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The Damned United was a great film. I never had an interest in pro soccer before. Great story.
'Adventureland' w Jesse Eisneberg and Kristen Stewart -probably even more enjoyable.
A bunch of kids working at an amusement park during the day, smoking pot and hanging out at night. Lots of great characters (Bil Hader and Kristin Wiig are the managers lol) , very funny - maybe a little more of a love story.
Also Easy A, Superbad.
He was also insanely strong for his size or any size for that matter. In his biographies they show him knocking people down w 6" and then even 2" punches.
i. I think his character is supposed to be portrayed as being kind of burned out and washed up as he laments himself in the trailer
I think this is due to his vices as well. He smokes a lot which over time makes you edgy and nervous. His stuttering and foregetting his lines maybe attributed to the pot and drinking as mentioned by others.
Thanks. I liked her in Jumanji and it was kind of neat she was from Scotland. So I saw she was in and indie film recently called " All creatures here below" so watched that and it was outstanding. She plays another even more sympathetic role and the film is a real tear jerker.
Anyway was reading about in on IMDB and this film another they recommended under 'More like this'
Thanks for your kind words. I agree on the subject of grief. It seems it was a part of many of her characters too - her parents, her friend Alistair, her acquaintance Dale and the elderly caller ( calling the crisis hotline). For the most part, happily they resolve their issues too.
Apparently in real life she is an active supporter of some of the crisis centers too.
Tarantino is an idiot. Bruce Lee was a cultural icon whether you like it or not so he likely offended millions w his foolishness - he is a shock value fool so it maybe his aim. Maybe Cliff should have beat up Steve McQueen too for more cheap shock value lol.
Maybe . If that is the case, I'm with all the others here w their concern for the stupidity in having the scene. Bruce Lee was a fan of boxing in fact and boxers like Ali and Joe Louis in particular according to documentaries. His stance is even a boxing stance. He never challenged any boxers and vice versa.
Only someone like Tarantino would miscast him like this just for shock or schlock value.
I don't know. Recall at the start when she is in Garvin's office and Tom is called in and gets reintroduced to Meredith. She says she is up in Seattle for an announcement and Tom says he didn't know she was in production.
She says something like, 'Bob, am I in production now? ' And behind Tom's back , Garvin his holding a finger to his lips telling her to be quiet. Tom sort of catches Garvin's gesture.
Later he's asking Phil about what is going on. And Phil says something to Tom to the effect of , 'Rumor has it she is the new operations manager here and you will still be heading up manufacturing, presumably'.
Tom asks, " Wait you mean I might be out of a job"? Phil then says something like 'you can't bring a new manager and not let them bring in their own team' . Tom says something like " I thought it was just a rumor' Phil says he can't say anything more because he is already going out on a limb.
I seem to remember Garvin and Phil talking about his limited options and how Garvin 'planting the seed' was a genius move.
Garvin passed Tom over and really wanted to get a woman in there. He didn't seem to support Tom and may have been trying to get rid of him completely at the same time.
Sorry. Read the post in haste. Old movie. I recall Phil discussing w Meredith after the harassment try fell through that it would now have to be incompetence to get rid of Tom. Garvin was sort of behind everything from the start so he likely knew whose real fault it was for the production problems ( Meredith's)
They were counting on having Meredith just blame Tom for the production problems in front of everyone at the presentation to the merger partner. For the presentation though, he had the emails that showed all the problems caused in production were due to her changes to the line.
The merger partner was getting fed up w all the bickering and just wanted to know if they could build the CD Rom or not.
Garvin then just told Meredith to step outside (and fired her) and Tom kept the presentation going.
In the movie she deletes everything to do w her manufacturing problems on their local server, presumably in WA.
He talks to his tech friend in Malaysia and they still have all the emails, files etc on the server in Malaysia. His friend then faxes everything over to him and it is arriving in the morning just before their presentation. Emails confirming the production line requests she made.
She also denies even having being there while he shows a video file of her touring the Malaysian plant.
I think older people or those who worked for a living saw hippies that way. The long hair was an indication they didn't work or were anti establishment and were lazy. I don't agree w that entirely as many were students, artists, musicians etc but that is how they could be viewed.
Good observation. I saw it that way too. He actually said something aloud too like' Oh well' and then went back to work.
In the movie he really got fired or banned as a stunt man for allegedly killing his wife.
You have to be kidding. In the middle of this clunker other people were watching other movies and at one pt reading books. I would have been happy doing either too. This movie should have been and hour long if it had any pace and direction.
It is like he has to refilm every nostalgia remembrance of culture of the time that enters his scatter brain. Documentaries of the 60s are more interesting.
From the start you can see she is a little challenged/traumatized ex she doesn't realise she is kidnapping, doesn't realize she can't lactate unless she is pregnant etc.
In a later conversation on the phone, the lead (Gensan) is concerned she can't survive on her own. He mentioned an earlier episode where she was caught shop lifting and had some sort of episode where she blacked out and peed herself.
Later in his discussion w his uncle, much of their past is revealed. They are actually brother and sister as her uncle says it is wrong for them to be living w each other as it isn't 'natural'.
Their father was an awful man, Gensan believes he killed their mother, not that she ran away. He was recently in jail for luring a teenage girl where he passed.
He also describes an incident of his father raping Ruby and forcing him too as well.
The lead is worried she wont be able to survive in prison ( or on her own) so he arranged to leave her w his uncle and claim he took the baby. That way she will be looked after.
I think he realises that after she killed the baby they will now both be accountable and both face lengthy jail time. He knows she can't survive the world and it will just be suffering at the hands of others in jail, so he decides to end her life and future suffering as a sort of a mercy death.
Pretty heartbreaking story considering they had finally figured a way out of their situations but moving in that regard. It is sort of disturbing he was having sex w her but maybe it was just the comfort they had in each other.
Karen Gillan is a great actress.
Friends fooling around w each other in college wasn't limited to the 60's necessarily. Just normal college behaviour really.
This was a very nuanced, gentle, heart warming movie. Describing their interactions as fornicating and pimping just sullies it. Sorry but I agree w OP. 'had sex' or 'made out' etc vs fornicating and ' arranged a surrogate father' vs pimping would have been less abrasive or more 'beautiful' . JMO too
Thanks for this. That scene might have been good at the start of the movie or maybe the end during the credits. But maybe better left out. Most people had already been bombarded enough w 60's hippy wear, styles, the war and culture etc in movies even by 1983.
Better just any regular looking 30s crowd recalling their college days would appeal to more general audiences of any generation.
Enjoyed it immensely too. Very underrated film here.
The director did a great job of building tension here. The bar crowd is a scary group. They dropped the murder scene in so unexpectedly it was shocking too.
The fact they wont let them leave or really explain why they are being held heightens the anxiety too. The killer calmly thanking the band for their set and the 2nd last song for being 'hard' when he 'did' her was just plain creepy.
The film just gets more eerie the more you learn about the gang, the seemingly routine faked stabbing to ward away the police, 'fangs and blades', breaking the 'red laces ' in etc, underground lab, the drug use and the culture of murder.
There were a few other things wrong unless the movie was a fictionalized account of his life. At the Troubadour in 1970 he did not play 'Crocodile Rock'. He opened w 'Your Song' in fact 1st night.
They wouldn't write Crocodile Rock for another 2 yrs.
Also he is in the studio working on "Don't go breaking my heart" before other songs like "Bennie and the Jets" and " Honky Cat" are performed on stage or as musical numbers suggesting they were all recorded around the same time period. The last 2 were recorded in 1972 in fact while "Don't go Breaking my Heart' wasn't actually recorded until 1976.