I just saw The Last Sunset (1961) starring Kirk Douglas and Rock Hudson on TV. It's a really good western. Not among the greatest classics (The Searchers, Once upon a time in the West, etc) but more than good enough to put on your "to watch" - list.
After many years, I re-watched " Batman and Robin " last night ....... It was even worse than I
Remembered. And nothing like " Robin and Marion" at all.
"I've been informed that there ARE a couple of QAnon supporters who are fairly regular posters in AJB."
Probably he best MCU movie to date. Better than the first, and it is just crazy fun, with a lot of risks taken. Plus, Kurt Russel is the best villain in the MCU so far (even better than Loki IMO).
Written and directed by Emilio Estevez, the film takes place over a single day at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles -- specifically, the day and place in which Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated in 1968. Estevez tells the story through a series of fictional characters (a retired doorman, a boozy night club singer, an idealistic campaign staffer, a busboy, etc.) whose lives partially intersect in the hours leading up to the shooting. RFK himself is a minor character, shown mostly in archived footage.
Unfortunately, while well-intentioned, the film ultimately feels more like The Towering Inferno than anything else -- a set of independent narratives that are ultimately connected (loosely) by a tragic event. The cast is full of well-known actors (Anthony Hopkins, Sharon Stone, Helen Hunt, Demi Moore, Christian Slater, Lindsay Lohan, Elijah Wood, Shia LaBeouf, Bill Macy, the director's dad Martin Sheen) and while they do decent work, I couldn't help feeling they were all doing it as a favor to a son of Hollywood.
This is a late 80s spy thriller. It has Bond might have been Pierce Brosnan as a Russian spy on the British mainland, in what may be a bit of stunt casting. Brozzer is okay actually, but it's the kind of film where all the Russians still speak with a transatlantic twang. His role doesn't allow for much range, but it's a Day of the Jackal type role, and Edward Fox didn't show much range in that either.
There are other Bond nods, and the plot is Octopussy really, unsurprisingly seeing as it's by Freddie Forythe who had a hand in the plot of OP, and whose book on which this is based came out in 1984, just a year later. It's the whole frame a bomb on a Nato airbase to make it look like an accident and get Britain to pull out of Nato type thing. Actually not untopical nowadays.
It's a low key effort but Michael Caine's leading performance makes it highly watchable and I know he made some dross but I can't think of anyone like him today who can pull that off. It is a brilliant star performance, it could almost by Harry Palmer older, though the character is not quite the same, simply a bit anti authority. An added pleasure is seeing character actors of the era, such as Julian Glover (another Bond nod), Anton Rodgers, Ronald Pickup (NSNA), Ian Richardson and so on. And those old-style trains where you can run along a platform and open the clanging door and jump on!
Saw this today and was really disappointed as the ending renders the first 2/3rds of the film and the events in Prometheus all but pointless. Prometheus was a flawed movie but set up some interesting questions; sadly Ridley Scott all but abandoned that story arc in favor of a followup which is supposed to segue more directly to the first Alien movie; yet it doesn't really succeed in doing even that as the ending to this does not remotely line up with the beginning of Alien.
The one thing I expect of a movie is that it have a worthwhile point to it; the point of Covenant seems to be to set up another movie and that made its 2+ hour length feel like a waste of time. Visually impressive but creatively bankrupt with a cast of disposable characters and a story that goes nowhere. I'm kind of dreading what Scott is going to do with Bladerunner 2049 now.
Probably he best MCU movie to date. Better than the first, and it is just crazy fun, with a lot of risks taken. Plus, Kurt Russel is the best villain in the MCU so far (even better than Loki IMO).
I saw it with my grandkids last weekend. It's a fun, exciting, terrific movie that can be enjoyed by all ages. Certainly one of Marvel's top films, although the first Avengers movie is still my favorite.
"Hacksaw Ridge" by Mel Gibson.
This is based on a true story about Desmond Does, a man who served in the frontline in WWII in the Pacific despite not carrying weapons because of his strong religious beliefs. He saved 75 sounded soldiers single-handedly during the battle of Hacksaw Ridge. This movie is very good movie and I reccomend it. Now I hope Mel Gibson can make his viking movie! Knowing Gibson's work it will be historically inaccurate and still a great movie.
Well, I caught a bit of King Kong, the 1970s sequel.
What a dog of a film.
I kept meaning to see it, or rather the all-important finale with Kong standing astride the Twin Towers, seemingly grasping at an aeroplane (bit dodgy now, but I think the poster had a train actually anyway).
But the finale is shot in darkness and there is no such iconic shot seen in the movie! You don't really get the money shot at all. King Con, more like.
John Barry has wasted his talents on some tripe hasn't he?
I read that Lorenzo Semple did the script, and mentioned how the original Kong was very old hat and the special effects were very simple, and a reader wrote in saying, yeah, but do you think Jeff Baker (or whoever it was) jumping around in an ape suit was any better? And that's quite right, that's exactly what it looks like! It's risible.
It's prolly my favorite Kong , the ending is really scary cuz it's so brutal.....you can almost feel Kongs pain when he's hit
Loved Barrys atmospheric music :x
They had several movie posters : Kong on twin towers , Kong vs helicopters , Kong vs jet planes , Kong behind Skull Island walls , Kong vs snake , Kong vs subway train.......beautiful poster campaign unlike say todays Bond posters which looks like H & M clothing campaign , no style any more 8-)
"Let's see--the story of a man who takes over someone else's creation, makes a lot of money on it, bullies and legally manipulates the creators out of their own business and buys them off for a fraction of what the business is worth"
Sounds like you're describing Vince McMahon jr , who inherited from his father Vince sr (who will be getting a movie soon as a matter of fact)
This is the newest version of the famous story. I think both the political conflict and the relationship between Ben Hur and Massala are more interesting and complex here than in the Charles Heston movie, but it's still an inferior version. The story needs bigger stats with more charisma who can hold the screen better than Jack Houston and Toby Kebbel. The only one who isn't in too big sandals is Morgan Freeman.
I recently watched High-Rise
Hiddleston's in it, so it may be of interest to Bondfans
I'm quite sure his performance in this film is nothing like how he might or might not portray Bond, should he get that chance
but it is a good J G Ballard adaptation, to be added to Cronenberg's Crash and Speilberg's Empire of the Sun
Not a terrible film, but you've seen it already: 33% "Lord Of The Rings", 33% "Game Of Thrones", 33% any King Arthur movie. Apparently it cost £175m to make, £100m to advertise, and has only made £14m- so any thoughts of a series go out of the window.
Jude Law is the villain, and is good value- in fact, he carries the film. Charlie Humdrum (not my joke, Mark Kermode's) is ok but there's no sign of charisma.
I watched Jaws last night still a classic, I'm watching tswlm as I type and it was released only 2 years after jaws and I can't help but think how much better the shark attack scenes are in tswlm. In fact even thunderball had more realistic scenes with sharks in.
I saw "Quest for fire" last night. For those who haven't seen it the movie from 1981 takes place in the stone age. The group we follow had barely mastered language and live in caves. When their fire is lost it's a crisis because they can't make fire themselves. Three men set out to find new fire and we follow their adventures. This movie is different from any other movie I've seen and is highly reccomended!
It was nice watching a French movie that didn't need subtitles. I can safety say Quest of fire isn't dialogue heavy. But they kept one great tradition of French cinema: naked chicks.
We need more unusual movies, not thirty more superhero movies and countless action movies about a cop in LA/NY who doesn't go by the book. Why not viking movies, movies set in ancient Byzantenum, or the SAS in North Africa in WWII, the Arctic race between Scott and Amundsen etc.
Keeping Up With The Jones.....Gal Gadot is so pretty....
"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)
Quest For Fire isn't dialogue heavy. But they kept one great tradition of French cinema: naked chicks.
I remember when the movie came out, one reviewer called it "Quest For The Missionary Position", because that's actually as important to the cavemen's journey of discovery as is boring old fire
not a film, but last dvd watched was Doctor Who: Power of the Daleks
an animated reconstruction of Patrick Troughton (the Second Doctor's) longlost first storyline
dozens of sixties episodes are still completely missing, but this was always conspicuous as its the first time they changed actors: out of all the endless choice of Classic Dr Who episodes, introductions of new Doctors are always essential viewing
also as a pre-credit teaser they show the first regeneration, from William Hartnell to Troughton, which would technically have been the ending of the previous episode
I'm used to Troughton being this Chaplin-like clown character, but here he's more like a wise-fool trickster archetype, especially with the flute and the bizarre top hat he keeps wearing
also we're used to the pattern of companions doubting the new Doctor's identity while the new Doctor spends an episode or two acting all discombobulated and sillier than usual, but this time the concept was unprecedented to the audience and the very people making the show, every regeneration since has been a variation on this one
so the episodes don't exist anywhere, but apparently the audio does and enough production stills they were able to make a convincing animation of all six episodes
Comments
Remembered. And nothing like " Robin and Marion" at all.
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Written and directed by Emilio Estevez, the film takes place over a single day at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles -- specifically, the day and place in which Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated in 1968. Estevez tells the story through a series of fictional characters (a retired doorman, a boozy night club singer, an idealistic campaign staffer, a busboy, etc.) whose lives partially intersect in the hours leading up to the shooting. RFK himself is a minor character, shown mostly in archived footage.
Unfortunately, while well-intentioned, the film ultimately feels more like The Towering Inferno than anything else -- a set of independent narratives that are ultimately connected (loosely) by a tragic event. The cast is full of well-known actors (Anthony Hopkins, Sharon Stone, Helen Hunt, Demi Moore, Christian Slater, Lindsay Lohan, Elijah Wood, Shia LaBeouf, Bill Macy, the director's dad Martin Sheen) and while they do decent work, I couldn't help feeling they were all doing it as a favor to a son of Hollywood.
Don't bother.
This is a late 80s spy thriller. It has Bond might have been Pierce Brosnan as a Russian spy on the British mainland, in what may be a bit of stunt casting. Brozzer is okay actually, but it's the kind of film where all the Russians still speak with a transatlantic twang. His role doesn't allow for much range, but it's a Day of the Jackal type role, and Edward Fox didn't show much range in that either.
There are other Bond nods, and the plot is Octopussy really, unsurprisingly seeing as it's by Freddie Forythe who had a hand in the plot of OP, and whose book on which this is based came out in 1984, just a year later. It's the whole frame a bomb on a Nato airbase to make it look like an accident and get Britain to pull out of Nato type thing. Actually not untopical nowadays.
It's a low key effort but Michael Caine's leading performance makes it highly watchable and I know he made some dross but I can't think of anyone like him today who can pull that off. It is a brilliant star performance, it could almost by Harry Palmer older, though the character is not quite the same, simply a bit anti authority. An added pleasure is seeing character actors of the era, such as Julian Glover (another Bond nod), Anton Rodgers, Ronald Pickup (NSNA), Ian Richardson and so on. And those old-style trains where you can run along a platform and open the clanging door and jump on!
Roger Moore 1927-2017
2015 thriller with Liam Neeson and Ed Harris.
Only watched it because it had those two in but it was very mediocre.
Ed Harris is such an underrated actor.
I really enjoyed this silly over the top action thriller. Pure popcorn fun, ignore the
Plot holes etc, it's a hoot.
Saw this today and was really disappointed as the ending renders the first 2/3rds of the film and the events in Prometheus all but pointless. Prometheus was a flawed movie but set up some interesting questions; sadly Ridley Scott all but abandoned that story arc in favor of a followup which is supposed to segue more directly to the first Alien movie; yet it doesn't really succeed in doing even that as the ending to this does not remotely line up with the beginning of Alien.
The one thing I expect of a movie is that it have a worthwhile point to it; the point of Covenant seems to be to set up another movie and that made its 2+ hour length feel like a waste of time. Visually impressive but creatively bankrupt with a cast of disposable characters and a story that goes nowhere. I'm kind of dreading what Scott is going to do with Bladerunner 2049 now.
Great movie! Scared the hell out of me, even though I laughed out loud quite a few times throughout.
I saw it with my grandkids last weekend. It's a fun, exciting, terrific movie that can be enjoyed by all ages. Certainly one of Marvel's top films, although the first Avengers movie is still my favorite.
This is based on a true story about Desmond Does, a man who served in the frontline in WWII in the Pacific despite not carrying weapons because of his strong religious beliefs. He saved 75 sounded soldiers single-handedly during the battle of Hacksaw Ridge. This movie is very good movie and I reccomend it. Now I hope Mel Gibson can make his viking movie! Knowing Gibson's work it will be historically inaccurate and still a great movie.
King Ralph 4/6 , haven't seen this in yrs and yrs.....Goodman sort of looks like Burt Ward in this one
It's prolly my favorite Kong , the ending is really scary cuz it's so brutal.....you can almost feel Kongs pain when he's hit
Loved Barrys atmospheric music :x
They had several movie posters : Kong on twin towers , Kong vs helicopters , Kong vs jet planes , Kong behind Skull Island walls , Kong vs snake , Kong vs subway train.......beautiful poster campaign unlike say todays Bond posters which looks like H & M clothing campaign , no style any more 8-)
Sounds like you're describing Vince McMahon jr , who inherited from his father Vince sr (who will be getting a movie soon as a matter of fact)
This is the newest version of the famous story. I think both the political conflict and the relationship between Ben Hur and Massala are more interesting and complex here than in the Charles Heston movie, but it's still an inferior version. The story needs bigger stats with more charisma who can hold the screen better than Jack Houston and Toby Kebbel. The only one who isn't in too big sandals is Morgan Freeman.
Hiddleston's in it, so it may be of interest to Bondfans
I'm quite sure his performance in this film is nothing like how he might or might not portray Bond, should he get that chance
but it is a good J G Ballard adaptation, to be added to Cronenberg's Crash and Speilberg's Empire of the Sun
Not a terrible film, but you've seen it already: 33% "Lord Of The Rings", 33% "Game Of Thrones", 33% any King Arthur movie. Apparently it cost £175m to make, £100m to advertise, and has only made £14m- so any thoughts of a series go out of the window.
Jude Law is the villain, and is good value- in fact, he carries the film. Charlie Humdrum (not my joke, Mark Kermode's) is ok but there's no sign of charisma.
Sounds like One Direction.
It was nice watching a French movie that didn't need subtitles. I can safety say Quest of fire isn't dialogue heavy. But they kept one great tradition of French cinema: naked chicks.
Trailer for Logan Lucky. With Daniel Craig, I do love a " Caper" movie.
Well that looks terrible
Cant say i was a fan of the Oceans stuff
'Just because nobody complains doesn't mean all parachutes are perfect.'- Benny Hill (1924-1992)
not a film, but last dvd watched was Doctor Who: Power of the Daleks
an animated reconstruction of Patrick Troughton (the Second Doctor's) longlost first storyline
dozens of sixties episodes are still completely missing, but this was always conspicuous as its the first time they changed actors: out of all the endless choice of Classic Dr Who episodes, introductions of new Doctors are always essential viewing
also as a pre-credit teaser they show the first regeneration, from William Hartnell to Troughton, which would technically have been the ending of the previous episode
I'm used to Troughton being this Chaplin-like clown character, but here he's more like a wise-fool trickster archetype, especially with the flute and the bizarre top hat he keeps wearing
also we're used to the pattern of companions doubting the new Doctor's identity while the new Doctor spends an episode or two acting all discombobulated and sillier than usual, but this time the concept was unprecedented to the audience and the very people making the show, every regeneration since has been a variation on this one
so the episodes don't exist anywhere, but apparently the audio does and enough production stills they were able to make a convincing animation of all six episodes