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I thought I had already warned you about that film Willis? And in particular the suspense of belief that really, really, really doesn't happen when the two muscle cars drag a room around behind them at speed. Hollywood lately has gone to it's own place, a place beyond reality, like the pied piper of Hamlyn, but I for one am no longer following that particular tune.Quote:
Originally Posted by IdolEyes787
You know when someone tells you not to do something because it's a really stupid thing to do but then you still go do it anyway?Well that's basically how I live my life.:idunno:Quote:
Originally Posted by Artemis
Also the first 20 seconds.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6E4Oy6pFKQ
Yet you never posted your video of you ghost riding your whip, the bicycle edition.Quote:
Originally Posted by IdolEyes787
This Means War
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1596350/
I am normally not a RomCom kind of guy and stay away from the genre like the plague since in the last few years the genre has fallen into a very predictable formula that would leave Walt Disney reaching for the airline sickness bag in most cases. This is most definitely not one of those films and I was pleasantly surprised and thoroughly enjoyed the movie.
It is a lighthearted romp, but it isn't a sappy, poignant romantic piece of drivel, it is very cleverly done.
The storyline revolves around to C.I.A. agents who have worked together for the past 10 years, they are best friends and basically do everything together, they even have a pact that they would take a bullet for each other (awwww aint it sweet). One of the agents, Tuck (played by Tom Hardy) is divorced with a son and wants to get back into the dating game so goes onto a dating website and finds someone, his partner FDR (played by Chris Pine) meets her in a video store at the same time and by a weird set of circumstances egged on by a bad best friend of the girl Lauren (played by Reese Witherspoon) she ends up dating both of them. The two competitive gungho guys that they are they compare notes about the great girl they've just met and then show each other the picture of her.......
The hilarity of the story without going into any extended spoilers surrounds two C.I.A. agents spying on each other and doing every dirty trick in the book to prevent each other from getting close to Lauren. It's well worth the watch, and your girlfriend/wife will love it too
Took me half your post to figure out that this was the title of what you're reviewing and not a statement made in response to someone in this thread.Quote:
Originally Posted by Artemis
This Means War is watchable. I grabbed it while we were on vacation, and it provided us with ~90 minutes of entertainment-ish stuff on the screen.
If you look back through the fred previous posts have been formatted thus, by both me and other poasters, and I'm not that homicidal (much). :blink:Quote:
Originally Posted by mjmackyTook me half your post to figure out that this was the title of what you're reviewing and not a statement made in response to someone in this thread.Quote:
Originally Posted by Artemis
'Cept I keep expecting them to be imdb hyperlinked or something.Quote:
Originally Posted by ArtemisIf you look back through the fred previous posts have been formatted thus, by both me and other poasters, and I'm not that homicidal (much). :blink:Quote:
Originally Posted by mjmacky
Awww shucks well just for you.......Quote:
Originally Posted by mjmacky'Cept I keep expecting them to be imdb hyperlinked or something.Quote:
Originally Posted by Artemis
I watched The Duellists last night, alone, in the dark and while sipping expensive dry white wine. I mention this to set the scene, I had already decided to like the film and wanted also to be in the right environment and mood to appreciate it. I didn't have an open mind going into it but this was a luxury I could afford myself given that it was set in an era I was familiar with, about a concept I'd read much about and the film itself was recommended specifically to me by someone who has watched a movie or two in their time.
The action starts right away, like right away. You have no idea how the stars of the movie can possibly survive 10 minutes, let alone eke out their existence to the end of the film. The first half hour is relentless. What struck me was the realism of the fight scenes, there was no Spartacus-esque looking to the audience and gloating or convoluted fight moves. Each duellist looked scared to fucking death, their concentration completely upon their opponent and when one of them got skewered, the fight stopped. There was no bravely battling through a severed lung - the fight was over, which is obviously as it would be.
A theme of honour ran through the film and is, of course, what the film is about - this was depicted with particular aplomb. In one of the scenes, special agent frank lundy was asked to describe honour and all he was able to come up with is that it is indescribable. Well, Ridley Scott did an excellent job of portraying its foibles and the magnificence it often inspired.
The music was horrible. I think this is why I often give up while watching old films. I don't need a harmonica, or whatever, telling me that something is going to be exciting or sad. It spoiled a lot of scenes for me and I spent too long wishing for a modern score rather than the shite that accompanied this visual masterpiece.