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briany

Jagten (2012)

Danish film about a nursery school teacher whose life begins to unravel when he is accused of 'improper relations' with one of his pupils.

Amazing film. I'd encourage anyone who reads this post to at least consider giving it a watch. The shockwave that the accusation causes for the man and the community he's surrounded by is portrayed honestly and sometimes brutally but it also tries to give a more multi faceted and in depth picture of how those in the man's social circle react. It's not just about hate, love, truth or lies. There's shades of grey as well. Anyway, I've said enough, give it a watch if you're in the mood for a drama.

Judgement Day

Murder in Eden (1991) BBC TV mini-series. Tony Doyle, Peter Firth, Ian Bannen, Alun Armstrong. Filmed in Glencolumbkille, County Donegal.

Tim Roarty (Tony Doyle) the landlord of a pub in a remote Irish village murders his barman and buries the body out on the bog. However, before long he is threatened by a mysterious blackmailer and body parts start appearing. The local garda, Sgt.McGing (Alun Armstrong) leaves no stone unturned – or fridge door unopened – in his efforts to track down the murderer; while Roarty has plans for the blackmailer if only he can be certain of his identity.

All the Irish stereotypes and issues are included in this production including murder, hunger for land, extramarital sex, the church, bungling gardai etc.etc. but despite all that it really hangs together well. Tony Doyle has rarely been better. Worth tracking down. 9/10



Sgt.McGing receives a helping hand from the "Bogmailer".

hefferboi

briany wrote: »

Jagten (2012)

Danish film about a nursery school teacher whose life begins to unravel when he is accused of 'improper relations' with one of his pupils.

Amazing film. I'd encourage anyone who reads this post to at least consider giving it a watch. The shockwave that the accusation causes for the man and the community he's surrounded by is portrayed honestly and sometimes brutally but it also tries to give a more multi faceted and in depth picture of how those in the man's social circle react. It's not just about hate, love, truth or lies. There's shades of grey as well. Anyway, I've said enough, give it a watch if you're in the mood for a drama.

Great film. The acting was brilliant especially the main character and his son. I didn't get the end though where

they were hunting and someone took a shot at him?

ManOnFire

Blow - It feels wrong to be sympathetic toward a person who deals drugs for a living, but after watching this movie (being based on a true story) by the end I had to feel sorry for the guy, his daughter meant everything to him. To me that's a sign of a good movie, gives you everything to show how bad someone is but pulls you back in. From small town boy to drug running with Pablo Escobar, George Jung had a fairly incredible life. Thoroughly enjoyed the movie but have heard as ever that the book is a more in depth look at his life. did some reading after on him and he is due for release next year

Harry Brown - Had seen great reviews of this online and eventually picked it off the shelf last night to watch. Sad to say it didn't live up to my expectations, Caine is good as ever but I felt the pacing of it was off. Went from overly slow to rushed at times. Its definitely a one watch for me

briany

hefferboi wrote: »

Great film. The acting was brilliant especially the main character and his son. I didn't get the end though where

they were hunting and someone took a shot at him?

I've seen different theories. One suggests it was Klara's older brother. Another suggests it simply it was simply an hallucination and a reminder that it's an ordeal with long term psychological consequences. Re: The first theory, there's also an inkling that it may have been Klara's brother who was doing bad things as he is the one who shows her the pornographic image on the iPad and remains an enigmatically silent figure throughout the proceedings not showing the kind of anger either parent is. It's tenuous but something still worth considering if you want to get into speculation and subtext.

Tony EH

hefferboi wrote: »

Great film. The acting was brilliant especially the main character and his son. I didn't get the end though where

they were hunting and someone took a shot at him?

I think it was just stating that even though he was cleared of blame and accepted back into the community, some mud stuck and that Lucas's life was never going to be the same. There would always be some lingering doubt with some people.

Corkfeen

hefferboi wrote: »

Great film. The acting was brilliant especially the main character and his son. I didn't get the end though where

they were hunting and someone took a shot at him?

The identity of the shooter doesn't really matter. Vintenburg apparently did have a scene shoot where you saw that it was Clara's brother. However he chose to exclude it. When combined with the scene where they were giving Marcus his gun, it highlights what he was trying to put across. There's a division in the room, some people are entirely unwilling to make eye contact with him. The accusations will always hang over him, some people believe in his innocence but are ashamed of how they treated him. While others believe him to be entirely guilty, his life will continue to be affected by the events and there's a sense of an underlying hostility towards him in the town.

Wichita Lineman

Wild In The Country (1961) - Elvis Presley is all mean and moody in this movie about a troubled youth at odds with everyone and everything around him. I enjoyed it and think it's probably under appreciated seeing as not everyone likes Elvis and his acting career in particular. Co- stars include Tuesday Weld and Hope Lange.

johnny_ultimate

Shotgun Stories - debut film from Jeff Nichols, starring his crazy eyed muse / collaborator Michael Shannon. Recounting an escalating two family feud after the death of their mutual patriach, it's a slow burner, to a fault at first. The characters come across as lethargic and emotionally disaffected to the point of near parody. It's pushes credibility that little too far - for most of the first half, I simply didn't believe these people could exists, with the exception of the typically superb Shannon.

Luckily, it picks up, and becomes a sort of revenge film by way of David Gordon Green (who produces). The characters emote more openly, the plot delivers some solid, intriguing developments.

There's generally that sense of atmospheric Southern casualness that Nichols brought to his subsequent films. Apart from the sense that it's trying a bit too hard with its narcoleptic pacing and 'considered' visuals, it's ultimately a pretty well crafted mix of pulpy thriller and arthouse meditation (keep an eye on the thoughtful, subtle placement of young children throughout the narrative - a well-handled detail that tells us a lot about how futile feuds and hatred become deeply ingrained).

pookiesboo

Finally watched Django Unchained last night, loved it. Some people complain that its too long, I could have easily watched another 2 hours of it.

"Ya'll are gonna be together with Calvin in the "by-and-by" just a bit sooner then ya'll expected." Best quote!

briany

The Other Guys

Comedy starring Will Ferrell, Marky "Wahlberg" Mark, Michael Keaton, Steve Coogan, Samuel L Jackson and The Rock.

Ferrell and Wahlberg are an two policemen forced into an odd couple style partnership due to circumstance. Together they try to take down a big case to prove themselves to the rest of the department and to themselves.

Such a funny, funny film. I understand that humour is highly subjective but I thought this film was done really well and is just so much fun from start to finish. I don't normally like Well Ferrell films like Anchorman or Elf. I often find his humour a bit obvious but he plays it great as the stuffy counterpart to Wahlberg's frustrated bad ass.

Funniest scene has to go to Jackson and Rocky's moment where they believe they are so badass they can jump 20 stories to catch the bad guys but just end up falling to their deaths. Completely surprised me. Hilarious.

TICKLE_ME_ELMO

briany wrote: »

Jagten (2012)

Danish film about a nursery school teacher whose life begins to unravel when he is accused of 'improper relations' with one of his pupils.

Amazing film. I'd encourage anyone who reads this post to at least consider giving it a watch. The shockwave that the accusation causes for the man and the community he's surrounded by is portrayed honestly and sometimes brutally but it also tries to give a more multi faceted and in depth picture of how those in the man's social circle react. It's not just about hate, love, truth or lies. There's shades of grey as well. Anyway, I've said enough, give it a watch if you're in the mood for a drama.

Is this The Hunt with it's Danish title? Or is there two Danish films about similar things?

Tony EH

It's the Danish title.

johnny_ultimate

My Neighbour Totoro / Grave of the Fireflies - Lighthouse reversed the order, but this remains one of cinema's most fascinating double billings. Miyazaki's My Neighbour Totoro remains as exuberant and lovable after numerous viewings - easily one of my favourite (if not singlemost favourite) films ever made. Grave of the Fireflies I've been meaning to rewatch for a long time, to the point where it actually felt like a completely fresh experience. Revealing its tragic outcome within the very first moments of the film, it's a harrowing portrait of two young Japanese siblings caught on the fringes of World War II. Evocatively drawn, it's a very atmospheric production, constantly contrasting images of childhood innocence against mindless destruction. Perhaps most notable are those rare but pivotal moments where director Isao Takahata zooms in for genuinely shocking, vivid detail - those sequences are absolutely devastating.

Put together, you have a roller coaster three hours covering a huge emotional spectrum. Of course, the general mood & tone of the films vary wildly (even the respective colour palettes tell very different stories), but they're both variations on a number of themes. Childhood innocent & imagination is the obvious one - Totoro a glorious celebration of youthful enthusiasm as the kids are forced to confront their mother's illness, Fireflies a raw, cynical portrait of a too-young boy and his even younger sister's powerlessness in dealing with tragic tribulations in a particularly cruel world. Although Fireflies does feature some 'fantasy' in the form of two ghostly figures watching over events, it's unflinchingly 'real' at times which lends it it's almost infamously upsetting power. Totoro's world, on the other hand, is a beautiful melding of pure imagination into a recognisable (albeit somewhat timeless) real-world setting. It's pointless trying to figure out how 'real' it all is, because the uncertainty of the film's internal boundaries ((day)dreams, reality, pure fabrication etc...) is what makes it so absolutely, gleefully distinctive.

For many, all this will be old hat - these films have wooed countless viewers over the last quarter century. But back in the cinema for a week, if you've never seen them - or, even better, if you have kids who haven't (although Fireflies will be very rough going for young children, not to mention adults) - go out of your way to check them out on the big screen. In my mind, they are without doubt two of the greatest films ever made, and I'm not just talking about animation there. You'd be hard pressed to come across two films as near-flawless in one trip to the movies, and the way they interact with each other makes for an even more satisfying experience.

(oddly yet adorably, the screening of Totoro in the Lighthouse was attended by a large group of kids all costumed like various characters from the film. A scarily accurate Mei got up during the credits and started dancing in front of the screen, soon joined by the others. It was quite the surreal sight)

Barna77

^^ A friend borrowed my Fireflies dvd and I never got it back I assume it has to be somewhere in the hills of San Francisco

briany

Pretty Persuasion (2005)

Black Comedy about an almost completely amoral high school girl who finds herself at odds with her drama teacher (Ron Livingston - Him from Office Space).

Takes elements Election, Mean Girls, Cruel Intentions and mixes in even more cynicism. Evan Rachel Wood is great as Kimberly, the fame hungry ice princess and Ron Livingston is always good as a decent (or is he?) Joe Soap being punished by the world for no good reason, seemingly.

Tindie

As it was Friday, I Decided to watch all 3 version , yes 3 verison of Freaky Friday!

Freaky Friday (1976)

The first half hour of the movie is about Jodie as, she very messy slob for 13 year old girl and she does not think she looks that good but I don't think she really cared.

She and and mother seem argue a lot and they both seem to watch swap places with each other and this happpens at the same but in not in same room.

I wasn't keen with the effect of switch, it did bother me a little but got over cause rest of the movie was hoot, out of 3 freaky Friday movies this one had me laughing the most.

I didn't really find first half hour of movie funny but when the switch happens and movies keeps you laughing at every turn and some of jokes are really silly at times but those are mainly for kids not saying adult won't like, there a plenty of good jokes for the whole famiily to enjoy.

I can't remember the last times laughed so much one movie, I thought this movie was absolutely hilarious, it had laughing to very last scene of the movie.

This is best of 3 for sure and the most funniest, 8 out of 10

Freaky Friday (1995)

Well before (2003 remake) there was another TV remake movie, that i don't think many people know about it as much as lattes remake.

This movie i felt it a little more serious and I didn't think this was that funny and girl when this movie 15 years old and really that her mum not paying that much attention to her.

While the mum got huge meeting to a work, we cost them their job and as to fire someone at work place and look after her family.

When this movie their dad brought over some kind neck less but mum and daughter and they holding the neck less and they both wished to swap places,

I liked how they change in second and they were next each other in the car, I found that very decent and I thought that maybe the best switch of the 3 movies.

I felt the movie tried way to hard to really funny but failed and as comedey felt really forced at times, I liked they were other people who also knew in this movie, (Which kind of makes this remake on his own)

I wish was more clearer when switch back but I could not really tell in this movie but there not last joke scenes in this movie, which I thought would be, I was little disappointing by that

5 out of 10


Freaky Friday (2003)

In this second remake of (1976) movie, when there not 13 or 15 year old girl this remake as 17 year old girl (Each remake to girl see to two years older then last last, (Next remake Girl going 19 lol)

The girl this is 17 year old and lazy for her ages and can't to get up and does seem to well on work and she dose not like this girl who used to be Friends with her .

In this movie the Mum who planning her wedding to her new husband and that care of her self and own family and other work stuff.

A night they go to Chinese restaurant and mother and daugher come to another arugement which is notice by one of workers, who give them both Cookie and open the cookie and read it and feel earthquake but it only them to who felt it,

that night when clock hits midnight they both change of over and Tess is the first one to wake in her Anna bed room and soon finds she her daughters room and body,

I did find this remake to little be more funnier then first remake, there were some really good decent jokes in this movie but this movie didn't really feel like it was for whole family to enjoy, I some of boys would not most of jokes in this movie and I didn't get some of jokes my self.

This movie had me laughing in some places but not all the times, I liked how they tired to recapture the last scenes of first movie again and I did laugh but it was little to silly, I liked that nod to first one.

Not as good as 1976 but a little better then 1995 one.

6 out of 10

pixelburp

The Raid (2011)

Finally got around to see this, having been widely praised by just about everyone, whether it be Boards or elsewhere. It was allright, certainly a welcome throwback to old-school, hardcore action films (despite the distracting CGI blood spatter); it was quite visceral & brutal in places, in a good way. But to be honest, I don't like martial-arts films in the first instance, so it was always a tough sell for me & found the continuous, over-choreographed fights extremely tedious after a while. I don't find those balletic fights particularly tense or exciting, it's all just that bit too well-timed.

skeleton_boy

briany wrote: »

The Other Guys

Funniest scene has to go to Jackson and Rocky's moment where they believe they are so badass they can jump 20 stories to catch the bad guys but just end up falling to their deaths. Completely surprised me. Hilarious.

Aim for the bushes :pac:

Judgement Day

Watched a couple of more 'oldies' on Promo DVDs over the last two evenings -"The Glory Boys" (1984) - terrorism thriller starring Anthony Perkins, Rod Steiger and Aaron Harris. The IRA team up with the PLO to assassinate an Israeli scientist visiting London. Harmless enough movie with a twist in the tale. 6/10

Last night "Merlin" (1998) the TV mini-series starring Sam Neill, Helena Bonham Carter and Miranda Richardson. At three hours it managed to hold my attention and I stayed awake for almost all of it, save for a bit of head rolling brought on by excess Guinness about half-way through. If you like all that Holy Grail, King Arthur sort of stuff, you'll like Merlin. 50c well spent! The YouTube trailer below is woeful and doesn't do justice to the film.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FW7lYb9gRf4

DazMarz

American Psycho

The life and crimes of yuppie and serial killer Patrick Bateman.

Based upon the seminal novel by Bret Easton Ellis, arguably one of the most controversial and graphic novels of all time, the film could have been a damp squib and may not have lived up to expectations.

The film suffered badly in terms of what it could actually show on film. Anyone who has read the novel will know what I'm talking about. Some of the scenes depicted in the novel are so gruesomely violent and sexually graphic that to depict them on film would be akin to a snuff film.

That said, the film neatly encapsulates a cutting satire of the "me" generation of yuppies in the 1980's. These vapid, hollow, all-style-no-substance people who populated New York around the time are portrayed brilliantly by a pack of young, good-looking actors who play the roles with skill and aplomb.

Christian Bale portrays Bateman brilliantly. There is something about the icy, empty stare of Bale that would make you think that the otherwise "boy-next-door" Bateman could indeed be a vicious killer. As he moves about his life, concerned with his appearance and his conspicuous consumption, he also harbours dark fantasies that he then plays out.

The "plot", is pretty much just watching Bateman go through his life with equally vapid and hollow colleagues and friends. But there are some brilliantly quotable moments and some genuinely hilarious moments (mostly at times when your conscience tells you "I should not be laughing at this").

For a fan of the book, it may be a slight disappointment, but it is realistically as close to a faithful adaptation as you could hope for, given the content of the source material. Aside from Bale, there are excellent performances from Justin Theroux, Bill Sage, Josh Lucas, Willem Defoe (as the detective out to nail Bateman) and a memorable turn from Jared Leto as the ill-fated Paul Allen.

Standout scenes include: the business-card scene, the scene with Paul Allen and Bateman, Bateman and his vacuous colleagues sit in an exclusive club and show how truly hollow they are, Bateman's showdown with the NYPD and the subsequent chase and the final revelation scene in the restaurant where Bateman confronts his lawyer (

this scene makes the viewer wonder did any of this actually happen or did Bateman just fantasise about the whole thing???

).

A jolly little romp, but the book is far superior.

johnny_ultimate

Finally got around to Mika Ninagawa's Helter Skelter after missing it at JDIFF. A strange one. It all feels strangely inert, lacking in character despite its wild, visceral production design. It's far too long, no doubt, making its obvious point about the emptiness of the idol industry early and then just repeating it for two hours or so of hyperstylisation and hypersexualisation. Scenes are dragged out with no real reason, and towards the end it fades out to black several times, before continuing on for whatever reason - kill your darlings, Ninagawa! I was going to say its style over substance, but in a weird way that's sort of the very point being made, so I guess in a roundabout way it actually sets out to do exactly what it wants do - doesn't make it any more of a compelling experience, mind, but at least its relative shallowness is purposeful and consistent.

Still, it's watchable enough for its assault of mulitcolour imagery (less so its oftentimes incessant, grating soundtrack) and bursts of visceral weirdness. The wonderful Kiko Mizuhara appears briefly as a character infinitely more interesting than our actual protagonist. Her scenes are a bright patch in a film that is regularly guilty of providing too much of too little.

johnny_ultimate

D.W. Griffith's Intolerance is certainly unique. The extremely apt title tells you a whole lot about what you need to know. The film is a freewheeling examination of 'intolerance' through the ages. There's four narratives running in parallel: one recounting the fall of Babylon, another retelling the crucifixion of Christ, a third set in 16th century France and focusing on the St Bartholomew's Day Massacre, and finally a 'modern day' (modern in 1916, anyway) tale about a loving couple constantly torn apart by cruel, unthinking authorities. Linked together through title cards, a recurring shot of an 'eternal' mother rocking a cradle and (more interestingly) editing, the stories reverberate with each other over the course of nearly three and a half hours. With the narrative crisscrossing and era-hopping near constantly, it resembles Cloud Atlas more than anything, albeit predating it by the guts of a century.

Ostensibly giving equal weight to the quartet of stories, the reality is only the modern and Babylonian stories truly matter here. The Galilean section might tie closely with the film's deeply Christian ideology and obsession with exploring the violent effects of religious intolerance, but it comes across as too obvious and even a little condescending in execution. The French story, meanwhile, is basically a glorified afterthought. Again, the thematic bridge is there, but it adds little of note, interrupting the more intriguing stories at almost random intervals. Generally speaking, the film is a wild melodrama that is an awfully long-winded way of presenting a pretty simplistic message. At times, especially in a borderline farcical epilogue featuring a chorus of angels forcing warring soldiers to drop their weapons, it all seems hopelessly, almost pretentiously naive in its good-intentioned but amateurishly straightforward message of Christian peace and understanding. Subtle Intolerance ain't.

On their own terms, however, the two core stories are actually quite endearing. Now, make no mistake, the first hour (or even hour and a half) is rough: establishing the various timelines and characters, it's a challenge to adapt to the film's unusual pacing, scope and early cinematic language. As shallow as it may sound, things improve significantly with a magnificent battle scene that acts as the centrepiece of the Babylon section. We can never forget this film was produced in 1916, so the sheer scale of it all - with its towering sets (later becoming an iconic Hollywood landmark), waves of extras and elaborate costumes - is still flabbergasting. As the film approaches its 100th birthday, the spectacle still impresses - the battle of Babylon being a notable highlight, but the stellar production design wows throughout. Knowing that it was all done with primitive technology makes it all the more remarkable - a trick CGI spectacles can simply never hope to repeat. It's also surprisingly visceral battle sequence, including more decapitations than I would have expected.

The modern story, meanwhile, is a slowburner but ultimately justifies the slow burn. After rambling around for an hour or so, it snaps into focus and develops as a melodramatic romance / legal thriller / anti-authority rant,. It's all pretty straightforward stuff, but handled well enough and entertaining. Things really pick up in the final hour (or 'Act II') when it all turns into a frantic race against the clock to stop an imminent execution. It is, like so much of Intolerance, straightforward and primitive, but entertainingly so. The happy ending - in which soul mates are reunited, unlike those poor Babylonian citizens so cruelly mowed down - feels hard-won, and a shame it's soured by the aforementioned obnoxious epilogue.

This extended chase sequence also illustrates the film's single most important innovation: its editing. As the film crosscuts more frantically, it links the stories in increasingly more compelling ways. This not only lends the film a momentum lacking in some of its more laborious stretches, but also shows themes and characters linked not through excessively overwritten title cards (and some of the very literal title cards on offer here are rather laughable: "Now, how shall we find this Christly example followed in our story of today?" is a personal favourite) but through cinematic form. Now, as previously stated, a lot of these ideas are simplistic to a fault, but as an early experiment in editing it's a deeply important one, and the kind of thing directors like Sergei Eisenstein would develop further and in the process change the way cinema worked forever. Although 'of its time' in so, so many ways, technically it's an astonishing achievement (Griffith also preempts Mizoguchi with his penchant of presenting rare but powerful close-ups).

Longer than even some of the more grueling modern epics, Intolerance will test the patience of many modern viewers, even those familiar with the aesthetics and language of silent cinema. It comes across like a sermon, a lecture, a class on the bleeding obvious, but also proves a valuable lesson in the language of cinema that can still educate us modern cinephiles. It's epic. It's dull. It's beautifully, jaw-droppingly extravagant. It's aged terribly. It's an ambitious failure and successful experiment. It's all these contradictory things at once. Say what you will about the film and its creator, but Intolerance at the very least is quite unlike anything else, and for all its deep-rooted flaws is still worthy of our attention. Just probably not more than once.

pookiesboo

Moonrise Kingdom, Thought it would be better, complete yawnfest

briany

Flirting with Disaster (1996)

Ben Stiller plays a man who was adopted as a baby and goes on a chaotic road trip with his wife, his infant child and his adoption case worker, to find his biological parents.

Stiller is on form here. If you like Stiller's exasperated, down trodden guy comedies (Something about Mary, Meet the Parents) then give this a watch because I think this one goes with those two to form a trilogy.

titan18

Just after watching "Fat Kid Rules the World" on Netflix due to it's high rating on it. Absolutely fantastic film (helps cos I can empathise with the character) with some very good acting, likable characters and some quite funny scenes. Definitely worth a watch.

RayCon

Sat down to watch Dark Skies (2013) on Friday night .... just woke up.

ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ

ButtersSuki

Watched The Man With Two Brains over the weekend. Classic Steve Martin comedy and for me right up there with The Jerk in terms of "goofballness".......... if you're into that type of thing! Some great scenes, some great one-liners and excellent comedic performances from Martin and Kathleen Turner. For it's genre - 8/10.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfuWe1N09qI

Watched the extended version(!) of JFK last night. I remember liking this when it came out in the cinema despite the very mixed critical and public reviews at the time. Despite its length (the extended cut comes in at just under 3 and half hours), it held my attention comfortably. I know a lot of people don't rate Kevin Costner as an actor, but he's really good in this. I can't understand how he didn't get an Oscar Nomination for his portrayal of Jim Garrison - the courtroom speech at the end is particularly impressive (allegedly in one take). I'm not saying he should have won (considering Hopkins won for Silence of the Lambs that year), but giving Tommy Lee Jones a Best Supporting Actor nod for not excatly doing very much in the same movie seems a bit bizarre when the two performances are held side by side. Even Donald Sutherland's one scene cameo is a significantly better and more impactful performance than Jones'.

Definitely worth watching again in one sitting if you haven't done so. 8/10.

krudler

Donald Sutherland's monologue is amazing

ButtersSuki

ButtersSuki wrote: »

Watched The Man With Two Brains over the weekend. Classic Steve Martin comedy and for me right up there with The Jerk in terms of "goofballness".......... if you're into that type of thing! Some great scenes, some great one-liners and excellent comedic performances from Martin and Kathleen Turner. For it's genre - 8/10.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfuWe1N09qI

Watched the extended version(!) of JFK last night. I remember liking this when it came out in the cinema despite the very mixed critical and public reviews at the time. Despite its length (the extended cut comes in at just under 3 and half hours), it held my attention comfortably. I know a lot of people don't rate Kevin Costner as an actor, but he's really good in this. I can't understand how he didn't get an Oscar Nomination for his portrayal of Jim Garrison - the courtroom speech at the end is particularly impressive (allegedly in one take). I'm not saying he should have won (considering Hopkins won for Silence of the Lambs that year), but giving Tommy Lee Jones a Best Supporting Actor nod for not excatly doing very much in the same movie seems a bit bizarre when the two performances are held side by side. Even Donald Sutherland's one scene cameo is a significantly better and more impactful performance than Jones'.

Definitely worth watching again in one sitting if you haven't done so. 8/10.

Costner was outstanding in this movie. Im not sure if people question Costners acting ability, more so some of his movies when he had huge budgets at his disposal, and that he got a bit egotistical. But his courtroom performance is just brilliant.
My favourite performance by John Candy too albeit a small one