What general film/series have you just seen.. marks out of 5

[Markgway]

Assault on Precinct 13 ***.5/4

Classic shows what you can do on a tight budget. No stars, just fine actors.

[romerojpg]

Assault on Precinct 13 ***.5/4

Classic shows what you can do on a tight budget. No stars, just fine actors.

1000 times better the The Godfather

[luckystars]

Assault on Precinct 13 ***.5/4

Classic shows what you can do on a tight budget. No stars, just fine actors.

1000 times better the The Godfather

[Markgway]

Marlon Brando was in line to play the little girl with the ice cream but pulled out when the director insisted on pigtails. True fact.

[luckystars]

Marlon Brando was in line to play the little girl with the ice cream but pulled out when the director insisted on pigtails. True fact.

[romerojpg]

The thing is he was such a nutter, he could easily play her as well. But not as well as he could not act at all.

[saltysam]

as he could not act at all.

what utter bollocks.He descended into self-parody in later years but if you are saying his performances in the likes of On The Waterfront & The Godfather were poor then as for Assault On Precinct 13 being better than Godfather,i agree,i've stated many times it's my favourite film and one i watch at least once a year.but the Godfather is still one of the finest films ever made.

[romerojpg]

Poor doesn't even come close to what I think of brando's performances, its like watching a stage play he is so stilted and dodgy.

[saltysam]

Poor doesn't even come close to what I think of brando's performances, its like watching a stage play he is so stilted and dodgy.

how many of his films have you seen?i just looked at imdb and i've seen about seven at most,owning just Godfather/Superman/Apocalypse Now/On The Waterfront.

[saltysam]

Godfather Part Three 3/5

Solid enough end to the trilogy is certainly not the disaster it's often been made out to be.Pacino is excellent as ever & ably supported by series regulars Diane Keaton & Talia Shire.It's far from perfect though,the strange plot line involving the catholic church didn't work for me and the legend is true Sofia Coppola's performance is akin to a rabbit caught in the headlights.Robert Duvall's presence is also sorely missed.

Unstoppable 2.5/5
Ok thriller from Tony Scott starring his usual leading man Denzel Washington alongside Chris Pine as a train driver/conductor who try to stop the unstoppable runaway train of the title.running a lean 94 minutes it's a good watch if fairly predictable.

[romerojpg]

How many Brando's have I seen? Not sure to be honest, a fair few as I used to watch the oldies on TV when I was younger (Seen all the "Greats" of Brando obviously and own a few).

Mind you I still dislike most old films, acting in most of them was a shocker for me. Acting in films for me never even started to happen until 60's or even maybe 70's when they acted like real people, before then they talk and act like nothing in real life, more like a play. Something like Wizard of Oz gets away with it as its fantasy (comedy even gets away as well), but real/drama etc.. films just are painful to watch for me a lot of them time.

I watched Lifeboat (Hitchcock 1944) on TV the other day, ok film, but my god the acting! it hurts my ears even listening to them. It just pains me the way actors used to act and I am glad it changed so much though time.

Strangely some older Asian films get away with it so much more (Seven samurai for instance which I love) it must have something to do with the language barrier, as I have zero idea how Japanese would be spoke, or how they acted in that time - so that may help.

I have watched plenty of old films thats for sure, but seem not to own many at all before the 60's for instance. I just dont get old style English language acting I guess.

[Markgway]

Acting in films for me never even started to happen until 60's or even maybe 70's

[Yi-Long]

Acting in films for me never even started to happen until 60's or even maybe 70's when they acted like real people, before then they talk and act like nothing in real life, more like a play.

Maybe you need to check out some of Mifune's acting in Kurosawa's movies. Or Shimura.

[romerojpg]

Acting in films for me never even started to happen until 60's or even maybe 70's when they acted like real people, before then they talk and act like nothing in real life, more like a play.

Maybe you need to check out some of Mifune's acting in Kurosawa's movies. Or Shimura.

Hey as I said Japanese films are very different for me it must be the unknown of a different language, the unfamiliarity of a culture or language works for me as really I dont know how they are in reality and I love Mifune and his early films (and many Japanese films from then). American ones on the whole fucking suck acting wise before the 60's, some you can forgive here and there, but many actors just look and sound like they are reading from a script, badly. It pulls me so far out of the films it a joke.

[grim_tales]

Taxi Driver: 4.25/5

Hadn't seen it before but it's a very good movie. Robert De Niro is superb in it

[bradavon]

What stopped you giving it 4 or 5 out of 5? 4.25 is rather exact . It's an excellent film IMO. Scorseese and De Niro's best (together and separately). Blu-ray I assume? Good quality? Ta

[saltysam]

. Blu-ray I assume? Good quality? Ta

i doubt it was the blu-ray Grim watched.

[grim_tales]

It was the 2 disc DVD, might upgrade to the Blu Ray though
The score in the film is excellent.

[grim_tales]

I wondered about the ending:

Was that real? Travis presumably got a letter from Iris' parents saying how happy they are she's safe, and thanking him etc but that he's "still in a coma", at the end he's talking with those taxi guys then Betsy gets in - did Travis come out of his coma or was that part fantasy?

[romerojpg]

What fantasy, not the film I watched.

[bradavon]

I'm wondering that too. It's been a very long time since I've seen it but I'm sure he died during the shoot out at the end, no? What coma?. Like I said, it's been a long time.

[romerojpg]

WTF film did you lot watch not Taxi Driver thats for damn sure

[grim_tales]

Brad,
I'm not sure.

Romero we're trying to work out if that part is in his head if he died at the end. He seemed very healthy if he came out of a coma

[romerojpg]

You are the 1st people I have even heard say it was. I never thought for a heartbeat any of it was a dream, dont see how anyone ever could.

[saltysam]

lol,i haven't seen Taxi in donkey's years but i know how it ends ..not in the way Brad & Grim are on about anyway