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Same here.
I think my favorite film from the Dollars trilogy may be “For A Few Dollars More.”
On many levels.
'The Wild Bunch' is indeed an excellent western!
Saw a programme on Lee Marvin the other evening, and was reminded of 'The Professionals', also a great western! ( not to be confused with Bodie and Doyle! 🤣)
-How to Train your Dragon is the best movie trilogy ever.
-Sonic the Hedgehog and its sequel are great movies too.
They are some of the best kid’s movies of the 15 years or so. Here’s one: if Pixar is truly going ahead with a Toy Story 5, they shouldn’t have Woody and Buzz be the main characters.
I thought Sonic was pretty uneven, but at least they listened to their fans with the design.
Most films are completely unoriginal. I don’t fault you.
Kind of true of all fiction though.
I think the world of 1982 as a movie year--also because it is the year I was born--but even 1982 could not escape a pile of trash infiltrating our cinemas. The "everything was better before" sentiment results from the availability heuristic: we have strong feelings about the present while our information from the past is muddier and less dense. Nostalgic worshipping of the past is not always justified.
FAFDM ? Better than TGTBATU ? oh...I've got to sit down. I must not be reading this correctly...
What I very much like about the trilogy is that it gets better film to film. Very often, when people set out to make a multi-film series, they peak at the second, or with the first. But Leone and everyone else involved managed to outdo themselves each time up.
FOR A FEW DOLLARS MORE is my favorie of the trilogy as well, followed by FISTFUL.
When I started to seriously get into film during high school, I thought there was a lot of dreck in the present compared to the past. But over the years I’d go through a lot archives that showed me there were lots of junk films that had simply been forgotten over time.
Only anyone my age and older would remember a time when Hollywood was churning out turkeys like STEALTH, whereas BATMAN BEGINS in comparison is well remembered to this day.
Good lord, STEALTH. :D And THE ONE. And many other expensive, high-tech CGI pieces of nothing.
This I get. I grew up channel surfing, trying to find SOMETHING, ANYTHING that would at least hold my attention. There’s lots of movies I would just watch right when it was in the middle. If I liked it enough, I would then try to catch it from the beginning at another time. I’m pretty sure that’s how I caught PREDATOR.
So yeah, channel surfing will certainly be a lost art when scheduled broadcasting becomes a thing of the past.
We live in a lesser world because Clive Barker’s Godzilla (which I swear was almost a thing) never happened
Fist of Fury (afa acting is concerned this is prolly Lees best.....the choreography improves here , no doubt , with Lee having more control)
Way of Dragon (my favorite Lee movie , i like the light comedic tone that turns serious.....only Lee movie not set in Asia)
Enter Dragon (the fight scene with Sammo , he doesnt look quite healthy here , where is the spark in his eye he had in 1971/72....he was worn out , the super hero image was about to crack & drugs might very well have killed him)
(Game of Death doesnt count as Lee never finished it.....the 40 mins is amazing to watch tho)
This was obviously released *after* Enter Dragon in the US to capitalize on Bolo. Its similar to Big Boss , more or less......typical Bolo role as the boss' executioner.
Michael Chan in starring role (ive got his autograph , extremely htf , very cool)
You also see some faces from BL films (Gam Dai/Chen Ti aka chubby waiter & Wang Shun Tsin aka uncle Wang , the cook.....Gam is still alive afaik)
Boss : "What do we do with women ?"
Chiang Tai : "We kill em.....and dump em"
I must admit I felt the same, @CrabKey
I found it an absolute migraine of a movie. Hotdogs for fingers..??? 🙄
Mind you, a lot of people seem to love it...
It's a relentlessly crazy film that works for me only on the condition that I have taken in a full gallon of Red Bull. Also, afterwards I need two nights and a full day to recover.
That doesn't surprise me 😄
I found it quite exhausting myself, but not in a good way.
Oh and speaking of robbed Oscars, Gwyneth Paltrow only got hers in 1999 because of a fat bully. Otherwise, she's an average actress at best who became famous because of her good looks and because the aforementioned fat bully wanted to have sex with her.
I liked it when watching it last night for the first time, as I wrote on the 2023 Oscars thread.
I agree 100%. Chris Pratt is WAY overrated. Always has been.
This is why I rail against the suggestions for him being Indy. He’s the total antithesis for what Indy is supposed to be.
Pratt is very one-note for me. Indy? Nah. He did Starlord well. Then he did Starlord again in JW. I am not interested in Starlord as Indy.