Fury - excellent war film about Brad Pitt's tank crew taking on the might of the SS. Gory in places but overall highly recommended. Reminded me a lot of Peckinpah's Cross of Iron albeit from the American side...
Japanese proverb say, "Bird never make nest in bare tree".
Hammer adaptation with the same stars as last week's Dracula (it's showing as part of BBC's Gothic Night) - Peter Cushing as the Baron and Christopher Lee as the Monster. Most shocking scene is when Melvyn Hayes, whom Brits of a certain age will know as Gladys the camped up private in Seventies sitcom It Ain't Half Hot Mum, playing the young Frankenstein, a precocious teenager.
In a move matched possibly only by Lean's Great Expecations, in which the young lad Pip becomes a fortysomething John Mills in the next scene, Melvyn is next seen as Peter Cushing, with widow's peak to show he has come of age. It messes up the dynamic with his mentor however, who was hired by the teenage Baron, as thereafter the Baron looks the older of the two.
I didn't enjoy this film so much though the production values are high. It doesn't look Gothic, more Roccocco, almost like a Gainsborough painting. I felt the same about the Hammer film The Hounds of the Baskervilles, though to be fair at least they are trying for something different to the black and white originals. I think in the 50s they made the films all about the colour, in contrast to black and white tellies, but films like this suffered. Kenneth More's The Thirty Nine Steps is another example, there is plenty wrong with that of course but firstly the indulgent summery colour means it lacks the grim tension of Hitch's original from the outset.
I am not sure how Cushing's Baron came to appear in Hammer sequels to this. Anyway, this film looks good but didn't really scare or unnerve me like it should have done, partly cos the Baron looks a wrong un from the start, you don't really see his descent into madness. And Lee's Monster looks like a blend of Johnny Marr, Al Pacino, John Cusack and EastEnders' Dot Cotton!
I don't know how future Hammer vehicles have the iconic look of the 1930s Frankenstein going by the posters, as I thought that was copywrited.
I emembr reading that Universal had copyright ownership of the
Make up etc on Frankenstein's monster and told Hammer if anything
Similar turned up on screen, they'd see them in court!
"I've been informed that there ARE a couple of QAnon supporters who are fairly regular posters in AJB."
Set in the time of King Arthur, this is very much in the same tone as Flynn's Adventures of Robin Hood, though it was filmed a decade and a half later. Ladd is a bit odd, being American, as the English Knight in question who is forced to go undercover (ie masked) to unmask a traitor in the court and win the back the love of the lady who (mistakenly) thinks him a coward. He's not bad but at some point you expect him to tell off some hoodlums for insulting his horse.
It looks great and what looks like Basil Rathbone as the villain turns out to be Peter Cushing, appropriately enough. However, it perhaps doesn't pan out in quite a satisfying enough way and it's hindered by the love interest appearing very much the hard-chinned chisseller, a bit like the blonde that Gregory Peck is saddled with in The Big Country - you don't want them to be reunited once she's seen the error of her ways, you want him to go off with Joan Simmons instead.
Still, this is rousing stuff matched by a boisterous score.
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It's a wonderful life, for the computer game generation. ) not great
But pretty good for an Adam Sandler movie. Sadly when I pointed this
Out to my youngest daughter, she didn't know of, It's a wonderful life.
"I've been informed that there ARE a couple of QAnon supporters who are fairly regular posters in AJB."
Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee. In great form. -{ although not
As good as the Dracula or Frankenstein films. Although I did notice
P Cushing wearing an Ulster overcoat, same style as Lazenby in OHMSS
Which is the same style of overcoat as worn by M in the books.
"I've been informed that there ARE a couple of QAnon supporters who are fairly regular posters in AJB."
Early Bud Spencer/Hill movie.......mobsters destroy their dune buggy and our boys wants revenge.......Pleasence obviously enjoyed acting OTT in this one )
I'm just not a Spencer/Hill fan but it was kinda passable , I guess.......funny the scene in the gynasium , typical slap stick fighting.
The mobsters are utter cretins but that is to be expected in a silly movie like this.
Mission terminate 2/6
Richard Norton & Bruce Le (the imitator natch) in this war type movie , they're after some kinda gold treasure.......lots of gun fire but just devoid of any actual excitement.
Pierce Brosnan and Naomie Harris ( for Bond fans) an odd film as it doesn't
Seem to know what type of film it is. Part Buddie movie, part chick flick, part
Rom com, part heist film. And fails on all points.
The only great character is played by Don Cheadle, as an Island crime lord
Who's very off the wall, how he describes Prostitution and drug dealing , is
As if it was an equal rights position.
Not a great film, only watch it for the Bond connection of Brosnan and Harris.
"I've been informed that there ARE a couple of QAnon supporters who are fairly regular posters in AJB."
Oh man, it's a not-very-good film I very much have fun with.
Speaking of fun, sonisall & I just watched Mummy & Mummy Returns, the very definition of it.
been up the vets this morning with the fleabag ,now im £90 worse off , so have to stay in today
but lucky darts ,the 1953 version of war of the worlds is on today,
Yes the simplicity and basicness of the filming (you can see the strings on the alien ships) but I love the sound effects,
much better than T.C s version
The last film I saw was Fury (2014) in the movie theater. My younger brother really wanted to see Fury and I was interested because the director of Fury (David Ayer) is doing 2016's Suicide Squad and I wanted to get a sense of what Suicide Squad would be like...
"Ahem, you know in the future if you're going to steal cars, don't dress like a car thief, man." - Spider-Man
I just saw The Imitation Game, and I have to say I though it was very good. Plus thought it stayed pretty historically accurate which sometimes these films have a hard job doing. It was a great performance by Mr. Cumberbatch. Also MI6 was featured, though not Bond of course.
Really solid action vehicle for Keanu Reeves. Fun, cathartic, and even absurd at times... although I felt like it could have been more absurd. Go into it expecting a stylish, live-action anime & you'll be satisfied.
"The secret agent. The man who was only a silhouette..." -- Ian Fleming, Moonraker
1) The Spy Who Loved Me 2) On Her Majesty's Secret Service 3) GoldenEye 4) Casino Royale 5) Goldfinger
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Loved it, simple as that. The sequence with Hitgirl on top of the van
Is amazing, some great ideas. -{ well worth a watch.
Hammer adaptation with the same stars as last week's Dracula (it's showing as part of BBC's Gothic Night) - Peter Cushing as the Baron and Christopher Lee as the Monster. Most shocking scene is when Melvyn Hayes, whom Brits of a certain age will know as Gladys the camped up private in Seventies sitcom It Ain't Half Hot Mum, playing the young Frankenstein, a precocious teenager.
In a move matched possibly only by Lean's Great Expecations, in which the young lad Pip becomes a fortysomething John Mills in the next scene, Melvyn is next seen as Peter Cushing, with widow's peak to show he has come of age. It messes up the dynamic with his mentor however, who was hired by the teenage Baron, as thereafter the Baron looks the older of the two.
I didn't enjoy this film so much though the production values are high. It doesn't look Gothic, more Roccocco, almost like a Gainsborough painting. I felt the same about the Hammer film The Hounds of the Baskervilles, though to be fair at least they are trying for something different to the black and white originals. I think in the 50s they made the films all about the colour, in contrast to black and white tellies, but films like this suffered. Kenneth More's The Thirty Nine Steps is another example, there is plenty wrong with that of course but firstly the indulgent summery colour means it lacks the grim tension of Hitch's original from the outset.
I am not sure how Cushing's Baron came to appear in Hammer sequels to this. Anyway, this film looks good but didn't really scare or unnerve me like it should have done, partly cos the Baron looks a wrong un from the start, you don't really see his descent into madness. And Lee's Monster looks like a blend of Johnny Marr, Al Pacino, John Cusack and EastEnders' Dot Cotton!
I don't know how future Hammer vehicles have the iconic look of the 1930s Frankenstein going by the posters, as I thought that was copywrited.
Roger Moore 1927-2017
Make up etc on Frankenstein's monster and told Hammer if anything
Similar turned up on screen, they'd see them in court!
A very good performance from both Affleck and Pike.
However I was expecting a bit more of a twist...especially as it's been so hyped. Quite bloody too...but overall a solid film.
Supposed to be a serious film but it's like the naked gun made a
Horror film.
Set in the time of King Arthur, this is very much in the same tone as Flynn's Adventures of Robin Hood, though it was filmed a decade and a half later. Ladd is a bit odd, being American, as the English Knight in question who is forced to go undercover (ie masked) to unmask a traitor in the court and win the back the love of the lady who (mistakenly) thinks him a coward. He's not bad but at some point you expect him to tell off some hoodlums for insulting his horse.
It looks great and what looks like Basil Rathbone as the villain turns out to be Peter Cushing, appropriately enough. However, it perhaps doesn't pan out in quite a satisfying enough way and it's hindered by the love interest appearing very much the hard-chinned chisseller, a bit like the blonde that Gregory Peck is saddled with in The Big Country - you don't want them to be reunited once she's seen the error of her ways, you want him to go off with Joan Simmons instead.
Still, this is rousing stuff matched by a boisterous score.
Roger Moore 1927-2017
Or
It's a wonderful life, for the computer game generation.
But pretty good for an Adam Sandler movie.
Out to my youngest daughter, she didn't know of, It's a wonderful life.
Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee. In great form. -{ although not
As good as the Dracula or Frankenstein films. Although I did notice
P Cushing wearing an Ulster overcoat, same style as Lazenby in OHMSS
Which is the same style of overcoat as worn by M in the books.
Yes , he had the role for 12 yrs...oh you mean an "LP"
Early Bud Spencer/Hill movie.......mobsters destroy their dune buggy and our boys wants revenge.......Pleasence obviously enjoyed acting OTT in this one
I'm just not a Spencer/Hill fan but it was kinda passable , I guess.......funny the scene in the gynasium , typical slap stick fighting.
The mobsters are utter cretins but that is to be expected in a silly movie like this.
Mission terminate 2/6
Richard Norton & Bruce Le (the imitator natch) in this war type movie , they're after some kinda gold treasure.......lots of gun fire but just devoid of any actual excitement.
Pierce Brosnan and Naomie Harris ( for Bond fans) an odd film as it doesn't
Seem to know what type of film it is. Part Buddie movie, part chick flick, part
Rom com, part heist film. And fails on all points.
The only great character is played by Don Cheadle, as an Island crime lord
Who's very off the wall, how he describes Prostitution and drug dealing , is
As if it was an equal rights position.
Not a great film, only watch it for the Bond connection of Brosnan and Harris.
Speaking of fun, sonisall & I just watched Mummy & Mummy Returns, the very definition of it.
#1.TLD/LTK 2.TND 3.GF 4.GE 5.DN 6.FYEO 7.FRWL 8.TMWTGG 9.TWINE 10.YOLT/QOS
but lucky darts ,the 1953 version of war of the worlds is on today,
Yes the simplicity and basicness of the filming (you can see the strings on the alien ships) but I love the sound effects,
much better than T.C s version
Last week on film4, I watched " The day the earth stood still" -{
Love the music full of "Theremin " to give that
50s SiFi/horror movie sound.
Really solid action vehicle for Keanu Reeves. Fun, cathartic, and even absurd at times... although I felt like it could have been more absurd. Go into it expecting a stylish, live-action anime & you'll be satisfied.
1) The Spy Who Loved Me 2) On Her Majesty's Secret Service 3) GoldenEye 4) Casino Royale 5) Goldfinger
Getting in the Festive Mood with a Christmas Themed Slasher -{
A group of beautiful female students. It's on all my Xmas
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