Film Fanatics - Chat Thread II

I say why not go the full green mile? I'll change mine to zjs, you change to Ape Gone Insane and we swap avatars and hide reps. I then proceed to avoid the swear filter and Phalanges bestows 3 warnings points upon me. We can then penetrate each others posting circles undetected like Damon and Di Caprio in The Departed.



Also was tjs not available? Your username makes you sound French. Like the Pierre smiley above.

zjs's sig being off centre annoys me.

Catch Me If You Can and Hustle have got me in the mood for Heist films. Thinking a run through the Ocean's Trilogy?

Catch Me If You Can and Hustle have got me in the mood for Heist films. Thinking a run through the Ocean's Trilogy?

I know little of Pinter's work, besides his apparent long-standing love affair with profanity. But, with the help of Wikipedia:





So yeah, that seems about right in relation to Dog Day Afternoon. Although using that definition it would seem Beckett and Pinter are practically interchangeable, which is something I doubt but can't properly dispute until I've actually read some Pinter.


edit: Who I'm now gonna have to stick on the reading list alongside A Song of Ice and Fire, Cloud Atlas, the stuff I actually have to read for uni and Infinite Jest (thanks ), which is apparently about as long as LOTR. I will never manage this ffs.

F*ck me, Phalanges dishes out warning points?

He does?

I didn't enjoy Heat as much as I expected to.

He does?

I didn't enjoy Heat as much as I expected to.

You don't enjoy any film as much you expected to.

That's true, tbh. Any film I have high expectations of tends to disappoint. Actually, having said that, it seems to be that most films which other people rant and rave about tend to fall short of my expectations. It's not that I allow myself to be carried along on their enthusiasm, or that I only like small arthouse projects, it's just that a lot of so-called "great" films that people long are the ones which are constantly played on t.v. (from what I've experienced, on Freeview). As such, they tend to plump for style over substance.

I felt the same with Heat. They were brilliant, but not enough to save the film, in my eyes. I'm also finding, more and more, that I only really love De Niro when he's playing one of his fortes; the gangster (i.e. Goodfellas, The Untouchables) or deranged, perhaps psychopathic (i.e. Taxi Driver, Cape Fear). That's probably an entirely unfair assessment, as I love him in films like Casino where, although the films is associated with gangsters, you'd hardly call him a gangster. It's not that his comedic attempts are starting to impeach on his legacy either, it's just that I'll always remember him in films such as The Deer Hunter, in which he plays an excellent role and the film is excellent, which makes his good performances in films that are good - but not excellent - just seem not as good. If that makes sense.

I think Taxi Driver for me is his greatest performance. A lot would say Raging Bull and he is excellent in it, but Taxi Driver is one of my favourite films of all time and De Niro is just towering as Travis.

I agree, but for me it's The Deer Hunter.

Any good film related non-fiction books?



Oh the horror.

How is it over there? Enjoying it?