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Post by Marv on Mar 2, 2020 11:00:41 GMT
2017 film starring Nicklaus CW...the guy who played Jaime Lannister on Game of Thrones. Was really surprised how much I enjoyed this one. Basically tells the tale of a normal guy who goes to jail for dui manslaughter and winds up a fairly high ranking member of a white supremacist gang. Flashing between his release from prison and meeting up with gang members on the outside to set up some kind of gun deal to showing how he fell in with them in the first place. I enjoyed it a lot.
The Punisher and Cheddar Bob also play white supremacists.
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Post by mslo79 on Mar 3, 2020 7:44:48 GMT
Bottom line...
-It's within my Top 77 movies. -It's my #1 movie of 2017. -It's my 2nd favorite movie from this director behind Felon (2008) (9/10 ; within my Top 16 movies). -It's within my Top 3 movies (i.e. Shot Caller (2017)/Hostiles (2017-2018)/Ford v Ferrari (2019)) in the 2016-2019 time frame.
if you like Shot Caller I definitely recommend Felon (2008) as it's from the same director and is of similar subject matter. but all other movies from the director are nothing special as it's just these two that stand out.
but no one talks about a quality movie like this but overpraises average-ish movies nominated for Best Picture in the Oscars and super hero stuff that's nothing special etc. Shot Caller does what it does quite well as it takes a decent person and he slowly becomes a monster as initially he's doing it to survive but little-by-little gets worse and worse etc.
p.s. I have seen Shot Caller twice so far (July 2017/Feb 2018). I have seen Felon at least 4-5 times.
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Post by moviemouth on Mar 3, 2020 7:53:43 GMT
I think it is ugly and cold. It could have been a good movie with a better director and a better lead actor. Nikolaj Coster-Waldau is a bore to watch in everything I have seen him in.
I appreciate what the movie is going for, but the way it does it leaves me completely indifferent.
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Post by Sulla on Mar 3, 2020 13:31:59 GMT
Okay, I'll give it a shot. Added to my queue.
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