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Agree it's a film you can immerse yourself in, the visuals are very creative compared with many modern CGI.
I envy you i have seen the majority of the films on the big screen though was only 5 back in 79, I really should try and get hold of the TV version. The re edited version certainly runs better though I would like to see any extra scenes I have not seen for years. Though I think the TV version will only ever exist on VHS.
The ambush is the highlight for me. Very claustrophobic scene, and it's set in a street in broad daylight!
Czerny is an underused actor.
I haven't seen it. One of these days...
Apparently it had a difficult production process.
With an abysmal 4.8 on IMDb I had no high hopes for this one, but being somewhat of a fan of mummy films I gave it a shot.
Visually it’s a beautiful film, shot in Egypt by master cinematographer Jack Cardiff. Fabulous production design by Michael Stringer (CR’67) as well, and an effective score by Claude Bolling.
The story is a run-of-the-mill mix of The Omen and other mummy films and Charlton Heston’s attempt at an English accent is laughable.
Nevertheless it’s better than its reputation with impressive visuals and a suitably creepy atmosphere that doesn’t lower itself to cheap scares either.
7/10
Also noted some Bond alumni: Nadim Sawalha (TSWLM), Terry Rawlings (editor TND) and titles by none other than Maurice Binder.
I had the VHS version also and countless Trek TV shows on VHS, when dvd came along Videos to me were just taking up too much space so binned the lot. The Directors Cut is a good version though still curious about the TV version if just to watch it once, it's probably online somewhere.
One of my favorites of the year so far. Really well done political thriller, with a lot of tension, stunning use of the locals in Beirut, powerhouse performances from Jon Hamm, Rosamund Pike, Shea Wingham & Dean Norris, and a very tightly written plot mixed with a fast-paced directing that kept me invested and on my toes for the entire 110 minutes of runtime. I hope Jon Hamm will get more roles like this in the future, he is IMO the closest American version of Bond we've had recently - very suave, very 1960's like (thanks to his excellent performance as Don Draper), almost Connery-like in certain aspects.
I had several VHS versions of the Bond movies sadly they all went in the bin, never seen the cover that you posted perhaps only released in the States? I also threw away boxes of Bond novels some very early prints and other memorabilia. I was in a place in my life where I lost interest in collectables and possessions. Now I am searching often for things I used to have now I am in my 40's.
Some of the sets I had...
UK equivalent of this set.
My parents had a betamax at one point and they had a few covers similar to this...
Awesome was it a digital copy or a Bluray?
"Mission drab" is a rather unfortunate title in English.
Lol some of the foreign translations do seem lazy.
Tremors 5: Bloodlines
I've been a Tremors fan since I saw the first two movies back to back on AMC years ago, so when I saw Tremors 5 was on there, I decided to take a look at it. It was an entertaining movie, had plenty of good action and decent character development. I was against it a little because very rarely do direct-to-video sequels made 10 years later work, but it was actually good. The CGI was impressive for a direct-to-video movie, at times on par with Jurassic Park (there's even an homage to Jurassic Park in the movie).
Tremors 6: A Cold Day in Hell
I have... less good things to say about Tremors 6. This one reeked of "Let's just make another one", an attempt to shill some new characters over the one established character that's still hanging around after all these years. Tremors 5 did some interesting biological things with the main creatures, the Graboid, that made sense because of how the movie changed up the location. This one changes up the location, still, but reuses the CGI models from the previous movie in a way that doesn't make any sense. Still, there were nice call-backs to the previous movies, and while I don't like the character shilling, I like those characters and wouldn't mind if they stuck around so long as there's at least one member of the old guard remaining.
Pandemic
I'm a sucker for zombie movies. I'm generally okay with found footage movies so long as they're done well, such as Cloverfield. This wasn't a typical found footage movie, as it didn't seem to have any cameras around, it was as if the cameras were simply people's eyes, so it was more a POV movie than a found footage movie. I enjoyed it, even if the movie somewhat strung you along with a shoestring of a plot that really only served to be an excuse to go from zombie encounter to zombie encounter.
The Cloverfield Paradox
I still haven't seen 10 Cloverfield Lane, but these movies barely connect to one another, anyway. Having said that, there's a subplot that does involve the first movie's monster in a way (a different monster of the same species, really), but it's not the meat of the film. The main plot of the film involves a lot of jump scares and barely explained reasoning for any of the deaths or even some of the character motivations. Honestly, if it wasn't released on Netflix, it would have been a direct-to-video movie that people wouldn't have heard about even if they passed it on store shelves.
Godzilla: Planet of the Monsters
I love Godzilla movies. I even liked the 1998 Emmerich movie for what it was. And I love anime. So I went into this thinking "Okay, it's a mix of two things I really, really love, there's no way it can't be amazing". I was wrong. It's not a bad movie if you want to spend half of its runtime with humans who do nothing but sneer at Godzilla and want him dead before Godzilla even appears after the film's prologue. It's as if they had this generic sci-fi anime movie about humans rediscovering Earth after centuries of being away and a separate anime movie about Godzilla and decided to just combine the two. Now, this movie is simply the first of a trilogy, and the second movie is out in Japan, so hopefully I'll catch it when it comes here and understand the overall plot a little more.
Bright
I went into this movie knowing it had problems with its setting and world-building. These are both extremely valid points. The movie takes place in modern day LA in a world where fantasy creatures have lived alongside us since the beginning, but the problem is that aside from substituting orcs for every minority, the world doesn't really seem different. The movie at one point mentions the Alamo, and I sit there wondering if the whole history of the Alamo was radically different (were the Spanish replaced by the orcs or the elves?) or if nothing changed aside from a fairy showed up every now and again. The runtime of the movie is seriously against it because just under 2 hours isn't enough to build this world and make it real. The acting was fine, the plot was relatively generic and predictable, and the special effects were on par with any theatrically released movie, but the movie was weighed down by its inability to truly sell its world.
ARQ
This was a weird movie. It's a time loop movie about two people who are attacked by home invaders in a post-apocalyptic dystopian world. There are all sorts of betrayals and reveals about who people work for and what they're doing, but the movie never has the time (ha ha) to really explore that, being only 90 minutes long. All they really do is throw some mild technobabble at you and expect that to clear everything up, but this isn't an episode of Star Trek: TNG where they can get away with Geordi saying crap centuries too advanced for us, the movie blurs the line between taking place in the far future (holograms, some kind of war, a mega corp controlling everything) and taking place a week from now (clothes and weapons haven't changed at all, the main character's house appears much as any house would today, the computers look straight out of Deus Ex 1). It's a great action flick, but it doesn't do much to distinguish itself from the plethora of great action flicks.
Saw it on netflix. Shame Carl Weathers didn't get many leading man roles.
This apparently is the version with extra footage during Bond's beating. I really should keep my eyes open for this one.
Is this an urban myth? My research shows that the original film was edited to its present form back in the 60's and that no other 'extended' version has ever existed. Is my research incomplete?
I somehow have my doubts there is any extra footage. I either read that on the forums or in one of the Bond fan magazines. I'd love to find a copy and see for myself, though.
Interesting thoughts @Mattjoes, i enjoyed The Devils Advocate as well. Al Pacino playing the Devil himself and going all philosophical on us? Count me the hell in!
It appears we share the same passions.
The Firm, absolutely.
What scene was that?
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I'd like to add that I appreciate the suggestion the Devil shows up when you least expect it (Pacino does like to travel underground). Anybody will say they don't want to be "evil," or at least indulge in evil, but the challenge is to maintain that conviction at the crucial, unexpected moments when one is at his weakest, or when much is at stake. Keanu's character fails to do so on two occasions, and
Seeing Mitchum/Marlowe in this got me thinking about what it means to be 'cool.' Because he certainly is. But what makes him so? I think it's the combination of great skill, confidence and intelligence contrasted with the jadedness, the disillusionment, the lack of clear purpose. There is a quality of existential angst one can relate to on some level. There certainly are cool characters who don't fit into this mold but it's one type of coolness, for sure. Dirty Harry, Steve McQueen are cool in the same way.