I read somewhere that Robert Pattinson copied the movement and mannerisms of English essayist and well known atheist Christopher Hitchens for TENET.
I liked the film, though felt it was a little confusing and not as clever as it thought it was.
I'd love Nolan to do Bond. Give him a trilogy with a new Bond.
“The scent and smoke and sweat of a casino are nauseating at three in the morning. "
-Casino Royale, Ian Fleming
Based on John le Carre’s book. Bit weird in places. Set during the Cold War, British spies receive a photo from East Germany, they think might be a missile. They recruit a young Polish defector, give him some training (which includes a rather long fight scene with Anthony Hopkins) and send him off to check things out.
I wasn't just talking about Hayely Atwell's looks, I think she has a range of strenghts.
Sadly MI has surpassed Bond in stunts and the use of clever gadgets. Fortunately Bond, unlike Ethan Hunt, has a personality and history, In some years we'll see if the MI series can survive Cruise getting too old to do all those stunts. Perhaps Ethan Hunt will become the leader of IMF who says: "Your misssion, should you chose to accept it .." to some younger actor?
Starring Daniel Craig and Harrison Ford. Well worth watching. I like the cowboy part of this film but not really the alien part, but then I’m not into alien films anyway. The opening scene is great and it continues to be good until they start tracking the aliens. Even then, there are some good parts. Paul Dano plays the part of Harrison’s son and his interactions with DC’s character are quite funny.
I heard Jon Favreau, the director, say (in an interview) that on the last day on set, DC brought in a mini martini station and was shaking martinis for the whole crew. James Bond making them martinis, that must have been cool. {[]
Fear and Desire
Kubrick, 1953
as found here on youtube
Kubrick's first feature, a lowbudget one hour indie art film that he later tried to have suppressed.
Tells the story of four soldiers trapped behind enemy lines. The war is not identified, nor who the enemy is. Turns out the same actors play the bad guys as play the good guys.
No smooth tracking shots down endless perfectly symmetrical corridors in this one. There is much mumbled philosophising, while the camera drifts off the actors faces and focuses on bits of the forest floor.
Future director Paul Mazursky plays one of the soldiers, the young and twitchy one.
But the poster suggests the film is all about the young lady they encounter alone in the woods...
"Trapped ... 4 desperate men and a strange half-animal girl!"
There was a lot of talent behind this movie: Liam Neeson, Liola Davis, Michelle Rodrigues, Elizabeth Debekcki, Robert Duval and Colin Farrell are all in it. The Script was written by Cillian Flynn, the author of "Gone Girl", and the director Steve McQueen.
The movie is based on a British TV -series from back in the 80's I remember seeing. This time the plot is set in Chicago, but it's still about the widows of a group of criminals who die during a robbery. The widows inherit a lot of debt and are desperate for money. Viola Davis' caracter finds the plans for the next robbery and the women decide to carry out the job. As well as being a heist thriller the complicated society around them and especially some shady politics. Steve McQueen has already made Hunger, Shame and "12 years a slave" and again he proves himself to be a very good director. this is the first thriller he makes and to me he just moved up the list of people I'd like to direct Bond.
I saw Tom Hardy (the actor, not my man Thomas Hardy) as the original Scarface in Capone. If you're expecting a gangster movie, think again: this is Big Al in the last year of his life, dying of syphilis, suffering hallucinations, and frequently losing control of his bladder and bowels. Not a pretty picture, but Hardy is fascinating--and he adds to his ever-growing list of mumbling accents.
Directed from a script by Luc Besson, this tale of an incompetent policeman teaming up with a taxi driver to catch bank robbers in Marseilles initially looks promising. But aside from the admittedly fantastic car chases, this Marion Cotillard vehicle (no pun intended) quickly runs out of steam, as the film tries too hard to be quirky and loses sight of its central characterisation. Essentially a shallow buddy-cop movie, this is worth seeing for the flashy car stunts, if not much else.
I watched this movie in memory of Dame Diana Rigg. The movie was made in the same year as OHMSS and in adition to Rigg we also see Bond actors Curd Jürgens, Milton Reid and Vernon Dobtcheff in adition to her own Blofeld, Telly Savalas. The story takes place right before WWI and Rigg plays a woman who tries to make it as a journalist by exposing The Assassination Bureau (TAB). The bureau kills key people based on the treath they pose to peace, but lately money has become more important than ethics. The Bureau is lead by Oliver Reed. Rigg is the catalyst for a situation where the leaders of TAB are trying to kill each other and Rigg is traveling with Reed. The story is based on an unfinished novel by Jack London, but the movie is an adventure-comedy and the novel was more serious.
I found the movie very entertaining with humor, excitement, good locations and fine characters. This is probably the wrong movie to fact-check historically, but St Petersburg wasn't re-named Petrograd until the Great War started. A good film with Diana Rigg in a fun central role.
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Set in the first World War, Conrad plays a U boat Captain who is sent to the Orkney Islands on a mission against the British. A good thriller with some twists and turns.
John Liu in Mexico 3/6 (more like JL in Tenerife , heh)
Takes place on mex-US border , the baddies want a gold dragon broche , they also burn Lius eyes.......not really exciting and fight scenes are nothing special
Connery said he'd only ever cried once when reading a script and that was Chariots of Fire - but he was unable to do it due to scheduling commitments. Not sure what role he'd have been up for - the trainer, perhaps.
Showboat
The original with Paul Robeson, Irene Dunn and Allan Jones.
Maybe the best musical ever as it hits you with three great songs in opening 20 mins, including Ol' Man River.
Sadly, there's one scene that involves Dunn 'blacking up' to go on stage that I'd simply never registered before. Oh dear. It's not done maliciously, and it is of the time it's set (1880s I think) but it is done approvingly and it does somewhat sink the movie for a tea-time viewing.
Then again, due to the prominent roles of Robeson and Hattie McDaniel thus features two strong roles for blacks particularly for the time. Plus, the them of the film is resolutely anti-racist. So you sort of have to give it some credit.
A thriller set during the American hostage crisis in Iran in 1979. Based on real events, it tells the story of six hostages who managed to escape from the American Embassy and hide out in Tehran. Meanwhile the CIA, worked on a scheme to attempt to get them out of the country. Very tense in places.
The Hunt. This is billed as a horror film--from Blumhouse--but it's actually a political satire that, using the premise of "The Most Dangerous Game," has arugula-eating leftists hunting down pork-rind-chomping righties. I found it hilarious, and a comment on what politics in the U.S. is becoming. . .
I don't really have any problems with this WWI epic. Going from the front line trench to the green dressing station shouldn't go as quickly as we see at the end, but I undertand why it's done this way. Solid acting with young, lesser knwn actors taking center stage The plot is great and it's beautifully shot. No Germans turn out to be related to the protagonists, no questionable filters .... this director could make a good Bond film is given the chance
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I liked the film, though felt it was a little confusing and not as clever as it thought it was.
I'd love Nolan to do Bond. Give him a trilogy with a new Bond.
-Casino Royale, Ian Fleming
Based on John le Carre’s book. Bit weird in places. Set during the Cold War, British spies receive a photo from East Germany, they think might be a missile. They recruit a young Polish defector, give him some training (which includes a rather long fight scene with Anthony Hopkins) and send him off to check things out.
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Honestly the stunt work on the MI films is outstanding, sad to say But I think
they lately have done it better than Bond {:)
Sadly MI has surpassed Bond in stunts and the use of clever gadgets. Fortunately Bond, unlike Ethan Hunt, has a personality and history, In some years we'll see if the MI series can survive Cruise getting too old to do all those stunts. Perhaps Ethan Hunt will become the leader of IMF who says: "Your misssion, should you chose to accept it .." to some younger actor?
"I wasn't just talking about Hayely Atwell's looks, I think she has a range of strenghts."
I was only having a little joke at your expense admittedly, over My secret identity as a
card carrying commie
Starring Daniel Craig and Harrison Ford. Well worth watching. I like the cowboy part of this film but not really the alien part, but then I’m not into alien films anyway. The opening scene is great and it continues to be good until they start tracking the aliens. Even then, there are some good parts. Paul Dano plays the part of Harrison’s son and his interactions with DC’s character are quite funny.
I heard Jon Favreau, the director, say (in an interview) that on the last day on set, DC brought in a mini martini station and was shaking martinis for the whole crew. James Bond making them martinis, that must have been cool. {[]
Kubrick, 1953
as found here on youtube
Kubrick's first feature, a lowbudget one hour indie art film that he later tried to have suppressed.
Tells the story of four soldiers trapped behind enemy lines. The war is not identified, nor who the enemy is. Turns out the same actors play the bad guys as play the good guys.
No smooth tracking shots down endless perfectly symmetrical corridors in this one. There is much mumbled philosophising, while the camera drifts off the actors faces and focuses on bits of the forest floor.
Future director Paul Mazursky plays one of the soldiers, the young and twitchy one.
But the poster suggests the film is all about the young lady they encounter alone in the woods...
"Trapped ... 4 desperate men and a strange half-animal girl!"
There was a lot of talent behind this movie: Liam Neeson, Liola Davis, Michelle Rodrigues, Elizabeth Debekcki, Robert Duval and Colin Farrell are all in it. The Script was written by Cillian Flynn, the author of "Gone Girl", and the director Steve McQueen.
The movie is based on a British TV -series from back in the 80's I remember seeing. This time the plot is set in Chicago, but it's still about the widows of a group of criminals who die during a robbery. The widows inherit a lot of debt and are desperate for money. Viola Davis' caracter finds the plans for the next robbery and the women decide to carry out the job. As well as being a heist thriller the complicated society around them and especially some shady politics. Steve McQueen has already made Hunger, Shame and "12 years a slave" and again he proves himself to be a very good director. this is the first thriller he makes and to me he just moved up the list of people I'd like to direct Bond.
I keep reading good things about this film but I can't get past the trailer. It just looks a bit weird to me.
That's where you're wrong - it's very weird
Of course it depends what you usually watch, It is a very good movie, that's for sure.
Hmmm.
I might give it a go. It a genre I like. I like the actors involved ... If I don't like it, I'll blame you
Directed from a script by Luc Besson, this tale of an incompetent policeman teaming up with a taxi driver to catch bank robbers in Marseilles initially looks promising. But aside from the admittedly fantastic car chases, this Marion Cotillard vehicle (no pun intended) quickly runs out of steam, as the film tries too hard to be quirky and loses sight of its central characterisation. Essentially a shallow buddy-cop movie, this is worth seeing for the flashy car stunts, if not much else.
"The spectre of defeat..."
often over looked action/suspense film, Terrorists take over a plane and they
have to be given a smacked bottom.
I watched this movie in memory of Dame Diana Rigg. The movie was made in the same year as OHMSS and in adition to Rigg we also see Bond actors Curd Jürgens, Milton Reid and Vernon Dobtcheff in adition to her own Blofeld, Telly Savalas. The story takes place right before WWI and Rigg plays a woman who tries to make it as a journalist by exposing The Assassination Bureau (TAB). The bureau kills key people based on the treath they pose to peace, but lately money has become more important than ethics. The Bureau is lead by Oliver Reed. Rigg is the catalyst for a situation where the leaders of TAB are trying to kill each other and Rigg is traveling with Reed. The story is based on an unfinished novel by Jack London, but the movie is an adventure-comedy and the novel was more serious.
I found the movie very entertaining with humor, excitement, good locations and fine characters. This is probably the wrong movie to fact-check historically, but St Petersburg wasn't re-named Petrograd until the Great War started. A good film with Diana Rigg in a fun central role.
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Set in the first World War, Conrad plays a U boat Captain who is sent to the Orkney Islands on a mission against the British. A good thriller with some twists and turns.
Takes place on mex-US border , the baddies want a gold dragon broche , they also burn Lius eyes.......not really exciting and fight scenes are nothing special
Happiness, hope and heartbreak.
Showboat
The original with Paul Robeson, Irene Dunn and Allan Jones.
Maybe the best musical ever as it hits you with three great songs in opening 20 mins, including Ol' Man River.
Sadly, there's one scene that involves Dunn 'blacking up' to go on stage that I'd simply never registered before. Oh dear. It's not done maliciously, and it is of the time it's set (1880s I think) but it is done approvingly and it does somewhat sink the movie for a tea-time viewing.
Then again, due to the prominent roles of Robeson and Hattie McDaniel thus features two strong roles for blacks particularly for the time. Plus, the them of the film is resolutely anti-racist. So you sort of have to give it some credit.
The ending is a choker.
Roger Moore 1927-2017
A thriller set during the American hostage crisis in Iran in 1979. Based on real events, it tells the story of six hostages who managed to escape from the American Embassy and hide out in Tehran. Meanwhile the CIA, worked on a scheme to attempt to get them out of the country. Very tense in places.
I don't really have any problems with this WWI epic. Going from the front line trench to the green dressing station shouldn't go as quickly as we see at the end, but I undertand why it's done this way. Solid acting with young, lesser knwn actors taking center stage The plot is great and it's beautifully shot. No Germans turn out to be related to the protagonists, no questionable filters .... this director could make a good Bond film is given the chance
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