Catch Me if You Can
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Catch Me if You Can
Always loved this movie and makes me wish Leo and Spielberg would make more movies together. Three amazing performances, Hanks, Walken, and Dicaprio. This movie flows so well and creates some really great suspenseful moments. The writing is good and creates many layers in all three of the central characters lives. Dicaprio plays "innocent young man" so well, he needs one more role like this before he gets too old. Spielberg basically hits a home run and this and terminal play really well together. He made this, terminal and Munich in a pretty close time period and they are all great films but I thing time considered Catch is the best of the bunch.
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EMCEE DARTH MALEK wrote:Really entertaining & surprisingly not corny for a spielberg movie. I guess he saved up all his cornball n let it off in the terminal.
He really hasn't made a good movie since The Terminal, Munich, Catch Me if You Can. War of the Worlds, and Indiana Jones were both terrible. I hope that Tintin is going to be dope.
I Drive A Lexus wrote:I only checked this after White Ice pestered me with private messages to watch it back in 2006.
Really Thomas?
I've been cysing up Catch Me If You Can for a while now. Top 20, maybe Top 10 movie, of the decade.
Terminal gets a lot of unfair hate. It's a little corny and Tom Hanks is a little over the top, but that still doesn't discount the fact that the production design, direction, and Stanley Tucci's performance are all top notch. It has some minor flaws, but it's still very good. The reason why it gets derided as "wack" has more to do with young viewers not jiving with it because it's not miserable, dark, and cynical, not because it's shitty filmmaking.
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LOL @ The Departed.
Ithithkle, you know damn well you suggested i see Catch Me If I Can in The Departed thread when i said that none of the 3 DiCaprio & Scorsese flicks to date were as good as The Basketball Diaries, and then send me a private message telling me i really had to see it asap, and then another private message a couple of days later asking me what i thought about it.
I'm not complaining as i might have completely slept on it otherwise, but let's not pretend that you aren't/weren't trigger-happy with the private messages.
Ithithkle, you know damn well you suggested i see Catch Me If I Can in The Departed thread when i said that none of the 3 DiCaprio & Scorsese flicks to date were as good as The Basketball Diaries, and then send me a private message telling me i really had to see it asap, and then another private message a couple of days later asking me what i thought about it.
I'm not complaining as i might have completely slept on it otherwise, but let's not pretend that you aren't/weren't trigger-happy with the private messages.
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leo's best roles are still in his early 90s work, but this is his best since then
this movie has one of the the best opening credit sequences made in decades
this movie has one of the the best opening credit sequences made in decades
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If you read the book it was based on it makes the movie even more enjoyable. The magnitude of the fraud he pulled off for someone his age, especially then, is fucking insane. That Miami International Airport scene where he uses the stewardesses as decoys is a true story. Factor in that he's never had to pay a penny in restitution and still collects checks from the same corporations he used to defraud and you've got a player supreme.
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I see how it is.I Drive A Lexus wrote:LOL @ The Departed.
Ithithkle, you know damn well you suggested i see Catch Me If I Can in The Departed thread when i said that none of the 3 DiCaprio & Scorsese flicks to date were as good as The Basketball Diaries, and then send me a private message telling me i really had to see it asap, and then another private message a couple of days later asking me what i thought about it.
I'm not complaining as i might have completely slept on it otherwise, but let's not pretend that you aren't/weren't trigger-happy with the private messages.
I never said I didn't PM you, Thomas. I just never pestered you. You're too cool for school. We know.
I'm on record as saying The Departed is incredibly overrated and probably wouldn't even make Scorsese's Top 10. Leo still was great in his roll though, as was my Ace Kevin Corrigan.
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Icesickle wrote:I see how it is.I Drive A Lexus wrote:LOL @ The Departed.
Ithithkle, you know damn well you suggested i see Catch Me If I Can in The Departed thread when i said that none of the 3 DiCaprio & Scorsese flicks to date were as good as The Basketball Diaries, and then send me a private message telling me i really had to see it asap, and then another private message a couple of days later asking me what i thought about it.
I'm not complaining as i might have completely slept on it otherwise, but let's not pretend that you aren't/weren't trigger-happy with the private messages.
I never said I didn't PM you, Thomas. I just never pestered you. You're too cool for school. We know.
I'm on record as saying The Departed is incredibly overrated and probably wouldn't even make Scorsese's Top 10. Leo still was great in his roll though, as was my Ace Kevin Corrigan.
I would mos def say it is overrated, but still entertaining and good.
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yep.drizzle wrote:leo's best roles are still in his early 90s work, but this is his best since then
"this boy's life" is in my top 3 favorite leo films, and the dude who wrote the memoir that the movie is about, tobias wolff, spoke at my university in the late 90s and i was way amped because i love his work. he wrote another book in '04 i believe called "old school" and it's one of my favorites. boarding school stories from the 50s and 60s are my favorite things to read.
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