Little nuggets of film gold
Kim has a good piece on this at The Other Side and i thought id follow suit. There are those few films that draw you in like iron filings to a magnet. They generally arent big blockbuster type flicks. Yes i still go to see Die Hard and Transformers type movies but solely for entertainment. I watch other movies for the acting value. Heres a few:
High Fidelity
John Cusack shows us that just because youre a relative nobody (at the time) doesnt mean you cant have superb acting in a low budget atmosphere.
Walking Tall
THe Rock leaves his wrestling personna behind and delivers a 'rock' solid performance even in the face of low budgets and press reviews that were hell bent on turning this movie into a rotten tomato.
October Sky
Even though the movie sufferes (IMHO) from a few too many lead characters, all the players provide a large amount of depth you dont expect.
Last Man Standing
One of the few "shooter" movies i can watch over and over. Bruce willis provides surprisingly good acting for a simple gun toting gangster. Most of the other bumbling bullet magnets are 2 dimensional but Bruce leaves you with a lot more in a good vs. evil plot line.
Pump up the Volume
The box describes Slater as a "reluctant hero" in this semi-teen angst flick. Id call him more of a normal teen. Normal in the sense that he is tortured every day with pain, pleasure and the humiliation of being a teen. The pirate radio outlet he subverts too is a depth rarely reached by most actors. He literally becomes "hard harry" while at his radio. A duality concept many cannot pull off. He can.
Soldier
Not your typical guns blazin' kill the bad guy save the girl shoot em' up. Right and wrong are twisted about in this movie from the first minutes until the last frames. The cinematics of this movie lack the big buck luster but Kurt Russel pulls off an amzing performace with about 50 spoken words total. How many other actors can spend two hours and say eight sentences? This is a definant buy and keep movie.
The replacement killers
While i despise most asian flicks and thier american counterparts, this one drew me in. Chow Yun Fat isnt the worlds top actor but pulls off a convincing repentant killer. Mira Sorvino isnt too tough to look at either.
All the movies i mentioned have surprising depth and can keep you coming back again and again despite low budgets, lack of big names and poor reviews. For the big boys, movies like Transformers and Die Hard 4 are finnally coming around to the relazation that it may just be OK to be a good guy sometimes. A few lines say it all.
"Sam, you risked your life to protect the cube."
"No sacrifice, no victory."
-Transformers
"Thanks for saving my daughters life."
"Well what what was i gonna' do?"
"thats what makes you that kind of guy."
-Die Hard 4
High Fidelity
John Cusack shows us that just because youre a relative nobody (at the time) doesnt mean you cant have superb acting in a low budget atmosphere.
Walking Tall
THe Rock leaves his wrestling personna behind and delivers a 'rock' solid performance even in the face of low budgets and press reviews that were hell bent on turning this movie into a rotten tomato.
October Sky
Even though the movie sufferes (IMHO) from a few too many lead characters, all the players provide a large amount of depth you dont expect.
Last Man Standing
One of the few "shooter" movies i can watch over and over. Bruce willis provides surprisingly good acting for a simple gun toting gangster. Most of the other bumbling bullet magnets are 2 dimensional but Bruce leaves you with a lot more in a good vs. evil plot line.
Pump up the Volume
The box describes Slater as a "reluctant hero" in this semi-teen angst flick. Id call him more of a normal teen. Normal in the sense that he is tortured every day with pain, pleasure and the humiliation of being a teen. The pirate radio outlet he subverts too is a depth rarely reached by most actors. He literally becomes "hard harry" while at his radio. A duality concept many cannot pull off. He can.
Soldier
Not your typical guns blazin' kill the bad guy save the girl shoot em' up. Right and wrong are twisted about in this movie from the first minutes until the last frames. The cinematics of this movie lack the big buck luster but Kurt Russel pulls off an amzing performace with about 50 spoken words total. How many other actors can spend two hours and say eight sentences? This is a definant buy and keep movie.
The replacement killers
While i despise most asian flicks and thier american counterparts, this one drew me in. Chow Yun Fat isnt the worlds top actor but pulls off a convincing repentant killer. Mira Sorvino isnt too tough to look at either.
All the movies i mentioned have surprising depth and can keep you coming back again and again despite low budgets, lack of big names and poor reviews. For the big boys, movies like Transformers and Die Hard 4 are finnally coming around to the relazation that it may just be OK to be a good guy sometimes. A few lines say it all.
"Sam, you risked your life to protect the cube."
"No sacrifice, no victory."
-Transformers
"Thanks for saving my daughters life."
"Well what what was i gonna' do?"
"thats what makes you that kind of guy."
-Die Hard 4
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