It's easy, if one only ever has to suffer a few times a year the no-budget, no-talent indies dumped on one-week NY runs and burned onto screener discs, to have a charmed view of what constitutes a bad film. Truth be told, with the number of films produced domestically exploding in recent years thanks to mass proliferation of acceptable-quality, cheap DV, it's a good bet that the vast majority of American movies made each year now consist of films made by people with little to no experience, often no real ambition or even point of view, and no discernible talent. Even those of us who only ever see about five or six of these a year are confronted with stunted…

Matthew fuckin' McConaughey as Ron fuckin' Woodroof a cowboy-bigot-homophobic-party-animal who becomes a pioneer in the treatment of AIDS after his own diagnosis. Wasted-Hollywood-pussy. A sad-face clown. Shocking the shit out of yourself. Shocking-fuckin'-news. Nothing can kill Ron Woodroof in 30-fuckin'-days. A trailer-park-orgy. Elektra's cardboard acting. Alienation by your so-called-friends. Back the fuck off Tinkerbell. Scoring a lifeline in a strip club. Handsome in a Texas-hick-white-trash kind of way. Rayon doesn't bite. Preferring to die with your boots on. A little-white-lie to the FDA. An unlikely business partner. The bar you never thought you would visit. Starting up a new club. Global travels. A big-as-fuck cellphone. The fuckin' IRS. A dinner date with the good doctor. Feeling human again. A total-fuckin'-bullshit…

It seems the entire discussion surrounding Jean-Marc Vallée’s Dallas Buyers Club has been focused on Matthew McConaughey’s transformative portrayal, and with good justification as his performance is more than reason enough to see the film. What could have been a standard issues based biopic is elevated by a truly committed performance that is more than simply an exercise in gimmicky weight loss.

The film tells the true life story of Ron Woodroof, a trailer trash lothario diagnosed with HIV and given just 30-days to live. Angered by the limited options available to him he turns his illness into a business opportunity by buying medication across the border and giving it to those who subscribe to his private members club. Surviving…

My mom is sitting on the couch watching this right now, reacting to everything she is seeing. When McConaughey has his 3rd trip to the hospital, she utters "oh, that's hard" about life with AIDS. When he decides to leave the hospital in disgust, walking down the hallway with his open gown flapping about showing his cheeks she giggles. She laughs quite a bit whenever Jared Leto gives him a good dressing-down, and she utters "good for you" when McConaughey makes his former friend shake Leto's hand in the grocery store. She is glued to the screen, trying to eat something or other out of a bowl, not daring to look down too much at her spoon for fear of…

”There ain’t nothing out there that can kill fuckin’ Ron Woodroof in 30 days.”

From being just another actor whose career seemed to be getting nowhere and was risking fading into the horizon after an overdose of romantic comedies, a dramatic turnaround happened with The Lincoln Lawyer and he has not looked back ever since. It would have been an unpardonable waste of talent had he been typecast in rom-coms for the rest of his life. Half his career has already vaporized being in mediocre to averagely good films and now he is hungry as ever. He is certainly on a spree to prove his worth and mettle.

I was totally in awe with his saucy, smoothly dangerous and extremely…

Film #63 of Make me watch your favourite. Recommended by Piper.

Dallas Buyers Club isn't an exceptional film. It's fine. Its plot safely remains within the boundaries of the based on a true story/biopic realms, making it neither thought provoking or offensive. And that's perfectly fine as Vallée's strong and solid direction manages to avoid melodrama and keeps it refreshingly straight, never forcefully trying to evoke a reaction from his audience and truly focusing on telling the story and the characters in it.

It's solid entertainment, nothing more, nothing less. And then two actors come along and just raise the film to a completely different level.

Now, Tom Hanks probably ruined depicting AIDS in movies for most of his colleagues…

(3) Très bon

Évocation sensible et vigoureuse du parcours atypique de Ron Woodroof. Mise en scène fluide, précise et expressive. Performance puissante et colorée de M. McConaughey.

L’AVIS DE MEDIAFILM

Pour son premier film aux États-Unis, le réalisateur de C.R.A.Z.Y. reprend avec aplomb le thème de l'homophobie et de la discrimination dans cette évocation sensible, vigoureuse et jamais sentimentale du parcours atypique d'un champion des droits des sidéens. Ce macho arrogant et menteur, baiseur compulsif ostracisé par les siens après que son état de santé eut été révélé, en vient à devenir attachant, jusque dans ses failles, grâce à la performance puissante et colorée de Matthew McConaughey. Lequel a perdu plus de quarante livres afin de pouvoir l'incarner avec davantage…

Dallas Buyers Club faz um panorama incrível, obscuro, cruel e denso sobre AIDS, o roteiro funciona até certo ponto, mas a repetição acaba por enfraquecer bastante a obra, por não definir um foco, mas nada que faça ser inferior ou algo do tipo. Jared Leto sensacional, mas o Matthew McConaughey surge sublime é impressionante como ele consegue falar e imprimir toda carga dramática, ambos com performances memoráveis, é uma obra que merece ser vista e observada, principalmente pela competência dos seus protagonistas e todo seu retrado arrebatador da época.

Dallas Buyers Club makes an incredible, obscure, cruel and dense panorama about AIDS, the script works to a certain extent, but the repetition ends up weakening the work a lot, for…