[quote=“Paco Roman, post:5580, topic:1923”]Cross of Iron aka Steiner - Das Eiserne Kreuz
Still one of the best War Movies I’ve seen.[/quote]
Yap I’m with you on that one Paco
[size=14pt]Fifty/Fifty [/size] (1992) Charles Martin Smith
Hey pretty cool movie, a few clicks ahead in quality from the usual Cannon films, the story is a walking stereotype, but its funs and makes it for a nice 90 minutes. Both Peter Weller and Robert Hays (an actor I usually don’t like contrary to Weller) seem to be having fun, and have some great lines, a nice buddy movie that reminded me of similar buddy movies SW:
got a plan. Full frontal assault.
A full-frontal assault. That’s your plan?
It’s got the element of surprise.
Suicide is always surprising.
The story ain’t all that stupid not the usual Vietnam vets looking for revenge and becoming a Ninja in the process, but still they don’t take themseves that serious, in any case I always think that Peter Weller was a class act and a very charismatic actor.
Nice budy movie with funny lines, well filmed action scenes and a decent story, couldn’t ask for more.
Nicolas Cage plays a guy from Hell in search for his daughters daughter who has been kidnapped my a satanic group. Alot of reference to 70’s revenge films as Cage goes on the revenge path. The 70’s muscle cars in particular stand out. Over the top violence punctuate this enjoyable ride.
Nicolas Cage plays a guy from Hell in search for his daughters daughter who has been kidnapped my a santanic group. Alot of reference to 70’s revenge films as Cage goes on the revenge path. The 70’s muscle cars in particular stand out. Over the top violence punctuate this enjoyable ride.[/quote]Ridiculous but a hell of a lot of fun!
1954, A Bullet Is Waiting… Color, beautiful scenery, a ‘modern’ western directed by John Farrow. The film opens just after a plane-crash, and we see handcuffs lying on the dirt… From then on, it’s Rory Calhoun vs. Stephen McNally trying to survive in the mountain-wilderness. Then sparks really explode after they blunder-onto Jean Simmons’ ranch-land. It’s not spectacular, but it’s intelligent and nicely paced.
[size=12pt]Death Sentence[/size] (2007) James Wang
Viewed in the telly the other night, a revenge flick for the modern days. I most confess I like Bacon a very versatile actor capable of portaying a very different range of characters with sucess.
The film is not bad a sort of Death Wish update, the problem for me with this flicks is that they all seem alike, the gangs, the bad guys, the situations etc, of course there’s a lot of drama and the final showdown is indeed nicely filmed (the preparation for it at least) even if Bacon was not so convencing as the over the edge madmen, but alas lacks the salt from those grind films from the 70’s and 80’s.
Average stuff, surprisingly best in the dramatic sequences.
Action USA (1989) - Pretty explosive and action packed… 4 car chases and a few shootouts… I like a good building fall and this has a great one… Ross Hagen is a decent bad guy.
I watched this this afternoon and really enjoyed it, a proper 60’s heist/caper movie.
Great cast with Gary Lockwood, Elke Sommer (who looks absolutely stunning), Lee J. Cobb, Jacl Palance and a few other genre character actors who are recognisable.
Entertaining one about James woods and crew who search out nests of vampires. Some nice weopons used and just love the way the vampires are dragged into the sunlight.
i´m also on Carpenter´s note today with Ghosts of Mars, i just felt it need a rewatch and its not that bad as i remembered it
quite entertaining goofy fun
and today is on TV Safari Express with Gemma, Palance and Ursula, so i´ll give it a try
I’d watch Africa Express first if I was you, it’s a hell of a much better film, Safari is just ok. If you watch Safari first it might make you not bothered with watching Africa
hell of a much better? well, now i´m undecided :-, but i probably will watch it, and when Africa will be on the turn,
its quite possible i forgot about nuances of Safari express.
But quite possible is also “i fell asleep during the movie” scenario. ;D
Peckinpah’s leap from television to the big screen. The movie is more or less dismissed by his fans. I don’t know what Mike Siegel has to say about the movie, but Peckinpah biographer David Webble only mentions it briefly, almost reluctantly. Stephen Prince, author of ‘Sam Peckinpah and the rise of ultra-violent cinema’, calls it a minor film, lacking al those qualities he admires in Peckinpah. As the title of his book suggests, Prince is basically interested in the way violence is shown and experienced in Peckinpah’s movies and The Deadly Companions is, admittedly, not a particularly violent movie.
According to Webble it’s a stilted melodrama, filled with contrived plot twists, unbelievable situations, cardboard characterizations and bad acting. Wow. To blame for this turkey (still Webble talking), is Charles Fitzsimons, the producer of the movie and lead actress Maureen O’Hara’s brother. According to Webble, Fitzsimons stood beside Peckinpah on the set every day, telling him how to stage and shoot scenes, and forbidding to direct his sister.
I find this all quite difficult to believe. The story may not be very characteristic for this director, but Peckinpah’s directional touches are distinctive throughout the movie. The film was based on a novel I’ve never read, and I guess some of the story’s aspects worked better on paper than on the screen. By the way: The storyline reminded me a little of William Faulkner’s novella As I Lay Dying. The happy-ish ending doesn’t work at all and some of the plot elements aren’t believable, but overall I still think this a good movie, atmospheric, often tense, and with a least two strong characters: Keith and O’Hara. The film works as long as there’s hostility in the air, but that’s usually the case in Peckinpah’s movies (Cable Hogue is the exception), think only of The Wild Bunch: the uneasy, ‘distant’ relationship between Holden and Ryan works much better than those late night conversations Holden has with Borgnine. The film has also a magnificent scene with ‘Indians playing Indians’.
I wonder if Leone got the idea for the Sad Hill finale from this movie.
(The opening also seems a little Leonesque)
as i´m watching Ghosts of Mars, it looks like grindhouse cinema a little, well, its spread by Tarantino/Rodriguez came in 2007 or 08
so this thought never occurred to me (i saw Ghosts a long time ago),
but i´m sure if Carpenter did Ghosts after let´s say 2008, it possibly got this labeling
i wanted to watch some peckinpah stuff, but it all ended in viewing Bring me head of AG only,
i was just dissapointed by that - and i had no appetite for his other movies
story so far i´ve only seen Wild Bunch, Pat Garret, Bring me head, and i think that´s all - maybe i forgot some
[size=14pt]Das boot[/size] - Wolfgang Petersen (1981)
I been twice in a submarine not on duty terms it was docked, but even so I didn’t like it, and couldn’t wait to get the hell out.
This to say we are talking a great cinema masterpiece, I never watched the film version only the mini-serie which its bigger, but even so we are talking about of a small odity in viewing terms, but the amazing thing is that the film is capable of grabing your attention from start to end, I felt like if I was inside the bloody sub myself, the feeling is claustrophobic to the limit.
The acting is great and not only from Jürgen Prochnow (great actor by the way), nad there’s even a SW connection it was produce by our own Mark Damon, who must have known like no others the ins and outs of European cinema.
This is more than the ultimate submarine movie (anyone who served in one will assure you that), its great cinema, not much more to say a real classic.
[quote=“tomas, post:5594, topic:1923”]i wanted to watch some peckinpah stuff, but it all ended in viewing Bring me head of AG only,
i was just dissapointed by that - and i had no appetite for his other movies
story so far i´ve only seen Wild Bunch, Pat Garret, Bring me head, and i think that´s all - maybe i forgot some[/quote]
I’m not a real Peckinpah fan myself (some others here are), but I like this one, Cable Hogue and The Wild Bunch. Ride the High Country is a good movie, but it doesn’t mean that much to me. Alfredo Garcia (or his head) has a few good scenes and ideas but is not a great movie, I can’t understand what people see in it
yeah, Ride the High Country is next Pecki film on my list, and just for that cool title, hope it will live up to that
but anyways until i´ll hunt this one down somewhere, next on my western watch list are Monte Walsh with Selleck
and Streets of Laredo, don´t know much about the latter, but i think James Garner is in it, so it could be fine
[quote=“tomas, post:5598, topic:1923”]yeah, Ride the High Country is next Pecki film on my list, and just for that cool title, hope it will live up to that
but anyways until i´ll hunt this one down somewhere, next on my western watch list are Monte Walsh with Selleck
and Streets of Laredo, don´t know much about the latter, but i think James Garner is in it, so it could be fine[/quote]
Streets of Laredo is great, although not as great as Lonesome Dove (hope you’ve seen that)
I haven’t seen Monte Walsh with Selleck, but the original one, with Marvin and Palance, is in my Top 10 of westerns (Italian, American or whatever), an absolutely marvellous film.
[quote=“scherpschutter, post:5599, topic:1923”]Streets of Laredo is great, although not as great as Lonesome Dove (hope you’ve seen that)
I haven’t seen Monte Walsh with Selleck, but the original one, with Marvin and Palance, is in my Top 10 of westerns (Italian, American or whatever), an absolutely marvellous film.[/quote]
then i´ll have to get original one also, i heard some praise about it
i had Lonesome Dove once nearby, if you mean that long movie with Duvall and others, but at the time i didn´t understand much of that english
and i hadn´t subs, but certainly i want to watch it in the near future
yap, also Arrowhead is in my viewfinder
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