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I loved all the “old“ Michael Bay movies (before Transformers): fantastic explosions, great look, often great soundtrack. I'm a huge fan of The Rock. This was my most watched movie as a teenager and was so proud when I finally got the uncensored DVD.
Talking of the chase, he drives a gorgeous Trans-Am. :(
I love McQ. Seattle in 1974 looks nothing like today. However, there are a few locations from that film that remain.
Going off topic here, but how much has it changed? I'm afraid McQ is one of very few films I've seen that takes place in Seattle.
Really like McQ, only recently purchased it. It's better than his other cop movie, Brannigan. And that car chase at the finale is really well staged by veteran Director John Sturges.
This half arsed mish mash of Escape From New York and Mad Max 2 is pretty bloody awful but i do have fun with it. I usually cut to the scenes where 'Eden Sinclair' (a female Snake Plissken if you will played by the sexy Rhona Mitra) and her team infiltrate what was once Scotland, now closed off to the rest of the world to find a cure or something for an outbreak in England.
Some great and very violent action in this, as Mitra proves herself a capable action actress as things go from bad to worse with her team decimated and the remainder being hunted by rejects from Mad Max 2.
After his two excellent horror films Dog Soldiers and The Descent i expected much more from Neil Marshall than this unoriginal dreck.
I do enjoy it's awfulness though!
Dog Soldiers was great and The Descent is one of my favourite movies ever. In my personal top ten. But Doomsday sucked bad.
Bad movies I love: Deep Blue Sea and Showgirls.
Besides DS and TD, Marshall hasn't really made a lot of good movies at all. The recent Hellboy left me quite displeased as well. I've lost all interest in the man's work, and that comes from someone who also treats TD as one of his favourite horror films ever.
Couldn't even be bothered with the new Hellboy. What a waste of time and money.
The Descent was one of the best horror films in years. Especially with the proper ending.
Amazon bought out several neighborhoods and blocks and redeveloped. So many of the privately owned businesses are gone to make way for more Amazon buildings and so forth. Countless high rises constantly under construction.
That movie is really nothing but insane - but I still can‘t stop laughing about it. It‘s sooo funny - and the music is timeless and great (still one of my favourite Beatles albums, anyway).
@LeonardPine
I showed The Descent in my horror class recently. None of my students knew the film. They are all fans now. 😉
Well, it's an extracurricular semestrial activity, organized to integrate content--any content--and practical skills. In my class, the content is the horror genre in its cultural, technical, psychological, ... aspects. The practical skills involve writing, speaking, reading, ... in English (my students are Flemish). Colleagues of mine have similar classes, ranging from architecture over medical science to philosophy. Students are free to choose. The average number of students per class is 12. My class is the most popular one with 22 students. ;-)
Today, my students and I watched The Descent together (Covid-proof, of course). We'll be analyzing the film during our next session.
My last horror movie was Hereditary. What do you think about it?
I realize that I should visit the horror thread more.
My students are 17, 18 years old. It may surprise you to learn that most of them are girls. 😉
I quite like Hereditary, though I prefer Aster's follow-up film Midsommar. Tony Colette is great in Hereditary. I also love the slow pace of the film; Aster allows his film to breathe. At the same time, I feel choked to death by the family's descent into utter dysfunctionality. I mean that in a good way: I love horror flicks that elicit a visceral response. The climax, which some critics seem to think is "too much", is actually a really tense twist-ending that I particularly enjoy.
What did you think of the film?
It kind of served Bob Kane right, as he never really shared credit with anyone, as historians have shown. If you hear about his original ideas on his own, he would have been nothing. Bill Finger is the real creator of Batman that we know. Bob Kane’s Batman, more like Dorkman.
As for my picks for this list:
The Fox and the Hound
Atlantis The Lost Empire
Batman Forever
Billy Madison
Superman 4
Anger Management
Men in Black 2
Aladdin and the King of Thieves
THE LAST FLING
starring John Ritter and Connie Sellecca.
Directed by Corey Allen -Buzz in REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE.
Yes I know how Bob Kane kind of vampirised other people's work and was not the true creative force behind Batman.
Ouch that looks terrible. I really want to see it now.
I'm also a teacher and I had already incorporated scenes from movies I love into my class (i.e. a scene from The Rock (topic: effect of nerve gases) or YOLT (electromagnet) but what you describe sounds much much cooler.
I definitely liked Hereditary. If “liking“ can be the right word for such an intense and dramatic family story. Colette's performance is amazing in an increasing creepy way and the slow camera movements made me almost crazy (in a good way). The car accident (we have a link to The Descent here!) and the minutes afterwords are sad, shocking and VERY uncomfortable. Tge slow pace wasn't a bad thing at all.
The end was a bit strange but alright. Very dark and defintely better than the sometimes stupid happy ends in other horror films.
And my heart strangely jumped the most during Colettes's car scene when we heard the noise her daughter made earlier.
I should obviously watch Midsommar one day.
It's pretty bad, actually but funny.
The female lead looks nice if extremely 80s.
Leaning on the T looks okay, but not for too long.
I watched the trailer. Loved the stunt where Ritter (?) gets thrown out of a house. And his Spanish is terrible, though maybe that was the point. "El auto es flambe"? I think they were going for "inflamable", meaning flammable.