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I just see Sanchez in this clip.
check out black book if you've never seen it.
Verhoven’s films usually had a dark comic edge to them. That could work well in the Bond world.
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2007/jan/19/worldcinema.thriller
the review is actually spot on apart from where it concludes "it could have been great" - because actually it is really good.
Tarantino and Brozza also would have been good to see.
Thats my Jam.
Gotta love Verhoeven, i always get a sense from his movies that he deeply hated Hollywood films. The level of sex and violence in his movies is like a persiflage, and a critique of the mainstream audience as well, as if he's saying "isn't this exactly what you want you sick f****?"
And yes, Paul, thats exactly what we wanted.
You really hate Aliens?
Actually I think that alien and aliens are two almost completely different kind of movies - and each of them is at the top of its game. Whoever says that aliens is a boring Popcornflic hasn’t been in the cinema back then when Alien wave after wave was pounding against the gates of the colonIalists settlement. This was a truly thrilling movie, which hasn’t been equaled yet.
T2 is good entertainment which is excellent visualized. No more, no less. I’ve never seen avatar or titanic, but can’t imagine that they could give anything to me.
I can't choose between the original and the sequel. I love both of them equally and I still get chills when watching both. The scene when the Terminator comes out of the floor at the asylum still gets me every time, as do some of the chase sequences which are absolutely thrilling (casting Robert Patrick was a masterstroke). I personally also really like how he twisted the premise from the original and made Arnie the good guy (if someone revealed that in the trailers they should be shot).
You're not missing much, I can assure you. The latter is one perhaps best saved for a death bed. It will make the transition much easier.
These are all movies that I saw on the big screen: from Alien(s) right through to True Lies. The Abyss could have been pretty good but for that absolutely terrible, syrupy dialogue between Ed Harris and Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, especially when he's heading down into the abyss which had my stomach roiling. That script sure did need a Gale Anne Hurd polish, as did Aliens. I always felt that Aliens, along with Rambo: First Blood Part II were the start of the dumb actioner, both coincidentally written by Cameron.
Talking of True Lies, I see that there's a television series now in development due out next year.
I have and I agree. I’ve always thought of Cameron as being a Lucas/Bay hybrid. He enjoys building and visualising the worlds his films exist and he’s a keen and expert technician, who’s not averse to ‘blowing sh*t up’. In terms of storytelling he’s not ‘up there’, I wouldn’t say. I do, however, find most of his films very enjoyable. I don’t think he’s ever pretended he’s anything other than a keen helmer of mainstream blockbusters, so fair play.
Paul Verhoeven I watch because he basically a Dutch cinematic hero of mine, somebody called the Black book a minor film of the unPC variety. It is not, it is a movie that showcases that not everybody in WWII was a hero, there was a lot of collaboration between the Nazi's/occupiers and the Dutch for various reasons. he wanted to show that as an companion to his hero story "Soldier of Orange". It was a study in grey colors about WWII instead of an bombastic heroic epos.
McTiernan would have been fun but we got Campbell instead who twice has proven he can bring us a Decent first adventure for a new 007 actor.
All these men are great action directors with an original eye for the material.
All I want currently is a decent swansong for Craig in a movie that combines action with a good story. Any more personal sh&t and I declare the Craig era a waste of time after CR.
I have seen them all in the cinema, and Aliens is the only installment in the franchise I don t care for.
You mean after covenant end Prometheus? Fascinating, really fascinating.
I loved those.
Good to know that you also read both scripts for T1. It gives quite a fascinating insight into how this great little sci-fi story went from a great idea to an even better more rounded one.
+1. I'd add True Lies to that too!
Fair enough. Curtis is good but the rest..all the tedious stuff with Bill Paxton..Art Maliks anonymous villain and poorly staged action..it also looks cheap and Maliks death scene is badly done. Thank God it never got a sequel!
I personally have no problems with Malk's Osama wannabee villain and Lee Curtis is a blast.
I could do without the silly wife interrogation and Paxton wanker subplot though. That was just a waste of space & tonally jarring in an otherwise excellent film.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103103/