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THERE WILL BE BLOOD
Daniel Day-Lewis clambers even further up his own rear end with this utterly turgid, long-winded and incomprehensible mess. Didn’t stop him winning the Best Actor Oscar, though. Staggeringly off-putting and inappropriate soundtrack adds to the misery.APOCOLYPSE NOW
Almost comically bad ‘Nam yarn, featuring Brando doing the same distracted–eyes-and-mumbling routine he started back in the 50’s. Martin Sheen wanders through the film with a blank look on his face and the whole thing is shot like a Peugeot advert.TITANIC
Just the 11 Oscars for this slush-fest, seemingly made for 11-year-old girls. Anyway, not only do DiCaprio and Winslet fall in luuurve, but a boat sinks too. How super. Undignified, stupid and a CGI-fest. Did I cry? Only when I realised there was still an hour to go.THE DEPARTED
Unbelievably won a bucketload of Oscars for Scorcese in what is basically a formulaic hybrid of his previous (superior) efforts Goodfellas and Casino. Jack Nicholson does his familiar Jack Nicholson schtick, everyone else is pretty anonymous. Light relief comes via Ray Winstone’s comedy Yankee accent.FIGHT CLUB
You see, what happens is Edward Norton has this secret fight club and, erm, things get kinda out of hand and people die and stuff, but it turns out that Brad Pitt is his evil alter ego so he blows his own freakin’ head off and then it was all a dream and lots of buildings collapse and stuff. Oh grow up.…and any Harry Potter film.
Mike
I’ve only seen Titanic and There Will Be Blood. What I will say in favour of Titanic is that DiCaprio has turned out to be one of the best actors of his generation [and the fact that he’s given loads of money to help save tigers makes me like him even more]. Other than that, I saw it once and have no desire to see it again. As for There Will Be Blood, I love Daniel Day Lewis and can watch Last of the Mohicans over and over again; in fact I could put it on a loop and watch it forever. But TWBB; can’t believe that I wasted a few hours of my life watching it and feel that I should somehow be allowed to get those hours back to do something more constructive eg go to the dentist. Absolute dire drivel. Used to like Harry Potter films, but, thankfully, fell asleep halfway through the last one; woke up towards the end thus saving myself from an hour or so of tedium. Don’t know how Apocalypse Now has passed me by, but sounds like I’ve had a narrow escape.
I have to disagree about There Will Be Blood and Apocalypse Now.
Two classics, in my opinion.
Daniel Day-Lewis’s performance is a tour-de-force; thoroughly deserving of the best male actor Oscar.
I think he is currently the one male film actor who is head and shoulders above everyone else. He continues to raise the bar.
If you haven’t seen the film, it’s must see. The whole gamut of human nature is laid bare in one man’s quest to be rich: love, hate, greed, ambition, manipulation, mistrust, anger, deceit, lust … and all wrapped up in the underlying parable that is at the heart of the film – the dichotomy and fine line which exists between good and evil.
***** 5 stars
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Haven’t seen any of those films but the reports I’ve had regarding Titanic have been univesally bad
Jurassic Park
was dreadful. I was expecting 90 minutes of dinosaurs galloping majestically across an antediluvian plain, as was suggested by the advertising trailer, but got little more than violence and ham acting. Thoroughly unsuitible for children I thought
The first of
The Lord of the Rings
trilogy was enjoyable but the succeeding two had too much emphasis placed on ‘exciting’ battles which is not the case in the books
Incidentally a very good film about the Titanic is
A Night To Remember
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Night_to … 58_film%29
Stiff upper lips very much to the fore but engrossing, suspenseful, beautifully filmed and well acted
The Wizard of Oz and Yellow Submarine demand Technicolor; other than those…there is a certain something about monochrome
Haven’t seen There Will Be Blood or The Departed; Broadly agree about Titanic and I was indifferent to Fight Club.
Totally disagree about Apocalypse Now though – great film.
I can’t think of many films I found over-rated off hand but a few I like were:
Fargo
Miller’s Crossing (Coen Brothers thing going on)
Silent Running
Seven
The Grifters (mmmm Annette Bening)
Performance
Jackie BrownDi Caprio needed a ladder
to scale the heights
of WinsletThere was little believability
in their love, it was false even
when the boat filled up.The music was good
although it grates a bit now
unlike greensleeves.The plot was good
but built on
a shakey kinda loveI’ve not seen any of the films mentioned as I’m (obviously) not a great film buff. Of the ones that I’ve seen I did quite like ‘Sexy Beast’ More like that one, please.
the whole thing is shot like a Peugeot advert.
Nope – Peugeot adverts are shot like Apocalypse Now.
Seven
Brilliant film!
Great story line and has to be one of the best endings ever…Also three of my favourite actors in it too in Brad Pitt, Kevin Spacey and Morgan Freeman!
the whole thing is shot like a Peugeot advert.
Nope – Peugeot adverts are shot like Apocalypse Now.
Either way, I love the smell of a 307 diesel in the morning.
Mike
DiCaprio has turned out to be one of the best actors of his generation [and the fact that he’s given loads of money to help save tigers makes me like him even more]
Superb actor….he is without doubt of the greatest actors of all time.
Inception
Blood Diamond
The Beach
Shutter Islandare other great films
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