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Watched Seven today and I must say it is an excellent movie on DTS. I could have sworn it was raining in my house.
As much as I love this movie it is still a fairly disturbing picture to watch. How true on some of the stuff John Doe talks about in the car during the final scenes of the movie. Maybe that is what disturbes me the most.
Anyone have the Usual Suspects on DVD? If so how is it?
As much as I love this movie it is still a fairly disturbing picture to watch. How true on some of the stuff John Doe talks about in the car during the final scenes of the movie. Maybe that is what disturbes me the most.
Anyone have the Usual Suspects on DVD? If so how is it?
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But Usual Suspects is one of those movies that if it is better than average when transferred to DVD then I should probably pick it up.:)
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The new DVD of THE USUAL SUSPECTS (a "special edition" with a new print of the film and more extras) is due out very soon, if it's not out already. That's the one you need.
SE7EN is an excellent film, disturbing and intense. My one beef with it is Brad Pitt's overacting at the end -- "What's in the box?! Aw, what's in the bo-ox?!" Fincher has consistently proven himself an able, Ridley Scott-eyed director. All of his stuff is exciting and interesting (unlike Ridley of late).
Does anyone know anything about his new film, the Jodie Foster thing called PANIC ROOM? Previews look cool but I can't figure out what it is about. Jodie even looks good.
MC
"There's nothing funny about a clown in the moonlight." - Lon Chaney
didn't enjoy black hawk down or gladiator???
GLADIATOR sucked. It just wasn't very good.
I'm not interested in BLACK HAWK DOWN (altho the book is on my reading list). Seems too jingoistic for me, flat and shallow.
Ridley has an amazing eye. He's a visual genius. His images are often astonishing. But he hasn't made a really great film -- where the image integrates with the story -- since 1982.
I'm also over Soderberg.
Who will be my new favorite director?
MC
"There's nothing funny about a clown in the moonlight." - Lon Chaney
The other great thing about Fincher is he experiments with sound...not just blockbuster type, booming scores....but he uses subtle ambient noises, gives you bit by bit in each channel, enticing you to listen, drawing you in. I love Fincher
ALIEN has influenced everything young Fincher has done; it was the major reason he signed on to direct ALIEN 3, so he could showcase all that he had learned from the master -- Ridley Scott.
Fincher is incredible, and I believe he has used his Scott-influenced eye (and ear -- Scott also does the subtle ambient sound thing) to make some tremendously beautiful and well-made films, including even little films like THE GAME (where, in the interview room, you hear the VO quote from BLADE RUNNER as Michael Douglas takes the test: "Response time is a factor, so answer as quickly as you can...")
There's no question that Scott is one of the most visually influential filmmakers of the late 20th century. ALIEN and BLADE RUNNER are everywhere, you can't make a film today without "quoting" from them. Among the more obvious Scott-ripoff artists, like Cameron, Fincher is the best hands down. His visual style is astonishing.
Scott has fallen back on easy pickings. He isn't challenging me any more, the way Fincher does. Watch ALIEN and BLADE RUNNER, or even 1492, again and you'll see how **** GLADIATOR is. IMHO, of course.
MC
"There's nothing funny about a clown in the moonlight." - Lon Chaney
While I have a feeling he will be over commercialized (after Brokovich) I just was inthralled with Traffic. Man Benicio Del Toro was just fantastic in that movie.
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Soderberg is a really good director. Altho I really hated SEX, LIES & VIDEOTAPE, I liked OUT OF SIGHT, THE LIMEY and even ERIN BROCKOVICH. His style is cool and different. He really made OUT OF SIGHT a great movie, much better than I expected when I first saw it. But... First of all, Clooney with his histrionics about the "star-studded charity" fiasco really turned me off -- so I'm over him, excepting in THREE KINGS, which is a small masterpiece even on his part. And I'm turned off by Soderberg, an otherwise original thinker, REMAKING a dog like OCEAN'S 11. (Even after remaking a dog like THE UNDERNEATH and making it sort of interesting.)
It just makes me BLAH about his so-called talent.
BLAH BLAH BLAH.
MC
"There's nothing funny about a clown in the moonlight." - Lon Chaney