Man on Fire
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0328107/
Holy hell, this is a great movie. Really, I wasn't expecting much from this movie. Despite having an Oscar-winning actor as the lead, I really just expected an action flick. I mean, did you see John Q? Not that great. So I went in with low expectations. I was wrong.
So this IS an action flick, at heart. There's several scenes of gunplay. Denzel is a BADASS in this movie. But he's not just a 2-dimensional ubermensch caricature, his character has some serious flaws, and he goes through a transformation through the course of events of the film.
There's some really neat cinematography and editing in the film. There's also some neat things done with the subtitling. The story takes place in Mexico, so most of the spanish is subtitled for you. But in some scenes, even the english is subtitled. And they do some neat things with the subtitling, like having it show "trails" and having it in the background-- a character in the foreground moves in front of it and blocks part of it out.
And then there's the music. Lots of Nine Inch Nails-- in particular I think it was just one song, maybe just several remixes of the same song-- Reptile. Some other cool music too, in a rave scene. I found the score to the movie online, but I want a soundtrack, I'll see if I can track that down.
Anyway, if you haven't seen this, you should check it out. Very awesome.
He had a great line in that movie:
"Creasy's art is Death. He's about to paint his masterpiece."
Man, that's a great action flick. The Rock is the protagonist, and this is actually the first movie I'd watched him in since "The Scorpion King". And he's pretty damn good in this movie. But the badguy is Christopher Walken, and what can you say, he really makes the movie. If you like good action flicks, you should check that one out, too.
"I feel like a little boy who's lost his first tooth, put it under his pillow, waiting for the tooth-fairy to come. Only two evil burglars have crept in my window, and snatched it, before she could get here... Wait a second, do you understand the CONCEPT of the tooth-fairy? Explain it to them... Wait. She takes the god damned thing, and gives you a quarter. They've got my tooth! I want it back."
That's the greatest quote from that movie. The Walken always has good quotes.
He was funny in that Fatboy Slim video though.
Christopher Walken is a scary mother fucker.
He was funny in that Fatboy Slim video though.
That was so awesome. What makes it even cooler is that he was a Broadway dancer before he became an actor. Here is a link to that video: http://www.astralwerks.com/fbs/woc/
Also, in other Walken news, I hear that the Walken was inducted into the Walk-of-Fame outside Grauman's Chinese Theater, recently. From what I understand, he even used some of his old dancing shoes to make the shoe prints.
Man on Fire owned.
So did The Rundown.
I heard Man on Fire has 2 endings. I only saw one but I don't want to spoil it for anyone who hasn't seen it. If you haven't, go see it now.