ganstertrippin

I've seen many a film. Not as many as some of the true movie buffs here on this site, but still, quite a few. And i have sat through some amazing performances. Samuel L. Jackson in Pulp Fiction, Sean Penn in Dead Man Walking, Bill Murray in Rushmore, Marlon Brando in Godfather, Meryl Streep in....everything. But this film has Ben Kingsley as Don Logan.

Firstly, this film is a very interesting experience. You can tell it's directed by Music Video director Jonathan Glazer, for all it's weird angles, and wonderful use of slow motion, (the barbeque flames comes to mind).

The story involves Gal (Ray Winston in an extremely good performance, as always) in retirement from the world of the London Underground. Until his former boss, Teddy (Ian McShane) to do a job, so he sends in Don (Ben Kingsley) to persuade him to do the job.

Visually this film is very good looking. The use of sound and music also adds to the experience. In the latter part of the movie, it almost feels like a dream. The story itself, is actually quite small, and moves over to show off wonderful visiuals. Like the flooding of the vault. And Ray Winston and the rest of the cast give great performances. But it is Ben Kingsley who has all the meat in this film.

My god, what a great performance. Whenever Don is on the screen, you shutup and watch. Your in fear of this character and you forget that you are watching a film at all. I felt gueniue fear that Don would just snap and begin hurting other characters that you care about. It's truely the best performance i have ever seen! Ben Kingsley, i take my hat off to you good sir.

If for any other reason, see this film to witness this great performance. The film itself is extremely good also. Go see it.

Wow this has really divided the users. What with the comments and all.

Well I went out to see this with very mixed opinions given to me. Half of everyone here was saying that it was generally uninteresting. However on the other hand Jack just won another award. And the critics seemed to love it aswell. And I also liked the makers former film Election. Very confusing indeed.

Well all I can truely say about About Schmidt, is that it is so damn depressingly real, it's like a holding a mirror up to John Q at the last chapter of his life. I say that for sure, the rest I am mixed about.

Well, Jack was good. Better than good. No other actor can emit emotions with simple facal expressions better than Jack. I really do hope he gets another Oscar, cause hell, he desevres it.

Kathy and the rest of the supporting cast are exceptional and gives the movie it true comedy element. Jack simply bounces off these guys, because they are pretty odd.

Those 3 things are all I'm positive on. The other things, not too sure.

Direction wise, a few little worries. The directors job is to get the actors to act well. And like I said the cast is pretty good. Telling Jack what to do, just seems wrong to me.

The approach of the film was good. No flashes inside Warren Schmidt's head, no "What Warren Schmidt wants right now to happen" sequences(OK just one but that doesn't honestly count). Just honest pictures. Just capturing the sad, angry mans life. It's a like doco really.

The script is where I'm all over the place. I like it for it's brutal honesty but i hate it at the same time. I, along with some users who posted negative comments, wanted something more from a film. I wanted to see ironic twists, off-beat moments, one-liners, anything!! I wanted Jack to say a funny line just like in 'As Good As It Gets'. But he doesn't. He stands and sits and walks, with nothin but a sad look on his face. Honestly, some people really do need more which does explain the upset comments. But in keeping the film honest, it is one of the best and most intelligent scripts ever. Just don't forget, it's more drama, just not 'American Beauty' drama. You understand what I'm saying?

But all in all, I would lying if I didn't say i hated this film. I actually thought that it is easily top 5 films of the year. I really did enjoy it in the end, speaking of ends this one has a really good one. Go see it.

Back In The Day, before i had the internet, we would often have conversations about what the worst film of all time was. One of the kids said that he had seen a send-up of Jurassic Park named Chicken Park. This kid was a notoriously bad liar so we just ignored him. As if a film like this would be made. I mean honestly.

Fast Forward to last week. After crusing around this site for a while, I remembered the Chicken Park story. So I typed it in and low and behold here it is. With all the information about it too. I decided to hunt this film down and give it a watch. The video rental stores never heard of it, for good reason. Then in a bargin bin box at Kmart, there it was for 2 bucks.

So why do i feel ripped off? ARGH! This film is the pit of all that is wrong with the nature of human beings. Why take a perfectly good film and decide instead of really cool dinosaurs , we replace them with god damn chickens?

And the "In" jokes are pitiful. Dr. Eggs? COME ON!!!!

This film is so bad that it makes Glitter look like The Godfather. Yuck, please don't watch this film. Let it remain a horrible joke to you. I think I'll go throw up.