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Robert De Niro can do no wrong, haven't seen Taxi Driver in ages. I thought he was great in Silver Linings Playbook. Yea he was even good in Meet the Parents trilogy, Ben Stiller is class as well IMO
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There will be blood wow! What a great film. Daniel day lewis is just brilliant. One of my all time favorites, great cast, great cinematography, Daniel Day Lewis is amazing, love the last scene in the bowling alley/room. Paul Thomas Anderson is one of the best director/screenwriter around, have a look at 'The Master'.
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Watch every film he has done. They're all brilliant in their own way. He is so good at taking dis-likable characters and delving deep enough into their psyche and personalities for you to sympathise/embrace them. I have been blown away by every one of his films. The Master was stupendously good. It's a shame the market for films are groups of people suckers for happy endings/scares/action thrills.
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Watch every film he has done. They're all brilliant in their own way. He is so good at taking dis-likable characters and delving deep enough into their psyche and personalities for you to sympathise/embrace them. I have been blown away by every one of his films. The Master was stupendously good. It's a shame the market for films are groups of people suckers for happy endings/scares/action thrills. Thank you very much, one person with good taste. I agree I like the fact Anderson uses an anti-hero in nearly all of his movies, and most of them having some sort of mental condition e.g. sociopath/narcissist Daniel Plainview, depression/addiction Boogie nights and PTSD in The master. Somehow he manages to make us support this flawed character, rather than hate him. And good point about the typical happy ending, I hate that.
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Thanks Aldo. Yeah, the stereotype has been over-done in just about every film. When I saw that Affleck had described PTAnderson as Oscar Welles, it made me a very happy chap, but ultimately, he was referring to the stupidity of the panel for not giving him the award. Him and Welles are so different as film-makers too, the only comparison being that they are complete auteres. It is all one big creative vision, and for me, it is always stunning - but very different to that of what Welles did.
The way he humanises these flawed characters as well. So often, these films seem only skin deep. Its like he crawls so far into their psyche, and strips back the layers one by one, and you begin with that inner core and work your way back through them. There are few films that stun me into a trance-like state, and I think all of his films have done it. No-one quite does character studies like that anymore. That is why Taxi Driver is still, possibly, my favourite Scorsese film ever, because it is the one character study that really got under my skin.
Anyway, back to The Master - phenomenal. Everyone but PTA fans hated it though. Its pacing was brilliant, and the ending was expressive. Both traits, for some reason, most average film viewers didn't get. I remember PTA saying that he would never make a better film than Magnolia for better or worse. I thought The Master came pretty damn close, which is why I still can't believe he didn't get much credit outside of the film industry.
Heard about his next film? I am going to try and get my hands on the book before I see it. It sounds, unsurprisingly, incredible. Novel is by Thomas Pyncheon - Inherent Vice. The cast, much like West Anderson's new flick, sounds too good to be true.
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Thanks Aldo. Yeah, the stereotype has been over-done in just about every film. When I saw that Affleck had described PTAnderson as Oscar Welles, it made me a very happy chap, but ultimately, he was referring to the stupidity of the panel for not giving him the award. Him and Welles are so different as film-makers too, the only comparison being that they are complete auteres. It is all one big creative vision, and for me, it is always stunning - but very different to that of what Welles did.
The way he humanises these flawed characters as well. So often, these films seem only skin deep. Its like he crawls so far into their psyche, and strips back the layers one by one, and you begin with that inner core and work your way back through them. There are few films that stun me into a trance-like state, and I think all of his films have done it. No-one quite does character studies like that anymore. That is why Taxi Driver is still, possibly, my favourite Scorsese film ever, because it is the one character study that really got under my skin.
Anyway, back to The Master - phenomenal. Everyone but PTA fans hated it though. Its pacing was brilliant, and the ending was expressive. Both traits, for some reason, most average film viewers didn't get. I remember PTA saying that he would never make a better film than Magnolia for better or worse. I thought The Master came pretty damn close, which is why I still can't believe he didn't get much credit outside of the film industry.
Heard about his next film? I am going to try and get my hands on the book before I see it. It sounds, unsurprisingly, incredible. Novel is by Thomas Pyncheon - Inherent Vice. The cast, much like West Anderson's new flick, sounds too good to be true. Inherent Vice yeah, I think he's going to go for the hard boiled cop routine. Probably a neo-noir type of movie. And I agree with you on Travis Bickle, by far one of the most complex movie characters ever. I thought 'The Driver' in the movie Drive was pretty interesting too, it was as the director Refn described it, the violence was like fcking.
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Yeah. Be great to see him to a Neo-Noir thing. Full-blooded. Should be cool.
Nicholas Winding Refn is a really interesting film-maker. He can be a bit hit and miss, but when he is on the money, like in Drive, it is stupendously interesting.
I guess you've seen the Derek Cianfrance films too? I know that's all along the Ryan Gosling lines, but Blue Valentine and Place Beyond The Pines were too very epic character driven films. The latter, is so good. I love that the reviewers marked it down, because it tried to be too good at everything. I couldn't have disagreed more for that reasoning. Very good.
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Yeah. Be great to see him to a Neo-Noir thing. Full-blooded. Should be cool.
Nicholas Winding Refn is a really interesting film-maker. He can be a bit hit and miss, but when he is on the money, like in Drive, it is stupendously interesting.
I guess you've seen the Derek Cianfrance films too? I know that's all along the Ryan Gosling lines, but Blue Valentine and Place Beyond The Pines were too very epic character driven films. The latter, is so good. I love that the reviewers marked it down, because it tried to be too good at everything. I couldn't have disagreed more for that reasoning. Very good. Yeah I seen them, they were two really good movies. Especially Blue Valentine, it actually presented what a real relationship is like but in an interesting way.
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Eden Lake and The Kill list also brilliant movies.
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They are too very good films too. The former surprised me a lot. The latter I had already heard so much about.
I like both directors follow ups too. The Woman In Black was a more than decent film (even if I couldn't accept Radcliffe being a father in the first place), and Sightseers, which I thought was a brilliant quirky, indie kind of British horror with a lot of humour.
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