Eastern Promises

[Ravenbomb]

Anybody seen it? Is it good? Is it shit? I'm seeing it this Sunday, since I liked A History of Violence, and like Chronenberg's stuff in general.

[Nighthawk]

As an ardent tattoo enthusiast, Cronenberg fan who loves movies about the mafia, I had to see it. I think it was good. Really quite brutally violent at times. There's this one totally hardcore, well choreographed fight in particular. It's in a sauna, so there are dicks swinging around. That's now two movies where Russians fight in a sauna, the other being Red heat.

I can't think of a bad thing to say. Mortensen has a backpiece tattoo of the Kremlin, I thought that was awesome.

[Ravenbomb]

Well, I like good fight scenes, cool looking tattoos, and seeing guys' dicks isn't a problem for me, so I'm definately looking forward to it.

[cabbageboy]

Yeah I saw it and it was real good. I have to say that the bath house fight was so jarring and disturbing on numerous levels that it became almost hilarious. I had to fight to hold back laughter, more out of a sense of shocked disbelief than anything.

 

What was with the ending though? It seemed odd, like there needed to be something more to it.

[devo]

Great film. My only complaint is with the ending as well - I felt the movie should have ended with the shot of

Anna holding Christine and looking out at the water

. The last bit of film after that felt tacked on and unnecessary.

 

Also, does anyone else think they were hinting at an actual

gay relationship between Nikolai and Krilli? Viggo Mortensen saying "let's go home" during that scene near the end made me think that might have been the case.

[Ravenbomb]

After a bit of a delay, I finally saw it today. Some points Devo brought up might keep it from being my #1 movie for the year, but unless 3:10 To Yuma blows me away tomorrow, it'll stay at a solid #2 for a while.

[NoCalMike]

This is on my list to see....

[Ravenbomb]

Also, I'm calling it now: Viggo fucking Mortensen gets the Oscar for Best Actor.

[Nighthawk]

By the way, I probably prefer 3:10 to Yuma to Eastern Promises. But y'know, Christian Bale is my favorite currently active actor. Ben Foster stole the show, too.

 

My favorite movie this year was Halloween, but those other two are likely two and three. As far as mainstream movies, anyway.

[4hartthreat]

Sorry Ravenbomb, but there is no way Mortensen wins the Oscar for this movie. And I loved the performance. It just isn't going to happen.

[Ravenbomb]

What performance this year was better?

 

 

And yeah, 3:10 to Yuma was really good, and Bale, Foster, and Crowe (and Peter Fonda for the small-ish role he had) were all excellent, but the ending didn't work for me. Crowe's character's actions at the end seem a tad perfunctory.