The Great Northfield, Minnesota Raid, 1972.
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The production crew built several false front building façades which are still in Jacksonville, lending a nineteenth century flavor to the town.
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The Great Northfield, Minnesota Raid, 1972.
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The production crew built several false front building façades which are still in Jacksonville, lending a nineteenth century flavor to the town.
The Apartment,1960. Bily Wilder directs.
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The film was lauded by Soviet-bloc critics as an indictment of the American system and a story that could only have happened in a capitalistic city like New York. At a dinner honoring him in East Berlin, Billy Wilder said the movie "could happen anywhere, in Hong Kong, Tokyo, Rome, Paris, London." When Wilder said the one place it could not have happened was Moscow, the East Germans broke into thunderous applause and cheers. When the ovation died down, Wilder continued: "The reason this picture could not have taken place in Moscow is that in Moscow nobody has his own apartment." The remark was met with grim silence.
Billy Wilder gave Jack Lemmon free rein to fill in the character of C.C. "Bud" Baxter in performance. He compared the actor favorably to Charles Chaplin and thought he could do no wrong.
In the scene, where Karl punches Baxter, Jack Lemmon was supposed to mime being punched, he failed to move correctly and was accidentally knocked down. Billy Wilder chose to use the shot of the genuine punch in the film.
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now, Liar, Liar, 1997.
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2 superb films from Jim Carey and co...
...now, some Mags Rutherford as Miss Marple: Murder, She Said, 1961.
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My Favorite Brunette, 1947. Bob Hope..
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Bing Crosby, Bob Hope's long-term co-star and rival in the Road movies, plays Harry, an executioner, who is livid when he doesn't get to execute Ronnie Jackson (Hope's character). Hope fires back saying, "He'll take any kind of a part" (at the time, Crosby was a top star, but here he was doing a one-scene cameo).
Dunkirk, 1958.
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When the troop ship taking the platoon home is bombed and sunk in Dunkirk harbor, the scene of the ship sinking is taken from The Cruel Sea (1953), which depicts the sinking of H.M.S. "Compass Rose".
The beach sequences were shot at Camber Sands on the south coast of England, while the town of Dunkirk was re-created in the nearby English town of Rye.
Looper, 2012.
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On Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 93% based on 271 reviews, with an average rating of 8.10/10. The website's critics consensus reads, "As thought-provoking as it is thrilling, Looper delivers an uncommonly smart, bravely original blend of futuristic sci-fi and good old-fashioned action."
Joe (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) falling off the fire escape was filmed on the actor's 30th birthday. Gordon-Levitt was left hanging on the stunt wires while the crew sang "Happy Birthday" and wheeled out a birthday cake.
Did Emily Blunt pop out of the birthday cake? That would be nice.
she can pop out of mine if she wishes:DQuote:
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Good movie.Quote:
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There have been some decent escapist/futuristic Sci-Fi films in the last few years. I was watching 'Limitless' last night and 'Source Code' is another.
'Limitless' is a good watch.
Just finished binging season 2 of "Raised by Wolves"
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Philosophical Sci-fi tv series from Ridley Scott.
Outstanding.
Weird, but brilliant.
Just started watching 'Farscape'. I know it's from 20 years ago but only just got round to it.
Someone told me it had similarities to 'Blakes 7.' Only watched the first episode but it does seem to.
Oblivion, 2013.
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Joseph Kosinski and Claudio Miranda so disliked the extensive use of blue screen mattes in TRON: Legacy (2010) that for this film, they wanted to use real glass, mirrors and shiny surfaces for the glass tower set. The sky footage was projected on a 500x45' screen consisting of 21 monitors, and was filmed for three weeks from the summit of Haleakala volcano in Maui, Hawaii. The rooms with windows were lit by the light from those projections. The monitors took ten technicians several weeks to install and fine tune with floor-level rig support. In the end, the actors complimented the production team for that design to such an extent that Tom Cruise declared that the glass tower was one of his favorite film sets.
My wife is watching 'Mr Bean's Holiday'. It's actually a great film, which I found out when the grandkids watched it a few times.
never bean in to him :doh: sorry:DQuote:
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not watched first series as of yet:DQuote:
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Cannonball Run II (1984)
There's a couple of Burt Reynolds films that it is possible to watch when sober but this isn't one of them.
Cast is amazing though:
Burt Reynolds as J.J. McClure
Dom DeLuise as Victor Prinzi/Captain Chaos (DeLuise also appears uncredited as Don Canneloni)
Dean Martin as Jamie Blake
Sammy Davis Jr. as Morris Fenderbaum
Jamie Farr as Sheik Abdul ben Falafel
Ricardo Montalbán as King Abdul ben Falafel
Telly Savalas as Hymie Kaplan
Marilu Henner as Betty
Shirley MacLaine as Veronica
Susan Anton as Jill Rivers ("Lamborghini Babe #1", originally played by Tara Buckman)
Catherine Bach as Marcie Thatcher ("Lamborghini Babe #2", originally played by Adrienne Barbeau)
Foster Brooks, Sid Caesar and Louis Nye as the fishermen in the rowboat
Jackie Chan as Jackie Chan, Mitsubishi engineer
Richard Kiel as Arnold, Jackie's driver
It should be noted that both Marilu Henner and Catherine Bach are at the height of their powers.
The Cannonball Run series are probably the closest the yanks get to a 'Carry On' film.
Saw it on my Sky planner, and thought it was this, so didn't bother.Quote:
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But that looks pretty good. I'll have to see season 1 first tho
An American Werewolf in London [4K UHD] [Limited Edition] 1981. Written and directed by John Landis.
Got this for the boxset tbh as the bluray i have is certainly as good imo visually; maybe better.
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Rick Baker won an Oscar for Best Makeup, and was the first film to do so. Rick Baker claimed to have been disappointed by the amount of time spent shooting the face changing shot for the transformation after having spent months working on the mechanism. John Landis only required one take lasting about seven seconds. Baker felt he had wasted his time until seeing the film with an audience that applauded during that one seven second shot.
Only four American work permits were requested by the British government for the production: for director John Landis, make-up artist Rick Baker, and David Naughton and Griffin Dunne. The first three work permits were granted by the British government without question. But the British office of Actors' Equity questioned the necessity of a work permit for Dunne, claiming that there were already plenty of young American actors living in Great Britain who could portray the role of Jack. It was only when director and screenwriter Landis threatened to re-write the script, and retitle the movie "An American Werewolf in Paris", that the equity office reconsidered the application and granted Dunne his work permit. A sequel called An American Werewolf in Paris (1997) would actually be made sixteen years later.
The Producers, 1967.
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Roger Ebert recounted how he was in an elevator with Mel Brooks and Anne Bancroft in New York City after the film premiered. A woman got onto the elevator, recognized him and said, "I have to tell you, Mr. Brooks, that your movie is vulgar." Brooks replied, "Lady", he said, "it rose below vulgarity."
Mel Brooks has said that one of his "lifelong jobs" is "to make the world laugh at Adolf Hitler." The film was a way to enact vengeance through comedy. "The only real way I could get even with Hitler and company was to bring them down with laughter", Brooks said.
Mel Brooks cannot read music. "Springtime for Hitler" and "Prisoners of Love" (as were all the songs Brooks writes for his films) were hummed into a tape recorder and transcribed by an expert. When Brooks adapted the movie into a stage musical, he wrote the entire score by himself using the same method.
Mel Brooks was so surprised to win the Oscar for Best Screenplay, he collected the award without a speech prepared.
Innerspace, 1987. This is the only film directed by Joe Dante to win an Academy Award. It won the Best Visual Effects award.
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John Hora, who had previously worked as Joe Dante's cinematographer on all of his movies, was cast as Ozzie after Steven Spielberg suggested him to play the absent minded professor. Director Dante and producer Michael Finnell were very skeptical about that idea and Spielberg insisted that they give him a screen test to just to see and was cast after impressing Dante and Finnell.
Murder Most Foul, 1964. Directed by George Pollock.
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Like Murder at the Gallop (1963), this movie was adapted from an Hercule Poirot novel, the 1952 book "Mrs. McGinty's Dead"
Miss Jane Marple's audition piece for the Cosgood Players is her dramatic rendering of "The Shooting of Dan McGrew", a 1907 poem by Robert W. Service. Dame Margaret Rutherford was especially fond of the piece and reportedly once intended to give a reading of it at a women's prison to cheer up the inmates. (I'm sure they'd have been thrilled :rolleyes:)
Some nonsense now with Nuns On The Run, 1990.
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The picture was actor-comedian Eric Idle second major movie which made light of religious subject matter, the first having been Monty Python's Life of Brian (1979), which had debuted just over a decade earlier. Ironically, the first name of Idle's character in Nuns on the Run (1990) was Brian. This film generated far less controversy than the earlier one, and, in fact, some of the promotional video contains interviews with actual nuns who saw and liked the movie. Moreover, the film was one of two religious parodies as well featuring co-star Robbie Coltrane, who would later star in the following year's The Pope Must Die (1991).
'The Pope Must Die' was retitled 'The Pope Must Diet' for North America. Which makes no sense in relation to the plot.
ad agencies and all the rest etc were all shit scared to offend catholics. bizzare as if it had been about a protestant leader they wouldnt have batted an eyelid:DQuote:
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He Walked By Night, 1948. Loosely based on the real-life 1946 crime spree of Erwin "Machine Gun" Walker (1917-2008). Unlike the character in the film, Walker was captured, tried, and sentenced to death for first-degree murder. On 4/14/1949, two days before his scheduled execution, Walker attempted suicide, and the execution was postponed. A psychiatric board pronounced him insane, and he was sent to the Mendocino State Hospital for the next 12 years. Declared sane again in 1961, his sentence was commuted by the governor to life without parole. From 1970-74,he filed several motions to appeal his case, twice making it to the California Supreme Court. The second time, the court vacated the "without parole" part of his sentence. Walker applied for, and was granted, parole in 1974. He then legally changed his name and worked as a chemist. He died in 2008.
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Technical advisor for the film was Sgt. Marty Wynn of the Los Angeles Police Dept. During the course of shooting, he fell into conversation with Jack Webb, then the star of radio's "Jeff Regan, Private Investigator", who had a small part in the film. Wynn suggested that Webb do a radio series based on actual police files. Thus was born the idea for "Dragnet," which debuted on NBC radio about four months after this film was released.
The three fired cases were head-stamped 380 AP RMC which means .380 Automatic Pistol Remington Metallic Cartridge. At that time, that cartridge was fired in a Colt 1903 semi-automatic pocket pistol and several European semi-autos. It is not fired in a revolver and was not a common cartridge.
In Time, 2011. In 2169, people are genetically engineered to stop aging on their 25th birthday, when a one-year countdown on their forearm begins. When it reaches zero, the person "times out" and dies instantly. Time has thus become the universal currency, transferred directly between people or stored in "time capsules". Several major areas called Time Zones exist; Dayton is the poorest, a manufacturing "ghetto" where people rarely have over 24 hours on their clocks, whereas in New Greenwich, people have enough time to be essentially immortal. (so whats new?)
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Many of the character names are those of famous, and not so famous, watchmakers. The name Weis is pronounced the same as the watchmaker Albert Wajs.
Strange premise. Why would it be necessary?
keeps the poor working hard for the rich and keeps ovrall population down i guess. great way to control a people' tho. also the rich live forever and all stay youngish and healthy
Young Frankenstein, 1974. This is the reg A bluray. Not sure why I got the reg A one; might have been availability. Anyway the pic and sound are both very good.
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Igor: You know, I'll never forget my old dad. When these things would happen to him... the things he'd say to me.
Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: What did he say?
Igor: "What the hell are you doing in the bathroom day and night? Why don't you get out of there and give someone else a chance?"
Some Blackadder 2nd now... 1986. Ep..Beer.
Blackadder : Not good enough, you're fired.
Baldrick : But, my Lord, I've been in your family since 1532.
Blackadder : So has syphilis. Now get out.
and..
Edmund: Right, now; the sort of person we’re looking for is an aggressive drunken lout with the intelligence of a four year old and the sexual sophistication of a donkey.
Percy: [thinks] Cardinal Woolsey
The Curse of the Black Pearl, 2003. easy on eye and mind after a heavy dinner.:)
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Dead Man's Chest, 2006.
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Kidnapped, 1971.
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Several books on Sir Michael Caine have alleged that the cast and crew were not paid because of cash problems. Caine admitted this in his 1992 autobiography "What's It All About?"
Jack Hawkins couldn't speak and had to have his voice dubbed because he had been operated on for throat cancer and has had a tracheotomy. This is also the reason why in every scene he wears a scarf, it obscures the site of the tracheotomy. He made several other films during this period where the same method of concealing the tracheotomy site is used. It was dubbed by Charles Gray.
Kidnapped always remings me of McAdder in Blackadder...lol....
No, never! We must do right by Morag; we must return to Scotland and you must fight her in the old Highland way...bare breasted and each carrying an eight pound baby!
now, Heaven Can Wait, 1978.
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The role of Joe Pendleton was originally a boxer in Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941). Warren Beatty originally wanted to have Muhammad Ali play the boxer. When Ali's boxing schedule prevented him from doing the movie, Beatty - who could not box but could play football - recast the lead role as a football player
Scrooged, 1988.
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Bill Murray and director Richard Donner reportedly did not enjoy working together, creating a lot of tension on-set. When asked by film critic Roger Ebert if he had any disagreements with Donner, Murray replied: "Only a few. Every single minute of the day. That could have been a really, really great movie. The script was so good. There's maybe one take in the final cut movie that is mine. We made it so fast, it was like doing a movie live. He kept telling me to do things louder, louder, louder. I think he was deaf."
When the Ghost of Christmas Present (Carol Kane) grabbed Bill Murray's lip, she tore it so badly that filming was halted for several days.
Bill Murray falling on his way out of the restaurant was unscripted and a genuine accident. (As evidenced by the reaction of the actor playing the waiter, and Murray's feet as he falls). Apparently, it was due to the stairs still being wet, after splashing the waiter with water, that caused him to lose his footing.
Bill Murray seems to have constant 'issues'.
Very eccentric bloke, supposedly. I think he's really good but if you look at the list of films he's been in they are mostly total crap:
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The Man in the Iron Mask, 1977. Stars Richard Chamberlain and Patrick McGoohan.
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The final of four 1970s filmed adaptations of novels by Alexandre Dumas featuring Richard Chamberlain. The others being The Three Musketeers (1973), The Man in the Iron Mask (1977), The Four Musketeers (1974), and The Count of Monte-Cristo (1975), with a fifth made in the late 1980s, The Return of the Musketeers (1989).
Alexandre Dumas' novel "The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later", of which there are many filmed versions, has usually been shot under the title of "The Man in the Iron Mask", this being the final section of the book.
Chinatown, 1974. Director Roman Polanski.
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After several takes that never looked quite right, Faye Dunaway got annoyed and told Jack Nicholson to actually slap her. He did and felt very guilty for it, despite it being Dunaway's decision. The shot made it into the movie.
Faye Dunaway and Roman Polanski were notorious for their on-set arguments. During filming, Polanski pulled out some strands of Dunaway's hair. On another occasion, when she asked him what her character's motivation was, he exploded, "Just say the f**king words, your salary is your motivation!"
L.A.'s original Chinatown was demolished between 1933 and 1936 to make way for Union Station. The current Chinatown, located a few blocks away, opened in 1938. So the only time L.A. had no official Chinatown was 1937, the year in which this film is set.
The Van der Lip Dam disaster is a reference to the collapse of the St. Francis Dam in 1928, forty miles northwest of Los Angeles, which had been designed by self-educated engineer William Mulholland. The consequent flooding killed at least four hundred fifty people, a loss of life that remains second only to that from the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire in California's history.
Superb thriller! As was the follow up 'The Two Jakes', movies don't get much better than these.Quote:
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Got both on DVD and I should watch them again I think.
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'Bad for glass.'
Certainly one of the best films ever.
Blazing Saddles, 1974. Director Mel Brooks.
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(at around 45 mins) Cleavon Little was not warned about the "you know. . . . morons" line. His reaction was real.
The scene in which Cleavon Little aims his gun at his own head to save himself from the townspeople's wrath was based on an incident from Mel Brooks' childhood. He said that once, to his disbelief, he stole some gum and a water pistol from a drugstore; when a store worker tried to stop him, Brooks held the worker at bay with the very water pistol he had just taken from the store.
After promising Warner Brothers that he would edit out several "offensive" scenes, such as the infamous farting sequence, Mel Brooks never cut a single scene except one: after the room is darkened and Lilly (Madeline Kahn) informs Bart "It's TWUE! It's TWUE!," Bart (Cleavon Little) quietly states, "You're sucking on my arm." The scene was later added back to the home video release.
Production began with Gig Young as Jim, The Waco Kid. On the first day of shooting the scene where the drunk Waco Kid hangs from a bunk asking if Bart is black, Young revealed that he really was indeed drunk (he had had an alcohol problem for years) and proceeded to undergo a physical collapse on-set. According to Mel Brooks, "On the first day of shooting... we hung him upside down in the jail cell, and green stuff started spewing out of his mouth." Young's agent tried to defend him by explaining that he was a recovering alcoholic, with Brooks responding that wasn't actually recovered yet. Brooks shut down production for a day and Gene Wilder flew cross-country to take over the role. Young sued Warner Brothers for breach of contract.
Young also got sacked from 'Charlie's Angles.' He only had to do the voice of Charlie but was too drunk to even manage that.
American Guerrilla in the Philippines, 1950. Director Fritz Lang.
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Director Fritz Lang only made the film to pay his bills. In later years, he actively denied even making it. :rfl::rfl:
This movie was filmed just prior to the outbreak of the Korean War in June of 1950, and used American warships to portray Japanese ships. One such ship, the U.S.S. Orleck (DD 886), exists to this day after serving in the Korean War, the Vietnam War and being sold for a while to the Turkish Navy, and is permanently docked in Lake Charles, LA, where it serves as a museum.
Funniest line in movie... When Americans drop bombs son, they hit Japs, not us:eek::lolsign:
US airforce killed more of their own from air than the Japs did, or so my dad said :D still, they meant well...
The Big Sleep, 1978. Director Michael Winner.
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James Stewart(who was about 70) had difficulty saying his lines on time due to hearing problems. Some of the cast were shocked by his aged appearance. Robert Mitchum recalled, "The picture was all about corpses, but Jimmy looked deader than any of them." Stewart actually outlived Mitchum(who was 60 making the film) by one day, nearly 20 years later.
Oliver Reed told an interviewer he only accepted the minor supporting role of Eddie Mars in order to work with Robert Mitchum. Robert Mitchum impressed Oliver Reed on-set by drinking a bottle of gin in 55 minutes.
To avoid any copyright violations, Michael Winner organized a photo session for the cover of the pornographic book that Marlowe found in the bushes. Among the models taking part was Lindy Benson, who became Robert Mitchum's "companion" for the duration of filming.
so many things wrong with that film it would take the rest of my life to list them. Just one - it's set in London.