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I agree the first one is overrated in my opinion.
P.R.O.B.E. : The Zero Imperative. Another non-official Doctor Who spin-off, this time featuring the late and lamented Caroline John reprising her role as Liz Shaw, who has become the pipe-spoking head of a small organization investigating paranormal phenomenons. That episode (the series featured originally four of them" shows her meeting a few old Doctors (Jon Pertwee, Colin Baker and Sylvester McCoy) as well as two former companions (Louise Jameson and Sophie Aldred). It was the brainchild of Mark Gatiss, BTW. Not bad, considering the lack of means, and a bit gory.
Flying Down to Rio : I know nothing better than a Fred Astaire musical to get out of depression. And this one hits the right spots, even if Fred and Gingers are relegating to supporting roles.
Oh good. Love for Seagal movies. I suggest we sit down, liquor up and get ready for a night of fun discussing the "oeuvre" of the badass with the ponytail. ;-)
Nice find @PrinceKamalKhan. While I’ve read about the plot similarities it has with “Moonraker”, I’ve never watched the movie all the way through to see for myself. Note, the movie also goes by the title of “Kiss the Girls and Make Them Die.”
The cast, though, is quite notable:
Mike Connors (the US TV show “Mannix”), Dorothy Provine (“It’s A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, World”), Beverly Adams (“Lovey Kravezit” from the Matt Helm movies), and Margaret Lee (“Circus of Fear”, and judging from her IMDB listing, a host of spy knockoffs in the 1960s).
Thanks for the link.
A great John Hughes film honestly is it the best one? I think it is His best work.
So many great moments
Films in 2020
1. Jaws 2
2. Sherlock Holmes a game of shadows
3. Ronin
4. The breakfast club
5. Rolling stone gimmie shelter
6. Octopussy
7. The temptations
8. Stand by me
9. The Art of war
10. No direction Home
11. Rise of skywalker
12. Casino Royale 1954
13. Pearl Harbor
14. Little women
15. Journey greatest hits live
16. The Grateful Dead movie
Bond films
1. Octopussy
2. Casino Royale 1954
@Dwayne You're welcome. A lot of its cast members appeared together in other films of the time period. Mike Connors and Dorothy Provine were the 2nd leads in the 1964 Jack Lemmon/Romy Schneider comedy Good Neighbor Sam, hero Connors played a character based on Clark Gable and villain Raf Vallone played Jean Harlow's stepfather in the 1965 Hollywood biopic Harlow, and Miss Provine and Terry-Thomas were both in the 1963 epic slapstick classic It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World. Margaret Lee gets 4th billing but she's only in the film for approximately 2 minutes.
A big bag of boredom for me. I've tried to connect with this film a few times already, and halfway through, I give up. This is one of those "overrated" films IMO.
His newer movies are a big let down. His eariler movies were very good in my opinion.
His newer films are released on video at rates that make it barely possible for anyone to keep up. Does he owe people some money? Is he working to pay bills? :D
Tense 90s thriller, Tom Berenger brings some of that hard ass military stuff he showed in Platoon. A USMC Sniper with a legendary reputation is sent out to Panama, along with an academy hotshot, to take out some columbian cartel dirtbags.
This isn't Bond or M:I, (afterall this is only one theatrical film, that didn't exactly set the box office alight, and a string of dtv films) but I have a real soft sport for this film, and the sequels it spawned.
Sniper 2 (2002)
Beckett is back. Only took 9 years for a sequel to be made. Tom Berenger returns as Master Gunnery Sargeant Tomas Beckett. Beckett is now paired with a death row inmate, to take out a war lord partaking in a bit of ethnic cleansing in Eastern Europe. Beckett isn't in the best of health though, as his eye sight is failing him. From this point on, the series is strictly dtv, and while not quite as good as the original, I still like the sequels. They are some of the better examples of dtv films.
Sniper 3 (2004)
Beckett (Tom Berenger once more) is back again. This Beckett gets a trip into his own past, to take out a friend and former Vietnam soldier who has set himself up as a drug dealer in Ho Chi Minh City. Continuing the theme of Becketts declining health, this time it's the nerve damage sustained following the torture he received in the original film, the damage is now showing signs of the onset of Cerebral Palsy.
Dracula A.D. 1972
The first of two contemporary Dracula films from Hammer. As I said elsewhere, there were only two flms in the Hammer: dracula series which I didn't care for, and this wasn't one of them.
And the last one, I am going to put a disclaimer beforehand....
CONTROVERSIAL OPINION INCOMMING!!!!
The Satanic Rites Of Dracula 1973
I'm going to come right out and say it, this is my favourite film in the Hammer:Dracula series. Yes, it's true that Christopher Lee doesn't get to do much, and not until later in the film. But... but... it mixes two of my favourite types of film, horror and spy thriller. I also think that 'Satanic Rites...' has a fine cast, too: Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Michael Coles, Joanna Lumley, William Franklyn, Richard Matthews (whom I can't help but think of Sir Desmond Glazebrook I see him) and Freddie Jones.
Loving the love for SATANIC RITES! Criminally underrated Dracula epic!
My fave is probably either SCARS or HAS RISEN.
Followed by Wonder Woman : Three years after, that movie hasn't lost its punch. The No Man's Land and the battle in the village scenes are still great, and Gal Gadot is a worthy WW.
I Understand that being said I bought Escape plan recently there is no way a film co starring Arnold and Sly can be bad right @DarthDimi ?
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@Dwayne You're welcome. A lot of its cast members appeared together in other films of the time period. Mike Connors and Dorothy Provine were the 2nd leads in the 1964 Jack Lemmon/Romy Schneider comedy Good Neighbor Sam, hero Connors played a character based on Clark Gable and villain Raf Vallone played Jean Harlow's stepfather in the 1965 Hollywood biopic Harlow, and Miss Provine and Terry-Thomas were both in the 1963 epic slapstick classic It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World. Margaret Lee gets 4th billing but she's only in the film for approximately 2 minutes.[/quote]
I always liked Dorothy Provine.
Some years ago, I worked with a woman that could have been her twin (or perhaps more a Provine/ Claudia Schiffer hybrid). When I pointed this out to her, her reaction was “Dorothy who?!” I had to bring in a couple of stills from IAMMMW to work to prove my point. Like many actresses of that era, she mostly retired from the business once she got married.
I found that one to be rather okay. :)
I like Under Siege, Under Siege 2, Fire Down Below and Exit Wounds. But apart from that... oh boy. ;-)
He's little more than a cameo in Executive Decision, but he's not bad in it.
That's why I barely count that as a Seagal film. ;-) Same with Machete.
I like Executive Decision, but it's Kurt's film.
Who cares? We do, at Aegis Oil...
...*beep* these animals stink!
I like Above The Law, Hard To Kill, Marked For Death, Out For Justice and Under Siege 2. The Glimmer Man, Fire Down Below and Exit Wounds are decent but the rest of his movies after Exit Wounds are not very good.
Fantastic film.
Watched it for the first time having seen the modern take with Pierce Brosnan many times. Totally loved it and McQueen is the King of Cool.
The Thomas Crown Affair (1999)
I've seen this film many times and I must say that I love Brosnan's performance as Crown in the film. I really like the subtle nods to the original film too. Not sure which I prefer of them both.
Fun two + hours, watching Tom Hanks following clues around France (and eventually the UK). I think I prefer the book, but professor Robert Langdon makes an alright movie character too. Very silly, but enjoyable.
The trilogy got trashed critic-wise. But I love all three
Agreed! Satanic Rites is my second favourite after the original. Scars would be my number three.
The critics haven't been kind to these films, that's for sure. But I can easily enjoy them for what they are. It's not like these films are aiming to be Oscar nominee contenders either!
1-Man Of Steel
I know people have issues with this Superman; I don't. I like Cavill, I like Snyder's style. Zimmer's score rocks, Adams is a good Lois and Shannon a great Zod. Donner, Kidder, Stamp and Reeve aren't coming back for another film, so get the *bleep* over it. Can't handle a new cast? Fine, no more Superman for you then. In any case, this film feels closer to some more "elsewords-ish" graphic novels, like Superman Earth One, than to the traditional "Look! Up in the sky!" Supes. That's fine. Here's another iteration of Superman, substantially different from Donner's and Singer's (who went after Donner's hard and heavy). But that's not necessarily a bad thing. I respect the fact that this Superman is too aggressive, destructive and "mad" for a lot of people. That's fine. He isn't for me. In fact, I welcome a bleaker version of a war between aliens who can squash us like bugs. Oh, and please stop pretending I don't know my stuff because I like this movie. My only references aren't the old newspaper comic strips; I do know my stuff. But to each their own, right? I love the Donner Superman, but I don't think it's blasphemous to also enjoy this -- albeit different -- Man Of Steel. Some days, I like the boy scout; other days, I prefer the confused alien.
2-Batman v Superman: The Ultimate Cut
This 3-hour cut rights several wrongs, but issues remain. I didn't need another montage of Thomas and Martha getting mugged and killed, with Bruce falling and rising up again and all that jazz, but I would have liked some explanation for Luthor's madness. Affleck is a stoic but impressive Batman. His desert fight was poorly choreographed but his warehouse raid may be the best Batman fighting we've seen since ever. The Ultimate Cut spends its final hour destroying stuff and making a lot of noise--even Michael Bay would edit a few scenes out. Afterwards, I'm feeling numb, but in a good way. Light versus Dark, the Kryptonian god versus the Gotham devil... Look, this is still an imperfect film. It wants so much, it fails to get the basics covered. It introduces so much, it forgets to fill in gaps still left-over from an hour ago. Well, I have read comics that did much worse. They usually start out promising but drop in quality with every next issue; plots become more muddled, characters are "forgotten". And while that's not an excuse for a film, it's something I can get over. You know why? Because there are still tons of really badass moments in this film. It's an uneven film, I give you that. But the good definitely outweighs the bad for me. I quite like BvS TUC, but in a testosterone-high kind of way. And the introduction of Wonder Woman, along with Junkie XL and Hans Zimmer's "Wonder Woman theme", is a stroke of genius. This isn't Nolans TDK trilogy. It doesn't have to be. The power of comic book universes is that many of them allow for multiple interpretations.
3-Suicide Squad: Extended Cut
This could have been really good. And I mean: really good. The casting for example: inspired choices from start to finish. Well, perhaps not Jai Courtney, but then, I hate Jai Courtney. What? You were expecting me to talk about Leto? Look, Leto was John Wicked out of the final cut and now he's vilified for it. Try to be the new Joker, who is NOT Romero, Nicholson, Hamill or Ledger AND fits well into this punk rock movie. This Joker is from the streets, "man", and they really pimped him up. They could have gotten somewhere with him but chose not to. Instead, he's just a non-entity in this film, tracking down his Harley like a desperate doggie. It's not Leto's fault that he's the soy sauce in your kitchen: you have it but you prefer not to use it. The first half of this film is really good though, especially in the extended cut. A tad more Batman than in the theatrical cut and good pacing overall, with a light mood and Amanda Waller having the biggest pair of all of them, as she should. I'm impressed. And then Ashley Benson's ex turns magical demon turns monster turns big-boss-fight-at-the-end, and we're back in generic formula territory. From here on, we're essentially fighting zombies, pink unicorns (I know I am) and video game creeps (but then not as "big" as Doomsday). In a way, by creating her suicide squad, Waller also created the big evil in this film. (It's like the writers took a page from the Bush administration.) The second half of the film turns the promise of the first half upside down. What worked so well at the start now fails to impress. It feels like they started shooting with only half a script finished. Suddenly, someone realised, "hey, we've got the team now but we have ZERO for the team to do!" And that's why I'm ranking this film a lot lower than MOS or BvS. It built up something awesome but did nothing with it. That, in my opinion, is worse than the many flaws of BvS.
4-Wonder Woman
Okay, I love this one. Seriously, I do. It's a great film. It makes me cry at times, if you will believe that. When Diana does her thing that she does, it's like the pages of DC comics come alive. It's like the essence of DC superhero stuff reaching cinematic apotheosis. And I have tears in my eyes because it's so darn beautiful! My only regret is that this film was hijacked by moronic feminists, who first lauded the film and then objected to the fact that Pine is never too far away from Gadot, that Diana enjoys sex and--get this--that Gal Gadot is too attractive! It's the one occasion where I actually used the word "feminazi" myself. Wonder Woman isn't the first case of a heroic female taking the lead, folks. I doubt the film was even intended to be that. Instead, Wonder Woman is a cool DC character that up until now had failed to explode on the big screen. Patty Jenkins made it happen and I worship her for that. Granted, the one false note in the entire movie is that we have yet another big-boss-fight at the end, but at least this one has context underneath it. Oh, and Pine? He's great as Steve Trevor. Sorry, you feminazis out there, but Steve isn't in this movie because we still need a bloke keeping an eye on the all-powerful female; he's here because Steve is to Wonder Woman what Alfred is to Batman. Get over it. Pine rocks. So yeah, epic movie. And taking Diana to the battlefields of the "great war" made perfect sense. It was a terrible war. It was the first industrialized war, in which killing as many soldiers as inhumanly possible became the object of creative engineering. Unlike Captain America The First Avenger, a film that turned its back to the real WWII and ended up in fantastical Wolfenstein 3D territory right away, Wonder Woman grabbed the first World War by the balls, used the tragedy of it as rocked fuel for Diana's fight but never downplayed the gravity of those four terrible years. Rupert Gregson-Williams' score feels a bit generic at first but works so bloody well in this film, it has become one of my favourites in the entire series. I'm emotionally invested in Wonder Woman in ways I'm not even in MOS or BvS. It's not just the first DCEU film to "get it right" completely, but as far as "feeling the hero's power" goes, this one also tops everything in the MCU in my opinion. This isn't about "the first female-centric superhero film" or whatever, but about the first film to make me feel something I haven't felt since TDK(R). I went to see this film twice because once just wasn't enough. And I've seen the film many more times since, with my mother, my girlfriend and on my own. It's a simpler film than something like BvS TUC, but in a way it isn't. Because this one has its themes right, has its style all worked out and its lead character(s) all figured out. When Diana rages through a sea of fire, knocking soldiers off their feet (a bit like in Kung Fury, but then with the proper visuals.:p) I see the perfect example of how DC, even when exploring darker themes, has found the greater characters. Look, we're all Groot, but Gal Gadot as Wonder Woman is better.
DCEU ranking so far:
1 - WW
2 - MOS
3 - BvS
4 - SS