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Stanley Baker, James Booth, George Sewell and Barry Foster star in this tightly wound fictional account of the so-called "Great Train Robbery" of 1963. Robbery has what has to be one of the most criminally overlooked car chases, that impressed Steve McQueen to the point where he hired Peter Yates (director of Robbery), to direct Bullitt.
Watched this one for the first time last year, and really enjoyed it. Bullitt is one of my favourite films, and I guess Peter Yates's directing appealed to me just as much with this one as the more famous McQueen classic. Have yet to watch any other films directed by Yates, but The Deep (1977) is on my list of films to watch.
With all due respect to Peter Yates, the only thing I remember from The Deep, is.... *clears throat*.... Jackie Bissett.
She's obviously one of the reasons it's on my list! :-D
Would be preferable if the film was a good one of course.
It's why I watched it... I mean, for Jacqueline Bissett. Going into the film, I didn't know why so many people said "Oh I remember The Deep" followed by a wink. Yeah, now I know. ;)
You just made me place it on the further up on the list :-D
Dakota Johnson's acting skills are getting better and better.
It definitely has flaws. Sometimes the continuity between these films is confusing (it's 1992 now and they don't look much older than they were in the 60's in FC) and the whole thing can feel a little run of the mill at times. It's also pretty predictable.
Anyway, not the best this franchise has to offer, but certainly not the worst in my book. I'd also rank it above The Last Stand and Wolverine Origins. Give it a chance.
I plan on seeing it this week.
IMO, despite all its faults, Dark Phoenix has the best climax in the X-Men franchise. That entire sequence was properly badass and brutal.
Just finished it...yeah, good stars and interesting in places, but I give it maybe 5 stars out of 10.
My sisters and I were debating whether to see this or Aladdin, but afterwards, we all agreed we should have seen Aladdin. The movie was just "meh". It was sort like the studio put a bunch of stuff together with no good storyline and like this is the last movie so why should be care and "here you go!". It started off fine, but just ended flat. Any positives were that the acting was good, a couple of good actions scenes (train) and my sister said "the makeup was on point". However, we both agreed there wasn't enough of Michael Fassbender. I liked him and James McAvoy in their respective roles, but is this how you send them off?
Pretty much my appreciation. Just to add : I felt it was a bit rushed. Never quite understood the villains' motivations, for example. But all in all, a good popcorn movie, but not the finale I expected. And I loved the appearance of
You were too generous!!
Terrible film, and a huge comedown for the once brilliant John Frankenheimar!
And that kid from Stranger Things is simply brilliant.
Carl Rigg (imposter from TLD) is also in the film.
Any thoughts on the music score?
In the US they cut the hooker scene and toilet scene , they prolly thought the humor too Chinese......actually the hooker scene was longer (Tang was to hold around the hooker while she was topless but they told ms Longo that it was under Lee's dignity to film such a scene after being big star in SE Asia)
I have a HK uncut version- all of it is there.
The first time it appeared in France, four scenes were cut, including the one before the italian prostitue scene, and two scenes before and after the big Coliseum fight (including what happened to the bad guy). When I saw the german version of the movie later on (in 1981, while in Trier), I saw those scenes, but the fight scenes had been heavily censored. The new french version DVD had everything reinstaured.
The tone was refreshing the film had some great character scenes.
This made me think a lot more than many of the recent empty headed films in the genre.
Great score by Hans Zimmer, one major issue that I cant ignore was the villain, which does not help the final act though there are some cool Xmen stuff.
Ugh, that would ruin my Fathers Day!
I went with LTK, now that's a Bond movie!
With DAD , like several other Bonds, a couple of changes would have help immensely. I find it a very entertaining “ light” Bond .
As far as changes, eliminate the tidal wave excess and change Berry’s approach to her portrayal of Jinx; she needed more sophistication than street. She’s a talented, gorgeous actress and was wasted.
These two adjustments along would have improved the film considerably.
I concur!
Glad you enjoyed THE OMEN, @FoxRox. Now, should you ever feel a desire to watch something else in the series, please be prepared to face mediocrity. OMEN II and OMEN III are watchable, mostly because of Goldsmith's contributions and some interesting performances (e.g. Sam Neil in OMEN III) here and there. OMEN IV is a redundant piece of nothing and the remake of the original is, well, just the same thing all over again. Nothing beats the original for sure.
I haven t seen the remake, but have seen all the others and the original is the only one I own.