DogMan (Luc Besson, Caleb Landry Jones, March 2024)

[Nitroes]

Looks like Besson is paying off some debt.


https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0CV4F9F2V/


https://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=33983

https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/DogMan-Blu-ray/354936/

[theosh]

Back in the 90s, Luc Besson was my favourite director, with LEON being an out and out masterpiece. However since his Joan of Arc movie, the quality of his films has plummeted and are wildly inconsistent. That said, despite some of the ridiculousness of the plot and implausiblility of the dog’s actions in the film, I really enjoyed DOGMAN a lot and think it’s the best thing Besson has done in a long while. Is it a classic like LA FEMME NIKITA or LEON? No, it’s not even close to those films, but it is much better than some of the dreck he has directed in the past couple of decades.

Btw, the blu ray cover is dreadful!

[the13thman]

"Wherever there is an unfortunate. God sends a dog."

What a tagline!

[Skynet]

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[drush9999]

Originally Posted by theosh

Back in the 90s, Luc Besson was my favourite director, with LEON being an out and out masterpiece. However since his Joan of Arc movie, the quality of his films has plummeted and are wildly inconsistent. That said, despite some of the ridiculousness of the plot and implausiblility of the dog’s actions in the film, I really enjoyed DOGMAN a lot and think it’s the best thing Besson has done in a long while. Is it a classic like LA FEMME NIKITA or LEON? No, it’s not even close to those films, but it is much better than some of the dreck he has directed in the past couple of decades.

Btw, the blu ray cover is dreadful!

Joan of Arc has grown on me, and now like it. I liked Angel-A a lot, The Family was a bit of fun, Lucy was alright, Valerian was decent (except the leads), and Anna was also decent. Haven't seen the film about the Burma lady yet or his kids movies.

[Jackie Scanlon]

Originally Posted by drush9999

Valerian was decent

I'm not a fan, but the thing that's always really confused me about Valerian is that bit when it does a very slow build-up to what you expect to be a massive A-list star reveal, but it ends up just being Sam Spruell. No offence to Sam Spruell, but the way that whole sequence is done makes you think it's going to be Tom Cruise or someone in that same sphere of stardom, not some "that guy" character actor that most people couldn't pick out of a lineup.

[scarletlion]

I really wanted to see this as I think Caleb Landry Jones is an extremely good actor, then I saw it was directed by Luc Besson - a director who's films are about as dodgy as his personal life.

[Aunt Peg]

I saw this last night at the cinema and really enjoyed it.

Luc Besson has not made a film as good as this since The Professional. I intend to order to Blu Ray in my next UK order.

Caleb Landry Jones is terrific in the film.

[moviemaker]

Originally Posted by drush9999

Joan of Arc has grown on me, and now like it. I liked Angel-A a lot, The Family was a bit of fun, Lucy was alright, Valerian was decent (except the leads), and Anna was also decent. Haven't seen the film about the Burma lady yet or his kids movies.

I'm coming here over a year later, but you've almost perfectly captured my sentiments. Except for Anna. Sweet mother of recycled plots, that was Besson not just jumping the Nikita shark, but pole-vaulting over it, doing a triple somersault, and landing face-first in a pile of his own clichés.

YEARS before Tarantino popularized his "10 films only" philosophy, Luc Besson made the same declaration. I know it's hard to believe now, but around the time of The Fifth Element's production, I remember reading an interview where he mentioned he would only make 10 films. It was something along the lines of "you only have 10 bullets" (I believe he even counted Atlantis as one of those bullets).

I sort of wish he had stuck to that commitment.

By the way, The Lady was excruciatingly slow. While I admire his bravery in exploring outside his usual wheelhouse, it only served to highlight his limitations as a storyteller when working beyond his natural strengths.

[moviemaker]

Originally Posted by Aunt Peg

I saw this last night at the cinema and really enjoyed it.

Luc Besson has not made a film as good as this since The Professional. I intend to order to Blu Ray in my next UK order.

Caleb Landry Jones is terrific in the film.

Unfortunately, Besson is gonna Besson, as he is about to release Dracula: A Love Tale starring Caleb Landry Jones, looking eerily similar to Coppola's rendition of Bram Stoker's Dracula.

Pourquoi, Luc, pourquoi?

[Chris J]

Remember the trick that some people did with Jack Frost back in the day? Since there was a kids' movie with Michael Keaton and an indie horror movie with the same title, some pranksters decided to switch out the VHS tapes at the video store.

When I saw the title for this, I thought about the possibility of someone doing something similar, with this and the DreamWorks Animation movie Dog Man.