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Sexy Beast (2000)
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"This is the first film I've seen by director Jules Dassin. Du rififi chez les hommes (Rififi) With a reputation as such a seminal heist film I was anticipating something quite special from Rififi. The elements of a heist and it's unstable aftermath can be compared to some of my favorite films like The Killing and Reservoir Dogs. The former of which came out about roughly the same time and thus I'm not sure how much influence one could have on the other. Maybe because I've seen so many heist films now that run along these same lines, I was a little more bored at first and a little less surprised by the end at the outcome. Still it was an exciting film and I can see it's innovation. One of the most notable portions of the film is the actual heist which is quite long and features no music, and no dialogue (the characters must be quiet. They are performing a heist after all). It shows many steps of the mechanics of the heist in real time. This makes you feel like you are really ... "
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"I've heard people saying,they didnt think of Colin Farrell as doing "funny" .. They obviously didnt see,or forgot "Intermission" ..The "movie within a movie" being made in "in Bruges",is supposedly a rip-off of "Dont look now" .. That set-up provides THE most preposterous of pay-offs imaginable.. lots of "claret" a sprayin...and Ralph Fiennes seems to be reprising Ben Kingsley's character from "Sexy Beast"..The other reference there being ,tally of "F"-word usage (still beaten by "Resevoir Dogs" methinks..but probably outscoring on the "C " word quotiant. All that said..this is a great example of a movie that will have you laughing out loud at disgusting characters and disgusting behaviour .. with enough redeeming ,believable qualities in those characters to make it all okay. "
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"These may not be the greatest titles of all time, but they're the right movies for right now Allright, it's the middle of the Summer, the days are long and the nights are hot. What are you gonna watch 1. Caddyshack (1980) - Harold Ramis and Bill Murray should probably go down as one of the best contemporary comedic directors/actor teams we have today. I like Ghostbusters and Groundhog Day enough but this one set the standard. 2. Jurassic Park (1993) - This film for me, epitemizes the term Summer blockbuster. I still vividly remember standing in line, in 110+ degree heat in Phoenix for this movie. I also remember the young woman in front of us passing out from the heat as we waited. I think she was from Minnesota. 3. Born on the Fourth of July (1989)- Hey, remember when Tom Cruise wasn't such a joke? Niether do I but this is still one of his best performances and it's not something that comes up in conversation very often so now would be the perfect time to take a second look at ... "
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"One thing that makes You Kill Me one of the best movies I've seen so far this year is Jeff Jur's photography.You Kill Me is shot in cool tones (notice how strong the blues are in dusky interiors). In bright light, the image flirts with overexposure. The first choice underscores the cool, hardbitten nature of the film's characters, most of whom have spent their lives in literal and metaphorical shadows, away from others, a quality connoted by the near washing out of the image when they are drawn into the light.Jur also makes selected use of rack focus to bring the audience into Frank's (Ben Kingsley) point of view. There are three shots in particular where this device is put to use: one where Frank catches his reflection in a window while talking to his soon-to-be AA sponsor, Tom (Luke Wilson), one where Frank looks up at the top of the Golden Gate Bridge while talking to Tom about “accepting a higher power,” and one where he fixes on one of his fellow alcoholics, Becky (Katie Messi ... "
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Sexy Beast
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"Sexy Beast (2001) is a crime movie from England. A low-life criminal, Gil, and his ex-porn star wife retire to a modest villa on the Spanish coast only to have their life disrupted by a visit from an old thug (Ben Kingsley) who insists that Gil return to England and for 2.5% of the take participate in a robbery which is “no risk.” The movie is replete with swearing, and I wondered several times why anyone would care about these characters. Yet I kept watching because I could sort of identify with the big lout Gil: He had found his kind of happiness, he simply wanted no one to bother him, and, as I slowly realized, he and his wife loved each other no matter what stereotypes I brought to the picture. Does the movie have a point beyond giving a vivid portrait of the underbelly of English society? Sort of. At least it doesn’t clobber you over the head with some trite theme. If you can wade through the sleaze, you reach a grudging admiration for Gil who, let’s f ... "
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Ben Kingsley at his best
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"I just watched Sexy Beast for the second time. It had been a good four or five years since I first saw it—I remembered really enjoying it, but other than the memorable opening five-or-so minutes, I couldn't recall much else. Now that my memory has been jogged, here's what I think makes it a great film: 1. Ben Kingsley is at his best in this film, playing a super-intense yet quirky bad guy. He totally sucks you into his intimidation techniques and low-level insanity. (His use of repetition is particularly gripping and chilling.) 2. The use of flashback as a storytelling technique is done in an extremely interesting and engaging way. It creates a certain brand of suspense and tension that is very different from the usual edge-of-your-seat action-oriented kind of suspense. 3. In general, this film falls into that somewhat unique category of "action without much action." Some people might be disappointed in this, especially if they're expecting a lot of bank robbery scenes. But I ... "
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