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Fixed it for you, @Creasy47. Know you're as cool as all those awesome filmmakers and critics that voted on that list! :D
That I do, and there was truly nothing for me to enjoy with that movie, even after looking past that cringeworthy Franco performance - I still find it hard to believe that it popped up on several 'Best of the Year' film lists.
Rewatched this for the millionth time. Won Bin is a total beast, one of the most ruthless main guy I've seen in a revenge film. The final battle scene is one for ages. As is the nightclub sequence, which is often featured in such films (Collateral and John Wick come to mind).
A really great film!
Rather like this one. Nothing original or new, but the fact that it plays in the same universe as CLOVERFIELD gives it that extra geek factor. John Goodman is excellent and Mary Elizabeth Winstead has a special place in my heart. I love the climax very much. It would, however, have helped raise the tension even more if we hadn't known about the connection to CLOVERFIELD.
That is entertainment II - great moments from grand musical movie from an age were the actors and actresses actually had to show some skills beyond pouting.
Six years before Connery's Aston Marin DB5, Robert Mitchum drove a gadget filled vehicle complete with oil slick as he fled from the Feds in this classic adventure. Mitch, his son Jim (actually playing his younger brother) and family are moonshiners.
I can watch this several times per year and love every frame. Mitchum just defines cool here. Not only was the story Mitchum's, he wrote the theme song as well and later recorded a hit version of it. Hard to be any cooler than that.
. I'd love to see a print with the Build My Gallows High title.
"Look, I have two kinds of acting. One on a horse and one off a horse. That's it."
My favorite films are his noirs, especially when he's playing Philip Marlowe. I was startled and amazed as a young lad watching his 70s noir, one adaption of which didn't hold back on showing the content in Chandler's work full-on that was barely subtext in earlier adaptions of the stories. Mitchum's face always perfectly captured the tragedy, exhaustion and sticky sweat of the noir genre and the detectives that try not to drown in a criminal underbelly of lacking morals and inhibitions. He and Bogie are king for me of that part of the genre.
Anybody who loves Mitchum and noir needs to check out Farewell, My Lovely and The Big Sleep, from 75 and 78 respectively. You won't regret it!
Although I am in the middle of a Bond frenzy (watched 10 Bond movies in 10 days) an invisible force told me to pop in Jurassic Park tonight. So I did.
I was lucky enough to experience it at the cinema back then at the tender age of 19.
Needless to say it was one of the most awesome nights of my life.
JP really changed the perception of cinema in 1993. The dinosaurs look real and the special effects were state of the art and they hold up to this day. Some minor details look a bit dated but that's it really.
Also, ingenius director Spielberg created one of the most entertaining, visually stunning movies ever. Add a stellar cast and you have the perfect movie.
This ranks very high in my Top lists. It is in the same league as Star Trek First Contact, GoldenEye, Batman Begins, Star Wars Episode II and other perfect action/fantasy/sci-fi movies of the nineties and first half of the 00's.
The re-watchability value is immense. I will never tire of JP and certainly watch it again and again and again.
His Kind of Woman is another of my favorites. Vincent Price practically steals the show in the 3rd act. The other film Mitchum did with Jane Russell Macao is a lot of fun. Mitchum and Bogie are hands down my favorite golden age stars. Too bad they never made a film together.
A different side to Mitchum, yet still undeniably Robert Mitchum was the Christmas romance Holiday Affair with Janet Leigh. So many great Mitchum scenes in that film: his playing with the trains in the toy department- the way he humbly, yet so cool, proposes to Janet in from of her fiancee. Classic!
I recently watched The Yakuza for the first time as well. Excellent!
If you like her, she and Marilyn Monroe had a boatload of fun together in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, doing great comedy bits and musical performances where their dynamic really shined. To be in the same room with just one of them in their day would've made my knees lock, and I might have never walked again.
Me, too! Gentlemen Prefer Blondes is a great film. They have a great rapport together.
Jane Russell is great- she had great chemistry with Mitchum in the 2 noirs she did with him.
@ToTheRight - Holiday Affair is one of a number of Mitchum films that I still haven't seen.
Yeah- Holiday Affair is pretty cool- underrated IMO. Filmed during his RKO years. I also like HOME FROM THE HILL with Mitch as George Hamilton's father teaching him how to be a man instead of a mama's boy. George Peppard takes Hamilton out hunting. It'a bit lengthy and soap opera-ish, but Mitchum is great. I should get Ryan's Daughter- one I have yet to see!
The Night of the Hunter is great. Probably my favourite Mitchum movie, with Out of the Past a close second. Cape Fear is also very good, far superior to the 1991 version, which i didn't really care for. El Dorado 1966 was fine, but nothing special, just an inferior remake of Rio Bravo, which is also excellent (in my top 3 westerns).
Very dissapointing. When the villian in a movie has too much power, the whole thing becomes uninteresting.
4,5/10
I don't mind RIVER OF NO RETURN. I just have to be in the mood for that particular western. Actually Marilyn had a small role in TICKET TO TOMAHAWK, and she was great. Fit right into that environment. RIVER, has it's share of problems- some scenes that don't quite work. It's a pity there wasn't a better vehicle to pair Mitchum and Marilyn in. But it does have some good moments- scenery and settings as well as the Technicolor cinematography. Other westerns that Mitchum did that were fun were VILLA RIDES with Charles Bronson, and THE WRATH OF GOD with Rita Hayworth and Frank Langella.
The Cubby Broccoli adventure FIRE DOWN BELOW is interesting as well. Rita Hayworth again and a great performance by Jack Lemmon. It's cool to see Mitchum in a pre-Bond Broccoli epic!
I'm now imagining if she and Mitchum had played opposite each other in Niagara instead a year prior. It would've been great to have Marilyn's bladed stiletto femme fatale character face off against Mitchum in the place of Joseph Cotten, as much as I enjoy the man. Sadly one of a small few times when Marilyn got to play against type in a big way, and I think, shined. It's not hard imagining a man following her willingly to danger and destruction, unable to resist.
Excellent.
I've studied Marilyn heavily and read any biographies and movie magazines or texts I can on her. After her it's all about Lauren Bacall, then Ingrid Bergman, Kate Hepburn and Jane Russell not far behind as far as my interests lie. They don't make women like them anymore!
Nicolas Winding Refn said that "the character of One Eye [the lead in this movie] went into Driver [Gosling's character in Drive] then went into the Thai police lieutenant [in Only God Forgives]. They're the same character played by three different actors [...] a mythological creature that has a mysterious past but cannot relate to reality because he's heightened and he's pure fetish."
I thought that sounded pretty interesting... I recently watched Only God Forgives, so I decided to watch this as well. And besides, Mads Mikkelsen.
The director is somewhat hit and miss, but makes interesting movies anyway. I didn't particularly like Bronson or Only God Forgives, but I didn't exactly dislike them, either. I did like Drive. I wasn't expecting much from this and the beginning wasn't promising, but it turned out to be pretty interesting in its slow weirdness. One Eye (Mikkelsen) never says a single word, but he's never boring.
Welcome To Me (2014)
I was curious to see this because, well, I figured the director Shira Piven must be cool - because she's married to such a cool guy (Adam McKay), and because she was so cool about her husband kissing his actor the way he did. My reasons for watching particular movies vary, and that was a first, but hey, it worked! In other words, I liked the movie. Another weird one, but in a very different way than the one above.
Kristen Wiig plays a woman with borderline personality disorder, who wins in a lottery, and gets herself an autobiographical tv show. The movie also stars Wes Bentley, Tim Robbins, Jennifer Jason Leigh.
So I needed a little break from Werner Herzog's drawfs, chicken, hypnotized actors, and Klaus Kinski... getting back to that tomorrow...
Watch this at least once a year and is along with Get Carter my favourite British film.
Bob Hoskins intense performance literally burns a hole in the screen and you just can't take your eyes off him.
The scene between Shand and his judas lieutenant Jeff on the yacht is so good I could watch it on a loop. Riveting and brilliantly acted.
Would love to have seen a sequel, with Shand somehow surviving his abduction at the end (To be fair he did have James Bond in the car with him!) but alas that could never happen now.
Bogart, Ustinov, Rathbone, Ray, Bennett and Carroll are simply delicious in this sugar sweet 1955 comedy flick, presented in lovely Technicolor. Director Michael Curtiz was responsible for lots of films, including CASABLANCA, BRITISH AGENT en THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN.
WE'RE NO ANGELS is the 22nd Bogart film I've ever watched and I continue to be impressed by him. After going through his well known roles (Sam Spade, Philip Marlowe, Rick Blaine, Linus Larrabee, ...) multiple times, it's a lot of fun to explore some other parts Bogie played. WE'RE NO ANGELS is one of the few comedy films he ever starred in. If you feel like giving the film a try, don't expect any Seth Rogen / Ben Stiller kind of comedy. This is the smarter kind though sadly not to everyone's taste any more. Peter Ustinov is exceptionally enjoyable, much more so than Aldo Ray and even Bogart. As for Basil Rathbone, whom I mostly know from 1939's SON OF FRANKENSTEIN, he brings some unintentional comedy which certainly pays off.
Provided you don't shy away from "old" movies, WE'RE NO ANGELS is not a bad way to spend an evening.
Now this is what I call a mindless action roller-coaster-ride.
The first 48 minute of this movie are absolutely relentless and the body count must be in the hundreds. The film is also very violent.
While the scenario might seem highly unrealistic (is it?) there is also some rather disturbing symbolism like the collapsing monument and the American flag ripped to pieces flying down from top of the White House to the ground.
And in the midst of it all John McClane as the sole survivor of the attack and the lone fighter who will kick-ass and shoot his way all through to the President to finally save him and single-handedly dispose of one baddie after another.
Bruce Willis as usual gives a riveting performance....
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...wait...ahem...
damn, you could have fooled me...
Gerard Butler who I always like a lot is doing the McClane brilliantly I must say. And the whole plot could very well have been Die Hard 5, and probably should have been.
Yes, Olympus Has Fallen is a technically very well made movie with a B- or even C-Plot but it features quite a few heavy weights of actors and actresses and overall this is PURE MINDLESS FUN.
Haven't seen London Is Falling yet but I sure will tomorrow or sometime next week!!