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FANTASTILICIOUS FUN FOR FILM FANS 089: your top 10's of 2020 and most anticipated films of 2021?

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  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    How could I forget Captain America-The First Avenger?

    Also The Great Dictator and Schindler s List.
  • DarthDimiDarthDimi Behind you!Moderator
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    Who is the better actor: Sly or Arnold?</font>

  • Some_Kind_Of_HeroSome_Kind_Of_Hero
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    I'm inclined to say Stallone. Schwarzenegger was great fun to watch in both Terminator films, but off the top of my head, I can't think of anything he has done that was as powerful or as moving as Stallone's tearful speech at the end of First Blood.
  • chrisisallchrisisall Brosnan Defender Of The Realm
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    Sly no doubt.
  • MurdockMurdock The minus world
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    Sly's the better actor, but I like Arnold more. :)
  • thelivingroyalethelivingroyale
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    Arnold makes a great badass action hero and I love watching him but lets face it, he is a pretty terrible actor. He's really entertaining but he's not a great actor.

    Sly has given some shit performances true, but he's proven before that he is a really good actor. Just watch First Blood or The Rocky films.
  • Agent007391Agent007391 Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A, Start
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    This is a damned hard question to answer...

    I refuse to pick. Both are awesome.
  • fire_and_icefire_and_ice
    edited November 2014 Posts: 6,432
    Both Legends, though Sly the better actor. Arnie is very convincing at playing himself :-bd
  • MajorDSmytheMajorDSmythe "I tolerate this century, but I don't enjoy it."Moderator
    edited November 2014 Posts: 13,978
    I prefer Van Damme. But between these two, weighing the films if seen from both CVs... i'd pick Sly. Though I have nothing against Arnie's films.
  • BAIN123BAIN123
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    Arnold couldn't sell the opening scene of Cliffhanger as well as Sly could.
  • CraigMooreOHMSSCraigMooreOHMSS Dublin, Ireland
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    I think Arnie gives a great performance in Twins. Sly? I'm not so sure I've ever genuinely cared about any of his characters outside of Rocky and First Blood Part 1.
  • boldfingerboldfinger
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    Better actor? Are you kidding me? Sly pisses rings around Arnold as far as acting is concerned.
    Arnold performs, Sly sometimes performs, but he can damn well act too. He wasn´t exactly competition for De Niro in Copland, but nevertheless he did a great job. Rhinestone, Rambo, Rocky, all examples of real acting.
    Arnold on the other hand looks like a log opposite Jamie LeeCurtis in True Lies. He got better in recent years though..
  • MurdockMurdock The minus world
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    Better Actor: Sly
    Better Action Star: Tie
    Better One Liners: Arnold.
  • fire_and_icefire_and_ice
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    Not one of his better known films though Nighthawks starring Stallone, Billy Dee Williams and Rutger Hauer is a gem of a film.
  • chrisisallchrisisall Brosnan Defender Of The Realm
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    fire_and_ice wrote: »
    Not one of his better known films though Nighthawks starring Stallone, Billy Dee Williams and Rutger Hauer is a gem of a film.
    Oh yeah!
  • KerimKerim Istanbul Not Constantinople
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    I vote for Arnold. He was easier to understand.
  • Agent007391Agent007391 Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A, Start
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    He is. GET TO DA CHAPPA! notwithstanding.
  • RogueAgentRogueAgent
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    Close but i guess for me it would be Sly.
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy My Secret Lair
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    Tough choice but I prefer to watch Arnie. Even though I
    Think Sly is the better actor.
  • DarthDimiDarthDimi Behind you!Moderator
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    Do you like to watch really old (< 1950) movies?</font>
  • SaintMarkSaintMark
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    YES YES YES

    one great reason would be that the movies were more story driven as they had no CGI to make stuff look better, different/etc.
  • OHMSS69OHMSS69
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    In no partricular order:
    Letters from Iwo Jima (ironic how Eastwood made this as a smaller companion piece to his highly touted "Flags of Our Fathers". Letters turned out to be the superior film and received all the nominations etc. It should have won best foreign language film,IMO)
    Valkyrie ( Damned good intrigue. Actually rooting for the conspirators despite knowing it was going to end badly for them all.)
    The Caine Mutiny (Loved Bogart and the rest of the cast)
    The Great Escape (saw this when I was in middle school and was so blown away)
    Tora Tora Tora! (very well done docu-drama released in 1970)
    Midway     enjoyable and well done with an all star cast in 1976
  • Some_Kind_Of_HeroSome_Kind_Of_Hero
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    Admittedly a vast majority of the films I watch are from the '50s onward, but I'm always open to sitting down and watching an earlier film if something about it catches my interest. Two of my favorites are Casablanca (1942) and Metropolis (1927). You watch films like those and marvel at what was accomplished in the early days of filmmaking and at just how fresh and exciting those films still feel today.
  • 4EverBonded4EverBonded the Ballrooms of Mars
    edited November 2014 Posts: 12,480
    YES! I love, with a passion, old movies. :\">
    I always have, even as a kid growing up. A good movie is a good movie, no matter the decade in which it was made. And I get extra enjoyment out of seeing things from a different period or era. LOVE old films.
    Refraining from naming about a gazillion now ... ;)

    And, @OHMSS69 re your comment on the WWII films - yes, I think Letters from Iwo Jima was outstanding and should have won even more awards. One of Eastwood's very finest, if not the finest. I always recommend this film.
  • thelivingroyalethelivingroyale
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    Honestly? No, not really. Furthest I go back is the 60s (Bond films, The Great Escape, the Harry Palmer films and The Dollars Trilogy). I know I sound really ignorant and dumb but I don't like watching really old black and white films. Just can't get into them, the lack of colour and the poor audio quality puts me off. Sorry :(
  • chrisisallchrisisall Brosnan Defender Of The Realm
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    There was a long period in my teens where my motto was, No Movie Goes Unseen. I literally watched every movie I possibly could. So yeah, I've seen a LOT of older movies, the ones that stick out off the top of my head being Oz, Kong, Metropolis, Keaton's, Chaplin's, Big Sleep, Casablanca, Treasure of the Sierra Madre... stuff like that.
  • fire_and_icefire_and_ice
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    Love old movies...
    Citizen Kane
    Duck Soup
    And then there were none
    The Big Sleep
    Casablanca
    The Lady Vanishes
    The 39 Steps
    Saboteur
    Foreign Correspondant
    Strangers on a train
    Night of the Hunter... To name a few.
  • OHMSS69OHMSS69
    edited November 2014 Posts: 2,341
    As far as old movies go, I simply love them. I loved the old school actors, the guys and girls from the "golden era" 1930's. I never had a problem with B&W (as younger film goers seem to have nowadays) and actually find them to be refreshing in their own way.
    Some of my favs
    The Thin Man
    Beau Geste
    Mr Deeds goes to town
    Bringing up Baby
    Sgt York
    Arsenic and Old Lace
    Most anything with Humphrey Bogart or Clark Gable

    As for horror I simply loved
    The Wolf Man
    Bride of Frankenstein

    in regards to The Wolfman, the script succeeded where all subsequent werewolf films fail miserably: they made the werewold sympathetic and not just a mindless killing machine. The film has a booming soundtrack and is a work of art at just under eighty minutes.

    How can I leave without paying homage to those great westerns of the 30's, 40's and 50's?
    Shane
    Ride Clear of Diablo
    Winchester '73
    Stagecoach
    High Noon
  • Crazysoul95Crazysoul95
    Posts: 3,336
    Yes i love old movies. I seen a good deal too, but haven't rewatched a single film before 1950 yet, altough i plan to do that soon
  • MajorDSmytheMajorDSmythe "I tolerate this century, but I don't enjoy it."Moderator
    Posts: 13,978
    I have nothing against pre-1950 films, I think that's a ridiculous mindset. But most of the films of that period, I have seen specifically for an actor or actress, and not for the film itself.
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