RNL
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Post by RNL on Jan 28, 2006 19:35:37 GMT
1. Timecode (2000) 7/102. Ten Minutes Older: The Cello (2002) 5/10 (segment: "About Time 2")3. Leaving Las Vegas (1995) 4/10The funny thing is that About Time 2 is infinitely superior to Timecode, but the rest of the shorts it's bundled with drag it down. He should do a second feature-length split-screen film but drop the soap opera garbage and go for the abstract, Egoyan-esque subject matter he used in About Time 2. That would be absolutely amazing.
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Capo
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Post by Capo on Jan 28, 2006 21:18:33 GMT
1. Timecode 2000 2. Internal Affairs 1990
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Boz
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Post by Boz on Aug 18, 2006 8:48:32 GMT
Leaving Las Vegas (1995)
One of the worst movies I've ever seen.
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Post by Omar on Aug 18, 2006 17:14:33 GMT
Leaving Las Vegas (1995)One of the worst movies I've ever seen. Really? How so? I was always under the impression that the film was highly regarded. The biggest complaint I've heard is how depressing it is.
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Boz
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Post by Boz on Aug 19, 2006 10:44:17 GMT
My original review:
An amateurly directed film with solid performances from Nicolas Cage and Elisabeth Shue being the only things that save it. Figgis’s direction felt kind of TV-ish, a lot of really basic, hand-held camera shots that didn’t work in favor of the film. Cage’s Oscar-winning performance seemed like just another Cage performance, really no different than most of his other work, maybe just a little bit more over the top. Elisabeth Shue was really nothing special either, she played her role well, kind of steely at times, couldn’t tell whether this was accidental or not. Figgis kind of implied that the viewers would understand how the two main characters fell in love too much, didn’t really offer any explanation. Cage and Shue never really had excellent chemistry together either. The music was really bad at times, just some strange choices at times by Figgis, like playing the same Sting-covering-Sinatra song over and over, in a number of scenes with completely different tones. The whole film just kind of seemed like an amateur effort and a mess.
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Post by Anasazie on Nov 18, 2008 6:52:13 GMT
1. Timecode (2000) 7/10 2. Leaving Las Vegas (1995) 6/10
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