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Wasnt that Robert Shaws final movie?. Seen it once, terrible film. Sad way to finish his career.
I recall seing that film ages ago. I remember feeling very sad for Shaw that this was the film to end such a great career with. But it's been such a long time... perhaps I should revisit the film before dropping my conclusive thoughts.
I doubt it will be worth it. Its also got one of my favourite actors, Lee Marvin. He didnt fare much better with his final role 'The Delta Force'!
I saw his second-to-last movie, Dog Day. That's a French film. It's truly disgusting stuff. Also, in a certain way, the blackest of black comedies.
I've never heard of that movie! Marvin has starred in a lot of favourites of mine. Point Blank, Emperor of the North, Prime Cut, Monte Walsh, The Dirty Dozen, The Professionals.
Quite a violent movie (this is even a cut version to avoid receiving an X rating in the States, but still rated "18" in UK and NC-17 in the US), but if one goes for this (and I'm afraid I do), it's quite powerful and thrilling. Walken and the other actors are doing a great job.
The BD extras aren't so impressive. The interview with director Abel Ferrara is nauseating. Never heard a person uttering so many "you know"s, at least two in every completed sentence. And all the others also didn't offer any particular insight into the making of the movie.
Anyway, lots of carnage, with a touch of social criticism.
Edit: I recently watched A Business Affair, starring Walken, Carole Bouquet and Jonathan Pryce. Quite the Bond reunion.
I remembered this classic interview with Ferrara. Turns out he ran away from the set right before the interview, and they had to go get him back.
Unnerving film!
Great timing, cause tonight I've been watching a blaxploitation film from 1972 called Black Gunn
This one has always been one of my favorites ever since my first viewing of it. The film takes a real life scandal and uses it as a backdrop to tell a story about the nature of evil, and those who will go to any lengths in order to maintain power. The ending never fails to leave me cold as it should. This is amongst the best work of anyone involved; Nicholson, Dunaway, Polanski, and my personal favorite performance, John Huston.
It is super captivating every time.
I also just watched Skinamarink, which was far better than I expected. It engaged me way more than similarly styled movies like Paranormal Activity. It actually was creepy. As a child I suffered frequent, horrific night terrors, and this movie is the closest thing I’ve found to a replication of that. I would love to see more movies take on this particular idea of capturing a horrific dream, as I think it can be done even better.
April Fool 4/6 , HK comedy about 2 rascals and their various mischief : forging casino chips , bank robbery etc. Their female buddy played by Betty Ting Pei (Bruce Lee's mistress fyi) , Lydia Shum also stars. I like the groenendael dog one of the guys have.
I've been meaning to add this classic to my collection! Superb noir thriller with Jack on top form! Polanski was at the top of his game too. So sad to hear his latest movie, 'The Palace' getting such a drubbing, but he was never good at comedy ( Though I do love 'The Fearless Vampire Killers', a quirky delight!)
@Dragonpol many people in that film also appeared in Columbo:
Peter Falk
Gena Rowlands
Mario Gallo
Fred Draper
John Finnegan
John Cassavetes
Mike Lally would have been the icing on the cake.
I'll probably watch some other Cassavetes movies. Mikey and Nicky, for sure, and I don't know what else. Big Trouble, too, but unlike half the people who review the movie, I won't go in thinking of it as a failed Cassavetes masterpiece, just a spiritual sequel to The In-Laws that Cassavetes happened to direct because the original guy quit the movie and they needed a quick replacement.
What a film that is. Gena Rowlands in that delivers probably my all-time favorite actress performance.
I need to revisit Mikey and Nicky sometime soon, saw it several years back and wasn't as crazy about it as most others seemed to be.
Yeah, Gena is magnificent. Her distinctive body language and sounds, her anxiety, her joy... how she's so self-contained when she comes back, but you can still feel she's a volcano on the inside...
Of Mikey and Nicky, I've only seen the scene where Falk asks for milk at the coffee shop. That's a pretty good one.
I need to make a point of getting those Falk and Cassavetes films as I've always wanted to see them, to get a different perspective on Falk's acting outside of Columbo. It's great to see so many Columbo actors feature in that film - they had a kind of acting troupe come to think of it.
Yeah, they did.
I've watched five Falk films. The Great Race, A Woman Under the Influence, Griffin and Phoenix, Murder by Death and Happy New Year. And I was thinking yesterday that, out of the films I've seen, it turns out that my favorite is Happy New Year. Not that I haven't enjoyed the other ones (as I mentioned, A Woman Under the Influence is terrific). It's just that Happy New Year is such a warm, comfy movie. And not very well known. It had a theatrical release back in the day, but because of a change in studio management, it was very limited.
That was garbage. Other than a few little moments, that was NOT like the game(s). Both the casting, and how the characters were written, were awful. I suppose Chris was pretty faithful, but Jill and Leon (Leon made out to be a bumbling rookie!) were awful. Where was Barry and why does Brad die at the mansion?
Incoming
This reminded me of that film Lockout, just on a smaller budget. It was nice to see Scott Adkins in a different light, but given the largely corridor setting, we don't really get the full Scott Adkins;(no tornado kicks, no Boyka kick, he does more ground n' pound.
Surprisingly better than I thought it would be, especially given the series had been dormant for 30 years. Fury Road made me more appreciate just how good the Mad Max game was. I see now just how much of that game was modelled on Fury Road.
Fast And Furious 9
Another film that I just got around to seeing. Dumb doesn't begin to describe this film. A far cry from the street racing heist films they were. And they were never high concept films to begin with.
Beverly hills cop 2 honestly its a brilliant film and the best of the trilogy
Coming to America: Eddie Murphy is good in this film better then expected considering the circumstances
The Breakfast Club: a film that always brings back the ghosts of highschool back to me
The living daylights: honestly i wish Dalton did more he was brilliant as 007
Jaws: i love this film
Jaws 3-d: a good sequel better then many give it credit for
A few films
1. Jaws
2. Beverly hills cop 2
3. The living daylights
4. Jaws 3-d
5. Casino Royale 1954
6. When harry met sally
7. Coming to America
8. The Breakfast Club
9. National lampoons European vacation
I really hope the fourth one coming to Netflix next year rocks, particularly with the original cast returning.
I adore that movie! My favorite of Cronenberg's by far, and I don't say that lightly as he still has several other good ones! Just so much thrill and heart to this movie. Walken is awesome in it.