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I too heard it was a real crappy hollywood mess so i avoided it and thankfully, i went a watched VICKY, CHRISTINA, BARCELONA instead, the new Woody Allen flick with Scarlett Johanson (inlove), Penelope Cruz (inlove) and the cooler than life Javie dude which was (let me tell you in just 2 words)

A FUCKING GEM

Sadly you are right!

I saw Heat recently, and like most masterpieces I found it very overrated. The chilling DeNiro/Pacino scene in the diner everyone talks about was truly epic, but did I really have to sit through 2h45 of impersonal gloss just to experience that one scene? If someone can explain to me why I should care about these characters, please indulge me because I feel I missed the boat. When it comes to movies about double- and triple-crossing and cop-and-robbers cat-and-mousing, nothing comes close to The Departed, in my opinion. And as much as I love Goldenthal, Heat isn't one of his most fun scores. Shore's Departed, however, pure bliss.

Oh, and I lie, there was one other truly classic moment in Heat: "She's got a niiiice ass! And you've got your head all the way up it! When I think of asses -women's asses- something comes out of me." Classic stuff. This needs to become the next "They're taking the Hobbits to Isengard" Internet phenomenon, no joke.

Watched last night: Jurassic Park III. Okay, so it was fluff with barely any character depth (which is surprising considering Joe Johnston's usually flair for chemistry and depth), but I still do like Davis' work and his new theme, and the Spinosaur scene in the cage on the river was genuinely exciting, I thought. William H. Macy for the win!

Well i'll give some of you people this: you do have courage; lots of it!

The films are clearly trying something very very different. HEAT is the bleakest of urban dramas - melancholy over unhappy lives draped over every frame. It's almost Shakespearean. To expect Goldenthal's score to be anything like 'fun' is to get the film completely wrong. THE DEPARTED is more of a lark, like THE THIRD MAN, and Shore's playful tango works a lot like Anton Karas's zither in that film, plying the 'life is cheap' vibe. Don't ask a film to be something that it isn't when it does what it does very well. I quite like THE DEPARTED, even if INFERNAL AFFAIRS always struck me as stronger than the remake. But HEAT is in a class of its own. Mann may have directed THE INSIDER better, but this is his most personal film, and the most rewarding for those who like his approach to filmmaking.

Yes I remember that scene. Although if I´m not mistaken, we never see them in the same shot. Anyway, great sequence, great dialogue.



Indeed. And what a better way to finish the movie.

Yes, they are in one two shot, but most of TV's cut this off in the broadcast.

For me Heat is one of the best crime dramas I've seen, great acting, great cinematography, use of music, great script.

I think the only big section taken out of the book was a sequence where a school burns down, a good decision on Cronenberg's part as it was too reminicent of CARRIE. Obviously you can't get as in-depth in a film as a book allows but the bare bones of the story are all there!?

Can you get Anne to elaborate on how she thought it differed so much Alan?

That's it - you're getting into the mood of it now!

A bit MORE than calculated self, I would say. He does love that woman, but when it comes to the decision him or her, the choice is obvious. But I think that yes, he does love her. It's an emotional situation for him and we can see it.

thanks, I take that compliment on me then

Batman Returns and Batman & Robin are fun scores. (An understatement if ever there was one.)

Is it already released outside Japan?

I felt that Miyazaki's imagination became too huge and the story couldn't hold it (I'm not sure this phrase is appropriate in English...). The story was confusing. But it was worth seeing on big screen, because of the wonderful hand-drawn animation... it was purely "moving drawings".

Iron Man

After several negative comments, I was braced for impact, but I was more than pleasantly surprised by the latest Marvel superhero outing. Well scripted, well paced, very well directed, with enough exposure to make sure the characters weren't as flat in most other Marvel hero films, but with more than enough action to balance things out.

And, surprisingly, it really had a lot of heart.
I found myself liking Tony Stark a lot more than I did McGuire's Peter Parker (Spiderman), Chiklis' Ben Grimm (The Fantastic Four), or Bana's Bruce Banner (The Hulk). This in no small part is due to the wonderful Robert Downey Jr. (who really, really, really is underused in Hollywood...though that's his own fault, sadly), who makes a comic book character a real-life, likable, interesting persona, but also to the excellent casting of the secondary roles: both (unrecognisable!! ) Jeff Bridges and the ever-lovely Gwyneth Paltrow as Stark's long-time assistant Pepper Potts. The electricity between Paltrow And Downey Jr. is just mesmerizing, and Bridges never once falls into the Doctor Doom one-dimensional bad guy trap.
Kudos too, though, to a script that, better than ever before in a Marvel film, plays off the strengths of the character and actually has them engage in credible and poignant dialogue, leading to reasonable, believable actions. Additionally, the dry wit that the script writers imbued Tony with never turns stale, which is a bit of an achievement, both on the script side as on the acor's side

At this point I'd say that of all the Marvel films of recent years, this might well be my favourite...which is really saying something as I never really got into the Iron Man comics the way I did with The Fantastic Four and Spiderman (and to a lesser extent The Incredible Hulk).

If I were to be really critical the only true weak points of the film, would be the rather blatant Robocop 2 rip-off for the Big Finale, and -as has been observed before in this very forum- the music, which isn't bad in the movie (though it would NEVER hold up as a stand-alone listen), but is puerile in the extreme: enough with the hard rock guitar when we're supposed to see something "awesome". It ill fits the film, which would have benefitted a LOT from a more symphonic score.

...er.
Ah.

Well.

Em.

You may very well think that; I couldn't possibly comment.