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Post by vegalyra on Jul 2, 2021 0:12:07 GMT
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Post by Prime etc. on Jul 2, 2021 6:42:09 GMT
NIGHTHAWKS 1981 - One of Stallone's better and forgotten action films. It combines the street smarts of Rocky with a Vietnam vet and cop character. I read he directed part of it. I like this review: Gary Arnold described the film as "an aggressively shallow police thriller pitting New York undercover cops against international terrorists, suggests what The Day of the Jackal might have looked like if filmed by the producers of Baretta.
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Post by teleadm on Jul 2, 2021 17:23:25 GMT
NIGHTHAWKS 1981 - One of Stallone's better and forgotten action films. It combines the street smarts of Rocky with a Vietnam vet and cop character. I read he directed part of it. I like this review: Gary Arnold described the film as "an aggressively shallow police thriller pitting New York undercover cops against international terrorists, suggests what The Day of the Jackal might have looked like if filmed by the producers of Baretta. Though it's been a long time since last seen, I remember liking it.
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Post by teleadm on Jul 2, 2021 17:28:17 GMT
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (2016). Since I happened to had watch a version of Pride and Prejudice rather recently before this version, I thought it was rather entertaining, and I got some inside jokes.
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Post by Chalice_Of_Evil on Jul 2, 2021 23:31:19 GMT
Chéri (2009). Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (2016). Since I happened to had watch a version of Pride and Prejudice rather recently before this version, I thought it was rather entertaining, and I got some inside jokes. I think the first Pride & Prejudice-related thing I ever watched was a TV mini-series called Lost in Austen which involved a person from 'modern' times travelling into the story. Even though I knew next to nothing about P&P, it did a good job of filling me in on what was supposed to happen in the story (though things don't go quite according to plan). After that^ I did watch the movie version of P&P that starred Keira Knightley (I most recently watched Becoming Jane, which was about Jane Austen), though I haven't watched any of the 'classic' versions of the P&P story (that I can recall, anyway). I feel I more or less have gotten the gist of what the story is meant to be through watching the various versions of it that I've seen. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies received a lot of hate, but I actually didn't mind it. The Bennet sisters kicking zombie butt - what's not to love?
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Post by Prime etc. on Jul 3, 2021 7:07:21 GMT
FOR YOUR EYES ONLY 1981 -- Finally watched it. How many times I would see it on tv and cut away after the title song. It definitely lacked the silly tone of other Bond movies and was surprisingly celibate although is this the first to show some nudity--it looked like the countess was partially nude. The action scenes were good--especially the underwater and climbing scene. I am not sure how I feel about the final joke with the parrot. It is rather hokey but I suppose it's better than yet another sex scene joke ending.
I didn't expect it to be so straight--even later ones like License to Kill have some groaner moments. It helped that they split the Bond Girl traits--so the skater was the easy conquest while the other one was completely serious for good reason. There were a couple of good laugh out lines.
Couple of negatives--the dubbing of the lead Bond girl--by 1980s that kind of dubbing distracts, specially if others are not dubbed the same. Also, would that high-ranking Soviet guy miss the chance to eliminate an enemy agent?
Great use of locations.
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Post by politicidal on Jul 3, 2021 17:03:28 GMT
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Post by wickedkittiesmom on Jul 3, 2021 18:45:49 GMT
"What A Way To Go" starring Shirley MacLaine . She did a dance number with Gene Kelly and kept right up with him. She's a very talented actress and beautiful as well, WKD is nuts about her legs. He said most women today have lousy legs, either too fat or too skinny. He's a leg man, I did tell him that nowadays he should never say anything about a woman's looks except to me.
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Post by Prime etc. on Jul 4, 2021 8:14:38 GMT
WILLARD 1971 -- I was shocked to see Bing Crosby productions at the start and also Alex North as the composer. I haven't watched this in ages. It doesn't feel like a 70s movie a lot of the time--it feels more 1960s or even the 50s for the lack of exploitation elements. Despite the premise, it has some thematic depth in that Willard's two rats Socrates and Ben echo the relationship between him and his boss. Ernest Borgnine was able to force his way into dominating Willard's father and company--and when Willard achieves his aim to find himself thanks to his rat army eliminating his problems, Ben reminds him that he is nothing without his rats--and returns Willard to his natural spot in the food chain--the bottom.
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Post by phantomparticle on Jul 4, 2021 11:41:17 GMT
If I remember correctly, Willard was a sizable hit in 1971. Bruce Davison added a quirky resonance to an already creepy movie. The sequel, Ben, was so bad it probable killed off a Willard franchise (Son of Willard, etc.), especially when the kid sang the title song to the rat. That song was a Michael Jackson hit. I'm thinking mostly because few of its fans ever saw the execrable film.
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Post by Chalice_Of_Evil on Jul 4, 2021 21:19:24 GMT
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Post by factchecker2point0 on Jul 4, 2021 22:02:31 GMT
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Post by Feologild Oakes on Jul 5, 2021 0:46:45 GMT
I watched the entire extended edition of the Lord of the rings trilogy today.
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Post by jeffersoncody on Jul 6, 2021 6:50:07 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jul 6, 2021 19:43:39 GMT
When heroes went into space, not douche bag egomaniacal billionaires.
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Post by Prime etc. on Jul 6, 2021 22:46:16 GMT
THE MAD BOMBER 1973 - Rewatch. Bert I Gordon film about a father (Chuck Connors) who goes nuts after his daughter's drug overdose and seeks revenge by blowing up places.
One of his targets is a feminist meeting. Vince Edwards is a cop who, a partner tells him, he would arrest if he didn't have a badge, because he is so high-strung. Divorced, fed up, and all he wants is to nail the bomber. He has to turn to rapist Neville "My name is George Fromley" Brand. There's a weird mid-film incident where Brand kills a victim and it is totally forgotten but anyway, I found out the song that keeps playing on the soundtrack is sung by the actress portraying his daughter in frequent flashbacks.
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Post by wickedkittiesmom on Jul 7, 2021 11:52:25 GMT
Suburbicon starring Matt Damon and directed by George Clooney, a rather dark, offbeat movie about the self destruction of a 1950's suburban family. Never heard of this movie before, caught it by accident on TV yesterday evening. It kept me engrossed.
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Post by phantomparticle on Jul 8, 2021 1:11:32 GMT
Midnight Cowboy My second favorite Dustin Hoffman role, next to Little Big Man
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Post by Prime etc. on Jul 8, 2021 5:28:33 GMT
THE TEXICAN 1966 -I checked out this movie because of the song-but it doesn't appear in the movie!
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Post by jeffersoncody on Jul 8, 2021 7:11:44 GMT
HERE TODAY (2021) with Billy Crystal, Tiffany Haddish and Louisa Krause, directed by Billy Crystal. My Rating: 7 out of 10. Recommended.
Billy Crystal's new film is sweet, funny and emotionally manipulative, and, probably because my mom's battle with dementia ended 18 months ago, it had me in tears for most of the second half. As Variety's critic noted it is both both "winning and mushy". This one really worked for the missus and I. It's not without its flaws and it is too long, but we thoroughly enjoyed it.
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