Quite simply the finest drama I have ever seen, I thought series 3 could not get any better but the writers/cast proved me wrong. If I could give it six stars I would. I have never felt so involved in a series before, my only complaint is I watched it too quickly.
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Every now and then, you watch a film, you dislike it but you respect it because you know that it's good. Which doesn't seem to make any sense at all, and it doesn't but that's the feeling I felt when I watched No country for old men. It's made by the Coen brothers, so quite obviously you know it's going to be well directed, and well written. As well as that, you know it includes Tommy Lee Jones so it's going to be well acted. But something I didn't expect when I watched this was that Javier Bardem was in fact the big star in this. He's haunting as a psychopathic killer who's after a LOT of money who a hunter has stumbled across in the middle of a desert. Unknown to this hunter, Javier Bardem's character has placed a tracking system on the money ... Read More:
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This last season of The Wire does not dissapoint. McNulty only gets into a worse series of events..but he was still one of my favorite characters. There is still the underhand goings on on the streets and in the boardroom with The Mayor. So much happened that I did not expect that made me watch the whole series in one night. Shame to see it end..but all good things do.
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What a very strange and remarkable film this is. Visually, it's brilliant, mesmerising, full of staggering set pieces and resonant images (the old photographs which acted as inspiration are well worth checking out in the extras). Daniel Day Lewis' performance is towering; he completely occupies the role and utterly dominates the film just as he utterly dominates everything around him. That's the part, of course, but there's more to his performance than that - his charismatic presence in the film is remarkable, particularly as it's achieved with almost no shouting, arm-waving or showboating of any kind, and it's hard to imagine any other actor creating it... contrast and compare, for example, Leonardo diCaprio's boyish efforts at Howard Hughes in 'The Aviator'. I'd suggest ... Read More:
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The central premise of this series is rather weak (ie that a young lawyer is employed by a highly successful law firm just because she knows someone central to a big case) but, as with the first series of 24, the first half of this series is a thrill ride. The makers have used a clever plot device whereby most of the action takes place in retrospect but every now and then the action switches to the present day (filmed in a dark and grainy style) leaving you hungry to see how the characters end up as they do. But, as with the first series of 24, as the series progresses the twists and turns become more and more rediculous and harder and harder to accept until by the very end you really don't care what happens as long as it happens quickly.
Loved this movie - reminiscent of the old British bank robbery films - Jason was great not overacting and trying to be the movie equivalent of Phil Mitchell. Great cast, and as a Brit living abroad the location scenes were great, good story that wasn't just about robbing a bank.
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There are so many films that capitalise on the whole anti-corporation theme in Hollywood - ironically a huge corporate entity in its own right. It's difficult therefore to make a neutral judgement on a film that highlights the corruption of a corporation, that highlights the lengths some corporations go to protect themselves. Unfortunately this film isn't quite sure how it wants to approach the issue. Somewhere in the film there's a line George Clooney utters at Tom Wilkinson, "you're making it too easy for them". In some ways this captures the central problem of the film. The Tom Wilkinson character, responsible for defending a large-scale corporation against a civil action suit, begins to crack up and - tragically makes it too easy to dismiss him and his feelings - both by the audience ... Read More:
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Yes, the penultimate episode is the proper narrative/dramatic "end," with its stunningly-staged assassination of Baccala and the calamitous (and, typically of the show, almost hilarious) near-fatal wounding of Silvio (to the sound of Nat King Cole, the sight of naked Bing bystanders and with hideous collateral damage to a passing motorcyclist).
I don't understand why so many are disappointed with season 6. In my humble view, it has the best written, most sophisticated script of the series. While all the plot twists and surprises and tension in previous seasons had been created with great skill and cleverness, the characters and events in is one is so authentic, it is as if the writers have matured over the course of the 6 series, and has had time to look into even deeper into the things that affect all of our lives - clear and present danger NOW. And the result - is beyond fab or brilliant. It is simply masterly. Daringly, it veers from the tried and true 24 formula of nonstop action to allow glimpses into the possibility of character change and redemption. Long may the series live, if it continues to produce TV like this....Nothing ... Read More:
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I've owned the previous 5-Disc Set of the Godfather (2001 Release), and I can safely say that the Coppola Restoration is well worth getting, especially at this price, and even better in this limited steelbook package.
I've compared the pictures of the two sets on a Plasma, and there is a huge difference between the two, the print on this new dvd set is far better than the other, a huge differnce in the brightness of the picture, enables the viewer to see clearly and slightly more of the picture.
In addition, Part 2 is in one Disc as opposed to two, which is great, as now we don't need to change the DVD mid-way through. Instead, they've devoted the extra 5th Disc on New Bonus Features which talk about the restoration, along with the original special features, from the previous ... Read More:
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