Diamond Men
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Movie Reviews of Diamond Men
Movie Review: hang out with two jewelry salesmen in small-ish town PA
Summary: 4 Stars
Excellent film, you see some resemblance to Wahlberg's little brother Mark, in his ability to play an understanding, sympathetic character--and someone you can empthasize with as well. Two salesmen, one old and one in his late 20's are paired up, in order to give the new recruit experience. Will they get along? Is the old man training his replacement? All we know is, the old timer himself still needs a job-and we don't know if he'll have one at the end of the movie.Touching film with some twists, laughs and tears.
Movie Review: Good Movie - OK DVD
Summary: 3 Stars
I enjoyed this movie and I would recommend it. Forrester carries this movie, if you liked him in Jackie Brown, then you will like him in this.
On the downside, I was not entirely happy with the DVD. The Anamorphic disc is a bit misleading, as you actually see more on the 4:3 setting of your DVD Player. If you have a 16:9 TV as I do, it ends up clipping off the top and bottom of the picture, including some of the captions (aka "Week 1" etc). In some scenes you can tell the tops of peoples heads are being clipped.
Even worse, the commentary, which I enjoyed, refers in some scenes to what you see in the "widescreen print" of the film but even at 16:9 setting, you do not see these things on this DVD.
If they ever make a new transfer of this movie from the widescreen print, I would increase my rating of that DVD to 4 stars.
I find it suprising that with two prints of the film, they would choose the lower aspect ratio one to make to DVD, and then worse than that, they then chose to master the DVD in 4:3 with letterbox and then have use the anamorphic feature to clip the 4:3 letterbox version to a 16:9 view. This is exactly backwords. Let the DVD player add the extra black letterbox for the 4:3 folks and give full fidelity to people with 16:9 TVs. Happily, not many movies are transfered this way.
Movie Review: A simple twist
Summary: 3 Stars
Diamond men is a simple film. A simple premise, simple script, a simple cast. What makes it entertaining is the splot twist in the end and robert forsters acting, which i love. The rest of the film is not that amazing, the problem being, its just not original. The premise of diamond selling is unique but it would have been cooler if they were diamond thiefs instead of legit salesmen. Oh well- its entertaining for popcorn film watching on a cozy friday night with the kids or loved one.Movie Review: A sleeper to sleep to
Summary: 2 Stars
I coudn't finish this film, and I didn't think it was interesting at all. Honestly, the acting seemed forced, and there wasn't any sort of play between Robert Forster and Donnie Wahlberg, which seemed to be the main focus of this film. Just a seriously calmed down older guy and a cliché young guy who wants to have sex with every girl he meets. Most of what happened in this movie felt unnatural to me, and never surreal enough for that fact not to matter. At least take the time to learn what to expect if you plan on watching this, because it sure didn't grab me at all.