Showing posts with label The Score. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Score. Show all posts

Friday, January 7, 2011

I'll watch "The Score" again

Why not?

The Score (2001)

Flix is playing the shit out of this movie and I don't care. I could watch it all day.

Let me say again: I love the music, all of it, but especially the song at the very end which is probably called "I'll Make It Up As I Go Along" and sung by Diana Krall (who is probably Mrs. Costello, unless he's moved on again); I love the actual film score too- exciting and old fashioned; and I really love the De Niro's apartment. I'd love to live in a place like that: well furnished but dark and shadowy no matter the weather. I'll say it: this movie is worth seeing for the apartment alone.

So I'm having my last cigarette of the day (I mean it) and my second Swiss Miss and last of the day, then I'm going to bed. On the loveseat? Maybe.

Friday, December 17, 2010

"The Score"

The Score (2001)

I saw The Score at the movies in 2001 and I had a good time. It's a fun movie with a great payoff. There are so many things I like about it. Number one, I think because it was meant to be "three generations of great actors"- Brando, De Niro, Norton- and it didn't end up being a huge hit.

A lot of people didn't go to see it. Instead, they'll run into it on a Saturday afternoon on TV and be surprised by how good it is.

It's a great story, with interesting characters- a good story, told well.

I love the music, I love the shadowy lighting, I love the locations. De Niro's apartment seems like the coolest place to live in ever. Watch the movie and see if I'm not right.

And everyone is believable in this, even Edward Norton, who, to me, always seems to be Acting. You really believe that De Niro and Angela Bassett are in love, that she's a stewardess and has been coming to stay with him on-and-off for years. They make you visualize a past between them. They're so good.

I love this movuie and I'll stop to watch it whenever I'm flipping around and it's on.