One of his best performances is from the 80s in a Christopher Reeve dud called STREET SMART.
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One of his best performances is from the 80s in a Christopher Reeve dud called STREET SMART.
Smoke - A pretty mixed bag, it confirmed how much I like Harvey Keitel and how much dislike William Hurt. The IMDB poster might just be the most misleading movie poster of all time, makes zero sense.
I actually read the article earlier, the five are:
Rocky
Jurassic Park
Cool Runnings
Ghost
Heat
Many moons ago I was in a pub behind the old Guardian building and I overheard one of their football writers talking about Owen, who he'd recently interviewed. Apparently, he was the most arrogant person the journalist had ever met.
The Driver
Terrific movie from Walter Hill's golden period with Ryan O'Neal doing a Steve McQueen impression (movie was written for McQueen) and Bruce Dern being his utterly fantastic self. Lovely Chevy Stepside in the finale.
Terrific movie from Walter Hill's golden period with Ryan O'Neal doing a Steve McQueen impression (movie was written for McQueen) and Bruce Dern being his utterly fantastic self. Lovely Chevy Stepside in the finale.
One withering look from Steve McQueen would've dissolved Ryan O'Neal, the pissant.
McQueen is a legend. O'Neal gave a nickname to a jacket. 'Nuff said.
The Steamroller and the Violin - A beautiful, colorful and cute little short. I've been putting it off for a while because it now means that I have seen every thing ever directed by Andrei Tarkovsky. 
Yup. 1975-'82 is his absolute peak, every movie is superb. He's also made a few I've really liked since, such as EXTREME PREJUDICE. Also wrote some great screenplays for others, including THE GETAWAY and ALIEN.
Southern Comfort is a fave of mine. 48 Hours is one of the best hate each other then become buddies while solving crime movies ever.
Yeah, all from that golden period, with 48 HOURS being the last in 1982. THE WARRIORS (original cut) is also superb.
Do you not like Streets of Fire? I think it's a really fun movie.
I do, but it's not in the same class as the films preceding it. I also like TRESSPASS a great deal.
Yeah Trespass was a good little movie. I think Brewster's Millions is very good too.
EXTREME PREJUDICE was a great return to action form after it. Got some hillarious tongue-in-cheek dialogue and a terrific cast. The reproduction of the WILD BUNCH finale at the end is superb.
I've never seen it! Holy shit what a cast. I'm looking for it this weekend.
Oh, man. You are in for a treat! Lemme know what you think of it!
The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty: I have to be honest I was expecting to hate this, in fact 20 mins in that is exactly where I was as it seems to be heading in predictable romantic comedy territory. However it does pick up after that slow start and by quite a bit to the point where I actually found myself enjoying it. It is well shot (surprisingly so) and despite a slow start picks up nicely to the point where it even has some quite charming moments mainly toward the end. I wouldn’t say there was anything revolutionary here but it’s a solidly put together, well shot movie with a few nice touches and Stiller proves a surprising good screen presence given the right project (director as well so kudos). Worth seeing.
7/10
7/10
I'd echo that. Nothing amazing, but much better than expected and as you said, very well shot.
Definitely 'Unbreakable' is one of them and Mr. Glass must be his favorite ever character.
Witness For The Prosecution (1957)
They don't make them like this anymore, thoroughly enjoyable and not an explosion in sight. Or a super hero, or any other generic hollywood bullshit.
They don't make them like this anymore, thoroughly enjoyable and not an explosion in sight. Or a super hero, or any other generic hollywood bullshit.
Good Morning Vietnam.
It's on channel 4 tonight at midnight
It's on channel 4 tonight at midnight
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - On the plus side, the Turtles were good. They didn't ruin or feck with the turtles themselves, so that's a plus. Michaelangelo still gets all the good lines, Donatello is still a geek (in fact slightly more discernably geeky than previous iterations, which I liked) Rafael is still basically an asshole who comes round and saves the day & Leonardo is still the one without a personality. In fact I actually quite enjoyed most of the time the Turtles were on screen. Trouble is, someone has decided that they shouldn't be on screen all that much, because this is really a film about Megan Fox. Because everyone who goes to a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle movie really wants to see a film about Megan Fox. Megan Fox saving the world with....Super reporting?
Either the writer was trying to impress Megan Fox, or someone in the production chain felt the premise of giant wisecracking super ninja turtles wasn't enough to carry a movie, and it needed more expressionless botox shouting and a contrived plot involving human characters no one cares about. Fox's April is at the center of everything here. The implausibly stupid plot, the dissmissively stupid new back story (which involves the turtles learning ninjutsu from a disgarded picture book to take their minds off Gwen Stefani - I'm actually not joking) and about 4 other stupid sub-plots, including Whoopie Goldberg and Will Arnet as charactes with absolutely no need to be in this film.
It's also appallingly written. Not just the dialogue, which was really bad most of the time, but to the extent that in the opening scene it's explicitly stated to be a beautiful day in Sping and in the next scene it's snowing. It's that indifferent to it's own internal logic. It doesn't even open with an action sequence either, it opens with a cartoon picturebook half origin set up, that it repeats half way into the film anyway, which has the effect of boring you straight away. I could tell within 30 seconds I was going to dislike it, because the opening dialogue was so bad. And I mean, inexcusably bad. Repeating itself 3 or 4 times bad. Like it had been written on a napkin at a cocaine fuelled powerlunch bad.
Also Shredder is a Transformer, for absolutely no reason.
BasicallyMichael Bay should die. I know he didn't direct this, but he still definitely should.
Either the writer was trying to impress Megan Fox, or someone in the production chain felt the premise of giant wisecracking super ninja turtles wasn't enough to carry a movie, and it needed more expressionless botox shouting and a contrived plot involving human characters no one cares about. Fox's April is at the center of everything here. The implausibly stupid plot, the dissmissively stupid new back story (which involves the turtles learning ninjutsu from a disgarded picture book to take their minds off Gwen Stefani - I'm actually not joking) and about 4 other stupid sub-plots, including Whoopie Goldberg and Will Arnet as charactes with absolutely no need to be in this film.
It's also appallingly written. Not just the dialogue, which was really bad most of the time, but to the extent that in the opening scene it's explicitly stated to be a beautiful day in Sping and in the next scene it's snowing. It's that indifferent to it's own internal logic. It doesn't even open with an action sequence either, it opens with a cartoon picturebook half origin set up, that it repeats half way into the film anyway, which has the effect of boring you straight away. I could tell within 30 seconds I was going to dislike it, because the opening dialogue was so bad. And I mean, inexcusably bad. Repeating itself 3 or 4 times bad. Like it had been written on a napkin at a cocaine fuelled powerlunch bad.
Also Shredder is a Transformer, for absolutely no reason.
BasicallyMichael Bay should die. I know he didn't direct this, but he still definitely should.
Why did you still go and watch it? I feel like the only reason these movies still do well is because people pay to see it despite knowing they will hate it.
Not to be a stickler, but Megan Fox is too young to need botox. She's expressionless because she's never needed a personality.
Alien Abduction
Found footage style film about a family that get abducted by aliens. I liked the reasoning for the found footage, which made sense why the guy doesn't stop filming when a normal person would throw the camera and Usain Bolt out of the place and the subject matter was ok because not many found footage films have tread this territory but the problem was that the film didn't have anything exciting happen and is a forgettable film that just plods along at an average pace. So all in all it was a decent idea but not executed right 4.5/10
Found footage style film about a family that get abducted by aliens. I liked the reasoning for the found footage, which made sense why the guy doesn't stop filming when a normal person would throw the camera and Usain Bolt out of the place and the subject matter was ok because not many found footage films have tread this territory but the problem was that the film didn't have anything exciting happen and is a forgettable film that just plods along at an average pace. So all in all it was a decent idea but not executed right 4.5/10
I wasn't even aware that the turtles were meant to have their own personalities and specificities.
Lone Ranger - totally disposable but for one notable scene, in which a bunch of noble injuns are cut down by the white man's bullet. What would normally be mere cack-handedness, is elevated to grotesque spectacle by Johnny Depp's racially obnoxious buffoonery. He literally rides roughshod over native American ancestry in a friggin railway handcar.
Starred Up - Was very good, particularly the acting and minimalist direction in the early scenes. It falters slightly in the last 15 minutes when it gives up on logic a bit and the cliches become more noticeable.
Starred Up - Was very good, particularly the acting and minimalist direction in the early scenes. It falters slightly in the last 15 minutes when it gives up on logic a bit and the cliches become more noticeable.
Oh I didn't. Don't worry
Was the theme song too subtle?
There's a theme song?!
The Lego Movie
Couldn't see what the raves were about until Batman showed up. After that, thoroughly enjoyed it. "Batman's Song" still makes me laugh out loud.
Couldn't see what the raves were about until Batman showed up. After that, thoroughly enjoyed it. "Batman's Song" still makes me laugh out loud.
Leonardo leads, Donatello does machines, Raphael is cool but rude, Michaelangelo is a party dude.
You're so Donatello.
You should watch the Youtube version of the movie. Much, much better.
Let's be cops
Cheap laughs, but nevertheless not that bad at all, at least not outrageously bad. The lead actors have some comic chemistry and the wafer thin predictable story does not offer much, but still if you want to kill some time, this is worth a watch.
Cheap laughs, but nevertheless not that bad at all, at least not outrageously bad. The lead actors have some comic chemistry and the wafer thin predictable story does not offer much, but still if you want to kill some time, this is worth a watch.
Donatello even has horn rimmed glasses taped together in the middle. THATS how much of a geek he is.
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Should have just been called Robin Williams in Vietnam.