Bob PeryeaTraining Day
September 25th 2008 06:23
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I watched Training Day for the first time in a long time the other day. I forgot how good that movie was.
Full of everything you'd want in a cop film - action, adventure, set ups, gangsters, back stabbing crazy Russians. Everything.
But I'm still amazed that this won an Oscar. Not because it didn't deserve it, it did, but because it's the type of film that people rave about and then gets ignored at the awards ceremonies because it's too actionified, too 'low brow' and not full of enough meaningless bullshit.
But it's fantastic, the epic set up occurs is one of the best I can remember in pretty much any story. It starts right from the beginning, and even after the end your left wondering how things are going to fully be worked out. Great stuff.
The characters are sweet, the way the moral questions are posed (before being shot down towrds the end) are wicked. For example if your an undercover Narc and you refuse to take drugs from a dealer, your pretty much screwed. So you better know what the drugs will do to you and how to deal with it. Even if it means getting friends to fudge the details in the drug test labs.
Yeah, it rocks. I'm trying not to put too much plot details in here in case, for some reason, someohe hasn't seen it and it reading this. If you are, immediately head down to the video store and buy/hire this thing out. Violence, drug use, swearing, gangs, shoot outs. Everything you could want out of a quiet night in right?
I watched Training Day for the first time in a long time the other day. I forgot how good that movie was.
Full of everything you'd want in a cop film - action, adventure, set ups, gangsters, back stabbing crazy Russians. Everything.
But I'm still amazed that this won an Oscar. Not because it didn't deserve it, it did, but because it's the type of film that people rave about and then gets ignored at the awards ceremonies because it's too actionified, too 'low brow' and not full of enough meaningless bullshit.
from Wikipedia
But it's fantastic, the epic set up occurs is one of the best I can remember in pretty much any story. It starts right from the beginning, and even after the end your left wondering how things are going to fully be worked out. Great stuff.
The characters are sweet, the way the moral questions are posed (before being shot down towrds the end) are wicked. For example if your an undercover Narc and you refuse to take drugs from a dealer, your pretty much screwed. So you better know what the drugs will do to you and how to deal with it. Even if it means getting friends to fudge the details in the drug test labs.
Yeah, it rocks. I'm trying not to put too much plot details in here in case, for some reason, someohe hasn't seen it and it reading this. If you are, immediately head down to the video store and buy/hire this thing out. Violence, drug use, swearing, gangs, shoot outs. Everything you could want out of a quiet night in right?
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I actually found this film really predicatable and a hollow rehash of Mike Figgis' film Internal Affairs with Andy Garcia.
Ethan Hawke was good in the film, but thats about the only positive for me....thought Denzel was over the top ham the whole way through.
For me Joe carahan's film Narc is far superior.
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I've also just realised that this was the year the Russell Crowe was nominated for Beautiful Mind, which he blatantly should have won the Oscar for. I'm going to disagree with you and say that Denzel was good, but not over Crowe's performance.
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I thought Crowe's performance in A Beautiful Mind was absolutely attrocious. A combination of stereotypes and obvious choices, never believed him in the role for a second.
Of those nominated that year I would have gone with Tom Wilkinson for In The Bedroom. Sean Penn was good in I Am Sam, the film itself not so good.
I'm not a Denzel fan, Mo Better Blues, Glory and Devil In A Blue Dress are the only three films he's done that I liked.
For me my nominations for the 2002 Oscars would have been;
Jake Gylenhaul in Donnie Darko
Gene Hackman in Royal Tennanbaums
Billy Bob Thornton for The Man Who Wasn't There
Jack Nicholson in The Pledge
Billy Bob Thronton in Monsters Ball