarlP, you are a very fine man but an overly generous film reviewer. This is a hateful little film, a well-trodden iteration of violence revelling in its own depravity as though it were an aspiration.

Whilst I can understand it not being everyone's cup of tea I thought it an extraordinary film, with Consadine's subtle and powerfull performance being quite outstanding. It hardly glorifies violence, or revenge and is ultimately a tragic film so the Daily Mailesque "revelling in its depravity" comment is a bit of of a stretch.

Don't go and see Titus Andronicus, now that's a revenge story.

 

[swee'pea99]

Whilst I can understand it not being everyone's cup of tea I thought it an extraordinary film, with Consadine's subtle and powerfull performance being quite outstanding. It hardly glorifies violence, or revenge and is ultimately a tragic film so the Daily Mailesque "revelling in its depravity" comment is a bit of of a stretch.

Don't go and see Titus Andronicus, now that's a revenge story.

I haven't seen it for many years, but I remember enough to feel the attacks on it might be a tad unjust. People seem to be regarding it as a sort of British Death Wish, but I don't remember it that way. Maybe I'm wrong - as I say, it was quite a while back - but I don't remember it as just a cheap 'n nasty Bronson-esque deal.

 

[Profpointy]

I haven't seen it for many years, but I remember enough to feel the attacks on it might be a tad unjust. People seem to be regarding it as a sort of British Death Wish, but I don't remember it that way. Maybe I'm wrong - as I say, it was quite a while back - but I don't remember it as just a cheap 'n nasty Bronson-esque deal.

Good analogy. I think "revelling in its depravity" would apply quite well to the excerable Deathwish films

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Blimey, when my daughters loved Dora, she looked like this:

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Times change, eh?

Indeed they do!

I have a collegue, who looks like Dora, same haircut, etc...
When she has her rucksack, it's uncanny

 

[Drago]

Born on the 4th of July. Oliver Stones version of 'nam.

Cruise gives it his all, but a slow pace and clichéd presentation of the war, as was fashionable at the time the film was made, is too much to bear. Even the use of Credence Clearwater Revivals music was a cliche. Cliche piled upon cliche.

3/10.

 

[Haitch]

@Profpointy

Not wishing to labour a point but the director created a world in which drunkenness, drugs, squalor and killing people were front and centre stage without a note of criticism. Presumably they were presented as normality for the pleasure of the viewing public. You are right to say the film didn't glorify violence and revenge, but to suggest there is none in a film in which six or seven people are bloodily murdered in retaliation for something that has happened in the past stretches my definitions of revenge and violence. It was ultimately not a tragic film it was a cliché smeared out for as long as possible to titillate the viewers.

 

[Biff600]

The Martian

What a load of old pony that was too, no Martians in the film at all, just about a spaceman eating spuds that he's grown in sh1t !!

 

[Profpointy]

@Profpointy

Not wishing to labour a point but the director created a world in which drunkenness, drugs, squalor and killing people were front and centre stage without a note of criticism. Presumably they were presented as normality for the pleasure of the viewing public. You are right to say the film didn't glorify violence and revenge, but to suggest there is none in a film in which six or seven people are bloodily murdered in retaliation for something that has happened in the past stretches my definitions of revenge and violence. It was ultimately not a tragic film it was a cliché smeared out for as long as possible to titillate the viewers.

This isn't having a dig, but wouldn't the same criticism be made of much of Shakespear? Obviously my Titus Andronicus comment was a bit of a dig as that one is a bit of a lurid exploitation-movie so ti speak,as it were, but Julius Caeser, Macbeth, Dick 3, or Lear are all bleak and violent.

Can't quite see how Dead Men's Shoes is portraying the sad and lost drug dealer characters as normal. Or how the film is intended to titillate - unless any film whith dark serious themes is by definition tillitiation

 

[Haitch]

Fair enough.