RED (2010)
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Great fun film... Great last words are they are chased by hundreds of troops.. "Moldova sucks" lol
Now Scrooge, 1951..
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War for the Planet of the Apes, 2017..
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Two Way Stretch, 1960..
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Murder Ahoy!, 1964..
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Rogue Male, 1976..
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classic film, which was made for tv and stars peter o'toole, and was alistair sim's last role i think.
On the Waterfront, 1954.. Criterion collection remaster bluray.
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As part of his contract, Marlon Brando only worked until 4:00 every day and then would leave to go see his analyst. Brando's mother had recently died and the conflicted young actor was in therapy to resolve his issues with his parents. Interestingly, for the film's classic scene between Rod Steiger and Brando in the back of the cab, all of Steiger's close-ups were filmed after Brando had left for the day, so Brando's lines were read by one of the crew members. For many years Steiger, who had actually stayed during Brando's close-ups to help him put in a better performance, remained very bitter that Brando didn't return the favor, and often mentioned it in interviews.
In his biography of Elia Kazan, Richard Schickel describes how Kazan used a ploy to entice Marlon Brando to do the movie. He had Karl Malden direct a scene from the film with an up-and-coming fellow actor from the Actors Studio playing the Terry Malloy lead role. They figured the competitive Brando would not be eager to see such a major role handed to some new screen heartthrob. The ploy worked, especially since the competition had come in the form of a guy named Paul Newman.
The leading characters were based on real people: Terry Malloy was based on longshoreman and whistle-blower Anthony De Vincenzo; Father Barry was based on waterfront priest John M. Corridan; Johnny Friendly was based on mobster Albert Anastasia.
Watched another Death WIsh movie, 2, the one where they rape the maid and the black guy literally screams like a fucking monkey, its so racist its funny. Then watched the Thomas Crown affair, which was a bit like an extended pop video, shite.
The Gunfighter, 1950..
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Based on the life and exploits of an actual western gunslinger named John Ringo, a distant cousin of the outlaw Younger family. The real Ringo was a ruthless murderer and survivor of the vengeance ride engaged in by Wyatt Earp and "Doc" Holliday after the ambushes of Wyatt's brothers, Morgan and Virgil, following the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral. Also unlike the movie's account, the actual John Ringo--his real name--suffered a severe bout of melancholy following a visit to his family in California in July of 1882 and went on a monumental ten-day alcoholic binge, which climaxed when he sat down under an oak tree, drew his gun and used it to commit suicide.
Dressed to Kill, 1980. Arrow remaster bluray..
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Angie Dickinson (Kate Miller) said the scene where her character gets seduced in the back of a taxicab was filmed on-location in New York City, where several gawkers observed the scene and shouted, "Right on, Police Woman!" (referring to her previous television role).
Michael Caine tells in his biography that director De Palma was a brilliant film maker but showed very few emotions with the actors and the crew.
Victoria Johnson volunteered to not take a credit as Angie Dickinson's body double for the shower scene. Also, since Johnson is a redhead, she had to dye her pubic hair blonde so she could effectively double for Dickinson in the shower scene.
Also from 1973.... Charley Varrick, ....
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joe don baker is in this also as a nice link, as is sheree north.
An absolutely crap film - total rubbish! :(Quote:
Originally Posted by struth
lol... how dare you :ner:Quote:
Originally Posted by Barry
I saw it in the cinema at the time; so am qualified to comment. ;)
ah, but you missed at least 30 seconds of cut nasties to achieve an R rating:DQuote:
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Do you stream these films Grant? I just use Amazon, but finding it llimited.
I usually buy films on Amazon prime and stream them, but I have biggish Blu-ray library too and my old dvd s were put onto hard disc to make it easy for meQuote:
Originally Posted by Mikeandvan
I'm not even sure what's on Amazon prime, I just go to what I last watched, and then reccomendations below, how do you search for films?Quote:
Originally Posted by struth
amazon prime has plenty frree films if your a member. click on the prime bit and itll take you to them.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mikeandvan
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Prime-Insta...f=atv_surl_piv
can then click on the store to see whats on offer etc to buy... and you can search too at top with prime video selected.
that link wont work if your not signed in..
earlier.... Shooter, 2007..
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now... The Bourne Identity, 2002..
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The Smallest Show on Earth, 1957..
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The production insurers declined to cover Dame Margaret Rutherford, so all of her scenes were squeezed into seven days.
The exterior of the Bijou Cinema was a façade built for this movie between two railway bridges on Christchurch Avenue in Kilburn, next to Kilburn Underground station.
Comin' Thro' the Rye, the silent the staff played to themselves,(1923) was not filmed just for this movie, but was an actual silent classic directed by Cecil M. Hepworth.
SHit, that;s how you do it! I was searching without selecting prime video, and it was coming with old video cassettes for sale sometimes for the lesser known films!!Quote:
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Titanic, 1997... not seen this since it came out so no idea if i will make it to end..
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better than i remembered...
now, the zany ..Scrooged, 1988.. stars Bill Murray.
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Die Hard, 1988.. 4k bluray... "Come out to the coast, we'll get together, have a few laughs..."
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The fictional Nakatomi Plaza is the headquarters of 20th Century Studios, so the studio could use one of its own buildings and didn't have to hold back on stunts and action sequences. While Jeb Stuart was writing the screenplay, he did a tour of the building, and immediately incorporated some of the locations and objects he found there into his script as set pieces (such as the cart that McClane and Karl end up riding during their fight). The company charged itself rent for the use of the then-unfinished building. Some of the middle floors were occupied by legal and administrative departments, so only empty floors were used for filming. Still, the filming of scenes that involved gunfire had to be postponed until after hours because some of the employees from the active floors started to complain about the noise.
Wide awake so gonna watch a film.
A Matter of Life and Death, 1946.
The Wikipedia entry for that film gets longer year by year lol. According to that they were contractually obliged to offer Sinatra the part since he originally played the character of McClane in 'The Detective' but since he was 70 years old he declined it.Quote:
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lol, not seen it of late.. i doubt frankie would have been great, even when younger, in that role.Quote:
Originally Posted by Macca
good film and the 4k really does it justice
The Man with Two Brains, 1983...
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The name that Dr. Michael Hfuhruhurr (Steve Martin) called Dolores Benedict (Kathleen Turner) when he kicked her into the mud was "Scum Queen". After this movie was first released, for a time, Turner was routinely referred to by this name in print media articles.
Kathleen Turner said she used a body double for a sex scene in this movie: "I was seriously offended by the scene in which my character is about to have her ass rubbed. I did not think that was funny at all. I told them to get someone else's ass to rub."
worth a read especially the contrast between what the critics said on release and what they say now. Any idiot could see that it would become a classic from the first time they watched it - except the 'experts' of course.Quote:
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Would have needed some more re-writes for a 70 year old Sinatra to work in it I think. Although a similar film in which an old, retired cop defeats the baddies with cunning and experience, rather than physical heroics, might be a good watch.
To Have and Have Not, 1944....
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Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall fell in love during production. Director Howard Hawks afterward said that it was actually Bacall's character Marie (Slim) that Bogart had fallen for, "so she had to keep playing it the rest of her life." However, it has also been said that Hawks---who was a notorious womanizer and who had a fling with Dolores Moran during the shooting of the film--was jealous and frustrated that Bacall had fallen for Bogart and not for Hawks himself. He even threatened to sell her contract to Monogram, a lowly Poverty Row studio.
Great classic.Quote:
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Same year, same Star.. Bogey.... Passage to Marseille, 1944.. a similar cast to casablanca
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During filming, Lauren Bacall was brought to the set in order to gauge her chemistry with Humphrey Bogart, with whom she would soon be co-starring in To Have and Have Not (1944). This was the famous duo's first meeting, though it would be months before their romance began.
Warner Bros. built a full-scale Merchant Marine ship in three months, modeled after the French ship Ville de Nancy.
Although exotic locales were called for, principal photography by cinematographer James Wong Howe actually took place at the Los Angeles County Arboretum and Botanic Garden in Arcadia, California, with additional location shooting in Victorville, California.
Bogey again with... The Enforcer, 1951...
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The death of the "Joe Rico" character in a fall from a building parallels the real-life death (in 1941) of Abe Reles (aka "Kid Twist"), an underworld killer whose arrest the previous year led authorities first to discover the existence of the organization popularly dubbed "Murder Inc." in the newspapers. Reles, in order to avoid execution in the electric chair, agreed to testify against the organization after submitting to a police interrogation about it, which famously took a full two weeks to complete, so exhaustive were his recollections. However, he never appeared on the stand, dying --after falling or being pushed out of a window in the hotel where he was staying---the day before he was due to appear. The film depicts Rico's death as a tragic accident, but it is more than likely that Reles' death was murder--one which, furthermore, almost certainly had the collusion of corrupt police officers, although this was never proved.
My Fellow Americans, 1996...
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In his memoirs, Garner wrote that he enjoyed working with Lemmon but felt the director "was a self appointed genius who didn't know his ass from second base and Jack and I both knew it."
This was originally supposed to be a Walter Matthau/Jack Lemmon movie with the role of Matt Douglas written for Matthau. However, due to illness, Matthau pulled out and was replaced by James Garner.
Agreed - it's probably my favourite Bogart film.Quote:
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classic crime caper with.... Charley Varrick, 1973..
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fell asleep watching this so will watch it again... after all its been a yearQuote:
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The Thing, 1982... 4k bluray.
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It has become a tradition in British Antarctic research stations to watch The Thing (1982) as part of their Midwinter feast and celebration held every June 21.
The film is considered a benchmark in special make-up effects. The effects were created by Rob Bottin, who was only 22 when he started the project.
Unused music composed for this film was later used by Ennio Morricone in Quentin Tarantino's The Hateful Eight (2015). Ironically, Morricone's Thing score was nominated for a Razzie for worst score, while his score for Hateful Eight won him an Oscar.
According to John Carpenter, he takes all his failed movies pretty hard, but the film's initial negative reception disappointed him the most. Not only was it a box-office bomb but critics panned its gory effects, tone, and characters. Vincent Canby, called it "too phony looking to be disgusting. It qualifies only as instant junk". Dave Kehr wrote that it was "hard to tell who's being attacked, and hard to care." Likewise Roger Ebert was disappointed by the "superficial characterizations and the implausible behavior" and dismissed the film as nothing more than an Alien (1979) knockoff. Carpenter was particularly upset when Christian Nyby, the director of the original The Thing from Another World (1951), publicly denounced Carpenter's version, saying, "If you want blood, go to the slaughterhouse. All in all, it's a terrific commercial for J&B Scotch." In response to the commercial bombing of the film, the studio canceled the multi-picture deal they had with Carpenter who noted that his career would have been different if the film had been successful. Not surprisingly, he was extremely relieved when the film enjoyed a rich cult success following its home video release along with the critical re-evaluation it received.
I've always thought it was a great film.Quote:
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yeah me too. its just got 'something'..Quote:
Originally Posted by walpurgis
Another Carpenter film now...Starman, 1984... Jeff Bridges and the lovely Karen Allen star.
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The only John Carpenter film to have an Academy Award nomination (Jeff Bridges, Best Actor).
According to John Carpenter in the audio commentary on Big Trouble in Little China (1986), the main reason he directed Starman (1984) was due to the box-office disaster of The Thing (1982); he needed to make a movie that was tonally the complete opposite of 'The Thing' to ensure his employability in Hollywood.
I've seen it a couple of times, but like most of Carpenter's films it didn't do too much for me. In fact the only films of his I enjoyed was 'Christine', and of course the spoof 'Dark Star'. Sorry. :sofa:Quote:
Originally Posted by walpurgis
christine, the killer car:doh::DQuote:
Originally Posted by Barry
it was fairly well done i suppose, and was a stephen king story
Trading Places, 1983...
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Ralph Bellamy (Randolph) and Don Ameche (Mortimer) make cameo appearances in Coming to America (1988) as the same characters; the two are now homeless, and Prince Akeem (Eddie Murphy) gives them a large amount of money to get them back off the streets.
This was Ralph Bellamy's ninety-ninth film, and Don Ameche's forty-ninth. This was Eddie Murphy's second film, and he joked: "Between the three of us, we've made one hundred fifty movies!"
It's not the best of films, but I enjoyed it, which I don't normally do with the films of John Carpenter.Quote:
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However if you want a very good film about a road vehicle with a "bad attitude", then I can thoroughly recommend 'Duel' by Steven Spielberg.
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My favourites are Halloween and Assault on Precinct 13.Quote:
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Operation Mincemeat, 2021...
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The story of Operation Mincemeat was previously told in the film The Man Who Never Was (1956) based on the 1953 book of the same name by Ewen Montagu.
In reality, for Operation Mincemeat, the body of ''Michael'' had begun to decompose and was almost not used. The ruse was that the corpse hadn't been in the sea that long. The Royal Navy decided to go ahead regardless.
it was good, although not sure i dont prefer the old 1956 version.Quote:
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not a comedy Blame It On The Bellboy, 1992... nothing great about it but Penelope Wilton is in it, (like last film) and i like her.