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Fast Five 6/10
Bad Teacher 6/10
Fast Five 6/10
Red Barron
I'll give it a 7.5.
Saw about 30 minutes of The Green Hornet. 2/10
Megamind again, still 8 or 9 out of 10 when drunk
Fast Five...best of the series...easily.
8/10
Donnie Brasco
8/10
"Dark Victory" from 1939 with Bette Davis.
I God's. 70 years later and it's still a wonderment upon the earth.
Great citation Res.
"I'd die for you Donnie."
Depp is a in real life, but, he lights the screen for two hours in that movie.
3000 miles to graceland
8/10
Enjoyed this movie, kinda surprised I hadn't seen it before
"Moon" Sam Rockwell
9/10
Cape Fear - the original from the 1960s
great stuff - gregory peck as the good guy, family man. Robert Mitchum as the bad guy, a psychotic creep. One of the best portrayals of a bad guy ever.
^Good one, Bender. And I'll tell ya, the remake has grown on me as well. There they ferret out the "family man's" participation in his own predicament when they tell us that he did not represent "Cady" properly and should be disbarred. In the original that is not so clearly defined, so of course your sentiments are with Peck there and not so much with Nolte 30 years later. The young girl in the original is much more innocent than the Lewis girl (who is rebelling as the remake opens), so again you have less sympathy for Lewis.
DeNiro goes over the top a bit without necessity. Mitchum is more calculating. He's quietly seething and so it is far more personal with him. DeNiro is all over the place. Mitchum operates in a far more limited area.
In the original there is no affair twixt the girl (Barry Chase) and Peck, so you lose that. The Chase character has to "act" the harm that Mitchum has done her/censors would not permit anything like the remake. In the remake the girl (Illeana Douglas) has a stake in all their lives, so when DeNiro takes a bite out of her it is devastating for all concerned, characters and viewers alike.
Joe Don Baker is a little silly in the remake, but, you must have him so "Cady" has somebody to kill BEFORE they stop him from killing. If "Cady" doesn't kill in the original (the nondescript sheriff deputy who gives himself away by swatting that mosquito)---or---Baker then you don't have a movie.
^--- I haven't seen the De Niro remake in such a long time, I can't comment on it. In the original, I think Gregory Peck was just a witness to Cady beating someone else in an alley, so due to Peck's testimony as a witness, Cady was tossed in the can for 8 years - where he contemplated getting revenge...
Mitchum's portrayal of Cady was so great, it put me in the mood to try and watch for all his his noir films...
"White Dog."
Sam Fuller's brilliant film about a German Shepherd trained by racists to attack the Koolaid_Mans of the world.
You're mistaken, Bender. Peck was Cady's lawyer, but, the explanation as to how he failed Cady's defense in the movie is vague and quickly dismissed. Not as cut & dry as in the remake where Nolte is shamed by the Fred Thompson character (early on) (that's a key scene and it's painful).
Yep, Mitchum is good there. Peck thinks he has him beat when he sends those 3 punks down to the docks to beat Cady up (with a tire chain). They get get the upper hand at first, but, then Cady see's blood and knocks two of them out and the third turns tail and runs with Cady in hot pursuit. I God's...I'd hate have the SOB after me.
And in the opening shot of the original (B&W) they show the wide panoramic shot of the town square and here comes Cady in that straw hat. You can make him out a mile away.
You're right though:::Mitchum is so freakin' good in that role.
hmmmm.... I just watched it on my DVR a few days ago, so I was sure he was just a witness.
this is from imdb's plot:
Perhaps you're right, Bender. I just seemed to remember it different, but, I could be wrong.
How bout Cady's story when got out of prison and went back home to his wife:::"she was married. husband was at work. kids at school. took her to a motel in the next town. after two days I kicked her out without her clothes and gave a fair chance to work her way back home."
That's Max for ya.
Hanna - 8/10
Pretty entertaining film after a slow start.
Heat - I told you I wasn't going back/10
Bad Teacher
sucked beyond words
Choice lodgement!
The black driver is done well. His wife & he on the very edge. He kicks his bosses ass at the restaurant before taking up DeNiro's "5 minute" decision. It costs him his life as he's killed instantly driving away from the bank. And there they don't forget his wife. She finds out via the tail bar television.
***The one beef I have with this picture is there is too much time after the bank robbery. It's almost like the movie winds up & down there and then still has a long way to go.
Paranormal activity 2- 6/10
Built up to nothing and the movie wasnt scary at all
50/50 - 8.5 out of 10. IMHO well written, some laughs, & a few tear jerker moments.
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