He did such a good job I didn't even recognize he was in the movie until just reading that comment.

 

I guess it makes sense a totally unknown actor couldn't easily be the antogonist to DiCaprio.

He did such a good job I didn't even recognize he was in the movie until just reading that comment.

 

I guess it makes sense a totally unknown actor couldn't easily be the antogonist to DiCaprio.

 

yeah, i am really becoming a fan of his, Hardy, since his appearance in the bbc virgin queen, he has grown so much as an actor. i am not a fan of DiCaprio, but as an actor, he too has reach his prime.... acting wise, this was a good movie.

 

on a side note, can you imagine lying on a rotted logged full of maggots so they can eat all the dead skin and infection from someone wounds..... talking about being tough....

Looks like we're deep into screener season. Guess I'll watch The Hateful Eight this week.

 

Star Wars isn't releasing a screener for this very reason. Despite the fact that the best, highest-grossing movies never get any awards, this will further hurt their chances.

Looks like we're deep into screener season. Guess I'll watch The Hateful Eight this week.

 

Star Wars isn't releasing a screener for this very reason. Despite the fact that the best, highest-grossing movies never get any awards, this will further hurt their chances.

 

yup, i am going to see hateful 8 this afternoon.

 

btw, that is a great picture of the star wars on your msg.

Edited December 21, 201510 yr by LDF

yup, i am going to see hateful 8 this afternoon.

 

btw, that is a great picture of the star wars on your msg.

Yeah, someone prettied up that scene from the movie. I just stole the wallpaper and made it sig sized. It's perty.

Is the big short good? Seems like an awkward book to make a movie. (Moneyball was too, hence the awful father/daughter storyline).

All the reviews of The Big Short have been quite laudatory, even the interspersed comedy stretches explaining the plethora of technical and financial terms.

 

As someone who has read each of Lewis' books, really looking forward to it.

Edited December 22, 201510 yr by caulfield12

Straight Outta Compton is f***ing awesome.

Concussion isn't a great film but worth checking out and definitely made me seriously consider if I would ever allow my son to play football when he gets older...

Concussion isn't a great film but worth checking out and definitely made me seriously consider if I would ever allow my son to play football when he gets older...

 

you beat me to this, i too saw concussion. however i really, really like the movie. it is well worth seeing and that is all i am going to say, b/c of the spoilers.

you beat me to this, i too saw concussion. however i really, really like the movie. it is well worth seeing and that is all i am going to say, b/c of the spoilers.

 

 

Spoilers? It's not a new story lol

Spoilers? It's not a new story lol

 

Wait do they get CTE at the end!?!?

 

No, don't tell me

Spoilers? It's not a new story lol

 

real comedy at work here. but i deserve that. i just didn't want to say much.

 

but for the movie, will smith did a excellent movie, the story of mike webster is heart breaking and he was a great football player.

 

i started to look to see if the medicinal hash oil is being used and the success, and it has. there was a 60+ longhorn ex football player and his story....

Btw, I thought Morse as Mike Webster was excellent in a cameo role and virtually unrecognizable.

 

The guy who played Duerson seemed to be way off in terms of appearance or personality...or maybe my perception of him growing up with the Bears as THE team in the Midwest in the 1980's was just quite different than how he was later in life.

 

And nice to see an appearance by Daenarys' favorite confidante/advisor...she played Will Smith's wife and did an admirable job. Albert Brooks was also very good and more understated than usual.

 

Alec Baldwin was good, too. The last time I remember him playing a doctor was MALICE ("I am God").

IN all seriousness, instead of the movie, go to PBS.org and watch their special on NFL concussions.

 

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/league-of-denial/

IN all seriousness, instead of the movie, go to PBS.org and watch their special on NFL concussions.

 

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/league-of-denial/

 

I'm assuming you haven't seen Concussion yet.

 

It's tracking around the 50's on metacritic.

 

 

I'll agree that NPR or PBS type productions should have more impact than they often do.

 

On the other hand, there's no reason why someone can't enjoy the documentary INSIDE JOB about the global financial/mortgage crisis and get something equally worthwhile out of THE BIG SHORT.

 

 

I will agree with two of the harsher critics who believe the main character's POV wasn't the best possible way to present the story...that the attempts to dramatize the peaks and valleys of the doctor's career took away from the subject matter as Hollywood tried to shoehorn an equally compelling human interest side into the story.

1. VarietyAndrew Barker

   Effective enough as a cautionary tale about willful ignorance and as a showcase for Will Smith...the film is let down by its confused and cliche-riddled screenplay, which struggles mightily to take a complex story and finesse it to fit story beats it was never meant to hit.

2. Consequence of SoundJustin Gerber

   Concussion tries to “tell the truth!” but its filmmaker feels compelled to surround the truth with tales of a man whose life is just not that interesting.

Anyone see Heart of the Sea yet? I want to see it.

The reviews for that one are pretty fair to middling...

 

I saw low 40's at either RT or metacritic.

 

Ron Howard's had bad run of luck recently with box office profits, Rush was a really good movie but something must have gone wrong with the marketing or timing of that film two years ago.

Anyone see Heart of the Sea yet? I want to see it.

 

i did, it was the true events of the story of moby dick. the actual story ...... it is a very powerful movie, at least for me. the whole thing that i remember is how they survived on the ocean.

I'm assuming you haven't seen Concussion yet.

 

It's tracking around the 50's on metacritic.

 

 

I'll agree that NPR or PBS type productions should have more impact than they often do.

 

On the other hand, there's no reason why someone can't enjoy the documentary INSIDE JOB about the global financial/mortgage crisis and get something equally worthwhile out of THE BIG SHORT.

 

 

I will agree with two of the harsher critics who believe the main character's POV wasn't the best possible way to present the story...that the attempts to dramatize the peaks and valleys of the doctor's career took away from the subject matter as Hollywood tried to shoehorn an equally compelling human interest side into the story.

1. VarietyAndrew Barker

   Effective enough as a cautionary tale about willful ignorance and as a showcase for Will Smith...the film is let down by its confused and cliche-riddled screenplay, which struggles mightily to take a complex story and finesse it to fit story beats it was never meant to hit.

2. Consequence of SoundJustin Gerber

   Concussion tries to “tell the truth!” but its filmmaker feels compelled to surround the truth with tales of a man whose life is just not that interesting.

 

Most of the time the entertainment serves as a detraction from the actual information in the story.

Everyone STFU and watch Straight Outta Compton already.

Everyone STFU and watch Straight Outta Compton already.

 

*several months ago*

 

But yeah, Straight Outta Compton was fantastic.

Don't be mad at Steve. He's slow.

 

Everyone stop what you're doing and go see The Shawshank Redemption!

Edited December 23, 201510 yr by Brian

Don't be mad at Steve. He's slow.

 

Everyone stop what you're doing and go see The Shawshank Redemption!

I've heard that The Jazz Singer is the bee's knees, fella!

 

Hop in your jalopy and skedaddle down to the cinema post-haste!

I've heard that The Jazz Singer is the bee's knees, fella!

 

Hop in your jalopy and skedaddle down to the cinema post-haste!

 

i hate to say this, but that is funny.