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It's definitely no Shakespeare in Love that's a fact, and it certainly isn't boring. It's a bit like if Peter Greenway and Stanley Kubrick joined together to make a dark comedy, The Favorite would be the film. It's more a art film, and isn't as easy going and audience friendly as SIL. It's going to annoy a lot of people cause it doesn't give you easy answers. But Olivia Coleman is bloody awesome in this and if she doesn't win Best Actress at the Oscars, it be a shame. Emma Stone needs to do more bitchy and nasty characters, she's pretty damn good at it, this my favorite performance from her. Rachel Weisz delivers her best performance in years for me in this film.
I'm surprised it's getting so much award attention, not cause it's a bad film just cause it's such a non Oscar type film.
I think it's Yorgos Lanthimos most commercial film to date, still weird as hell and will annoy more especially with it's ending. But with a Oscar worthy central performance from Olivia Coleman, and career best performance for me from Emma Stone (yes even better then her Oscar winning one from La La Land) and Rachel Weisz deliver's her best performance in a while, also Nicholas Hoult is great in a smaller role. It definitely won't be everyone's cup of tea, but it's darkly comic and it's great seen Stone play such a dislikeable character, she should do it more often and Coleman is fantastic.
Just for the performances of The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down and Van Morrison's performance of Caravan, which are out of this world. Great to see Dylan, not his greatest performance but it's Dylan. Love how in awe Neil Young is just been on Stage with the Band. Muddy Waters and Mannish Boy is just awesome as well. Great to see Richard Manuel, Rick Danko and Levon Helm in fine voice, nothing can beat them. I love the little interviews that intercut between performances.
Definitely one of the best concert's caught on film. It's top 5 of Scorsese's best films imo.
If this was released today, Carolyn Farina would have become a more successful actress. Maybe Greta Gerwig levels, been a indie queen.
Audrey is definitely Stillman's sweetest and most likeable character, I think it's mostly down to Farina performance. She gives Audrey just strong will but gentle heart, I love that she had her eyes on Tom once she read the letter's he sent to his Ex. She's probably the most honest and true to herself then everyone in the group, she never changes herself and sticks by her principles. Farina's acting anytime Tom is so blissfully ignorant to Audrey's feelings for him when he talks about his Ex, are some of the best acted moments in the film. Along with Chris Eigeman as Nick, she's the standout of the cast.
Shame Stillman didn't cast her as Alice in The Last Day's of Disco, i liked Chloe Sevigny in the film but I think Farina would have gotten over Alice's innocence and made you feel for her a lot more then Sevigny did.
Well there is tragedy involving some side characters and one or two of the main characters, for example Fatty, the young teenager who fell for Ting Tang and her Neighbor friend, who's pretty shown to be promiscuous throughout the film. End's up killing the teacher having a relationship with promiscuous Neighbor's mother, and if it's going by news reports on the TV slept with Ting Tang's friend. The sad thing the so called friend only got back with Fatty to get one over on her ex friend Ting Tang.
Also the grandmother going into Coma and then dying was pretty tragic.
Also the father NJ and his long lost childhood love Sherry, both love each other but they just can't get together. I thought the actress playing Sherry was fantastic, she really sold that Sherry clearly was effected by NJ leaving her 30 years before. That was pretty tragic, as Sherry even though she's had a successful life in terms of her work, but is a mess in her private life.
none of the main characters die, but they still had tragedy in their lives.
It's fantastic, 150 million is pretty damn great especially for a film with no superheros, or CGI monsters in it. Just a rock biopic on one of the biggest bands ever.
And Freddie did say he wouldn't go back unless they had a big hit, it never came and it's a shame. Especially how massive their last tour was in 86, and it skipped North America. Those hits they had during that period are some of their best and something I thought would have gone down a storm in America but alas. I'm sure Wayne's World helped get them a newer fanbase with younger fans. But it's great to see the film be a huge success in the States.
I remember seen it on BBC's 2 Videodrome (it was during Mark Cousin's run) in the late 90's. It definitely one of those film's that grip you in on it's first watch, I was only 16 when I saw it and I went out the next day to HMV and bought it on videotape. It's a film I could watch a few times over and not get bored with it, from it's awesome soundtrack, to top notch performances and just it's feel good feel that you can't help but feel you are in the 70's.
I think the film is very good,and deserves more love. The biggest problem for it was coming in with expectations of it been a spiritual "sequel" to Dazed and Confused, and the film isn't really anything like that film. For starter's it's nowhere near the quality of D&C, none of the characters stick out and the female characters are just there for the guys to get their leg over with, while in in D&C they are just as interesting and funny as the male characters.
But I still think EWS has a lot going for it, the group of guys and their interactions are a lot of fun, Wyatt Russell been the standout and closet the film has to Wooderson. In parts it's a lot funnier then D&C, and it's got a awesome soundtrack.
It's one of his most underrated works for sure, not sure it's anywhere near his best work. I think the downbeat feel and following two stone wall classic films in Dazed and Confused and Before Sunrise didn't help it either. The fact it's not got a proper DVD or Blu Ray release is probably leading to it's neglect by critic's on these list's.
It's the comedown piece to the upper of Dazed and Confused, the characters in Confused are for the most part like-able and the film is just a celebration in a way, throw in a top notch soundtrack and a young hip cast and you get a classic that it is today. SubUrbia character's aren't all that like-able (I don't have a problem with it, but some people want their characters to become like-able over the film) and the film starts of with a few laughs but gradually a bleaker feel comes over the film.
Some great performances from Giovanni Ribsi (who's sister was in Dazed and Confused), the underrated Steve Zahn (some might find his character Buff annoying), Amie Carey (who hasn't acted in much since) and Park Posey and Nick Katt return from Dazed and Confused cast (interesting they both played the more unlike-able pair in that film). Great eerie soundtrack from Sonic Youth.
This would make a really good triple bill with Dazed and Confused (70's) and Everybody wants Some!! (80's) .
I think she's supposed to be unlike-able and a bit of a hypocrite, even though she's telling everyone she's a artist and a feminist, she's not good at been a artist (her performance art bit was cringe to the fullest) and she really didn't understand a damn thing about feminism. She's a woeful girlfriend who thinks about herself and happily throw Jeff to the scrap heap to get with The Rock Star, who clearly is only going to use her cause she was a popular chick in High School. She's also a bad friend to Bee, a bit of a spoiled brat towards her mum even though she's in her 20's and threw away all her supposed values away to sleep with the local celebrity who she probably didn't look at twice when he was the school nerd just so she can get ahead in life.
She's the type that won't amount to much, sleep with whoever can get her ahead and waffle about how she believes in stuff but will throw that on the fire just to make a quick buck. She's for me the worse out of the group.
I think the biggest insult to this film was the trailer's saying it was a rom-com, I can see why they did it. The romance between Tim and Mary is sweet and both Gleeson and McAdams have great chemistry together. But this film is about father and son, and that's where the film is at it's strongest when it's between Domhnall Gleeson and Bill Nighy. Those scenes always put a smile on my face.
I think it's Richard Curtis's true masterpiece, even more so then Four Weddings, Love Actually and Nothing Hill. Such a shame it flopped in the box office but it's seemed to have gained a strong fanbase over the last few years. My only fault with the film is the character of Tim's sister Kit Kat, she grates after a while. All the performances are fantastic and the soundtrack is great.
For me I was hoping for Charles and Fiona, I don't think i'm the only one who felt that way. I think it helps that Kristin Scott Thomas was so likeable in the role. I do think they gave Fiona that ending to have the audience smile. I just never got the romance with Carrie (nothing to do with Andie MacDowell) I don't think Richard Curtis did a great job with her. I just never bought into why Charles was so besotted with her. It always seemed to me that Charles was more in love with her, then the other way round. And the ending did nothing for me but it did for others.
The film is at it's strongest when it's around Charles and his group of friends, and the Funeral still pulls the heartstrings. Hugh Grant gives his most charming performance in this and you can see why he became a big star. Rowan Atkinson almost steals the film as the stuttering priest. The support cast are fantastic. It's not my favorite of Curtis's films, I still think About Time is his masterpiece but Weddings is a great rom-com with a dud central romance imo.
The success and audience love for the film tells you the critic's didn't win out on this one. I was a bit worried going into this as a big Queen fan (who doesn't like them) but I loved every minute of it (sure it has one or two inaccuracies) and Rami Malek is great as Freddie and the songs are legendary. Great to see the audience love it.
She's got the Kirsten Stewart/Evan Rachel Wood vibe to her, She's cute for sure. I can see why you would have a crush on her, she's got that cool indie girl thing to her imo.
She's not a leading lady type, she's a very good supporting actress. I never got with Jena that she ever wanted to be a big star. She's happy to go from TV, to blockbuster movie, to indie. I don't think it's a case of them not casting her but her doing her own thing.
Looking at her C.V she's not had a bad career at all. Donnie Darko, The Neon Demon, Into The Wild, Pride and Prejudice, The Messenger, Inherent Vice, Nocturnal Animals, The United States of Leland, Contact and Cold Mountain. Sure she's done some blockbuster stuff Hunger Games, Sucker Punch, Batman vs Superman. She's also done a lot of Indie films. She's done some good TV stuff like Hatfields and McCoys and Hitler: The Rise of Evil and coming up soon Nicholas Windig Refn produced Too Old To Die Young.
Sure most of her best work she's not had massive parts in but she's a good solid supporting actress and nothing wrong with that.
It's his life and he can live it anyway he wants as long as he's not hurting anyone. He's not the first or last actor who doesn't like the limelight. He's one of the best actors living today and has produced some fantastic work and he wants to live a life as a recluse with Rooney Mara by his side then good for him.
I know people will throw out Kristen Stewart's name too, but unlike Pattinson she hasn't been stealing films. Pattinson has. She's took risks with more artier fare and has done well, but she had a bit of a rep going into Twilight series for been a good young actress. But damn Pattinson has made me eat my words, but I did see a good actor in the guy when he did that film playing a young Salvador Dali in Little Ashes (2008), I knew something was there that those horrible Twilight films weren't shown us.
He's done work with Claire Denis, David Cronenberg (2), James Gray, David Michiod, Werner Herzog and Anton Corbjin. That's not a bad run of directors to run with.
I say his role in Good Times was probably the best I saw in 2017. He was awesome in that film. Also deliver top notch performances in The Lost City of Z (he's the best thing in it) and The Rover. If he keeps on doing impressive art house and indie films, and throw in the odd cool and great blockbuster film. Many will forget that he was even in Twilight films.
I don't know about Nepotism side of things. But I never understood why she's become so successful, she's pretty for sure and I'm sure the English rose thing gets over with some. Out of the Harry Potter cast, she's the one who gets the most attention and press. Even in the Harry Potter films she's barely in them.
As a actress, she's not great even her best performance in The Perks of been a Wallflower, she's not the best thing in the film. Her C.V out Potter films are not great. Beauty and the Beast would have been a success without her in it or not. She's yet to challenge herself as a actress. She's probably more well known for her feminist stuff.
George was a bully, he didn't deserve to die but he wasn't entirely innocent or a saint. He was a flawed teenager, like most of us were. I'm sure none of us were bullies but we messed up on things that we look back on and wish we never did.
That's why I love the scenes in the room with George on his own with his Video camera, just saying how he felt. There was a good side to him as well as his asshole side. I like that it leaves it up to the viewer on how you feel about George. I think he was probably spoiled by his parents looks like he was a only child, had some learning difficulties that made it tough for him to make friends and that that he had a caring side by buying a present for Sam and telling Clyde he made nice sandwiches. But he also had a mean streak to me and got off on been nasty to people and beating them up so it made him look powerful. I do agree with Marty when he said that George was probably only been nice cause he thought he'd get something out of it going to the party. That's the film biggest plus that they don't make George out to be entirely perfect.