Beldo wrote:Stir of Echoes is great. It didn't get much press at the time because of the success of the similar The Sixth
Sense. You'll be hyper aware of your fingrnails for weeks after watching it. Richard Matheson is such an underrated horror writer.
I've been meaning to read some Matheson.. Where to start? "Stir of Echoes" was indeed great, I ordered a copy from amazon, I need to have it in my collection. It was released the same year as "The Sixth Sense", so you're probably right about "Stir" falling into it's shadow... to bad.. it really stands out.
paulhead wrote:I have not seen one entire Pierce Bond film nor do I care to, felt his casting was desperate and almost killed the franchise. Daniel Craig is great and I thought Casino was close to top 5 Bond flicks.
Brosnan brought the franchise back from Dalton oblivion (and I say that as a fan of Dalton). Then a combination of Die Another Day's shittiness and Denise Richard's casting as a nuclear scientist killed it again.
The Bond films seem to go in weird life/death cycles. I find that the best (and usually, the most successful) ones are willing to take some degree of risk with the material.
The producers of the Bond films (the Broccoli family) have wielded heavy creative control over the franchise for years. They turned down offers from Spielberg, Soderbergh and Tarantino to direct because they didn't want to relinquish control to a director. I think after the last Brosnan project, they realized that maybe that handing over some control might not be the end of the world. As good as Goldeneye was, the script was about ten times better and would have blown Casino Royale out of the water--the producers just came in and fucked it up. So now you have actual filmmakers taking a crack at Bond with these last few, and it's making a big difference in quality.
"I thought, ‘That looks like a nice tree, I’m going to climb that f*cking tree.’ Climbed it and sat there with my hood up for about 10 minutes." - Liam Gallagher
One big problem has been David Arnold's scores for 007. Don't like them at all. Crash bang wallop no subtlety and cool John Barry-esque motifs that excite as much as what's on the screen.
Eric Serra did a mostly synthy score for Goldeneye, and it wasn't bad at all.
Really enjoyed Irish movie The Guard. If you like Brendan Gleeson you will like it. If you really like Brendan Gleeson you will really like it. If you loved Brendan Gleeson as the sheriff in Lake Placid then you will fucking love this. Also if you like Calexico , they scored this and the music is a lot of fun.
Don Cheadle is a bit wasted in a skimpy role. It's Gleeson's movie. Dude is my favorite actor for at least 10 years now.
I thought Drive was good. I liked the score a lot. Ryan Gosling reminds me a lot of French food, in that I eat it and I'm like, "Yeah, this is fine, perfectly acceptable, nothing wrong with this," but it's instantly forgettable and I'm never craving it. But others are like, "ZOMG HE'S SO HANDSOME SUCH A GREAT ACTOR DON'T YOU JUST LOVE THAT FUCKING THING WITH THE BUTTER?!" Eh. I don't see what the big deal is. Albert Brooks was good as the evil dude but I kept expecting him to break into Hank Scorpio lines - "I didn't even give you my coat!" "Sugar? Sure. Sorry it's not in packets." "Ever see a man say goodbye to a shoe?" But he never did. I thought the plot might get a little more interesting and I thought it could have, but it just sorta ended. Way too slow. Come on. Goddammit. MOVE THIS SHIT ALONG I GET IT, IT'S ARTSY, THANKS GUYS NOW LET'S GET BACK TO FORK STABBING PLZ.
Anyway, still good in spite of all that. Really loved the score.
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Beldo wrote:Stir of Echoes is great. It didn't get much press at the time because of the success of the similar The Sixth
Sense. You'll be hyper aware of your fingrnails for weeks after watching it. Richard Matheson is such an underrated horror writer.
I've been meaning to read some Matheson.. Where to start? "Stir of Echoes" was indeed great, I ordered a copy from amazon, I need to have it in my collection. .
"I Am Legend" is where you should start. And then pick up one of his massive short story collections.
“What is it about a beautiful sunny afternoon, with the birds singing and the wind rustling through the leaves, that makes you want to get drunk?”
Beldo wrote:Stir of Echoes is great. It didn't get much press at the time because of the success of the similar The Sixth
Sense. You'll be hyper aware of your fingrnails for weeks after watching it. Richard Matheson is such an underrated horror writer.
I've been meaning to read some Matheson.. Where to start? "Stir of Echoes" was indeed great, I ordered a copy from amazon, I need to have it in my collection. .
"I Am Legend" is where you should start. And then pick up one of his massive short story collections.
Cool.. I've been meaning to read that one for many years. I'm reading some Lovecraft now.. I'll do Matheson next. Thanks
I watched two movie this weekend. Woody Allen´s Midnight in Paris. In my mind it´s Woody´s best movie since Radio Days. The other one was Pedro Almodovar´s Talk To Her. All I can say about that one is WOW! It might just be his best movie. But then again I´m yet to see all his movies so something better might be out there.
I finally spied Cool Hand Luke. It's now probably my favorite prison movie. Yes, I liked it better than the Shawshank Redemption. When I first started watching it, I was pretty indifferent to the entire thing. Then, around the egg eating sequence, I got sucked in pretty completely. The last half hour, IMO, is one of the best I've seen. Paul Newman carried the movie like a champ. I thought he was the man when I first saw The Sting earlier this year and now I doubly think so.
FridayNight - now see The Verdict, The Hustler, Hud, The Drowning Pool and Judge Roy Bean if you haven't. Assuming you've seen Slap Shot and Butch Cassidy.
"I thought, ‘That looks like a nice tree, I’m going to climb that f*cking tree.’ Climbed it and sat there with my hood up for about 10 minutes." - Liam Gallagher
Beldo wrote:FridayNight - now see The Verdict, The Hustler, Hud, The Drowning Pool and Judge Roy Bean if you haven't. Assuming you've seen Slap Shot and Butch Cassidy.
Believe it or not, The Sting was my first exposure to Newman. Thus far, I only got two of his movies under my belt. Butch Cassidy, Hustler, and Hud are all on the list, in that order.
All good movies Beldo.. "Pocket Money" is great too.. scripted by Malick and co-starring Lee Marvin. A low-key, modern western.. it's really underrated. Benton's adaptation of "Nobody's Fool" is stellar too.. one of my favorite Paul Newman movies..
