Film:Downfall

Recommended. Just got back [1]

Neither condemns or glorifies - An effective depiction of a mundane,
insane and leisurely collapse.


[1] Gearchanges a bit tricky.

 

The classic moment (and apparently true) is when he finally tops
himself and everybody else in the bunker lights up---they can finally
have a smoke indoors.

 

seen "9 Songs" yet?

 

darsy grabbed the crayons and scrawled

Yup, what a waste of time.

 

God, I thought the film under discussion saw Falling Down. Must get a
new brain.

 

Seems ekil uoy thgim deen eno.

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Aaargh!

 

Are you interested in mine instead? I've seen ESotSM and thought it was
okay. It was fairly obvious what was going on from early on I think.
Enjoyable though.

Have you seen The Village? It was completely not what I was
expecting[1] and has kind of a Crying Game/Sixth Sense type moment that
I didn't see coming. The explanation of it all was really lame though.

[1] I was expecting a standard monsters in the woods type horror flick.

 

The Village was made by the same bloke as The Sixth Sense, Unbreakable
and Signs. A Sixth Sense type moment was *exactly* what you should have
been expecting!

 

Doh! I hadn't realised that. I've seen Unbreakable as well, I liked the
use of comic book stereotyping.

<adds Signs to Blockbuster rental queue>

 

You'd rate it a triple D then?

I am easily pleased when it comes to films, especially if it's a
rental. I even watch bad films right to the end just to see how they
finish.

Although the worst kind of film IMO is one that makes no sense all the
way through and then nothing gets explained at the end either. I like
closure.

 

<googles for denouement>

I guess. I can't remember ever renting a film or going to the cinema
and not seeing it through to the end...

Although my wife has higher standards than I do as I've ended up
watching the end of a few dvds on my own

 

though.

"The Village" was *so* obvious. The 2nd-world-war-style guard-towers
made it painfully obvious from the first five minutes what was going
on.

 

me neither. I just thought that, as our resident censorship expert,
AndrewR would have been interested in the most explicit film ever to
get release approval from the BBFC. I'm not really interested in the
film, just in Andy's thoughts on the current state of censorship in the
UK.

No, and despite not really liking Jim Carey, this is a film that's on
my "might like to see at some point".

Never heard of it. Which film do you mean? IMDB lists three films of
that name, from 1997, 2003 and 2005.

why?

Anyway, films I've seen recently, which were good:

The Motorcycle Diaries
Pi
Requiem for a Dream
The Last Minute
Code 46
Battle Royale 2


Films I've seen recently which sucked:

Layer Cake
The Bourne Supremacy

 

I thought this was humourless, earnest crap; not a patch on the original.

 

original.

well I agree it wasn't as good as the first one. I still enjoyed it
though.

 

I just didn't 'see' it and I'm normally quite good at that sort of
thing. My only defence is that I wasn't looking for a twist. Although I
did guess the source of the monsters correctly.

 

I managed about ten minutes before switching it off on the grounds
that it was a bag of pretentious bollocks. So you'll probably love
it

Amen, though the first hour or so is a bit of an endurance test.

I was pleasantly surprised by Layer Cake. It was far better made
than I thought it would be, and Sienna Miller looks fucking
fantastic in a business suit!

Around the same time as TMD, I watched 'Chavez: Inside the Coup'
(http://uk.imdb.com/title/tt0363510/) which was thoroughly
entertaining and more than a little revealing. Next up, when I'm
in a film-watching mood, will be Grave Of The Fireflies.

 

don't get me wrong - it wasn't as crap as I thought it would be.

 

Have you seen "Intimacy"? Not a great film, but not bad either, and
certainly the first time I've seen a cock being sucked in a non-porn
film.