Films I watched this week
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Pesty said:
Internal affairs
Brilliant thriller. Real tension which is rare in films for me. Really don't know who is going to win. The two main characters are great. Ending feels a bit rushed though. 7/10
Are you talking about the 1990 Richard Gere/Andy Garcia film? Or the 2002 Hong Kong film which inspired The Departed, which was called Infernal Affairs? Brilliant thriller. Real tension which is rare in films for me. Really don't know who is going to win. The two main characters are great. Ending feels a bit rushed though. 7/10
If it's the latter I totally agree with your review; one of my all time favourite films.
parabolica said:
Pesty said:
Internal affairs
Brilliant thriller. Real tension which is rare in films for me. Really don't know who is going to win. The two main characters are great. Ending feels a bit rushed though. 7/10
Are you talking about the 1990 Richard Gere/Andy Garcia film? Or the 2002 Hong Kong film which inspired The Departed, which was called Infernal Affairs? Brilliant thriller. Real tension which is rare in films for me. Really don't know who is going to win. The two main characters are great. Ending feels a bit rushed though. 7/10
If it's the latter I totally agree with your review; one of my all time favourite films.
The Hong Kong film has been on my list since forever. I'm sure I read about it years ago. Didn't it inspire Tarantino and a few others too as well as the departed.
k recommended San Andreas Dick Dastardly said:
Pesty said:
The Hong Kong film has been on my list since forever. I'm sure I read about it years ago. Didn't it inspire Tarantino and a few others too as well as the departed.
One of my favourite films and much better than the Scorsese remake imo.I'd always compared it to Infernal Affairs and thought it was a great film, but not as good as Infernal Affairs. On the second watching, and probably 7 or 8 years since I watched Infernal Affairs, I saw The Departed fresh, and really enjoyed it and enjoyed it as a separate film.
The said, for those who have not watched it, Infernal Affairs has a slightly different, much more ambiguous ending, and there is a second and third film which expands the ideas greatly. Neither sequel is quite as good as the first, but both are really worthy and by the end you very much get the feeling that you've watched something rather epic with a fitting ending.
The Martian: I felt it was a pretty good adaptation of the book. The major difference is that Matt Damons vesion of Mark Watney had a far easier time than his literary counterpart. As a film though I thought it really worked. Damon was great as was the supporting cast with the exception of Chiwetel Ejiofor who put in a good performance but was miscast as Venkat Kapoor (who is an indian in the book) The film is around 2 1/2 hours long but absolutely flew by, which I usually take as a good sign. I would strongly recommend it (But then again I though San Andreas was actually OK when I saw it)
9/10
9/10
Chimune said:
Vanishing Point.
Only at the end did I realise:
1. ive seen it before.
2. its not Blow Up. I was waiting for the televisions to explode at the end.....
Anyway, slow and stylish very much in the mould of Easy Rider.
.? Blow up ends with mime tennis. One if my favourite endings of any movie.Only at the end did I realise:
1. ive seen it before.
2. its not Blow Up. I was waiting for the televisions to explode at the end.....
Anyway, slow and stylish very much in the mould of Easy Rider.
Vanishing point is a great film
Pesty said:
Chimune said:
Vanishing Point.
Only at the end did I realise:
1. ive seen it before.
2. its not Blow Up. I was waiting for the televisions to explode at the end.....
Anyway, slow and stylish very much in the mould of Easy Rider.
.? Blow up ends with mime tennis. One if my favourite endings of any movie.Only at the end did I realise:
1. ive seen it before.
2. its not Blow Up. I was waiting for the televisions to explode at the end.....
Anyway, slow and stylish very much in the mould of Easy Rider.
Vanishing point is a great film
Need a few more clues for that one zabrinski point maybe?
Edit yes zabriskie point
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=x4DhYAT-Feg
Edit yes zabriskie point
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=x4DhYAT-Feg
Edited by Pesty on Tuesday 6th October 00:04
Inherent Vice - decent cast (Brolin, Phoenix, Witherspoon, et al), quite pleasant on the eye but the story plods along, and after about an hour I'm not really fully sure what's going on. Watched it to the end anyway but I was none the wiser. I had to read a review on-line to make more sense of it. 4/10
Chimune said:
Pesty said:
Chimune said:
Vanishing Point.
Only at the end did I realise:
1. ive seen it before.
2. its not Blow Up. I was waiting for the televisions to explode at the end.....
Anyway, slow and stylish very much in the mould of Easy Rider.
.? Blow up ends with mime tennis. One if my favourite endings of any movie.Only at the end did I realise:
1. ive seen it before.
2. its not Blow Up. I was waiting for the televisions to explode at the end.....
Anyway, slow and stylish very much in the mould of Easy Rider.
Vanishing point is a great film
qube_TA said:
Chimune said:
Pesty said:
Chimune said:
Vanishing Point.
Only at the end did I realise:
1. ive seen it before.
2. its not Blow Up. I was waiting for the televisions to explode at the end.....
Anyway, slow and stylish very much in the mould of Easy Rider.
.? Blow up ends with mime tennis. One if my favourite endings of any movie.Only at the end did I realise:
1. ive seen it before.
2. its not Blow Up. I was waiting for the televisions to explode at the end.....
Anyway, slow and stylish very much in the mould of Easy Rider.
Vanishing point is a great film
Is it any good ?
The Treatment
2014 Belgian film, in Dutch.
Story follows a police investigator involved in a crime where a family have their house broken into, they are bound for days by an intruder who when startled runs off with their young son into the woods.
The backstory is that the police investigator himself is constantly haunted by how a paedophile abducted his younger brother as they were out playing when they were children, and his brother was never found. As he still lives in the same house, and is taunted by the mad, old, prime suspect he feels the crimes are linked.
This is a dark, dark film, and a very decent thriller along the lines of Se7en or Prisoners. Ultimately it's not as good as either, but that's a very high bar, but it is a good thriller.
Well worth a watch, but just to reiterate, the subject matter and how the story plays out makes this a very 'dark' film, and I watch a lot of strange foreign films all the time. 7.515/10
2014 Belgian film, in Dutch.
Story follows a police investigator involved in a crime where a family have their house broken into, they are bound for days by an intruder who when startled runs off with their young son into the woods.
The backstory is that the police investigator himself is constantly haunted by how a paedophile abducted his younger brother as they were out playing when they were children, and his brother was never found. As he still lives in the same house, and is taunted by the mad, old, prime suspect he feels the crimes are linked.
This is a dark, dark film, and a very decent thriller along the lines of Se7en or Prisoners. Ultimately it's not as good as either, but that's a very high bar, but it is a good thriller.
Well worth a watch, but just to reiterate, the subject matter and how the story plays out makes this a very 'dark' film, and I watch a lot of strange foreign films all the time. 7.515/10
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