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Your Favourite Danny Boyle Film Is?

Shallow Grave
2 (2.7%)
Trainspotting
26 (35.6%)
A Life Less Ordinary
0 (0%)
The Beach
2 (2.7%)
28 Days Later
15 (20.5%)
Millions
2 (2.7%)
Sunshine
14 (19.2%)
Slumdog Millionaire
9 (12.3%)
127 Hours
2 (2.7%)
Trance
0 (0%)
Steve Jobs
1 (1.4%)
T2 Trainspotting
0 (0%)
Yesterday
0 (0%)

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Re: Boyle, Danny - Director's Best
« Reply #40 on: April 04, 2011, 02:44:43 PM »
Trainspotting

Slumdog Millionaire

Millions

Sunshine


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Re: Boyle, Danny - Director's Best
« Reply #41 on: April 10, 2011, 02:42:29 PM »
Sunshine

And he doesn't get his endings "wrong" at all.

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Re: Boyle, Danny - Director's Best
« Reply #42 on: June 03, 2011, 01:30:46 PM »
I chose not to choose Slumdog Millionaire. I chose something else....

Trainspotting;D
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Re: Boyle, Danny - Director's Best
« Reply #43 on: June 03, 2011, 04:02:34 PM »
1. Trainspotting (1996) 3/5
2. Shallow Grave (1994) 2/5
3. 127 Hours (2010) 2/5
4. The Beach (2000) 2/5
5. Slumdog Millionaire (2008) 1/5
6. Sunshine (2007) 1/5
7. 28 Days Later... (2002) 1/5
8. Millions (2004) 0/5

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Re: Boyle, Danny - Director's Best
« Reply #44 on: June 03, 2011, 04:23:38 PM »
 >:(

Danny Boyle is the best director ever!

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Re: Boyle, Danny - Director's Best
« Reply #45 on: June 03, 2011, 06:09:14 PM »
I always feel as if I'm too harsh on paper, but then I find myself eye-rolling and fidgeting whenever I actually sit down to watch his films. They're never without their moments, and they're always conceptually interesting, but on the whole they irritate me. I haven't seen Trainspotting or Shallow Grave in about 7 or 8 years, though, and Millions only once at an advanced screening.

I watched four quite recently, though, and this is what I wrote on them:

28 Days Later...

Boyle's last-man-alive zombie film makes fine use of an impossibly empty London, but ruins it all by shooting on ugly DV and in self-consciously askew camera angles. It's a treat for zombie film fans - here the undead run faster than any of Romero's ever did - but it isn't helped at all by an eye-rolling final third, in which a military retreat turns out to be a master trick to get women to dress up as Victorians and perform sexual acts for the neanderthal soldiers; add to this other curiosities and you have an all-flash Boyle special: Cillian Murphy is allowed to speak Irish but Brendan Gleeson has to act his way through a bad Cockney impression; the lass playing his daughter puts in the worst performance seen in a British film this century; worst of all, Danny Boyle is a needle-dropper, and equates post-rock with thoughtful, empty streets and Brian Eno's 'Ascent' (which had already found its material match in For All Mankind and provided a suitably hopeful ending to Soderbergh's Traffic) with abandoned English motorways.

Sunshine

Sigh… This sci-fi opens well, never quite giving us much to care for in terms of the cosmic significance of a failing sun, which might sound like a pitfall but it actually aids character and whatever technical potential might have drawn Boyle to the project in the first place - it certainly looks nice, and the whole thing has a slickness familiar to a spaceship setting such as this. But the second half nosedives into a clumsy, half-hearted thriller that goes nowhere and makes even less sense than it initially suggested. It goes from a half-engaging and -original film into something frankly rather dull, though it's of note for not being laden with obnoxious musical choices.

The Beach

Boyle's postcard thriller is a cautionary tale and an exciting adventure in equal measure, beginning with clips of Apocalypse Now and a shot of a revolving ceiling fan; its second half recalls Coppola's film and the Conrad novella from which it was taken even more, with DiCaprio - compelling as ever - turning half mad in an extended sequence that allows for the director's usual quirky visual gimmickry (here, our protagonist's world and descent into a heart of darkness becomes a video game, almost as if Boyle wants all of his films to echo the popular trends going at the time). It seems only half successful at whatever it attempts - here a travel story, here a sexy drama, here a traumatic horror, and so on - and doesn't quite combine its differing elements convincingly.

And I reviewed 127 Hours here.

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Re: Boyle, Danny - Director's Best
« Reply #46 on: June 03, 2011, 08:32:47 PM »
Yeah, I'm going to disagree with all the hyperbole you used to describe 28 Days Later....

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Re: Boyle, Danny - Director's Best
« Reply #47 on: June 03, 2011, 08:37:30 PM »
Yeah, I wrote it very soon after it had finished, so my reaction was strong.

In retrospect, I'm not sure if Gleason's on-screen daughter gives the worst performance this century.

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Re: Boyle, Danny - Director's Best
« Reply #48 on: November 07, 2011, 01:54:49 PM »
Judging by some of your rankings, this could go in the unpopular opinion thread...

1. Slumdog Millionaire (2008)
2. 127 Hours (2010)
3. Trainspotting (1996)
4. 28 Days Later (2002)
5. Sunshine (2007)
6. Millions (2004)
7. Shallow Grave (1994)

8. A Life Less Ordinary (1997)
9. The Beach (2000)
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Re: Boyle, Danny - Director's Best
« Reply #49 on: November 19, 2011, 04:17:30 PM »
28 Days Later 5/5
Trainspotting 5/5
Sunshine 5/5
Slumdog Millionaire 4/5
127 Hours 4/5
Shallow Grave 4/5
Millions 4/5
A Life Less Ordinary 3/5
Strumpet 3/5
The Beach 2/5
Vacuuming Completely Nude In Paradise 1/5