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  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    SCARY MOVIE 5 (Malcolm D. Lee, 2013)
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    Mixed bag, but I had some laughs throughout.
  • chrisisallchrisisall Brosnan Defender Of The Realm
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    Just watched the 1973 TV movie "The Six Million Dollar Man: Wine, Women & War."
    Wow, they were pushing the near-full-on Bond vibe here. Even got Britt Ekland fresh off filming TMWTGG to be the 'Austin' girl.
    It was terribly entertaining, and they certainly threw tons of money into it for a TV movie back then, but I'm glad this was a one off attempt at it; Steve was no James. ;)
  • RichardTheBruceRichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.
    Posts: 13,779
    chrisisall wrote: »
    Just watched the 1973 TV movie "The Six Million Dollar Man: Wine, Women & War."
    Wow, they were pushing the near-full-on Bond vibe here. Even got Britt Ekland fresh off filming TMWTGG to be the 'Austin' girl.
    It was terribly entertaining, and they certainly threw tons of money into it for a TV movie back then, but I'm glad this was a one off attempt at it; Steve was no James. ;)
    Well that's part praise and part harsh but yeah @chrisisall.

    Still, Steve Austin was a Colonel!

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  • chrisisallchrisisall Brosnan Defender Of The Realm
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    @RichardTheBruce I actually meant as more praise than anything else. It was terrific fun.
  • RichardTheBruceRichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.
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    I hope I enjoyed it as much @chrisisall, I watched it in the past year. Another standout episode more recently was Frank Gorshin on Charley's Angels ("Angels at Sea").

    But I won't miss a chance to post images of Steve in his "tux". And you've got me digging up the tuxedo mashup.

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  • talos7talos7 New Orleans
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    And Lee could raise a mean brow.
  • chrisisallchrisisall Brosnan Defender Of The Realm
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    talos7 wrote: »
    And Lee could raise a mean brow.

    Oh yeah!
  • DwayneDwayne New York City
    edited August 2021 Posts: 2,841
    With the pending Criterion 4K release of Citizen Kane – and the twitter “ballyhoo” last week over its’ minimalist cover - I decided to re-watch the film (for about the 100th time!!).
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    What can I say about this film that hasn’t been said already? Simply, “Citizen Kane” is a landmark film, and on the off-chance that anyone hasn’t seen it yet, don’t let the movie’s “the greatest film ever made” reputation scare you off. “Citizen Kane” is both funny and poignant in equal measure. And (IMO) its’ message is just as relevant now as it was in 1940.

    BTW: Not withstanding Joseph Cotton’s roles in “Citizen Kane”, “A Shadow of a Doubt”, “The Third Man” and the “Magnificent Ambersons”, his most notable role was as Capt. Craig McKenzie in the award winning “Latitude Zero.” =))
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  • Agent007391Agent007391 Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A, Start
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    Army of the Dead

    As a shameless zombie fan, I decided to finally check this out. After 2.5 hours, I regretted it. Zack Snyder made the 2004 remake of Dawn of the Dead and while a terrible remake, it was at least a serviceable zombie film. The man is clearly in need of studio interference, however, as being unrestrained left us with a disjointed movie more interested in setting up plot threads for later installments than actually working on its own. There are over a dozen different hooks thrown at the viewer in the first half an hour and none of them are paid off by the end of the movie. Couple that together with characters who are either all the same stereotype or a different stereotype, who try to be funny but fall completely flat, who are supposed to be the best at what they do but can't seem to go five minutes without screwing something up.

    I wish the Zack Snyder of 2004 directed this movie, because that Zack Snyder knew his limitations and respected that there were just certain things that made a movie better because. Modern Snyder has soaked in all the undeserved fan worship and believes he can go wherever he wants and do no wrong. I'm sorry, that's just not the case. We would hold Spielberg's feet to the fire for terrible movies, but he has never gone this low, and Snyder doesn't deserve a pass.

    Either wait until more movies and such related to this come out or skip it altogether, because either way, it's just a bad movie.

    Dead Again

    Once more, a disappointing zombie movie, this one a sub-low budget attempt to cram all three movies of Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright's Cornetto Trilogy into one tangled mess. We have the serious cop/laid back cop in a small British town duo from Hot Fuzz (they seem to have made great effort to find actors who mildly physically resembled Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, as well), there are zombies like Shaun of the Dead, and the plot happens because aliens are invading like in The World's End. The biggest problem here is that, unlike those films which were comedies, this attempts to play everything straight and good lord, does it fail spectacularly.

    The acting is terrible, the direction looks like something you'd have seen from a fan vid at the advemt of YouTube, not even the decent quality productions of today, and the special effects look worse than what games in the 90s were capable of. There's nothing to like about this movie across its 83 minute runtime, and even less to remember. Characters disappear toward the end for little reason, and the majority of the film takes place in one solitary location with little in the way to justify it.

    The creators must have assumed they were funny, though, as one of the credits is literally "More drone work in Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones". I'm not sure what the hell this exists for, but it's about the only memorable thing in the whole movie. I paid $10 for it at a Walmart and feel like I was robbed of $10,000.
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    HIDDEN FEAR (1957)

    John Payne's efforts to get the rights to MOONRAKER and other Bond novels fell through so he and Andre De Toth went off and made this "Bond" film.
    He plays a detective attempting to rescue his sister in Denmark and comes across a counterfeit ring.
    Hypothetically had he gotten the Bond rights, this films gives an idea what his MOONRAKER might have looked like: am espionage noir.
    Needless to say I LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    It's not great, but I love it!

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  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy My Secret Lair
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    Cabin fever 1 and 2 , young attractive people betting eaten alive by a nasty virus
    What's not to like ;) or am I just Old and twisted
  • MaxCasinoMaxCasino United States
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    Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas (2003). A decent likeable animated film from Dreamworks. A bit of a ripoff of other movies, but still a fun ride.
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy My Secret Lair
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    Recently got an offer for Sky Movies at a cheap price, so signed up again for
    a few months. Last night I watched Batman 1989 still a favourite of mine. Then
    Sin City 2005. A really stylish thriller, Haven't seen it in years.
  • DarthDimiDarthDimi Behind you!Moderator
    Posts: 24,172
    Cabin fever 1 and 2 , young attractive people betting eaten alive by a nasty virus
    What's not to like ;) or am I just Old and twisted

    I really love 2. Ti West has a very peculiar but most enjoyable sense of humor.
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    Tourist Trap (1979). It’s been a long time since I was creeped out by a film like this. Crazy, wild, bizarre, horrifying. My kind of horror film.
  • MajorDSmytheMajorDSmythe "I tolerate this century, but I don't enjoy it."Moderator
    edited September 2021 Posts: 13,978
    Film4 were showing the first 3 Indiana Jones films last night, so I watched RAIDERS and TEMPLE. RAIDERS, I have seen a few times over the years, and it holds up extremely well, while TEMPLE is my least favourite film in the series, both the annoying Indy Girl and kid sidekick drag the film down. I like all four films, to a certain degree, but not religiously so, if I happen to stumble across one, i'll watch it, but if I know they're coming on tv in a few days time, I won't go out of my way to watch them. I see CRYSTAL come in for an awful lot of flak online, but I would rather watch it than TEMPLE.
  • sandbagger1sandbagger1 Sussex
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    Raiders is an almost perfect film as far as I'm concerned. One of my favourite movies of all time.
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    Film4 were showing the first 3 Indiana Jones films last night, so I watched RAIDERS and TEMPLE. RAIDERS, I have seen a few times over the years, and it holds up extremely well, while TEMPLE is my least favourite film in the series, both the annoying Indy Girl and kid sidekick drag the film down. I like all four films, to a certain degree, but not religiously so, if I happen to stumble across one, i'll watch it, but if I know they're coming on tv in a few days time, I won't go out of my way to watch them. I see CRYSTAL come in for an awful lot of flak online, but I would rather watch it than TEMPLE.

    I loved Temple of Doom when I saw it in the cinema, there was massive hype for it, being the follow up to the much loved Raiders! I have cooled towards it now, but the opening scene and the climax are excellent still! I never liked Last Crusade, apart from Connery, it just didnt do it for me, and Kingdom is downright awful!
    Raiders still holds up as marvellous entertainment!
  • Whirlybird_FanWhirlybird_Fan Sydney, Australia
    Posts: 48
    I have a soft spot for Last Crusade; it's my favourite Indy film (I haven't seen Kingdom of the Crystal Skull). Looking forward to the new one due for release next year. Anyway, the last film I watched was:

    Star Wars Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker

    I enjoyed it very much; a fitting conclusion to a phenomenal film saga.
    4/5
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
    Posts: 45,489
    I have a soft spot for Last Crusade; it's my favourite Indy film (I haven't seen Kingdom of the Crystal Skull). Looking forward to the new one due for release next year. Anyway, the last film I watched was:

    Star Wars Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker

    I enjoyed it very much; a fitting conclusion to a phenomenal film saga.
    4/5

    They went out on a high.
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy My Secret Lair
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    The Losers ( 2010 )
    I can't help thinking this is how the A Team movie should have been. Action
    filled over the top nonsense. It has some great action sequences and a
    fantastic cast.
  • DarthDimiDarthDimi Behind you!Moderator
    edited September 2021 Posts: 24,172
    F9

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    I have been with this "saga" (the pretentiousness!) for twenty years, but with F9, they really have jumped the shark. If DAD and XXX had a baby, and In Like Flint raised it with Deadpool 2, this is what you get. My favourite in the series, F5, had some eyebrow-raising stuff going too, but
    when Tej and Roman are floating in friggin' space in a simple car attached to a rocket, ready to crash into a satellite,

    I'm throwing my hands in the air. I turned my head towards Missus Dimi, and she reciprocated my cynical smile. We've now convinced ourselves that the writers were smoking a lot of pot when writing this film. I have written better films in my sleep.

    Look, the party is on, I get it. It's all a lot of fun. And they sure as NOS have committed to the old mantra that sequels have to top their predecessors. (Remember that first film? When Dom and co were raiding semis and steeling VCR's?) But this film is replete with bad dialogue, scenes that have zero to do with the rest of the film, crazy resurrections of the dead, and lost family members returning just like that. The best drinking game no fan of this series was waiting for, I'm sure...
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    Shang Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings : I just love a good old Wu Xia Pien. Good cast (Michele Yeoh still got it, and Awkwafina has a great comic timing), good action, good comedy. For a mindless two hours and a half, it's not bad at all. Not a masterpiece, mind you (for me, the best Marvel movie is still The Winter Soldier), but not a disaster either. Just a bit of mindless fun, and these days, we need that, don't we ?
  • chrisisallchrisisall Brosnan Defender Of The Realm
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    Split Second. A 1992 movie starring Rutger Hauer & Kim Cattrall (hot off of Star Trek VI with the same hair cut).
    Solidly in the so-bad-it's-good genre.
  • mattjoesmattjoes Julie T. and the M.G.'s
    Posts: 7,021
    DarthDimi wrote: »
    F9

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    I have been with this "saga" (the pretentiousness!) for twenty years, but with F9, they really have jumped the shark. If DAD and XXX had a baby, and In Like Flint raised it with Deadpool 2, this is what you get. My favourite in the series, F5, had some eyebrow-raising stuff going too, but
    when Tej and Roman are floating in friggin' space in a simple car attached to a rocket, ready to crash into a satellite,

    I'm throwing my hands in the air. I turned my head towards Missus Dimi, and she reciprocated my cynical smile. We've now convinced ourselves that the writers were smoking a lot of pot when writing this film. I have written better films in my sleep.

    Look, the party is on, I get it. It's all a lot of fun. And they sure as NOX have committed to the old mantra that sequels have to top their predecessors. (Remember that first film? When Dom and co were raiding semis and steeling VCR's?) But this film is replete with bad dialogue, scenes that have zero to do with the rest of the film, crazy resurrections of the dead, and lost family members returning just like that. The best drinking game no fan of this series was waiting for, I'm sure...

    F9? What will they call the next film, Scroll Lock?
  • DarthDimiDarthDimi Behind you!Moderator
    Posts: 24,172
    mattjoes wrote: »
    DarthDimi wrote: »
    F9

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    I have been with this "saga" (the pretentiousness!) for twenty years, but with F9, they really have jumped the shark. If DAD and XXX had a baby, and In Like Flint raised it with Deadpool 2, this is what you get. My favourite in the series, F5, had some eyebrow-raising stuff going too, but
    when Tej and Roman are floating in friggin' space in a simple car attached to a rocket, ready to crash into a satellite,

    I'm throwing my hands in the air. I turned my head towards Missus Dimi, and she reciprocated my cynical smile. We've now convinced ourselves that the writers were smoking a lot of pot when writing this film. I have written better films in my sleep.

    Look, the party is on, I get it. It's all a lot of fun. And they sure as NOX have committed to the old mantra that sequels have to top their predecessors. (Remember that first film? When Dom and co were raiding semis and steeling VCR's?) But this film is replete with bad dialogue, scenes that have zero to do with the rest of the film, crazy resurrections of the dead, and lost family members returning just like that. The best drinking game no fan of this series was waiting for, I'm sure...

    F9? What will they call the next film, Scroll Lock?

    😅😅 Excellent!
  • Agent007391Agent007391 Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A, Start
    Posts: 7,854
    mattjoes wrote: »
    DarthDimi wrote: »
    F9

    xXHZeb1yhJvnSHPzZDqee0zfMb6.jpg

    I have been with this "saga" (the pretentiousness!) for twenty years, but with F9, they really have jumped the shark. If DAD and XXX had a baby, and In Like Flint raised it with Deadpool 2, this is what you get. My favourite in the series, F5, had some eyebrow-raising stuff going too, but
    when Tej and Roman are floating in friggin' space in a simple car attached to a rocket, ready to crash into a satellite,

    I'm throwing my hands in the air. I turned my head towards Missus Dimi, and she reciprocated my cynical smile. We've now convinced ourselves that the writers were smoking a lot of pot when writing this film. I have written better films in my sleep.

    Look, the party is on, I get it. It's all a lot of fun. And they sure as NOX have committed to the old mantra that sequels have to top their predecessors. (Remember that first film? When Dom and co were raiding semis and steeling VCR's?) But this film is replete with bad dialogue, scenes that have zero to do with the rest of the film, crazy resurrections of the dead, and lost family members returning just like that. The best drinking game no fan of this series was waiting for, I'm sure...

    F9? What will they call the next film, Scroll Lock?

    Comments I keep seeing from the fans seem to want Fast-10 Your Seatbelts.
  • mattjoesmattjoes Julie T. and the M.G.'s
    Posts: 7,021
    mattjoes wrote: »
    DarthDimi wrote: »
    F9

    xXHZeb1yhJvnSHPzZDqee0zfMb6.jpg

    I have been with this "saga" (the pretentiousness!) for twenty years, but with F9, they really have jumped the shark. If DAD and XXX had a baby, and In Like Flint raised it with Deadpool 2, this is what you get. My favourite in the series, F5, had some eyebrow-raising stuff going too, but
    when Tej and Roman are floating in friggin' space in a simple car attached to a rocket, ready to crash into a satellite,

    I'm throwing my hands in the air. I turned my head towards Missus Dimi, and she reciprocated my cynical smile. We've now convinced ourselves that the writers were smoking a lot of pot when writing this film. I have written better films in my sleep.

    Look, the party is on, I get it. It's all a lot of fun. And they sure as NOX have committed to the old mantra that sequels have to top their predecessors. (Remember that first film? When Dom and co were raiding semis and steeling VCR's?) But this film is replete with bad dialogue, scenes that have zero to do with the rest of the film, crazy resurrections of the dead, and lost family members returning just like that. The best drinking game no fan of this series was waiting for, I'm sure...

    F9? What will they call the next film, Scroll Lock?

    Comments I keep seeing from the fans seem to want Fast-10 Your Seatbelts.

    Haha!
  • GoldenGunGoldenGun Per ora e per il momento che verrà
    Posts: 7,110
    LE PROFESSIONNEL (1981)

    Fantastic French action spy thriller with Jean-Paul Belmondo, graced with a magnificent Ennio Morricone score.
    Highly recommended.



    @mattjoes ;)

    That all being said, I found it quite depressing that I am subscribed to no less than three (!) streaming services and I couldn't find this European classic anywhere.

    Sometimes I'm rather concerned how difficult it is to find classic European cinema and quite frankly I'm scared that so many Eurogems will disappear from our public memory.

    Our cultural choices have become increasingly one-sided. So for those of you who love European cinema as much as I do, please consider warming up your peers to those great Italian/German/French/Slavic/Scandinavian/(...) classics.

    Long live those subtitles ;)
  • chrisisallchrisisall Brosnan Defender Of The Realm
    Posts: 17,789
    Fantastic 4 with Jessica Alba. It was better than I remembered. They changed Doom considerably from the comics, but I didn't mind.
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