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I dont know man. On a weekly basis i watch roughly five films i have yet to see. Best this year so far was The Impossible. Would only rate Life of Pi higher. And when i try to start rationalizing Django Unchained to those two films i start laughing. For the quality between those two films and Django Unchained is astronomical.
And when i try to start rationalizing Django Unchained to those two films i start laughing. For the quality between those two films and Django Unchained is astronomical.
I have not seen THE IMPOSSIBLE but hear nothing but good things. Thing is it's not subject matter I wish to see. Kinda like IMPOSSIBLY CLOSE AND ANNOYINGLY LOUD or whatever it was called. Commercials looked great, starpower for days, but what a bummer, man. I think I checked out of wanting to see those kinds of films after 21 GRAMS.
I'd love to hear your comparison between PI and DJANGO.
I have not seen THE IMPOSSIBLE but hear nothing but good things. Thing is it's not subject matter I wish to see. Kinda like IMPOSSIBLY CLOSE AND ANNOYINGLY LOUD or whatever it was called. Commercials looked great, starpower for days, but what a bummer, man. I think I checked out of wanting to see those kinds of films after 21 GRAMS.
I'd love to hear your comparison between PI and DJANGO.
The Impossible is a hard movie to watch. For the subject matter was accurately portrayed across the screen. Resulting in what appears to be a genuine real life take on the event. Even in the 'rate the last movie' thread i couldnt rate it. For nearly the entire movie it tears you down emotionally.
Life of Pi does the same -
but it is mainly done at the end of the movie
Prior to that every other sense of emotion is touched upon; tension, fear, humility, laughter and so on. Never becoming stagnant in one set emotion, but gracefully proceeding to the next emotional high or low.
Django Unchained only produced one 'emotional' response from me the entire movie. The set piece with DiCaprio with the skull at the dining room table. Foxx and Waltz echoed DiCaprios brilliant acting making the scene shine. Know i may be in the minority here. Jacksons character and overall persona was to strong to play Stephen. At times he was battling DiCaprio for lead bad guy. Detering and not evolving the stories progress.
Last scene of Django Unchained i find to be the perfect example of how the movie failed overall. For it clearly shows to me that Tarantino didnt take the movie seriously as a whole.
Here you have Foxx dancing his horse for what felt like an eternity with only two camera angles used. With his character displaying little emotion and Washington just sitting there on her horse smiling. Ending with a cheesy close up that comes straight out of a low budget 80's cartoon.
Musical score was good but used in a predictable fashion every time as filler to the next dialog piece. Whenever a set piece ended it always went to a wide angle shot showing the terrain and with what perceived to be someone just hitting play on the next song on the movies soundtrack. Their was no molding of the song into the movie.
Could rant all day on this movie. For it had the potential to be one of the western all time greats.
Thanks. I'd be willing to hear more if you got any -- even though I'd rank PI and DJANGO at the top of my list of movies last year. DJANGO being numba one.
Thanks. I'd be willing to hear more if you got any -- even though I'd rank PI and DJANGO at the top of my list of movies last year. DJANGO being numba one.
Yeah, I'm not available for that. That stuff just ruins my week.
Dont blame you. Even when i watched it i had to pause a few times to 'refresh' myself before being torn down again by the subject matter.
Well, you like the movie. No need for me to continue. Last thing i want is to potentially point out a flaw that you see and deters from your future viewings : )
Well, you like the movie. No need for me to continue. Last thing i want is to potentially point out a flaw that you see and deters from your future viewings : )
That doesn't usually happen to me, and if it does I don't really count it a disappointment. Not since it became clear LEON was exactly about the thing I kept telling everyone it wasn't about.
I saw every supporting actor turn minus Phillip Seymour Hoffman (who i'll bet was a lot more nuanced and fiery than TLJ and Arkin to be honest) and what I can say is that if I had to rank them (and i'll throw Leo in there too for good measure) in terms of who i think deserved the award i would go...
DiCaprio
DeNiro
Tie between Waltz and TLJ
Arkin
the problem i have with Arkin's inclusion over DiCaprio is that I don't really see where the stretch in acting was. I saw shades of the chief from Get Smart. I saw shades of the grandpa from Little Miss Sunshine. I saw a very solid, highly amusing portrayal of a Hollywood insider. It was good and it was scene-stealing but it never made me think- Oh man epic performance by Arkin. He did very well in a role quite well suited for him.
the problem I have with TLJ as frontrunner to win...is minimal...because I love Tommy Lee Jones. But I thought he had deserved a supporting actor nomination for No Country (though it was obviously Bardem's year) and I think that performance was more stellar than his work as Thaddeus Stevens. Again, i'm not denying the quality. It's an awesome Jones performance. It's a memorable Jones performance. But it's a typical Jones performance. He's curmudgeonly and cantankerous...As I said, now that Leo is off the table, I'm going to be happy if TLJ wins but still I don't see what way, shape or form he was superior to DiCaprio's turn in Django.
DeNiro and Waltz- both excellent. Little else to say. DeNiro's best performance in what seems like ages so he should probably be given extra consideration contextually- even if that's not really fair. Waltz was terrific in a well-written role that he rose to.
DiCaprio was the most compelling, most ballsy, most outside the box turn of any of them. His getting screwed over makes me pissed.
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