Been meaning to share this one. Great story, great drama, great acting.
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Absolutely. Copland too, if you haven’t seen it. I think he was even nominated for an Oscar?
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De Niro was HILARIOUS in it.
“…I offered you a chance and you BLEW IT!”.
LMAO
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Looks interesting. I’ll check it out since there’s really nothing else worth watching. Thanks.
I’m normally optimistic when good comedians take on serious roles. I think the good ones succeed really well because they already know how to elicit laughter, i.e, an emotional response, from their audience.
Some of my favourite drama directors/actors started out directing comedies. Takeshi Kitano(the teacher in Battle Royale) comes to mind. Not a big fan of Jim Carrey but he was fantastic in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.
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I really thought it was excellent. Great suspense and pacing, also.
Another favorite comedian-as-serious-actor movie is Ben Stiller in Permanent Midnight.
Maybe no one can do tragedy like a comic? 
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Have you ever seen One Hour Photo with Robin Williams? He did serious/creepy very well.
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Adam Sandler in Punch Drunk Love and Spanglish.
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Great in Reign Over Me.
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If The Fool was very bleak then I guess you haven’t seen Hard to be a god (Trudno byt bogom)? That movie is messed up.
Yeah. Didn’t like the movie very much but Robin Williams was fantastic.
I don’t know if most of you know who Stephen Chow is. He’s Asia’s most popular comedic actor by a long shot but some of his movies can change in tone so fast before you know it, you’re fighting back tears.
One of his movies, A Chinese Odyssey 2(some time in the 90s), was voted the movie that made most of the audience cry in a poll long ago. It was a fucking “nonsense” comedy directed by Jeff Lau, also a well-known comedic director. And it somehow won “best screenplay” at the HK film awards because it was some absurdist, postmodernist interpretation of the old folk tale or book or something called Journey to the West with added stuff revolving around karma, reincarnation and time loops that was somehow slightly similar to Interstellar(yes, the Christopher Nolan movie) along with a parody of a line from Wong Kar Wai’s Chungking Express that’s still referenced till this day in other movies.
This is the “nonsense” part:
(Context: this bunch of idiots thought they were invisible to the 2 female demons because they were naked or something I can’t remember so they were trying really hard to kill them while not making any noise.)
Can you believe this kind of nonsense was in a movie that won a best screenplay award lol?
Most of the stuff in the movie will be lost on a Western audience though unless you’re familiar with Asian Taoist/Buddhist stuff, old Shaw Brothers kungfu movies, AND the original story of Journey to the West, which was a book or folk tale or something about a monk travelling to India to retrieve the Buddhist scriptures.
I’m just showing y’all how absurd most of the movie(it was split into 2 parts and released 6 months apart) was.
This was probably the most memorable scene in HK cinema:
(Context: the monk is trying to make Stephen Chow’s character, who’s the Monkey God reincarnated into human form, recall his past and continue his journey to the West to retrieve the scriptures by singing a modified version of Only You by The Platters and the guy who played the monk was an ex-famous Chinese opera singer?!!!)
Again, this fucking nonsense won it a best screenplay award lol. And I support it wholeheartly.
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Coming-of-age story about a shy kid struggling through the social aspects of HS after his best (and basically only) friend committed suicide. Basically the kid is really fucking damaged and lonely, and the movie is him working his way out of the hole he’s in.
I have a queue of movies specifically reserved for when my mom and mother in law visit us (they’re basically bffs at this point). This has been on it for a while, and I wasn’t expecting it to be as good as it was. Definitely got a little teary a few times. I loved it though. Lots of nostalgia, since this is set in the time period when I was also in HS (1999).
Definitely worth a watch (I think it was on Netflix).
9/10
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RIP matey
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Margin Call
For some reason, a scene from this movie appeared on my YouTube feed so I watched it. Then I watched the movie and it was brilliant.
Just to show you how well written and how high the level of acting in the movie is, I’ll spare you guys the details and just post the clip I watched here:
8/10
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How dare you support Spacey. He is despicable for reasons I can’t remember.
Good movie tho. Watched it a few weeks ago.
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It was YouTube’s fault. #cancelyoutube
Seriously, I’m stealing the line, “And please, speak as you might to a young child. Or a golden retriever.” I have much use for it nowadays dealing with tech people lol.
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You laugh, but since having my kid a few years ago, my communication at work has improved significantly
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I went and rewatched The Incredible Hulk. It was the same as the first time I watched it. I enjoyed the first half of the movie but it gradually got worse during the second act and I gave up after 1min of the horrible CGI fight at the end but it was still better than the final fight in Venom from what I remember.
You could easily see the studio meddling just with the multiple continuity issues even if you’ve never done this shit before. A very obvious example is a scene where night suddenly becomes day while Banner is running away from the government dudes chasing him. Then there are the scenes that were obviously rearranged to change up the narrative, which fucked up the flow of the story and dialogue. Dialogue that leads to nowhere because lots of scenes that were supposed to be in the movie were obviously deleted.
IMO this movie had potential. I’ve read it was supposed to be 15 mins longer and lots of footage was replaced by action scenes added in after initial filming was wrapped up. The script was smart until it wasn’t. The plot was interesting until it wasn’t.
The only thing I hated was Tim Roth. Tim Roth? A badass soldier? LMAO. Loved it when that neckless little fuck got casually kicked into a tree by Hulk.
Justice League* has “The Snyder Cut”(lol).
I want the “The Norton Cut”. Do it, Marvel.
5.5/10
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I’ll say one of the bigger issues is that there’s really nothing exciting about Hulk as a character. He’s Marvel’s Superman: unkillable and overpowered. So where’s the suspense? And like Superman, the only “story” is about the NOT super element: how does Bruce Banner/Clark Kent function in society around a bunch of squishy mortals. But that story gets boring after the first time. Same thing with how there are 4 Spiderman origin movies because that’s really the ONLY interesting thing about Spiderman.
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