Lucky Number Slevin

Aslanna · Post by **Aslanna** » May 25, 2006, 9:22 pm

I thought this was a fun movie. It has a high body count but the dialogue is fairly entertaining. Ebert only gave it 2 stars but I'll bump my rating to 8/10. However if you value plot more than style in every movie you watch you may not like it as much.

Animale · Post by **Animale** » May 25, 2006, 9:33 pm

I saw it a couple weeks ago. Top notch movie in my opinion. The visual style is very entertaining, and the plot moves right along with good dialogue. If you liked this movie, you might also enjoy Brick - another newish movie with a similar style.

Animale

noel · Post by **noel** » May 25, 2006, 9:37 pm

I thought it was a great movie. I've not known Morgan Freeman or Ben Kingsley to be involved in bad movies.

Zaelath · Post by **Zaelath** » May 25, 2006, 10:03 pm

You can name at least one bad Freeman movie surely; Robin Hood, Sum of All Fears, Hard Rain?

I do tend to like his movies though.

noel · Post by **noel** » May 25, 2006, 11:03 pm

I have to take exception at Robin Hood. Robin Hood was a bad movie because of one person, and it sure as hell wasn't Morgan Freeman or Alan Rickman. Robin Hood was bad because of Kevin 'I'm Too Good to Get a Language Coach' Costner. Other than that, the movie was good for what it was.

The Sum of All Fears... There were really two failures here. The first was the horrible script that was so far off from what the book was. The second was obviously Ben Affleck. You're right though, that movie was bad, and Freeman was in it.

I don't recall ever seeing Hard Rain, so I'll take your word.

Dregor Thule · Post by **Dregor Thule** » May 25, 2006, 11:20 pm

DEEP IMPACT

noel · Post by **noel** » May 25, 2006, 11:35 pm

Dregor Thule wrote:DEEP IMPACT

I'm reminded of the conversation about Sean Connery between Renton and Sick Boy in the movie Trainspotting.

Nick · Post by **Nick** » May 25, 2006, 11:51 pm

Yeah I saw what it was trying to do, be a stylish thriller with a tinge of comedy, I still thought the sets, scripts, storyline and overall effect were a load of disappointing balls that the actors performances were never going to overcome.

Oddly enough, Bruce Willis' performance was about the only good thing about this film. That may have been because his character was sympathetically portrayed, overall though I think this fim was a massive waste of money compared with actually fantastic films like V for Vendetta, Eternal Sunshine, Me you everyone we know, etc etc.

Tyek · Post by **Tyek** » May 26, 2006, 12:10 am

Ben Kingsley

Wasn't he in Bloodrayne? I would qualify that as a bad movie.

Canelek · Post by **Canelek** » May 26, 2006, 12:19 am

Dregor Thule wrote:DEEP IMPACT

That movie did indeed suck. That movie about Ebola sucked too....Driving Miss Daisy...didn't see that one, but it looked stupid.

Freeman is indeed a good actor, he just does a 50/50 job at taking a good role.

Fairweather Pure · Post by **Fairweather Pure** » May 26, 2006, 1:07 am

I really liked Deep Impact. It was the yin to yang of Armageddon. Deep Impact was a serious drama while Armageddon was cotton candy fluff. I enjoyed both for what they were trying to pull off, but if I had to choose which one was better, Deep Impact would win by a landslide. Besides, Deep Impact had Frodo so it wins by default.

Drinsic Darkwood · Post by **Drinsic Darkwood** » May 26, 2006, 2:45 am

Nick wrote:overall though I think this fim was a massive waste of money compared with actually fantastic films like V for Vendetta, Eternal Sunshine, Me you everyone we know, etc etc.

I thought it was a good movie - well worth going to the theaters to see. I wouldn't put it on par with V for Vendetta and the like, but I'd consider it leaps and bounds ahead of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Then again, I'm almost the only person I know that dislikes that movie. My friends tend to give me "what the fuck is wrong with you" looks whenever I speak negatively of it.

Nick · Post by **Nick** » May 26, 2006, 2:48 am

I agree with your friends!

laneela · Post by **laneela** » May 26, 2006, 7:59 am

Canelek wrote:
Dregor Thule wrote:DEEP IMPACT
That movie did indeed suck. That movie about Ebola sucked too....Driving Miss Daisy...didn't see that one, but it looked stupid.

Freeman is indeed a good actor, he just does a 50/50 job at taking a good role.

What in the name of sweet baby jebus are you talking about!? Outbreak didn't suck. With that cast (Morgan Freeman, Dustin Hoffman, Kevin Spacey) and plot, it could've been a lot better but it was still an above average film. And Driving Miss Daisy is a great movie, albeit a bit of a chick flick, in that the characters feel a range of emotions and not just anger, remorse and wrath.

I'm with Noel on this one. 90% of anything Morgan Freeman is in is at very least above-average.

Dregor Thule · Post by **Dregor Thule** » May 26, 2006, 9:19 am

Fairweather Pure wrote:I really liked Deep Impact. It was the yin to yang of Armageddon. Deep Impact was a serious drama while Armageddon was cotton candy fluff. I enjoyed both for what they were trying to pull off, but if I had to choose which one was better, Deep Impact would win by a landslide. Besides, Deep Impact had Frodo so it wins by default.

When compared to Armageddon (which it always is because they came out very close together) it's a work of art. As far as disaster flicks go it wasn't too bad, but generally disaster flicks rate on the lower spectrum by default. There was still some monumentally stupid plot points in it, and I rate it as a "bad" film.

Bubba Grizz · Post by **Bubba Grizz** » May 26, 2006, 9:29 am

I like Morgan Freeman best when he was on the Electric Company. EASY READER BABY!

noel · Post by **noel** » May 26, 2006, 9:43 am

Dregor Thule wrote:When compared to Armageddon ... it's a work of art.

That made me LOL.

I now understand why I never saw it. My brother and I rarely agree on much, but the one thing we do agree on:
No natural disaster movies of any kind.

Syenye · Post by **Syenye** » May 26, 2006, 11:30 am

Along Came a Spider, or a number of movies with ashley judd.

i did like march of the penguins though.

noel · Post by **noel** » May 26, 2006, 11:36 am

Two words: Shawshank Redemption

Momopi · Post by **Momopi** » May 26, 2006, 11:41 am

Seven is my favorite movie with freeman in it. Although, Seven is one of my favorite movies anyways.

Bubba Grizz · Post by **Bubba Grizz** » May 26, 2006, 11:41 am

noel wrote:Two words: Shawshank Redemption

WORD!

Post by **Sylvus** » May 26, 2006, 12:06 pm

Shawshank is one of three greatest movies ever made.

Thess · Post by **Thess** » May 26, 2006, 12:08 pm

I liked this movie.

[hide]I just don't understand why the guy booked the bet with a bookie instead of going to a window at the track[/hide]

Winnow · Post by **Winnow** » May 26, 2006, 12:18 pm

Shawshank will never drop out of my top five best movies ever.

I'll have to check this "Slevin" movie out. I fell asleep AGAIN about 5 minutes into Da Vinci code last night.

Morgan Freeman does good work. He does sort of get stuck in the same role a lot though. (dramatic narrative type speeches during a movie while the camera isn't on him)

noel · Post by **noel** » May 26, 2006, 12:24 pm

Sylvus wrote:Shawshank is one of three greatest movies ever made.

What are the other two?

Aslanna · Post by **Aslanna** » May 26, 2006, 12:32 pm

Thess wrote:I liked this movie.

[hide]I just don't understand why the guy booked the bet with a bookie instead of going to a window at the track[/hide]

[Show]: I think because he didn't have the money upfront to bet at the track. Since it was a "sure thing" he thought he was safe to bet with something he didn't have.

At least that's my impression.

Post by **Sylvus** » May 26, 2006, 1:11 pm

noel wrote:
Sylvus wrote:Shawshank is one of three greatest movies ever made.
What are the other two?

Armageddon and The Lion King.

I'm just kidding, I didn't really have 3 in mind, I only know that Shawshank is definitely one of them. Off the top of my head, I'd probably go with Caddyshack and Goodfellas, if only because I will watch any of those three movies, without fail, whenever I see them on tv. And that's pretty often.

noel · Post by **noel** » May 26, 2006, 2:07 pm

Sylvus wrote:The Lion King

You can't stop singing 'The Circle of Life' at the top of your lungs in the shower either?

Edit: fuck this was supposed to be a PM!

Momopi · Post by **Momopi** » May 26, 2006, 5:27 pm

To be honest, Lion King is in my top 5 or so movies of all time. No joke ><

Funkmasterr · Post by **Funkmasterr** » May 26, 2006, 6:29 pm

Canelek wrote:
Dregor Thule wrote:DEEP IMPACT
That movie did indeed suck. That movie about Ebola sucked too....Driving Miss Daisy...didn't see that one, but it looked stupid.

Freeman is indeed a good actor, he just does a 50/50 job at taking a good role.

<a href=http://www.careerbuilder.com/monk-e-mai ... 10041735>A word from the star of Outbreak</a>

Audio is teh NWS

noel · Post by **noel** » May 26, 2006, 6:55 pm

Funkmasterr wrote:<a href=http://www.careerbuilder.com/monk-e-mai ... 10041735>A word from the star of Outbreak</a>

WARNING: AUDIO IS LIKELY NWS

Funkmasterr · Post by **Funkmasterr** » May 26, 2006, 6:58 pm

noel wrote:
Funkmasterr wrote:<a href=http://www.careerbuilder.com/monk-e-mai ... 10041735>A word from the star of Outbreak</a>
WARNING: AUDIO IS LIKELY NWS

Im sorry about that, yeah, what he said.

Fairweather Pure · Post by **Fairweather Pure** » May 26, 2006, 10:30 pm

Shawshank Redemption, Pulp Fiction, and Forest Gump all came out in the same year and were all up for best movie at the Oscars. We haven't had a year like that since. All 3 were some of the best movies of our time IMO, but Pulp Fiction and Forest Gump were truely groundbreaking. Shawshank was just a damn good flick.

Markulas · Post by **Markulas** » May 27, 2006, 2:47 am

Movie kinda reminded me of the Usual suspects. I enjoyed it for the most part. 8/10.