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Ghost Writer 6/10

Saw this on Netflix. Pretty decent thriller. There was nothing wow about it, no big action, no chase no nothing. The whole movie was made better by the director. The script was nice but not wow.

Pierce Brosnan is a former British PM who wants a ghostwriter to finish his memoir since his previous ghost writer died. Enter Evan McGRegor as the new ghost writer. As he gets deeper into his work he realizes that the PM has some dark secrets. Can he get to the bottom of this before he gets killed as well ?
 
Watched The Founder last night...tells the story of Ray Kroc and the franchising of McDonalds. Michael Keaton plays Ray and is great in it, no surprise there. Nick Offerman, playing the pretty straight-laced Dick McDonald (one of the founding brothers of the original location) is equally good.

This is your typical entrepreneur movie but has a bit more of a pulse....business side of things are incredibly engrossing, thanks to Keaton's performance. Watching Ray turn from a stout believer in the McDonalds' brand into this megalomaniac by the end of the movie was quite a ride. There's tons of info to digest and i thought it was executed for the screen pretty well, especially the origin story of the first McDonalds location. (one of the best movie montages I have seen in awhile).

Some side plots fell flat but the meat of the story depicts Kroc going state-to-state selling the McDonalds brand, while meticulously looking for ways to both enhance the brand while increasing profits. My only complaint was that there were a lot more topics that could've been covered after McDonalds had achieved nationwide success, which would've been just as engrossing, but the film already clocked in at 2 hrs.

8/10....would highly recommend.
 
col63onel said:
Hadn't heard that it was a trilogy.

I loved the idea in the 1st film. A hotel that only caters to professional assassins? Great! However, it might be one of those ideas like the Matrix where the initial concept is great, but once to try to build up the mythology for a couple of movies, it loses something.

Still great action scenes (although one of the main action scenes had terrible lighting)
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I think what made the first film great was how straight forward it all was. They kill Keanu's puppy and he goes on a murder spree to get revenge. It was just a classic, fun revenge movie, and it was wonderfully shot. No bullshit shaky cam. Just great action scenes filmed beautifully.

I haven't seen the sequel, but I really want to because it looks like more of the same, and sometimes that's fine.
 
Live By Night 5.5/10 - I just couldn't get into the story. Although it was well acted/directed. This is not one of Ben's finest films.
 
The Great Wall

The technical aspects of the film we great. Really good uses of color. Some beautiful shots. I thought the score was good and even the CGI, while not mindblowing, was at least solid. It wouldn't surprise if for next year's award seasons, it sees some nods for cinematography or set/costume designs or any of the sound categories.

The plot and acting and dialogue, though, were god awful. The story was both cliched and boring. Matt Damon's "Irish" accent came and went (I am assuming it supposed to be Irish). The tone was all over the place. Sometimes it was a buddy cop movie (I will say Oberyn was pretty good as the wisecracking sidekick), then it became a war film, then they tried an out of place romantic subplot that went nowhere. The battle scenes were fun for a while, but got pretty stupid by the end.

If somehow you could mute out the dialogue, and watch it with only the background music, it'd be much better.
 
kosis said:
Feel like he is miscast for everything but comedies. I truly gave him a shot in True Detective 2 and he was flat out terrible.
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Yeah, I am not saying he's awesome, but I think nearly any actor would be set up to fail in that role. His dialogue was atrocious in TD2. The dialogue overall was awful, but I felt his character had the absolute worst lines. Things like "never do anything out of hunger. Not even eating." :chuckle: Goodness, what an awful written character.
 
Oscars are Sunday. Here is who I think will win the main awards

Best Picture - La La Land
Moonlight or Manchester by the Sea could pull an upset, but this feels safe.

Best Director - Damien Chazelle, La La Land
Barry Jenkins for Moonlight would be the upset candidate

Best Original Screenplay - Damien Chazelle, La La land
Kenenth Longeran for Manchester by the Sea could very easily win. Almost a tossup between the two.

Best Adapted Screenplay - Theodore Melfi and Allison Schroder, Hidden Figures
Writers for Arrival, Moonlight and Fences could all win. Wouldn't be shocked with any of them

Best Actor - Denzel Washington, Fences
Casey Affleck for Manchester by the Sea is probably a slight favorite, but enough things are working against him that I think Denzel pulls it out. I'd be shocked if anyone else besides these 2 won.

Best Actress - Emma Stone, La La Land
Isabelle Huppert and Natalie Portman have had momentum at different points, but Stone should win.

Best Supporting Actress - Viola Davis, Fences
While I would still vote for Naomi Harris, Davis winning is the biggest slam dunk of the entire show.

Best Supporting Actor - Mahershala Ali, Moonlight
Not quite the slam dunk Davis is, but still pretty safe bet. Dev Patel is the darkhorse.

Best Cinematography - Linus Sandgren, La La Land
I would've possibly voted for Hell or High Water, but it wasn't even nominated. Arrival and Moonlight could also win here.

Best Visual Effects - The Jungle Book
I would love for Star Wars to win here, but if I had a vote and was 100% objective, I'd vote Jungle Book.

I think the OJ 30 for 30 will win best documentary. It'll be interesting to see if La La Land wins a bunch of the early technical awards (sound, editing, set design). If it does, it could threaten the record of 11 wins.
 
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The Oi said:
Still not going to watch La La land because I hate musicals.
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