Without further adieu, here are your posts from the first ever LAMBS in the Director’s Chair event, taking a look at the films of Danny Boyle. This thread will be continuously updated throughout the next three days, so if you have anything to say about Mr. Boyle or his films, drop me a line at marchhaire@gmail.com, and your post will appear on this very page.
Thursday, July 9, 2009
Foolish Blatherings gets hard Boyle'd, reviewing yet another Boyle picture. This time out, it's 28 Days Later:
I enjoyed the endless amounts of blood and gore. It was humorous. It was tense and suspenseful like good horror movie should be. Boyle’s signature moves worked well here with the double speed shots, and the quick cuts.
Foolish Blatherings strikes out against the critically acclaimed Millions, giving it a two-star review:
If you want to induce a headache, watch this movie.
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
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Tuesday, July 7, 2009
While reviewing Shallow Grave and Trainspotting, Korova Theatre has us consider the following:
Is Danny Boyle the new Robert Wise? I know Boyle doesn't have the filmography to compare (yet) but Wise was the great genre chameleon. He made one of the greatest science fiction films in THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL, one of the best classic horror flicks THE HAUNTING, great noir in ODDS AGAINST TOMOROW and THE SET-UP, and of course musicals with THE SOUND OF MUSIC and WEST SIDE STORY. Boyle seems to be able to "genre-hop" from MILLIONS to 28 DAYS LATER to SUNSHINE. Their technique is very different with Wise learning from the great Orson Welles and his RKO production team; after all, Wise edited CITIZEN KANE!
Hugo Stiglitz Makes Movies saw Slumdog Millionaire once and didn't like it. He saw it again...and once again didn't like it:
I watched major parts of it again the other night and I still stand by my initial reactions to the films failings and how Boyle really messed this thing up; hence the repost of my original review -- I guess I just don't have anything new to add. It had the chance to be good, were it in the hands of a more skilled director.
Newest LAMB Lux is, overall, very impressed with Boyle's work to date:
Here is one of the most talented Directors of our 21st century generation. With an edgy technique in his own craft, he have managed to strike it different and stand out amongst his fiercest peers.
Blog Cabins really, really, really liked Sunshine, all the way up until the third act came along and ruined a perfectly good movie about detonating bombs near the Sun:
Everything that had led up to this point - the genre, the acting, the beauty - becomes tarnished and nearly wiped from your memory. I imagine a composer leading his orchestra through a near-perfect, timeless performance, only to begin incessantly vomiting while simultaneously running around and stabbing the members of his strings section. Sure, once the trombonist knocks him out, the horns section may be able to finish the piece and salvage the night, but its already been tainted at that point.
Foolish Blatherings checked out Trainspotting, the film that first brought Boyle to mainstream attention:
This is a soild effort by Boyle about the reality and consequences of drug use. Either you destroy the drug or the drug destroys you. Simple as that.
Foolish Blatherings liked Slumdog Millionaire, but not as much as everybody else:
Everybody has been salivating over Slumdog Millionaire, which was based on Vikas Swarup’s novel, “Q & A.” This is the latest film from Danny Boyle along with his co-director Loveleen Tandan. This movie has 86 on the Metatcritic and it has been nominated for 4 Golden Globes awards. People are saying that this is the best film of the year. I would strongly disagree with that.
New LAMB Plus Trailers believes that Slumdog Millionaire is the best Best Picture winner in recent memory:
Already I’ve made a contentious statement. The best? In the last five years, the winners for Best Picture at the Academy Awards have been Slumdog Millionaire, No Country For Old Men, The Departed, Crash and Million Dollar Baby. All good films – can I really say that Slumdog Millionaire is the best?
Film Forager waited seven years to see 28 Days Later and just so happened to like it:
This isn't an especially scary movie when you watch it, but the concept is terrifying. It seems so much more real to replace "zombies raised from the dead" with "incurable, rapidly-spreading rage disease". How would the government handle it? How would the rest of the world respond? How would the public react? 28 Days Later suddenly seems realistic and that is what makes it so frightening.
