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Matilda. 1996.
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Matilda. 1996.
Time Travel... everyone's wet dream....
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From 1980, The Final Countdown... Martin Sheen and Kirk Douglas.
I like that film, not seen it in years. Ending is a bit of a let down but hard to think of how else it could have ended.
tonight its the silver streak.. stars Gene Wilder, Richard Prior; and the lovely Jill Clayburgh gets a mention too coz she was not only hot, but nice to.
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Memoirs of an Invisible Man.. Chevy Chase and Daryl Hannah star. Nicely done this.
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Some random episode of The Fast Show I taped that was on in the middle of the night. Lots of the good stuff seems to be on in the middle of the night now.
'Jazz Club' features The Donald Strong Jazz Tendency playing 'In A Turquoise Mood'.
"Nice".Quote:
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The 39 Steps. 1978.. Just finishing... now
Peggy Sue Got married... excellent time swap film; great music too
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.. Quality cast including Nick Cage, Kat Turner and Jim Carey.
Rooster Cogburn ... there is only one..
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Catching up on films. Tonight it's The Cowboys starring John Wayne and Bruce Dern who got a lot of hate mail after the film
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Roscoe Lee Browne plays the grizzled cook
Just finished watching 'Rogue' movie. I really wasn't expecting an Aussie film about a huge crocodile menace to be up to much, but it was actually pretty damn good, way better than anticipated. Even the music score was impressive.
Earlier the original Dunkirk
Now. Red 2
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Been up most of night. Doh. Now the thing from another world. 1951
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With James Arness (Gunsmoke) as the Thing.Quote:
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think it was roy. terrible film and sent me to sleep :DQuote:
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Always been a favourite of mine, amusing the way they deliver their lines like machine guns.Quote:
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aye, it isnt that bad tbh, just i was tired. about to caffeine up as even mr hooker is annoying me today:DQuote:
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The wrath of Khan Second star trek movie. From Amazon prime
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Taken 3 (2014)
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Liam Neeson is an ex-CIA agent, blah, blah. Now don't get me wrong the first one is a good film and the fact that it is stupid in so many ways just enhances that; a bit like in 'Under Siege', 'Die Hard' or 'Commando'. Only you've got Liam Neeson who's a proper actor not a cartoon character so you get a bit of perceived 'depth'.
So as usual despite the fact that he's keeping his head down and doing jack shit, there's trouble brewing. This time he's wanted for a crime he didn't commit. So it's basically 'The Fugitive' except he's rock hard and not just a poxy doctor. Or lots of other films where at least for some of the time the hero is being hunted by other good guys. And that poses a big problem: in the other films he can go through the baddies (mostly Eastern Europeans) with gay abandon, cracking windpipes and wringing necks with no second thought.
Because as anyone who watches Hollywood films in general, or in fact the first two films in this series will know: if you are an ex-CIA agent you can take the law into your own hands, kill as many people as you need to (in the continental USA or abroad), do as much property damage as you want and needlessly endanger countless civilian lives in reckless freeway car chases, and then when it is all over you can just go back to living your normal life like nothing happened.
Providing you were well liked at the CIA of course. Obviously if you don't fit in you end up leaving and going rogue and hijacking satellites and so forth. But Liam was well liked so he's fine and he's also got some other retired CIA mates to back him up, which is nice.
But the point is yer man is on the run so the plot calls for him to fight with, overpower and escape from the other good guys; cops, detectives, security guards. But he can't be seen to be breaking their windpipes and so on like he usually does Or shooting them. That would be even worse. So they have to use the classic move that you used to see on 60s and 70s tv all the time: The karate chop that knocks a man out.
He'll be out for maybe five, ten minutes; and then he'll wake up feeling a little bruised but otherwise....okay! Hey!
And Liam has to do this a lot to get out of situations and advance the plot.
Lame.
I mean we could live with it in 'The Man From Uncle' because it added to the charm. But in this film in 2014 it just looks like lazy writing to me. At least Forrest Whitaker is good and so is his character, but he's not in it enough. It plays like some of his scenes got cut out or shortened for some reason.
Anyway, worth a watch once and that's it.
Good write up Martin. Liam isnt my idea of an action man so never watched any of them. I prefer him as a serious actor. Hes too old for the action man bitQuote:
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As it's a cold, dark, rainy day here in Wrexham, I've closed the curtains, lit some candles and got the log fire glowing nicely, to make it all warm and cosy, heated up a plate of Del's gorgeous home-made Boeuf Bourguignon, poured myself a nice glass of claret, and am now settling down to watch this, on Virgin Movies, through the home-cinema system:
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Story line here: https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/hereditary-2018
Love a creepy horror movie on a dark, gloomy day, as the wind and rain howls menacingly outside........ I find it strangely comforting:eyebrows:
Laters, muchachos:cool:
Marco.
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Great Train Robbery series.
enough of music for now.... now this...
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Saw this last night.. been a while since i saw it, and it was rather good.
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The Great Escape
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The Wrong Arm Of The Law
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from 1.5 billion to over 6 in a hundred years... great intro from David.. one of the lanndmark series
Blast from the past
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Great fun
One of my fav films that.. it just works so well; great casting.
..now some Red Dwarf series 5...
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Blue Planet collection..
Lerner and Loewe's 1969 musical comedy directed by Joshua Logan.
Paint Your Wagon. Clint Eastwood, Lee Marvin and Jean Seberg One of the last musicals this but very good thanks mostly to Marvin being drunk
Film of Alistair McLean's 'Where Eagles Dare'. McLean both wrote the book and screenplay.
Released in 1968 and stars Richard Burton and Clint Eastwood. With Scot Mary Ure in one of her last major films before her decline and death.
Directed by Brian Hutton. Again from my Apple library
At midnight tonight on Talking Pictures TV, 'Night of The Demon' 1957. Classic B&W British horror brilliantly done! Properly creepy and absolutely worth watching.
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Based on the book by Nicholas Monsarrat, The 1953 film, The Cruel Sea stars : Jack Hawkins, Donald Sinden, Denholm Elliott and Stanley Baker. Virginia McKenna is the love angle, and very lovely she was, and a good actress t'boot.
Directed by Charles Frend and screenplay by Eric Ambler....One of the great war/anti war movies..
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Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 classic... Psycho, starring Anthony Perkins,Janet Leigh, Martin Balsam and Vera Miles. Written by Joe Stefano and based on a book by Robert Bloch, it was budgeted under a million. Needless to say it made money and continues to. After the death of Hitch, a string Of spinoff films appeared .
This is from my Amazon library
Good cast for this 1978 remake of Jack Finney's the body snatchers novel of 1955. Stars include Donald Sutherland, Leonard Nimoy, Jeff Goldblum and Brooke Adams.
Screenplay is by W D Richter and directed by Philip Kaufman, who also directed The Right Stuff in 1983, which was nominated for several academy awards winning 4, was a huge critical success and yet bombed at the box office... critics eh, what do they know.:lol:
anyway, back to the bodysnatchers; I like this version and although the original is great in its own way, i prefer this.
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Interestingly Kevin McCarthy was in both films.
Oh yeh, a reprisal of his last scene in the original. The film seems as relevant today as ever.Quote:
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Not generally big on remakes but I liked this. Not to say I don't like the original for it's good points too. I have both.
They were going to remake, or add to the krell story too, but so far it's failed to get off ground. Not sure if that would be a good idea
Maverick. 1994 stars Mel Gibson, Jodie Foster and James Garner.
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History of Mr Polly. Stars John Mills and Sally Ann Howes. . Quality film all round this
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Dial M For Murder from Alfred Hitchcock stars Grace Kelly and Ray Milland. Made in 1954