Not this time, Gal. Not this time. Not this fucking time. No. No no no no no no no no no! No! No no no no no no no no no no no no no! No! Not this fucking time! No fucking way! No fucking way, no fucking way, no fucking way! You've made me look a right cunt!
Have you leaked the Queens Christmas Message a few days early?
Not this time, Gal. Not this time. Not this fucking time. No. No no no no no no no no no! No! No no no no no no no no no no no no no! No! Not this fucking time! No fucking way! No fucking way, no fucking way, no fucking way! You've made me look a right cunt!
Have you leaked the Queens Christmas Message a few days early?
Now i would pay good money to see her do a Don Logan speech !
The Conversateion, was a success at the time but still on a small scale. Used to be always shown on film4, and clearly has influenced loads of subsequent film makers.
Intolerable Cruelty. By the standards of a Cohen Bros film it got a distinctly luke warm reception from the critics but I thought it was pretty good, maybe not a classic but better than 90% of the dross turned out by Holywood. I remember going to see it at the pictures, there was only the Missus & me and one other guy in there until it became clear that The Fast and the Furious had sold out and people who hadn't got tickets for that started coming in. Only the Missus, me and the other guy laughed during the film and by the end pretty much all the others had left again! Guess the Venn diagram for The Fast and the Furious franchise and Cohen Bros films has a very small intersection.
This film has has been criticised amongst some of the movie press this year but I have sat and and watched it for the first time tonight and it has blown me away - THE TREE OF LIFE . Absolutely amazing movie.
I'm going to go a little off topic with my shout - it's an actor rather than a movie.
Liev Schriber. The best actor you never talk about. Largely because he has an uncanny ability to pick rubbish movies. Not just rubbish scripts - the Manchurian Candidate was a fine script, just weakly executed - Schreiber consistently picks movies that never quite live up to expectation.
He started off so well. After a series of low budget flicks and a brief appearance in the Mel Gibson vehicle, Ransom, his big break was as the non-killer, Cotton Weary in Wes Craven's post-modern horror, Scream in 1996, and two of the sequels that followed. Yet since then, he has failed to find a project remotely close to Scream's overall quality.
Sphere was a decent Crichton book, but ponderous movie with Sam Jackson and Sharon Stone overbearing proceedings. Robin Williams flick Jakob The Liar was laughed out of auditoriums worldwide, and few saw him in the Denzel Washington-heavy boxing flick, The Hurricane. Even fewer remember him in it.
He was the best thing in the underperfoming Jack Ryan reboot, The Sum Of All Fears, as a Jack Bauer-type CIA agent who helps Ben Affleck do his thing, but a year later mined depths previously undiscovered in Spinning Boris, a kind of political 'comedy'.
Then there was the movie based on the release date - The Omen. One of the worst remakes in recent years (and there's been a lot of them), the film pretty much got financed on account of it coming out on June 6th, 2006. But at least Schrieber only played second fiddle to an evil looking kid.
Multiple appearance in CSI grabbed attention, but looked like a step back for Schreiber, at least until the Wolverine sequel gave him his biggest role to date. Playing second fiddle to Hugh Jackman, But, like all his other choices, it was a decent (villainous) performance in a disappointing film.
But when you go back to The Manchurian Candidate, he manages something that few actors have been able to do - out-act Denzel Washington. And Denzel LOVES to outact his co-stars. Yet Schreiber helped create a character who was at first kind of evil and latterly rather sympathetic. A layered, restrained performance that had an excellent, ballsy pay off. You felt for his character, rich and privelaged as he was. Alas, the Denzel factor didn't afford him the attention and credit he deserved. It's been 8 years since Manchurian came out, and Liev has yet to appear in a role of equal class.
Over the next year, Schreiber will appear in a series of off-beat movies, including the collection of short movies that make up Movie 43, a strange buddy comedy called Robot and Frank, while The Reluctant Fundamentalist, which is the most intriguing and potentially Oscar worthy. Not that Liev is likely to get that kind of credit any time soon.
This film has has been criticised amongst some of the movie press this year but I have sat and and watched it for the first time tonight and it has blown me away - THE TREE OF LIFE . Absolutely amazing movie.
I tried to watch this last night on Blu-Ray but had to give up after 50 mins. There was no plot and the whole beginning of the universe and dinosaurs stuff was just run of the mill discovery channel docs. I might give the rest of it another go tonight but so far it is not for me.
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Have you leaked the Queens Christmas Message a few days early?
Best animated film by a mile yet nowhere near recognised as so.
Crimson Tide
Both passed me by and then a mate suggested I watch them - great.
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/fear_and_loathing_in_las_vegas/
For the 'Burbs supporters : it's on Sky ch.120 at 4p.m this afternoon.
Liev Schriber. The best actor you never talk about. Largely because he has an uncanny ability to pick rubbish movies. Not just rubbish scripts - the Manchurian Candidate was a fine script, just weakly executed - Schreiber consistently picks movies that never quite live up to expectation.
He started off so well. After a series of low budget flicks and a brief appearance in the Mel Gibson vehicle, Ransom, his big break was as the non-killer, Cotton Weary in Wes Craven's post-modern horror, Scream in 1996, and two of the sequels that followed. Yet since then, he has failed to find a project remotely close to Scream's overall quality.
Sphere was a decent Crichton book, but ponderous movie with Sam Jackson and Sharon Stone overbearing proceedings. Robin Williams flick Jakob The Liar was laughed out of auditoriums worldwide, and few saw him in the Denzel Washington-heavy boxing flick, The Hurricane. Even fewer remember him in it.
He was the best thing in the underperfoming Jack Ryan reboot, The Sum Of All Fears, as a Jack Bauer-type CIA agent who helps Ben Affleck do his thing, but a year later mined depths previously undiscovered in Spinning Boris, a kind of political 'comedy'.
Then there was the movie based on the release date - The Omen. One of the worst remakes in recent years (and there's been a lot of them), the film pretty much got financed on account of it coming out on June 6th, 2006. But at least Schrieber only played second fiddle to an evil looking kid.
Multiple appearance in CSI grabbed attention, but looked like a step back for Schreiber, at least until the Wolverine sequel gave him his biggest role to date. Playing second fiddle to Hugh Jackman, But, like all his other choices, it was a decent (villainous) performance in a disappointing film.
But when you go back to The Manchurian Candidate, he manages something
that few actors have been able to do - out-act Denzel Washington. And
Denzel LOVES to outact his co-stars. Yet Schreiber helped create a
character who was at first kind of evil and latterly rather
sympathetic. A layered, restrained performance that had an excellent,
ballsy pay off. You felt for his character, rich and privelaged as he was. Alas, the Denzel factor didn't afford him the attention
and credit he deserved. It's been 8 years since Manchurian came out, and Liev has yet to appear in a role of equal class.
Over the next year, Schreiber will appear in a series of off-beat movies, including the collection of short movies that make up Movie 43, a strange buddy comedy called Robot and Frank, while The Reluctant Fundamentalist, which is the most intriguing and potentially Oscar worthy. Not that Liev is likely to get that kind of credit any time soon.
Next week: Montgomery Clift's raw deal