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In Reply to: RE: "Body of Lies:" I don't like being lectured to at the films, posted by tinear on October 17, 2008 at 10:18:55
"7" is a movie I would see on purpose.
I agree about the pacing, in that events evolved too quickly, but I enjoyed the 'mood' Scott, et al created to keep me uneasy.
I thought Leonardo did a fine job, and Crowe was okay, I guess.
I really enjoyed Andy Garcia as the Jordanian intelligence chief.
;)
I haven't seen Syriana, Constant Gardner, or Babel. Good, or don't bother?
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> I haven't seen Syriana, Constant Gardner, or Babel. Good, or don't bother?>
All are worth seeing A or B+ level films, IMO.
Syriana may be the most interesting and challenging of the three.
Constant Gardner is very well done, thought provoking and I particularly like Rache Weiscz.
Babel is a little more of a mixed bag, I think, and some people love it and others were put off by it.
... Mark Strong, I believe.I haven't seen it yet but I've read/heard that he "steals" the movie based on strength of performance.
Leonardo's brow is still getting a workout? I swear that's all I can see in his "manly" roles. It's apparently the sole vehicle he's using to impress us with his transition from youthful heartthrob to capable leading man. I'm still unconvinced.
Listening to some aural snippets of his performance makes me think he's still no more than a two-trick pony. Good looks being one of those. I put him in the same box with Keanu Reeves. Calling them inscrutable is being kind.
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drug lord in, "Scarface." ('83 Scorcese version)
..excessive but I love it.Paul Shenar is the name. His was the coolest portrayal in the film, amongst all the heat elsewhere. I remember the relative admiration one could have - I had - for his "noble" badman character.
Given your thoughts about The Godfather, for example, I wonder how you feel about this film, which really contributed to an understanding of the drug culture/problem for the American popular perspective, in spite of its polished ugliness. And it did show the comeuppence crooks should rightfully receive.
What are the "proper" elements for a worthy crime/war/sex film? Aside from qualitative technical and artistic considerations what makes one acceptable, so to speak, and another not? How can a glamorous film be made about violent ugliness?
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it rings true, perhaps because the lives of men such as Tony Montana are strange!
I think the depiction of the kind of monster a man such as he must become was far more accurate: as I've mentioned before, having Al portray Michael as some sort of regular business-Joe that just HAD to take over Dad's murderous business isn't realistic and IS amoral.
Don't get me wrong, I find the Godfather films (the first two only, of course) immensely entertaining. But the nihilism is ugly, very ugly.
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