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Mixed Martial Arts training, damn all the submission and grappling just for 6 hours straight totally killed me. Especially when you have a guy build like a tank rag dolling you all over the mat. I admire any fighter that does it cause it's pretty damn tough.
My guess, and this is just my opinion, she seems to have got more comfortable in the spotlight in recent times and has gotten kind cute. Also throw in the fact she's with a famous pop star. That's bound to up her fame levels been on GOT is just the cherry on top.
Anyone who's on Game of Thrones will get a chance to be a star in Hollywood, some might not make it and some might. That show is so big that it was always going to happen. Especially as most of the cast is young and good looking.
Remember Emilia Clarke and Kit Harington were pushed down our throats for a while a few years back. Clarke's film career has been very miss more then hit at this point. She's finding her niche in Romance/Comedy roles, which seem to be her biggest hits outside of GOT. She was miscast in Terminator Genisys, Solo proved a disaster. She's not going to be a Oscar winning actress anytime soon, if she sticks with films like Me Before You and upcoming Paul Feig helmed Last Christmas, she do well. Harington film career has been a disaster to be fair, Pompeii, Spooks, The Death & Life of John F. Donovan. I thought Brimstone and Testament of Youth have been his best efforts so far. He needs to find his feet soon enough.
Who's probably going to do well or will be around for years after GOT, Peter Dinklage was already a respected actor before he did GOT, he be fine. Lena Headey and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau will slip into character work without too much fuss. Natalie Dormer had a period there when she was doing a lot of b-movies and is back doing TV, she won't be a superstar but she has her niche. Rosie Leslie seems to have become a TV Regular. Gwendoline Christie has the Star Wars franchise films to fall back on. I'd say right now Richard Madden, with the Bodyguard and Jason Momoa with DCU are probably the hottest in terms of limelight out of all the GOT cast.
Sophie Turner, she's been given a whole film based around her character in the recent X-Men Dark Phoenix, which hasn't done well and many have complained about her performance. I'm sure the fact she's gotten slightly hotter and has become more comfortable in the limelight and that she's married to one of the more famous pop star's out there has helped her become more of a focus.
I'd say it's more a Guy Ritchie type knock off, with a lot of martial arts thrown in. Some funny and out there characters that wouldn't be out of place in a Ritchie gangster film. With Scott Adkins proving a very good leading man, he's a great Cinematic martial artist and he's a rare case of a action hero who can act as well. This is probably his best performance to date.
You also have great turns from the underrated Ray Stevenson (Tv's Rome, Punisher: War Zone), Amy Johnston and Michael Jai White. Some great fight scenes especially between Johnston and Adkins. Funny dialogue and a fast pace. Not a classic by any means, but again like most Adkin's film's a lot better then 6.1 on IMDB. I wouldn't be agaisnt having it on a 7.0.
It's better then it's 5.7 rating on IMDB would suggest imo. I'd say 6.7 to 6.9 would be a more suitable rating for it.
It's not as action packed as most of Scott Adkins/Jesse v Johnson other straight to DVD films, but it reminds me more of their film Accident Man, which I think is one of best films in their partnership and a really good Guy Ritchie gangster type knock off. I wasn't a fan of the last third of the film when it went down the bleaker route, it was working far better as buddy like comedy actioner. Liked the chemistry between Adkins and Louis Mandylor (looks totally different then he did in My Big Fat Greek Wedding films). Some solid fight scenes and laughs. Again didn't like the total swing in mood in the final third but a solid Adkins/Johnson film.
I don't think he has that many duds to be fair. His great work outweighs his bad stuff. I give a list of his bad films imo
Assassins Creed, The Counselor, The Snowman, Haywire, Angel, Jonah Hex, Blood Creek. Those films are his truly bad films.
Those Alien prequels are not bad cause of him, he's the best thing in them. X-Men franchise, again he's one of the best things in them and First Class was really his only showcase in the franchise. Centurion for me is a guilty pleasure.
Films i put in the middle would be Song to Song, Trespass Agaisnt Us, A Dangerous Method, Jane Eyre, The Light Between Oceans, Eden Lake.
A actor who has Shame, Inglorious Bastard, Steve Jobs, 12 years a Slave, Hunger, Macbeth, Frank, X-Men Days of Future Pass, Slow West, Fish Tank on his C.V isn't doing badly.
I agree his recent run hasn't been great. He badly need a great role and film just to get him back on track.
I don't think it's a romance at all, I think it's about friendship and forgiveness. After it seems his buddies probably died in Vietnam, well at least the one he was most close too. He seemed like a lonely guy, who probably at the end was changed by his experience in war and matured. Needed a friend like Rose in his life. I always considered this more a film on friendship then romance. Great film though. Lili Taylor is fantastic in this.
This isn't a film for everyone, it's a pretty bleak film on love and regret. I felt bad for Florence and Edward, Florence for her childhood abuse by her father, the fact she loves Edward but right at time and place Edward isn't mentally or mature to deal with Florence. You can tell in the scene in the 70's, with a bit more experience under his belt that Edward would probably have dealt with it better and been more understanding of Florence.
What makes it worse, Florence got over her problem and married and had kids, probably not wanting to be alone and not wanting to make the same mistake she did with Edward. While even though Edward seemed to have his fun in the 70's scene with two women but still regrets that day on the beach, by the 00's he seemed like a lonely old man. We can only go by the scene with Florence's daughter buying the Chuck Berry record and her crying in the end after seen Edward in the audience that she probably still not over Edward. But i think it's more regret on her side just like Edward.
Anyway that's the second adaption of Ian McEwan that's gut punch me (Atonement is the other). Don't watch if you are down in the dumps.
This is a guess, as I don't think it says anything about her having kids or a husband in the book. My guess she probably told herself that no man will probably accept her as "Frigid" as Edward said, and she didn't want to ruin her second marriage. So she end up having sex and that probably made her even more depressed knowing it probably wasn't all that bad. It's a shame we don't see anything from her P.O.V after the last scene on the beach.
Richard Kelly- Donnie Darko
Ben Affleck- Gone Baby Gone
Charles Burnett- killer of Sheep
Steve Mcqueen- Hunger
John Singleton- Boyz In The Hood
Orson Welles- Citizen Kane
the Hughes Brothers- Menace II Society
The Fighter
American Psycho
The Machinist
Just falling under
Empire of The Sun
The Prestige
Hostiles
Harsh Times
She's got a good agent I suppose.
At this moment in time, she's pretty much relying on Pitch Perfect franchise to keep her in the limelight. Her performance in Up In The Air was very good, but not award worthy. A lot of the better films she's in like Scott Pilgrim Vs The World, The Voices, Into The Woods, 50/50, End of Watch for example she's pretty much in the supporting role which suits her better. A lot of her work outside Pitch Perfect and Twilight, haven't done that well stuff like Mr.Right, Drinking Buddies, Table 17, The Last Give Years, Happy Christmas, Get A job. I don't think she has a lot of range imo. She can play the girl next door pretty well or the girlfriend role but she's never pushed herself as a actress. I don't think she's a leading lady imo.
She's someone I think who will find herself probably starring in a sitcom on TV in the next few years.
I still think Thin Red Line is his best film for me, but Badlands, Tree of Life and Days of Heaven run it close. I definitely think DOH is his most beautiful shot film imo, fantastic soundtrack by Ennio Morricone and the cinematography is some of the best you ever see.
For anyone to get the style of Malick and his filmmaking, Days of Heaven is perfect place to start as it's pretty short film for him.
She got stood up, she seemed to have a bad luck with men. Remember earlier in the film, one of the guys ran off without her.
Time After Time
Stalker
Quadrophenia
The Onion Field
The Tin Drum
Hair
The Wanderers
Mad Max
All That Jazz
Breaking Away
Being There
The Warriors
Manhattan
Apocalypse Now
Alien
The Jerk
Scum
Over The Edge
Luna
My Brilliant Career
Vengeance is Mine
Wise Blood
Woyzeck
Serie Noire
The Odd Angry Shot
That Sinking Feeling
1978 was a pretty damn good year
Straight Time
Big Wednesday
the Shout
Blue collar
The Last Waltz
Autumn Sonata
The Buddy Holly Story
Coming Home
The Deer Hunter
Days of Heaven
Invasion of The Body Snatchers
Dawn of The Dead
Halloween
Midnight Express
In A year of 13 Moons
Fingers
A Wedding
Get Out Your Handkercheifs (couldn't imagine this wonderful film been made today and it won a Oscar too)
The Marriage of Maria Braun (Fassbinder Knocks out two classics in one year)
I think both films were massively overrated, and just cause we're in the MeToo era and they are directed by women and about women. They get overrated by critic's who are pushing their SJW stance and other critic's afraid to really say how they feel.