[QUOTE=“artfoley, post: 903790, member: 179”]Just back from dallas buyers club. A very decent film and letos performance is fantastic, easily his best since requiem for a dream. Mcconaughey is good but nowhere near as good as people have been making out; he should have watched the machinist beforehand to see how to do the ultra skinny thing.
That said, its a very good story and well directed
Still not sure what to make of jennifer garner, off to the roughish birds thread.
6/10[/QUOTE]
Harsh on Mcconaughey, excellent performance. Great movie. Leto is excellent.
Watched The Lone Survivor last night-still not sure if it should be in this thread but some of the stunts in the action scenes were unbelievable. Way too much honey poured on as usual but I think you nearly have to take that as a given in every American mainstream movie now, particularly about war and freedom.
The best irish film ive seen in a long time,a brilliant watch, pat shortts best work by a mile,that could have been set in any town/village in ireland also the scene with the horse at the end is terribly sad even the horse abandons him and thats what pushes josie over the edge
Watched il divo last night, been meaning to for ages. It was a decent job of humanising andreotti (nearly as good as langella did with nixon in frost/nixon)
But fucking hell is italy ever fucked, these lads would put haughey in the hapenny place
Some hipster types like @Mark Renton[/USER] or [USER=260]@Watch The Break would have you believe the greatest American movie of all time is The Godfather or some shit like that. Their wrong.
Greatest they ever made is on Channel 4 right now. Travolta, Bee Gee’s, Working class drug taking isolationist existentialist funny fucking real life escapist cinema at it’s best. Tarantino knew it too, what Pacino might have inspired if he wasn’t a murdering scum(in the movies).
Token quote’You lied to me man, I feel like breaking your broken legs’.
