Quote: zooo @ January 25 2013, 9:32 PM GMTTotally my favourite Leo era. (And Romeo + Juliet, sigh.)
Great film! Claire Danes 
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LOVE HERRRR. <3
I need to watch Homeland.
I think I'll just watch my boxset of My So Called Life again.
Quote: zooo @ January 25 2013, 9:15 PM GMTI prefer him playing vulnerable, messed up characters. Don't think he does them much anymore.
Young, beautiful actors are always more fun to watch playing "messed up" and "vulnerable" than saggy middle-aged ones. Then it gets a bit depressing.
So true!
Yes. Any other examples? 
Quote: Lee @ January 25 2013, 9:55 PM GMTYes. Any other examples?
No. 
Mr Nice on TV. Great story, but are we really to believe that the real-life head of a huge drug empire with links to international terror groups conducted himself with about as much vigour as a sleepy kitten?
Gangster Squad with Sean Penn, Josh Brolin and Ryan Gosling (and Nick Nolte in a smaller role). It was fairly good, Penn was a bit overacting though.
Never Let Me Go. Chilling, but the way all the characters passively accepted their horrible fate was both infuriating and ultimately unbelievable.
Finally saw Man On Wire last night. That French man's mad, and although right from the start you know he survives it's still knuckle-chewingly tense when he walks between the Twin Towers.
Quote: chipolata @ January 31 2013, 9:27 AM GMTNever Let Me Go. Chilling, but the way all the characters passively accepted their horrible fate was both infuriating and ultimately unbelievable.
I loved that film. Beautiful, I think it's quite believable. Albeit the book handled it better.
In the scene when they go looking for Ruth's original in the book. Some of them go off to find an old friend whose now working as a carer, which you're not supposed to do. So in the book there's a constant sence of petty naughtiness and rebellion, being a bit cheeky. But not fighting the really big evils, which I suppose is a lot like life. You might march against council tax, but you glumly accept the government pretty much controls your life. I think Ishiguru just extended the metaphor. Like in the Remains of the Day.
Quote: sootyj @ February 1 2013, 11:07 AM GMTI loved that film. Beautiful, I think it's quite believable. Albeit the book handled it better.
In the scene when they go looking for Ruth's original in the book. Some of them go off to find an old friend whose now working as a carer, which you're not supposed to do. So in the book there's a constant sence of petty naughtiness and rebellion, being a bit cheeky. But not fighting the really big evils, which I suppose is a lot like life. You might march against council tax, but you glumly accept the government pretty much controls your life. I think Ishiguru just extended the metaphor. Like in the Remains of the Day.
But at the end of Remains Of The Day the butler realises he's literally wasted his life, and there's a real poignancy to that. In Never Let Me Go, the final soliloquy from the girl is an acceptance of the injustice, almost an apolgia for it.
It is a good film, though, that makes you think. But the too-passive characters in it are quite a bone of contention for a lot of people, not just me.