You literally compared them to MST3K flicks at one point. That's supposed to represent film knowledge?
The acting of the psychotic gay friend character in Rebel Without a Cause was definitely like something out of MST3K. It was laughably bad.
How many supporting actors from MST3K movies were nominated for an Academy award? Sal Mineo was nominated twice in his career, and one of those was for Rebel Without a Cause.
I Peeta! I burn bread and feed to pigs and that girl I like. She a pig too. We hunger games folk! U can haz magic creams to heal all wounds but we still use wax for hairy gams!
So I rented Girl with Dragon Tattoo in Amazon. Its on special for $1 and I can see why. Thought it was gonna be some sort of scifi-japanese anime type thing.
The American one or the Swedish one? I watched the American one, and save for the scenes where she gets revenge for the rape, I thought that movie straight up sucked.
EVERYBODY MUST DIEEEE!! aka Melonchalia very slow moving storyline, worst sound engineering ever! (I think I missed half of what was said for the first half because I didn't have my headphones on... might be partially to blame due to Amazon prime recording the 5.1 track not the stereo or something... doesn't matter the vocals don't mean much) but overall an enjoyable movie if you don't sleep on the first part. I really enjoyed the second part! The first part was just sad and obnoxious It basically sets up for the second part though, so I leave this movie relatively satisfied. Think it could've been done better, but not at this low a budget obviously. First five to ten minutes was static pictures! And there was no cameo by Blind Melon or even a tap dancing bee!!
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy Basically this movie was a 40 minute train-wreck followed by a 90 minute film that worked. It seemed like the screenplay was a disaster up until the introduction of Ricki Tarr's story, and then it became cohesive. The ending isn't handled particularly well though, and it just seems to fizzle out. The Alec Guinness original works as a complete story much better, and makes the case that an episodic TV format can often be superior than a feature film for book adaptations.
I thought it was just an all around bad movie. A spy movie should never be dull. Even if they were aiming for realism, there's no reason it needed to be so disjointed and boring. Everyone else I was watching it with fell asleep.
Have you seen the original with Alec Guinness? It's fairly dry and is mostly centered around the mental games and personalities, not thriller style theatrics. There are quite a few different types of approaches to the spy genre. John LeCarre wasn't trying to be Ian Fleming when he wrote the Smiley books. Try watching The Spy Who Came in From the Cold with Richard Burton sometime. That's a more successful LeCarre film adaptation starring Richard Burton. I'd throw in the 1973 version of The Day of the Jackal or Three Days of the Condor starring Robert Redford as very successful spy flicks as well, although the approach is different than LeCarre based films. Anyway, LeCarre himself viewed the Smiley novels as being overly complicated for film.
I saw that when it was in theaters. I think that if I was James Spader I would have been tempted to deliberately screw up during that scene to get some extra takes.
I liked how it showed that S&M relationships can be healthy as long as everyone involved is having a good time and it's all done in a safe fashion.
Amazon Prime seems to have gotten some... meh... decent movies. I just watched Truman Show again since I never quite saw the end. I mean just the VERY end, like the last scene and a half. Anyway I watched it! it was free! I enjoyed it. fun was had by all. Others include Nacho Libre and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind or something or other. I'd seen both, but I'll watch it again for free. Point is, Amazon Prime just grew into it's big boy pants enough so that I might call it comparable with Netflix (when it had it's Starz contract). Oh but the TV selection is still pretty mediocre... they make you pay for 99% of it.
Pre-1970 was the claim...but with obvious exceptions, such as Bridge on the River Kwai, which was from the 50's, and also starred Alec Guinness.