Good movie.
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I hesitate to call anything directed by Brett Ratner "good."
Well, it moved me emotionally, had some good scenes and I enjoyed it.
If not good it's flirting hard with it.
Here's the thing about Ratner, even before he got outed as an absolutely vile sex monster: He's not a good director. He doesn't have a good eye. He has no actual style of his own.
What he does have, though, to a limited extent, is a knack for aping other directors' styles. X-Men: The Last Stand is trying to be purestrain Singer (though it largely fails at that). Red Dragon is straight-up mimicking Jonathan Demme on The Silence of the Lambs. Tower Heist is Soderbergh all the way down to Christophe Beck coming within inches of ripping off the score from Ocean's Eleven. And The Family Man is the Rat trying to do Frank Capra so hard it hurts.
I'll take your word for it.
I look at moving emotions and characters not directorial style.
Ratner has had a little more success as a producer but he doesn't come close to being anything considered a classic. The movies 21,Black Mass and the Horrible Bosses movies are about the best of the lot. Unless you count the show Prison break that I know many people liked but I have never seen it.
I think my edit and @The G-man’s post were more or less simultaneous. When I went back to edit my post, his wasn’t up yet and he would only have seen my original reply about rebooting this thread.
That ability to ape better directors sometimes allows for a decent, if unspectacular, movie. Family Man is such a film.
Yep. It was basically what John Hiatt once called "Knucklehead Mindmeld."
That'll fix it. But who takes over for Stewart, and will the title remain the same?
Hasn't been the same since he broke up with Johnny.
Honestly, he and Depp needed to,separate. They were starting to reinforce their worst artistic tendencies, leading to things like Dark Shadows.
Sheesh, relax man. If they had checked the thread just a few hours earlier, they would not have seen any thing. And if they were like me, as soon as they saw it on a feed (for me, often on a Google feed), they might have wanted to have a "scoop" and post it right away.
And really, having repeat posts is perfect for this specific thread:
The unnecessary reboot/remake of the week thread
The new Shogun advance reviews have it at 100% on RT
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/shogun_2024/s01
I'm really excited for this one.
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/shogun_2024/s01
I'm really excited for this one.
Kevin Williamson’s tv production studio has, among other projects, adaptations of Rear Window and The Game in development.
https://deadline.com/2024/02/kevin-...overall-deal-universal-television-1235819429/
https://deadline.com/2024/02/kevin-...overall-deal-universal-television-1235819429/
Double post, so apologies in advance, but Denzel Washington and Spike Lee are reuniting to remake Kuroswawa’s High And Low https://variety.com/2024/film/news/...-high-and-low-kurosawa-remake-1235902630/amp/
Other reviews have it at a more realistic solid show with some flaws. One thing i can say is that it looks gorgeous and they have some awesome actors, Sanada as Toranaga is my main draw. I love the original show, have the book at home so i'm really looking forward to this.
I really like The Game but I'm still amazed more isn't made of it's similarities to The One Game I appreciate premises can't be copyrighted as such but the similarities are striking.
- In both the protagonist is a wealthy, and selfish, businessman
- In both the protagonist becomes embroiled in a reality game that plays constantly where anyone he encounters can be a player and can't be trusted.
- In both it turns out that the actual aim of the game is
to redeem/make the protagonist a better person
I've never actually seen the original it was before my time. I really enjoyed the book though, except the ending, which I felt was abrupt.
It is really good, top class actors and for its time massive budget which turns into high production values that really sells the setting. Now obviously it can't compare with modern visual effects that are able to show great panoramic shots but they seem to have also paid attention to detail in the costumes and buildings.
If you can somehow ( i could point you to a certain way
) watch the original, it is well worth your time.Similar threads
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