Louis: Your ratings and thoughts on Laurence Olivier in A Little Romance, O'Toole and Gielgud in Caligula, the casts of Siberiade, I As In Icarus and 1941.
RIP Bob Rafelson and Paul Sorvino. Is it just me, or do multiple actors/directors always seem to pass away in the duration of one, maybe two or three days? Whenever I hear about such loss, I can't help but wonder: who's next? Damn it.
Olivier - 3.5(Olivier basically does a riff on his Boys From Brazil performance, just utilized differently here as friendly but sly old time pick pocket. Olivier brings a nice charm and really delivers the only actual charm I found in this otherwise dull romance. Stil the part demands very little of his considerable talent and while he gives a good performance it isn't anything of note with in his repetoire.)
Gielgud - 2.5(Again he certainly delivers typically in his exposition in a straight forward way, but so straight forward that it is almost comical given what is going around him.)
O'Toole - ?(I mean he makes Hopper in Apocalypse Now look sober, and where that was perfect for a burned out Photographer, I'm not entirely sure that was perfect for an Emperor, even as one portrayed as twisted. Hard to say for sure, but O'Toole is so high that I guess it is an achievement he delievered his lines at all. I have no idea even to look at the performance, because it cerainly is SOMETHING to watch.)
Siberaide's cast is all uniformly good but the appeal of the film really is just the natural quality of all that performances that form sort of the community we visit from age to age. There's no disconnect between ages as the performances all maintain that innate goodness and degree of naturalism.
I As In Icarus, is filled with a cast of everyone being consistently good as well in very specific roles in terms of function (and where I'd say JFK is the even greater film though I do think this is a terrif film), yet rock solid in that such. Hard to know who's who in the cast list other than Montand, but the stand out is the surviving witness who is quite good in just small bit of showing everything going on through his head so quickly while trying to survive. Everyone though is rock solid.
1941 doesn't work but all the credit in the world to Spielberg for letting Mifune speak with his own voice, shame on anyone who made the choice to dub him, as his vocal work totally works here. Just wanted to get that out of the way. Although the weakness of the film isn't the cast, it is Spielberg's overall direction that just somehow isn't funny, and I'll agree with Kubrick that it should've been tweeked towards the dramatic or I could have seen that era Zemeckis pull it off (who wrote the film with Bob Gale). Or it could've been more ridiculous as in some ways I think Airplane! succeeded the following year basically in doing what 1941 attempted here. I actually think all the cast (except Belushi who I don't think is properly utilized, Tim Matheson who I almost always find unappealing, Eddie Deezen who has to be used in the smallest of doses and Slim Pickens who is just doing too much basically as his Dr. Strangelove reprise however without as good of material.) acquit themselves as best they can, particularly Stack who is funny watching Pinnochio as the serious general, Mifune giving a rock solid "good" villian turn, Treat Williams as an obnoxious bully and Warren Oates naturally being just perfect as a rowdy soldier if severly underused.
Niell - 3.5(Mainly just being charming which he's good at, however with this sort of off-beat energy that is similair to Davis's. There he brings it quite splendidly even if in an overall limited quantity.)
Watched Severance, which despite just a little bit of lull in the middle (though I didn't think it was ever bad in that lull) was pretty excellent overall, with an especially amazing finale. Won't give thoughts on the cast because basically any real detail would be a spoiler. Scott though is legimately great, so is Britt Lower (who should've been nominated in supporting actress over Arquette), although I'm still not sure about Turturro's accent choice I thought everything else about his performance was fantastic, Walken's nomination though is overkill though he's good (and I will admit the promise of a great Walken performance due to his nomination is why I watched the series). Thought almost all of the cast was strong, except Arquette who I thought frequently went way over the top, and was often terrible.
Ranking:
1. Adam Scott 2. Britt Lower 3. John Turturro 4. Yul Vazquez (Should've gotten a guest nod over any of the Sucession actors) 5. Zach Cherry 6. Tramell Tillman 7. Nikki M. James 8. Jen Tullock 9. Christopher Walken 10. Dichen Lachman 11. Karen Aldridge 12. Michael Cumpsty 13. Michael Chernus 14. Michael Siberry 15. Patricia Arquette
Louis: No spoilers obviously but what did you think of the last 2 minutes of Severance finale? I mean what a way to end the season. Gonna be a long wait for the next season though.
Ben Stiller should definitely win that Directing Emmy.
Louis: What are your thoughts on the voices of Adam McKay and Paul Feig? I think the best description I've ever seen regarding Feig is that he talks like some slimy snake oil businessman.
Louis: Are you settled on Crowe's rating for The Insider or could he go up??? I re watched The Insider recently after a long time. I found his performance to be flawless honestly.
I'm bothered by the recasting of a certain character from last night's episode (they said it was due to scheduling conflicts) because the new guy wasn't nearly as off-putting and eerie.
Could Daniel Brühl go up for Inglourious Basterds? I find myself liking that performance more and more each viewing. His last scene really recontextualizes how he was playing the role beforehand.
I thought the Better Call Saul episode was pretty great, and I think really perhaps a respite of sorts before I imagine the more intense final three. MVP is obvious.
Razor:
Amazing final moment, just in terms of pure filmmaking from Stiller's direction to the editing, of creating such a powerful flow between each thread and delivering such an incredible impact where they all end up. That's how you do an ending to be sure.
Calvin:
Looks well mounted though an extremely tricky subject matter, and I do ponder how it will handle the extreme brutality of the story. Maybe slightly straightforward looking from the trailer, could be good in a straightforward way though, or perhaps there's a little more than meets the eye as obviously they weren't going to show the most extreme elements in the trailer.
8000's:
McKay sounds like an ex dude bro unsurprisingly, Feig indeed does sound a bit like that.
Marcus:
1. Succession 2. Severance 3. Stranger Things 4. Better Call Saul 5. Squid Game
1. Ben Stiller - Severance (The We We Are) 2. Hwang Dong-Hyuk - Squid Game (Red Light Green Light) 3. Mark Mylod - Succession (All The Bells Say) 4. Cathy Yan - Succession (Disruption) 5. Lorene Scafaria - Succession (Too Much Birthday)
1. Jesse Armstrong - Succession (All The Bell Say) 2. Dan Erickson - Severance (The We We Are) 3. Thomas Schnausz - Better Call Saul (Plan and Execution) 4. Hwang Dong-hyuk - Squid Game (One Lucky Day)
1. Jeremy Strong - Succession 2. Adam Scott - Severance 3. Lee Jung-jae - Squid Game 4. Brian Cox - Succession 5. Bob Odenkirk - Better Call Saul
1. Matthew MacFadyen - Succcession 2. Kieran Culkin - Succession 3. Oh Yeong-su - Squid Game 4. Nicholas Braun - Succession 5. John Turturro - Severance 6. Park Hae-soo - Squid Game 7. Christopher Walken - Severance
1. Rhea Seehorn - Better Call Saul 2. Sarah Snook - Succession 3. Jung Ho-yeon - Squid Game 4. J. Smith-Cameron - Succession 5. Patricia Arquette - Severance
Luke:
I mean a striking enough teaser, but beyond that, let's see what Todd Field has this time given he only has two films, one I think is pretty good the other I think has very good elements in a overall tapestry that I don't think quite comes together, so at the very least the performances should be promising.
Anonymous:
Bergen - 3(I thought the singing sings were way over the top, but that speaks to a larger issue with the film that just doesn't do its comedy bits particularly well. I think she has a decent sense of history with Reynolds, but only decent not amazing. You never believe he'll legimately consider going back to her as she comes off as just a shallow obstacle, which I think limits the potential of the story. She's not terrible in the thin role or anything, just isn't terribly substantial.)
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And if anyone asks if I'm going to review Strasberg or the rest of the male cast from Alien...I will not be overjoyed.
Louis: Your ratings and thoughts on Laurence Olivier in A Little Romance, O'Toole and Gielgud in Caligula, the casts of Siberiade, I As In Icarus and 1941.
1. Reed
2. Carney
3. Warner
4. Kotto
5. Forrest
Luke, your rating predictions.
Reed - 5
Carney - 4.5/5
Warner - 4.5/5
Kotto - 4.5
Forrest - 4.5
Louis: In terms of viewings, just a re-watch of Nosferatu if you haven't got around to it yet.
1. Reed
2. Carney
3. Warner
4. Kotto
5. Forrest
After 1979, I hope next year is 1989
Louis: And Sam Neill in My Brilliant Career.
1. Oliver Reed
2. Art Carney
3. David Warner
4. Yaphet Kotto
5. Frederic Forrest
1. Carney
2. Reed
3. Warner
4. Kotto
5. Forrest
RIP Bob Rafelson and Paul Sorvino. Is it just me, or do multiple actors/directors always seem to pass away in the duration of one, maybe two or three days? Whenever I hear about such loss, I can't help but wonder: who's next? Damn it.
1.Carney
2.Reed
3.Warner
4.Kotto
5.Forrest
Luke:
Olivier - 3.5(Olivier basically does a riff on his Boys From Brazil performance, just utilized differently here as friendly but sly old time pick pocket. Olivier brings a nice charm and really delivers the only actual charm I found in this otherwise dull romance. Stil the part demands very little of his considerable talent and while he gives a good performance it isn't anything of note with in his repetoire.)
Gielgud - 2.5(Again he certainly delivers typically in his exposition in a straight forward way, but so straight forward that it is almost comical given what is going around him.)
O'Toole - ?(I mean he makes Hopper in Apocalypse Now look sober, and where that was perfect for a burned out Photographer, I'm not entirely sure that was perfect for an Emperor, even as one portrayed as twisted. Hard to say for sure, but O'Toole is so high that I guess it is an achievement he delievered his lines at all. I have no idea even to look at the performance, because it cerainly is SOMETHING to watch.)
Siberaide's cast is all uniformly good but the appeal of the film really is just the natural quality of all that performances that form sort of the community we visit from age to age. There's no disconnect between ages as the performances all maintain that innate goodness and degree of naturalism.
I As In Icarus, is filled with a cast of everyone being consistently good as well in very specific roles in terms of function (and where I'd say JFK is the even greater film though I do think this is a terrif film), yet rock solid in that such. Hard to know who's who in the cast list other than Montand, but the stand out is the surviving witness who is quite good in just small bit of showing everything going on through his head so quickly while trying to survive. Everyone though is rock solid.
1941 doesn't work but all the credit in the world to Spielberg for letting Mifune speak with his own voice, shame on anyone who made the choice to dub him, as his vocal work totally works here. Just wanted to get that out of the way. Although the weakness of the film isn't the cast, it is Spielberg's overall direction that just somehow isn't funny, and I'll agree with Kubrick that it should've been tweeked towards the dramatic or I could have seen that era Zemeckis pull it off (who wrote the film with Bob Gale). Or it could've been more ridiculous as in some ways I think Airplane! succeeded the following year basically in doing what 1941 attempted here. I actually think all the cast (except Belushi who I don't think is properly utilized, Tim Matheson who I almost always find unappealing, Eddie Deezen who has to be used in the smallest of doses and Slim Pickens who is just doing too much basically as his Dr. Strangelove reprise however without as good of material.) acquit themselves as best they can, particularly Stack who is funny watching Pinnochio as the serious general, Mifune giving a rock solid "good" villian turn, Treat Williams as an obnoxious bully and Warren Oates naturally being just perfect as a rowdy soldier if severly underused.
Niell - 3.5(Mainly just being charming which he's good at, however with this sort of off-beat energy that is similair to Davis's. There he brings it quite splendidly even if in an overall limited quantity.)
1. Reed
2. Warner
3. Kotto
4. Carney
5. Forrest
1. Warner
2. Reed
3. Carney
4. Kotto
5. Forrest
Watched Severance, which despite just a little bit of lull in the middle (though I didn't think it was ever bad in that lull) was pretty excellent overall, with an especially amazing finale. Won't give thoughts on the cast because basically any real detail would be a spoiler. Scott though is legimately great, so is Britt Lower (who should've been nominated in supporting actress over Arquette), although I'm still not sure about Turturro's accent choice I thought everything else about his performance was fantastic, Walken's nomination though is overkill though he's good (and I will admit the promise of a great Walken performance due to his nomination is why I watched the series). Thought almost all of the cast was strong, except Arquette who I thought frequently went way over the top, and was often terrible.
Ranking:
1. Adam Scott
2. Britt Lower
3. John Turturro
4. Yul Vazquez (Should've gotten a guest nod over any of the Sucession actors)
5. Zach Cherry
6. Tramell Tillman
7. Nikki M. James
8. Jen Tullock
9. Christopher Walken
10. Dichen Lachman
11. Karen Aldridge
12. Michael Cumpsty
13. Michael Chernus
14. Michael Siberry
15. Patricia Arquette
Tonight's Better Call Saul will be divisive but I LOVED it. Brilliant direction from Michelle MacLaren and an amazing performance from Odenkirk.
Louis: No spoilers obviously but what did you think of the last 2 minutes of Severance finale? I mean what a way to end the season. Gonna be a long wait for the next season though.
Ben Stiller should definitely win that Directing Emmy.
1. Reed
2. Carney
3. Warner (RIP)
4. Kotto
5. Forrest
Louis: thoughts on the Till trailer?
Louis: Your updated Emmy Drama nominee rankings now that you've watched Severance?
1.Reed
2.Carney
3.Warner
4.Kotto
5.Forrest
Louis: What are your thoughts on the voices of Adam McKay and Paul Feig? I think the best description I've ever seen regarding Feig is that he talks like some slimy snake oil businessman.
Also, R.I.P. Bob Rafelson and Paul Sorvino.
Louis: Thoughts on the Tár trailer.
1) Carney
2) Reed
3) Warner
4) Kotto
5) Forrest
R.I.P. Bob Rafelson and Paul Sorvino
Louis: Thoughts on Candice Bergen in Starting Over?
1. Carney
2. Reed
3. Kotto
4. Warner
5. Forrest
Louis: Are you settled on Crowe's rating for The Insider or could he go up??? I re watched The Insider recently after a long time. I found his performance to be flawless honestly.
I'm bothered by the recasting of a certain character from last night's episode (they said it was due to scheduling conflicts) because the new guy wasn't nearly as off-putting and eerie.
Could Daniel Brühl go up for Inglourious Basterds? I find myself liking that performance more and more each viewing. His last scene really recontextualizes how he was playing the role beforehand.
I thought the Better Call Saul episode was pretty great, and I think really perhaps a respite of sorts before I imagine the more intense final three. MVP is obvious.
Razor:
Amazing final moment, just in terms of pure filmmaking from Stiller's direction to the editing, of creating such a powerful flow between each thread and delivering such an incredible impact where they all end up. That's how you do an ending to be sure.
Calvin:
Looks well mounted though an extremely tricky subject matter, and I do ponder how it will handle the extreme brutality of the story. Maybe slightly straightforward looking from the trailer, could be good in a straightforward way though, or perhaps there's a little more than meets the eye as obviously they weren't going to show the most extreme elements in the trailer.
8000's:
McKay sounds like an ex dude bro unsurprisingly, Feig indeed does sound a bit like that.
Marcus:
1. Succession
2. Severance
3. Stranger Things
4. Better Call Saul
5. Squid Game
1. Ben Stiller - Severance (The We We Are)
2. Hwang Dong-Hyuk - Squid Game (Red Light Green Light)
3. Mark Mylod - Succession (All The Bells Say)
4. Cathy Yan - Succession (Disruption)
5. Lorene Scafaria - Succession (Too Much Birthday)
1. Jesse Armstrong - Succession (All The Bell Say)
2. Dan Erickson - Severance (The We We Are)
3. Thomas Schnausz - Better Call Saul (Plan and Execution)
4. Hwang Dong-hyuk - Squid Game (One Lucky Day)
1. Jeremy Strong - Succession
2. Adam Scott - Severance
3. Lee Jung-jae - Squid Game
4. Brian Cox - Succession
5. Bob Odenkirk - Better Call Saul
1. Matthew MacFadyen - Succcession
2. Kieran Culkin - Succession
3. Oh Yeong-su - Squid Game
4. Nicholas Braun - Succession
5. John Turturro - Severance
6. Park Hae-soo - Squid Game
7. Christopher Walken - Severance
1. Rhea Seehorn - Better Call Saul
2. Sarah Snook - Succession
3. Jung Ho-yeon - Squid Game
4. J. Smith-Cameron - Succession
5. Patricia Arquette - Severance
Luke:
I mean a striking enough teaser, but beyond that, let's see what Todd Field has this time given he only has two films, one I think is pretty good the other I think has very good elements in a overall tapestry that I don't think quite comes together, so at the very least the performances should be promising.
Anonymous:
Bergen - 3(I thought the singing sings were way over the top, but that speaks to a larger issue with the film that just doesn't do its comedy bits particularly well. I think she has a decent sense of history with Reynolds, but only decent not amazing. You never believe he'll legimately consider going back to her as she comes off as just a shallow obstacle, which I think limits the potential of the story. She's not terrible in the thin role or anything, just isn't terribly substantial.)
Perfectionist:
I'm fairly comfortable with it.
Robert:
After re-watching the original Gene scene, yes the original actor was more interesting.
Possibly.
Original actor was actually Don Harvey from Casualties of War!!!
Ahh so it was, knew he had an innate creep factor from something. Shame they did not re-use him.
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