[quote]simon-hecubus wrote:
Don’t forget Edward Woodward (TV’s The Equalizer) as the very Christian police inspector. He was most excellent.[/quote]
Indeed! He was brilliant! I felt like he played the character with honesty, showing all his flaws and virtues, and not once trying to “steal” the film like other big-ego actors may have done.
Let’s hope not…:
Cage [to townsfolk]: Put down the pink wicker-bunny…
[quote]Naphta wrote:
I feel like I haven’t seen a decent suspense movie for a long , long time.
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Running Scared. Check it out. Slightly contrived at times, but mostly bam, bam, bam like the last 2/3 of Training Day.
SEMI-SPOLIER
And then the ending. I am not going to reveal the remake’s ending here. But let me say this: The last two minutes of this film are the worst two minutes I have seen of any film this year, quite possibly this century. What LaBute does is absolutely, positively infuriating to anyone who has seen the original. He just bends it over and rapes it while screaming out, “Who’s your daddy?!” Apparently, modernizing a film means adding an insulting semi-twist ending that nearly negates everything you’ve seen before it. It doesn’t even make sense when you really stop and think about it as the theater lights come up. And if you want to get really technical, this film puts the entire feminist movement one giant step back.