What general film/series have you just seen.. marks out of 5
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Sukiyaki Western Django - π/5
Miike makes Yojimbo/A Fistful of Dollars, tamer than his usual fare and I got bored about halfway through. The rating is more for Miike himself than the movie, all his films fall into this sort of range. They aren't exactly bad, in fact some have some quite compelling dramatic elements, there's just this tendency to get progressively weirder until I lose interest.
Miike makes Yojimbo/A Fistful of Dollars, tamer than his usual fare and I got bored about halfway through. The rating is more for Miike himself than the movie, all his films fall into this sort of range. They aren't exactly bad, in fact some have some quite compelling dramatic elements, there's just this tendency to get progressively weirder until I lose interest.
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Simpsons: Miracle on Evergreen Terrace - 2.75/5
Really not a fan of this episode - for The Simpsons its dreadful. It's really not fair on the other family members they have to pay for Bart's lie/lies and have it taken out on them.
Really not a fan of this episode - for The Simpsons its dreadful. It's really not fair on the other family members they have to pay for Bart's lie/lies and have it taken out on them.
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The BD [of course!] and it's a lot better, the DVD has been sharpened quite excessively and crudely which adds all the EE (haloing). I forgot to take caps to do a comparison but I'm not going to bother to grab it again.HungFist wrote:btw, which version did you see? The dvd has an unbearable amount of edge enhancement and I was wondering if the Blu-Ray was any better?
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No problem. I don't even have a Blu-Ray player (and I have no plans to get one anytime soon, either)Lourdes wrote:The BD [of course!] and it's a lot better, the DVD has been sharpened quite excessively and crudely which adds all the EE (haloing). I forgot to take caps to do a comparison but I'm not going to bother to grab it again.HungFist wrote:btw, which version did you see? The dvd has an unbearable amount of edge enhancement and I was wondering if the Blu-Ray was any better?
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The Naked Prey (Criterion) 5/5
Criterion at last give this mainly forgotten 60's classic the treatment it deserves. watching this in scope after years of p&s tv showings is a revelation. Hunters hunting ivory in Africa are captured by the natives and much savagery ensues. brilliantly directed and starring Cornel Wilde this is quite savage and brutal for it's time,it's also clear where Mel Gibson got his inspiration for Apocalypto from. my only criticism would be the excess of wildlife stock footage,some of it unpleasant.
Criterion at last give this mainly forgotten 60's classic the treatment it deserves. watching this in scope after years of p&s tv showings is a revelation. Hunters hunting ivory in Africa are captured by the natives and much savagery ensues. brilliantly directed and starring Cornel Wilde this is quite savage and brutal for it's time,it's also clear where Mel Gibson got his inspiration for Apocalypto from. my only criticism would be the excess of wildlife stock footage,some of it unpleasant.
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There will be blood
Good film, excellent performance by Day-Lewis, but not always an enjoyment to watch this film. Has got some very powerful moments, makes you feel itchy somehow, but the ending is too exaggerated for my taste.
To me a good, but overrated film, with a great leading man.
Still, I'd have liked to see more of the pastor's rise to power, as a sort of comparison between the two characters...
3.5/5
Good film, excellent performance by Day-Lewis, but not always an enjoyment to watch this film. Has got some very powerful moments, makes you feel itchy somehow, but the ending is too exaggerated for my taste.
To me a good, but overrated film, with a great leading man.
Still, I'd have liked to see more of the pastor's rise to power, as a sort of comparison between the two characters...
3.5/5
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88 minutes 2/5
By the numbers thriller starring Al Pacino,an actor i really like but this material is really beneath him. He plays an arrogant,well known psychiatrist who has put a serial killer on death row,well the serial killer wants revenge and Al has 88 minutes to live! pretty contrived and curiously uninvolving,Pacino looks bored and weary throughout. has this had a cinema release as i'd not heard of it before
By the numbers thriller starring Al Pacino,an actor i really like but this material is really beneath him. He plays an arrogant,well known psychiatrist who has put a serial killer on death row,well the serial killer wants revenge and Al has 88 minutes to live! pretty contrived and curiously uninvolving,Pacino looks bored and weary throughout. has this had a cinema release as i'd not heard of it before
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