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[quote]pushharder wrote:

[quote]Big Kahuna wrote:

[quote]pushharder wrote:
“Mud” was a great movie. You cinephiles oughta eat up.

Great acting. Great cinematography. Real southern accents by real southerners.

The two kid actors really do steal the show.[/quote]

Since I heard about it from Sundance I’ve been anxiously awaiting it’s release globally so I can finally get my hands on it. I’m thoroughly pleased that it’s supposedly turned out so well, I love the Mark Twain novels and I can’t wait to see an inspired take on that in a serious, polished film whilst still retaining it’s own unique directorial flair and premise.

I hear McConaughey is incredibly good in his role as well, once it crosses the border I’m sure I’ll be able to explore that appreciation for myself, and I too would love to see how the children express their roots.

How is Witherspoon in her role? I’ve heard that the performances are great all around, but I never hear how well she did when people talk specific actors.

Getting excited just thinking about it, I’ve been looking forward to this one for months.[/quote]

Witherspoon does alright but the film wasn’t written for her to be in the spotlight. Her performance was adequate, not outstanding.

As good as McConaughey is in the film, and he did do a heckuva job, the kids just flat-out do make the film what it is. I grew up in the South and this film feels “real.”

(I actually looked quite a bit like Neckbone when I was that age)

Sam Shepard played his part very well too.
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I hear Tye Sheridan as Ellis stands out especially, I remember seeing him in Malick’s Tree Of Life and thinking he had some untapped potential I’d love to see in future productions, sounds like he’s started to bloom with Mud.

Jeff Nichols has proven himself to be incredibly adept when it comes to filmmaking, his previous ventures with Michael Shannon, whilst obscure, are among my favourites. There’s something so intensely present in his films that I don’t find with many other directors, Take Shelter has such an ominous and “doomed” sense surrounding it from beginning to end, I would wager that it might be one of the creepier films of the decade.

Shotgun Stories, his first film, is an incredible rendition of radical hate and fury, without being overly brutish and “actiony” all the time. For me personally, I feel Take Shelter is where both Nichols and Shannon shine, but alas I will have to wait for Mud to see if that opinion changes.

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Just watched the first Harry Potter Movie again. It’s weird seeing a movie like this for a couple of reasons. The first is that you’re going back to the beginning, back when all of these concepts were so new. Second, I am now a little bit more critical. I remember the first few HP movies being just the most enjoyable experiences as a kid; now it’s going to take a little more than magic and novelty. The second time around I realize that the plot consisted mostly of Hagrid divulging life threatening secrets and Hermione’s genius level intellect to put together the pieces of the story (that Voldemort was back and on the hunt for the Philosopher’s Stone).

I want to re watch all the movies (now that the series is finished) to basically get an idea of the flow between movies, the actor’s evolution, and the overall tone changes between instalments.

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Sunshine - seen it before but not since it came out. I get pissed off at a few things in that movie but that is one good psychological sci-fi thriller.

Shame - what a fucking movie… it’s not for everyone but I loved it. It’s a sex movie that’s not really about sex but addiction, and it’s ending is on par with those with addictive personalities (at least I think, as I don’t consider myself as having one).

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I just saw “Looper”, starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Bruce Willis a couple nights ago. It was alright. The special effects were pretty good, albeit kept to a minimum considering the movie was about time travel between the years 2044 and 2074. I thought the basic premise of the film was interesting, but once it became about (SPOILER ALERT!) the Rainmaker as a child and saving him and all that shit, I thought it went downhill.

It’s as if the movie switched themes or direction midstream, without really getting into either one deep enough to leave me satisfied. I think if it had just been a straight action film about the young Joe and old Joe trying to battle it out with each other it would have been better. The whole Rainmaker/kid/mother aspect of the film just cluttered it up and took away from what had the most potential, namely the part about closing one’s loop and time travel in general.

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Oldboy … I’ll just steal a youtube comment which captures my thoughts:

“I really enjoyed the film, amazing build up and everything but I don’t really understand why most Korean films have to end with all the characters crying their guts out for 20 minutes in the end.”

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[quote]PB Andy wrote:
Oldboy … I’ll just steal a youtube comment which captures my thoughts:

“I really enjoyed the film, amazing build up and everything but I don’t really understand why most Korean films have to end with all the characters crying their guts out for 20 minutes in the end.”[/quote]

I don’t think you really got how awesome that movie was.

They are making an American version.

It was rumored that Will Smith was offered the lead.

…and when everyone quit laughing, they looked at other people.

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[quote]Professor X wrote:

[quote]PB Andy wrote:
Oldboy … I’ll just steal a youtube comment which captures my thoughts:

“I really enjoyed the film, amazing build up and everything but I don’t really understand why most Korean films have to end with all the characters crying their guts out for 20 minutes in the end.”[/quote]

I don’t think you really got how awesome that movie was.

They are making an American version.

It was rumored that Will Smith was offered the lead.

…and when everyone quit laughing, they looked at other people.[/quote]

Even though they didn’t take on Will Smith, Spike Lee is hard-set to be the Director. I don’t like the look of it, I can admire most of Spike Lee’s films, but I loathe his personality and gimmicky stylisation. This in particular just does not seem like it will mix with Spike Lee, he’s a man that knows African-American culture and he can display that pretty well. He’s had some good films that don’t rely on that of course, things like Inside Man, but the thing about those is that they are not very culturally reliant at all.

I see Oldboy as functioning well around the Asian cultural setting, and I don’t see Spike Lee being able to come close to replicating the feel of that with his style of filmmaking. Even though he’s spouted that he’s not planning to replicate Park’s Korean film, but stay truer to the original manga, it’s still a god damn Japanese manga. It functions within the confines of Asian culture and it’s outlying differences to Western cultures.

If it happens to work, then great, and I will admit that there is a chance that this could be pulled off and become a worthy re-invention of the original idea, much like Scorsese’s The Departed. But I do not see Spike Lee being the one to make that work, if anyone could to some degree, David Fincher stands out to me as a reasonable choice.

Let’s also not forget that Park’s film is second in a trilogy, not that it relates entirely to the others, but the style of it is jointed with the style of the other two. Westernising this will only crush the magic it used to hold and offend it’s history. Almost like the way they butchered Get Carter (the British Michael Caine masterpiece), with that horrible fucking Hollywood rendition with Stallone. Spike Lee is a semi-capable director, but he is not new to making a floppy movie every once in a while, I expect this to be the next.

For anyone who doesn’t know Josh Brolin and Elizabeth Olsen play the frontline characters, with Sharlto Copley playing the kidnapper. And I actually expect them all to do a very good job in their respective roles, but even with that good of a casting choice, I can still see Spike Lee fucking this one up.

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Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter - don’t bother with this movie. Go iron your shoelaces, it would be a better allocation of time.

Looper - certainly a different kind of movie, but it was ok, I liked it. A man who goes back in time to change his life from being an assassin.

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[quote]Big Kahuna wrote:

[quote]Professor X wrote:

[quote]PB Andy wrote:
Oldboy … I’ll just steal a youtube comment which captures my thoughts:

“I really enjoyed the film, amazing build up and everything but I don’t really understand why most Korean films have to end with all the characters crying their guts out for 20 minutes in the end.”[/quote]

I don’t think you really got how awesome that movie was.

They are making an American version.

It was rumored that Will Smith was offered the lead.

…and when everyone quit laughing, they looked at other people.[/quote]

Even though they didn’t take on Will Smith, Spike Lee is hard-set to be the Director. I don’t like the look of it, I can admire most of Spike Lee’s films, but I loathe his personality and gimmicky stylisation. This in particular just does not seem like it will mix with Spike Lee, he’s a man that knows African-American culture and he can display that pretty well. He’s had some good films that don’t rely on that of course, things like Inside Man, but the thing about those is that they are not very culturally reliant at all.

I see Oldboy as functioning well around the Asian cultural setting, and I don’t see Spike Lee being able to come close to replicating the feel of that with his style of filmmaking. Even though he’s spouted that he’s not planning to replicate Park’s Korean film, but stay truer to the original manga, it’s still a god damn Japanese manga. It functions within the confines of Asian culture and it’s outlying differences to Western cultures.

If it happens to work, then great, and I will admit that there is a chance that this could be pulled off and become a worthy re-invention of the original idea, much like Scorsese’s The Departed. But I do not see Spike Lee being the one to make that work, if anyone could to some degree, David Fincher stands out to me as a reasonable choice.

Let’s also not forget that Park’s film is second in a trilogy, not that it relates entirely to the others, but the style of it is jointed with the style of the other two. Westernising this will only crush the magic it used to hold and offend it’s history. Almost like the way they butchered Get Carter (the British Michael Caine masterpiece), with that horrible fucking Hollywood rendition with Stallone. Spike Lee is a semi-capable director, but he is not new to making a floppy movie every once in a while, I expect this to be the next.

For anyone who doesn’t know Josh Brolin and Elizabeth Olsen play the frontline characters, with Sharlto Copley playing the kidnapper. And I actually expect them all to do a very good job in their respective roles, but even with that good of a casting choice, I can still see Spike Lee fucking this one up.[/quote]
So what you are saying is Spike is a bad choice for this movie.

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[quote]Professor X wrote:

[quote]PB Andy wrote:
Oldboy … I’ll just steal a youtube comment which captures my thoughts:

“I really enjoyed the film, amazing build up and everything but I don’t really understand why most Korean films have to end with all the characters crying their guts out for 20 minutes in the end.”[/quote]

I don’t think you really got how awesome that movie was.

They are making an American version.

It was rumored that Will Smith was offered the lead.

…and when everyone quit laughing, they looked at other people.[/quote]
I get the movie just fine… but I am a fan of foreign movies in general and try to watch them a lot, and I swear to God that youtube comment is accurate. Every Korean movie I’ve seen fucking ends with people crying for like 10-15 minutes.

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[quote]Derek542 wrote:

[quote]Big Kahuna wrote:

[quote]Professor X wrote:

[quote]PB Andy wrote:
Oldboy … I’ll just steal a youtube comment which captures my thoughts:

“I really enjoyed the film, amazing build up and everything but I don’t really understand why most Korean films have to end with all the characters crying their guts out for 20 minutes in the end.”[/quote]

I don’t think you really got how awesome that movie was.

They are making an American version.

It was rumored that Will Smith was offered the lead.

…and when everyone quit laughing, they looked at other people.[/quote]

Even though they didn’t take on Will Smith, Spike Lee is hard-set to be the Director. I don’t like the look of it, I can admire most of Spike Lee’s films, but I loathe his personality and gimmicky stylisation. This in particular just does not seem like it will mix with Spike Lee, he’s a man that knows African-American culture and he can display that pretty well. He’s had some good films that don’t rely on that of course, things like Inside Man, but the thing about those is that they are not very culturally reliant at all.

I see Oldboy as functioning well around the Asian cultural setting, and I don’t see Spike Lee being able to come close to replicating the feel of that with his style of filmmaking. Even though he’s spouted that he’s not planning to replicate Park’s Korean film, but stay truer to the original manga, it’s still a god damn Japanese manga. It functions within the confines of Asian culture and it’s outlying differences to Western cultures.

If it happens to work, then great, and I will admit that there is a chance that this could be pulled off and become a worthy re-invention of the original idea, much like Scorsese’s The Departed. But I do not see Spike Lee being the one to make that work, if anyone could to some degree, David Fincher stands out to me as a reasonable choice.

Let’s also not forget that Park’s film is second in a trilogy, not that it relates entirely to the others, but the style of it is jointed with the style of the other two. Westernising this will only crush the magic it used to hold and offend it’s history. Almost like the way they butchered Get Carter (the British Michael Caine masterpiece), with that horrible fucking Hollywood rendition with Stallone. Spike Lee is a semi-capable director, but he is not new to making a floppy movie every once in a while, I expect this to be the next.

For anyone who doesn’t know Josh Brolin and Elizabeth Olsen play the frontline characters, with Sharlto Copley playing the kidnapper. And I actually expect them all to do a very good job in their respective roles, but even with that good of a casting choice, I can still see Spike Lee fucking this one up.[/quote]
So what you are saying is Spike is a bad choice for this movie.[/quote]

Essentially, I don’t see him being a brilliant choice to portray the manga cinematically, and even beyond that I think it loses much of it’s promise just for being in a Western setting, it’s almost fundamentally limiting to me. That’s not to say Spike Lee was the worst choice here, had they actually gone and picked Spielberg we might be in an even bigger mess, and that’s not to say the director is “bad”, but he’s not a fit here. The way I predict things, Lee is to Oldboy as Peter Jackson is to The Lovely Bones.

On a side note, I would have liked to see Fincher as a director and possibly Russell Crowe in the lead role. I think that may have had at least twice the chance coming out of production than anything we can really expect to see from this.

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[quote]PB Andy wrote:

[quote]Professor X wrote:

[quote]PB Andy wrote:
Oldboy … I’ll just steal a youtube comment which captures my thoughts:

“I really enjoyed the film, amazing build up and everything but I don’t really understand why most Korean films have to end with all the characters crying their guts out for 20 minutes in the end.”[/quote]

I don’t think you really got how awesome that movie was.

They are making an American version.

It was rumored that Will Smith was offered the lead.

…and when everyone quit laughing, they looked at other people.[/quote]
I get the movie just fine… but I am a fan of foreign movies in general and try to watch them a lot, and I swear to God that youtube comment is accurate.

Every Korean movie I’ve seen fucking ends with people crying for like 10-15 minutes.[/quote]

Same with Asian porn.

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[quote]four60 wrote:

[quote]PB Andy wrote:

[quote]Professor X wrote:

[quote]PB Andy wrote:
Oldboy … I’ll just steal a youtube comment which captures my thoughts:

“I really enjoyed the film, amazing build up and everything but I don’t really understand why most Korean films have to end with all the characters crying their guts out for 20 minutes in the end.”[/quote]

I don’t think you really got how awesome that movie was.

They are making an American version.

It was rumored that Will Smith was offered the lead.

…and when everyone quit laughing, they looked at other people.[/quote]
I get the movie just fine… but I am a fan of foreign movies in general and try to watch them a lot, and I swear to God that youtube comment is accurate.

Every Korean movie I’ve seen fucking ends with people crying for like 10-15 minutes.[/quote]

Same with Asian porn.
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lol

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I would really love to see Darren Aronofsky remake Old Boy.

Btw, if anyone’s in Asia atm, be sure to catch Johnny To’s “Drug War” in the cinemas. The last 15mins alone are worth the ticket price.

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[quote]dt79 wrote:
I would really love to see Darren Aronofsky remake Old Boy.[/quote]

That’s a brilliant idea, I rather stupidly forgot about Aronofsky, even a far better idea to have Aronofsky than my recommendations. I too imagine he’d be able to recreate the darkness and ominousness of Park’s ideal, especially considering how well he does it with Requiem and possibly even more so with Black Swan.

There are so many brilliant choices, I’m dumbfounded that they settled on Spike Lee in the end. At least if this whole thing does indeed go to shit, we have the original film to rely on for solace.

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I’m going to see Star Trek Into Darkness really soon.

Going to post spoilers without warning in this thread after.

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[quote]Gettnitdone wrote:
I’m going to see Star Trek Into Darkness really soon.

Going to post spoilers without warning in this thread after.[/quote]