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Inspirational

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DF8h4trB70M

Title: Shallow Grave

Shallow Grave is a film I had never seen until recently. I’ve always been a devout fan of Danny Boyle’s ever since Trainspotting ruptured its way into my brain, but this is at a much earlier time in Boyle’s career. This film is low budget, but its also really good. It was shot almost entirely in a hollowed out warehouse, and despite the size of the set, Boyle manages to make the setting claustrophobic and deeply unsettling. I find this film so inspirational because it seems like something within my own grasp. No hefty financial constraints or interested third parties dictating how things should look or be arranged, just the right barebones tools to create the writer’s and director’s vision. It wouldn’t be the same great film if it’d had money being pumped into it, and that’s why I love it so much.

 

Movie Reviews

Hey look, a video review. 

Title:  The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.

IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060196/?ref_=nv_sr_1

Filmed in 1966 by Sergio Leone, this movie is iconic, and the quintessential spaghetti western. A trio of debauched cowboys go on a hunt for Confederate gold, getting caught up with bandits, priests, and the Civil War in various capacities. Coming in at 3 hours long, epic is not an inappropriate term for this movie.

If you like action, if you like meticulous filmmaking, if you like great characters and a legendary soundtrack that has permeated the minds of millions…do yourself a favor, watch this movie.

Although The Good the Bad and the Ugly is almost 50 years old, it still has many of the qualities that audiences today look for in a good action film, western or otherwise. Tuco and Blondie are professional scoundrels, running dirty jobs that cheat the system for large sums of money.