ukedge87 Posted November 29, 2006 Posted November 29, 2006 That's a bit of an eye-opener.I didn't think anyone liked AI.Empire gave it 5 stars.I think its a love it or hate it sort of film.I can understand people thinking its too sentemental, but I thought it was done really well.
HBAndy Posted November 29, 2006 Posted November 29, 2006 Watched Munich again and my opinions have completely changed. In terms of Avner's characterisation, the look and feel of the film and how the story was told and its ultimate climax it may be Spielberg's best.Everything about it was fantastic and Eric Bana as the tortured Avner was one of the best performances of recent times in my humble opinion. It still had all the traces of a Spielberg film (the search for family and a home) but I'd take Munich as the best told example of his common themes from all of his work.My eyes were opened to Munich this time and I'm really pleased they were. Fantastic.
Paid Members bAzTNM#1 Posted November 29, 2006 Paid Members Posted November 29, 2006 (edited) "Duel" is an awesome Spielberg film. It really is tremendous.You could probably say "Duel" and "Jaws" are basically the same. Both films about something stalking some poor guy. Edited November 29, 2006 by bAzTNM
Paid Members Egg Shen Posted November 29, 2006 Paid Members Posted November 29, 2006 banged in two films last night that both had a similar kinda theme... Â Apt Pupil - this was a pretty sinister movie, a young boy recognises a Nazi war criminal living free in the United States, instead of reporting the guy, the boy becomes obsessed with him and bribes him into telling him all kinds of stories of the holocaust. The boy however re-ignites the evil in the guy and it all goes tits up. Great film, Ian Mcklelan is awesome as the runaway nazi...creepy/evil performance. Â Capote - biopic about legendary American novelist Truman Capote, this tracks the writing of his book In Cold Blood. Capote befriends/uses the criminals his book is based on to make the book. The main reason to see this is Philip Seymour Hoffman's performance, to see what he turns himself into is pretty amazing, there's a small piece of footage of the actual Truman on the dvd extra's and the likeness is incredible. The thing i loved about this is, it really makes you sympathise with the criminals, you kinda go through what Truman went through (the writing of the book pretty much ruined his life), at first it's all about writing the book, but he cant help but bond with the criminals despite the fact that they committed a truly unforgivable crime. The ending is devastating. Brilliant.
DRAVEN_ROCKS Posted November 29, 2006 Posted November 29, 2006 I enjoyed A.I,a lot of surreal parts which are hard to watch,but it balanced out nicely by Jude Laws comedy schtick and a heart warming ending.
ukedge87 Posted November 29, 2006 Posted November 29, 2006 "Duel" is an awesome Spielberg film. It really is tremendous.You could probably say "Duel" and "Jaws" are basically the same. Both films about something stalking some poor guy.But Jaws is 100 times better as it has character development and a non-linear storyline.
Mr. Seven Posted November 29, 2006 Posted November 29, 2006 That's a bit of an eye-opener.I didn't think anyone liked AI.Empire gave it 5 stars.Empire also gave King Kong and the Lord Of The Rings movies five stars. Fuck Empire.
Paid Members LaGoosh Posted November 29, 2006 Paid Members Posted November 29, 2006 That's a bit of an eye-opener.I didn't think anyone liked AI.Empire gave it 5 stars.Empire also gave King Kong and the Lord Of The Rings movies five stars. Fuck Empire....and deservedly so. But let's not revisit that old argument.I enjoy reading Empire, but their reviews can often be shaky.
ukedge87 Posted November 29, 2006 Posted November 29, 2006 That's a bit of an eye-opener.I didn't think anyone liked AI.Empire gave it 5 stars.Empire also gave King Kong and the Lord Of The Rings movies five stars. Fuck Empire....and deservedly so. But let's not revisit that old argument.I enjoy reading Empire, but their reviews can often be shaky.Agreed. But their general consenus is usually a good indication of whether a film is worth seeing or not.
Mr. Seven Posted November 29, 2006 Posted November 29, 2006 I'd love to know why the Lord of the Rings films deserved five stars.
BionicRedneck Posted November 29, 2006 Posted November 29, 2006 I'm pretty sure this argument has been done to death. But, add me to the 'Lord of the Rings movies are boring as shit' group of people. I actually prefer Willow. At least that has proper midgets.
Paid Members Egg Shen Posted November 29, 2006 Paid Members Posted November 29, 2006 i remember getting free Willow figures out of the Weetabix when i was about 7, fucking great!
Moderators Chest Rockwell Posted November 30, 2006 Moderators Posted November 30, 2006 Didn't Empire also give rave reviews to Walk the Line?I saw that this weekend and it was the biggest load of shit.Safe to say I don't put a whole lot of stock in their opinions... in fact I've yet to find a movie critic who's opinion I can, by and large, trust to go on. If anyone's got any suggestions, that'd be cool.
alexander Posted November 30, 2006 Posted November 30, 2006 I'd love to know why the Lord of the Rings films deserved five stars.Because of the scale~, of course.
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