I pretty like this movie not because of my special favor to aircraft disasters (although I like films like Turbulence or Airport) but because of outstanding bunch of actors starring here and because of our common knowledge that there were NO $ billions spent for effects. This film shows HOW you may do your job if you are a true PROFESSIONAL of cinema (and not just a guy who was chosen to spend much money for visual effects made by computer). If you may show great results without money, you are great. And this film is great. To Arik from Washington: I'm pretty sure you were a Soviet citizen :) People who came from USSR are often very hostile to anything produced there despite its real quality.
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The Bad Guys
26 May 2007
Warning: Spoilers
I don't want to say a word about Jack the Sparrow (sorry, CAPTAIN Jack)- he is neither better nor worse than in the Deadman's Chest and visibly worse than in the first film. I don't blame screenplay writers, but I'm afraid there's too much of this funny guy in the film to find him really funny. When he was wounded (mortally, as we thought) in the first film, the whole cinema hall cried: NOOOOO!! I doubt if there were people today to cry for Jack again.
At World's End reveals two great characters, brothers in iniquity, Lord Becket and Davy Jones - and they were the main reason for me to hold the attention till the end. A good villain is a half of every successful story; and here we have two great villains. As well as we see under the monstrous mask of Jones the human soul deeply wounded with love and betrayal, we also see the cold cruelty under the soft and comely face of the lord; discovering their inner essence they become more interesting than any good guy (although all good guys and girls become bad ones during the film - at least for a while). And they both have something deeply hidden that we can't expect from them. There are almost painful and heartbreaking episodes - a single brilliant tear falling from the eye of Davy Jones and the superhuman and admirable tranquillity in which lord Becket meets his bitter end. Both of them are doomed since the previous movie; each and every watcher wishes them dead, but they do not die without attempting to reach their goal however distant it may seem. I love the brilliant Englishness of their play, especially Hollander with his haughty smiles and beautiful dispassionate eyes, his tea-times on the very edge of his final battle and his slight to the others. He is a bad man, maybe, but a faultless machine. My type of best movie villains.
At World's End reveals two great characters, brothers in iniquity, Lord Becket and Davy Jones - and they were the main reason for me to hold the attention till the end. A good villain is a half of every successful story; and here we have two great villains. As well as we see under the monstrous mask of Jones the human soul deeply wounded with love and betrayal, we also see the cold cruelty under the soft and comely face of the lord; discovering their inner essence they become more interesting than any good guy (although all good guys and girls become bad ones during the film - at least for a while). And they both have something deeply hidden that we can't expect from them. There are almost painful and heartbreaking episodes - a single brilliant tear falling from the eye of Davy Jones and the superhuman and admirable tranquillity in which lord Becket meets his bitter end. Both of them are doomed since the previous movie; each and every watcher wishes them dead, but they do not die without attempting to reach their goal however distant it may seem. I love the brilliant Englishness of their play, especially Hollander with his haughty smiles and beautiful dispassionate eyes, his tea-times on the very edge of his final battle and his slight to the others. He is a bad man, maybe, but a faultless machine. My type of best movie villains.
Deceiver
(1997)
the very complicated plot
5 June 2006
This film is one of the very best and very heaviest criminal thrillers I've ever seen. The screenplay is full of twists and turns so even if you watch with much attention you'll have no clue till the end. And in the end the film makes his final turn that amazed me because I've missed some important details - thanks to those who explained it here.
Tim Roth is fantastic as James Walter Wayland, it is HIS role with all its contempt, psychotic mind twists and bizarre behaviour. He takes the cops for Untermenschen and, though really being in a very bad and vulnerable position, fools them throughout the movie. The other cast does the job good too.
A must-have for every Roth fan and may be interesting to those who dislike Renee Zellweger - she is quite good in The Deceiver.
Tim Roth is fantastic as James Walter Wayland, it is HIS role with all its contempt, psychotic mind twists and bizarre behaviour. He takes the cops for Untermenschen and, though really being in a very bad and vulnerable position, fools them throughout the movie. The other cast does the job good too.
A must-have for every Roth fan and may be interesting to those who dislike Renee Zellweger - she is quite good in The Deceiver.
Night of the Blood Monster
(1970)
they were lying inder the oath
29 December 2005
This film is an unique thing. Being possibly the best of B-category Franco's movies, this one is very hard to find in Russia. And I guess only Franco's true fans and the lovers of the costume movies (like me)really have any reason to search for it.
Nevertheless, this film could be worse if not Christopher Lee. The man destined to play fantastic villains all his life now was playing a real historic villain (was the real Judge Jeffreys a villain? I think not but Jess Franco used another version). But Lee was ready to play in a HISTORIC movie, and instead of it he was to perform a horror show. Although his performance in this role was a very good one, he was disappointed and detested and told later he doesn't want any credits for this film.
There are some very rough mistakes (or special changes) in the movie: 1) The date is missed. The year 1685 was the real time of Monmouth rebellion, but the events destroying James II' and Jeffreys' power, has happened only 4 years later, in 1688-89, and called "Glorious Revolution". 2) Sir George Jeffreys really has died in the Tower of London - but of stone, not of a heart-attack as it's shown. 3) Jeffreys, how good or bad he was, has never been neither womanizer nor witch-hunter. Moreover he did all he could to prevent death sentences to alleged witches. And there was nothing to suggest that he had a mistress or used the arrested women for his lust. It is nothing but a profanation. 4) There were NO witch hunt in later 1680's in England. Even the few who was charged were mostly acquitted. The horrible things shown in film as Ketch's work were used normally in Scotland, not England.
Nevertheless, this film could be worse if not Christopher Lee. The man destined to play fantastic villains all his life now was playing a real historic villain (was the real Judge Jeffreys a villain? I think not but Jess Franco used another version). But Lee was ready to play in a HISTORIC movie, and instead of it he was to perform a horror show. Although his performance in this role was a very good one, he was disappointed and detested and told later he doesn't want any credits for this film.
There are some very rough mistakes (or special changes) in the movie: 1) The date is missed. The year 1685 was the real time of Monmouth rebellion, but the events destroying James II' and Jeffreys' power, has happened only 4 years later, in 1688-89, and called "Glorious Revolution". 2) Sir George Jeffreys really has died in the Tower of London - but of stone, not of a heart-attack as it's shown. 3) Jeffreys, how good or bad he was, has never been neither womanizer nor witch-hunter. Moreover he did all he could to prevent death sentences to alleged witches. And there was nothing to suggest that he had a mistress or used the arrested women for his lust. It is nothing but a profanation. 4) There were NO witch hunt in later 1680's in England. Even the few who was charged were mostly acquitted. The horrible things shown in film as Ketch's work were used normally in Scotland, not England.
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