I only really responded to the bits I disagreed with (because that’s most fun). There are plenty of points where we agree.
[quote=“Paco Roman, post:4352, topic:1923”]Force 10 to Navarone
Robert Shaw, Edward Fox, Harrison Ford, Franco Nero, Rocky Opponent Carl Weathers, Bond Villain Howard Kiel and Bond Girl Barbara Bach starring in a sequel to Guns of Navarone. Directed by Guy Hamilton (Goldfinger and other 007 Movies). IMO it doesn’t work as sequel but it’s decent and entertaining enough as stand alone.[/quote]
I never get tired of watching it. There isn’t a bad-scene, really. The music is fantastic, summoning British wartime-heroism in a satisfyingly over-the-top way. -Plenty of thrills and one-liners. The decapitation-scene is classic. The ending leaves-open the avenue for another sequel, but MacLean never wrote one.
Me too. It was ‘refreshing’ to see a mob-movie played-out in a farmland-setting. I’d always liked the 1947 Alan Ladd film; Wild Harvest, with ‘evil’ corporate-farm shenanigans… featuring threshers, tractors, combines, trucks, and plenty of gunplay. Prime Cut fit-right-in. Intense, yet invigorating.
[i]" Nick, you know some-of-the-guys, don’tcha… ?
" Yeah, I know some of the guys… "[/i]
And his brother’s name is Weenie…
I agree. Over the years, I began watching it for Van Cleef, though Payne is always satisfying. It might be Preston Foster’s best film, though his character turned ‘good’ a little too easy, as his meticulous planning for the opening armored-car robbery seemed devilishly cunning. In fact, the first time I saw it, I thought Payne was actually Foster’s partner. Neville Brand was unsavory-diabolical too. Nice package.
Okay, no problem
I was a little disappointed with Carnival of Souls. I’d read so many good things about it. I guess Creepiness (which this movie has plenty of) is not enough to keep my attention for 80 minutes…Other than that didn’t have much going for it.
“New Town Killers” not too bad if familar stuff although a different setting in Scotland. what hurts the film is a very disapointing ending.
I did like it, one of those films that we must take the all story behind it into proper account, and in some aspects is a very influential film, just think of Romero for instance
in some aspects is a very influential film, just think of Romero for instance<
I can see that…The way the ghouls looked for instance…I guess I was just expecting too much. It’s no Black Sunday or City of the Dead!
Rider On The Rain.
Interesting thriller from Bronson’s euro period. Bronson is on the trail of a rapist who has stolen some cash. Bronson smiles through out like a Cheshire cat, and this is even commented on in the film.
I watched The Ultimate Warrior today, which just about held my interest. Not as good as similar fare like Omega Man or Soylent Green, but Yul Brynner helped to make it watchable.
[url]http://img14.imageshack.us/i/kabulikid.jpg/[/url] KABULI KID (2008, Barmak Akram)
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Anybody making movies in Afghanistan these days?? Sure, and the biggest surprise is that Barmak Akram’s Kabuli Kid is such a nice movie. Okay, Akram shows us how his country has been ruined and destroyed during 25 years of war, but his movie is also often funny and touching.
A taxi driver accepts to drive a burqa wearing women and her six months old kid through Kabul, but when she steps out of the cab, she leaves her kid behind. The cab driver contacts the police, an orphanage, two wealthy foreigners, but no one is willing to accept the baby, so he can only take the little boy home, where his wife and four daughters are waiting for him. Also waiting for him: his dad, an intellectual who lost his job at the university under the Talibaan and who looks down on him, an uneducated taxi driver with four daughters.
A lovely, insightful little film about people who try to survive and keep their dignity in a country torn by wars
Taxi Driver last night, which I have been meaning to watch for years. Quite enjoyed it.
First time you watched it?
In that case I’d like to hear how you experienced the ending. I remember that many people (among them critics, just read what Maltin writes about the movie in his guide) were shocked by it when the film was first released.
the barbarians 1987 a conan rip-off and total trash
rugero deodato makes many crap movies
“Predators”. disapointing. had too many dull stretches, not as good as the original. i know this isn’t a remake more of a re do/ sequel. 6/10
The Battle Of The Bulge, with Henry Fonda… Disgusting. I knew it was going to be awful from the beginning, as Fonda, flying in a recon-plane, ‘recognizes’ a German General (Robert Shaw) riding in a kommand-kar on the ground hundreds of metres away. The plane does a flyby and Fonda snaps a picture. When the picture is developed, it’s a ground-shot. It gets worse from there… usually with sky-backgrounds going from snowy to clear-blue in the same ‘scene’. Belgium’s Ardennes Forest is dense. That was the strategic-point of using it to hide the tank-attack. But the forest in the film is usually sparse and wide-open.
Fonda is obsessed with Shaw’s character, and Dana Andrews is obsessed with Fonda’s. Ridiculous. And all of Chuck Bronson’s scenes are him drinking coffee, or making coffee. Absurd. Fonda’s literally all-over-the-map. He’s supposed to be an intelligence-officer, yet he goes from a failed sniping-attempt to taking a leisurely jeep-ride, where he just happens to discover a German military-unit disguised as Americans. -A unit that parachuted in, but miraculously remained as a group. Not spread-out like real parachute-drops.
If someone uses a binoculars, shot from a moving tank, the shot of the binocular-view should be moving, unstable… Telly Savalas’ tank gets blasted by a King Tiger shell, yet he emerges unhurt, with radio still working. Nuh uh… And Shaw’s sidekick is melodramatically disillusioned over a minor incident after ‘years of faithful service’. He quits, grabs a rifle, goes outside and is killed a scene later. Unbelievable.
This thing should be titled: Baffle Of The Bulge. It’s almost impossible to watch. As an unintentional comedy, maybe…
Casino (Martin Scorsese)
The usual Scorsese gangster movie that he seems to be able to make in his sleep. So as a Scorsese gangster movie, it goes through the ropes. Details real life gangster figures through their lives as gangsters. Fast paced with numerous edits, violent, vulgar, narrations, and steeped in Italian and mafia culture and life style. You could say it’s a sort of cash in or rip off of Goodfellas. However, given that the same director made both films, this isn’t as much a problem. But it does have a very very similar style to Goodfellas, not to mention a similar cast. Here Robert DeNiro plays Sam Rothstein, a manager of a large scale Mafia owned Las Vegas casino which they skim money from to get extra money. Joe Pesci is his violent Mobster friend. Sharon Stone, his gold digging wife.
If I had to choose between Goodfellas and this film, I’d say I would choose this one mostly because I believe it has a much more interesting and appealing story.
4.5/5