I'm not sure why this wasn't very good but it just wasn't
it had potential and it had effort... so where did it miss the mark?
nearly every mark missed the spot somehow
I'd genuinely not bother if I were you.
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I'm not sure why this wasn't very good but it just wasn't
it had potential and it had effort... so where did it miss the mark?
nearly every mark missed the spot somehow
I'd genuinely not bother if I were you.
Thanks for the advice, albeit 15 years too late.
I can't remember anything about the film.
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Originally Posted by Zak33
Wrong, wrong, wrong. Its a great film (at least it was 15yrs ago), Zacky doesn't know what he's talking about or was in a bad mood when he watched it. .......... In other other news, other opinions may be available. :)
I tried to watch it twice!
I promise I tried soo hard.. but it's a tasteless bland low fat yogurt film
(age of it being 15 years old has zero bearing on watching a film I hasten to add... Leon is an old film and many people still haven't seen that)
ex-ZAKKLYQuote:
Originally Posted by Dashers
So the $64000 question is - did he actually complete his training sucessfully?? Or did he need to come back the next day??
Watched it about 10 years ago, and I noticed it was on TV again recently. I can appreciate the acting and he did get an Oscar for it, but I also didn't really like it that much.
It might be a culture issue, as I also didn't enjoy Bad Lieutenant (Harvey Kietel) which is fairly highly rated too.
There are some American things I just don't get. I know we have gangs, corruption, drugs and so on in this country but we just don't seem to revel in it in the same way. What's the British equivalent? Lock Stock, Attack the Block? They have wit and humour in them where the US films are just pure drama and desperation, probably redeemed by killing the antagonist at the end.
I've yet to see Straight Outta Compton though and have been repeatedly told I'll like it. I'm trying to downplay my expectations in advance.
UK culture isn't anywhere near as violent. Soap operas are probably where you're going to get the closest to every-day run-down struggles, but hardly good entertainment!
UK films would probably be things more like Billy Elliot :D
UK culture is all about taking the Michael, downplaying, belittling and self-deprecating. We don't take it so seriously.
Bill Hicks said he really enjoyed it here, as what he did in America was almost a way of life in our culture.
it is in the same environment as the gang culture in the US.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dashers
luckily we don't glamorise it.
It does have a few good lines (the King Kong rant is pretty enjoyable), but yeah, I didn't really rate the film highly either. It's well filmed and the actors are all good, but it's just a bit boring overall. I think the same of Scarface too which people rave about, never saw the attraction.
I'm always surprised when people don't like Training Day, The greatness of the movie is in being able to get a glimpse into a world that you can't casually check in on in real life.
Also, The character of Alonzo is excellent, because as the audience we don't meet him after his 1rst or even 50th bad day as a cop, but when he's so disillusioned and by extension sociopathic, and so far down the sewer of that area of society he's willing to do ANYTHING to get stuff done.
And the fact that the naive new cops one good act [saving the rape victim] is the thing which ultimately saves him, even in that "lower" section of society is quite powerful to.
Annnd Layer Cake :)
that's what ALL films do though.Quote:
Originally Posted by WhitherMoon
Lord of the Rings for example... it's our way of seeing something we cant really see
or American History X
or Scum
the thing is though..those three are all superb films
where Training Day is pants
I disagree, for Me It's better than Scum ["35 75 Carling Sir!"] and American History X, although they're both good movies.Quote:
Originally Posted by Zak33
Ha ha . . . "Sh*t Witness!"
Densel Washington in FLIGHT..now THAT'S A GOOD FILM
but we shall disagree for eternity on Training Day :)
which is good because to agree on everything is dull !
It seems to be a Marmite kind of a film, even here at Pollaxe Towers. I quite like Training Day but the wife hates it with a passion. :)
Agreed ! :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Zak33
I loved Training day. I thought Denzel's acting was top notch in that film.
I've got to disagree and say I enjoyed the film, although DenZel tends to play the same badass characters in his films, Man on Fire was one of the greatest!
He was good in Deja Vu too :)Quote:
Originally Posted by XRoyalT
I think the best one from him recently has been The Equaliser
I found Flight quite enjoyable as well. It was a different sort of movie.
I have to say I am not much of a Denzel Washington fan. He seems to just play one type of character in all his films....And thats Denzel! Having said that I watched Flight http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1907668/ recently and that was quite good I thought but more for the content than for Denzels performance as a drunken pilot Denzel.
BrOw
Flight is a really good film i agree
If anyone wants a decent Denzel movie check out John Q. I am bias though I love the man
Training Day is probably my favourite Denzel Washington, other police corruption movies like Narc and Dark Blue are also pretty good.