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Displaced Flames fan · 03-28-2007, 11:05 PM

What a great film.

I loved Alan Arkin in Little Miss Sunshine, I thought he was brilliant....but Djimon Hounsou NOT winning the Oscar for best supporting actor is a crime.

Leonardo DiCaprio has put in some really solid peformances over the last few years. He's starting to grow on me.

phaneuf_train · 03-28-2007, 11:08 PM

I loved this movie. Even got me a little choked up a couple of times.

metallicat · 03-28-2007, 11:09 PM

Yeah, I like DiCaprio a lot more these days.

I asked a woman I work with today, if she reconsidered her desire for diamonds today after seeing the movie. She emphatically stated that yes, she no longer wants diamonds.

Then she changed her opinion 10 seconds later. She still wants them.

Jayems · 03-28-2007, 11:19 PM

I heard somewhere that this movie was actually made about 10 years too late. The country featured (it escapes me right now) has actually cleaned up the diamond trade considerably, and great progress has been made towards stopping this.

Unfortunately, it is still happening, so either way still a good movie.

I really enjoyed it. I'll for sure ask for a non-conflict diamond whenever i decide to take the plunge.

Jayems · 03-28-2007, 11:21 PM

also, if you haven't seen The Departed, that was pretty cool too.

Phanuthier · 03-28-2007, 11:50 PM

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Originally Posted by oilers_fan

Yeah, I like DiCaprio a lot more these days.

I asked a woman I work with today, if she reconsidered her desire for diamonds today after seeing the movie. She emphatically stated that yes, she no longer wants diamonds.

Then she changed her opinion 10 seconds later. She still wants them.

DiCaprio is a great actor, he just did alot of stupid movies that gave him a bad rep. Catch me if you can is one of the better acted films in the past 20 years.

Dimonds... definatly makes me give a second thought to what I'd be giving whenever I'm ready to propose.

Hack&Lube · 03-29-2007, 12:05 AM

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Originally Posted by Jayems

also, if you haven't seen The Departed, that was pretty cool too.

I don't know, I didn't feel like the Departed Deserved the Oscar. If you watch the original, the Departed is just lacking the things that made the original so good. The Departed just becomes another random Scorcese gangster flick.

Jayems · 03-29-2007, 12:10 AM

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Originally Posted by Hack&Lube

I don't know, I didn't feel like the Departed Deserved the Oscar. If you watch the original, the Departed is just lacking the things that made the original so good. The Departed just becomes another random Scorcese gangster flick.

Yeah, I didn't see what all the hoopalah was surrounding it, a little long, but I was entertained for the full 3 hours or so. But Oscar worthy? The Oscars smelt of shenanigans this year to me. Seems like its become a political popularity contest. Some nice twists in the movie though.. I don't think ive ever seen a Scorcese movie before.. unless I just didn't realize that was who directed it.

Eastern Girl · 03-29-2007, 12:43 AM

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Originally Posted by Displaced Flames fan

What a great film.

I loved Alan Arkin in Little Miss Sunshine, I thought he was brilliant....but Djimon Hounsou NOT winning the Oscar for best supporting actor is a crime.

Leonardo DiCaprio has put in some really solid peformances over the last few years. He's starting to grow on me.

I agree on all points.

I didn't really want to see this one, but I made a deal with someone that if they saw Rocky Balboa with me, I would see this one with them. So I went, and I really enjoyed it. Definitely well acted, Djimon Hounsou definitely deserved the Oscar for his roll. He was fantastic and really sold the movie for me. Leo, I haven't really liked in the past with the exception of What's Eating Gilbert Grape, but he has definitely been choosing better film roles lately and really showing his talent. I haven't seen The Departed yet, it's on the list though.

corporatejay · 03-29-2007, 01:00 AM

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Originally Posted by Jayems

I heard somewhere that this movie was actually made about 10 years too late. The country featured (it escapes me right now) has actually cleaned up the diamond trade considerably, and great progress has been made towards stopping this.

Unfortunately, it is still happening, so either way still a good movie.

I really enjoyed it. I'll for sure ask for a non-conflict diamond whenever i decide to take the plunge.

At the end of the movie you see the creation of the kimberly process which came into effect at the beginning of the decade here, since then the diamond trade has cleaned up somewhat.

Hemi-Cuda · 03-29-2007, 02:44 AM

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Originally Posted by Phanuthier

DiCaprio is a great actor, he just did alot of stupid movies that gave him a bad rep. Catch me if you can is one of the better acted films in the past 20 years.

Dimonds... definatly makes me give a second thought to what I'd be giving whenever I'm ready to propose.

Catch Me If You Can was the movie that changed my mind on how good of an actor DiCaprio is. he was excellent in that and really made the movie. he was also quite good in Gangs of New York, but completely overshadowed by Daniel Day-Lewis's legendary performance

Cheese · 03-29-2007, 06:49 AM

I agree Dis...I actually thought this movie deserved the Oscar ahead of The Departed. Well done and emotionally wringing.

VANFLAMESFAN · 03-29-2007, 07:11 AM

Saw in the theatre and loved it. Bought it last week, still havent watched it, havent had the chance, but yeah, this was a brilliant movie. Honsou was robbed.

Bobblehead · 03-29-2007, 08:14 AM

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Originally Posted by Cheese

I agree Dis...I actually thought this movie deserved the Oscar ahead of The Departed. Well done and emotionally wringing.

I agree as well.

The Departed was pretty good, but Blood Diamond was just more powerful. After The Departed was over, I felt, like it was a pretty good movie, then moved on. After Blood Diamond, my wife was asking all sorts of questions, we were looking up the Kimberly Accord, and so on. That film stayed with me after it was over. Very few other films do that.

Graham King, who accepted the Oscar for Best Picture for The Departed, also produced Blood Diamond. He had a pretty good year.

BlackEleven · 03-29-2007, 08:57 AM

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Originally Posted by Cheese

I agree Dis...I actually thought this movie deserved the Oscar ahead of The Departed. Well done and emotionally wringing.

I also agree with this. But, for me, there are three movies I would put ahead of The Departed: Blood Diamond, Babel and Pan's Labryinth.

I thought all three of those were great films and superiour to The Departed.

MickMcGeough · 03-29-2007, 08:59 AM

I also thought Blood Diamond was a great flick but did nobody else think DiCaprio's accent was atrocious?

Bobblehead · 03-29-2007, 09:02 AM

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Originally Posted by MickMcGeough

I also thought Blood Diamond was a great flick but did nobody else think DiCaprio's accent was atrocious?

Why? How is a Rhodesian accent supposed to sound?
I guess that would be tough to explain. Put another way, is this a really bad Rhodesian accent?

MrMastodonFarm · 03-29-2007, 09:11 AM

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Originally Posted by Phanuthier

DiCaprio is a great actor, he just did alot of stupid movies that gave him a bad rep. Catch me if you can is one of the better acted films in the past 20 years. .

He's been a very good actor for a long time now, but he just got pigeon-holed as a teenage heartthrob, and that label is hard to shake. In his late teens he did What's Eating Gilbert Grape and This Boy's Life back to back opposite Johnny Depp and Robert DeNiro. He's really put a great stretch together recently, Gangs of New York, The Aviator, Catch Me if you Can, The Departed and Blood Diamond.

He's getting the roles Scorsese would have used DeNiro for back in the day, and that speaks alot to his acting abilities.

Winsor_Pilates · 03-29-2007, 09:11 AM

I thought his accent was great. He didn't slip at any point, and it was consistant the whole time.
But, like bobble, I have no idea what a Rhodesian accent should sound like.

Are we even supposed to call it Rhodesia? Isn't it Zimbabwe? I remember at one point in the film when Archer calls is Rhodesia, the girl gets a little mad abd says it's not called that these days.

anyway, great movie all around. I just watched it last weekend and thought it was great. Best picture IMO too.

Agamemnon · 03-29-2007, 10:13 AM

Yeah, Rhodesia is the old name, its not used any more... (unless people still like calling Myanmar Burma... whatever floats your boat i guess).

I didn't think the movie was that amazing... I like the social message it put out about blood diamonds... but thought it was only ok. Departed was a much better Dicaprio flick. To me this movie was like Syriana, the important points it was making about real life were more interesting than teh movie's story itself. 3 out of 5.