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4 hours ago, Shooter in the Motor said:

I watched this when it came out and although I thought it was brilliant first time, I just thought he'd been hiding behind the bookshelves all that time. WTF.

 

I watched it again last night and paid close attention to every word, scene, angle, suggestion and effect and I absolutely got it. Fucking hell. Twelvety out of 10.

Interstellar was an 8/10 movie. Why? I figured out the sand and book case straight away (too obvious). Also it should have ended 30 minutes before it did. The stuff of him floating in space and being rescued was weak.

 

Arrival was 9/10. Superb. Proper sci-fi. A film about high concepts and ideas not just *pew* *pew* lasers

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1 minute ago, Mook said:

New Tom Hardy film about Al Capone is on Netflix today apparently.

 

Tempted to watch it but that mumbling bastard puts me off.

Didn't know anything about that.

 

Just googled it and it's got terrible reviews. How hard can it be to make a movie about Capone? Useless twats.

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1 minute ago, redheart said:

Interstellar was an 8/10 movie. Why? I figured out the sand and book case straight away (too obvious). Also it should have ended 30 minutes before it did. The stuff of him floating in space and being rescued was weak.

 

Arrival was 9/10. Superb. Proper sci-fi. A film about high concepts and ideas not just *pew* *pew* lasers

I agree with the ending, but it's the idea that the 'they' who placed the wormhole is actually him that genuinely made it such a clever film. I didn't notice that on the first viewing, along with all the 'gravity' and 'time' references. It's so complex but once you get it, it's a joy.

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2 minutes ago, Elite said:

Didn't know anything about that.

 

Just googled it and it's got terrible reviews. How hard can it be to make a movie about Capone? Useless twats.

The biography I read on him has blown any movie depictions of him totally out of the water. The biographer alleged he contracted syphillis in his early days, which resulted in an unhinging of his already violent temper.

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6 minutes ago, Elite said:

Didn't know anything about that.

 

Just googled it and it's got terrible reviews. How hard can it be to make a movie about Capone? Useless twats.

I hadn't seen any reviews but between that & him mumbling his way through another script I'll save myself a couple of hours by swerving it.

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Just now, Shooter in the Motor said:

The biography I read on him has blown any movie depictions of him totally out of the water. The biographer alleged he contracted syphillis in his early days, which resulted in an unhinging of his already violent temper.

There's a documentary series on Amazon called Making of the Mob: Chicago that's very good. He got bullied in prison when he was old as the syphillis ravaged his brain, which you wouldn't have been expected given his stature.

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1 minute ago, Mook said:

I hadn't seen any reviews but between that & him mumbling his way through another script I'll save myself a couple of hours by swerving it.

Yeah don't bother. I don't mind Tom Hardy but he's definitely not the man to be playing Capone. Sounds like a vanity project.

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18 minutes ago, Elite said:

There's a documentary series on Amazon called Making of the Mob: Chicago that's very good. He got bullied in prison when he was old as the syphillis ravaged his brain, which you wouldn't have been expected given his stature.

I'll check that out, that book stands out as one of my favourite reads. Alongside 'Helter-Skelter' which was a biography on Charles Manson, which was written in novel form describing his life and crimes. He seemed to credit a lot of his influence to Scientology, a great advert for that cult.

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Just now, littletedwest said:

The gotti film made by Travolta is beyond appalling. Takes a special talent to make interesting stories so bad

Yeah, the story is on a plate for them. I think they try to be too clever sometimes and make a complete bollocks of things.

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Capone

 

Well. 

It's a niche snapshot of his final year, and in doing so they just decided to delve into something that was mostly incomprehensible. 

And I understand that was part of the intention of the film, to show how hellish his descent was into madness.  But there wasn't much of a film experience left other than to go "oh, yes that's shit to die from untreated syphillis". 

 

You learn nothing of the man, or anyone around him, not least because you're unsure what's real and what's not, and at times I'm unsure if it was intentional or just horrible writing and direction. 

 

Under usual circumstances one to miss, but the scarcity of new releases in the past year may lead you, like me, to chuck it on. 

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Continuing on in my current vein of watching films that i never got around to when i was younger...

 

The Hills Have Eyes (1977) 5/10

 

I'm afraid the curly wigs and fake teeth just made me laugh. And don't get me started on the Wile E Coyote-esque booby traps. Absolutely howling laughing at that, and i honestly don't think that was Wes Craven's intention.    

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Apocalypse Now: The Final Cut

 

It's a long time since I've watched Redux and even longer since I watched the old theatrical version. Three hours long and I enjoyed it tremendously but still kind of zoned out when he finally got to Kurtz. I need to look up the differences between them as I honestly can't remember what's from which version now, kind of like the different versions of Blade Runner and Close Encounters of the Third Kind.

 

Was just as revolted when they sacrificed the ox but read into it last night - apparently the production had gifted a pair of oxen to the village where they were filming. When he saw the way that the first one was feted then sacrificed, Coppola set up cameras for the next one and just let them roll. I loved reading about that - I'm going to need to read up further on the film now.

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I also watched Heaven's Gate last week. Absolutely loved it and it really took me back to the mid-'90s, when I was first discovering and encountering all these amazing films like The Last Detail, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Harold and Maude, and The Exorcist. Didn't feel as long as the 3 hr + run time and I got thoroughly swept up in it.

 

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