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Greed (Coogan/Winterbottom)

Started by Malcy, December 05, 2018, 03:17:40 PM

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Malcy

https://www.comedy.co.uk/film/news/5127/greed_film_cast/

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Directed by Michael Winterbottom (The Trip), Greed focuses on the fictional story of a retail billionaire. Set in the glamorous and celebrity-filled world of luxury fashion, the story is centred on the build-up to a spectacular 60th birthday party at an exclusive hotel on the Greek island of Mykonos
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Always a good combination so looking forward to this.

Lost Oliver

Thanks for the thread - looks great. I have a feeling Coogan will play this part very well.

What other Winterbottom films should I give a go? Have seen 24, Trip and Cock and loved them all. Not sure why I haven't looked into his other stuff. Might just be because he has the word 'bottom' in his name.

Small Man Big Horse

I think Winterbottom's a bit hit and miss, possibly because he attempts to make too many films and if he took a little time developing them more they'd be more interesting. I did like 24 Hour Party People a lot but that's the only one I've seen that I'd rave about. The Look Of Love isn't bad though, it benefits from a strong performance from Coogan but it's a bit predictable, a 3.5 stars kind of movie, and I did like Wonderland a lot but that was almost twenty years ago and I'm less easy to please these days so don't know if I'd feel the same way now. Oh, and 9 Songs is aright, a curiosity for sure but I remember the non-sex scenes being of interest.

Ballad of Ballard Berkley


garbed_attic

Was hoping Winterbottom was directing a remake of the 1920s film/ Frank Norris novel :(

MuteBanana

Coogan and David Mitchell. Anyone who had them in the Ideal Pairings thread wonder no more!

Lost Oliver

Thanks SMB. On the strength of that I'll check out the 9 songs one. Sounds disconcertingly vague.

Enrico Palazzo

Quote from: Lost Oliver on December 16, 2018, 09:57:35 AM
Thanks for the thread - looks great. I have a feeling Coogan will play this part very well.

What other Winterbottom films should I give a go? Have seen 24, Trip and Cock and loved them all. Not sure why I haven't looked into his other stuff. Might just be because he has the word 'bottom' in his name.

Wonderland is my favourite of his. I remember liking Welcome to Sarajevo - need to watch that again. Angelina Jolie is surprisingly great in A Mighty Heart.

Shit Good Nose

Quote from: Small Man Big Horse on December 16, 2018, 12:16:15 PM
Oh, and 9 Songs is aright, a curiosity for sure but I remember the non-sex scenes being of interest.

Quote from: Lost Oliver on December 16, 2018, 08:34:57 PM
Thanks SMB. On the strength of that I'll check out the 9 songs one. Sounds disconcertingly vague.

Just for balance - it's one of the worst films I've ever seen.  If you want to see Gruey with a stiffy and getting a wank in a grubby bath it's a 10/10, but with proper porn and MUCH better films-set-to-music being so readily available, I would say it's best avoided.

But SMBH is right - Winterbottom is VERY patchy.  The IMDB ratings for all of his films are pretty spot on and in line with my thinking and opinions (aside from Cock and Bull - never got the appeal for that at all), but he's done everything from low-rent gak like 9 Songs and The Face of An Angel, to superb but really hard going character dramas like Go Now, In This World and Welcome to Sarajevo (those two being a couple of those films that make you feel guilty for just about everything), to lighter decent comedies like 24 Hour Party People and The Trip series.

Despite my Cock and Bull misgivings, I think he has a better and more consistent handle on comedy than he does drama, the latter's quality being dependent on the subject matter perhaps, so Greed could be quite good, and Coogan always plays a cunt very well indeed.

Oh, and
Quote from: Enrico Palazzo on December 17, 2018, 01:20:52 PM
Wonderland is my favourite of his

A great film indeed, with the bonus of starring Brass Eye's Gina Mckee.


Blue Jam


Lost Oliver

When the balls is this mother fucker coming out?

oy vey

Can we get the Russians on this? North Korea only steal shite.


Malcy


The Roofdog

Quote from: Small Man Big Horse on December 16, 2018, 12:16:15 PM
I think Winterbottom's a bit hit and miss, possibly because he attempts to make too many films and if he took a little time developing them more they'd be more interesting.

Christ you're not wrong, I haven't even heard of half of these post-A Cock And Bull Story. Pretty much a film a year since 1995, not even counting The Trip.