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Dirty Grandpa (2016) – Review

Recensie Dirty Grandpa

In general I will finish watching every movie I press play on. That sometimes mean I will have a heard time to keep watching, but also that for some movies I will watch them at slightly higher speeds. Lately I’ve been questioning myself why I force myself to finish each movie I start. I think it is because I’m able to give my opinion about a film (because a movie might become better later on), but is that the real reason? Or does it simply give my some kind of satisfaction to be able to say I’ve finished it and add it to the number of movies I watched as some sort of reward? Isn’t it better to spend my time on a good movie which I actually enjoy? Sometimes it can be fun writing a review of a horrible film, because it allows you to air your frustration. Still, Dirty Grandpa almost managed to get me to stop it before it ended. Continue reading →

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Casino (1995)

Review of Casino (1995)

When watching Casino for the first time, years ago, I must admit that I felt a bit disappointed by it. It was a very long movie (178 minutes) which never captivated me the way something like Goodfellas did. It’s the obvious comparison to make of course since it’s also directed by Scorcese and stars Robert de Niro and Joe Pesci and maybe that was the reason I didn’t like it back then. I was probably hoping for the same type of movie and although it has its similarities it is a very different movie. Thinking I hadn’t been fair to the movie at the time, I had to revisit the world of Las Vegas during the seventies. A time before the big corporations moved in and when it was possible for gangsters to make quite a bit of money in the gambling capital of the world. Continue reading →

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Last Vegas (2013)

Last Vegas review film

Star Power is very important to a lot of Hollywood movies. Famous names usually guarantee a lot of people wanting to head to the cinema. Looking at Last Vegas it has heaps of them: Morgan Freeman, Robert de Niro, Michael Douglas and Kevin Kline. These men are all Oscar winners, so no reason to doubt their acting abilities. As these men are all getting older it is not a strange choice to make a comedy which makes fun of their age. Other older actors have done the same in the past (examples are Al Pacino and Christopher Walken in Stand Up Guys, but also the fatehr of Michael Douglas did this in Tough Guys in 1986). Do these men succeed in providing the laughs? Continue reading →

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Analyze This (1999)

Review Analyze This

Robert de Niro became famous for playing characters connected with organised crime. His roles in movies like The Godfather 2, Goodfellas and Casino are iconic. He is good in these roles and playing a mobster in a comedy came as no surprise. Usually these type of movies that make fun of the concept of organised crime aren’t very good. When this first came out my expectations were low, but as it was de Niro I did need to check it out and was pleasantly surprised by Analyze This. It was time to revisit this film. Continue reading →

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Killing Season (2013)

Recensie van Killing Season (2013)

Robert De Niro and John Travolta have both made names for themselves in Hollywood. Both have some memorable movies to their name and both have made some memorable movie choices later in their career. On paper Killing Season sounds like a movie which could be very interesting as it is about an American soldier (de Niro) who fought in former Yugoslavia and a man who came in contact with him during that war (Travolta, who plays his role with a heavy Eastern European accent) and now has sought him out back home to seek revenge. Set in isolated woods with no form of communication, except with each other, the two play a deadly game of cat and mouse/hunter and hunted. Is Killing Season the next Deliverance or doesn’t it even manage to kill time? Continue reading →

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The King of Comedy (1982)

Review of The King of Comedy

With a title like The King of Comedy I had some expectations about this movie. The biggest one was that this was a comedy movie starring Robert de Niro which was directed by Martin Scorcese. With my lack of investigation about a movie before seeing it (which basically comes down to looking a poster and an IMDB score) it turned out that my assumption was incorrect. It’s more Taxi Driver than Taxi. Continue reading →

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Being Flynn (2012)

Does every writer think he’s the greatest one out there? I guess a lot of them do and Robert de Niro’s character Jonathan Flynn states for a fact that he knows he is. Whether that really is the case you won’t know as you are watching Being Flynn, a movie which tells the story of a father and son, both writers. It really isn’t about the writing though, it’s about their broken relationship and the effect that can have on a person. Continue reading →

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The Many Faces of… Robert De Niro

Another Friday and a new installment in this weekly series. This week actor Robert De Niro. He was born on August 17, 1943 and didn’t start acting in 1963 (although the movie wasn’t released until 1969). His career really started in 1973. It didn’t take long for him to appear in a big movie though as he starred as Vito Corleone in the second Godfather movie in 1974, for which he won an Oscar. Now that’s a good start of your career.
He appeared in close to 90 movies, so picking out a favorite for this actor is going to be a tough one. Continue reading →

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Stone (2010)

Through the years Robert De Niro has lost most of the shine he had when he was younger. There was a time that you couldn’t wait to see his next movie and thought he was the best around. Somewhere around 2000 his movie choices were getting worse and his roles forgettable. I haven’t seen a lot of his movies since then, not even Righteous Kill with Al Pacino. Because I’m a big fan of Edward Norton, I decided to watch this movie, but if he wasn’t in there I probably would have given this movie a chance. Continue reading →

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Machete (2010)

When Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez were making the Grindhouse movies (Death Proof and Planet Terror), they wanted to show some fake trailers between the movies. One of those trailers was Machete, which was about a Mexican who was hired to kill someone, but finds out it’s a trap and as a result is hunted by a lot of people. Time for him to take revenge on those responsible.

The trailer turned out to be so popular (I really liked it as well when I first saw it) that Rodriguez got a lot of questions about it. People actually wanted to see the movie so he decided to make a feature length film of it. Is the movie just as much fun as the trailer or shouldn’t Rodriguez have bothered? Continue reading →