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I have just watched Fight Club for about the 10th time with the director/cast commentary and felt compelled to write about how much I love this film.
Whilst most films don't bear a second viewing, the joy of Fight Club is that with each viewing another incredible detail is uncovered. There is just so much happening in every scene that one viewing is not enough - and you will miss many of the hilarious references in the dialogue if you don't go back for a second look. Any film that is critical of Martha Stewart can't be bad.
I'm not going to bother with recapping the plot - too many writers on this site have already done that job for me. All I will say is that those people who were upset about the violence in Fight Club when it was released totally missed the point and probably shouldn't be seeing this sort of film anyway.... Oh, and I'm female so the explicit violence is not just for men.
All the performances were fabulous (and I have to comment on how incredibly hot Mr Pitt looked) and the bleak and at times strangely lit vision of David Fincher served the story brilliantly.
Probably the best film of its year and criminally overlooked during awards season, there is so much to enjoy about Fight Club. I recommend this film highly to those discerning viewers who go to see films to be challenged and to have a really good laugh because Fight Club is genuinely funny. I promise you won't be disappointed.
9/10 from me.
Whilst most films don't bear a second viewing, the joy of Fight Club is that with each viewing another incredible detail is uncovered. There is just so much happening in every scene that one viewing is not enough - and you will miss many of the hilarious references in the dialogue if you don't go back for a second look. Any film that is critical of Martha Stewart can't be bad.
I'm not going to bother with recapping the plot - too many writers on this site have already done that job for me. All I will say is that those people who were upset about the violence in Fight Club when it was released totally missed the point and probably shouldn't be seeing this sort of film anyway.... Oh, and I'm female so the explicit violence is not just for men.
All the performances were fabulous (and I have to comment on how incredibly hot Mr Pitt looked) and the bleak and at times strangely lit vision of David Fincher served the story brilliantly.
Probably the best film of its year and criminally overlooked during awards season, there is so much to enjoy about Fight Club. I recommend this film highly to those discerning viewers who go to see films to be challenged and to have a really good laugh because Fight Club is genuinely funny. I promise you won't be disappointed.
9/10 from me.
I am addicted to this show - it combines clever writing with an excellent cast and great production and comes up with something unlike anything else on TV.
Of the cast, James Marsters is my current fave (Spike always gets the best and funniest lines) but everyone is consistently good. I wasn't that keen on Tara to begin with but her character has developed well and is now one of the more interesting. SMG is, of course, terrific and carries the action with style.
What continues to make this show interesting is the quality of the minor characters (at the moment, the three dorks trying to take over Sunnydale are just hilarious) and the guest villains. I love the way characters come and go over several seasons and it is difficult to imagine that Joss Whedon hadn't planned many of these story arcs years in advance.
Although I was concerned where the series would go when Angel left (pretty hard to replace a man that gorgeous), Buffy has managed to keep evolving both in her professional (??) capacity as a slayer and as a person so that the Buffy we see in series 6 is unrecognisable from Buffy in series 1.
The writers are to be commended for the consistently witty but often challenging dialogue and all behind the scenes do a great job in making this series as fresh as it was when it first hit our screens.
Unlike many shows in TV, Buffy rewards the long-time viewer and continues to surprise. Let's hope it keeps going for many years to come.
Of the cast, James Marsters is my current fave (Spike always gets the best and funniest lines) but everyone is consistently good. I wasn't that keen on Tara to begin with but her character has developed well and is now one of the more interesting. SMG is, of course, terrific and carries the action with style.
What continues to make this show interesting is the quality of the minor characters (at the moment, the three dorks trying to take over Sunnydale are just hilarious) and the guest villains. I love the way characters come and go over several seasons and it is difficult to imagine that Joss Whedon hadn't planned many of these story arcs years in advance.
Although I was concerned where the series would go when Angel left (pretty hard to replace a man that gorgeous), Buffy has managed to keep evolving both in her professional (??) capacity as a slayer and as a person so that the Buffy we see in series 6 is unrecognisable from Buffy in series 1.
The writers are to be commended for the consistently witty but often challenging dialogue and all behind the scenes do a great job in making this series as fresh as it was when it first hit our screens.
Unlike many shows in TV, Buffy rewards the long-time viewer and continues to surprise. Let's hope it keeps going for many years to come.
This is a lovingly crafted, beautifully acted ensemble piece set in an English Country House which is superficially a murder mystery. In reality, it is damning indictment of the class system and the level of servitude expected from those at the top of the tree from those that wait upon them.
What was surprising was the level of humour that Altman brings to what is, as it unfolds, a very sad story of transgression and loss. Maggie Smith has all the funniest lines as a viscious but impoverished woman who comes to her family with begging cap in hand. Those playing characters "above stairs" all look and sound the part and effortlessly give the impression of wealth and privelege and the callousness that breeds.
Many of the "downstairs" characters drive the story and there are some wonderfully wry performances from the likes of Richard E Grant and Alan Bates. As the moral centre of the film, Kelly McDonald is excellent and is well matched by Emily Watson as Emily and Clive Owen as Parkes. Ruling the downstairs troop is Helen Mirren whose cool visage hides a seething mass of emotion. A well deserved nomination here.
Only Robert Altman could assemble a cast of this magnitude and distinction and have many of them speak no more than a few lines ! Greats of English theatre like Derek Jacobi have small but memorable roles and there is not a bad note struck from any of the predominantly English cast.
I was slightly puzzled by the character played by Ryan Phillipe (although his perforamce was fine) but felt that the intrusion of two Americans into this English mix worked well to highlight the entrenched class roles played by everyone in the house.
Whilst perhaps not his best work, this is a very good Altman film - we move in and out of conversations whilst never losing their import and the cimematography has a fluidity that few other film makers can match.
A classy piece of film-making that rewards careful attention from the viewer.
What was surprising was the level of humour that Altman brings to what is, as it unfolds, a very sad story of transgression and loss. Maggie Smith has all the funniest lines as a viscious but impoverished woman who comes to her family with begging cap in hand. Those playing characters "above stairs" all look and sound the part and effortlessly give the impression of wealth and privelege and the callousness that breeds.
Many of the "downstairs" characters drive the story and there are some wonderfully wry performances from the likes of Richard E Grant and Alan Bates. As the moral centre of the film, Kelly McDonald is excellent and is well matched by Emily Watson as Emily and Clive Owen as Parkes. Ruling the downstairs troop is Helen Mirren whose cool visage hides a seething mass of emotion. A well deserved nomination here.
Only Robert Altman could assemble a cast of this magnitude and distinction and have many of them speak no more than a few lines ! Greats of English theatre like Derek Jacobi have small but memorable roles and there is not a bad note struck from any of the predominantly English cast.
I was slightly puzzled by the character played by Ryan Phillipe (although his perforamce was fine) but felt that the intrusion of two Americans into this English mix worked well to highlight the entrenched class roles played by everyone in the house.
Whilst perhaps not his best work, this is a very good Altman film - we move in and out of conversations whilst never losing their import and the cimematography has a fluidity that few other film makers can match.
A classy piece of film-making that rewards careful attention from the viewer.