Arctic
Good survival movie.
I watched Excalibur tonight
It was just great
Hi Toscano,
It’s one of my all time favourites. Great to see others enjoy it. The locations are fabulous and it’s a beautiful and uplifting film. Great use of the natural environment in Ireland and the green hue and shine off the armours. The soundtrack is fantastic with the Wagner pieces and O Fortuna. Merlin a super character with brilliant lines which drives the plot. Brilliant performances by some actors who went on to have big careers and also some of the main characters for whom this was their biggest role. Lovely Cherie Lunghi. Heroism, longing and loss; for me it’s just an all time epic.
Last 10:
- Newman: Where the Crawdads Sing 6/10
- Parrish: The Wonderful Country 5/10
- De Martino: Holocaust 2000 (cinema) 6/10
- Denis: Beau travail 7/10
- Franco: Mari-Cookie and the Killer Tarantula 5/10
- Mora: Mad Dog Morgan 7/10
- Paradjanev: Color of the Pommegranates 10/10
- Carpenter: The Thing 10/10
- Shonteff: The Million Eyes of Sumuru 4/10
- Scorsese: Gangs of New York 7/10
A friend and I watched the sci-fi psychological horror movie ‘It’s What’s Inside’ the other day on Netflix. Since I currently don’t have Netflix and stay out of the realm of upcoming and new movies, I had mo idea what the movie was about. He had seen it once before and was good about not telling me snything about it. To say the movie is mind-altering is an understatement. I found myself dissociated at times during parts of the movie . It was well worth it. It might sound like I’m over-hyping the movie. But, it’s probably one of the best, most original movies I’ve seen in a long time! The only thing I can say about it in advance is that it’s a movie the viewer had to pay close attention to.
From 1978, one of my all-time favourite animated fantasy films, an epic directed by Ralph Bakshi - who also made ‘Wizards’ (1977), and ‘Fire and Ice’ (1983)…
The back-grounds in ‘LOTR’ are simply breath-taking to behold. Yesterday, I paused the film several times, just to take in how gorgeous, colourful, and intricate, artwork is.
This is a classic case of traditional animation techniques being expertly mixed with rotoscope images, to add a truly ethereal and magical quality to the fantastical proceedings unfolding on screen.
Long before Peter Jackson tackled the Tolkien’s ‘Rings’ saga, Ralph Bakshi delivered the goods; albeit, with only two thirds of the trilogy portrayed on screen…
I loved it upon release in 1978, and love it even more now…
Welcome back, Topo. Long time no see, Amigo
Howdy
Yeah the kids got an arm injury, so no training and football games for a while mate
He’ll bounce back.
It’ll be a good opportunity to get him watching some spaghetti westerns
After having watched ‘The Raid’ (2011) last year - with which I was highly impressed - I got round to watching ‘The Raid 2’ (2014) yesterday, not sure what to expect, and wondered whether or not it would be as good as its predecessor…
Blimmin’ 'eck! It was jaw-droppingly fantastic, and even bloodier, grittier, and tougher than the original. The action literally takes place at a no holds barred, break-neck speed, and surpassed all my expectations.
A cracking, violent film, with some of the most brutal, balls to the wall fight scenes that I’ve ever seen. The choreography (in both ‘Raid’ films) is second to none…
The leading actor in both, Iko Uwais (pictured below), is phenomenal, and deserves every success…
If you need to let off some steam in the privacy of your own home, then these martial arts extravaganzas are just the ticket…
‘The Raid 2’
‘The Raid’
I hope they make a third one…
The Ox-Bow Incident
It was short.
It was very good.
I need to see more Fonda movies.