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But, it's never the bad guys who do it. What a twist!
Horrible cashgrab.
The Lady from Shanghai - A brilliant and gorgeous Rita Hayworth in this very smart b/w noir movie that is a great movie produced, scripted, directed and acted by Orson Welles. This is a movie you see at least once in your life, it is worthy of your time and indeed a high point in the Hollywood history.
It was boring, weak caper flick.
Starring the excellent Anthony Franciosa and a host of gorgeous, sexy women (and a supporting turn from John 'Enter the Dragon' Saxon). This is a great gallo film from the Italian master.
I don't think I've seen a film so populated with such lovely ladies and it's going to get many more viewings I'm sure! And am now really looking forward to getting my Arrow Video limited editions of both Phenomena and The Bird With The Crystal Plummage (May and June releases respectively).
Having watched this after watching Casino Royale (1967), I was actually quite amused by it. Gets a bit too clunky at the end however.
Very good film but too much ott computer hacking.
Being a Walter Hill fan, this is always a favourite. This is the Directors cut, which Hill maintains, in a short intro, was always his original vision for the film. An opening narration by Hill himself (he wanted Orson Welles back then!!), and some graphics/animations serving as wipes to the next scene, dont really add anything for me, but the rest is unchanged. The story, about a street gang fighting their way back to their base at Coney Island, after being blamed for a murder. Its a colourful, exciting chase movie. The different street gangs that make life difficult for the Warriors, are a wildly varied lot (my fav is The Baseball Furies, who are a mash up of Babe Ruth costume and Kiss make up!!). Ther action, as you would expect from Hill, is well staged, a climactic skirmish in a bathroom with rollerblade wearing gang is thrilling!) Music by Barry DeVorzon is great!
All in all, a terrific watch! "Warriors, come out to playyyyyyeeay!!"
Great film - remember going to Plymouth ABC to see it on original release. Came out of the cinema feeling pumped! Also have the DC blu-ray and love it. Can you dig it?!
I liked both Titans movies.
Disney really are intent on milking the Star Wars cash cow dry aren't they?
Really struggled to get through this pointless film.
Great special effects and production design and a really good score.
Shame about the horribly PC and shallow characters, the godawful CGI Moff Tarkin (photoreal CGI humans still a way off), the repetitive action, the naff 'homages', and the fact that the whole thing has little excitement value and is overlong.
Think i'll give the 'Han Solo' movie a wide berth....
Quite a soulless entry for me, and quickly forgotten.
Completely agree.
Not sure how many of her scenes Carrie Fisher shot before her untimely death, if any at all...?
To be honest after the farce that was Force Awakens I'm not particularly excited about the Last Jedi.
We'll never get another Star Wars film like the 70's original, but while the cash cow keeps vomiting money.....
er…three movies, don't forget the original Ray Harryhausen epic from the early 80s!
Hill would return to similar territory with Streets of Fire (1986), another wonderful comic book style adventure (with an early role for Willem Dafoe as the villain!)
What's better than Susan Hayward in b/w? Susan Hayward in glorious, gorgeous techicolour, of course.
You will probably enjoy Gods of Egypt.
Streets Of Fire is one of Hill's best. An incredible 'rock fantasy' with amazing visuals and music.
Michael Pare is horribly wooden in it, but Dafoe is brilliantly demented in one of his early roles. Also good is Diane Lane as the sexy rock star, Ellen Aim.
It has one of the most skilfully edited fight scenes you'll ever see!
The film is all visual and no depth but that's exactly how it was intended.
Still play the soundtrack a lot!
It was Hills homage to music videos which were all the rage in the 80's.
A Rock and Roll fable, as it called itself. The gorgeous Diane Lane plays Ellen Aim, a rock chick, who is kidnapped by Raven (Dafoe). Cody is Lanes ex boyfriend, a soldier of fortune, who comes back to rescue her! And thats basically it!! Visually superb (Andrew Lazlo, who lensed The Warriors was behind camera again!), with a great soundtrack, and Hill stages some wonderful sylised action scenes, with a final duel between Raven and Cody.....wielding sledgehammers!!
I remember seeing it in the cinema, and loving it! It hasn't aged all that well, (and far from Hills best!) but still enjoyable! It was after this that Hills output went into decline (the remake of 'Brewsters Millions' anyone?!?), and he never achieved the heights of his early work (Hard Times, The Driver, The Long Riders, Southern Comfort), but I kept watching. and hoping!
The original DVD (I had it) was the theatrical cut. When it was being re-released on DVD and Blu-ray, Walter Hill had the chance to make it as he had originally envisioned. It doesn't really make that much of a difference and I certainly wouldn't boycott it because of these small changes. Still a damn fine film!