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Subject: Nasty Goes To The Movies

Posted by: nasty_liar
Date: Nov 29 12

What it says up there

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nasty_liar

The Revenant (2015)

A frontiersman on a fur trading expedition in the 1820s fights for survival after being mauled by a bear and left for dead by members of his own hunting team.

Leonardo DiCaprio
Tom Hardy

I think that looking at the oscars this movie won; director, cinematography and actor, you get a sense of what makes it tick. It is beautifully shot and Dicaprio delivers a good enough performance although I've preferred him in other roles.

Breathtaking scenery and such a wild feel to it. I liked this movie a lot but I feel the core of the plot itself is nothing particularly outstanding.There's not actually that much going on in this. It has a nice steady pace to it devoting plenty of time to every scene. But yeah, I wish I'd seen it at the cinema.

Tom Hardy is one of my favourite actors and is convincing at playing another slightly unhinged character.

Yep, I enjoyed this despite having to really work hard to suspend my disbelief at times. I mean how Glass survives some if the stuff is beyond me and borders on the absurd. Still worth a watch.

Reply #301. Mar 29 18, 6:44 PM

brm50diboll

I saw that The Revenant had won several Oscars, including for Best Actor for DiCaprio. I wanted to see it, but haven't yet. The word "Revenant" has an interesting set of meanings. One is a person who comes back from the dead looking for revenge. Somewhat similar to a zombie, except intelligent. The mythos is that if an innocent person is killed, by sheer force of will they can reanimate themselves to hunt down their killers no matter what difficulties are in front of them. Given this, it should not be surprising that Glass could not be killed. In a sense, he was already undead.

Reply #302. Mar 31 18, 3:42 AM

nasty_liar

Interesting, I took from memory the meaning of the word in line with someone coming for an unstoppable revenge but I did not associate anything supernatural with the term.

If the movie implies the supernatural then it is subtle and I missed it!

In a general sense it reminded me of Gladiator where a man almost dies but then sets about getting his revenge on the person that has wronged him and his family.

Last night I watched about two thirds of James Cameron's Titanic. I wonder what happens in the end? ;)

Reply #303. Mar 31 18, 4:12 AM

nasty_liar

American Sniper (2014)

Navy S.E.A.L. sniper Chris Kyle's pinpoint accuracy saves countless lives on the battlefield and turns him into a legend. Back home to his wife and kids after four tours of duty, however, Chris finds that it is the war he can't leave behind.

Directed Clint Eastwood
Stars Bradley Cooper
Sienna Miller

Really liked this movie, Cooper is totally believable. What I didn't realise until the end was that it was based on a real person, Chris Kyle, who I'd never heard of! I can't decide whether that made the events of the movie more impactful for me.

Action scenes in the same vein as Black Hawk Down or The Hurt Locker (or probably loads of movies of this genre). I think I probably preferred both of those movies but this is still very good.

Reply #304. Mar 31 18, 5:01 AM

terraorca

I bought the Blu-Ray of American Sniper. A (mostly) true story of a real life hero.
I tear up at the ending, every time that I watch it.

Reply #305. Mar 31 18, 8:41 PM

nasty_liar

I teared up too...

Reply #306. Apr 02 18, 5:05 PM

nasty_liar

To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)

Atticus Finch, a lawyer in the Depression-era South, defends a black man against an undeserved rape charge, and his children against prejudice.
Director: Robert Mulligan
Writers: Harper Lee (based on her novel "To Kill a Mockingbird"), Horton Foote (screenplay)
Stars: Gregory Peck

Never read the book so my views are solely on the film. I really liked this one. I think a most endearing, noticeable and surprising thing was the performances of the child actors. I thought they were very good and the scenes between Scout and Atticus in particular. I loved seeing a young Brock Peters as Tom Robinson, I recognise him from both the Star Trek movies as Admiral Cartwright and Star Trek: DS9 as Sisko's father.

I'm sure most know the themes of this movie but I really enjoyed the way the children's plot and Atticus' plot all come together at the end. This is one of those movies where I watched all the dialogue intently, lovely script. Not sure how to judge Peck's performance, I think I'd have to watch it again.

Classic I guess.

Reply #307. Apr 02 18, 5:22 PM

nasty_liar

Titanic (1997)

A seventeen-year-old aristocrat falls in love with a kind but poor artist aboard the luxurious, ill-fated R.M.S. Titanic.

Written and directed by James Cameron
Stars Leo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet

It sinks...

Great movie, not sure how I missed it in the 90's. Maybe I was put off because it is a romance movie and I was a teenage boy. DiCaprio is good here (so is Winslet) and he is so watchable as he always is.

The attention to detail seems to be incredible. The scenes as the ship sinks are amazing and all the while focusing on Jack and Rose to show what is happening in huge scale but also give it a small scale face. Good storytelling in my eyes. Some moments I found truly horrifying as the ship is sinking.

My only gripe is that it is over three hours long! I watched it in two sittings! (Washing the dishes and cleaning the kitchen doesn't take me three hours). Why is it so long? Not sure it needed to be, some of the present day stuff could have been cut right back as it is mostly uneccesary in my opinion.

So, yeah, some great visuals combined with a nice script and decent performances. Must have been a winner! I guess it was a winner eh? Academy award for best picture. Still not sure why I never watched it before now....

Reply #308. Apr 02 18, 5:40 PM

terraorca

nasty,

How do you think "Titanic" holds up against "A Night to Remember?" The earlier version of the story was produced in 1958 and was taken from the book by Walter Lord.

Reply #309. Apr 02 18, 6:06 PM

nasty_liar

Never seen it, but I've just found the full movie on YouTube so I'll watch it over the next day or two. Was wondering what to watch next!

Well, since I watched The Danish Girl last night. Fascinating movie, interesting look at something where I've never really tried to put myself in somebody's shoes in that situation. Yet another based on a real person too!

Reply #310. Apr 03 18, 4:49 PM

terraorca

Have you ever seen "12 Angry Men?"

Reply #311. Apr 03 18, 5:11 PM

nasty_liar

Yes, I talked about it on this thread. Absolutely loved it.

Reply #312. Apr 04 18, 7:25 AM

terraorca

Yes, you did talk about "12 Angry Men" earlier on this thread, post #176 as I recall. Either my memory is failing or that was before I found this thread. I too enjoyed the movie, one of my favorites.

Reply #313. Apr 04 18, 11:15 AM

nasty_liar

A Night To Remember (1958)

On its maiden voyage in April 1912, the supposedly unsinkable RMS Titanic hits an iceberg in the Atlantic Ocean.

Stars Kenneth More

I tell you what, thanks for pointing out this film for me, I thoroughly enjoyed it. Interesting to watch what I guess was a big part of Cameron's inspiration for his 1997 film. Some of the moments are even identical (I realise that if you are making a film based on a historical event then survivors accounts are obviously the same no matter who is using them but still).

The big difference is obviously the method for telling the story and nobody in 1997 would have wanted to see James Cameron retelling A Night To Remember except with upto date effects. Even though that us some of what we got. I actually prefer having two fictional passengers as the main focus because it gives greater scope for showing different parts of the story through a characters eyes.

This film is still magnificent though. It must have been incredible to see this in 1958! I do think that it presents the events in a fairly dispassionate way. Almost like a documentary. I'm guessing it's fairly accurate if it was based on Walter Lords book. Here there are many characters but none really gets any fleshing out so is difficult to get involved with them as the disaster progresses. I was much happier with the run time though, two hours is just about right.

Good stuff.

Reply #314. Apr 04 18, 4:48 PM

terraorca

The final scenes of "A Night to Remember" bring to mind another great movie, "Lifeboat" a Hitchcock study in human nature.

Reply #315. Apr 04 18, 10:58 PM

C30

Not being a movie buff, this is seldom a thread I participate in, however:-

When you consider that "A Night to Remember" was made without the technical "special effects" the later "Titanic" enjoyed, or without the facts the finding of the wreck in the 1980's revealed (such as ship breaking in two), I think it beat the later film hands down with recapturing how the sinking unfolded.
Having seen both, my vote goes to the earlier film unreservedly.

Reply #316. Apr 05 18, 12:41 AM

terraorca

For what it's worth, I agree.

Reply #317. Apr 05 18, 10:18 PM

terraorca

nasty,

I went back and read post # 307 all the way through, the first time I read it, I missed the part about Tom Robinson/Brock Peters as Admiral Cartwright. That's a great catch.

Mark

Reply #318. Apr 05 18, 10:23 PM

nasty_liar

You reminded me that my wife hates it when I do that. She could be watching a program or film and I'll walk in and look at it for a couple of minutes and then say to her, "he/she was in Star Trek".
She'll groan and say, "oh really?"
"Yes, Next Generation, [insert episode name here], played [character]"

Admiral Cartwright was an enjoyable one, "Offering the klingons a save haven in Federation space is suicide!"

Reply #319. Apr 06 18, 3:56 PM

nasty_liar

The Danish Girl (2015)

A fictitious love story loosely inspired by the lives of Danish artists Lili Elbe and Gerda Wegener. Lili and Gerda's marriage and work evolve as they navigate Lili's groundbreaking journey as a transgender pioneer.

Starring Eddie Redmayne
Directed Tom Hooper

I think I said somewhere above that I had watched this film and I thought it was fascinating and made me think about what it might be like to be in Lili's (the title character) shoes. Which it did. Redmayne is immersed into the role and really impresses again. But...

I'm not sure how genuine this movie feels, perhaps if anyone else saw it they may agree of disagree I don't know it's just my gut feeling and instinct that really it glosses over quite a lot and perhaps tells the wrong story. Perhaps the only people who could answer that question are transgender? Still, it's a nice story between the two leads (I say leads although Alicia Vikander bizarrely won Best Supporting Actress at the Academy Awards but she was undoubtedly in a leading role here). The movie looks and feels fantastic, costume and sets are excellent.

Fairly good but probably will never watch it again.

Reply #320. Apr 08 18, 6:15 AM

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