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Goodfellas

Fabulous. Watching The Irishman a few weeks ago prompted me to look up a few of Scorsese classics to remind me how good they were. A much better film than the Irishman, which lacked any tension and took me 2 sessions to watch (I fell asleep halfway through, and got thoroughly irritated by Pacino's over acting).

Great story, well acted & perfectly edited.

I think Casino needs another watch next.
 
I watched CHIPS on Netflix with my wife last night. We both found it entertaining and enjoyable - we remember the original TV series and thought the film was a good update.
 
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Goodfellas

Fabulous. Watching The Irishman a few weeks ago prompted me to look up a few of Scorsese classics to remind me how good they were. A much better film than the Irishman, which lacked any tension and took me 2 sessions to watch (I fell asleep halfway through, and got thoroughly irritated by Pacino's over acting).

Great story, well acted & perfectly edited.

I think Casino needs another watch next.
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I haven't seen The Irishman, but Goodfellas and Casino are excellent.
 
I just watched Joker and loved it.

Funny to see comments about Scorsese films right above this post, as the parallels with Scorsese's The King Of Comedy are unmistakable - and I'm certain that De Niro's casting in Joker is very deliberate.
 
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Just watched "Once Upon A Time... In Hollywood"

I thought it was going to be one of these films where the less you know about the story/history the better, but it is quite the opposite... unless you know the whole, sordid story of the Tate-LaBianca murders at the hands of the Manson family, then the ending doesn't make a lot of sense. But even if you are familiar with the real history of the Manson family murders, it is still something of a surprise, as...

The film turns history on its head and plays out an alternate reality where the murderers target the wrong house - though the irony is...
...that the fake 'reality' in the film is actually closer to the truth than it appears because...
...in reality, Manson targeted someone else in the first place and the actual victims (Sharon Tate and her friends) were not connected to Manson in any way, hence the 'fiction' that plays out in the movie is actually closer to the reality than it appears, and...

...now I've lost track of the spoiler tags...

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Anyway, it's quite good.
 
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It is a bit long and a bit random for my liking, but the more random scenes are saved by some great acting and some really brilliant comedy moments - but I enjoyed it mostly because of the subject matter as described in the spoilers above.
 
Parasite - watched it over Christmas, totally justified in every award it won, great film 10/10

would give both The Irishman and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood a solid 8.5/10

Dolemite - quite enjoyable, good performance by Eddie 7.5/10
 
I watched Le Mans '66 (US title = Ford vs Ferrari) a few days ago. Most reviews have been positive, but personally I felt they took too many liberties and too much was either factually incorrect or just made up. I would rate it 3 stars out of 5 or 6 out of 10.

Pros - well acted, good old cars / convincing replicas, good sets and realistic Le Mans. Didn't drag or seem too long to me (this has been a common complaint in other reviews).

Cons - Too many made up sequences, unnecessarily misleading and erroneous. (some simplification of the real story was necessary, but they went too far).

The acting was so good - it's a shame the script / story let the side down.

A day or two after I watched "Uppity" on Netflix - this is a feature length documentary of the racing career of Willy T. Ribbs - this is absolutely brilliant - 10 out of 10, a must see! I was familiar with Willy, but didn't know much about him - he was the first black driver to qualify for the Indy 500. Great archive footage and interviews - highly recommended to anyone interested in Motorsport. Also shows his F1 test and championship winning season in Formula Ford. Some great onboard footage from the Trans Am series.
 
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I watched Le Mans '66 (US title = Ford vs Ferrari) a few days ago. Most reviews have been positive, but personally I felt they took too many liberties and too much was either factually incorrect or just made up. I would rate it 3 stars out of 5 or 6 out of 10.

Pros - well acted, good old cars / convincing replicas, good sets and realistic Le Mans. Didn't drag or seem too long to me (this has been a common complaint in other reviews).

Cons - Too many made up sequences, unnecessarily misleading and erroneous. (some simplification of the real story was necessary, but they went too far).

The acting was so good - it's a shame the script / story let the side down.

A day or two after I watched "Uppity" on Netflix - this is a feature length documentary of the racing career of Willy T. Ribbs - this is absolutely brilliant - 10 out of 10, a must see! I was familiar with Willy, but didn't know much about him - he was the first black driver to qualify for the Indy 500. Great archive footage and interviews - highly recommended to anyone interested in Motorsport. Also shows his F1 test and championship winning season in Formula Ford. Some great onboard footage from the Trans Am series.
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You said this in another thread. Can you give some examples of things that weren't true or stretched?
 
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You said this in another thread. Can you give some examples of things that weren't true or stretched?
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The film portrays Shelby and Miles as the main protagonists in developing the car and getting Ford to enter Le Mans, where as they were really just two of many with that aim. There's also some creativity with which races they showed and which they omitted and who did and who didn't compete in certain races. But it's a dramatisation isn't it, they've got to make it a compelling story overall even if it means stretching the truth a bit.
 
Right, so no complaints about the fake plot about Ford trying so hard to get Ken Miles out of the car?

I know the scene that introduces us to Shelby and Miles' friendship is made up but so what, it shows the main characters. They could have slapped a real name onto it but maybe they could only film at Big Willow and there was never an actual race there with those real life people together. I can understand being upset or not liking changes made to races, but being upset that races weren't shown at all? There's only so much time they can use. And about Shelby and Miles not being the only two developing the car? They are probably the most well known, especially Shelby. We know in the movie that there are other people doing this too because there are clearly other Fords racing at Le Mans when we get there. Again with the time management, no need to go further into that as it's not inherently crucial to the Shelby/Miles plot.
 
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So... I was bored, still recovering my files from my HDD to my SSD and watching TV while doing that (all past midnight), then one movie channel has programmed a movie I've never saw before but the synopsis looked familiar to me, the director I remember him mostly for being one of MTV's Jackass' guys (Spike Jonze) and the main actor (Joaquin Phoenix) hooked me to watch it (specially since Oscar's happened recently and I was happy for him winning it for Joker!)

At first it was all curiosity, but after seeing it... man, it's was such an experience, easily one of the best movies I've seen overall (specially this Valentines'). You can easily feel conected to the main character (Theodore - Phoenix) in many ways and it makes you question "¿What's true love's real meaning?"... No wonder why this masterpiece got an Oscar in 2014... Easily a no brainer in terms of love movies ♥


Don't watch it if you want to experience the same being single for a while... Trust me I know... :(
 
I finally watched the Lighthouse the other day. It was pretty good, I think? It's definitely pretty creepy. I do really enjoy the cinematography though
 
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Joker 👍👍

A masterpiece of acting, cinematography, and writing. Also I don't ever want to see this movie again. If I had a complaint, it would be that the movie presents itself as having a gritty realism, and then doesn't feel quite real enough at times. This is easier to forgive in a movie like Batman, where you always know this is make-believe. But in Joker, they kinda present the whole thing as plausible, and then that little comic book layer of not-quite-right doesn't sit quite as easily.

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A Star is Born 👍👎

Great first half, real letdown at the end. The movie kinda unravels as it tries to find a graceful ending. Important character choices are not fully motivated and feel a bit forced. The ending message is also undercut by who is performing the final musical number. Overall I felt like this movie had a great premise and opening and just couldn't sustain it the whole way.

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Neat premise, terrible delivery. I realized after that this movie was written by the writer of Love Actually, which was crap. So I should have known that this movie would also be crap. This film tee'd up such a cool concept, and it really had potential to deliver a quite unique and unusual story, and then it just kinda... crapped the bed. Also this movie was waaaaay too far up the Beatles's rear-ends.

So Himesh Patel's character brings nothing? Nothing at all to the songs? He didn't need to pass the work off as his own, and this was highlighted later in the movie. He could have done the whole thing honestly from the beginning and would still have had something to deliver that he could be proud of. Instead he runs from his success as though he brought nothing.

The movie treats traditional success and happiness as though they are at odds with each other. And they really aren't, at least not to the extent that is pretended. Patel also runs around completely out of control of his career, and this is also completely unnecessary. I would think that of all the musicians, he in particular would have a vested interest in maintaining the sanctity of his work. Hey Dude? You really let other people crap on a song you consider to be enshrined? This was just a gag, but they went with it to make him seem out of control. He needed to actually stand up for the music he was making. If that's the story you're telling, fine, but it wasn't. It was presented as just... how it goes. And maybe it does go that way for some, but not for him specifically because the songs were already written. It was a microcosm of a problem that ran throughout the movie.

The love interest was also paper thin, chemistry was lacking, and there was next-to-zero motivation behind it. I found myself thinking that it would be a more interesting story if he was just not that in to her.

So let's see... what does this movie get wrong:

- The relationship
- Balance of success and happiness
- The nature of musical performance vs. songwriting
- The importance and timelessness of the Beatles, which was waaaay overplayed here
- His opportunity to credit people who didn't exist anymore in his reality.

Basically the entire movie. There were so many interesting and unique directions to take this setup, and they opted for none of them.
 
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Finally got to watch Ford V Ferrari last night with some friends. It was good enough to the point that I forgot to make dinner. Knowing most of the backstory, I was going to be a bit leery of it at first hoping it wasn’t going to be too romanticized, but it turned out quite well. Some easy things to pick out in the movie that are missing from the actual track, but the cars themselves looked good. The sense of speed in some shots are also questionable, but I think Matt and Christian did a great job.
 
On Friday 20th March a new documentary on Fangio was released by Netflix (I think it's called "Fangio a life of speed") - as a big fan of 1950's racing I had been eagerly awaiting this film and very much enjoyed it. I would rate it 8 out of 10 - in my opinion there were too many comments from modern day racers which added very little and could have been reduced, thus saving time for more interesting content.

Some things were missed out which could have added to the interest although they may have been limited for time - e.g. Fangio didn't marry his long term partner, but she attended the races - this was considered rather scandalous in the 1950's. She was a fiery character not a blushing violet and a good match for Fangio.

His physical fitness was not explored in much depth, but was exceptional, particularly for the time - Fangio's army physical for national service showed a resting heart rate of only 45 beats per minute (similar to today's top pro cyclists). He kept fit by playing a lot of football with much younger players.

The reason for having so many Argentinian drivers in European F1 races in the early 1950's wasn't explored - namely Government support and the support of Maserati through lucrative machine tool contracts (cars were a sideline at that time).

I enjoyed this documentary and I am sure many GTPlanet members will and it may spark an interest in reading more about the remarkable Fangio!
 
I finally got round to watching Star Wars: Rise of Skywalker and I actually really enjoyed it. Yes small bit of it made no sense, but from a film standpoint I really liked it. Big improvement over The Last Jedi imo.
 
Ugetsu (1953) 3/5
Only Angels Have Wings (1939) 3/5
Violent Saturday (1955) 4/5
Gregory's Girl (1981) 5/5
Bridge to Terabithia (2007) 3.5/5
The Crowd (1928) 3/5
 
Last night on Netflix i watched :

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Going in, I knew it was sort of a comedy and I am a fan of George Clooney, but beyond it, I didn't know what the story was about... (That's usually how I like to watch movies, going in blind).

After it all, i really enjoyed it!
I honestly was quite confused during the first 30 min if not more... But things started to come together on the second half.

I would recommend this movie.
This movie has nothing to do with Inception, but the way we watch Hail Ceasar, your mind is just as much twisted because

You are watching a movie that has movies within a movie.


I don't know much about the film industry, but I also saw this movie as a simplistic and humourous documentary on the early days of the movie industry, because I learned a few things I didn't know.

This is a very artistic film, with dashes of humor and keeps you wondering until the end, on so many levels...

I love the fact that things are NOT taken seriously.
I mean it is a seriously well made and executed movie, but you can see that they intentionally don't want to make things perfect on everyshot.

Imperfections was perfectly executed.
They are inception at every level...
A serious movie made in a funny way...

Solid 8/10 on my part.
 
Bohemian Rhapsody - 8/10
I enjoyed this one. Read the historical inaccuracies afterward, but they did a great job with this movie.

The Gentlemen - 8/10
Another good one

Lost Bullet - 7/10
It's a French car action movie that centers around a Renault 21. If you need a 90 minute movie and don't want to use your brain too much, this is a solid choice.
 

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