Second viewing and loved every minute. Still stands out as a startlingly good British film, and not at all like the typical formular. Far from it in fact. Probably as unique as Bruges itself.
I adored it when I saw it in the cinema.
I am STILL waiting for a Blu Ray!!!!!!!!!!! the idiots in the UK wont release it!!!!!!!!!!! I dont want no overpriced overseas disc and I wont go near a crappy DVD. Gits.
Second viewing and loved every minute. Still stands out as a startlingly good British film, and not at all like the typical formular. Far from it in fact. Probably as unique as Bruges itself.
I adored it when I saw it in the cinema.
I am STILL waiting for a Blu Ray!!!!!!!!!!! the idiots in the UK wont release it!!!!!!!!!!! I dont want no overpriced overseas disc and I wont go near a crappy DVD. Gits.
Its crazy sometimes what crap they put out on Blu Ray - yet classy films that actually make me laugh (rare things) dont come out. I will not give it much longer before I give in and pay silly prices for an overseas disc, then I just know the UK version will be announced as soon as its in my hands lol
First viewing I gave it 2.5/5 as I felt very love/hate about it and didn't fully get it, but just watched it again and it fared better this time so have adjusted my score.
Renny Harlin’s Hollywood debut is a solid “Scandinavian” (Finnish director, Swedish cinematographer, Danish star) horror film. It’s a prison set ghost story with old school special effects, rather gory and imaginative considering the budget was minimal and Harlin was scared shitless someone’s gonna find out he doesn’t actually know anything about filmmaking...
The new Nordic comes with an excellent 48 minute interview with the director. Harlin talks about film censorship, filming with real prisoners, and how it was like to come to Hollywood with no money at all.
“I didn’t own car. I was sleeping in a motel. The kind of motel where people usually don’t spend more than 35 minutes... in questionable company. In never had any company.”
Very good. Eastwood exudes cool, loved the music and close ups but did they really have to film it with dubbing in mind? I know it was the tradition but it was so jarring to see speech not fitting mouth movement. What's with all the international cast speaking their own language? How did they possibly keep cohesion on set?
Because of this the dialogue came across as rather hammy at times. I hate it when Chinese film-makers used to do it and hate it here. Sergie Leone spent so much time with the look and didn't seem to care about the sound. I still enjoyed it though. I'm looking forward to For a Few Dollars More now.
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Very good. Eastwood exudes cool, loved the music and close ups but did they really have to film it with dubbing in mind? I know it was the tradition but it was so jarring to see speech not fitting mouth movement. What's with all the international cast speaking their own language? How did they possibly keep cohesion on set?
Because of this the dialogue came across as rather hammy at times. I hate it when Chinese film-makers used to do it and hate it here. Sergie Leone spent so much time with the look and didn't seem to care about the sound. I still enjoyed it though. I'm looking forward to For a Few Dollars More now.
On Leone films the cast were told to speak English if they could.
Inevitibly with a multi-national cast there would be some who couldn't and so would speak lines in their own language (to be dubbed later into English).
HungFist wrote:then the deleted scenes from 2010 - A Space Odyssey, now this!
What 2010 deleted scenes?
Markgway wrote:On Leone films the cast were told to speak English if they could. Inevitibly with a multi-national cast there would be some who couldn't and so would speak lines in their own language (to be dubbed later into English).
Exactly. That's the thing. Why not hire people who can speak English and shoot in sync sound (or whatever it's called)?
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IIRC, Leone didnt speak much (any?) English (certainly on Fistful) and had to "act" out the parts when trying to tell the actors (who didnt speak Italian) what to do.
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