--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb <no_reply@...> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "salyavin808" <fintlewoodlewix@> wrote: > > > > I never knew he was Ridley's brother. Of the two I'd have to > > go for Ridley as Top Gun is IMO one of the most awful movies > > ever made. I had to try three times to get to the end without > > vomiting. Each very much to their own! > > They both got their start making commercials, which > helps to explain the excellent "visuals" in their > movies.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/299879 Afetr a recommendation like that I shall check out Spy Games > > though, I might have missed it recently as it happens. I have a > > habit of recording movies to watch later and might have skipped > > it due to the presence of Brad Pitt. I have a prejudice against > > the lad after he ruined that otherwise excellent Jesse James > > movie, he seems to have a knack of looking like someone acting > > instead of totally fitting the part. > > He can do good work. He isn't given all that much to > work with in "Spy Game" in the final cut, but he was > in the original unedited script. If you rent the DVD, > there are deleted and extended scenes on it that reveal > a subplot that was completely cut out of the final film. > IMO, that subplot makes the movie *much* better, but > obviously either the studio or Scott didn't agree. > > > He did it again in Inglorious Basterds, playing pretty much the > > same character, which was a very odd movie in many ways, kind of > > half finished or very heavily edited, so much that the eponymous > > basterds were hardly in it! And they didn't light up the screen > > as much as the others when they were. A low spot for Tarrantino. > > Agreed. But Brad Pitt has done good work, and will again. > It kinda depends on the film, and who he's working with > as a director, and a number of other variables. > > I liked "Spy Games" not so much for its action scenes, > but for the Redford "stuck in a room being interrogated > by morons he could out-think with one lobe of his brain > tied behind his back" scenes. As a spy master, although > physically he's still Robert Redford, intellectually > he's more akin to George Smiley. >
