Just watched another classic that you love Nitin - The Elephant Man. First time I've seen this one.

Lovely film (much better than Repulsion), but I am Lynch-biased. The b&w and old fashioned looking film quality was really well done, as were the film sets depicting 19th century London. The part where Treeves wife started balling and, of course, the train station scene were very moving.

My only criticism was John Hurts piss poor acting in portraying someone your supposed to sympathise and feel sorry for. In particular, the voice was waaaaaay too sympathetic and forced; he sounded like a character out of sesame street. But that's a minor criticism - still a brilliant film.

What did you love about it so much? PS what are your top 2 films? 

I didnt mind him as much as you but this is really Anthony Hopkins' film IMHO (Hurt gets the showier part obviously). Him and Anne Bancroft have some great scenes.

What did I like about it...some of Lynch's weird touches despite it not being his normal type of film (eg the elephant 'rape' scene at the start), but most of all the look, the writing and the performances were on the whole on a very very high level and you can tell everyone involved was generally on the same page.

Top 2 films - The Godfather and Chinatown. 

I thought I read somewhere that the voice was a pretty good imitation of the real person. Could be wrong about that but I do remember that from somewhere. 

Yeah Anthony Hopkins is the role that makes the film really. He was good. I typically don't like him that much, he does too many of the same role these days - usually the king or some gruff leader. You can't have a fantasy or historic epic without Hopkins playing the dad!

Chinatown is on my to watch list very soon as well :)

And yeah I liked the Lynchian stuff too. I also liked the quickcuts at the end of some scenes. They don't do that in movies anymore. 

just rewatched it. man, what an awesome movie. can you guys recommend similar stuff? 

French Connection 2, not on the same level but I still think its a good film.

As for Hopkins, out of what I have seen to date, his three best performances are Elephant Man, Remains of the Day and Silence of the Lambs. Out of recent stuff, he is very good in The World's Fastest Indian (the mvoie's well worthw atching too). 

while we're interviewing you Nitin, why Godfather and not Godfather II? I know everyone always says yeah it's the only sequel that's better blah blah... but I really do find it superior in every way that the first one was good (although it obviously depends on the first one, so that's an argument for the first one). 

it's like splitting hairs. One's a 9.5, the other's a 10 in my book. One's my favorite film, the other would be somewhere in the top 10 :)

I personally prefer GF1 because I found it to have a slightly higher number of more memorable scenes (the opening wedding scene, the horse in the bed scene, the gun in the restuarant scene, the cross cutting godfather scene, the sonny at the toll booth scene, and the final scene).

GF2 is definitely themtically and structurally more complex though, but I think it also becomes marginally more detached and colder in the process. I dont think I had as strong a reaction throughout GF2 as I did at the end of GF1 when Michael closes the door on Kaye.

Have either one playing though and I'll gladly sit through it no matter when I walk in :) 

Walberg and Bale. Brilliant. Massive Oscar potential. I love the film. Spoiler:
















The fact that the point of the movie is the part where Walberg's character gives Bale a real hiding and earns his respect. Done with sheer finesse, I tell you. <end spoiler>











Bate for shap 

saw it a couple of days ago. Melissa Leo and her family were scary. 

Lord of War

Bleh. Huge disappointment. Awful script or whatever was at fault for making it boring, pretentious and stupid.

Love the soundtrack though, got that for ages. 

Yeah pretty good. Funny in parts, 80s vibe, fine characters (Inigo Montoya should have had his own spin off movie/book/whatever.) Nothing terribly ... ehhh amazing about the movie really, but overall just really well done. 

Watched Tangled (Rapunzel for us Germans) yesterday. Without the annoying singing and the overly barbieish looks and most importantly better story telling or less weird "hops" it would have been a great animation movie. But even so it had some hilarious scenes and was a feel-good film. A bit too girly for sure (surprise!). 

It was alright. There were some parts in the beginning where the actress playing sarah had her try hard pants up to her chesticles. Overall it was pretty damn funny. 

Red was pretty fun, yeah. Would have been a good plane movie.

Enjoyed The King's Speech too.

Off to see Black Swan tonight. 

Everything is a remix part 2 focuses on movies, check it out: http://vimeo.com/19447662

Be aware that it is cut in a very weird way right in the middle, it does not end early but continues!

Also I am currently rewatching American Pie 1-3 and loving them. 

 

cant be arsed with a proper review but this is the most impressed I've been with dialogue in a modern film for a very long time. 

i read somewhere the opening scene (where mark splits up with his girlfriend) took 99 takes to get right. i can believe it too 

Oh my word. Nothing about this film makes any sense on any level. I wasn't expecting it to be good, but I wasn't expecting it to be this bad. 

Also saw Black Swan. That was very much better. The last half hour is just crazy, everyone walks out of the cinema in a daze.

Kermode's instant reaction (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKROo2EALlM) was about how I felt (with less film references) 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKROo2EALlM 

I thought it made sense. 

the casting, the "3D", the plot, the dialogue, the character interactions, the fact that no-one apparently read the script and told them "this is garbage" - no really, nothing made sense.

I admit the end - where they were driving half a car around the top floor of an office block whilst being shot at with rocket launchers - was quite funny, but it didn't make sense. 

Superman didn't make sense either, but i don't hear anyone complaining about it.