06-01-2019, 06:01 PM
(This post was last modified: 06-01-2019, 06:09 PM by TM2YC. Edited 1 time in total.)
Two very different films...
Beasts of No Nation (2015)
A harrowing look at the lives of child-soldiers by Cary Joji Fukunaga (currently working on the next Bond film), impressively acting as Director, Producer, Cinematographer and Screenwriter, basing his film on a novel (of the same name) and 6-years of his own research. I'm sure the 70s look and disturbing content is patterned after 'Apocalypse Now' but it's much more grim in tone and Idris Elba's "Commandant" is far worse... at least Colonel Kurtz had the excuse of being mad. 12-year old star Abraham Attah carries most of the film on his little shoulders, saying few words but expressing a huge array of emotions through his face and eyes.
Eddie the Eagle (2016)
I wanted to catch up with this biopic of unlikely ski-jump Olympian "Eddie the Eagle" Edwards (a pop-culture icon in the UK) since it was the first collaboration between 'Rocketman' Director Dexter Fletcher and star Taron Egerton. It's full of sports movie cliches and would probably have been better to have not included Hugh Jackman's totally fictional washed-up-former-star-now-last-chance-coach character trope. However, I largely didn't care because it's a crowd pleasing movie that'll warm your heart, make you laugh, make you cheer and leave you with a massive grin on your face afterwards (unless you're dead inside
). Matthew Margeson's soaring synth score plays a huge part in the film's success, recalling those big, bold Hans Zimmer soundtracks from the early 90s, like 'Days of Thunder', 'True Romance' and of course 'Cool Runnings'.
The main theme is so damn good!
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Beasts of No Nation (2015)
A harrowing look at the lives of child-soldiers by Cary Joji Fukunaga (currently working on the next Bond film), impressively acting as Director, Producer, Cinematographer and Screenwriter, basing his film on a novel (of the same name) and 6-years of his own research. I'm sure the 70s look and disturbing content is patterned after 'Apocalypse Now' but it's much more grim in tone and Idris Elba's "Commandant" is far worse... at least Colonel Kurtz had the excuse of being mad. 12-year old star Abraham Attah carries most of the film on his little shoulders, saying few words but expressing a huge array of emotions through his face and eyes.
Eddie the Eagle (2016)
I wanted to catch up with this biopic of unlikely ski-jump Olympian "Eddie the Eagle" Edwards (a pop-culture icon in the UK) since it was the first collaboration between 'Rocketman' Director Dexter Fletcher and star Taron Egerton. It's full of sports movie cliches and would probably have been better to have not included Hugh Jackman's totally fictional washed-up-former-star-now-last-chance-coach character trope. However, I largely didn't care because it's a crowd pleasing movie that'll warm your heart, make you laugh, make you cheer and leave you with a massive grin on your face afterwards (unless you're dead inside
). Matthew Margeson's soaring synth score plays a huge part in the film's success, recalling those big, bold Hans Zimmer soundtracks from the early 90s, like 'Days of Thunder', 'True Romance' and of course 'Cool Runnings'.The main theme is so damn good!
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