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I don't know if I can muster up the interest to even afford it a single viewing. Tried online, but it's hard for me to pay attention to a movie on a computer, for some reason. I guess I constantly pause and search other sites if a film isn't entertaining enough, as opposed to laying down and watching it on TV, and I really don't feel like spending money to rent it.
Superman/Batman Apocolypse.
Star Trek 6 Special edition.
Avatar.
Just to say that I agree with you. I thought Audrey was lovely and had fine acting in this ... however, I found the film so sad and upsetting. I really, really did not like this story. I doubt I'll ever watch it again.
But all the rest of Audrey's? Yes. Though I can do without seeing Speilberg's pic, Always (that is meh for me). I think that Audrey from the beginning of her big screen roles (Roman Holiday) through the sixties is all a wonderful treat - splendid films, great acting, sparkling, charisma in abundance, outstanding leading men and supporting actgors, fine directors, and good stories.
Dark Passage (1947) with Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall. I most enjoyed the first part of the movie; the first-person camera was well used and I was fascinated by when we'd actually get to see, and not just hear, Bogart (the best paid movie star at the time). Eventually (maybe about a third into the movie), we did. Not a great movie, but a good one, and I liked it. It was also lovely to see some of it actually shot on location in the wonderful San Francisco.
My favourite Clouseau movie. Ah yes! Such great music, thank you Mr. Mancini, such great acting... and the lovely Elke Sommer.
(Deadlier Than The Male anyone? ;-))
Steven Seagal's first film, and one of his earliest three that I watched over and over and over again when I was a kid. Some of it was nostalgic, other parts, I couldn't remember at all. Definitely wasn't as action-packed as I recall, and the plot is a bit confusing here and there, but he most certainly delivers as much as he could with his best films of the late 80's/early 90's, and I love it. Not as great as 'Out For Justice,' but it's still very good. Hoping to pick up 'Marked For Death' at some point soon.
Have you seen 'Out For Justice'? It's special to me, I used to watch it on repeat and re-enact the scenes with my toy guns. It was too entertaining to me.
I was ready to hate this film but I won't. No Edwards, no Sellers, but Alan Arkin doesn't let me down. Sure, it's a very different film from the previous two and with a very different Clouseau altogether, but there are laughs, good laughs even, and some pretty charming moments. I had expected a lot worse from Inspector Clouseau. Perhaps that's why, almost by surprise, I like it as much as I do. ;-)
A Shot In The Dark: 5/5
The Pink Panther: 5/5
Inspector Clouseau: 4/5
@4EverBonded, so true! She was lucky when it comes to her leading men. Think about it: Gregory Peck, William Holden, Humphrey Bogart (who reportedly didn't like Audrey very much ;-)), Fred Astaire, Gary Cooper (whom I didn't like in Love In The Afternoon - did he have teeth in that film?), Burt Lancaster, Anthony Perkins, Rex Harrisson, George Peppard, ... But, despite so much male strength, Audrey not once loses grip on the film. She's in command of her every performance. Even Capote had to agree, after Breakfast At Tiffany's was completed, that Audrey understood the character he had written as well as he did.
'The only bad thing I can say about Audrey - the only thing - is that she smoked.' (Jeffrey Banks)
I first saw her in Breakfast At Tiffany's, and I was intrigued. Then I saw her in Roman Holiday, and I fell in love. Then I saw her in Sabrina, and I was in heaven. Star-struck by Audrey... even in 2014 that is perfectly possible. ;-)
Haven't seen Citizen Kane yet (am interested though), but The Godfather would probably rank in my Top 20 films of all time. It's simply excellent, and there aren't any issues at all that made it suffer IMO.
Ah yes The Wizard of Oz is another excellent classic, which I just re-watched for the first time in years about a week ago. It's definitely among the best movies ever; it's just astounding how timeless and entertaining it is for all ages.
Sean?? Noooooooo :((
Entertaining gangster thriller directed by Brian DePalma and starring Connery, Kevin Costner Andy Gracia and Robert DeNiro. Costner is ok but Connery gives the most charismatic performance by far* - despite his dodgy Irish/Scottish accent. DePalma's direction is possibly the strongest aspect of this film, especially the scene's featuring Malone's death, Capone's random killing at the dinner table and the famous nod to Battleship Potempkin.
I think the film could have benefited from a few more scenes with Capone but overall it was better than I remembered. Ennio Morricone's score is very effective too.
8/10
*as enjoyable as he was I'm not sure his performance was Oscar-worthy.
There's stuff in this to enjoy but I regret to say most of that does not revolve around Clouseau. Christopher Plummer has a lot more to do in the film, stuff that actually matters. And every now and then we spend some time with Sellers and Catherine Schell on the other side of the globe, where more of the same jokes get hurled toward us. I otherwise consider myself a fan of Sellers' but in this film he gets so little to do and especially so little 'new' stuff to do, it's a serious let-down for me. The DVD box claims that this film is hailed as the funniest in the series. I beg to differ. I must give it credit for the amazing opening titles though. And the actual Pink Panther storyline is amusing enough in and by itself.
A Shot In The Dark: 5/5
The Pink Panther: 5/5
Inspector Clouseau: 4/5
The Return Of The Pink Panther: 3,5/5
I think this is a funnier Pink Panther film compared to The Return, but still not on the level of the first two films. Some interesting moments though, with plenty of references to film classics, and a lovely Lesley-Anne Down. The 'climax' is the weakest part of the film for me. Also, by now we get more of the same stuff again and over and over again. Cato, Dreyfus, Clouseau's masquerades, ... But for the most part it still works.
A Shot In The Dark: 5/5
The Pink Panther: 5/5
Inspector Clouseau: 4/5
The Pink Panther Strikes Again: 4/5
The Return Of The Pink Panther: 3,5/5
Now now, here's a Pink Panther film I really enjoyed a great deal more than the previous two. The jokes worked better for me, I actually cared a little bit more about the plot this time and Sellers just sells me on the part like he did in the first two films. Too bad this was the last film in the series with Sellers still alive.
A Shot In The Dark: 5/5
The Pink Panther: 5/5
Revenge Of The Pink Panther: 4/5
Inspector Clouseau: 4/5
The Pink Panther Strikes Again: 4/5
The Return Of The Pink Panther: 3,5/5
My favorite is A Shot in the Dark, near tie like yours with the original. I enjoyed Return of the Pink Panther a bit more than you. I need to see Strikes Again because I don't remember it. I'll see about rectifying that soon. It's a fun series.
Trail of the Pink Panther (1982)
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See the image above? (If not, follow the link.) Okay, Peter Sellers had died after Revenge Of The Pink Panther. Blade Edwards, in need of a new project, decided to take about 20 minutes of cut footage from a few films ago and expand those into a - I'm not fooling you - 90 minute motion picture. So how do you do that? Well, we start with an opening scene of someone stealing the Pink Panther once more, a little like how Return Of The Pink Panther opened, only this time absolutely uninspiring, over before it's begun and... a plot point which we shall never address again in the entire movie! Then we have the credits and the rest of the first half an hour of this film is built on those 20 minutes of archive footage. Of course it's quite an incoherent mess. Then... oh my!... could it be that Clouseau has died? Well, fact is we now introduce a reporter who's going to keep us busy for the next hour. She will turn this film into a boring-as-hell documentary about Clouseau. She'll literally just talk to people. She'll talk to Clouseau's father, a totally unfunny character that wouldn't even have been accepted into the 'Allo Allo' sitcom. She'll talk to Robert Loggia about a few things that have even less to do with this film's - ahum - "story" than Star Trek. Even old David Niven and Capucine get dragged in, not at all because of the diamond though. Now, look at the DVD cover again. See Niven? Okay, he's in this film about as much as Gogol was in TLD. Which means almost not. So if you think that - hey! we bring back the cast of the original film! - think again. Niven just sits in a chair and then waves the reporter goodbye. Of course in this last hour we get a collection of scenes from the previous films, digging up fond memories of Clouseau... I'm not kidding you. We actually have entire scenes of the previous films pasted into this one.
*sigh!*
Point is, this should have been a 'tribute to Peter Sellers as Inspector Clouseau' special for some TV network in '82. As a theatrically released film, this is a hoax! Forget the kind words for Peter Sellers in the opening three seconds of the film: this project is meant to make money on the dead corpse of that brilliant actor. No wonder this film was both a critical and commercial flop. Whoever thought this might actually have pleased the fans - Mr Edwards, I'm looking at you - clearly wasn't thinking straight! Yuk! This film damages the series like nothing else ever could. Now I'm shying away from the remaining 4 films... I have to await the arrival of the DVD's anyway. It'll be a welcome break from a series that started so strong and got to the abysmal lows of Trail Of The Pink Panther.
A Shot In The Dark: 5/5
The Pink Panther: 5/5
Revenge Of The Pink Panther: 4/5
Inspector Clouseau: 4/5
The Pink Panther Strikes Again: 4/5
The Return Of The Pink Panther: 3,5/5
Trail Of The Pink Panther: - / 5
The Stand is a 1994 TV miniseries that is an adaptation of one of Stephen King's most famous novels. King also serves as the screenwriter on this project.
Spread out over six hours (four 1.5 hour segments), The Stand first details the near extinction of the human race, thanks to a superflu that escapes a California military base due to the lone surviving family there not following protocol. The virus rages all around the world, eventually killing 99% of the population.
The majority of the film finds the viewers following two groups of survivors who were immune to the superflu (also known as "Captain Trips"). Stu Redman (played by Gary Sinise) ends up becoming an unofficial leader of the group that has been brought together by the mysterious Mother Abigail (Ruby Dee), who is the force for good remaining in the world. The majority of the film focuses on Redman and those that he gathers with as they seek to oppose the evil Randall Flagg, who builds an evil empire of sorts, mostly off screen, in Las Vegas.
On the whole, The Stand is an entertaining few hours. I've read part of King's novel, and the parts that I read seem to have been faithfully adapted to the screen, even if King was probably forced to cut some material due to time constraints. I can't speak for how accurate the bulk of the film is to the novel, however, but with King on board, I imagine that it's pretty close.
One problem that plagues the film is the lack of screen time devoted to Flagg and his followers building their society in Las Vegas. We're constantly told by the followers of Mother Abigail that they must oppose the evil Flagg, but ultimately it's a lot of lip service as we don't see a whole lot of Flagg until the final hour and a half, even though he does pop up several times during the first 4.5 hours.
For a TV movie, The Stand is well executed, unlike other attempts to bring Stephen King's work to the small (and big) screen. The cast is pretty good all around, even if it does include quite a few name actors (Rob Lowe and Molly Ringwald, for example), but ultimately everyone gets the job done and turn in what is a rather entertaining take on King's material.
Ghosts of Girlfriends Past (2009) with Matthew McConaughey, Jennifer Garner, Michael Douglas. Silly adult fantasy with too quick and too easy conclusions, and with some bloody awful supporting characters - the main characters were ok, though. The plot idea might have brought better results than it did here, and it should have been funnier. Also watchable, but also not very good. I suppose the genre classification would say this is a romantic comedy despite it not being all that funny or romantic, and as such, despite its many faults, compared to Failure To Launch it was probably close to a masterpiece. ;) (I probably already wrote before that that one was so embarrassingly bad that I felt sorry for such fine actors like McConaughey and Kathy Bates for being in it.)
The Paperboy (2012) with Matthew McConaughey (good), Nicole Kidman (wonderful), Zac Efron (ho-hum), Macy Gray (good), John Cusack (very good, but not seen much). Well this was weird. I read it got mixed reviews, and I have mixed feelings about it. I can't say I particularly liked it, but I didn't exactly dislike it, either. Kinda interesting, with mostly good acting work. Not a feelgood movie in any sort of way. The best of this bunch, definitely, but...
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I've done well with my Daniel Craig and Jared Leto film projects, even if I say so myself (not 100%, but very good), the Javier Bardem and Hitchcock projects need renewed effort (real life issues interrupted them last year), the Bogart and McConaughey projects are ticking along nicely, Cary Grant project is only beginning, but the pile of dvds waiting for my attention is quite impressive. Fincher and Aronofsky projects are doing pretty well...
There is some overlap in these projects, which is a pleasure. My local library has been very helpful. As has Amazon.
:)
If I had such a thing as guilty pleasures, I suppose you could say these films are exactly that. Funny, goofy, harks back to what made the first few 'Scary Movie' installments so entertaining and hilarious. Anyone going into this expecting Oscar-winning acting, a fantastic plot, etc. will be sorely disappointed. I started it expecting nothing and found myself laughing really, really hard throughout. *shrugs* it's fun. I think I can be really cynical and harsh on films, but comedy is the one genre that has to take a lot to disappoint me. Some of the funniest comedies that come to my mind are always those low-grade, sometimes direct-to-DVD movies that get horrible reviews. Chalk this one up as another enjoyable one for me.
The first film still stands as one of my favourite ever movies. I applaud the second film for it's complexities even if it is quite flawed and the third and the final film is incredibly enjoyable and a fitting way to round off the story.
Scientists only have 6 months left to invent hover boards.... :-bd