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Ang Lee's The Ice Storm springs to mind.
Craps all over the similarly themed American Beauty from a very great height yet it's the one film on Lee's CV which is virtually forgotten.
Craps all over the similarly themed American Beauty from a very great height yet it's the one film on Lee's CV which is virtually forgotten.
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Dogfight. Made around 1991 with River Phoenix.
One of my favourite films is Its a Wonderful Life. Hard to believe this was a boxoffice disaster when it was first released.
Well I agree with you, excellent film
Yeah, I liked it too, but it's not as good as Pi or Requiem For A Dream, in my opinion.
It was a shit film. Madonna made it worse. Then you remember the face-altering device, that's just a piece of plastic with LEDs and fibre-optics in it to make it look high-tech, and you go, "man, this film really is a piece of shit".
I don't think it's Thunderball bad, but it's probably Brosnan's worst one.
Invisibility is a concept of science fiction. The Vanquish does not make that concept a reality. What it does is project images of its outside surroundings along its outer casing camouflaged and "invisible" to the casual eye. Look closely and you'll see it, especially when the car is moving with the camouflage on.
Don't go all Q-Branch on me.
Thunderball really is the most boring thing since There Will Be Blood. I couldn't wait for either film to end.
To say "invisible car" and put the movie down because of that (i'm not talking about you here) is just wrong in my opinion. I do agree there are some weak moments, but I think it's mostly down to the script the actors were given. It felt like what a Bond movie should be.
Btw you underrate There will be Blood very badly. Sure the dialogue is slow to begin with but it really picks up and there are some truly gripping scenes. Don't look at it as an action flick anyway.
Er....erm...:o....I was referring to the lottery draw. Honestly, it's the most boring thing ever. I prefer Daily Play. (What's the emoticon for "phew"?)
You think that a camouflaged car and all that balls are "what a Bond movie should be". Thing is, because of the movies preceding Die Another Day, people actually start believing that this is what a Bond movie should be, and forget about the classical thing over technology. I remember when Bond's watch was special because it was waterproof.
I thought There Will Be Blood was another one where Daniel Day-Lewis was figuratively tossing himself off on camera. Self-indulgent bollocks, and undeserving of the praise it got.
We can forgive the Aston Martin adaptive camouflage. It's a real car, real device I personally have trouble with the Virtual Reality pod thing that Bond used for his training That's the stuff of Star Treks Holodeck. That as far as i;m concerned was pure fantasy on a level that shouldn't be seen in Bond.
However i still stand by what i say Die Another Day was underrated.
Agree and also Beautiful Thing. A lot of pre Brokeback Mountain gay themed films don't have a wide audience.
Manhunter.
At Close Range.
Black Rain.
Man On The Moon.
Last Exit To Brooklyn.
Cop Land.
You're under-rated.
Die Another Day was kerrrrrrap!
That thing about the holo-deck in Bond. I'd forgotten about that. You're right. It was terrible. So how can you defend the film now that you've added to my ammunition stash? :cool:
Children of Men
I missed both at the cinema as people weren't shouting from the rooftops and yet when I saw them on DVD - both those films - just brilliant.
Sneakers
For Your Eyes Only
Also Godfather Part 3. It's considerably inferior to the first two, but if you take it on it's own merits it's not that bad (apart from the awful performance of Sofia Coppola)
Its got to be the Fountain. It got panned by critics yet its beautiful, thought provoking and touching. The film stayed with me ever since I watched it.
Magical movie.
I agree.
I think we've established already that the Aston Martin thing was not part of your ammunition stash
The Holodeck thing did make for a funny gag at the end. How appropriate do you think that the last Bond Girl for Brosnan actually turned out to be MoneyPenny, even if it wasn't real. lol
Oh yes it was fantastic, I cried so much. Kiss of the Spider Woman was a great film, also now never seen on tv.
(I was a **** hag, does it show :rolleyes: )
Come on Film 4, get the finger out and show some of these films and not at bl00dy 11.55pm.