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I also only own Outland on Bluray. Battle Beyond the Stars is fun but not really a 'keeper'
Oh, yeh, had forgotten about that film! More lighthearted than Outland!
Wasnt George Peppard in it? Think that was a kind of Magnificent Seven in space, if I recall??
And in 2 weeks: I'll be going to a showing of a restored copy of Come and See, also on the big screen.
Totally agree! His debut, 'Busting', with Elliot Gould and Robert Blake is a favourite of mine...took me ages to get on DVD! Little gem!
He also had the balls to do the sequel to Kubricks 2001, a Space Odyssey!
I actually prefer 2010.
It's a shame that he didn't get to do a Bond at some point; he's a very solid director.
Is it weird that I am watching a Stephen King film on Valentine’s Day even if it’s Stand by me... Amanda (my wife) picked it out...
It’s a good film not my favorite but it is good though man King needs to branch out in character writing the four kids are like the loser club in it the one dimensional bullies are the same as it, Christine, they sometimes come back, Carrie, the lawnmower man, the mangler... jeez wait a second a shorter list is king films without the one dimensional bullies
Overall a good film that makes you think of your own life choices
Films in 2020
1. Ronin
2. Rolling stone gimmie shelter
3. Octopussy
4. Stand by me
5. Rise of skywalker
6. Casino Royale 1954
7. Little women
8. Journey greatest hits live
And with that, I have finally seen all of X-Files. Caught the first in the cinema, but never saw this until now. This is not part of the mythology, but a standalone bizarre crime mystery.
Was that the one with Billy Connolly! it fell a bit flat for me, I bought it watched it then gave the dvd to a girl at work.
Jim Carrey was a hoot. My kids are obsessed with Sonic. They enjoyed it. That's all that matters
Yes, that is the one. Interesting watch, but like you I doubt I will ever want to rewatch it.
Margot, Mcgregor & Black Canary are the hightlights of this movie. (but how did Harley find out that Black Canary could produce such soundwaves? :-?
Just big, dumb popcorn fun with a huge & messy fight at the end.
:-?
Edit: I forgot to add her to the highlights. Fixed. :))
What a great film, the best I have seen by Anderson.
Found Isle of Dogs a bit disappointing, considering I loved Fantastic Mr. Fox!
Grand Budapest Hotel is still his best, his latest looks to be similar!
Moonrise Kingdom is a hoot too!
Norman Jewisons futuristic actioner, where War and conflict is a thing of the past, and replaced by a violent game called Rollerball! James Caan plays Jonathan E, a champion player, who becomes too successful in the eyes of the corporation, in the shape of John Houseman, and when they attempt to suppress him, rails against them.
Filmed in Munich and Pinewood, Jewison and writer William Harrison depict a rather vague picture of the future, but there's no doubt the game itself is well staged with some visceral combat scenes , played on roller skates and motorcycles! Andre Previn does the score!
I enjoyed the first X- Files movie I have that on dvd, I still have not seen the majority of the most recent season, I think I only saw the first four episodes.
For me, a thoroughly enjoyable satire and ultra-black comedy based (though not exclusively) an actual events that took place when Stalin died. Some of the scenes were actually scaled back in some ways because nobody would believe the original facts.
It starts out with a concert where a young pianist (Olga Kurylenko) plays a Mozart piano concerto, and the manager of the concert hall receives an order from Stalin after the third movement to immediately let him have a recording of it. Trouble was, the concert wasn't recorded in the first place. The manager tries to get the orchestra and pianist to play the entire thing again, but the orchestra's conductor has a collision with a fire extinguisher and dies. So the manager, for fear of his own life, gets another conductor, who was just afraid he was going to be arrested by the secret police, to conduct the concert in his bathrobe.
The irony of this is that the case did take place, but in reality they even needed a total of THREE conductors that night, something the filmmakers thought the public would never swallow. Anyway, since the pianist sent him a note along with the recording about how much she hated him after he killed her father and brother, Stalin suffered a stroke that sent him to his death shortly thereafter. The rest of the film is about the struggle between the members of the politburo trying to grasp power. The actors are brilliant in this, not just those that I was aware of before this film (Steve Buscemi as Khrushchev, Michael Palin as Molotov, Jason Isaacs as Marshall Zhukov), but every one of them to whom I apologise for not being more into English-language theater.
Director Armando Iannucci (whom I had also never heard of, and who is Scottish and not Italian) decided he'd let the actors speak in theír natural accents. So you've got a Cockney Zhukov and an American Khrushchev. But it actually adds authenticity for me, since there's nothing worse than supposed Russians speaking English with a Russian accent when everybody knows they just spoke Russian in reality. If you want to portray a group of people in a multi-ethnic state, a variety of English accents or dialects makes as much sense as anything.
The film deliberately adds a certain distance from actual events by including a number of intended "goofs", like a sort-of-cyrillic-looking font, but still being in Latin characters, for Beria's death lists and banal exit signs etc. One knows it isn't authentic, but one still fully grasps the feeling of living in a system where your life is on the line all the time when the criminals at the top so choose.
So I highly recommend this movie. The fact that it is forbidden in Russia and some other former Soviet republics speaks for itself in that regard.
I wanted cheap entertainment, I got it. I’m happy, aside from the screenplay.
The only thing exciting i found with this anti-violence film is the violent Rollerball scenes, ironically.
Caan is as usual excellent but overall i found it an incredibly tedious film when i saw it many moons ago.
Not a fan of Jewison's films either.
Bruce Willis turned into this big asshole and made way too many movies.
Travolta as John Gotti was just so painful to see.