I'm currently watching Thunderball. Even after all the times I've seen it the gunbarrel sequence still makes me smile. It's my get in the holiday mood bond..... Terrific stuff.
The Omen.
The original movie. I love the Omen films and have seen them many times. Some great actors
unusual deaths and the brilliant music of Jerry Goldsmith. -{ for which he got a well deserved
oscar.
I guess the Bond fan in me, loves the idea of a secret organisation trying to take over the world.
"I've been informed that there ARE a couple of QAnon supporters who are fairly regular posters in AJB."
The Pink Panther.
The original film, and not very like the later ones in that series. At one point, David Niven is in Cortina on secret business involving skiing and lovely ladies. He goes back to his hotel room to find that his contact has written a message on the bathroom cabinet. I'm wondering if the very similar scene in FYEO is a coincidence or a homage...
Been on a bit of a Clint Eastwood kick lately, and I just watched Escape from Alcatraz. Really interesting, intriguing docudrama about the '61 Alcatraz escape. It seems so much more understated than contemporary films of the same genre, which I really appreciated.
The Pink Panther.
The original film, and not very like the later ones in that series. At one point, David Niven is in Cortina on secret business involving skiing and lovely ladies. He goes back to his hotel room to find that his contact has written a message on the bathroom cabinet. I'm wondering if the very similar scene in FYEO is a coincidence or a homage...
I had seen The Pink Panther many times before I ever saw FYEO and had the same thought when I did finally see the latter.
While we're on the subject, the original Pink Panther is one of my all time favourite comedy films. As you say, the series would evolve into something quite different from the original. I like all of the Sellers Panther films, but the original stands out for me because of its great ensemble cast, very glamorous and classy style, jazzy score, and of course the antics of Sellers as Clouseau. A great classic!
Cockneys vs Zombies. A very funny comedy-horror much better than Shaun Of The Dead. It stars the lovely Honor Blackman as well as a host of other recognisable stars from yesteryear.
Yeah, well, sometimes nothin' can be a real cool hand.
Well, it wasn't a film, it was a stage musical based the movie Dirty Dancing...it was great, you have to see it. The actors in the production we saw last night in Memphis were mostly from the UK and Australia...which I found funny..a bunch of people from the Commonwealth, playing American teens in 1963...
"I don't know if the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or imbeciles who mean it."-Mark Twain
'Just because nobody complains doesn't mean all parachutes are perfect.'- Benny Hill (1924-1992)
I saw "Room" (2015), directed by Lenny Abrahamson.
The movie is about a young woman (Brie Larson) who was kidnapped by a man seven years ago and lives in a sound proofed shed with her son Jack (Jacob Tremblay). Jack is five years old and the product of her captor's rapes. This sounds like a very depressing movie, but it's surprisingly uplifting. The leads are well acted and the young Tremblay is fantastic. Highly reccomended!
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Standard horror gore filled nonsense, sadly the characters are so badly developed, you just don't
Care about who's getting butchered. A very average horror film.
"I've been informed that there ARE a couple of QAnon supporters who are fairly regular posters in AJB."
Mechanic Resurrection :
Jason Statham shooting and kicking villains in the face. ( No body does it better than the Stath !)
A couple of Bond connections , location wise Rio and Thailand, with Vic Armstrong as 2nd unit director
and Michelle Yeoh -{. An average but enjoyable thriller.
"I've been informed that there ARE a couple of QAnon supporters who are fairly regular posters in AJB."
Phantasm: Ravager :. ( The balls are back )
Watch this mainly for nostalgia reasons, I remember those early Phantasm movies as a teen, and
Loved the horror/action. Infact I found those flying balls, with the build in drills very frightening.
"I've been informed that there ARE a couple of QAnon supporters who are fairly regular posters in AJB."
London Live is an odd channel, all dusty old black and white films by day, grim crime dramas by night.
Scum is a notorious borstal drama.
A very young Ray Winstone plays a cherubic, angle faced young lad whose mindset is turned upside down when he encounters brutal borstal life. Well, maybe that's not the accurate take on it! Actually, his 'who's the Daddy routine' is well known, but I didn't see any of this in this movie really, he only seems to be retaliating to wrongdoing and almost one of the good guys.
Prophetic scheduling that they screen this in the week of UKIP's latest fiasco, with its members doing the 'I only fell' routine. )
Parts of the film are almost like Porridge, it has a comic undertone although that makes the later scenes more horrific.
Some Brit names who went on to other things. Phil Daniels, who like Winstone, was in Quadrophenia, and the actor who played Mickey Pearce in Only Fools and Horses. Among the crew I noticed Martin Campbell and his favoured cinematographer Phil Meheux.
Good film, excellent performances from Kurt Russell and John Malkovich, but it left me wondering how close to the truth it was. If so, BP don't come out of it very welll. At all. Oh, and Marky Mark wasn't bad.
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(* Q to Bond in NSNA, when he finds out where 007 is going)
Great action movie with Idris Elba, some fantastic fight sequences, very much in the Die Hard
Type story, but great fun. -{
The original movie. I love the Omen films and have seen them many times. Some great actors
unusual deaths and the brilliant music of Jerry Goldsmith. -{ for which he got a well deserved
oscar.
I guess the Bond fan in me, loves the idea of a secret organisation trying to take over the world.
Interesting bit of useful trivia: You can totally see Natalie Portman's nipples through that white outfit.
The original film, and not very like the later ones in that series. At one point, David Niven is in Cortina on secret business involving skiing and lovely ladies. He goes back to his hotel room to find that his contact has written a message on the bathroom cabinet. I'm wondering if the very similar scene in FYEO is a coincidence or a homage...
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Still one of my favourite comedy movies
I had seen The Pink Panther many times before I ever saw FYEO and had the same thought when I did finally see the latter.
While we're on the subject, the original Pink Panther is one of my all time favourite comedy films. As you say, the series would evolve into something quite different from the original. I like all of the Sellers Panther films, but the original stands out for me because of its great ensemble cast, very glamorous and classy style, jazzy score, and of course the antics of Sellers as Clouseau. A great classic!
enjoyed it. -{
This film may need another viewing for me I think.
'Just because nobody complains doesn't mean all parachutes are perfect.'- Benny Hill (1924-1992)
The movie is about a young woman (Brie Larson) who was kidnapped by a man seven years ago and lives in a sound proofed shed with her son Jack (Jacob Tremblay). Jack is five years old and the product of her captor's rapes. This sounds like a very depressing movie, but it's surprisingly uplifting. The leads are well acted and the young Tremblay is fantastic. Highly reccomended!
Standard horror gore filled nonsense, sadly the characters are so badly developed, you just don't
Care about who's getting butchered. A very average horror film.
Jason Statham shooting and kicking villains in the face. ( No body does it better than the Stath !)
A couple of Bond connections , location wise Rio and Thailand, with Vic Armstrong as 2nd unit director
and Michelle Yeoh -{. An average but enjoyable thriller.
Classic sci-fi movie.
Enjoyable superhero romp, follows the well known formula. I'd give it a 7/10
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Watch this mainly for nostalgia reasons, I remember those early Phantasm movies as a teen, and
Loved the horror/action. Infact I found those flying balls, with the build in drills very frightening.
London Live is an odd channel, all dusty old black and white films by day, grim crime dramas by night.
Scum is a notorious borstal drama.
A very young Ray Winstone plays a cherubic, angle faced young lad whose mindset is turned upside down when he encounters brutal borstal life. Well, maybe that's not the accurate take on it! Actually, his 'who's the Daddy routine' is well known, but I didn't see any of this in this movie really, he only seems to be retaliating to wrongdoing and almost one of the good guys.
Prophetic scheduling that they screen this in the week of UKIP's latest fiasco, with its members doing the 'I only fell' routine.
Parts of the film are almost like Porridge, it has a comic undertone although that makes the later scenes more horrific.
Some Brit names who went on to other things. Phil Daniels, who like Winstone, was in Quadrophenia, and the actor who played Mickey Pearce in Only Fools and Horses. Among the crew I noticed Martin Campbell and his favoured cinematographer Phil Meheux.
Roger Moore 1927-2017
An MI6 Agent called Ja..... sorry you probably know this one...
Deepwater Horizon
Good film, excellent performances from Kurt Russell and John Malkovich, but it left me wondering how close to the truth it was. If so, BP don't come out of it very welll. At all. Oh, and Marky Mark wasn't bad.