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Get Carter (2000)
Much better than given credit for..
I found this to be an excellent flick. I haven't had the benefit of seeing the Michael Caine original, but viewed as its own movie, I thoroughly enjoyed Stallone's interpretation of Carter. Solidly acted with a restraint that fit the character. Too many negative reviews I've read all seemed to jump on the "Sly-is-over-rated" bandwagon without giving him credit for the good work he's actually done. With this film and Copland, I think Stallone is better in recent years than he has been in a long time.
I think Rachel Cooke played an emotionally difficult role well.
I'd rate this an 8/10. Anybody who puts this in the 10 worst movies of the year category (as I've seen) needs to go see Battlefield Earth and Scary Movie again to see that Get Carter doesn't belong anywhere near those cinematic abortions..
Tamás és Juli (1997)
A bit pretentious
We expected better than this.. My wife and I were fairly impressed with Enyedi's My 20th Century, so we had high expectations for this. Unfortunately the outcome was telegraphed from the outset and the nice cinematography was offset by the dog-humping scene (was she just trying to set the stage for the requisite sex scene at the dingy bus stop that followed). yecch. We found the overall exercise simply pretentious.