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I watched the new Scott Cooper film The Pale Blue Eye last night. Cooper is becoming one of my favourite director's. I still need to see his directorial debut Crazy Heart.

His latest venture is a very well made, moody gothic thriller. Superbly shot and thankfully not darkly lit. Christian Bale is suitably on good form but it is Harry Melling who steals the show as Edgar Allan Poe. Thankfully Melling (like Daniel Radcliffe) has shaken off the Harry Potter shackles and has being getting his teeth into some really juicy, complex roles. We even get a cameo from Robert Duvall has an occult expert.

The plot does falter a bit near the end but not too much.

My Scott Cooper ranking -

1. Hostiles
2. Out of the Furnace
3. Black Mass
4. The Pale Blue Eye
5. Antlers

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Sucked it up and watched Baumbach's White Noise. I'm a big fan of the novel, so this was a risk. I didn't hate it quite as much as I expected, although it's mostly an awkward adaptation. I did enjoy the horror tropes though, which aren't really present in the novel (although an understated horror courses throughout the entire narrative). Jack's dream was especially creepy, and the airborne toxic event scenes were given an almost Lovecraftian atmosphere.

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CiG said:
Daniel Radcliffe is yet to get a role anywhere near as complex and layered as Harry Potter. He'll probably never top it.
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Really!? What about Kill Your Darlings, Imperium, Swiss Army Man, Weird: The Al Yankovic Story, Horns, Escape From Pretoria?
 
I'll take Prisoner of Azkaban, Order of the Phoenix, or Deathly Hallows I & II over Imperium or S.A.M. any day.

I haven't seen those others. What do you think is so good about them? Imperium was a flop imo.
 
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CiG said:
I'll take Prisoner of Azkaban, Order of the Phoenix, or Deathly Hallows I & II over Imperium or S.A.M. any day.

I haven't seen those others. What do you think are so good about them? Imperium was a flop imo.
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I am mainly thinking of them around Radcliffe's performances and the role types. Way more interesting than Harry Potter.
 
CiG said:
How so?
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Well, S.A.M. playing a corpse. That in itself is pretty unusual and would have stretched his acting skills in new directions. Personally I really liked Imperium. It's not perfect (and certainly not as good as Skin) but Radcliffe imo puts in a pretty well rounded performance of someone who is conflicted in what he is doing undercover.
 
Never seen any of the Potter movies but about the only thing I can stand Radcliffe in is not a movie but the TV show Miracle Workers with Steve Buscemi;
 
AbelTim said:
Well, S.A.M. playing a corpse. That in itself is pretty unusual and would have stretched his acting skills in new directions. Personally I really liked Imperium. It's not perfect (and certainly not as good as Skin) but Radcliffe imo puts in a pretty well rounded performance of someone who is conflicted in what he is doing undercover.
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Neither touches what he did in the peak Potter films though. If he ever does a performance that tops them it'll be because of what he learned doing them in the first place. In Imperium he gave us a fairly generic, but solid, undercover agent that we've seen a thousand times already, and in S.A.M. he gave us a corpse...

In Harry Potter he fleshed out a character over the course of 8 films and got to the point where he could carry majority of a movie on his shoulders alone, which is wild for a child actor in the pre-character driven TV series era. His ability to portray depths of grief and loneliness in a film series that started off as basically fun children's adventure fluff will never cease to impress me and only get better with age.

What do you like so much about Kill Your Darlings, Weird: The Al Yankovic Story, Horns, and Escape From Pretoria? Those are the ones I haven't seen and as of right now don't plan to.
 
CiG said:
Neither touches what he did in the peak Potter films though. If he ever does a performance that tops them it'll be because of what he learned doing them in the first place. In Imperium he gave us a fairly generic, but solid, undercover agent that we've seen a thousand times already, and in S.A.M. he gave us a corpse...

In Harry Potter he fleshed out a character over the course of 8 films and got to the point where he could carry majority of a movie on his shoulders alone, which is wild for a child actor in the pre-character driven TV series era. His ability to portray depths of grief and loneliness in a film series that started off as basically fun children's adventure fluff will never cease to impress me and only get better with age.

What do you like so much about Kill Your Darlings, Weird: The Al Yankovic Story, Horns, and Escape From Pretoria? Those are the ones I haven't seen and as of right now don't plan to.
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Well to be fair with the Al Yankovic one I haven't seen it yet. I only mentioned it as I have always respected actors who have delved into biographical films on real life individuals. This bleeds into my opinion on kill Your Darlings and Escape From Pretoria. Horns is just a total wild trip of a film and quite out there for Radcliffe and I was impressed by his performance.

I am not a fan of the Harry Potter films or books. Unoriginal drivel.
 
CiG said:
Have you seen all of them?

Also what's original about a biopic or playing a fed?
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The Yankovic film is the only one I have not seen. My answer to your second question is they are not completely original but only original in the sense of the performance that the actor puts into the role.
 
Then I don't know what to say, because they're not in the least unoriginal. Can you explain how they are? Also if they're such unoriginal drivel why have you seen all of them multiple times?
 
CiG said:
Then I don't know what to say, because they're not in the least unoriginal. Can you explain how they are? Also if they're such unoriginal drivel why have you seen all of them multiple times?
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I watched them multiple times to give them a chance but they have always bored me to death. To be honest saying they were unoriginal is too harsh. They just didn't interest me. So purely subjective opinion. I always felt Radcliffe could do better.
 
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