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This is a great site, one of the best things it seems with IMDB closing it's forums is it got rid of the vast amount of trolls it had which ruined the forums. Still a bit like IMDB if you aren't a big blockbuster or superhero fan, it's a bit slow if you want to discuss indie, foreign or little known films. But still great to have discussions here and there.
Mind Games for me.
The Apartment
Peeping Tom
Breathless
Psycho
The Magnificent Seven
The Adventure
La Dolca Vita
Spartacus
Rocco and his brothers
The Virgin Spring
Saturday night Sunday Morning
Eyes Without A Face
Purple Noon
Elmer Gantry
Le Trou
Shoot The Piano Player
Wild River
The Entertainer
1960 was a good year for film overall.
That's true, I'd put her in more hit then miss section. She's got a nice mix of Indie Oscar fair, with commercial comedy and romance films. I find her at her strongest when she's outside the commercial side of things. She's been miscast in a few things, like I said she's no gangster moll type like she was in Gangster Squad. Movie 43 is probably every actor or actress who appeared in that thing worse film on their C.V's lol.
1980: Raging Bull
1981: Raiders of The Lost Ark
1982: E.T
1983: The Right Stuff or The Big Chill (I can't chose between either as they are my favs)
1984: Amadeus* (first Oscar Best Picture Winner I agree with)
1985: witness
1986: Platoon*
1987: The Last Emperor*
1988: Mississippi Burning
1989: Dead Poets Society (strong year for films that year)
1990: Goodfellas
1991: JFK
1992: Unforgiven
1993: Schindlers List
1994: Pulp Fiction or Shawshank Redemption (can't chose between those two)
1995: Braveheart*
1996: Fargo
1997: L.A Confidential
1998: The Thin Red Line
1999: The Insider
2000: Crouching Tiger, Hidden dragon
2001: Gosford Park
2002: The Pianist
2003: Master and Commander
2004: Sideways
2005: Brokeback Mountain
2006: The Departed*
2007: There Will Be Blood
2008: Slumdog Millionaire* (a pretty weak year)
2009: Up
2010: Inception
2011: The Tree of Life
2012: Django Unchained
2013: 12 Years A Slave*
2014: Whiplash
2015: Mad Max: Fury Road
2016: Moonlight*
2017: Phantom Thread
2018: The Favorite
I've only agreed 8 times with Oscar board with their winners.
I think that was the best it was going to do was Best Actor from the main awards. it was deserving, Rami is the best thing about it besides the music.
Definitely the weakest since Argo imo.
The Only ones deserving of it for me personally were No Country For Old Men and 12 Years A Slave. Moonlight I think is a masterpiece. Birdman I wouldn't complain too much about. Spotlight I really like that film but The Revenant was the better film that year.
The Departed is a good film but Scorcese should have won for films like Taxi Driver, Raging Bull or Goodfellas. For me it felt like a lifetime Oscar rather for the best film. Slumdog isn't even Danny Boyle's best film, wouldn't even have it in his top 5. The Hurt Locker was a weak year as well. The King's Speech is Oscar fodder.
With Green Book, it's definitely one of the weakest. Roma and The Favorite are better films imo. But that's the Oscars for you. We could have a discussion for the ages picking apart their Best Picture winners.
Why was it a fraud? both actresses deserved their nods.
Not the best Oscar year this year, Green Book for Best Picture shows you how weak a year it was. But Olivia For Best Actress, was one of the bright spots. She deserved it, a fantastic performance. For a while I thought they were going to go for Glenn Close just cause they love to give Oscar's to people they've snubbed for years. But they made the right call in the end.
For me I just think this year had a poor selection for Best Picture. For me not cause of those themes just I didn't think the film was really that great. Any other year this wouldn't have won.
I thought he put in his best performance in years in Silver Lining Playbook. But his last truly great performance, top notch De Niro probably 1995 with Heat imo.
Collateral
Born on The Forth Of July
Magnolia
Spielberg: Raiders of The Lost Ark
Scorsese: Taxi Driver
Hitchcock: Vertigo
Burton: Ed Wood
Kubrick: Clockwork Orange
Scott: Blade Runner
Fincher: Fight Club
Lucas: Empire Strikes Back
Cameron: The Terminator
Coen Brothers:The Big Lebowski
Tarantino: Pulp Fiction
Nolan: The Dark Knight
Depends, a lot of her choices of roles are very left field and not very commercial. Basically not Oscar award worthy, she's won awards aboard. But she's still young and you never know it could only take one film to get her into awards contention.
I think making and breaking of him was Clerks, it pretty much made his career but it also was the downfall of his career. He can't ever escape that film's shadow, the only films that even after his debut that get any love are the films involving any characters from View Askewniverse. But he's at his strongest for me when he's writing within that universe. To be honest I think when Jersey Girl, was battered critically and flopped. I think that knocked him for two and he hasn't quite returned to any sort of form since.
I think Clerks is his best film, even if the acting and photography are not great. The writing is fantastic. It's a massive statement in America independent cinema. Even if he didn't ever do another film after that, he still have a place in cinema history for that film alone. After Mallrats, was always going to have a hard time following it. It didn't help Smith had a hard time with the studios and a large chunk of the film was cut out. But it's good film and well worth checking out again. I agree with Chasing Amy, I just can't warm to it and never quite got the hype with it. But I disagree with you on Dogma, for me it's his second best film and the last film he showed a bit of balls in his writing. Even though I think Jersey Girl knocked him for two, I definitely think the backlash of Dogma was when the rot set in.
Jay and Silent Bob strike back, was definitely a cash in but it has some good moments and it's basically a film for his fans. Jersey Girl isn't that bad of a film, he's made a lot worse films since imo. But as i said take him away from the View Askewniverse and just doesnt have much to say, maybe if he co wrote with someone he could be able to spread his wings a bit but his ego doesn't seem to let him. Clerks 2, even though I like it a lot and I think it's his last good film, just feels like a step back into his comfort zone
After that, I don't anything he's done since and his last film Yoga Hosers is a definite low point.
She just struck unlucky, not the first actress to have that happen to her. She had the looks and wasn't that bad a actress to be a biggish star but having a few flops early into her budding career didn't help her. Soon the next pretty thing came along and she was passed on.
Looking at her film career, a lot of her better and more well known work came before Meet Joe Black. Mallrats, The Rock, Basquiat and throw in her debut role in Police Academy 7 (she's at her hottest in that film imo) those were her first four films. She did a film with Keanu Reeves, Thomas Jane and Adrian Brody called The Last Time I Commited Suicide in 1997 and a period film called Basil in 1998 with Jared Leto and Christian Slater. So even before Joe Black, she was starring in lead roles or co star roles in indie and big budget fair before Meet Joe Black.
After Joe Black, she was in Mystery Men, a underrated film that sadly flopped. Seems like a few films after that she starred to get typecast as the girlfriend in American Pie type rom com comedies that became popular after that films success. Either her agent or her, either have bad tastes or she chose those films for the money instead of trying to cement herself as a good actress. She did the Medallion (2003) with Jackie Chan, that was her last high profile film with her in co lead. It's been most straight to DVD or TV movie fare.
Some of her better films form her career Northfork (2003), Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genuis (2004), Green Street Hooligans (2005), Shadows In The Sun (2005), For Your Consideration (2006), Flashbacks of a Fool (2008), Hallam Foe (2007) for me her best performance in a film. Those i would say have been her best work since.
It's been TV mostly since 2006 with the odd straight to DVD film, that many would know her for. She's still a working actress and that's better then most do.
I understand if you don't think she's a good actress but to say she's not attractive is a bit crazy. She's probably one of the hottest in Hollywood, definitely top 5.
She ain't no Cate Blanchett or Saoirse Ronan, but if the script is right she's more then a pretty face and can pull out a great performance. I like she takes risks, she could have easily just played beautiful girlfriend and wife roles and take a easy pay day. Not everything has worked for her but she's done some good stuff.
Her C.V isn't too bad, sure most of her earlier roles she was probably didn't have the largest of roles but she didn't let the side down, like in say About Time and Suit Francaise. The Wolf of Wall Street, she's pretty damn good in that while playing up her sexiness. The Big Short was a nice cameo. I. Tonya, she delivered her best performance to date. Goodbye Christopher Robin, she delivered a underrated one. Mary Queen of Scots, the film is very troubled but Robbie delivers a great performance. Her turn as Harley Quinn in Suicide Squad is the bright spot from that mess of a film.
Not everything she's done has worked as I said, Terminal was a mess, Focus was meh, Z for Zachariah with the cast that film had should have been a lot better, The Legend of Tarzan was a load of poo. Suicide Squad is rubbish.
She's got that new Quentin Tarantino film coming up, some DC projects with Harley Quinn in them and some interesting indie fare. She's not had a bad career so far.
Father Ted
Only Fools and Horses
Toast of London
Bottom
Red Dwarf
Inside no.9
The Thick Of It
Black Books
The Office (Uk version)
Extras
The Royal Family
Early Doors
Blackadder
I'm Alan Partridge
The Day Today
Brasseye
Probably one of his most underrated, I think some don't watch it cause it's such a non Carpenter type film. No Action or Horror, it's a story about grief and love. Definitely agree Ghost of Mars (just a retread on Assault on Precinct 13 but on Mars) and The Ward are his worse films, I'd also throw Memoirs of an Invisible Man on that list.
Bridges and Allen are great. It wouldn't grace my top 5 Carpenter film list, The Thing, Halloween, Escape From New York, They Live and Big Trouble In Little China are better films imo. But I enjoy it and it's Carpenter's most heartfelt film.
She's a weird case really, she'd be in a way one of the lesser known Oscar winner's known by the public.
But she put in two storming performances in Boys Don't Cry and Million Dollar Baby, although I think I prefer her role in Boys Don't Cry. Outside of that probably P.S I Love You is her most well known work and probably more known publicly then her Oscar winning roles.
But she's done good work that's just not been seen by a large viewing audience. Freedom Writers, Conviction, You're Not You, The Homesman, Logan Lucky, Iron Jawed Angels, Insomnia, The Gift, Red Dust, Mary and Martha, 11:14 and 55 Steps. A lot of good performances in those films just not big commercial work. Okay Insomnia is directed by Christopher Nolan and starring Al Pacino and Robin Williams but it's a underseen compared to Nolan's other work and Freedom Writer's has gain a cult following.
Also throw in the fact a lot of her commercial big budget work that would get her notice is actually her worse films. The Black Dehlia, a film with a top director, top cast and story from the writer of Oscar winning L.a Confidential. Should have been great but was a disaster. The Core, a disaster film that ended up a disaster. The Reaping, a big budget horror that didn't exactly set the box office alight. Amelia, her biopic of Amelia Earhart. She had a top cast with a respected International Director. It was Swank's attempt for a third Oscar but it flopped badly.
She's just one of those actresses who's just not a leading lady and works at her best in lower key work. She struck gold with her Oscar winning roles, let's not forget Boys Don't Cry was a indie film. She's just more comfortable in work that doesn't attract massive audiences.
I actually think this is Emma Stone's best performance even more so then her Oscar one in La La Land. She need's to do more bitchy roles cause her two best ones were this and Birdman. She pulled off a great English accent, I was worried when she was first cast in this but she proved me wrong. Emma isn't troubling the top 10 beauties in the world, but she's got that girl next door look that maker her cute imo.