jackhammer

Val Kilmer CAN be good when he is not too busy being an arse: Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, The Salton Sea etc.

Anyhow latest watch:



The unbelievably true story is more of a reason to watch this film. Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed it but it could have been so much better. I do like Statham though. Just an ordinary geezer off the street and always watchable.

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lucifer_sam

Salton Sea may be my one of my favorite movies ever. Definitely Kilmer at his finest.

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Molecules

Didn't he used to be a professional diver? I find him offensively wooden. Allow his Guy Richie films though, and maybe the Transporter - still unacknowledged as a slapstick comedy classic.

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adidasss

Lol, agreed. Thank God he's hot...


That picture was responsible for me renting Crank.........I'll probably end up seeing Transporter aswell...

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well we all have to have standards i suppose. His face is just too... South London?

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jackhammer

Yes. I am behind everyone else by six months. Glad I am really because this was disappointing. A camera that seems impervious to whatever you throw at it when in reality if you fart your cam glitches. A character manages to keep her high heels on through half the film's running time despite the fact that Manhattan resembles a war zone. The guy holding the camera is an annoying twat. Despite it's real time scenario, the cameraman seems to be editing the footage on the fly as we have cuts that should not even exist. Lastly: notice to cameraman. DROP THE FUCKING THING. You can run quicker without it.

To be fair, the F/X were well done and the concept is a good one-just poorly executed.

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adidasss

You should have seen it at the cinema...

Oh, and I don't think it's supposed to be real time...I'm not sure what cuts you're referring to *unsure*

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That's why you are unsure of the cuts. They are subtle but noticeable all the time. If the film wants to based in reality then you cannot pick a time when to turn your camera off and then on again. An example is when they enter the underground. There is a huge cut when they decide to walk upon the lines and then BAM they are on the lines. The camera should always be constant but if you watch it, there are so many cuts.

The real time was more in line with sustained times of attack. It is roughy set over a twelve hour period but certain set peices should be in real time because he is documenting it, yet he makes a few cuts here and there.

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adidasss

Can't say I noticed it...:\

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'Threads', a 1984 BBC docudrama/public information film about a nuclear strike on Britain and the effects it would have. I thought it was going to be fear-mongering codswallop but it's actually rather sober and extremely harrowing, even now. Despite a BBC budget it delivers on the gritty 80's TV drama front in a way no-one else could, you have to hand it to them for having the balls to show this on primetime.

Threads is voicing Cold War fears that everybody had of course that have little to no chance of playing out today; I saw the 60's one which was also extremely graphic for it's time.
I think it started something of a trend cause my dotty old mum recalls there were several such programs at the time, including a 'countdown to midnight' Armageddon clock on the daily news? Apparently the general consensus among her and her friends in those days was they would all sooner drive to central London and get vaporised than suffer a nuclear winter or the ensuing chaos. After having stuff like this rammed down their throats I'm not surprised either...

Definitely worth a watch, not for the easily scared. It's set in Sheffield (a likely target) and vaguely follows two families from the build up of conflict to 15 years after the attack. In 13 parts on the choob.

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