Finally got around to watching Unbroken. I was a big fan of the book, and looked forward to the film but was underwhelmed by the reviews and decided to catch it at home.
It captured the essence of the book, but like most biographies, it would have worked better as a miniseries.
Some great air battle scenes, and the crash scene as well. Showed plenty of the POW torture stuff too.
But Angelina Jolie decided to have a key part of Zamperini's story shown as a text epilogue. He actually suffered from PTSD and was a drunk for several years after the war before meeting Billy Graham (yes, that Billy Graham) at a tent revival out in Los Angeles. He then traveled back to Japan to forgive his captors, except his main tormentor, who refused to meet him. That would've been a great visual scene (the forgiveness part). Instead, we get a paragraph of text about it.
And the Coen Brothers worked on the script, which I wasn't aware of.
Not a bad film, just kind of a let down.
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Posted: Thu Mar 26, 2015 10:17 am
by eddy
looking forward to getting my tifosi77 alien commentary fix again. sobriety wasn't very fun.
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Posted: Thu Mar 26, 2015 10:24 am
by NAN
Is the new live action Cinderalla good to take a 5 year old?
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Posted: Thu Mar 26, 2015 12:41 pm
by Dickie Dunn
Is the new live action Cinderalla good to take a 5 year old?
I don't have kids, but I would say yes. I don't recall anything scary or frightening in the movie. Was pretty much just a live version of the cartoon.
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Posted: Thu Mar 26, 2015 12:52 pm
by NAN
Is the new live action Cinderalla good to take a 5 year old?
I don't have kids, but I would say yes. I don't recall anything scary or frightening in the movie. Was pretty much just a live version of the cartoon.
Thanks. I know they made the last two or three live action movies off their cartoons more "dark".
I plan on taking my daughter. Just wanted to make sure it was ok.
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Posted: Thu Mar 26, 2015 12:55 pm
by Freddy Rumsen
Finally got around to watching Unbroken. I was a big fan of the book, and looked forward to the film but was underwhelmed by the reviews and decided to catch it at home.
It captured the essence of the book, but like most biographies, it would have worked better as a miniseries.
Some great air battle scenes, and the crash scene as well. Showed plenty of the POW torture stuff too.
But Angelina Jolie decided to have a key part of Zamperini's story shown as a text epilogue. He actually suffered from PTSD and was a drunk for several years after the war before meeting Billy Graham (yes, that Billy Graham) at a tent revival out in Los Angeles. He then traveled back to Japan to forgive his captors, except his main tormentor, who refused to meet him. That would've been a great visual scene (the forgiveness part). Instead, we get a paragraph of text about it.
And the Coen Brothers worked on the script, which I wasn't aware of.
Not a bad film, just kind of a let down.
I think it would have been a better film if it started with like 20-25 minutes of a "flashback" kind of thing that told the whole War/P.O.W. story and spent 1 hr and 30 min on the post-war stuff which is more compelling as a movie narrative.
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Posted: Thu Mar 26, 2015 12:56 pm
by Dickie Dunn
Is the new live action Cinderalla good to take a 5 year old?
I don't have kids, but I would say yes. I don't recall anything scary or frightening in the movie. Was pretty much just a live version of the cartoon.
Thanks. I know they made the last two or three live action movies off their cartoons more "dark".
I plan on taking my daughter. Just wanted to make sure it was ok.
You see Ella's mother get sick and the reaction to her death, but that's about as dark as it gets.
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Posted: Thu Mar 26, 2015 1:13 pm
by DigitalGypsy66
Source of the post I think it would have been a better film if it started with like 20-25 minutes of a "flashback" kind of thing that told the whole War/P.O.W. story and spent 1 hr and 30 min on the post-war stuff which is more compelling as a movie narrative.
Absolutely.
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Posted: Fri Mar 27, 2015 8:55 am
by DigitalGypsy66
Alrighty then, I watched Whiplash. Great film. J.K. Simmons' Oscar was very deserved.
And now I've filled my work playlist with Buddy Rich, so there's that...
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Posted: Fri Mar 27, 2015 10:03 am
by Dickie Dunn
Chris Bell (director of Bigger Stronger Faster) has a new documentary debuting next month at Tribeca Film Festival titled "Prescription Thugs".
To me it looks like it has the potential to be another solid documentary. Bell did a great job taking an unbiased look at steroids and steroid use and now turns his focus on what is a major issue, especially in extreme contact sports like football and wrestling.
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Posted: Fri Mar 27, 2015 11:23 am
by eddy
Who saw force majeure? The synopsis on the netflix sleeve makes it sound pretty depressing, but then I heard it's actually funny. Can anyone clear this up?
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Posted: Fri Mar 27, 2015 1:02 pm
by Dickie Dunn
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Posted: Fri Mar 27, 2015 1:30 pm
by tifosi77
Just watched the M:I5 trailer.... looks really good.
Apparently the stunt where he's hanging on to the side of the plane was real. No CG.
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Posted: Fri Mar 27, 2015 1:31 pm
by blackjack68
Yeah, that was all over the news last week.
Apparently, he's always been real big on doing his own stunts.
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Posted: Fri Mar 27, 2015 1:34 pm
by PFiDC
Well when you are the god of a religion you can do your own stunts...
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Posted: Fri Mar 27, 2015 1:55 pm
by eddy
Well when you are the god of a religion you can do your own stunts...
speaking of which, there is a documentary this Sunday on HBO about Scientology. Looks great,