| 6ixStringJack: I liked Once Upon a Time for what it was. Network TV show about a modernized telling of Fairy Tales taking place in our world. I think it's another one of those shows that just went on way too long though. I know I never finished it since after I quit drinking it was on a long list of TV shows I was currently keeping up with and just abandoned. |
| 6ixStringJack: I wouldn't recommend Trainspotting. It's something some of my friends would have liked back in the late 90s. Some girls I hung out with on occasion at a local pool hall had me watch it one night. It meant a lot to both of them. I didn't really see the appeal. For you, I'd only watch it if you're a huge Ewan McGregor fan and wanted to see one of his really early works. |
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| Brenda: Never saw Trainspotting just heard of it. Heard of "Once Upon a Time" but again I've never seen it. I know my library has a copy of "Trainspotting" as I came across it the other day and I think I've seen "Once Upon a Time" too. Huh. Maybe I should check out one of these. |
| Brenda: I think I've seen the first Christian Bale batman movie but it was ages ago. So, I probably saw him but even then I wouldn't have known him from a hole in the wall. |
| 6ixStringJack: Carlyle has been in damn near anything that needed a British actor. First thing I saw him in was Trainspotting. If you watched any of the TV show "Once Upon a Time", he played Rumpelstiltskin in that. I'm surprised how little he was in that I recognize. I thought I'd seen him in a lot more than I actually have. |
| 6ixStringJack: I've only ever seen Murphy in 28 Days and then he played Scarecrow in the first Christian Bale Batman movie. I think he had a pretty long stint on Peaky Blinders, which my grandma watched. |
| Brenda: I had never really heard of Cillian Murphy before Oppenheimer. I fact I've only seen him in Oppenheimer. |
| Brenda: I know the name Robert Carlyle from somewhere. Didn't he work on one of the Stargate shows? Stargate Universe to be exact? |
| Brenda: Flashbacks can be helpful in any story telling either movie or book. |
| Brenda: First movies or first any things like writing is suppose to lay the ground work for any future movies or books. And you just hope that the second one lives up to the first. |
| Brenda: Well, sometimes movies with smaller budgets are better than big budget ones. Look at the first Mad Max movie that was a shoestring budget but it is a great movie. |
| 6ixStringJack: Oh... did I mention or did you know that Cillian Murphy was the "lead" in the first movie? I say lead, but it's really an ensamble cast of little-known actors at the time. Cillian is kind of our own Avatar in the first act of the movie. Amazing that he went on to be in so much and was just in the $1 Billion movie Oppenheimer. |
| 6ixStringJack: And the acting by Robert Carlyle is top-notch and really carries the whole movie, even though he's billed 3rd below Jeremy Renner and Rose Byrne. Most, if not all, of the flashbacks are from his perspective. |
| 6ixStringJack: It's exposition done well though. Rather than just telling us about things that happened, they actually do make good use of flashbacks. |
| 6ixStringJack: But like I said, the first one is much more intimate, and you're basically learning about what happened as the main character on screen does. In the 2nd movie, everyone we see on screen knows so much more, and we're basically playing catch up through exposition during the first half while the stage for chaos is being set. |
| 6ixStringJack: It fits the story and makes sense that in that instance there would be a mix. Did they write it that way because it was a Hollywood flick and they wanted to "broaden" the appeal of the 2nd? Maybe. It had some really cool effects in it, and one or two pretty awesome scenes that I don't think the budget of the first movie could have ever accomplished. |
| Brenda: I would have to find a copy of copy of days and look either at the back of the box or look it up on line. That's okay if it is a mix. It would probably add to some level of realism. |
| 6ixStringJack: *weeks, not days (I'm talking about the sequel) |
| 6ixStringJack: Yeah. The main actors in 28 days later were a mix of British and American although it takes place in Britain. (Not actually sure how much of it was filmed where though). It's just a much different kind of movie. The first one was intimate, where the 2nd one has a lot more people and stuff going on. |