Which movie did you watch today and how would you rate it?

[Jimmy Higgins]

The Aviator - Holy cow, my first Scorsese film. Great film, as based on someone that knows little about Hughes. DiCaprio can act, he can actually act. Good supporting staff.

3.5 of 4


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[Sarpedon]

Hmmm your first Scorsese movie is one of the few I haven't seen. Keep it up, there are lots of good ones.

 

[Toni]

The one thing that I didn't like was the ending

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How was there only one of those medical devices to deep freeze them for the rest of the trip? They'd gone on at length about how there were backups for every single system on the ship, but they not only just have a single medical bay for all the thousands of passengers, but don't have a backup for the superhealing bed if it gets broken or something? I get what they were going for by having them to choose to stay together even though it meant dying before reaching the planet, but it was silly how they went about that.

For sure, that's one oddity. But I suppose for the sake of the story, even if it is a bit irritating.

The visuals like the interstellar space walks were spectacular, I thought.

I thought the space walks were just meh. Should have been spectacular. Much less impressive than the swiming pool.

 

[Tharmas]

Anyone got any world war 1 movie recommendations? I've seen Blue Max, Gallipoli, and All Quiet on the Western Front.

A Very Long Engagement

Stanley Kubrick's Paths of Glory (trailer)

 

[DrZoidberg]

The Imitation Game, 6/10; Stars luvvie Benedict Cumberbatch as Alan Turing, the WWII cryptographer responsible for cracking the Nazi Enigma Code. It's not particularly interesting or entertaining. I thought it was a rather pedestrian movie.

I recommend the book it's based on. Many times better. Also, with the added bonus of being historically accurate. The truth is that there was no risk of them getting shut down throughout the war. Alan Turing was the world's most famous computer engineer and cryptographer from even before the war. Winston Churchill himself asked Turing to come and set his team up. Churchill came down many times and visited. Turing had free hands all the time.

 

[bilby]

The Aviator - Holy cow, my first Scorsese film. Great film, as based on someone that knows little about Hughes. DiCaprio can act, he can actually act. Good supporting staff.

3.5 of 4


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Di Caprio has always been able to act - check out What's Eating Gilbert Grape if you doubt it - but he chose to prioritise the path of money over the path of art.

That's his call, and I can't say I would have chosen differently given his circumstances and talents.

 

[Horatio Parker]

The Aviator - Holy cow, my first Scorsese film. Great film, as based on someone that knows little about Hughes. DiCaprio can act, he can actually act. Good supporting staff.

3.5 of 4


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You haven't seen Goodfellas? The gangster movie against which all others are measured.

 

[credoconsolans]

The Aviator - Holy cow, my first Scorsese film. Great film, as based on someone that knows little about Hughes. DiCaprio can act, he can actually act. Good supporting staff.

3.5 of 4


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Di Caprio has always been able to act - check out What's Eating Gilbert Grape if you doubt it - but he chose to prioritise the path of money over the path of art.

That's his call, and I can't say I would have chosen differently given his circumstances and talents.

I think your standards of acting are low. Try Gangs of New York and watch Daniel Day Lewis act rings around DiCaprio. DDL makes him look like a high school drama schooler.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

The Aviator - Holy cow, my first Scorsese film. Great film, as based on someone that knows little about Hughes. DiCaprio can act, he can actually act. Good supporting staff.

3.5 of 4


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Di Caprio has always been able to act - check out What's Eating Gilbert Grape if you doubt it - but he chose to prioritise the path of money over the path of art.

That's his call, and I can't say I would have chosen differently given his circumstances and talents.

There is a lot of bad shit between Grape and Blood Diamond. He seems quite good now.

 

[bilby]

Di Caprio has always been able to act - check out What's Eating Gilbert Grape if you doubt it - but he chose to prioritise the path of money over the path of art.

That's his call, and I can't say I would have chosen differently given his circumstances and talents.

There is a lot of bad shit between Grape and Blood Diamond. He seems quite good now.

Sure there is; but that bad shit seems to be more about selling out than about lack of talent.

A good actor can do shit work, for a variety of reasons. But a shit actor can't do good work. If his early stuff is good, and his recent stuff is good, then you can't simply write of the stuff in between as due to a lack of talent.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

There is a lot of bad shit between Grape and Blood Diamond. He seems quite good now.

Sure there is; but that bad shit seems to be more about selling out than about lack of talent.

I think you are mistaking Nicholas Cage for DiCaprio

A good actor can do shit work, for a variety of reasons. But a shit actor can't do good work. If his early stuff is good, and his recent stuff is good, then you can't simply write of the stuff in between as due to a lack of talent.

It took a long time for DiCaprio to bloom.

 

[Tom Sawyer]

No it didn't. He's been great for years. Haven't you ever watched Growing Pains? The guy outshone Kirk Cameron. Only 98% of the actors in Hollywood would have been able to pull that off.

 

[James Brown]

No it didn't. He's been great for years. Haven't you ever watched Growing Pains? The guy outshone Kirk Cameron. Only 98% of the actors in Hollywood would have been able to pull that off.

Kirk Cameron meets Leonardo DiCaprio

Now certainly DiCaprio's work as Luke Brower-Seaver, the show's Cousin Oliver, wasn't on the same level as the quality of work he would later go on to do, but he was already clearly a talented and committed actor. Just one year after Growing Pains was canceled he was astonishingly good in What's Eating Gilbert Grape, so I think it's safe to assume that he was already an obviously better actor than Cameron at the time they worked together.


So for at least one year of his professional life, then, Kirk Cameron was confronted, regularly, by an example of what a real actor his own age should look like. And yet he spent all that time on the same set with and in the same scenes as DiCaprio without apparently learning anything — without even seeming to realize that he needed to learn anything.

 

[J842P]

Di Caprio has always been able to act - check out What's Eating Gilbert Grape if you doubt it - but he chose to prioritise the path of money over the path of art.

That's his call, and I can't say I would have chosen differently given his circumstances and talents.

I think your standards of acting are low. Try Gangs of New York and watch Daniel Day Lewis act rings around DiCaprio. DDL makes him look like a high school drama schooler.

Yes, but Daniel Day Lewis is one of the best actors of a generation.

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Di Caprio has always been able to act - check out What's Eating Gilbert Grape if you doubt it - but he chose to prioritise the path of money over the path of art.

That's his call, and I can't say I would have chosen differently given his circumstances and talents.

There is a lot of bad shit between Grape and Blood Diamond. He seems quite good now.

There was a lot of good shit too: Catch Me if You Can, Gangs of New York, The Aviator, The Departed

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

I think your standards of acting are low. Try Gangs of New York and watch Daniel Day Lewis act rings around DiCaprio. DDL makes him look like a high school drama schooler.

Yes, but Daniel Day Lewis is one of the best actors of a generation.

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Di Caprio has always been able to act - check out What's Eating Gilbert Grape if you doubt it - but he chose to prioritise the path of money over the path of art.

That's his call, and I can't say I would have chosen differently given his circumstances and talents.

There is a lot of bad shit between Grape and Blood Diamond. He seems quite good now.

There was a lot of good shit too: Catch Me if You Can, Gangs of New York, The Aviator, The Departed

Aren't all those films post 2000? Gilbert Grape was '93. It took nearly 10 yrs to have two good performances.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

Hail, Casaer - A film about a movie studio and the kidnapping of a movie star. Everything about this film was well done, but I'm still left a little empty. I think I walked in to a film I thought was a mystery comedy, but I ended up seeing a film about a movie studio. I don't think I need to see this again, despite the overall strength the project had.

3 of 4


Hunt for Red October - This was one of the films at the time I saw in the theater. It really is a phenomenal film which still stands up 30 yrs after the fact. The entire film is perfect. Just enough of everything. The suspense is wonderful and as a fun fact, you get to see the old professor from Thor in it.

4 of 4

 

[Don2 (Don1 Revised)]

Yes, but Daniel Day Lewis is one of the best actors of a generation.

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Di Caprio has always been able to act - check out What's Eating Gilbert Grape if you doubt it - but he chose to prioritise the path of money over the path of art.

That's his call, and I can't say I would have chosen differently given his circumstances and talents.

There is a lot of bad shit between Grape and Blood Diamond. He seems quite good now.

There was a lot of good shit too: Catch Me if You Can, Gangs of New York, The Aviator, The Departed

Aren't all those films post 2000? Gilbert Grape was '93. It took nearly 10 yrs to have two good performances.

Also, The Revenant. Leonardo really made it look like he was being attacked by a bear.

 

[DBT]

Allied - 7/10

Well done. Good period settings.

 

[DrZoidberg]

Inifini 4/10

A virus is spreading that leads to intense over-acting. This is 21 Days Later in space. With some sort of time travel. There's a bit of the Thing thrown in. It's mostly confusing.

The sad part is that it is original in some sense since a fair part of it is seen from the perspective of a zombie. Which is really cool. But there's just such a jumble of concepts here that it gets lost. The extreme over-acting eventually gave me a headache.

 

[Tom Sawyer]

400 Days - 5/10

A group of potential astronauts is put into a mock-up spaceship in the desert and locked inside for 400 days in order to simulate a long term space mission. They're told that various accidents and events are going to happen to see how they'd react to them, so when there's a violent shaking and they lose contact with the outside world, they're not sure if something has actually happened or if it's just a drill which they need to resolve on their own.

A cool concept and there were some good parts, but overall the execution was subpar and it was a lot less than it had the potential to be.