Stanley Kubrick has a really highly rated filmography. After watching 2001: A Space Odyssey I wanted to watch more of his work.
Full Metal Jacket follows a group of recruits of the US Marine Corps who are deployed in the increasingly bloody and morally questionable Vietnam War in the 1960s.
The dialogue between the recruits and their commanding officer is intense and really entertaining. The way he makes them seem pathetic and worthless, all the while putting them through awful…
I couldn’t believe I hadn’t seen this when I was younger. Really wish I had.
A Knight’s Tale follows the story of William Thatcher (Heath Ledger), a common born squire who decides to use a fake identity to enter the lists of jousting tournaments with the help of Geoffrey Chaucer.
It was really entertaining, some very cool jousting scenes and really good jousting chat followed up with some noble English banter and flirting with the high born ladies in the…
This has been number 1 on my watch list for a while. Finally been added to Amazon Prime (£3.50 to rent). I went into it knowing it was revolutionary for its time and how it challenged a lot of the norms surrounding dialogue, special effects, and scientific accuracy in movies by 1968. So I felt it was best to judge the movie in that context rather than a contemporary one.
As far as being a futuristic sci-fi piece it still…
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Thought I’d give it a rewatch, first time seeing it since it came out in the cinema. Pretty much the perfect biopic with so many layers to it. I love the dynamic between Cillian and Emily Blunt in the final hour; her genuine disgust towards his political enemies contrasted nicely with Robert’s vulnerability after the dropping of the bomb. The dialogue is so strong throughout, each sentence has real weight to the story and portrays a deeper meaning. This was…
