Am reading The Martian before I see it--it's pretty good. My buddy suggested I read it first. Sicario is the one movie I really wanted to see in theaters but missed it. It's next up on my NetFlix queue. _
Still haven't read Cormac Mccarthy but saw No Country. Red Dragon is coming up on my reading list. I enjoyed the newer one with Edward Norton and thought Manhunter was just okay. Most people don't know Shawshank Redemption, Green Mile, and Stand By Me were all Stephen King stories.
Sicario is on Netflix? I got the torrent without realizing there were no subtitles. My limited Spanish still allowed me to enjoy it. It was great and is a slow-burn type
Actually, I never read Gone Baby Gone but that's in my top 20 movies I've seen in the last decade. Great picture. That should have been nominated for best picture, but I can't complain since No Country won that year. But still, should have been nominated. Atonement was nominated and that movie sucked. _
Yeah, I love The Drop. Inception, The Dark Knight Rises, Lawless, Warrior, Bronson, etc. Tom Hardy is one of the best these days. And all your points are valid on Mad Max. I personally loved it. But as @abyzmul would say: I love a lot of movies. The Revenant was the clear #1 for me this year though. And it will be for The Academy too because it has all the stuff it likes. It appeals to a national audience (well some) too because of the job Leo and Hardy do.
Never saw or read Gone Baby Gone If you haven't seen Ex Machina you should. Oscar Isaac is great in it and Alicia Vikander is my new fem-bot crush Screenplay was written by the same guy who wrote the book The Beach, the movie Leo was in years back that was alright. Gotta read that too
Short stories too. McCarthy's books are not very readable. No Country is the most readable--really good, Child of God is readable but fucking weird. The Road was a piece of tripe. I think he wrote it in about 3 days while sitting on his yacht. His masterpiece-- Blood Meridian--I've started 3 times and can't get into it. _
I've just grazed his works while at the library/BN and it's all very dense. Eventually I'll get to No Country. I read The Light Between Oceans recently and it was good, is coming out as a film with Fassbender and Vikander soon. Might live up to it, but probably not
GBG is a GREAT flick. Casey Affleck is really a very good actor--in his serous stuff. Saw Ex Machina, liked it, LOVE Vikander. Wowza. Oscar Isaac is in some great stuff. Alex Garland, one of my favorite authors with a caveat. The Beach is a GREAT GREAT read--I liked the movie but the novel is really interesting and very well written. He also wrote a novel called The Tesseract which was also good. Then he wrote some tripe like The Road called "Coma" and I was officially done with him. _
Yeah sometimes writers try something new and it just doesn't pan out. I'll look into Tesseract haven't heard of it.
It's not that. I think once these guys get famous and millions will buy whatever they put out, they will take dumps on their keyboards and it will sell. Coma and The Road did it for me. When I was younger I LOVED Nelson DeMille. Funny ballbusting leading men, great protagonists, they books were great. His last 3 or 4 books were rehashes of earlier books, the same characters with less wit and thought, awful--just cashing a check. _
Only read Plum Island from him..enjoyed it but didn't love it. There was another I was gonna check out from him but forgot the name
Best of the lot. Book or movies, imo. Agree about the movies, but Manhunter captured the pyschology and mood a little better. Movie's on Netfilx. Didn't watch it but some reviews said the movie sucked compared to the book
I grew up down the street from the nursery in the opening chapter in that book. NOT the " Gold Coast" lol _
Well I would agree with that because the novel sucked. Not saying much. I guess if I saw that movie without having read the book I would have like it better. As it is the novel pissed me off so I couldn't give the movie a fair shake. _
The only novel I tried reading of his was No Country after seeing the movie. I said fuck this shit after a page and a half.
