Review a Movie from at least 10 Years Ago

[Looper]

A Simple Plan. Which it is, initially. Bill Paxton, Billy Bob Thornton.

Never heard of it. Sounds good.

[harrybarracuda]

A Simple Plan. Which it is, initially. Bill Paxton, Billy Bob Thornton.

Never heard of it. Sounds good.

Yes, this is an excellent movie.

And another great film from that year was Very Bad Things with Jon Favreau, Christian Slater and Cameron Diaz.

A very black comedy about a stag trip to Vegas that goes horribly wrong.

They were two of the best films that year.

[Looper]

^Sounds interesting Harry.

Only 6.3 on IMDB ...

But since I trust you implicitly on all matters cinematographical I shall be taking a closer look.


Adaptation

I saw this when it first came out in 2002 and I enjoyed it.

I did not realise at the time that it was derived from a true story.

i.e. the central story within the story of the NY journalist documenting the life of an orchid hunter in articles and then a book is true. Movie screenwriter Charlie Kaufman then embellishes the true story with scandal and then wraps it in a very funny narrative about a screenwriter with writers block who is trying to develop the story for the film we are watching (actually himself in fictionalised form since he really was tasked with a straight adaptation and did suffer writer's block). Fictional Kaufmann in the movie has a fictionalised twin brother who also tries his hand at screen writing and their very funny relationship is half the movie.

Meryl Streep is the journalist.

A very clever movie.

8/10

The real life journalist at first refused to support the script but came round in the end.

Charlie Kaufmann made his directorial debut with Syndoche, New York, which I found challenging but I might watch it again.

[Davis Knowlton]

A Simple Plan. Which it is, initially. Bill Paxton, Billy Bob Thornton.

Just finished it. It was quite good. Billy Bob's range continues to impress. Seen him recently in several shows or movies and he does a great job acting/looking very different in each.

[harrybarracuda]

A Simple Plan. Which it is, initially. Bill Paxton, Billy Bob Thornton.

Just finished it. It was quite good. Billy Bob's range continues to impress. Seen him recently in several shows or movies and he does a great job acting/looking very different in each.

If you like Billy Bob, get Pushing Tin.

[Looper]

Bad Santa - 2003

Billy Bob Thornton as the ultimate boozing, lechering, thieving anti-santa who grows a heart when a fat loser kid latches onto him.



Loved it when it came out and never got round to re-watching it till now.

Good for a giggle.

7/10

Just read that Bad Santa is coming back.

Bad Santa 2 will be out for Christmas 2016

All the cast are back.

Billy Bob

Fat loser kid (who will be 23 in the new movie)

and Tony Cox the black gnome





Billy Bob Thornton returns for Bad Santa 2

[harrybarracuda]

Because it appeared yesterday, I downloaded "The 10th Victim", a 1965 "sci fi" movie.

Well I tell you, I have never watched such a car crash of a movie in my life.

The eye candy is a pert Ursula Andress but being a Carlo Ponti film, it's mostly set in Italy and badly dubbed.

The story is absurd, the camera work beyond appalling, and the script beggars belief.

But it's actually so bad it kept me glued to the end.

Fucking hell Davis, were the sixties really like that?

[Davis Knowlton]

Because it appeared yesterday, I downloaded "The 10th Victim", a 1965 "sci fi" movie.


Fucking hell Davis, were the sixties really like that?

Pretty much, as I recall.

[blue]

Cat Ballou
just watching this 1965 classic

haven't seen it for decades , but it's really well done and ageless
Jane Fonda is excellent even though shes a kunt




and the musical interludes of of Nat King Cole And Stubby Kaye are great

[steevee]

The Game. Michael Douglas, Sean Penn. A wealthy San Francisco financier Nicholas Van Orton (Douglas) gets a strange birthday present from wayward brother (Penn). 1997

[Cujo]

Bad Santa - 2003

Billy Bob Thornton as the ultimate boozing, lechering, thieving anti-santa who grows a heart when a fat loser kid latches onto him.



Loved it when it came out and never got round to re-watching it till now.

Good for a giggle.

7/10

Just read that Bad Santa is coming back.

Bad Santa 2 will be out for Christmas 2016

All the cast are back.

Billy Bob

Fat loser kid (who will be 23 in the new movie)

and Tony Cox the black gnome





Billy Bob Thornton returns for Bad Santa 2

Excellent.
My favourite line from that movie.
"Is granny spry?"

[harrybarracuda]

The Game. Michael Douglas, Sean Penn. A wealthy San Francisco financier Nicholas Van Orton (Douglas) gets a strange birthday present from wayward brother (Penn). 1997

I enjoyed that film.

[Looper]

A Simple Plan. Which it is, initially. Bill Paxton, Billy Bob Thornton.

Never heard of it. Sounds good.

Very entertaining. Something Fargo-esque about all the snow and the goofy local cops and the nice local family getting way out of their depth in crime and not knowing if they should turn back or keep going.


High Fidelity - 2000

I don't know how I missed this movie.

John Cusack is perfect as the young fella analysing the failures of his relationships in the wake of his latest break up.

Jack Black and the other fella are perfectly cast as the hilarious record shop employees.

Great soundtrack and cultural references to all the best music of the 80s and 90s.

Brought back lots of memories of being 20-something with all the right sounds.

8/10

[klong toey]

True Romance 1993.

I am a romantic at heart so fancied watching a love story.
Great cast a film with a bit of everything humor,sex,romance and violence i will give it 8/10 very enjoyable movie.

[Neo]

Good film

[Neo]

Naked - Mike Leigh

Stark tale of England's transient underclass set in the early 90's,
with a fantastic performance from the dark and brooding David Thewlis.



8/10

https://kat.cr/naked-mike-leigh-1993-t1888052.html

[Looper]

^haven't seen that since it came out years back. Shame Katrin Cartlidge died. Very talented actress. One of Mike Leigh's favourites.

[Looper]

True Romance 1993. I am a romantic at heart so fancied watching a love story. Great cast a film with a bit of everything humor,sex,romance and violence i will give it 8/10 very enjoyable movie.

Watched this tonight. Never heard of it before.

8/10 is about right.

Great cast. Tarantino script (I didn't know he wrote scripts before he got big in directing). His style is all over this.

It is worth watching for Dennis Hopper's face off with the mafia boss Christopher Walken alone.

James Gandolfini as a pre-Sopranos wise-guy too and a crazy psycho mofo from Gary Oldman.

Top stuff!

[Looper]

Monsters Ball - 2001

Billy Bob T plays a prison warden. Halle Berry plays the wife of a death row inmate.

Berry got a well deserved oscar for her performance. They are both very good.

The sex scene is smokin. Berry should have been a porn star.

I had the strong feeling at several points in the movie that I had seen it before but the movie as a whole was not familiar. I don't think I could have forgotten that shagging scene and the movie as a whole is so good that it would not be forgettable. So I don't know where the deja vu came from.

Anyway very good movie if you have not seen it before, and maybe even if you have (or if you are not sure if you have).

8/10

[Davis Knowlton]

Naked - Mike Leigh

Stark tale of England's transient underclass set in the early 90's,
with a fantastic performance from the dark and brooding David Thewlis.



8/10

https://kat.cr/naked-mike-leigh-1993-t1888052.html

Very pleased with myself. I have tried for months, nay years, to get through one of the Looperesque British dark dramas...always without success. I FINALLY MADE IT and finished this one. I may not recover for some time, and even though NEO put it up, I know LOOPER is proud! I am growing both as a TD'er and a citizen of the world. I even understood most of their mumbling...although the Scottish couple were a challenge.

[boloa]

I watched The Usual Suspects last night ..a great suspense movie with some fine actors .....I don't know how I ever missed this one , well worth a watch



Downloaded quick and only a 500MB file .... https://kat.cr/the-usual-suspects-19...-t4663851.html

[VocalNeal]

I put this also in the other movie thread but as it is more than 10 years old.

The Sleeping Dictionary

1930's Sarawak. New guy gets given a local (Jessica Alba), her of cute ass fame, with instructions to learn the Iban language in 6 months. He resists at first but...
Mirrors the experience some have when coming to Thailand etc. albeit we flew here.
Another guy gets given one but he is darker so she has a black eye in one scene, etc, etc.
Pomposity, romance , sex and nudity, jungle, blowpipes, colonialism etc..



I got it from Piratebay.

[Bettyboo]

Naked - Mike Leigh

Stark tale of England's transient underclass set in the early 90's,
with a fantastic performance from the dark and brooding David Thewlis.



8/10

https://kat.cr/naked-mike-leigh-1993-t1888052.html

Very pleased with myself. I have tried for months, nay years, to get through one of the Looperesque British dark dramas...always without success. I FINALLY MADE IT and finished this one. I may not recover for some time, and even though NEO put it up, I know LOOPER is proud! I am growing both as a TD'er and a citizen of the world. I even understood most of their mumbling...although the Scottish couple were a challenge.

That film is up itself shite; turned it off sharpish.

You were mugged off, Davis...

I'm about to watch A Simple Plan, and if it's no good then I'll play my guitar, so for the neighbour's sake let's hope is a good 'un.

[Davis Knowlton]

^Neighbor's safe...it's good.

[Looper]

Naked - Mike Leigh

Stark tale of England's transient underclass set in the early 90's,
with a fantastic performance from the dark and brooding David Thewlis.



8/10

https://kat.cr/naked-mike-leigh-1993-t1888052.html

Very pleased with myself. I have tried for months, nay years, to get through one of the Looperesque British dark dramas...always without success. I FINALLY MADE IT and finished this one. I may not recover for some time, and even though NEO put it up, I know LOOPER is proud! I am growing both as a TD'er and a citizen of the world. I even understood most of their mumbling...although the Scottish couple were a challenge.

That film is up itself shite; turned it off sharpish.

You were mugged off, Davis...

I'm about to watch A Simple Plan, and if it's no good then I'll play my guitar, so for the neighbour's sake let's hope is a good 'un.

I rewatched the entire Mike Leigh catalogue recently but somehow managed to overlook Naked. But I do remember not liking it as much as his other stuff when I saw it back in 1994. A bit contrived by comparison was my vague recollection of it.

Nevertheless, hats off to Davis on a brave venture into uncharted territory!

If you watch only one other Leigh film Davis I would recommend Secrets and Lies. The most typical example of his kitchen sink style ad hoc scripted drama I think.

I might still give Naked a second spin to see how it racks up against my recent rewatch of all his others.