comment #1

BurmaShave says ...

He's come a long way from DRAGONHEART, the dumbest movie I ever loved.

comment #2

MilkMan says ...

how shitty is your life when you go to something like this

not as shitty as mine

but kind of close

comment #3

calraigh says ...

The ending is incredible and Asa Butterfield is great as the cossetted, innocent little boy. Rupert Friend is great as well and terrifyingly good as a Nazi. I wasn't expecting it to be all that great as the '' English-speaking actors playing non english-speaking people in a non english-speaking country all the while speaking english '' thing really pisses me off. But this works, in a way that Good does not. At all. However I was pleasantly, if not overwhelmingly surprised by how wonderful this film was. There are some problems, but that's more to do with the problems inherent in the premise of the book, and whether you go with it or not.

The ending is kick-you-in-the gut shocking though, and when I saw it in a full cinema here in Dublin about a month ago, when the screen fades to black, there wasn't a sound, and everyone stayed until the credits finished rolling. I haven't seen a film that's had an effect like that on an audience in a long time.

comment #4

Rich S. says ...

Thewlis is living with Anna Friel from Pushing Daisies. He's doing all right.

comment #5

Nick Plowman says ...

I saw this last month at a press screening, and while the performances are good and the ending indeed shocking (perhaps more so in its cinematic form compared to book form, even if the book is better at expressing the protagonist’s innocence and naïveté) I just didn’t think it to be as great as I hoped it to be. Its an alright film, worth watching but the problems stem from the fact that the book is an incredibly internalised tale, full of allegory, and that just cant always translate with the same effect in a film, especially since the film treats the story’s allegorical occurrences and themes far too realistically.

comment #6

slutsky says ...

Are you saying this movie is actually any good? I mean, it looks so unbelievably maudlin... the title... the little kids speaking in accented english... and let me guess, one or both of them dies at the end?

comment #7

Sabina E says ...

the movie looks AMAZING. I saw the previews a while ago and it almost made me cry.

comment #8

calraigh says ...

Slutsky- honestly, it looks maudlin to the point of being unwatchable, and I really,really wasn't interested or intrigued. However it is far, far better than what it seems to be. I was genuinely won over by it. It's not a great film, by any means, but it has moments of beauty and it's just so ultimately shocking that you can't help but warm to it. Believe me, I didn't think I'd be thinking the same before I saw it either. It works surprisingly well.

comment #9

JB Moore says ...

David Thewlis is a badass. His role as Johnny in NAKED is hands down the best performance of the 90s. I re-watched it last week, hadn't seen it in almost ten years, and it only got better with age. It's rough and unpleasant throughout, but a straight-up masterpiece.

Only Day-Lewis as Daniel Plainview rivals Thewlis for the best performance of the past fifteen, Hell, twenty years.

comment #10

Joshua Mooney says ...

Agreed, JB Moore. Thewlis as Johnny is in my top-ten of all time. He blew me away the first time I saw it, and every time since. I always figured Johnny was how Lennon would have ended up, if fate hadn't stepped in to get him out of Liverpool.

"I've got an infinite number of places to go, the problem is where to stay. "

comment #11

janee says ...

Si vous etes interesses par le dossier, ou desirez en savoir plus, contactez-moi par mail, et je vous mettrai en contact.
Best regards,Jane, CEO of high availability architecture