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Le Mans '66 7.5/10
More fun than I imagined it to be, based on a true story that I was peripherally aware of, Le Mans '66 (as I know it) is a very solid period/biopic/car movie. The chemistry between Bale and Damon is spot on, and the story is well told with great production design and a decent soundtrack. Bale's accent is a bit ropey at times, but I suspect a good 80% of the audience would hardly notice and the rest of his performance makes up for it, as you'd expect. Damon is excellent as Shelby.
Any criticism I can make against the movie would relate to the characterisation of much of the Ferrari team, and a couple of the Ford executives. The Ferrari lead driver, Ludovico Scarfiotti just needed a thin black moustache that he could twirl and the over the top nature of the image would have been complete. He has no lines, he seems to exist merely to look sinister. Josh Lucas does what he can with his role, but he plays the stereotypical toadying senior exec who does none of the work and takes all of the credit. That said, Jon Bernthal is great as Lee Iaccoca and Tracy Letts brings a believable Henry Ford II to life.
I sense that it could probably have been cut by 20 minutes or so and still told the same story but I never really felt it dragging or have any kind of lull. A thorougly enjoyable movie. If you like V8s, 60s Le Mans cars and slightly ropey Brummie accents, this movie is for you. Not quite as good as Rush though, sadly. Not far off though. ____________________ British beauty: Triumph Street Triple R; Loony stroker: KR1S; Track fun: GSXR750 L1; Commuter Missile: GSX-S1000F
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MarJay wrote: | Le Mans '66 7.5/10
More fun than I imagined it to be, based on a true story that I was peripherally aware of, Le Mans '66 (as I know it) is a very solid period/biopic/car movie. The chemistry between Bale and Damon is spot on, and the story is well told with great production design and a decent soundtrack. Bale's accent is a bit ropey at times, but I suspect a good 80% of the audience would hardly notice and the rest of his performance makes up for it, as you'd expect. Damon is excellent as Shelby.
Any criticism I can make against the movie would relate to the characterisation of much of the Ferrari team, and a couple of the Ford executives. The Ferrari lead driver, Ludovico Scarfiotti just needed a thin black moustache that he could twirl and the over the top nature of the image would have been complete. He has no lines, he seems to exist merely to look sinister. Josh Lucas does what he can with his role, but he plays the stereotypical toadying senior exec who does none of the work and takes all of the credit. That said, Jon Bernthal is great as Lee Iaccoca and Tracy Letts brings a believable Henry Ford II to life.
I sense that it could probably have been cut by 20 minutes or so and still told the same story but I never really felt it dragging or have any kind of lull. A thorougly enjoyable movie. If you like V8s, 60s Le Mans cars and slightly ropey Brummie accents, this movie is for you. Not quite as good as Rush though, sadly. Not far off though. |
I watched the Netflix documentary on the Ferrari/Ford Le Mans battle (63 to 66) a couple of nights ago, which I'd recommend before watching the movie. Top watch. ____________________ "There's the horizon! Ride hard, ride fast and cut down all who stand in your way!" |
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MarJay wrote: | Le Mans '66 7.5/10
More fun than I imagined it to be, based on a true story that I was peripherally aware of, Le Mans '66 (as I know it) is a very solid period/biopic/car movie. The chemistry between Bale and Damon is spot on, and the story is well told with great production design and a decent soundtrack. Bale's accent is a bit ropey at times, but I suspect a good 80% of the audience would hardly notice and the rest of his performance makes up for it, as you'd expect. Damon is excellent as Shelby.
Any criticism I can make against the movie would relate to the characterisation of much of the Ferrari team, and a couple of the Ford executives. The Ferrari lead driver, Ludovico Scarfiotti just needed a thin black moustache that he could twirl and the over the top nature of the image would have been complete. He has no lines, he seems to exist merely to look sinister. Josh Lucas does what he can with his role, but he plays the stereotypical toadying senior exec who does none of the work and takes all of the credit. That said, Jon Bernthal is great as Lee Iaccoca and Tracy Letts brings a believable Henry Ford II to life.
I sense that it could probably have been cut by 20 minutes or so and still told the same story but I never really felt it dragging or have any kind of lull. A thorougly enjoyable movie. If you like V8s, 60s Le Mans cars and slightly ropey Brummie accents, this movie is for you. Not quite as good as Rush though, sadly. Not far off though. |
Interesting as the trailer and marketing made this look like it was going to be a complete pile of American wank but sounds like it is worth a watch. |
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The Irishman - 6/10
Well made. Similar style to Goodfellas. Would give it a much higher score, but it was just painful to watch with all those old actors trying to appear young.
The film follows Robert de Niro, Joe Pesci, Al Pacino, and probably a few other famous old names, as old men, being old men gangster types, trying to still be gangster types. Or something. Not too sure. I couldn't really follow it because at least 60% of the film is showing the build-up to their current story, wherein they attempted to make the actors look like their 40/50 year old selves, but failed terribly.
De Niro in particular was just embarrassing to watch. A man in his 70s trying to pull off a man in his 40s, it just didn't work. The face and 'de-ageing' make-up was okay (or was it CGI?). But his posture and his movements were all shuffled and hunched, like an old man, a very old man. It was a bit depressing and very distracting from the film itself.
The whole thing felt more like "the people who made Goodfellas trying to stay relevant". Scorsese should have used a new cast.
That being said, it is a move I will watch again. The story and filming style are high quality Scorsese. It's just the geriatric actors that brought it down for me, in a big way. |
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The Irishman - 5/10
Lord Percy wrote: | The Irishman - 6/10
Would give it a much higher score, but it was just painful to watch with all those old actors trying to appear young.
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Agree. The film was made 20 years too late.
Old men beating up young guys by prodding them.
That said, when DeNiro and Pacino shared the scene, they have a chemistry, something.
Would rather watch Scorceses other films. Cape Fear, Colour of Money, Casino, Departed, Goodfellas, Mean Streets, Raging Bull, Wolf of Wall Street. |
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Code 8 - 9.5/10. This was a GoFundMe operation, they originally did a short of a movie which was 10 minutes long.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqO90q0WZ0M
They then set up a funding project to make a feature length film. The main character in the short and feature length film is Robbie Amell and probably won't mean anything to anyone BUT his brother is Stephen Amell the guy that plays the character Arrow. Needless to say Stephen stars in the feature length film along with his less famous brother. Watch the 10 minute short, marvel at how awesome it is and then seek out the feature length version.
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Star Wars: Rise of Skywalker 4.5/10
There was a good script in there somewhere. My guess would be the previous draft was top quality, and then Disney added some studio notes based on fan feedback. It starts a bit like bad fanfic, and then sort of chunters along as a half decent star wars mov... *WALKBACK*. It has some genuine heartfelt character mome...*WALKBACK*. There are some epic space battle... *WALKBACK! I'M WALKING BACK RIAN JOHNSON'S STUFF!* HEY I'M THE ABRAMS DISNEY MONSTER AND I'M GREAT AT WALKING BACK STUFF YOU SAID YOU DIDN'T LIKE!*
I'm angry. I'm angry that internet neckbeards who didn't like TLJ because it did something different and interesting got their way. I'm angry that because of those people we've been denied a congruent trilogy. I'm angry because Disney and Abrams tried so desperately hard to show that they agreed with the fandom (Except Disney were the ones who released the last movie - go figure) that they turned what could have been a spectacular legendary movie of epic proportions, fit for the Star Wars name, into a mediocre movie that does entertain, with some emotional moments but is ultimately bland and forgettable.
I want to see the Gareth Edwards cut of Rogue One. I want to see the Lourde and Miller version of Solo. Above all, I want to see the version of Rise of Skywalker that was written before they added the studio notes pages to the script.
In this clip, homer is me during the film, and the pig is the film:
https://youtu.be/0LTgNVwfMAE?t=48
And today in this clip I'm Jimbo:
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I was gonna watch The Irishman but I clicked the wrong button and so now Maxie and I are watching The Two Popes.
It's got Anthony Hopkins as Pope Benedict (the German one).
I'm so out of touch with the church I didn't even know Ratzinger had retired.
I thought they all had to die in office.
Interesting.
Very good. If you like that kind of thing.
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Old Thread Alert!
The last post was made 4 years, 144 days ago. Instead of replying here, would creating a new thread be more useful? |
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