X: Night of Vengeance (NR) This movie is half sex and half good. It starts off slow but actually gets interesting around the middle.
Road to Perdition Seriously underrated. Initially I thought Tom Hanks was miscast as I really couldn't envision him as a mob hitman, but he ended up being amazing in this movie and really showed his range as an actor. It was quite suspenseful. It also had great cinematography that really captured 1930s Chicago. I loved the way the shootout in the rain at the end was filmed. Definitely one of the better crime dramas I've seen.
I saw Road to Perdition in theaters and enjoyed it. The cinematography really stood out. It was adapted from a graphic novel if memory serves. 2002 was a pretty damn good year for movies. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, Spirited Away, Talk to Her, Adaptation, Nowhere in Africa, The Man Without A Past, About Schmidt, The Pianist, Chicago, Far from Heaven, Frida, Bowling for Colubmine, Spellbound, Winged Migration, Y Tu Mama Tambien, All or Nothing, Bloody Sunday, Secretary, Road to Perdition, ect. I'd include a few of these (the first few I mentioned) in my list of all-time favorites. This puts me in the mood to watch Nowhere in Africa again. I'll have to track down my DVD. I have it stored somewhere.
I owned road to perdition on dvd for 9 years before watching it. i take procrastinating to the next level.
It didn't look interesting, that's the problem. I thought it was some boring 1930s period drama or something. Instead, it's a pretty awesome gangster flick.
I just watched L.A. Confidential the other week also. I thought it was a little bit overrated, but concede that I for whatever reason didn't seem to clue onto things until fairly late in the film. Some aspects of it were really strong while others just stood out as pretty damn weak. I feel that most of this was due to screenplay being so heavily based on classic films. It was like there was a complex modern movie interwoven with some incredibly cliche cop drama done in classic hollywood style. I liked that there wasn't any over the top nostalgic art style applied to the whole thing. I usually like that but it's sort of a guilty pleasure, where I know it's a cheap way of getting the audience to romanticize about the setting and in turn not be so critical of every other aspect of the film. Sure, lots of the settings were very cliche 1950's hollywood so the effect was still there, but there was no post processing effects or unrealistic artistic lighting to over emphasize the setting. Spacey gave an awesome performance. He really could do no wrong in the 90's. Crowe and Pearce just grated on me at times. I think their performances were great, just their characters poor and shallow despite the great effort to explore their back stories at great length. I literally cringed when they teamed up at the end to play good cop bad cop get together and save the day, "they hated eachother, but now, they're teaming up to take down the bigger evil, the corrupt cops!" It was just too cliche for me. I guess that's just the style... It was still very well done. I just found too many things stood out as weak points for me to say it was a great film. I'd give it 8/10 still because there was a lot of enjoyment and good performances.
I first saw Road to Perdition about 4-5 years ago and just found it average. I thought the same thing, that Tom Hanks just couldn't play this role. I remember being a little surprized, but still had him type cast in my head the whole movie. Maybe I should re-watch it, I feel like I'm at least on my way to appreciating film a lot more now than I did back then.
THX 1138 The dystopian world George Lucas created doesn't seem very well thought out, and the acting is pretty bad. That being said, you can see where Lucas's ideas for special effects originated that would later revolutionize the film industry in Star Wars and Indiana Jones.
The Man From Earth The premise is intriguing, but unfortunately it has cheesy after school special caliber acting and production values.
I watched the first 15min of that and assumed it was going to be a giant snoozefest since it wasn't budging at all. i need to catch it again some other night when I'm in the mood.
Over here we just called it Dennis since we already had a Dennis the Menace in comic form, I think it was The Beano.
@Khaid It gets better. It's a bit like Highlander. I actually think that with better actors it could have been a good movie.
The dialogue for that part was so genius that's literally the only part I remember from that movie since I saw it so long ago.