Today I watched ”Star wars – Attack of the clones” It was only one notch better that the first film.
Highly recommended if you are 12 years old.
4/10.
Just finished watching Have Sword will Travel ,highly recommended, great Shaw Brothers classic!
>Sure does, Ornella Muti in HD :-* <
Wow, she looks even hotter than I remember, Dale is really cute in an 80s kind of way also 
I saw Tati’s Playtime (1967) yesterday. What can I say? No words can do this masterpiece justice.
Plains, Trains and Automobiles.
Viewed this one yet again and something always makes me laugh in this one, and that’s why I always like to come back to it once in a while.
The Orginal is much better!
[quote=“ENNIOO, post:3604, topic:1923”]Plains, Trains and Automobiles.
Viewed this one yet again and something always makes me laugh in this one, and that’s why I always like to come back to it once in a while.[/quote]
That is just classic John Candy…that and The Great Outdoors are really funny films.
Watched Death Wish IV for some mindless action fun last night - actually realized that somehow I had never seen it before?!?!?!
Saw Requiem for a Heavyweight and Town Without Pity recently…
Both great films with endearing drama and performances…
Yeah, this one is pretty lame, I’ll have to check the original some day, but I need to forget this one first
Marathon Man
Tense and gripping as hell, the film was full of great performances, but I enjoyed Roy Scheider’s most of all. I wonder if the novel conveys the same feelings as the movie, I can’t really imagine myself being as chilled by it without the amazing score the movie had!
I have read the novel as a child, and was later disappointed by the film.
Escape From New York, great flick.
I’ve recently watched a couple of Hammer Horrors in addition to Blood From The Mummy’s Tomb: Frankenstein Created Woman and Prehistoric Women.
I also watched Invasion USA, which is mind-numbing jingoistic nonsense. Chuck Norris is a soulless zombie, driving around America in his pick-up truck and fighting disposable goons in increasingly more ridiculous scenarios. The movie was so full of plot holes and the entire premise so implausible, the acting so wooden it was like watching string puppets most of the time. Just dire, but nevertheless entertaining in a “so bad it’s good” kind of way.
Today I watched Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame, which not only looked spectacular but just kept my interest easily for the full two hours. A joy to watch and a film I can heartily recommend to anyone who likes these kinds of lavish kung fu extravaganzas.
Can’t wait to see this one, I heard a lot of praise for it. I certainly hopes it marks the return of Tsui Hark in a big way.
Honestly, it was great fun. They sort of set it up so they can do a sequel, and I really hope they follow through.
[quote=“TheBigSmokedown, post:3612, topic:1923”]I also watched Invasion USA, which is mind-numbing jingoistic nonsense. Chuck Norris is a soulless zombie, driving around America in his pick-up truck and fighting disposable goons in increasingly more ridiculous scenarios. The movie was so full of plot holes and the entire premise so implausible, the acting so wooden it was like watching string puppets most of the time. Just dire, but nevertheless entertaining in a “so bad it’s good” kind of way.[/quote]One of my favourite mindless 80’s action flicks. If not taken seriously I think it’s great fun.
Great for a double bill with The Delta Force.
“The Red Baron” uneven and some of the aerial fight scenes look like something from a game but film isn’t too bad overall.6/10
Shrek IV (I think) with the kids last night…not the best one by far but a few laughs.
[size=12pt]London to Brighton[/size] (2006, Paul Andrew Williams)
Sort of cross of a crime-thriller and a social drama in the style of Loach or Leigh
We meet two women, one a hooker, the other a very young girl she has picked up to do some business for her and her pimp (who’s threatened by a violent night club owner). From the very first beginning we understand things went terribly wrong (the film is told in retrospect, jumping back and forth in time), but we only learn rather late into the movie what had happened, and why the two are wanted by everybody.
Gripping and suspenseful. Recommended.
Here it goes another list:
This ones of the films I saw and mentioned in this thread, I choosed the 10 ones that I liked the most, in no particular order:
- Breaker Morant - Bruce Beresford - 1980 - Australia
- La leggenda del Santo Bevitore 1988 Ermanno Olmi - Italia/France
- King Rat - 1965 Bryan Forbes - USA
- The looking Glass War - 1968 Frank Pierson - UK
- El Septimo Dia - 1965 Carlos Saura- Spain
- A Prophet - Jacques Audiard 2009 - France
- The Hit - Stepehn Frears 1984 - UK
- Lebanon - Samuel Maoz 2009 - Israel
- Thief - Michael Mann 1980 - USA
- La donna del lago/The Possessed - Luigi Bazzoni, Franco Rossellini 1965 - Italy
Most of this film were 5 stars stuff to me, and gave me very pleasent viewings, I can recommend all of them without hesitation (of course I know some are not for everyone tastes), I could also make some specials mentions, Zulu, Big Wednesday, Light Sleeper, Night moves etc, and others, but it’s done it’s done.
If I only had to choose one then Breaker Morant would be my choice
Recently I have watched:
South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut one of the first DVD’s I have owned.
and my most recent ones which I got for Christmas:
Futurama: Volume 5
Iron Maiden: Live After Death