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Still on my watchlist. Maybe a good resolution for 2025 to finally watch these.
They were on my list for a long while, too, and I highly recommend the movies. I heard so many others say that Blue was the best one, so I was surprised to find myself enjoying both White and Red more, even though Blue was still solid. The dark comedy of White was just wild, and Red was just a perfect movie in general. Eventually they’ll have to make it to my collection; I’ll absolutely want to be revisiting them all.
First time viewing. I'm quite partial to some of Carpenters films, and this one is amongst his best (The Fog, Escape From New York, Vampires, They Live, and of course Halloween).
It's a great film. I put it in the same category as The Warriors in the 'street violence' genre. Carpenter's awesome theme functions as a genuine ear worm, but it's fantastic. You may want to give the remake a try, although to no one's surprise, it doesn't even come near the original, but not for a lack of trying, I'll give them that.
First time?!!! Wow!
Absolutely love this film! It was my first proper grown up film when I watched it late on British TV at age 15..
The action, the dialogue and that cool music..all brilliant!
"Can't argue with a confident man...!"
Yeah, first time seeing it. It was one of those films that I have often seen others talk about, but I hadn't taken the time to see it myself. I was a little cautious, in case it didn't live up to my expectations. It did, oh it did.
@DarthDimi I will have to look up the remake, and see how it stacks up against Carpenter's original.
I love them, the UK gave us a Superman, and we gave them a Sherlock Holmes. Fair trade.
I enjoyed them in the cinema, but a recent watch they didn't hold up well! Love the music though!
Yeh mate, it's a film I watch frequently , I've upgraded it several times! And like yourself, me and my younger brother watched it on T.V. first, and I've loved it ever since! When I watch it now, I always watch out for the innocent, inquisitive driver who tries to catch up with Bishops car in an early scene, after spotting the camera. Carpenters low budget obviously they couldn't afford a reshoot!!
"Gotta smoke?"
One of the best trilogies I've ever had the pleasure of watching. White was my favorite, with Blue and Red very closely behind it.
Completely insane and utterly bonkers, but I love it.
Tim Dalton is awesome as usual, Max von Sydow chewing the scenery with much gusto, another Bond connection with the always enjoyable Topol, then there's also Brian Blessed being hilarious and stunning Ornella Muti who I could have crush on if I would be much much younger.
Full of atmosphere. Amusing action. Phenomenal sets. Amazing score.
FLASH! AHAAA!
Honestly, this film is bonkers but I absolutely love it. Crazy, trippy little film with tons of good fun.
Yeah, me too. It's like what would happen if every crew department goes bananas at the same time. Trippy cinematography? Check. Wild set design? Check. Why not a Queen soundtrack? Great! All writers and actors can also go crazy btw. Except you, Tim, act like a slightly jealous Robin Hood.
Great fun! And our man Tim is superb as always ( and why wasn't Ornella Muti ever a Bond girl?) What's most surprising, this the same Director (Mike Hodges) as the extremely gritty 'Get Carter'! 😮
Ahhhh, the cheesy fun old days of Flash Gordon, Starcrash, and Laserblast!
Director Robert Aldrichs nail biting thriller, with a great cast has ex army man ( Burt Lancaster) and three colleagues seize a Nuclear silo, and demand an unusual ransom. As well as monetary demands, and plane to freedom, he wants the President of the United States ( Charles Durning) to disclose secret information about the reasons for the Vietnam War! Aldrich, using an effective split screen technique, turns the tension up to 90 to a tense finale. An excellent cast, as well as Lancaster and Durning, there's Richard Widmark, Joseph Cotten, Melvin Douglas and Paul Winfield to name a few ( Even Bond stalwart Shane Rimmer is in there!) Really superb thriller, it holds your attention right to the tragic ending!
No seen this one, mate. I will rectify as soon as possible!
You should do mate! It's a good one, well written and Aldrich handles the suspense really well! Really solid cast, even down to all the minor supporting actors! Good score too from the ever reliable Jerry Goldsmith!
On my list to watch. Thanks for the recommendation !
I had never seen a Hindi film before, and I probably won't be rushing out to watch another and not because of this film, they just aren't my thing. But for my first example of Hindi cinema, damn... did I pick one hell of a film.
A large family of violent thugs board a train and take the passengers hostage. They don't have a grand plan, they just want to rob the passengers, and get off. Unfortunately for them, an off duty special forces commando is on the same train to propose to the woman he loves.
If you like the sound of The Raid on a train, then you need to see this.
Paths to Paradise (1925, dir. Clarence Badger). Among the great silent comedians, the dapper and unflappable Raymond Griffith was something of a proto-James Bond. Along with *Hands Up!* this is his best surviving feature, full of smart gags and plot twists. Released on Blu-Ray last year.
Ivanhoe (1952, dir. Richard Thorpe). Surprisingly good and non-stodgy, perhaps because the castle-storming and combat scenes were directed by Yakima Cannutt. Looks luscious on Blu-Ray (with a young Elizabeth Taylor) and the script improves on the novel. An all-ages classic.
The Mask of Fu Manchu (1932, dir. Charles Brabin). A still-startling demonstration of how to turn indefensible material into high camp. Boris Karloff is outrageous (or delicious?) as the sick and slightly swishy doctor. The slick tortures and sparkling settings of the Bond series are evident here. Released on Blu-Ray last year.
Kongo (1932). Another inappropriate pre-code, the grimiest and most depraved one I've seen yet. Walter Huston is a crippled, revenge-crazed ex-magician who's bamboozled the natives and turned the whites into junkies. His greasy gusto is superior to Lon Chaney's in the West of Zanzibar, the previous film of this material.
I agnostos (1954, dir. Orestis Laskos). For some reason I went through five adaptations of Madame X this year. The 1937 version was the best Hollywood attempt at the old suffering-mother melodrama, but the finest of them all was this Greek film, the most faithful and moving adaptation of the original play, sensitively and economically directed. Viewable on the Internet Archive.
Three Godfathers (1936, dir. Richard Boleslawski). Another often-filmed story. John Ford's 1948 film is the most well-known but it was pictorial and sentimental, while this one is searingly bleak and haunting, much like William Wyler's Hell's Heroes, the previous film of the story, but with more time for characterization. Lewis Stone, as the Schopenhauer-quoting outlaw, was never better. My idea of a Christmas classic.
I Know Where I’m Going! (1945, dir. Powell and Pressburger). This recently restored odball gem is an unclassifiable delight, from the delightful invention of its comedic opening scenes to the moody, near-supernatural feel of its romantic ones. Set in the Scottish Hebrides and full of genuine enchantment.
Shoeshine (1946, dir. Vittorio de Sica). This restored monument of neorealism lives up to its reputation for intense directness of feeling and aching humanism. The friendship---and innocence---of two boys is irrevocably destroyed when they go from poverty to prison. As in other examples of full tragedy, the sensitivity in its handling prevents its from being simply depressing.
The Lady (1925, dir. Frank Borzage). Norma Talmadge was one of the biggest stars of the silent era and is almost forgotten today, except when mentioned a model for Norma Desmond in Sunset Boulevard. But this mother-love melodrama (another recent restoration) shows what a consummate technician and superb actress she was, with impressive powers of expression. I shed a manly tear at the ending too.
Mahjong (1996, dir. Edward Yang). This stinging comedy, set in Taipei during the onset of globalization, was long neglected, probably because it fell between Yang's masterpieces A Brighter Summer Day and Yi Yi, but it holds up not only well but presciently. Low-rent crooks mingle with Western floatsam in a world of new prosperity where nobody knows what they want.
Home video highlight for previously viewed films: the long-awaited Blu-Ray debuts of The Bat (1926) and its sound remake The Bat Whispers (1930, also directed by Roland West). Epitomes of the old dark house film, both make voluptuous use of darkness and shadow and take equal delight in spooky sets and skullduggery. At least one influenced the creation of Batman, and if a Batman film had somehow been made in the early 30s it would have looked like the first 10 minutes of The Bat Whispers.
As for new films, the most enjoyable one I saw in 2024 was undoubtedly *Hundreds of Beavers* (dir. Mike Cheslik), a riotous blend of silent slapstick, Looney Tunes, and Super Mario Brothers. Could visual comedy finally be making a comeback after nearly a century of slumber?
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If-anyone-shouldve-been-Bondgirls-its-HelgaLine&LolaForner
Very well made with several startling sequences. One of which is shocking and suspenseful.
So while i enjoyed it, i cannot for the life of me understand the actual point of it..
If any better equipped members could enlighten me...?
'Cant help ye, Sundance!'" 😁
Haven't seen it, but Iwas tempted to see it in the cinema, having got solid reviews, but it didn't stay in theatres very long!