I found this series rather disappointing. Whilst the first 3 (especially the 3rd season) were all tremendous and series 4 was thoroughly enjoyable this one is much darker. As a personal preference I like a big dollop of humour in buffy and in this season there's a distinct lack of humour. Some of the episodes are great but I found Dawn so irritating in this that she marred a great deal of it and the misery of Joyce Summers' death, although portrayed very well (particularly interesting is listening to Joss Whedon's commentary), made for a rather dismal season. Glory is a great villain and Spike's character is really starting to develope but it lacks the sparkle, fun and much of the shock factor of previous seasons.
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When Joss was away the writers got to play, and unfortunately rode off on personal hobbyhorses such as James Bond-ish covert units and a "non-dark" boyfriend for Buffy. Add to these a Frankenstein rip-off and you get a mish-mosh of a season with such a confused arc that the last episode seems to exist just to say "Don't worry, we'll have more interesting storylines next season". That said, bringing back Spike and Anya and introducing Tara more than makes up for the cast members lost and makes possible most of the main threads in the arcs of the final three seasons. Making her way through this soup, Sarah Michelle Gellar must have decided it was "sink or swim" and gave her best overall performance of any season. Even this topnotch effort couldn't strike ... Read More:
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This is an excellent film that explores the emotional turmoil of four relationships. The film avoids just wallowing in these emotions by weaving the couples together by the investigation of a suspicious death.
It's a film that will appeal more to those who have had some experience of life and can empathize with the feelings and experiences of the characters.
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This is an excellent film that explores the emotional turmoil of four relationships. The film avoids just wallowing in these emotions by weaving the couples together by the investigation of a suspicious death.
It's a film that will appeal more to those who have had some experience of life and can empathize with the feelings and experiences of the characters.
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To my surprise, Tony Scott's remake of Man On Fire isn't the war crime I was expecting by a long shot. Horribly over-directed in places, true, but nowhere near as irritating as Domino, which is the closest ADDS filmmaking has come to projectile vomiting at the audience to date. It helps that Scott has a decent script and a good cast to keep his worst excesses in check, and it has to be said that some of the stylistic touches (such as the very active subtitling) are really pretty good. He's better at framing the surrounding scenes than some of the big moments, which are fairly tension and adrenaline-free for all their imagination, but he's prepared to get his hands far dirtier than you'd expect from a mainstream studio picture, and he even manages a couple of moments of emotional ... Read More:
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We follow ambulanceman Frank (Nicholas Cage) over the course of 3 nights who's suffering from a touch of insomnia, each night he has a different partner, first Larry (John Goodman) who's pretty subdued in this role, Marcus (Ving Rhames) who shows a good comic side to himself and then finally Walls (Tom Sizemore) who ranges between a normal level headed guy to a lunatic and brings a nice bit of dark humour to the film)
It's hard to know what to call this film in a way it's a drama, but not full on, then it's a black comedy, but again not enough to refer to it as such, there's a bit of eveything here, from weirdness, to humour, ghosts to hearing voices from various people.
This film will not be to everyones liking I'm sure, but if you fancy seeing Nicholas Cage ... Read More:
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We follow ambulanceman Frank (Nicholas Cage) over the course of 3 nights who's suffering from a touch of insomnia, each night he has a different partner, first Larry (John Goodman) who's pretty subdued in this role, Marcus (Ving Rhames) who shows a good comic side to himself and then finally Walls (Tom Sizemore) who ranges between a normal level headed guy to a lunatic and brings a nice bit of dark humour to the film)
It's hard to know what to call this film in a way it's a drama, but not full on, then it's a black comedy, but again not enough to refer to it as such, there's a bit of eveything here, from weirdness, to humour, ghosts to hearing voices from various people.
This film will not be to everyones liking I'm sure, but if you fancy seeing Nicholas Cage ... Read More:
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I'm actually quite suprised at the relative lack of awareness about this film, well in comparison to other popular mob films. I'm an avid fan of mob films and having read several books on the Gambino crime family I thought this would be an interesting buy-sure was!
My review: Firstly, the cast is simply brilliant- especially Armand Assante. His potrayal of John Gotti is a good reflection of the man himself. It becomes evident that the film is very well researched, which is a real bonus. I was so enticed when watching the film that i didn't realise the 104minutes fly by. The film is sharp, funny at times and very accurate. It leaves you with that feeling of "damn, this really happened, there really was a mafia- there really was a John Gotti"
I'm actually quite suprised at the relative lack of awareness about this film, well in comparison to other popular mob films. I'm an avid fan of mob films and having read several books on the Gambino crime family I thought this would be an interesting buy-sure was!
My review: Firstly, the cast is simply brilliant- especially Armand Assante. His potrayal of John Gotti is a good reflection of the man himself. It becomes evident that the film is very well researched, which is a real bonus. I was so enticed when watching the film that i didn't realise the 104minutes fly by. The film is sharp, funny at times and very accurate. It leaves you with that feeling of "damn, this really happened, there really was a mafia- there really was a John Gotti"