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Post by Wolverine10005 on May 13, 2022 22:16:26 GMT
Watch this great movie. It's an adventure masterpiece, and a cult classic. In Italy, it was a huge hit.
RIP FRED, you are a legend.
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Post by petrolino on May 13, 2022 22:23:51 GMT
It has a strange kind of magic to it.
R.I.P.
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Post by politicidal on May 13, 2022 23:21:03 GMT
I liked it more than I expected. Shame there weren't sequels. Maybe there'll be a reboot considering how many books there are.
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Post by SuperDevilDoctor on May 14, 2022 15:42:57 GMT
Ward and Grey are terrific, the humor works well... But the action is often lackluster or lame, and parts of it are pretty dumb.
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Post by Sarge on May 15, 2022 4:44:06 GMT
I was a big fan of the books. The movie was okay. I'm not sure Fred Ward was who I imagined as Remo Williams but he embraced the role.
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Post by Wolverine10005 on May 15, 2022 9:26:07 GMT
But the action is often lackluster or lame, and parts of it are pretty dumb.
The action was terrific and memorable. The Statue of Liberty, the infiltration sequence, the entire third part of the movie. Exciting, impressive and terrific. It wasn't supposed to be COMMANDO or RAMBO II. It was different, of course.
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Post by politicidal on May 15, 2022 13:15:13 GMT
Ward and Grey are terrific, the humor works well... But the action is often lackluster or lame, and parts of it are pretty dumb. The big set-piece at the Statue of Liberty is actually pretty good. Except it’s in the middle of the movie, and the climax doesn’t measure up to it. I read somewhere that they had to cut back on bigger action scenes. But this allegedly cost $40 million which sounds like a shit-ton for a 1985 release. |
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Post by Popeye Doyle on May 15, 2022 13:19:16 GMT
Ward and Grey are terrific, the humor works well... But the action is often lackluster or lame, and parts of it are pretty dumb. The big set-piece at the Statue of Liberty is actually pretty good. Except it’s in the middle of the movie, and the climax doesn’t measure up to it. I read somewhere that they had to cut back on bigger action scenes. But this allegedly cost $40 million which sounds like a shit-ton for a 1985 release. $40 million in 1985 is about $105 million today.
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Post by politicidal on May 15, 2022 13:51:51 GMT
The big set-piece at the Statue of Liberty is actually pretty good. Except it’s in the middle of the movie, and the climax doesn’t measure up to it. I read somewhere that they had to cut back on bigger action scenes. But this allegedly cost $40 million which sounds like a shit-ton for a 1985 release. $40 million in 1985 is about $105 million today. Yeah see, there you go. Not sure where the rest of the money went aside from that Statue of Liberty scene.
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Post by Wolverine10005 on May 15, 2022 17:15:18 GMT
$40 million in 1985 is about $105 million today. Yeah see, there you go. Not sure where the rest of the money went aside from that Statue of Liberty scene.
The last third of the movie is full of spectacular action.
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Post by politicidal on May 15, 2022 17:35:15 GMT
Yeah see, there you go. Not sure where the rest of the money went aside from that Statue of Liberty scene.
The last third of the movie is full of spectacular action.
Eh the bit where he's hanging on the log is kind of neat. But it's not quite as exciting as the earlier scene when they're jostling on Lady Liberty.
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Post by SuperDevilDoctor on May 15, 2022 21:50:51 GMT
But the action is often lackluster or lame, and parts of it are pretty dumb.
The action was terrific and memorable. The Statue of Liberty, the infiltration sequence, the entire third part of the movie. Exciting, impressive and terrific. It wasn't supposed to be COMMANDO or RAMBO II. It was different, of course.
Actually, REMO WILLIAMS (warts and all) is a better film than COMMANDO and RAMBO II -- which are laughably stupid junk. Neither of those films, though, feature a bad special effect of a guard dog walking a tight-rope... (They have their own set of problems.)
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Post by Wolverine10005 on May 15, 2022 23:26:43 GMT
The action was terrific and memorable. The Statue of Liberty, the infiltration sequence, the entire third part of the movie. Exciting, impressive and terrific. It wasn't supposed to be COMMANDO or RAMBO II. It was different, of course.
Actually, REMO WILLIAMS (warts and all) is a better film than COMMANDO and RAMBO II -- which are laughably stupid junk. Neither of those films, though, feature a bad special effect of a guard dog walking a tight-rope... (They have their own set of problems.)
LOL, if memory serves me well... the dog TRULY performed that!
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Post by Wolverine10005 on May 16, 2022 22:09:58 GMT
The big set-piece at the Statue of Liberty is actually pretty good. Except it’s in the middle of the movie, and the climax doesn’t measure up to it. I read somewhere that they had to cut back on bigger action scenes. But this allegedly cost $40 million which sounds like a shit-ton for a 1985 release. $40 million in 1985 is about $105 million today.
They surely inflated the figure for hype reasons. It's impossible that the movie costed so much.
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Post by vegalyra on May 16, 2022 23:42:52 GMT
Always liked it a lot. I remember when lady liberty was being restored, so that was cool seeing that sequence. Wilford Brimley was cool also. Gotta have some of that Quaker oatmeal
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Post by movielover on May 29, 2022 15:25:13 GMT
I like the 1st half better than the 2nd half, but it’s an okay movie overall. Joel Grey nearly steals the movie.
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Post by Wolverine10005 on Jun 3, 2022 0:13:46 GMT
Always liked it a lot. I remember when lady liberty was being restored, so that was cool seeing that sequence. Wilford Brimley was cool also. Gotta have some of that Quaker oatmeal
Hell yes.
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Post by Wolverine10005 on Jun 3, 2022 0:24:36 GMT
$40 million in 1985 is about $105 million today. Yeah see, there you go. Not sure where the rest of the money went aside from that Statue of Liberty scene.
The third part of the movie was full action, and it was terrific. Again, it wasn't RAMBO II. It wasn't lame and stupid at all.
Remo is a ninja spy, not your average action hero.
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Post by politicidal on Dec 14, 2022 0:52:57 GMT
Bump
Looks like it's getting a tv series.
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Post by petrolino on Dec 14, 2022 1:55:20 GMT
Bump
Looks like it's getting a tv series.
Could be a fitting epitaph to the late, great Fred Ward.
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