The Machinist

[HappyCamper]

I don't know how many of you know about this film, but I just saw the trailer and it looks pretty cool. Christian Bale plays a lathe operator who is dying from insomnia, and the movie gets crazier from there...

I for one am going to see this...

[allmykids]

Originally posted by HappyCamper
I don't know how many of you know about this film, but I just saw the trailer and it looks pretty cool. Christian Bale plays a lathe operator who is dying from insomnia, and the movie gets crazier from there...

I for one am going to see this...

That's the same guy that plays american Pysco, Isn't it???

[Sistinas]

Originally posted by allmykids
That's the same guy that plays american Pysco, Isn't it???



Yep, he's a great actor.

[Sam The Egg]

Bale lost over 1/3 of his body weight for this movie. He looks vaccu-formed in the trailers

[hellfire1]

and then had to gain it all back and get all buff to play batman right after... now that's dedication.

[Sam The Egg]

I heard somewhere that he weighs more for Batman than he did before The Machinist. That's fucking crazy

[Sam The Egg]

EDIT: Hell, didn't work

[Sam The Egg]

okay, HERE's a picture of Bale in The Machinist:

[The STE]

I saw this yesterday, it's several kinds of fucked up


***** out of *****

[urgeok]

if you like Bale (and i do .. fine actor) here are 2 very different films to check out.

Empire of the Sun : its a Speilberg film about a british boy who ends up in a Japanese concentration camp in WWII. Great film

Equilibrium : a futuristic film that is a combination of Brave New World and Farenheit 451 with a bit of Matrix thrown in.
It's influenced by these things but its a completely unique film.
I highly recommend this movie to everyone here.
Its relatively unknown .. it slipped through the radar somehow - but it blew me away when i saw it.


Bale was also the racist asshole badguy in the Shaft remake a few years back.

[The STE]

Bale is awesome. He's one of many reasons I'm looking forward to Batman Begins as much as I am. And yeah, Equilibrium kicked ass, and has one of my favorite death scenes (and my favorite villain death) in any movie ever.



But he's fucking awesome, like Oscar-type, in this.

[jay o2 waster]

goddamnit i need to see this fucking movie

[The STE]

http://66.90.75.92/suprnova//torrents/2912/The.Machinist.LIMITED.SCREENER-VideoCD.torrent

[SamCostello]

I saw in it Boston a few weeks back. Terrific movie.

It's a bit slow and really requires some thinking for it to get really interesting and scary, but if you're willing to put a little into it, you'll get a lot out.

Sam

[ThreadKiller]

Yeah, I saw the trailer for this film last night. It looks tremendous. I usually can't be bothered with Batman films (except the first one) but Bale is a great actor and I am definitely interested in the next Batman film.

[Amalthea]

Now I remember Bale as someone mentioned Empire Of The Sun!

[ShankS]

This film 'should' be out around the beginning of May on DVD


:)

[The STE]

Bale should've gotten an Oscar nom. for this. Fuck Johnny Depp Don Cheadle (even though I've not seen Hotel Rwanda or Finding Neverland, but I want all the nominations Aviator can get, Foxx is winning anyways and I can't say fuck Eastwood), give the nomination to Bale

[urgeok]

finding neverland is supposed to be complete shit ..
and seeing the previews, i believe it.