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Post by politicidal on Dec 6, 2019 4:34:04 GMT
Watched it for the first time. It’s mashup of film noir and teen dramas. The finer details of the villains’ criminal enterprise is a stretch even for its fictitious world;a drug lord still living in his mom’s basement? But Joseph Gordon-Levitt was good casting for the Bogart type. It’s an odd premise but Rian Johnson makes it work.
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Post by wmcclain on Dec 6, 2019 13:30:55 GMT
I was recommending this to all my friends back then. I love that the drug lord cites Tolkien, probably thinking himself a Gandalf character. Readers of Hammett and Chandler will have leg up on this one. Joseph Gordon-Levitt's face changed after this film. He looks entirely different later:
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Post by biker1 on Dec 6, 2019 18:48:12 GMT
Brave idea, but I didn't like it one iota, and spent much of the duration wincing at the wannabe hardboiled dialogue. The writer/director did better with time travel thriller looper (2012). 4/10
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Post by london777 on Dec 7, 2019 22:39:08 GMT
I quite liked it. Something different. I thought the "drug lord", played by an actor new to me, Lukas Haas, was compelling. But he has appeared in other films I have seen since (Lincoln, The Revenant) without my noticing him.
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Post by Feologild Oakes on Dec 7, 2019 22:40:21 GMT
I watched this movie in 2006 i think it was.
A decent movie as far as i can remember.
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