Anthony Hopkins is the guy in this case.
Outstanding work from his first picture (The Lion in Winter, 1968) through to today.
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Longlegs is the best new movie I’ve seen in a long time. Excellent cinematography, direction and acting.
8.25/10
I’m really curious about that one, especially as it’s supposed to be less gruesome than the trailer implies.
As for Kind of Kindess; it looks good but it’s so underwhelming and way too esoteric for my liking. Also it seemed that any actor/actress who wasn’t William Dafoe, Jesse Plemons, Emma Stone or Margaret Qualley was wooden and wouldn’t have looked out of place in ‘The Room’.
I’d say Nicholas Cage could give him a run
It’s pretty tame on the gore. Only a few things and they mostly happen off camera
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Saw Longlegs last night too and thought it was just okay. I didn’t particularly like the last third.
Have you seen Lanthimos’ early work? This is what any of his films before The Favourite are like. Personally, I love it when Lanthimos gets really weird and esoteric and really enjoyed Kinds of Kindness. I can totally understand why it would be a turn off for people though and it’s certainly a bit of an uneven film.
Michael Caine?
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I’ve seen ‘The Lobster’ and liked it but haven’t seen anything earlier than that. I think with Lanthimos’ movies it either clicks with you or it doesn’t and this case it didn’t. The thing is, if he released a new movie I would most probably go see it.
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Finally watched Dune 2 last night. Really enjoyed it. The cinematography is excellent. The acting good. The story telling fine. ALthough that’s hard for me to judge. I’ve read the book a few times and watched the Lynch version too many times so I’m familiar with the story.
But … Christopher Walken felt incredibly missed cast to me.
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I rewatched Apocalypse Now last now for goodness only knows the how many times.
For whatever reason I decided to take note that Willard is wearing tiger camo.
As someone that hates the discussion of symbolism in movies because of a pair of potted cacti in “My Darling Clementine” the realisation that the kinship of Willard and Kurtz was symbolized by the tiger cam and the representation of the danger of the tiger in the jungle rather annoyed me.
They were gonna make me a Major for this, and I wasn’t even in their fuckin’ army anymore.
This juxtaposes with everyone else wearing standard greens.
For whatever reason, I’ve never really thought of this. Spec Ops often does it’s own things.
I, as per normal, enjoyed the tiger scene with it’s classic line.
‘Never get out of the boat.’ Absolutely goddamn right! Unless you were goin’ all the way… Kurtz got off the boat. He split from the whole fuckin’ program.
We continue up the river, and as I’m watching Redux, enjoy the French Plantation sequence. Apropos of nothing, I just think it really adds to the movie.
After numerous adventures, we arrive at the end of the river and Kurtz’s compound when, for the first time ever, I really notice that the US troops that have followed Kurtz off the reservation are wearing … Tiger Cam!
Now, as someone that hates the discussion of symbolism in movies this rather annoyed me. The realisation that Willard and Kurtz had been symbolically linked …
They were gonna make me a Major for this, and I wasn’t even in their fuckin’ army anymore.
Great Vietnamese brewery. They gave me a couple hats last time I was in there.
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Just curious, are you over in Vietnam at the moment or did you find this out here?
That was in Singapore.
They have a tap room and good distribution there. Their Island Lager was great too.
In Phuket now.
ah nice 1, sounds like a great trip. I was in Singapore a few weeks ago but hadn’t heard of this brewer until you mentioned it. I am off to Vietnam and Thailand in November so will search them out
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I’m not sure. The French plantation scene is a self contained chapter. A vignette. It has no impact on the story before or after. While enjoyable, I can see why it was cut. The film was running absurdly long.
I think it’s a relevant critique of the “domino” theory given that the Viet hate the Chinese and Russians which is presented in this scene, it establishes that Viet Minh was supported/established by the US (in a similar fashion to the Mujahideen in Afghanistan) and adds to the geopolitics of the region.
I also haven’t seen the original version in decades as I have redux on DVD.
Also, French booobs.
But mainly, the movie is about Willard’s growing appreciation of how fucking crazy the whole thing is. And the French add an other layer of craziness to that.
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I read somewhere that Coppola regarded the journey up the river as a journey back in time. If so, it would be odd not to reference the French colonial period.
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