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I agree I have that version on DVD in storage, it's a film I should get on Bluray it's been a long time since I watched it. Michael Biehn and Edd Harris both great actors.
Oh, man, absolutely adore 'Streets of Fire'!
Walter Hill is one of my all time favourite Directors. This was a dazzling action fable. Stunning to look at and with a great score and songs. Such a shame it was a flop, and Hill didnt get to do the trilogy as planned.
Great cast, Willem Dafoe as the villain Amy Madigans wisecracking partner, and the gorgeous Diane Lane. This was meant to do for lead Michael Pares career what 48hrs did forEddie Murphy, but alas as it wasn't a hit, Pare went into obscurity!
Still, great entertainment, and Hills mastery at action set pieces is thrilling (the climactic sledgehammer duel a case in point!)
Holidate (2020), predictable and clichéd. Don't be bothered.
Sweet Sixteen (1983), average 80's slasher.
Glad you love it as much as me mate!
The sledgehammer fight is one of the best edited fight scenes I've ever seen.
Agreed!
The sequence where Cody takes on a gang armed with a hatstand is also a cracker.
Sadly Hill went off the boil after this, an odd decision to do a remake of comedy 'Brewsters Millions' and films such as 'Crossroads', 'Extreme Prejudice' and 'Geronimo'and a terrible sequel to 48Hrs! There were a couple of highlights though...really liked 'Johnny Handsome' and I love 'Wild Bill' though a bit episodic, its a great western with a good performance by the always watchable Jeff Bridges and some thrilling shootouts!
Hills best era was the 70's
Yeah agreed, he never reached the heights of those earlier films. I was dumbfounded when he announced he was making Brewsters Millions. What a waste of his talents!
I also quite like Johnny Handsome and I do have a soft spot for Red Heat even though it's a generic buddy actioner.
I haven't seen Wild Bill but if you recommend it I will give it a go. 👍
I do recommend 'Wild Bill', they based the screenplay on a book and a play, so it doesnt quite gel. But it is highly watchable, Jeff Bridges is very convincing, as the titular character and John Hurt and Ellen Barkin are in it, with a brief cameo from Keith Carradine as Buffalo Bill. Well shot with some good action scenes!
Utter tosh, truly dreadful
I strongly recommend the books of Joe R Lansdale on whose short story Bubba Ho-Tep is based.
His 'The Drive In' trilogy is a must 👍
THE DARK KNIGHT RISES (2012) on the tube last night.
Don't know why it's taken me so long to see this one, as I very much enjoyed this entry. I missed the first few minutes so I'll have to catch it again, but damn I was enthralled throughout.
In fact, I'd go as far to say that this one is now my favorite of the trilogy with BEGINS being second.
Christian Bale was so good I wish he were still playing Batman. Sorry to say this but I think Affleck and the upcoming Pattinson had major boots to fill.
In his hilarious negative review for GOLDENEYE the late Gene Siskel said: " I like Connery and everyone else has been NOTHING compared to Connery!".
I'm beginning to feel that way about Bale as Batman. He's now my main man in the Batsuit. Mickey G's dad has to suffice with second place.
That’s why I never liked Siskel as a critic. He would always hold one standard above all else, everything had to be personal for him as a fanboy. Overall, he was a fanboy, not a true critic.
The late Alan Parker's detective/supernatural thriller stars Mickey Rourke as a down at heel private eye in New York in 1955, hired by Robert De Niro's mysterious stranger to find a missing crooner called Johnny Favourite, which brings him to Louisiana, where everyone he comes in contact with end up gruesomely murdered, as he gets closer to the truth.
I remember seeing this in the cinema, its well made and great to see Rourke and DeNiro face off against each other, and Charlotte Rampling is an added bonus. Unfortunately it drew attention mainly for an explicit sex scene between Rourke and Lisa Bonets character ( she of 'Cosby show' fame, and apparently Bill Cosby was enraged.. ironic considering what came out about him years later!)
Its an engrossing thriller with good production values, Parker also wrote the screenplay based on a book,and though its denouement is fairly obvious (especially when you hear what DeNiros name is!!) Its still very watchable!
As a footnote, when i saw it in cinema, its end titles come up very abruptly, and the cinema i was in brought up the houselights at the same time startling half the audience!
One of my all-time favourites. Parker s best movie.
One of the very best Neo Noir, great film.
And this is another film where I wish to single out the music score, by Trevor Jones. Highly atmospheric.
Saw this a while ago and watched it again as it popped up on Netflix.
Pretty good fun with a reliably good Daniel Craig and Harrison Ford.
The special effects are all pretty good and it's entertaining but it probably didn't hit a home run like the makers thought it would.
The Last Jedi (2017) was quite bad.
I suppose it's fair to say that this film is unpleasant and nauseating. It's one of the few films--Cannibal Holocaust and Schindler's List being other examples--that I can only watch when in the best shape possible, which is a bit paradoxical since I'm usually left in moral and abdominal disgust afterwards. The New French Extremity Movement spawned many a challenging film in the early 2000s, but even Haute Tension is a film that I can sit through with ease. Irréversible is something else entirely.
Seeing Monica Bellucci and Vincent Cassel, two very recognizable and respectable film faces, is helpful when going through this rape-revenge frenzy in reverse-chronological order. But even then, the notorious 10-minute rape of Bellucci's character Alex and the revolting head-smashing of "Le Tenia" in an underlit, foul sex club called "Le Rectum" are enough to send one's entire gastric contents refluxing like volcanic magma. Daft Punk's relentlessly aggressive background score and the film's feverish cinematography only serve to make director Gaspar Noé's sensory attacks even more effective.
And yet, there's something in this film that invites deeper thought, about the sometimes thin line between playful domestic sex and straightforward rape, for example, or about whether drug-induced outbursts of vengeful aggression are still less unacceptable than the original rape. The film is also colour-sensitive, using red as a colour of warm love as well as of ill omens and violence, and gradually changing from the latter to the former as the narrative progresses (in reverse). I can appreciate some of these creative choices, but I'm left utterly confounded by others.
For example, A poster of Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey receives just enough screentime to suggest that there's an actual purpose to its 2-second presence here. Perhaps Irréversible's sudden and out-of-place promise of a (re)birth parallels 2001's Star Child; perhaps the poster is meant to legitimize the often-seen spiralling of the camera and the jarring stroboscopic flickering of lights at the end, much like 2001's "space waltz" and its famous spacetime tunnel sequence respectively. However unlikely, though, that 2001 can be organically fused with this film at even the most imaginative level, Gaspar Noé does seem to be telling me something, but it's all so disjointed and brutal that I fail to see what that possibly could be! Or perhaps I, as a fan of the artistic brilliance of 2001, simply refuse to allow Irréversible to even exist in the same artistic reality as Kubrick's masterpiece. Both films have absolutely nothing in common, after all--a fact that Irréversible itself hammers in with its almost intolerably bleak message at the end (which is technically the beginning) and which destroys every invitation of harmony in the most nihilistic of ways. If nothing else, Irréversible is the darkest possible antithesis of 2001; its cruel savagery is anathema to ardent fans of Kubrick's peaceful and visionary space film, like myself. While I have no trouble accepting both films in my film collection, I resent even the faintest hint at some subtextual link between one and the other. Noé owes me an explanation.
But even if I disregard the former, I must nevertheless still concede that Irréversible is not a "good" film in any conventional sense of the word. It's shocking and cruel, confusing and extreme. There's nothing even remotely entertaining about the film and there's a good chance you'll be left upset and angry; in fact, there's a good chance you won't make it beyond the half-hour mark. But if offensive films intrigue you and you treat them like homework, maybe, just maybe, you (and no one else) will want to check this one out from a purely scholarly point of view. Just make sure you don't serve this up at date night with your lover and the kids are in bed or, preferably, outside. This is a curiosity at best, the stuff you watch in preparation for writing an academic dissertation on the subject of exploitation films. I can promise you a lot of eyebrow frowning and intestinal protests, but no entertainment.
Thank you, @Agent_Zero_One. I take it you've seen the film yourself?
It’s a thanksgiving classic in our house hold and frankly it’s one of the best John Hughes films (while Bond was out of his wheel house I would of paid to see him do it he was a good story teller )
Over all I love this movie and it makes my wife happy and it’s as far as I know the only thanksgiving film that is mainstream (don’t tell me the b movie thankskilling or anything like that)
Overall a great movie
Films in 2020
1. Casino Royale
2. From Russia with love
3. Batman Begins
4. Jaws 2
5. It’s the great pumpkin Charlie Brown
6. When Harry meet sally
7. Woodstock the movie
8. Sherlock Holmes a game of shadows
9. Planes trains and automobiles
10. Ronin
11. Fast times at ridgemont high
12. Valley Girl
13. Goldeneye
14. The breakfast club
15. Rolling stone Gimmie Shelter
16. Octopussy
17. The temptations
18. Stand by me
19. The Art of war
20. The Prophecy
21. Jaws 3
22. No direction Home
23. Rise of skywalker
24. Casino Royale 1954
25. Nosferato
26. Pearl Harbor
27. Little women
28. Journey greatest hits live
29. The Grateful Dead movie
Bond films
1. Casino Royale 2006
2. From Russia with love
3. Goldeneye
4. Octopussy
5. Casino Royale 1954
Jaws films
1. Jaws 2
2. Jaws 3
Not very good, anyone like it ?