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  • MaxCasinoMaxCasino United States
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    FoxRox wrote: »
    MaxCasino wrote: »
    The Dead Zone (1983). One of Walken's best roles.

    I adore that movie! My favorite of Cronenberg's by far, and I don't say that lightly as he still has several other good ones! Just so much thrill and heart to this movie. Walken is awesome in it.

    Awesome! Martin Sheen plays the part of "full of himself" politician well. One of the best Stephen King adaptations.
  • peterpeter Toronto
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    Count me in on being a BIG fan of The Dead Zone.
  • 007ClassicBondFan007ClassicBondFan
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    Dead Zone is Martin Sheen at his most vile, and I love every second of it.
  • 007InAction007InAction Australia
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    Kingsman: The Secret Service 2014
    Always enjoy watching this.
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  • DarthDimiDarthDimi Behind you!Moderator
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    peter wrote: »
    Count me in on being a BIG fan of The Dead Zone.

    The Dead Zone is great, but Videodrome will always be my favorite Cronenberg.
  • FoxRoxFoxRox
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    DarthDimi wrote: »
    peter wrote: »
    Count me in on being a BIG fan of The Dead Zone.

    The Dead Zone is great, but Videodrome will always be my favorite Cronenberg.

    That’s still another excellent choice, with a cool new upcoming 4K Criterion edition next month, too! Add A History of Violence and The Fly and you have my favorites, with Dead Zone at #1. But I do like several of his other movies too!
  • Creasy47Creasy47 In Cuba with Natalya.Moderator
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    DarthDimi wrote: »
    peter wrote: »
    Count me in on being a BIG fan of The Dead Zone.

    The Dead Zone is great, but Videodrome will always be my favorite Cronenberg.

    Will always be my favorite Cronenberg and one of my Top 10 all-time horror movies.

    Death to Videodrome, long live the new flesh!
  • mattjoesmattjoes Pay more attention to your chef
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    j_w_pepper wrote: »
    My take for tonight was this (as a premiere):
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    Quite a violent movie (this is even a cut version to avoid receiving an X rating in the States, but still rated "18" in UK and NC-17 in the US), but if one goes for this (and I'm afraid I do), it's quite powerful and thrilling. Walken and the other actors are doing a great job.

    The BD extras aren't so impressive. The interview with director Abel Ferrara is nauseating. Never heard a person uttering so many "you know"s, at least two in every completed sentence. And all the others also didn't offer any particular insight into the making of the movie.

    Anyway, lots of carnage, with a touch of social criticism.

    NSFW, but hilarious. Ferrara is obviously a fan of his own movie. And of "Booschemee."

  • Creasy47Creasy47 In Cuba with Natalya.Moderator
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    All the glowing praise here (and that eye-opening bit of commentary shared) has me finally checking out King of New York today. I hope it's great.
  • j_w_pepperj_w_pepper Born on the bayou, but I now hear a new dog barkin'
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    chrisisall wrote: »
    Coffey on blu ray. 1973 blacksploitation at its near best. Pam Grier ruled back then. By no means a great movie, but a cool time capsule with some surprising moments.
    I bought Coffy (it's spelled without an "e", which is why I didn't find your post for reference initially) a couple of months ago but only watched it tonight. I share your general feeling about it, @chrisisall. Blaxploitation/popcorn movie of fifty years ago, with cardboard-cutout characters but also much more, uhm, eye candy for us "red-blooded males" than Hollywood would provide now. (It seems that this was originally rated "18" in Germany even for a somewhat cut version, but the uncut Blu-ray is rated 16 now. Although the re-rating was probably done before "me too", so let's see how this continues.)

    Quite enjoyable for what it is, but we can only presume what happened to the protagonist after the end of the action.
  • Creasy47Creasy47 In Cuba with Natalya.Moderator
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    j_w_pepper wrote: »
    chrisisall wrote: »
    Coffey on blu ray. 1973 blacksploitation at its near best. Pam Grier ruled back then. By no means a great movie, but a cool time capsule with some surprising moments.
    I bought Coffy (it's spelled without an "e", which is why I didn't find your post for reference initially) a couple of months ago but only watched it tonight. I share your general feeling about it, @chrisisall. Blaxploitation/popcorn movie of fifty years ago, with cardboard-cutout characters but also much more, uhm, eye candy for us "red-blooded males" than Hollywood would provide now. (It seems that this was originally rated "18" in Germany even for a somewhat cut version, but the uncut Blu-ray is rated 16 now. Although the re-rating was probably done before "me too", so let's see how this continues.)

    Quite enjoyable for what it is, but we can only presume what happened to the protagonist after the end of the action.

    Pam Grier, Sid Haig, and Linda Haynes? Definitely adding this one to my Letterboxd Watchlist.
  • DwayneDwayne New York City
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    Speaking of COFFY (1973), actress LINDA HAYNES's death was announced just a few weeks ago. I had meant to post a short notice about it, but I got busy and failed to.

  • MajorDSmytheMajorDSmythe "I tolerate this century, but I don't enjoy it."Moderator
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    Foxy Brown is another blaxploitation Pam Grier film to look out for, but if you don't like Coffy, you won't like Foxy Brown. the latter has some uncomfortable scenes to sit through. I watched Sheba, Baby a few weeks ago. I enjoyed that one, less exploitation, and more a PI film, with Grier in the lead role.
  • j_w_pepperj_w_pepper Born on the bayou, but I now hear a new dog barkin'
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    MajorDSmythe wrote: »
    Foxy Brown is another blaxploitation Pam Grier film to look out for, but if you don't like Coffy, you won't like Foxy Brown. the latter has some uncomfortable scenes to sit through. I watched Sheba, Baby a few weeks ago. I enjoyed that one, less exploitation, and more a PI film, with Grier in the lead role.
    For me, the main difference being that I have (own) a copy of Foxy Brown and will rewatch it after the experience I had with Coffy now. I'm not into Sheba Baby so far.
  • Creasy47Creasy47 In Cuba with Natalya.Moderator
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    Dwayne wrote: »
    Speaking of COFFY (1973), actress LINDA HAYNES's death was announced just a few weeks ago. I had meant to post a short notice about it, but I got busy and failed to.

    I remember feeling sad about that because I knew Quentin Tarantino is a very big fan of hers and was probably crushed to hear the news. She's a really fun and talented performer and I'm only realizing too late how many of her projects I've been missing out on.
  • mattjoesmattjoes Pay more attention to your chef
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    Creasy47 wrote: »
    All the glowing praise here (and that eye-opening bit of commentary shared) has me finally checking out King of New York today. I hope it's great.

    I hope you enjoy it.

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  • Creasy47Creasy47 In Cuba with Natalya.Moderator
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    mattjoes wrote: »
    Creasy47 wrote: »
    All the glowing praise here (and that eye-opening bit of commentary shared) has me finally checking out King of New York today. I hope it's great.

    I hope you enjoy it.

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    I loved it so much, easily one of Walken's greatest performances and a really sinister and unforgiving tale of crime, revenge, and some sort of redemption. Damn good stuff, thank you to all for the recommendation.

    And yes, brownie points go to Walken's dancing here.
  • j_w_pepperj_w_pepper Born on the bayou, but I now hear a new dog barkin'
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    As advised earlier, I now watched Foxy Brown, though I feel now that I have to retract from the statement of having "re-watched" it. I didn't remember a bit of it, so it seems I have mixed it up, in my memory, with having watched both Shaft and Jackie Brown. I expected her to be a cop or something, but she wasn't. I still enjoyed it, though it is really just as much of a revenge blaxploitation film as Coffy (see my short review above). Either way, worth seeing, if only as a 1970s time piece. Fewer topless women as compared to Coffy, though.
  • DarthDimiDarthDimi Behind you!Moderator
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    j_w_pepper wrote: »
    As advised earlier, I now watched Foxy Brown, though I feel now that I have to retract from the statement of having "re-watched" it. I didn't remember a bit of it, so it seems I have mixed it up, in my memory, with having watched both Shaft and Jackie Brown. I expected her to be a cop or something, but she wasn't. I still enjoyed it, though it is really just as much of a revenge blaxploitation film as Coffy (see my short review above). Either way, worth seeing, if only as a 1970s time piece. Fewer topless women as compared to Coffy, though.

    I love Coffy and Foxy Brown. Another interesting genre film is Cleopatra Jones (and its sequel), although Tamara Dobson is no Pam Grier. ;-)
  • VenutiusVenutius Yorkshire
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    j_w_pepper wrote: »
    Fewer topless women as compared to Coffy, though.
    Coffy it is, then...

  • j_w_pepperj_w_pepper Born on the bayou, but I now hear a new dog barkin'
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    Venutius wrote: »
    j_w_pepper wrote: »
    Fewer topless women as compared to Coffy, though.
    Coffy it is, then...

    Good choice :-)
  • Mathis1Mathis1
    edited September 2023 Posts: 7,629
    The Equalizer 3 (2023)
    Finally got around to seeing it. Really enjoyed it, loved the setting, reminded me of 'The American'.
    Denzel is as charismatic as ever, and the scenes of violence are as gruesome as ever ( maybe more so, or is it that McCall is more relentless) The villains maybe are not given enough background to make their deaths as compelling, and the finale could have been a bit longer ( though its nice that the film doesn't have a 3 hr runtime). Lovely to see Dakota Fanning reunite with Denzel ( but I think their relationship was more affecting in 'Man on Fire') Fuqua does a solid job of directing and overall this was a more satisfying finale than John Wick 4!
  • Creasy47Creasy47 In Cuba with Natalya.Moderator
    Posts: 41,012
    Mathis1 wrote: »
    The Equaliser 3 (2023)
    Finally got around to seeing it. Really enjoyed it, loved the setting, reminded me of 'The American'.
    Denzel is as charismatic as ever, and the scenes of violence are as gruesome as ever ( maybe more so, or is it that McCall is more relentless) The villains maybe are not given enough background to make their deaths as compelling, and the finale could have been a bit longer ( though its nice that the film doesn't have a 3 hr runtime). Lovely to see Dakota Fanning reunite with Denzel ( but I think their relationship was more affecting in 'Man on Fire') Fuqua does a solid job of directing and overall this was a more satisfying finale than John Wick 4!

    Definitely has some stylistic vibes similar to The American that I didn't even realize when I saw it.

    And yes, this one goes out in style and ends up way more bloody and gory than its predecessors. I also wish that finale was longer but I enjoyed the mixture of brutality and stealth and felt this was also a stronger conclusion to Robert's tale than what we got in JW4 (which doesn't appear to be the ending after all, so time will tell on that front).
  • Mathis1Mathis1
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    Creasy47 wrote: »
    Mathis1 wrote: »
    The Equaliser 3 (2023)
    F around to seeing it. Really enjoyed it, loved the setting, reminded me of 'The American'.
    Denzel is as charismatic as ever, and the scenes of violence are as gruesome as ever ( maybe more so, or is it that McCall is more relentless) The villains maybe are not given enough background to make their deaths as compelling, and the finale could have been a bit longer ( though its nice that the film doesn't have a 3 hr runtime). Lovely to see Dakota Fanning reunite with Denzel ( but I think their relationship was more affecting in 'Man on Fire') Fuqua does a solid job of directing and overall this was a more satisfying finale than John Wick 4!

    Definitely has some stylistic vibes similar to The American that I didn't even realize when I saw it.

    And yes, this one goes out in style and ends up way more bloody and gory than its predecessors. I also wish that finale was longer but I enjoyed the mixture of brutality and stealth and felt this was also a stronger conclusion to Robert's tale than what we got in JW4 (which doesn't appear to be the ending after all, so time will tell on that front).

    Ah, didn't realise that, I dont think that number 5 would be welcome, by me anyway. And I hope they leave it there with McCall, I want him to have that finish, he deserves it!
  • Creasy47Creasy47 In Cuba with Natalya.Moderator
    edited September 2023 Posts: 41,012
    Mathis1 wrote: »
    Creasy47 wrote: »
    Mathis1 wrote: »
    The Equaliser 3 (2023)
    F around to seeing it. Really enjoyed it, loved the setting, reminded me of 'The American'.
    Denzel is as charismatic as ever, and the scenes of violence are as gruesome as ever ( maybe more so, or is it that McCall is more relentless) The villains maybe are not given enough background to make their deaths as compelling, and the finale could have been a bit longer ( though its nice that the film doesn't have a 3 hr runtime). Lovely to see Dakota Fanning reunite with Denzel ( but I think their relationship was more affecting in 'Man on Fire') Fuqua does a solid job of directing and overall this was a more satisfying finale than John Wick 4!

    Definitely has some stylistic vibes similar to The American that I didn't even realize when I saw it.

    And yes, this one goes out in style and ends up way more bloody and gory than its predecessors. I also wish that finale was longer but I enjoyed the mixture of brutality and stealth and felt this was also a stronger conclusion to Robert's tale than what we got in JW4 (which doesn't appear to be the ending after all, so time will tell on that front).

    Ah, didn't realise that, I dont think that number 5 would be welcome, by me anyway. And I hope they leave it there with McCall, I want him to have that finish, he deserves it!

    The only thing I've heard on The Equalizer's end is Fuqua wanting to do a prequel with a de-aged Washington, but wasn't sure if that's something he's actively trying to develop or simply some wish list film he was mentioning while doing rounds with the press after the third installment's release.
  • Fire_and_Ice_ReturnsFire_and_Ice_Returns I am trying to get away from this mountan!
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    Halloween Ends A New Beginning (kind of). I did not rush to watch this because of the negative reviews, to be honest I actually thought it was OK. At least they tried to do something different with this installment, though many aspects of the film did remind me of other horror franchises.

    All the characters in this film are seriously damaged and frankly out of there minds which kind of distracted from gaping plot holes and plausibility. I had fun with the movie and I was not bored.
  • Creasy47Creasy47 In Cuba with Natalya.Moderator
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    I admired their attempts to try something new but I still think the execution was awful and it was a really terrible idea when you're wrapping up a trilogy like this.
  • FoxRoxFoxRox
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    I’ll be doing a full Halloween marathon next month and I’m dreading that one. Thought it was one of the series’ very worst. But I also very much enjoy Kills, so my opinions aren’t the most valid!
  • Fire_and_Ice_ReturnsFire_and_Ice_Returns I am trying to get away from this mountan!
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    I thought Halloween Ends would have been better suited as the second film for sure rather than a finale.
  • MaxCasinoMaxCasino United States
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    The Angriest Man in Brooklyn (2014). Robin Williams' last movie to be released in his lifetime. Certain things DID NOT age well in it. Overall, still enjoyable.

    Child's Play (2019). Enjoyable, in a darkly humorous way. Mark Hamill did Chucky justice with his voice.

    Hopefully, I will be seeing Exorcist 3 this week.
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