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Capone With Director Roger Donaldson About THE BANK JOB!!

yeay first! by donwillymo	Mar 20th, 2008 09:23:07 AM

I've got a job for you and it also starts with a B by donwillymo	Mar 20th, 2008 09:24:11 AM

a bakery job...what'd you think I meant...ur all sick by donwillymo	Mar 20th, 2008 09:25:17 AM

Statham should use Hair club for men then get serious roles by donwillymo	Mar 20th, 2008 09:26:11 AM

Should Have Asked About Costner's Horrible Boston Accent in 13 D by bobinnova	Mar 20th, 2008 09:32:55 AM
And if Sean Young was wearing underwear in the limo sequence of No Way Out
Wouldn't give Donaldson too much credit for the structure of No by Shoegeezer	Mar 20th, 2008 10:12:12 AM
seeing as the book and the 1948 version, The Big Clock, did it better. If they do use it as a teaching example it should be in a class dedicated to showing how stupid, last minute tacked on endings can ruin even the best of films - I do like the movie but am not blind to its faults. Also saying you would have guessed he saw Statham first in Lock Stock when your previous question showed you would do nothing of the sort is pretty questionable. I like Donaldson's work but Bank Job is nowhere near his best. It plays like a so-so episode of The Sweeney, any complexities the story may have had are killed by the tone-deaf performances by Statham (an ex-model, not "the real deal") and the reliably dreadful Saffron Burrows. Keeley Hawes is pretty good as the wife though. Also the true story aspects of this are dodgy to say the least.
The Bank Job was great! by Zardoz	Mar 20th, 2008 10:42:21 AM
I saw it the other day and I really liked it a lot. Great plot and cool actors. Kudos! Now I've really got to see "The World's Fastest Indian". (on HD-DVD!)
Good director. He also looks exactly like Bill Clinton. by MaxTheSilent	Mar 20th, 2008 11:11:31 AM
True.
World's Fastest Indian was Great by CrichtonAstronut	Mar 20th, 2008 11:26:46 AM
Really great role Anthony Hopkins and he obviously had a lot of fun playing it.
RIP Paul Scofield by monorail77	Mar 20th, 2008 11:33:03 AM
Very sad news. Scofield was an amazing actor and will be missed. (Get the thread up, AICN.)
RIP Paul Scofield by palimpsest	Mar 20th, 2008 11:52:35 AM
http://tinyurl.com/2dmwuc - this is turning into a shitty week. Scofield was an amazing actor, kinda the Ian McKellen of his day. A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS to QUIZ SHOW. Class.
I really like what he said about Sean Young... by Napolean Solo	Mar 20th, 2008 11:52:56 AM
"A lot of people have had trouble coping with that sort of direct quality about her; she doesn't care what anybody thinks, and I personally like people like that" From this interview... I really like that dude.
SPOILER ALERT by ArcadianDS	Mar 20th, 2008 12:21:17 PM
he's a russian spy
Paul Scofield = hard core by Frietag	Mar 20th, 2008 12:54:26 PM
Remember him as Colonel von Waldheim in John Frankenheimer's THE TRAIN? "The paintings are mine; they always will be; beauty belongs to the man who can appreciate it! They will always belong to me or to men like me!" RIP
A terrific director, really underrated by SpencerTrilby	Mar 20th, 2008 01:03:42 PM
I really love everything I watched from him, except maybe Species. I'm eager to see The Bank Job. And I'm sure he could really make a great Bond movie if given the occasion.
ArcadianDS by ironic_name	Mar 20th, 2008 01:44:29 PM
cool, then i wanna see it.
every movie should end by ironic_name	Mar 20th, 2008 01:48:07 PM
with a russian spy.
Bank Job's writers by quentintarantado	Mar 20th, 2008 02:02:52 PM
I like some of Donaldson's work; Smash Palace and No Way Out. However, I think Capone ought to check out the pedigree of the two writers, Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais. They wrote some pretty good movies: Flushed Away, The Commitments, some uncredited work in Never Say Never Again, plus some work of dubious quality (but maybe we can blame the director?) Across the Universe, Goal! and Excess Baggage (Alica Silverstone). They're both 71 years old and both O.B.E (Officers of the British Empire), but I guess that last bit's not relevant to screenwriting.
What the fudge... by syn_flood	Mar 20th, 2008 02:10:39 PM
... do you mean post-Dante's Peak? I love that movie! Easily the best example of a disaster movie in years.
Too bad... by greyspecter	Mar 20th, 2008 02:17:35 PM
Dante's Peak was a johnny-come-lately, syn_flood. Pierce Brosnan was totally believable as a downtrodden scientist. Not. And was that the last time Linda Hamilton was the female lead in a movie? Was she ever attractive, or did she just know the right people, in the Biblical sense?
Linda Hamilton.... by palimpsest	Mar 20th, 2008 03:20:41 PM
Did SHADOW CONSPIRACY come before or after DANTE'S PEAK? I think her career may have been influenced by the blessing / curse of being Mrs James Cameron. See Suzy Amis for details. Oh, and Kathryn Bigelow. Oh, and Gale Anne Hurd. Trust me, one of these days they're gonna gang together and make a movie called TYRANT JIM: SHIT IN BED or some such...
Roger Donaldson: the ULTIMATE non-auteur by Osmosis Jones	Mar 20th, 2008 03:38:51 PM
That's not to say I think h;s a bad filmmaker, but aside from his predilection for Dutch angles, there's not single, solitary narrative thread linking ANY of his movies.
Snake Eyes by SamBlackChvrch21	Mar 20th, 2008 03:43:41 PM
http://tinyurl.com/2lrq3w
So Michael Bay is an auteur? by SpencerTrilby	Mar 20th, 2008 04:45:51 PM
c'mon! The auteur theory is too flawed to be taken seriously. Even the guys who created it had a reality check once they became filmmakers themselves.
agreed, the Bank Job was really good! by kafka07	Mar 20th, 2008 05:24:34 PM
the best part about Cocktail is Tom Cruise's infectious smile that makes me want to convert to Scientology, but only so I can infiltrate them and kill them all from within.
So this gets a free pass and Transformers gets by skywalkerfamily	Mar 20th, 2008 06:03:00 PM
slammed?
'Cause Bank Job was good and Transformers was crap! by Zardoz	Mar 20th, 2008 06:14:33 PM
That's why! Duh? (and never the 'twain shall meet, anyway!)
Bank Job was just the latest variation on by skywalkerfamily	Mar 20th, 2008 06:27:52 PM
The Transporter guy's resume.
Am I The Only One.. by Rebeck2	Mar 20th, 2008 06:35:37 PM
Who thinks his remake of "The Getaway" is much more fun and exciting than the original. I feel that one is greatly underrated and the Kim Basinger nudity don't hurt one bit.
The Bank Job was a smart and suspenseful film... by Zardoz	Mar 20th, 2008 06:52:25 PM
with a good cast and a tight script. Donaldson did a great job on "The Bank Job". And it's a departure for Statham. Only at the end is there a minor bit of fancy foot-work by him. The only problem: some of the Limey lingo doesn't translate very well. I swear, they need to release UK cockney films with subtitles in the U.S.!
Rebeck 2- No your not alone by NomoredirtyjokespleaseweareYanks	Mar 20th, 2008 08:23:14 PM
the original is a classic. Donaldson's update is one of my fave remakes. For me its up there with Cape Fear.
Damn you Michael Bay by MCMLXXVI	Mar 20th, 2008 10:00:12 PM
Damn you Michael Bay
GREAT poster too by Prossor	Mar 21st, 2008 04:14:09 AM
that homage to the 70's euro-heist flicks was a great advertising campaign. just goes to show how great posters were back in the day, still to this day. unlike that photoshop floaty-head collage shit like the upcoming Iron Man poster. 0 originality.
Sorry but this guy is DULL by Spoiler_Man	Mar 21st, 2008 08:24:56 AM
For fuck's sake, this guy is a Hollywood director and works with big name actors. Where the fuck is his personality? YAWN fucking YAWN. Yeah, I'm yawning at you Dull Donaldson.
None of the crooks in this movie... by Osmosis Jones	Mar 21st, 2008 10:32:18 PM
...wore any GLOVES!!!

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