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It wasn't terrible but still, sitting through the whole thing was a challenge and I have little intention of watching any of these ever again.
Green Room
Very interesting film, bringing Captain Picard and young Checkov together for a pretty dark and nihilistic thriller.[/quote]
A tough watch but worth it so see Sir Patrick Stewart challenge himself out of his comfort zone.
@DarthDimi -- I just watched Saulnier's follow up-- HOLD THE DARK.... Deeply disturbing. If you liked the GR...well, after watching HTD, I felt like I needed a shower...
There was a follow up ??!!
I see. I enjoy it, myself.
It's more watchable, re-watchable, enjoyable. More engaging for me through the Bond character. Then the locations and other detail. So I clearly like it more.
I found them all to be a great experience. Once. They are in my memory. No need for another viewing.
French Connection II was an interesting watch. Hadn't seen it in years, so it was almost like watching a film you haven't seen before. Anyway, I can totally understand why @LeonardPine prefer it to the original. The Marseilles setting makes this a totally different experience, with beautiful locations in one scene and unsettling ones in the other. Don't know if I'd rate it higher than the original, but I wouldn't say it's a lesser film either. Great watch!
The Ipcress File was due a rewatch, and I took the time to do a late night viewing last night. Every time I watch this gritty mid-sixties thriller I'm reminded why I rank it as one of my top-three favourite films. The cinematography, Michael Caine as Harry Palmer and the portrayal of espionage that's the complete opposite of the Bond films, makes this such an enjoyable film to watch.
No, not to GR, @barryt007 , but the director's follow up film.... Equally as interesting, bleak, nihilistic, frightening and definitely uncomfortable!!
Stumbled across this one on Youtube. Since it's directed by Peter Yates (who also directed one of my favourite films, Bullitt (1968), I just had to watch it. This fictionalised version of the 1963 Great Train Robbery isn't bad at all – topped by a great high-speed chase at the beginning of the film. Steve McQueen did right approving Yates as the director of Bullitt the year after!
I used to own the DVD. But I found it a hard slog the last time I watched it, and it was one of a clutch of movies I chucked in a clear out. The chase is good though but Yates did much better work on Bullitt, which I never get tired of watching!
Have to agree with that; it's no Bullitt, but I still found it interesting. Don't know how it will hold up on a second viewing, but I might try to get it on DVD or Blu-ray. Shame I didn't watch it sooner - I could have bought that copy of yours!
In the middle of a clear out myself now. Got rid of somewhere between 60-70 DVD's only days ago, and downsizing many of the films I'm keeping in sleeves with space for the cover art, rather than in cases. So far that's two shelves downsized to two shoebox sized wooden crates.
I prefer the sequel, too.
The scenario is highly compelling:
And then there's the music. The music, oh yes.
I enjoy the original, but find the sequel much more interesting. There's also Bernard Fresson. I like to think Barthélémy and Doyle eventually develop some begrudging respect for each other.
Agree on the compelling scenario. Placing Doyle in Marseilles sure gave them lot to play with (yet they kept things very tight and downbeat), and Gene Hackman and Bernard Fresson made a great pairing – from their first scene together, actually. I often find that actors need a few scenes together to make things work out, but not in this film.
Good to know there's someone else who prefers the sequel, @mattjoes !
Much as i also like the original French Connection, i really hate that scene where they take a whole car apart looking for the drugs and then someone mentions 'the rocker panels' the most obvious place where they could be hidden!
I know its more dramatic to take the whole car apart, but come on!
Oh, and BTW, it's "Marseille", not "Marseilles". Where that superfluous S comes from, I have no idea.
Nice try, but that's not how the scene is played out. I think you're giving the filmmakers a little too much credit there to be fair.
This past week I bought Inception and Interstellar on 4K Nolan is ahead of the curve as a film maker, I think he is a genius that will get better.
Agreed also his appreciation for old school film making, Nolan rarely wastes a shot he has finite precision. I think in years to come he will be regarded as a master.
Continuing my Walter Hill movie watch.
To a punchy drumbeat, after the title, come's the words A Rock and Roll fable....Another Time, Another Place! Hills stylish action flick is simplcity itself. Ellen Aim, rock star in a small town, is kidnapped by biker villain, Raven, and her ex boyfriend, Tom Cody, is summoned by his sister to rescue her!!
Dazzlingly photographed by Andrew Laszlo, it's Hills ode to music videos of the time. Fast cutting and exaggerated sound effects, with great action set pieces, from a rumble in a diner where Cody takes on a 5 man gang armed with a hatstand to the terrific climactic sledgehammer duel between Raven and Cody.
It's hard to figure why it was a flop.
Coming after Hills biggest success, 48 Hrs, it was meant to be the start of a trilogy.
Meant to be Michael Pares (Cody) breakout role,
It was also the debut of Willem Dafoe (Raven) who at least went onto a career! The music, by Ry Cooder and Dan Hartman among others is great, and when I first saw it in the cinema, I was blown away by it. It's waned over the years, but this was a good viewing of it, my first on blu ray, and it looks, and sounds great!
My favourite movie of the year so far. This was funny, exhilarating, dark, thoughtful, and most of all fresh.
So would you have preferred that director for Bond 25 than the one we have? As it nearly was!
My favourite movie of the year too!
I would prefer even Boyle over this Fukunaga bloke! But yes, Layton would've been ideal. Oh well. :(