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The Bank Job (2008)
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"Catherine Hardwicke hit one out of the park for female directors this past weekend, but she had a lot of help. Not only was she working with a pre-sold property, she also had a very manageable budget of $37 million. Quite different from the $2 million she had to work with on Thirteen a few years back. Of course, she had similar budgets on Lords of Dogtown ($25 million) and The Nativity Story ($35 million), and both were box office disappointments. Still, she’s going to keep on being trusted with more money — if Summit is smart they’ll keep her on for at least the first Twilight sequel, which will surely come with a higher price tag — and as long as she continues with genre films, she’s sure to remain a profitable director. Not every talented filmmaker does well with more money. Danny Boyle, for instance, typically bombs with bigger budgets. And a lot of foreign auteurs "
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"Steven Boone joins SpoutBlog as a columnist covering politics and social issues and how they intersect with movies. Periodically, he’ll check in–as he’s done below–with firsthand accounts of watching movies with residents of a halfway house in Brooklyn. A halfway house in East New York, Brooklyn. Spring, 2008. The male residents––ex-junkies, parolees and disability recipients––all gathered for their nightly movie ritual. Four to a room, two bunk beds, one cheapo DVD player and a 13-inch Coby TV set. Audio commentary provided by the audience of (on average) five men: two on the bunks, three hunched around the screen on milk crates. The core crew of film fanatics is Kid and Hef, two old-timer felons, each of whom could be mistaken for a black variation of Walter Brennan in Rio Bravo. It’s a strange festival. Welcome Home, Roscoe Jenkins, Hoodlum, Alfred Hitchcock’s Suspicion, The Bank Job, Why Did I Get Married?, Tsui Hark’s Vampire Hunters, and lots of TV-on-DVD: Annie Oakley, CSI, ... "
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"Great lil' heist flick. I like the setting of London in the 70's. Based (loosely I think) on a true story but the government actually classified all of the details of the robbery and most of the items stolen have never been recovered. The fact that you know some of it happened actually made it a better flick. It was a nice change-up to see the crew as a bunch of screw-ups and not the tops in their field ala Ocean's 11. "
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"Jason Statham is not a name that exactly inspires confidence in moveigoers.He was director Guy Ritchie’s lapdog for “Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels” and “Snatch,” before boxing himself in to roles that played up his martial-arts prowess, squelching any dramatic potential that nuanced his performances.Starring in a string of empty-calorie cinematic Twinkies (“The Transporter” films, “Chaos,” “War” and “Crank” were all designed solely to accentuate his pugnacious proclivities) only kept him out of the direct-to-video purgatory that befell fellow fighters Steven Segal and Jean-Claude Van Damme.He’s often dismissed as the British version of Bruce Willis (balding, gruff on-screen demeanor, characters of few words and a cupboard filled with ca "
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"The Bank Job(2007) may be just another heist movie, but it distinguishes itself by creating, with a few deft strokes, approachable and human characters. Unfortunately, because it IS ju "
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"My expectations were pretty low going in, but I left entertained. I think what intrigued me more about this film is that it was based on a true story. The plot was a little more complex than your average bank heist plot because it's based on the fact that by breaking into the safe deposit vault of this bank the villains (as they were often called throughout the film) opened a Pandora's Box of lies, deceit, treachery, politics-gone-bad, bad cops, porn and all the juicy details of the corrupt lifestyles of the rich and famous.Jason Statham was pretty subdued in this role thankfully. In fact, he's made it to be quite the James Bond character in this film. Charisma. Good Looks. Intelligent. Saffron Burrows was stunning. She did well. But truth be told, I think I was too taken aback by her amazing beauty.It was a well-shot film with a more complex plot. I think there were up to four parties that got incriminated and had a stake in making sure these bank robbers wer ... "
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"When I went to go see this film I was figuring it was going to be an average film that may get slow, that was my view of it by the trailers that I saw. But with this film I wasn't bored for even a second througout it, so it was far more enjoyable than I had thought it would of been. There's not alot of action througout the film but it has just all the right elements to make this film enjoyable. This film has to be one of Jason Statham's better films where he is the lead role because it's not as far-fetched as his previous roles in other films. "
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