has anyone seen lust, caution yet and if so was it worth sitting in the cinema for 2hrs 40 mins for?

[Heathcliffscathy]

i do like ang lee, but that is LONG.

any good ?

I have seen.

It is LONG.

I saw at home though. DH gave up. I have to think about this for a minute. Hang on.

Haven't seen it yet but am very tempted. Ang Lee usually sign of Quality. (Have also had a vague thing for Tony Leung since Chungking Express...)

Right.

I love Ang Lee. He's wonderful.

This is difficult, and I think made for Chinese/Taiwanese audience - where evidently it was huge, but bombed in US.

Yes, go see it I think. It is LONG and it isn't perfect, but it looks wonderful and is a slice of life if you're like me you probably don't know much about.

Very graphic sex scenes too, lots of sex.

Yes go see, take supplies.

eek, isn't it explicit ?

Yes very, and quite sort of, I don't know, uncompromising.

I'm not sounding very enthusiastic am I?

It is good and so worth seeing. I don't want the responsibility perhaps it's that, because god knows the time doesn't exactly fly by, and like I said I saw at home.

[strokes fence]

There Will Be Blood is very, very good though. Really good. You must see that.

[that was me being enthusiastic, see, leaping off the fence]

is that the Daniel Day Lewis film ?

Yes.

he is staggeringly good in it.

supplies of what babe

condoms tissues cold drinks blind folds

Zippi

No.

Coffee.

is there will be blood violent?

and is lust, caution violent?

i don't mind pulp fiction violent, but cannot take amputation or torture of any kind.

No, neither violent in a amputating way.

Lust, Caution is erotically violent perhaps?

Juno is a sweet and good and funky film. See that too.

erotically violent is fine

are juno and there will be blood out now? my local cineworld megadopolus complex of bland doom doesn't have either as an option!

Soph - neither are released yet.

ahundredtimes. are you a film critic? are you watching pirates? are you watching US copies?

Oh no, no.

We get Bafta 'for your consideration' films that's all, well dh does.

Pirates indeed. Downloads, indeed. Film critic, indeed.

100x did you see what they said in the Guardian Guide about DDL in that film? Made me snort good and proper. 'He'd hinted at how far he was prepared to go in Martin Scorsese's Gangs Of New York, but in There Will Be Blood, Daniel Day-Lewis may well make movie history. He blows the bloody doors off... while watching him deliver the near three-hour film's climactic monologue it's possible to speculate whether any other acting was done anywhere else in the world that day, because Dan looks like he's doing it ALL.'

Part of an article about how Big Acting is having a Hollywood renaissance.

Oh and in the same article they quote a bit out of 'The League of Gentlemen' (comedy not film): two boys in a video shop, one picks up a copy of 'Seven', and says 'Don't like that Bradley Pitt. Too much acting.'

Chortle.

lol.

Honestly, it is an extraordinary performance. It's big but true, if that makes sense. He does blow doors off, and the top of your head, you sit there open-mouthed tbh. It's like watching talent on steroids.

I've always been a huge fan of DDL. Can't wait for this film - thought tbh if he was sitting in a chair reading the yellow pages I'd probably still be enthralled........

Back to Lust Caution -- has anyone else seen it?
I was a bit disappointed: it wasn't terribly involving, and there were far too many ludicrous plotty bits, eg:
a/ the fallout of the inital botched job -- no way the am-dram cell could have walked away unscarred from that
b/ why did Yee's team never mention to him that she was part of a suspect group, even when she came to stay with them?
Oh -- when you stop to think about it, it's all preposterous.
Maybe critics too dazed by all the sex... gracious, it was fearfully graphic.

Liked it lots despite questionable plotty bits! Nearly 3 hours passed very quickly. Felt desperately sad at the end though no possible happy ending.