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Good to hear. I've been thinking about renting this eventually.
It's really a soap opera dressed up in period costumes. Still, it's fun.Good to hear. I've been thinking about renting this eventually.
Excellent review. I agree with most of that. Sidebar: movies are always better when the female actors can equal the male actors. A better actress would have improved that role. Someone like a young Cate Blanchett. Perhaps Mélanie Laurent (Inglorious Basterds) or Charlize Theron?
I just saw this over the weekend.The acting performances were great, as can be expected.
We watched this last night and I pretty much agree. It was great to look at but there should have been more put into the characters.And it had a Final Fantasy: Spirits Within feel to it with the weird storyline.
I mostly agree, though I am still glad I saw the movie.Encyclopedia Brown said:
Me and the fiancee watched this the other night too. She said "Am I just getting old, but where are these kids parents? They just run around New York all night?" We did laugh at two parts, though:mytagid = Math.floor( Math.random() * 100 );document.write("
Dammit. I was looking forward to that movie. Not sure if I've read a single positive review, though.
Much like American Gangster, its watchable, but should have been a lot better than it was.
It's not terrible and probably still better than a lot of options out there. I think a lot of people had high hopes for this one and it didn't live up to them. To me it just felt like Mann repeated the first 45mins three more times and called it good.
I figured. I'll definitely catch it on DVD some day.
Hmmmm. You'd think that the guy that directed Heat could have made a better heist movie.
Seemed like his goal here was to play around with digital video rather than making a great heist movie. Kind of like Rodriguez when he made Once Upon a Time in Mexico.
I'm glad you liked it. I need to see it again. If you like the genre and haven't see it, The Last Seduction is cool.
Added. Pretty sure I saw it a long time ago, but I don't remember a thing about it. Thanks!
That's disappointing. The Insider is Mann's last great movie, and that was 10 years ago. Ali and Collateral were ok. Miami Vice was awful. I love Manhunter, Heat, and The Insider. But Mann is really slipping as a director.
Agree with all of this, I need to watch Insider again. I think we've been over this before but Manhunter is criminally under appreciated in its genre.
That...is a first.you liked it? Oh my.
Seriously, that's the first time I've ever seen anyone say that it was anything better than awful."Comically bad" might have been the best review I'd seen until Todem's.That...is a first.
The Insider is so good. If you compare Crowe in Gladiator and Crowe in The Insider, I think it's reasonable to argue that he's a great actor. Those roles are so very different. Manhunter is awesome. Yes, it has that cheesy 80s disco that will only worsen as the years pass. But the movie is still excellent.
Based on a book by the great Jim Thompson, arguably the best noir writer everAlso wrote The Grifters and The Getaway, but his best is a book called The Killer Insider Me
"made it to the end"Seriously, that's the first time I've ever seen anyone say that it was anything better than awful."Comically bad" might have been the best review I'd seen until Todem's.That...is a first.
He's also the baby daddy of a girl I went to high school with. She's a former actress.
Ahhhhhhhh. Was she an underrated character actor, as well?
Love the Insider, Love Manhunter...I remember seeing that in the theatre. Of course nothing needs to be said about Gladiator...maybe one of the 5 best movies I have ever seen.
Shelly Johnson is bucky naked, you say?:addstoqueue:jdoggydogg said:
