The movie "The Machinist"

[Rudee]

I watched this last evening and man what a fantastic movie. If you folks haven't seen this movie, I suggest you rent it this weekend. It's one of the best movies I've seen in the last couple years. Have a look here

 

[BrokenVisage]

User Comments: F**king Brilliant! (more)

Hah, real descriptive.

 

[Gunslinger08]

I thought it was pretty dumb.. but then again, I like movies with plots.

 

[sygyzy]

Horrible movie. So disappointed.

 

[HamSupLo]

awesome

 

[Reckoner]

I heard it had a weak ending. Just to see how Bale looked a couple months before he bulked up for Batman makes the movie worth watching, from what I hear.

 

[BlueWeasel]

<---- is confused by the posts in this thread

Should I add it to my Netflix queue -- yay or nay?

 

[MikeyIs4Dcats]

pretty good flick....amazed at what Bale did for the move (got down to 126 lbs).

The extra features about how he would have to plan out every movement before actually moving because he had so little energy were wild...

 

[Proletariat]

Originally posted by: joshsquall
I thought it was pretty dumb.. but then again, I like movies with plots.

Care to name some of your favs?

I thought it was a great movie. There wasn't necessarily a point, but that was the point.

Its more about the experience. I think the Ebert review fleshed it out the best.

 

[HamSupLo]

yeah bates was a total skeleon. unbelievable.

 

[biostud]

Kinda the same

 

[Proletariat]

Originally posted by: Proletariat

Originally posted by: joshsquall
I thought it was pretty dumb.. but then again, I like movies with plots.

Care to name some of your favs?

I thought it was a great movie. There wasn't necessarily a point, but that was the point.

Its more about the experience. I think the Ebert review fleshed it out the best.

Heres an excerpt from the Ebert review:

"The Machinist" has an ending that provides a satisfactory, or at least a believable, explanation for its mysteries and contradictions. But the movie is not about the plot, and while the conclusion explains Trevor's anguish, it doesn't account for it. The director Brad Anderson, working from a screenplay by Scott Kosar, wants to convey a state of mind, and he and Bale do that with disturbing effectiveness. The photography by Xavi Gimenez and Charlie Jiminez is cold slates, blues and grays, the palate of despair. We see Trevor's world so clearly through his eyes that only gradually does it occur to us that every life is seen through a filter.

We get up in the morning in possession of certain assumptions through which all of our experiences must filter. We cannot be rid of those assumptions, although an evolved person can at least try to take them into account. Most people never question their assumptions, and so reality exists for them as they think it does, whether it does or not. Some assumptions are necessary to make life bearable, such as the assumption that we will not die in the next 10 minutes. Others may lead us, as they lead Trevor, into a bleak solitude. Near the end of the movie, we understand him when he simply says, "I just want to sleep."

Pretty much summed up my thoughts If I wasn't at work I would have written more, this is one of my favorite movies.

 

[AdamSnow]

I thought it sucked.

 

[HamSupLo]

Originally posted by: AdamSnow
I thought it sucked.

why? no hollywood plot? no explosions?

 

[Reckoner]

Relatively new movies to watch (in no special order):

Hitch
King Arthur
Team America
Million Dollar Baby (out today)


That's about it. Most of the new stuff that has come out lately has been utter garbage.

 

[metalmania]

Definitely one of the best movies last year!

 

[Looney]

Well i was watching this the other night... and i couldn't finish it... i can't believe how skinny that dude is, that anyone would willing get like that just for a movie. But he was fantastic. I couldn't finish it because the movie was just so fvcking depressing... and i stopped when he was at Stevie, and discovering the boots... as soon as i saw that, i knew it wasn't going to be good, so poppped the DVD out. I might finish it later, when i'm drunk.

 

[virtueixi]

Originally posted by: HamSupLo

Originally posted by: AdamSnow
I thought it sucked.

why? no hollywood plot? no explosions?

Weak ending, pretty predictable too.

 

[cliftonite]

it was good

 

[MustangSVT]

Originally posted by: PaulNEPats
Relatively new movies to watch (in no special order):

Hitch
King Arthur
Team America
Million Dollar Baby (out today)


That's about it. Most of the new stuff that has come out lately has been utter garbage.

LMAO ... Hitch isnt a garbage? :roll:

BTW, machinist was pretty good. Bale is a great actor.