Glengarry Glen Ross - By sjp1966@hotmail.co.uk

The film is about a group of salesmen who have been given an incentive which is to sell real-estate or lose their jobs. The speech for this incentive is delivered by a nasty Alec Baldwin and the rest of the film dwells on all the characters as they struggle with their demons in order to get the sales and the lengths that they will go to in order to get the premium leads.

Come the end of the film I was a little disappointed, I found it very dialogue heavy with excessive swearing although I did like the look and feel of the film in terms of the cramped office and the pouring rain etc. Then this morning I decided to look up the film on IMDB.

I have never heard of this David Mamet fella but after reading some of the reviews that are out there and realising that the film is based on a play I can certainly see that the film does indeed have its merits and that the performance from Jack Lemmon was exceptional, although I did think he played his role well even as I watched the film.

So whilst I may not rate it quite as highly as it is on IMDB it is, on reflection, better than I initially thought, although the ending confuses me a bit, but I cannot explain why as it would be a big spoiler.

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I think it was around 1979 when I tried to sneak into the local Odeon cinema to see Ridley Scott’s Alien that I started to become more aware of movies and finding out what I liked in terms of genre. But somewhat surprisingly even at that young age I was enjoying some of the older films such as Forbidden Planet.

It was not until I was given my first DVD that the bug hit me. And it was all down to a mate giving me a Region 1 version of “The Matrix” as his player was only a region 2. From there it has been a mainly constant purchasing process to increase my collection which currently sits at 1000+ individual movies and television episodes; although invelos which only counts per barcode shows it as 485.

I have been on the Digital Lard site since its earlier incantation DVD Lard, and after a period of time took the plunge into doing reviews and this is what I currently do.

My favourite genres are mainly Action/Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi and Mystery although I do like films from other genres too.

Ten of my favourites film are (in no particular order) Alien, Aliens, 12 Angry Men (1957), Forbidden Planet, The Thing, Jaws, Blade Runner, 300, Full Metal Jacket, Forrest Gump, Although there are plenty more movies that I could list here.

Favourite actors at the moment would be Christian Bale, Christopher Walken, Johnny Depp, Basil Rathbone, Samuel L Jackson, Favourite directors are David Fincher and Ridley Scott.