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In Reply to: RE: Film Society 08-09 Season posted by delboy on May 28, 2008 at 06:42:59
...I can't imagine why you picked "Road to Perdition".
I thought it was awful - one of Tom Hank's stinkers (besides the airport one).
The rest look pretty good.
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..The Kite Runner, well meant, well made, good looking, but essentially flawed, it was DOA. This was a case of where the filmmakers sank under the burden of bringing a brilliant book to the screen.
There are a ton of movies from that part of the world of world which are much more interesting.
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"You can safely assume you have created God in your own image when he hates all the same people you do."
I actually like this movie a lot better than Mendes' first, more acclaimed Oscar winner American Beauty. I feel this one's due for a reassessment.
I think R2P is a more consistent, tightly structured effort that AB, probably because the writers had the template of the graphic novel on which it's based to work from. However, I think R2P is more interesting than its source, although I suspect the pulpy origins, unabashedly embraced by the director, puts some people off.
To me. Mende's direction is even more mature and fluid here than in AB. I love the broad, sweeping, operatic tone and flow of it. Love the score too. I also think it's one of Hank's better performances in a drama - the rest of the cast is outstanding, especially Paul Newman, Daniel Craig and an indelible Jude Law as the creepy photographer/hitman Maguire.
I find R2P considerably underrated. I'd love to know what you're group makes of it and kudos for the brave soul that selected it. I'd much rather watch this than the pious Philadelphia. Never saw Terminal and probably never will.
I didn't, but we live in a democracy. I just think generally its a decent n fair representation of what is good about film. I have seen it, wasn't fussed but it's all part of the balance.
BTW it has to be better than the Terminal !!!
l.
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