Movie What's the last movie you saw? (6)

[Chief]

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Movie - What's the last movie you saw? (7)

Continued from Part 6: https://www.bigfooty.com/forum/threads/whats-the-last-movie-you-saw-6.1287849/ I've retained Asgardian as the OP. Rest in peace, mate. ================ Starting this up for the mods. Watched Judgment in Berlin, a simple tale of a hijacking from Poland to West Berlin...

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[Jarman3]

This Is The End (2013 Netflix) -
A bro comedy where Seth Rogan, James Franco and a host of other celebs face the apocalypse. It missed more than it hit and I've enjoyed most films of this ilk more than this one but it was still enjoyable. 6/10.

Requiem For A Dream (2000, Netflix) -
A previous poster watching this reminded me to stop putting this off (knew it was meant to be a downer). This was a heartbreaking masterpiece. The direction stands out the most in that it reminded me of a Breaking Bad sequence but extrapolated for a whole film. There isn't much character development due to the nature of addiction but their humanity shines so you feel completely invested in them. Never seen anything like it but won't rewatch as it's too devastating. 10/10.

I haven't seen a whole years worth of Best Picture nominations so am next watching the sole unwatched film in the 6 years where I've seen every other nomination.
So that's Quiz Show (1994), Lost In Translation (2003), Michael Clayton (2007), The Wolf of Wall Street (2013), The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) and Room (2015).

There are some bloody good movies on that list. Especially Lost in Translation, Wolf of Wall Street and Grand Budapest. Quiz Show I was a bit "meh" on. Saw it the cinema way back then, haven't seen it since, so maybe my opinion of it would be better if I watched it again now with a few (!) more years under my belt. Haven't seen Room.

 

[phantom13]

The proof of the pudding etc. Daniel Day-Lewis has three best actor Oscars from six nominations. I like Bernthal but whatever role he is playing it always feels like I watching Jon Bernthal.

Re that quote, Stanislavski never advocated the immersive approach. That was Strasberg - that most of the recent method actors follow. If Robert De Niro wants to drive 12 hour shifts as a cabbie to prepare for a role then it's hard to argue if he delivers the performance. Surely Day-Lewis in My Left Foot and There Will be Blood, and De Niro in Raging Bull, Taxi Driver, Cape Fear are some of the best acting performances of all time.

There can be a cost for the director and the other actors to accommodate that style. But it's usually known before the actor is hired. And there have been plenty of actors who have been hired whose bad habits are allowed for and actually detract from their performance.

I dont really mean it as a criticism, just thought it was a funny quote.

I think theres a difference between prepping for a role (the 12 hour cab shifts, De Niro doing some amatuer boxing bouts before Raging Bull, Tom Cruise being a fedex guy for a month pre Collateral) and the method that guys like DDL and Jared Leto advocate for. At a point it becomes pretty self indulgent and ridiculous regardless of how good the performance is (and yeh, those performances and many others are brilliant).

Was another story about Laurence Olivier watching Dustin Hoffman run a flat out mile so he would look exhausted before a scene. Olivier asked what he was doing and when Hoffman said getting into the scene by being exhausted he said "My dear boy why dont you just try acting".

 

[Forward Press]

Actually this is accurate. I appreciate what he puts on screen but the process is absolutely absurd.

I heard that for Lincoln he actually lived in the White House for six months, freed some slaves in Africa then shot himself in a theatre.

 

[Kong]

I loved In Bruges. Sent me running to watch Seven Psychopaths and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri. Martin McDonagh does seem to space his movies out... tends to be 4-5 years in between each one. I'm not sure if there's something else he does other than making movies? Maybe he just tours the world competing in Sting lookalike contests

His brother, John Michael, is also pretty good.

“Calvary” is a great tense drama, and “The Guard” and “The War on Everyone” are funny buddy cop films.

They both love casting Brendan Gleeson, too.

 

[Kong]

I think all of us need to take a breather here imo, it's fine to not like a movie that you're a fan of.

I love Eternal Sunshine but can understand people finding Kate Winslet insufferable, Jim Carrey boring, and the plot too weird.

Another hot take: I think Johnny Depp and Daniel Day Lewis aren't that great as actors.

Agree with every word.

 

[GreyCrow]

I dont really mean it as a criticism, just thought it was a funny quote.

I think theres a difference between prepping for a role (the 12 hour cab shifts, De Niro doing some amatuer boxing bouts before Raging Bull, Tom Cruise being a fedex guy for a month pre Collateral) and the method that guys like DDL and Jared Leto advocate for. At a point it becomes pretty self indulgent and ridiculous regardless of how good the performance is (and yeh, those performances and many others are brilliant).

Was another story about Laurence Olivier watching Dustin Hoffman run a flat out mile so he would look exhausted before a scene. Olivier asked what he was doing and when Hoffman said getting into the scene by being exhausted he said "My dear boy why dont you just try acting".

Recall Hoffman at the Oscars presenting as Raymond because he was in the middle of filming Rain Man

 

[vast]

Seems most of the greatest actors are batshit crazy. Speaking of, Brando on the island of Dr Moreau has to be right up there in terms of weird not to forgot his shenanigans on the set of Apocolypse Now.

Although the funniest might be the original director of Island that was fired mid shoot went MIA in the outback or something for a few weeks then snuck back onto the set as extra in costume as one of the dog men.

 

[phantom13]

Seems most of the greatest actors are batshit crazy. Speaking of, Brando on the island of Dr Moreau has to be right up there in terms of weird not to forgot his shenanigans on the set of Apocolypse Now.

Although the funniest might be the original director of Island that was fired mid shoot went MIA in the outback or something for a few weeks then snuck back onto the set as extra in costume as one of the dog men.

Ahhhh the Island of Doctor Moreau.

Method and notorious arseh*le Kilmer, Brando gone full batshit and basically phoning in for a paycheck and a studio that ended up giving up.

What a weird time.

 

[vast]

Ahhhh the Island of Doctor Moreau.

Method and notorious arseh*le Kilmer, Brando gone full batshit and basically phoning in for a paycheck and a studio that ended up giving up.

What a weird time.

Yeah I did enjoy Kilmer's doco though even if he is only telling his side of the story. Ghost and the Darkness is a good film that is largely forgotten.

Another crazy actor doco I saw was You cant kill David Arquette. Never would have thought that I would ever care about that guy but my mate recommended it and I thought it was pretty good. I didnt know anything about it or that wrestling stunt where he was given a wrestling title back in the 90s but it was suprisingly enjoyable and hit the feels a little.

 

[edgie]

The proof of the pudding etc. Daniel Day-Lewis has three best actor Oscars from six nominations. I like Bernthal but whatever role he is playing it always feels like I watching Jon Bernthal.

Re that quote, Stanislavski never advocated the immersive approach. That was Strasberg - that most of the recent method actors follow. If Robert De Niro wants to drive 12 hour shifts as a cabbie to prepare for a role then it's hard to argue if he delivers the performance. Surely Day-Lewis in My Left Foot and There Will be Blood, and De Niro in Raging Bull, Taxi Driver, Cape Fear are some of the best acting performances of all time.

There can be a cost for the director and the other actors to accommodate that style. But it's usually known before the actor is hired. And there have been plenty of actors who have been hired whose bad habits are allowed for and actually detract from their performance.

Bernthal has a look and a voice... Not that can't try to work around it, but some find it harder than others. DDL is like Ted Bundy, an incredibly normal looking person that is a great base to become like a chameleon.

Even really good actors like DeNiro, DiCaprio, Cruise, Brad Cooper, etc, become trapped by their physical self. Even Christian Bale, and he tries really ****ing hard to not be.

DDL doesn't seem to have that.

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[edgie]

Regarding method acting though, it seems DDL wouldn't be able to act, without it. He couldn't just chill out on set, then turn it on for the camera. That to me, does not make him a great actor, despite his ridiculous resume. I'd like to see him try to do it 'normally'.

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[edgie]

Yeah I did enjoy Kilmer's doco though even if he is only telling his side of the story. Ghost and the Darkness is a good film that is largely forgotten.

Another crazy actor doco I saw was You cant kill David Arquette. Never would have thought that I would ever care about that guy but my mate recommended it and I thought it was pretty good. I didnt know anything about it or that wrestling stunt where he was given a wrestling title back in the 90s but it was suprisingly enjoyable and hit the feels a little.

Love Ghost and the Darkness, I rate it as a similar film to Jaws.

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[vast]

I thought Bernthal did a good job in King Richard of breaking away from his stereotypical roles.

 

[Jarman3]

Bernthal has a look and a voice... Not that can't try to work around it, but some find it harder than others. DDL is like Ted Bundy, an incredibly normal looking person that is a great base to become like a chameleon.

Even really good actors like DeNiro, DiCaprio, Cruise, Brad Cooper, etc, become trapped by their physical self. Even Christian Bale, and he tries really ******* hard to not be.

DDL doesn't seem to have that.

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That may be, although I'm also not sure if DDL has taken on any roles that really required the extreme physical transformations that some of those other guys you mention have put themselves through. Eg look at De Niro through the likes of Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, The Untouchables, Cape Fear, etc. And Bale, as you mention, is probably the most extreme example there.... look at him going from The Machinist to Batman to American Hustle to Vice.

About the closest I can recall DDL getting to any of that was probably Last of the Mohicans, where he at least bulked up a bit, but it's hardly Bale-level physical transformation. DDL is physically unobtrusive (other than being reasonably tall) and tends to disappear into his roles more through a mixture of hair, makeup, costume and accents / mannerisms. He is great at that, and he has selected roles where that is sufficient, but I can't imagine him even attempting to become Batman or Dick Cheney the way that Bale did, simply because it wouldn't be possible to do it without that level of physicality that Bale is willing and able to bring to the roles. Trying to do Cheney with just a fat suit with some prosthetics and makeup would not bring the same result, I reckon.

 

[edgie]

That's it... DDL, I can't picture in my head what he looks like on a random day at home. He has no look. You can't see him behind his roles.

No matter how much hair or fat or muscle those guys put on I can see them behind their role... Maybe Gary Oldman is on I can think of similar to DDL.

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[Frank Bunn]

I dont really mean it as a criticism, just thought it was a funny quote.

I think theres a difference between prepping for a role (the 12 hour cab shifts, De Niro doing some amatuer boxing bouts before Raging Bull, Tom Cruise being a fedex guy for a month pre Collateral) and the method that guys like DDL and Jared Leto advocate for. At a point it becomes pretty self indulgent and ridiculous regardless of how good the performance is (and yeh, those performances and many others are brilliant).

Was another story about Laurence Olivier watching Dustin Hoffman run a flat out mile so he would look exhausted before a scene. Olivier asked what he was doing and when Hoffman said getting into the scene by being exhausted he said "My dear boy why dont you just try acting".

I was trying to think of the Olivier quote. It's funny but in reality actors are quite a mixed bunch so they should do whatever works for them.

Day-Lewis once said "we go to these great lengths to create a world for ourselves. And within that world we're trying create an understanding of the lives we are expressing in that world. What would seem crazier to me would be to jump in and out of that world".

I don't think his technique makes him a lesser actor than those who are able switch it on and off, or choose not to go to those lengths. We should judge him on the results and he's clearly delivered some amazing performances.

 

[TheGreatBarryB]

We should judge him on the results and he's clearly delivered some amazing performances.

Bingo. Who cares how he prepares, just judge him on the performances ..and they have been brilliant. Footballers have different ways of prepping…some famous ones used to throw up before every game ..again who cares

 

[Gralin]

Swordfish is on 9 Go now That opening explosion is still great

 

[phantom13]

If there is an issue with DDL (and it’s a big if and I’ve never really read any criticism of it) it woukd be that his method woukd be pretty taxing and painful for his co stars. You read about Leto on suicide squad and frankly in other workplace hed have been sacked.

DDL hasn’t had any complaints but imagine being on the set of my left foot and watching him get carted around in a wheelchair and shit. Would be pretty distracting to your performance

 

[edgie]

I mean... Being an amateur actor it isn't easy to 'switch on' as soon as the director says action, I support a certain degree of roleplay so to speak, but serious hardcore constant method people are BS.

I've been on things where guys have stayed in their accent, clock on to clock off etc, it makes sense but was strange talking with them, didn't know if it was purely a voice thing or if they were still in character.

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[spinynorman]

Men: New Alex Garland film about a young woman, grieving her partner’s recent death, goes to an estate in a small country town, only to see a threat from various men in the town (all played by the same actor). I really enjoyed the first half, breeding this growing feeling of dread and leaving you feeling unsettled. I thought the second half made a bit of a mess of it all, both thematically and narratively. Still, I’d generally prefer an unsuccessful ambitious film than a generic one.

 

[AFDogs]

Top Gun Maverick

Having not seen the first movie I was unsure as to what I was getting into. ****ing amazing. Movie had me engaged from start to finish. This movie has no weaknesses. It is the perfect movie to go and watch in the cinemas. Well done to all involved.

9.5/10

 

[TheGreatBarryB]

Uncut Gems - finally got around to watching and worth the wait. Staggered that Sandler did not even get nominated..great performance. Good script and shock ending - 8/10

 

[Xtreme]

Beavis & Butthead do the universe

A product of its time, still chuckle

3/5

 

[crafty_bernardo]

Doctor Strange In the MultiVerse of Madness

Glad I waited instead of watching it in the cinema. Would have fell asleep


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