about the reveal, yeah - i was thinking: it doesn't change anything about the story. the story would be stronger if he was just a criminal with a heart of gold, right? but i think i know why it's this way. because it adds a whole whonking gallon of difficulty to his relationship w/naomi watts. it offers him a chance that a normal criminal wouldn't have, a chance to hang it all up - the tooth removal and the almost-getting-killed - and cash it in with naomi watts. but it clashes with his passion, to go as far as he can, to take out the really big dogs. viggo being a cop means he gets to wrestle with this question. i'm kind of glad we don't get some drawn-out scene spelling out this tug-of-war in his heart. we just infer it, from that last, short scene of him at the table in the restaurant.
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 19 June 2009 23:30 (fourteen years ago) link
also vincent cassell was tremendous
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 19 June 2009 23:35 (fourteen years ago) link
yes this was pretty tremendous
― ramón gastro (omar little), Monday, 22 June 2009 04:52 (fourteen years ago) link
Apparently Cronenberg & Viggo have a sequel in the works.
― WARS OF ARMAGEDDON (Karaoke Version) (Sparkle Motion), Monday, 22 June 2009 05:00 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah, it's really beguiling. i remember thinking i wanted it go on much longer, it was such a pleasure just watching the characters inhabit this super detailed world. so many great locations too: the restaurant/club, the bathhouse, the cemetery, that weird slipway on the river.
x-post uh, cool i get my wish i guess
― jesus is the man (jabba hands), Monday, 22 June 2009 05:01 (fourteen years ago) link
<3<3<3 this movie; it definitely stands up to repeat viewings
― still counting on porcupine racetrack (G00blar), Monday, 22 June 2009 05:20 (fourteen years ago) link
I liked it. The diary readings were occasionally painful tho iirc
― wilter, Monday, 22 June 2009 05:33 (fourteen years ago) link
were there any real russians in this movie?
― dorkus malorkus (latebloomer), Monday, 22 June 2009 05:40 (fourteen years ago) link
dope movie. fight scene is one of the best i've ever seen
― matos w. k. iw (k3vin k.), Monday, 22 June 2009 05:42 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah that fight was ridiculous
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mark_of_Cain_(2000_film)
been meaning to get a t()rrent of that^.Anyone seen it?
― wilter, Monday, 22 June 2009 05:49 (fourteen years ago) link
link fucked up
― wilter, Monday, 22 June 2009 05:56 (fourteen years ago) link
asdgsdfbgg
― wilter, Monday, 22 June 2009 05:57 (fourteen years ago) link
Can't help feeling I'd have preferred this film had the same raw material been dumped in the hands of Polanski.
― the fantasy-life of nations has consequences in the real worl (fields of salmon), Monday, 22 June 2009 17:22 (fourteen years ago) link
i feel the same way about transformers
― dorkus malorkus (latebloomer), Monday, 22 June 2009 17:45 (fourteen years ago) link
s1ocki otm here. watts was so insufferably morally offended college freshman here
― =皿= (dyao), Friday, 1 January 2010 16:12 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.avclub.com/article/eastern-promises-sequel-getting-ready-film-march-248596
― nomar, Wednesday, 18 January 2017 01:11 (seven years ago) link
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v212/etienne_saint/1920_zpsjtt5rcby.jpg
― nomar, Wednesday, 18 January 2017 01:19 (seven years ago) link
hope they show us how he got his powars
― Neanderthal, Wednesday, 18 January 2017 01:46 (seven years ago) link
Hurting & s1ocki were on teh drugs
― xheugy eddy (D-40), Tuesday, 15 August 2023 08:04 (eight months ago) link