Spacey was kino in this but overall it's kind of overrated. Cool aesthetics, nice little intrigue but lacking something
Spacey was kino in this but overall it's kind of overrated.
Spacey was kino in this but overall it's kind of overrated. Cool aesthetics, nice little intrigue but lacking something
Naw. I saw this a few months ago and thought it was 5/5. Can’t believe I slept on it for so long.
dude it was at least a 10/10
A perfect 5/7
Remember it being much better, first half hour has very moronic pacing with not much happening at all.
devito's voiceover was corny, other than than a solid 7/8
The voiceover is done in a very deliberate style given the genre, period setting, and him being a sleazy journalist. We’re literally hearing the way he writes the news.
>irish bastard is the main culprit
imagine my shock. the famines weren't enough
its great
For me, it's Black Dahlia
Inconsistent with some good bits. Would like to see the full version but likely never will.
people are often filtered by noir and neo-noir, like melodrama it is a genre only for feeling people, not soulless zoomers
all the failed attempts at neo-noir, like black dahlia, and Hollywood land, just present just how brilliant LA confidential was.
Misogynist detected
The book was pretty good ngl
The music is really good and kudos to them for having the stones to make Russell Crowe's character literally sneak up on a rapist while he's watching TV and just shoot him straight through the heart in cold blood before planting a gun on him to demonstrate Bud's merciless commitment to justice.
He was kino in many things, shame he went down the bumming barely legal twinks who had given questionable consent route with such gusto as he was a good actor for a gay man.
He was very nearly the first American Doctor Who: Tennant wanted to move on from the role as he was getting lots of offers and RTD was only going to do one series before handing over to Moffat.Spacey was cast and set to become the Doctor in The Stolen Earth. Spacy however was "double booked" when the BBC wanted to film so had to pull out, this led to a rewrite and Tennant offering to fit in some specials around his acting commitments he had already signed on so would remain Doctor until the End of RTD's run and Spacey's contract was cancelled.
>shame he went down the bumming barely legal twinks who had given questionable consent route with such gusto
There was nowhere else that route led. All male homosexuality is at root pedophilic
Why have all the adaptions of Ellroy been utter shit? We need a mini-series with all the plotlines kept in. I think The Big Nowhere would be fantastic if HBO put the money up.
Because the books suck to begin with. LA Confidential was only good because they changed everything about the story after the first third. Ellroy is a drugged out perverted hack.
Black Dahlia-good-great, his only good book and only decent writing
Big Nowhere- meh but worth it if you like the Black Dahlia
LA Confidential- shit
White Jazz- insane shit
So ellroy is not a good writer?
No. He had some talent and an interesting view in his early career but really only pulled it together for the Black Dahlia and maybe the Big Nowhere. Then he fried his brain on substances and thought he was going to invent a new style of writing that turned out to be drivel. And not only that he decided to do a woke reboot of his most famous characters with his new LA quartet
>Why have all the adaptions of Ellroy been utter shit?
Well, anon because
>We need a mini-series with all the plotlines kept in.
never mind
Only an absolute moronic zoomer would claim this movie is overrated. I
For me, it's the tit meat.
Even simplified from the books it's still way too much story for a movie. Watch Chinatown (near-perfect kino) and consider how much less actually happens in that movie. Noir needs room to breathe
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You’re crazy. It’s one of the best films ever made. A series that included all the subplots/characters that had to be removed might have been even better, but I’d still want this to exist as a condensed, alternate-reality adaptation. Lad.
>It’s one of the best films ever made
watch more movies pal.
That’s nice - you have an opinion.
opinions can differ in quality, namely when you have perspective to back them up, and especially when debating an art form with this many traits objective in nature. watch more movies, you sound moronic saying shit like that.
This was one of the few movies that ever shocked with a plot twist as an adult.
And Basinger was f*cking hot.
You can say 'frick' on the internet you know.
Any la confidential naysayers went sissy up at Casitas
>That'll do, Pearce. That'll do.