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A very good film up until... (spoilers)
Far better then many give it credit for (spoilers)
Really Underrated Director
One of Ang Lee's most underrated films
Basically A Platonic Version of Before Sunset (spoilers)
Enjoyable enough coming of age show
The Scenes with Dianne West/Martha Plimpton/Keanu Reeves and Joaquin Phoenix are best stuff
One of my favourite Emily Blunt performances and one of her most underrated films
I wish the film spent more time on Nick and Norah
Why did they make Betty so dislikeable and one other little thing
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Good list FilmBuff.
Definitely agree with the bottom two would also put The French Dispatch down there, haven't been a fan of Anderson's newer films. Feel very style over substance but you'll have people go to bat for those filsm. I really didn't like Asteroid City at all.
Top 5 for me would be The Grand Budapest Hotel, Rushmore and The Royal Tenebaums. Fantastic Mr Fox and The Life Aquatic would finish it off. I think The life Aquatic is probably biggest switch I've had in recent times on Anderson films. I didn't like it for a good while but after a recent rewatch it's ended up as one of my favourites, go figure.
I've warmed to Darjeeling over the years and it would be in middle of the pack of his films.
Definitely shocked me cause the film was focused in on them for first 10 minutes or so. But the film won me over then that they went agaisnt type.
Nope not having that lol. Peaky Blinders is awesome.
Besides a Christmas tune or two, and a bit of snow. You wouldn't have thought it was a Christmas movie.
It's not a great film even for it's genre. 5.9 on IMDB is just about right. If it didn't have John Woo's name on it, the film would have probably gone straight to streaming and not got a sniff of a Cinema release.
It takes to mid point of the film until a sniff of action kicks in.And even then it's not going to compete with the likes of John Wick, The Raid, Nobody, Extraction films, The Equalizer when it comes to the action scenes. Plus you just shouldn't be spending 50 minutes of drama in action film. Joel Kinnaman does his best with the role. But Woo's peak has come and gone, check out Hard Boiled, Face/Off, Hard Target and The Killer to see him at his best.
I'd go 5/10, not woeful or anything just better action films out there.
You could have ended it with them walking out of the bathroom and them just walking off. But we always kind of end on those type of scenes in Coming of Age high school films. But I think the Chocolate milk scene was a nice touch as you don't usually see what happens next and I like after such a big event in their lives they are still nervous teenagers still trying to figure it out.
Definitely widely available and not that hard to get on DVD or Blu Ray if you are willing to pay a bit more then usual to get it or on streaming (probably cheapest way to watch it besides on YouTube).
Even though the "IT" films weren't masterpieces, she definitely stood out from younger cast. She's done a few meh films but I liked her in Uncle Frank and The Adults , she was a little underused in Wes Anderson's Asteroid City and she was likeable in Dungeon and Dragons without really stealing the film.
She's yet to really have that breakout role. Where she puts in a top class performance. I like to see her take a challenging role or two and see how much depth she's got as a acting talent. She does remind me of a younger Amy Adams, in that she's likeable and has a nice screen presence, but she's yet to probably get the type of performances that Adams knocks out for fun. But she's still young so it might come further down the road.
Only really Tom Cruise and maybe Leo DiCaprio who's names are box office draws. I can't think of anyone else.
For Hunger Games and X Men films would be hits if she was in them or not. I firmly believe that. I look at her non franchise stuff to see if she's a box office draw.
Silver Linings Playbook was made for 21 million and did 236 million.
The House of the end of the street was made for 10 million and made 44 million.
American Hustle was made for 40 million and made 250 million.
Serena was made for 25 million and only made 5 million
Joy was made for 60 million and only made 101 million.
Passengers was made for 150 million and made 303 million.
Mother was made for 30 million and it did 44 million.
Red Sparrow was made for 66 million and made 151 million.
Causeway and Don't Look Up were streaming films.
No Hard Feelings was made for 44 million and made 87 million.
She's reliable without been spectacular is how I see it. The films were she's the main lead haven't done as well as say the films she's been in with a star studded cast. Look at example of David O Russell films she did, Silver Lining Playbook is just as much Bradley Cooper's film as it's hers and American Hustle is star studded. But Joy is her baby, and it didn't do anywhere as well as the other two.
That's kind of true, I haven't seen a film like this and based on the same premise that equals the quality of Big Chill after it. Although I do think John Sayles did a film before this based on same premise called Return of the Secaucus 7, made in 1979. It's a lower budget film and doesn't have the starry cast or soundtrack of Kasdan's film (only David Strathairn would be known from most unknown cast). But it's every bit as great as Big Chill. This is the premise ...
"Seven baby boomers with ties to the antiwar movement of the '60s get together for a weekend at the home of teachers Mike (Bruce MacDonald) and Katie (Maggie Renzi). What should be a peaceful reunion, however, is rife with drama. Longtime couple Jeff (Mark Arnott) and Maura (Karen Trott) are separating, speechwriter Irene (Jean Passanante) is self-conscious about her conservative boyfriend (Gordon Clapp), and Frances (Maggie Cousineau) has a flirtation with a local mechanic (David Strathairn)."
Another I like that isn't as good as Big Chill but well worth checking out is Kenneth Branagh called Peter's Friend's With Emma Thompson, Stephen Fry, Branagh and Hugh Laurie. It's basically the Big Chill but set in England.
A bit odd for sure but Sarah knew Harold wasn't going to leave her and it was done as a favour for someone they cared about and she knew Meg wanted to become a mother and wanted great father figure if she happens to get pregnant and her child happens to ask her who her dad was. Harold seems like most reliable and head screwed on guy out of the bunch of friends.
It's a great film, probably king of this genre of films of old high school or college friends meeting up for a week or weekend after years apart. The cast are fantastic (especially the late William Hurt and Glenn Close, and Meg Tilly was stunning in this and Jeff Goldblum is fun) and soundtrack is one of the best you'll ever hear. And at 1hr 45mins, it doesn't outstay it's welcome.
Still my favourite Lawrence Kasdan film.
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