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New Movies 2010

Started by Nik Drou, December 15, 2009, 11:04:28 PM

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Custard

The Gran Torino supporting-cast - Hmmm, i thought they were really good! The kids who played Thao and his sister (forget her name) played their roles very well, and made me care for the characters, and I thought the gang-members had the right mixture of menace, twattishness, and stupidity. I thought it all worked extremely well. Different strokes... though, etc ;-)

An tSaoi

Almost everyone thinks that the supporting cast in Gran Torino was shit. Clint wanted real Hmongs, which narrowed the pool of talent considerably. The boy managed to scrape by because he was meant to be shy, and the girl wasn't terrible (but her delivery was poor a lot of the time). However the worst one was the priest IMO.

SavageHedgehog

Quote from: hundred on January 16, 2010, 03:10:54 PM
There are a lot of screeners around at the moment, I'm presuming for the Oscars, and although nothing surprises me with those awards anymore, there are some shockers up for consideration, The Lovely Bones being one of them.

Even though I thought it was a pretty good year on a "popcorn" level, 2009 was a really, really bad year to expand the Best Picture nominees category.

lipsink


hundred

Just remembered I saw Up in the Air too, which is also up for loads of awards, but it's quite dull. George Clooney is good, but he, along with yer woman out of The Departed, play a right pair of cunts. I decided I didn't really like it when
Spoiler alert
Clooney is talking to his girlfriend just after he finds out that she's married. He asks her what their relationship was and she says "you're a break from my normal life, you're a parenthesis"
[close]
and just thought FUCK OFF WHO TALKS LIKE THAT? It was all very smug. Guess I should have expected that after turning off Juno half way through.

I was surprised how lightweight it was given all the praise it's received.

Ooh, I watched Daybreakers too on a whim and was really surprised how much I liked it. A nice take on the vampire film.

Shoulders?-Stomach!

I actually thought seen as so much of the film was from Walt's perspective, some of the supporting casts rather stilted performances fitted in with his and their general social awkwardness around each other.

An tSaoi

But their stiltedness probably wasn't acting.

Shoulders?-Stomach!

Like I say, I felt it contributed rather than detracted from the film. If Arnold Schwarzenegger could act, I'd probably not enjoy his films nearly as much. Plenty of screen performances have been naive and inept and through some stroke of genius with casting and direction become iconic.

An tSaoi

Well that's the "Richard Ayoade can't act but he's suits Moss" defense. I would have much preferred if Clint had hired good actors who could do all that awkwardness on purpose.

SavageHedgehog

Granted, I'm not a huge Kevin Smith fan, but this trailer is shockingly poor:
'Cop Out' Trailer Directed by Kevin Smith

Vitalstatistix

The black man made a funny!


Edit - New page fail!

copylight

Quote from: Vitalstatistix on January 17, 2010, 11:18:34 AM
Edit - New page fail!

Why in heavens is having your post on a new page a fail? People allude to this a lot, is it some kind of formal pleasantry? 

boxofslice

Quote from: copylight on January 17, 2010, 12:08:05 PM
Why in heavens is having your post on a new page a fail? People allude to this a lot, is it some kind of formal pleasantry?

I guess it assumes that the poster feels other members are too lazy to go back one page to see what context the post was made in.

Jemble Fred

You don't think it might have something to do with the isolated phrase "The black man made a funny"?

I wish people would stop complaining about 'New page' mentions, there's nearly always a good reason for them.

But my god that movie looks appalling. Why spend so much energy on making something so... old?

vrailaine

I believe the script for that film was the hottest unsigned script going around Hollywood for a few months?

lipsink

Quote from: Jemble Fred on January 17, 2010, 12:16:39 PM
But my god that movie looks appalling. Why spend so much energy on making something so... old?

Yeah, it looks like a Martin Lawrence film from the 90s.

copylight

Quote from: boxofslice on January 17, 2010, 12:11:50 PM
I guess it assumes that the poster feels other members are too lazy to go back one page to see what context the post was made in.

Not for me, for you?

Claude the Racecar Driving Rockstar Super Sleuth

It looks like one of Tracy Jordan's films from 30 Rock.

thugler

Quote from: Shameless on January 16, 2010, 02:09:42 PM
Saw Harry Brown. Didn't like that.

It's basically an hour and a half of toot designed purely to get Daily Mail readers all hot n bothered.

Saw that. A terrible terrible film. Caine doing his usual shite. Every young person being evil sadistic and drug addicted, without exception. And some truly bizarre cartoonish scenes. Particularly the one where
Spoiler alert
The drug dealer (with a ridiculous amount of drugs) smokes crack out of his gun, and is completely uncaring about his girlfriend dying on the sofa
[close]
Daily mail through and through.

Kishi the Bad Lampshade


non capisco

Quote from: thugler on January 17, 2010, 03:36:23 PM
Saw that. A terrible terrible film. Caine doing his usual shite. Every young person being evil sadistic and drug addicted, without exception. And some truly bizarre cartoonish scenes. Particularly the one where
Spoiler alert
The drug dealer (with a ridiculous amount of drugs) smokes crack out of his gun, and is completely uncaring about his girlfriend dying on the sofa
[close]
Daily mail through and through.

The sudden and OTT riot at the end just brought to mind that scene in the Only Fools And Horses episode 'Fatal Extraction'. Harry Brown truly is a massive pile of reactionary shit.

amputeeporn

That Smith film doesn't even have the grace to look like a parody. I suppose it's a shame on a human level; he's obviously had a string of commercial (and arguably artistic) failures and had to compromise and make a buddy cop film. He couldn't even give it his preferred title. From memory, the trailer does that 'obvious-from-the-first-shot' bluff about being a serious film - but doesn't mention Smith at all. Maybe he's ashamed, or maybe he's just not a big draw?

Having said that, I too have never understood what it is that people think/thought was decent about his films. Surely anyone with a funny friend has heard as-inventive-or-better dialogue? I kind of always assume he's for the one weirdo in a group of norms (who've never seen evil dead and stuff), and said weirdo (who nicks lines from under-the-radar films cus he knows his mates will never see them) watches Smith and thinks: "I wish I had friends who talked about Star Wars..."

I remember seeing Chasing Amy when I was a child and thinking: "these characters are dull and really stupid," which is saying something because at the time my favourite recording artist was Kid Rock.

What I'm saying is that Kevin Smith was more obviously shit to a teenage me than the man who wrote American Badass.

phantom_power

smith didn't write this though, his first film as director-for-hire

Custard

I love most of Kevin Smith's films, except Jay & Silent Bob Strikes Back, which could be the unfunniest, most self-indulgant film i've seen in a very long time. Hated it.

I actually enjoyed Zack & Miri, and found it quite heart-warming. Sounds like it flopped commercially, mind.

This newie sounds awful though, so I think i'll be steering clear.

SavageHedgehog

Quote from: amputeeporn on January 18, 2010, 12:05:52 AM
From memory, the trailer does that 'obvious-from-the-first-shot' bluff about being a serious film

That's one of the worst bits. A gag that begins with "From the Studio that brought you" a film that came out forty fucking years ago is not a gag worth telling.

phes

Is Empire magazine any good?  Cineworld unlimited cardholders can get a yearly subscription half price (£23).

gmoney

Not really. It's all right to read on the bog, and they occasionally have some good interviews, but I'm not sure it's worth £23.

Small Man Big Horse

Quote from: Shameless on January 18, 2010, 12:30:20 PM
I love most of Kevin Smith's films, except Jay & Silent Bob Strikes Back, which could be the unfunniest, most self-indulgant film i've seen in a very long time. Hated it.

I actually enjoyed Zack & Miri, and found it quite heart-warming. Sounds like it flopped commercially, mind.

This newie sounds awful though, so I think i'll be steering clear.

Some of his films I like, some I don't, but I've never been a massive fan who drools over every word he says, and can't quite understand why such people exist. Though perhaps they're just a very vocal minority who insist on posting on Aint It Cool a lot.

Speaking of which, Smith did a very long and drawn out interview with them lately, where he rambled on about only now learning how to properly direct a film, with lots of interjections about how discovering weed has changed his life - http://www.aintitcool.com/?q=node/43153 / http://www.aintitcool.com/node/43189 - it's an often painful read, but at the same time is quite insightful.

CaledonianGonzo

Quote from: Small Man Big Horse on January 18, 2010, 05:43:58 PMSome of his films I like, some I don't, but I've never been a massive fan who drools over every word he says, and can't quite understand why such people exist. Though perhaps they're just a very vocal minority who insist on posting on Aint It Cool a lot.

Smith's early movies made profits due to their miniscule budgets and DVD sales, but he's never really had what you'd call a box-office success.

thugler

That cop movie does look very out of place, but I can't really tell how it will be from that trailer. I prefer smith when he's funny rather than shovels in a load of poorly executed heart warming stuff. So I preferred jay and silent bob to chasing amy/zack and miri. I really can't say I like any of his films much other than clerks, his level of popularity surprises me also. I can understand why he keeps failing when he continues to try and be 'mature' rather than funny. He's also clearly an idiot, as anyone who's listened to his podcasts will attest.