Outwardly, Hoskins character looks like a businessman, but in reality he's the
head of the biggest syndicate in London. He's currently working on a huge
real estate deal with the American mob that's gonna make him richer than
god. So it'd be a bad time for something negative to happen.
Something like...ohh, your right hand man getting stabbed to death, a bomb going
off in your restaurant, your underlings stealing money from the IRA and a guy
getting nailed to the floor. Stuff like that could ruin your day.
THE LONG GOOD FRIDAY is a good film. Interesting camerawork, strong
direction, Bob Hoskins snarling, forward moving story, great looking vintage
cars, Helen Mirren lookin' good, a young Remington Steele, solid acting all
around. The only trouble I had is that main theme song ("Taken") was
so goddamn awesome that the movie just couldn't live up to it. When
that song started at the beginning of the film I was totally taken back, cause
that's like a werewolf knight riding a battle-scarred dragon and killing zombies
with a long sword montage music! Yeah, there was a good amount of
violence, but there wasn't anything that could rival that song.
Worth a watch.
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Thursday, June 5, 2014
Sunday, January 5, 2014
GOSFORD PARK (2001)
Sir William McCordle is throwing a dinner party/shooting weekend at his massive
country estate. All of the upper class guests gather upstairs, while all
of their servants are busy downstairs preparing for the weekend. The first
half of this intriguing film sets up the back stories of all of the characters
stories and since there's probably a dozen main characters, there's not a wasted
moment or shot. Every second the overall story is moving forward and
getting more and more interesting until there's a double murder! And I
don't mean two people getting murdered, but one character getting murdered
twice!! Who could have possibly done it? Well, as we learn
more about the murder victim, it ends up he was actually such a brutal and
dastardly fellow it's probably easier to guess who didn't have a reason
for wanting to see him dead.
GOSFORD PARK is a delightful film that is so rich that it can been seen over and over again and still pick up little things you missed before. One interesting thing the filmmakers did was have the story told from the aspect of the downstairs staff. So that way we, the viewer, only gets to see what's going on upstairs if there is a service member present. That's a very clever idea.
An impressive ensemble cast overflowing with talent, a great little whodunnit mystery, beautiful locations and sets, quick pace, GOSFORD PARK is a great film. The only weak part, to me, was Ryan Phillippe. He's not bad by any means, but next to such an outstanding cast he just can't hold his own. From what I've read Jude Law was originally suppose to to be in that role and I agree, he would have been a better choice.
Now I'm in the mood to watch some "Midsomer Murders".
GOSFORD PARK is a delightful film that is so rich that it can been seen over and over again and still pick up little things you missed before. One interesting thing the filmmakers did was have the story told from the aspect of the downstairs staff. So that way we, the viewer, only gets to see what's going on upstairs if there is a service member present. That's a very clever idea.
An impressive ensemble cast overflowing with talent, a great little whodunnit mystery, beautiful locations and sets, quick pace, GOSFORD PARK is a great film. The only weak part, to me, was Ryan Phillippe. He's not bad by any means, but next to such an outstanding cast he just can't hold his own. From what I've read Jude Law was originally suppose to to be in that role and I agree, he would have been a better choice.
Now I'm in the mood to watch some "Midsomer Murders".
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