This is one of the pivotal films that got me interested in cinematography in the first place. Gorgeous work by Allen Daviau. Even the "China Odyssey" doc is beautiful; shot by an up-and-coming DP named John Toll!
For me, this is one of the "top titles not yet on Blu"; can't wait!
Yes, this is the Christian Bale flick. It came out the same year as the similarly-titled THE LAST EMPEROR, and also the similarly-themed "kid during WWII movie" HOPE AND GLORY.
Cover art posted over at digitalbits. Blech. Wish they'd stuck to the classy poster art. For me, looks like yet another BD which will be placed on my shelf in the old dvd packaging.
Cover art posted over at digitalbits. Blech. Wish they'd stuck to the classy poster art (which is shown in the first post of this thread). For me, looks like yet another BD which will be placed on my shelf in the old dvd packaging.
I see mentions of, of course, a young Christian Bale, an underrated Spielberg opus, and may I add yet another great performance from the always impeccable John Malkovich. This film is "unmissable". Day 1 (I kinda like the digibook layout btw)
If you read Ballard's book, you'll see that the movie is a fictionalized autobiography, but that most of the really weird stuff is true: the stadium full of loot including the Rolls Royce, care packages dropping from the sky, seeing the distant A-bomb.
And if you ever read his really strange science fiction short stories of the 1960s, it is astonishing to realize that he was describing odd things and moments that actually happened to him.
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I see mentions of, of course, a young Christian Bale, an underrated Spielberg opus, and may I add yet another great performance from the always impeccable John Malkovich. This film is "unmissable". Day 1 (I kinda like the digibook layout btw)
Great, great movie and I think the key to it was Bale acting like a real kid unlike most movies that have prominent child characters acting like they are adults stuck in a child's body.
And only 1 of 4 Spielberg movies (the others being Duel, Jaws and Munich) that didn't contain a smarmy kid or some awkward, forced sentimentality at the end which always seems to be a glaring flaw with his films. And yes, Schindler's List had that awkward forced sentimentality at the end.
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Great, great movie and I think the key to it was Bale acting like a real kid unlike most movies that have prominent child characters acting like they are adults stuck in a child's body.
And only 1 of 4 Spielberg movies (the others being Duel, Jaws and Munich) that didn't contain a smarmy kid or some awkward, forced sentimentality at the end which always seems to be a glaring flaw with his films. And yes, Schindler's List had that awkward forced sentimentality at the end.
I love this movie, and bought the laser disc when it first came out. I've created many followers of this movie with that laser disc. It's amazing how many people never saw this movie until video.
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