Sweat dreams are made of this
The Great Outdoors (1988) on Netflix last night. Took me back to when I saw it in the theatre those many moons agoā¦
Just a harmless fun comedy. 
Last I watched āThe Punisherā with Dolph Lundgren a decent trash action film from 1989.
Inferno.
Not my favourite Argento one, but still pretty stylish and some interesting scenes so worth a view.
Gwendoline
-Weird and campy adventure film from Just Jaeckin. Film starts pretty much as a cheap Indiana Jones rip-off but later turns into bizarre fetish show. Apart from first Emmanuelle film which I mildly enjoy I havenāt really liked any of Jaeckinās films.
[quote=āBill san Antonio, post:5025, topic:1923ā]Gwendoline
-Weird and campy adventure film from Just Jaeckin. Film starts pretty much as a cheap Indiana Jones rip-off but later turns into bizarre fetish show. Apart from first Emmanuelle film which I mildly enjoy I havenāt really liked any of Jaeckinās films.[/quote]
This is the only one of his flms i have (or have seen). Wouldnāt call it a great film but i do seem to have a soft spot for it. Remember when i was 11 or 12 we went on a school holiday to France and three of us wandered away and saw the poster for it outside a cinema, we tried to get in but were politely turned away 
[size=12pt]Gone Baby Gone[/size] (2007) Ben Affleck
Iām such a lazy bump, with so many films that I wanted to watch once iI got into bed, Iāll stick to whats ever on TV cause the DVD shelf in on the other side of the house, so kept on watching this one instead of a James Bond spoof with a Canadian Secret Service Agent :o
Not a bad film I guess, Ben Affleck may not be a great actor (he aināt), but I have the feeling that he just made the right career move as a Director, the film got pace some nice photography work, and most of the characthers are well worked, and the story is pretty cinematographic.
The main weakness of the film is the way the story is developed,Ii havenāt read the book, maybe its just the 30 years I got on watching films, but the twist and how things would turn out to be, were too predictably, also the acting Affleck didnāt convince me a bit, wooden and lacked that killer instinct, for actors that is, really not suitable for the part, on the other hand Ed Harris is brilliant as usual.
In any case not a bad film a good first one, it does raise some difficult questions and made us viewers asking ourselves what we would have done in the same situation, also the final scene is very well done.
I could be wrong but Ben Affleck is turning into some sort of Woody Allen, but instead of New York he got Boston, a city director then, I never been in Boston (never been in the US for that matter only watched it from the other side of the Niagara falls), but with the kind of films iāve watched it seems like a dangerous palce lol, some sort of far-west ;D
3.8 stars
SLEEPING DOGS (1977) - A young Sam Neil through a number of unfortunate events finds himself trapped in a circle of violence by joining a group of revolutionaries in New Zealand. Neil is quite convincing as the non-violent man who seeks peace and seclusion but cannot find it anywhere. Warren Oates has a cameo appearance as well, but this is clearly Neilās film. Score is wonderful and the bleak ending is typical for a 70s flick. No masterpiece here, but a well above average drama that will keep your mind busy for as long as it lasts.
[quote=āEl Topo, post:5027, topic:1923ā][size=12pt]Gone Baby Gone[/size] (2007) Ben Affleck
Iām such a lazy bump, with so many films that I wanted to watch once iI got into bed, Iāll stick to whats ever on TV cause the DVD shelf in on the other side of the house, so kept on watching this one instead of a James Bond spoof with a Canadian Secret Service Agent :o
Not a bad film I guess, Ben Affleck may not be a great actor (he aināt), but I have the feeling that he just made the right career move as a Director, the film got pace some nice photography work, and most of the characthers are well worked, and the story is pretty cinematographic.
The main weakness of the film is the way the story is developed, I havenāt read the book, maybe its just the 30 years I got on watching films, but the twist and how things would turn out to be, were too predictably, also the acting Affleck didnāt convince me a bit, wooden and lacked that killer instinct, for actors that is, really not suitable for the part, on the other hand Ed Harris is brilliant as usual.
In any case not a bad film a good first one, it does raise some difficult questions and made us viewers asking ourselves what we would have done in the same situation, also the final scene is very well done.
I could be wrong but Ben Affleck is turning into some sort of Woody Allen, but instead of New York he got Boston, a city director then, I never been in Boston (never been in the US for that matter only watched it from the other side of the Niagara falls), but with the kind of films iāve watched it seems like a dangerous palce lol, some sort of far-west ;D
3.8 stars[/quote]
I havenāt read this one, but a few others. Lehane is not a bad plotter, but his stories rely far too much on melodramatic effects. The novels make an okay read, but when you start thinking about them afterwards, you quickly realize that they 're no more than that: cleverly plotted, but in the end quite predictable melodramas.
So far Eastwood did the best job with a Lehane novel. Mystic River was a good movie, this oneās just above average and Shutter Island was a bore.
āThe Vikingsā (1958) A blood & Thunder movie that was violent for itās time and still holds up today. Kirk Douglas one of my favourite actors is menacing here with his white eye, curtis is better than usual and Ernest Borgnine is Ernest Borgnine. good, memorable soundtrack as well. the ending loses it a bit because it wraps things up too quickly. 8/10
[quote=āBill san Antonio, post:5025, topic:1923ā]Gwendoline
-Weird and campy adventure film from Just Jaeckin. Film starts pretty much as a cheap Indiana Jones rip-off but later turns into bizarre fetish show. Apart from first Emmanuelle film which I mildly enjoy I havenāt really liked any of Jaeckinās films.[/quote]
Loved this.
Aaaanywayā¦ just want to say I watched Where the Buffalo Roam last night and really got a big kick out of it. I thought Bill Murray and Peter Boyle were fantastic; in a way I preferred them to Johnny Depp and Benito del Toro in Fear and Loathing. This has made me want to read more Hunter S. Thompson. Just a great film and sort of poignant in light of Thompsonās suicide.
Going to watch this one this week, do not remember much about it, other than a bit different.
Wolf Town (2010, John Rebel)
Three teenagers (huhā¦), one girl, two boys, are trapped in a ghost town, and attacked by wolves.
Sounds like a good idea for a āteens under menaceā movie, but the execution is only so so.
The wolves arenāt wolves and the teens arenāt teens (the actress who plays the girl, Alicia Ziegler, is 29, according to IMDB), but okay, that would all have been acceptable if the movie had made some sense, but even the premise is hardly credible: wolves living in a ghost town? Wolves arenāt sedentary animals. And thereās more: they live there since the days of the Old West. Actually, they have āconqueredā the town by eating the townspeople who founded it. Those people were in possession of a collection of fine fire arms, so why didnāt they shoot the damn wolves? Or poisen them?
Kellyās Heroes
A Great film with one of the best Soundtracks.
I love this one !!
9,5 / 10
Like this one myself. Huge budget and lots of explosions and love the tank scenes near the end of the film.
Andrzej Zulawski: Lāamour braque
-Difficult to say anything about this one. It was like a movie with ADHD-disorder, thereās not many silent moments as all the actors are screaming, running, killing each other and all the time babbling some semi-intellectual dialogue. Version I saw was āfan-subbedā version, probably made with google translator as most of the texts were nonsense. That didnāt help to follow this insane film.
I just watched āStickā a decent action film with Burt Reynolds from 1985.
Watched this two lately
[size=12pt]La Piscine ([/size]1969) Jacques Deray
Donāt get me wrong, this one got two of most beautiful woman ever on screen, specially Romy Schneider, and that opening scene is beyond hot (more explicit than that and it would have been ā¦porn), but in the end its a weak and too mild effort from Jacques Deray.
For a psychological thriller the director was never able to sustained a tension between the characters enough to justified their acts, this was even more evident in Alain Delon character, for a moment it seems to film is going to take off, but it never does, even Jane Birkin seems to be in another world, to be honest only Romy really deserved her pay. Worth considering only cause of Romy and Birkin, but at least for the first one we can add the acting ability
I do not know if the FranƧois Ozon film with the same name, was based on the same screenplay or was some kind of remake from this, but one think Iām sure, is that Ozon effort is much better than this tame sample of a thriller that really never takes of.
2.9 Stars
[size=12pt]Split Second [/size] b Tony Maylam[/b]
Well at least it seems that everybody was having fun in this predator/aliens British rip off, sponsored by Harley-Davidson, and they were right to do so its a funny movie.
Hauer seems to be having so much fun that his lines couldnāt come out better, everything is so over the top that I could not stop a few laughs, could really anyone possibly live in Hauerās apartment, we even got a Shower scene with a hard to believe as a brunette Kim Cattrall, brunette or not sheās always hot that for sure.
I havenāt watch this one in a long time, even forget that Pollard took the fun ride also, as the rat catcher lol, pity we didnāt had more screen time (his character per si deserved a spin of), also the late and great Ian Dury appeared as the disco bouncer with the dog.
The lines are great, the main theme was so kitsch for god sake, Nights in white satin from the Moody Blues, while Rutger Hauer destroys everything on sight, clearly one of those cases that itās so bad its good.
Thereās no possible classification for this one, letās just say it makes you feel good watching it
Iāve read the Elmore Leonard book itās based on. Think Iāll check this one out some time soon.
1955ā¦ Roger Cormanās (original) The Fast And The Furious, starring John Ireland as an escaped-prisoner who carjacks Dorothy Maloneās Jaguar vert. -Then has to āenterā the road-rally she was going to enter herself, because of a police search-dragnet. It is fast and furious, with various sub-plots handled logically while keeping prime-focus on the car-scenes. Ireland directed part of it, and Cormanās cost-cutting genius really lift this project into cult-status. Raw and dynamic, Iāll watch this again 'n again 'n again till I leave the planet.