James Coburn is Derek Flint, one of the quick American answers to James Bond (the other being being Matt Helm, played by Dean Martin). He’s an ex-agent of a counter-intelligence agency who’s hired again by his former boss (who strongly dislikes him) when the world is threatened by an organization called Galaxy. Nice detail: the scientists hired by Galaxy are able to influence world climate, and are now threatening to cause a tremendous environmental cataclysm (did Al Gore get their number?).
Many call this one of the better Bond parodies. Admittedly, it has a lot to speak for it: It moves at a good pace, the ladies are beautiful and the movie is not as silly as the Matt Helm adventures, even though Flint has a lighter with no less than 83 special functions. But their are a few problems as well. The main problem might be that the Bond franchise soon turned to parody itself, turning the cool spy into a smiling jester. Our Man Flint feels very much like one of those parodic, would-be funny Bond movies from the eighties; it’s a bit funnier, but those Bonds had bigger scripts and more impressive sets (there are a few very ugly scale models on display here).
Coburn seems to enjoy himself but the movie works best when he and Lee J. Cobb (playing his grumpy superior) share the screen. Some of their verbal sparrings are genuinely funny. And listen to that ringtone!
[quote=“scherpschutter, post:12202, topic:1923”][size=12pt] OUR MAN FLINT (1966)[/size]
James Coburn is Derek Flint, one of the quick American answers to James Bond (the other being being Matt Helm, played by Dean Martin). He’s an ex-agent of a counter-intelligence agency who’s hired again by his former boss (who strongly dislikes him) when the world is threatened by an organization called Galaxy. Nice detail: the scientists hired by Galaxy are able to influence world climate, and are now threatening to cause a tremendous environmental cataclysm (did Al Gore get their number?).
Many call this one of the better Bond parodies. Admittedly, it has a lot to speak for it: It moves at a good pace, the ladies are beautiful and the movie is not as silly as the Matt Helm adventures, even though Flint has a lighter with no less than 83 special functions. But their are a few problems as well. The main problem might be that the Bond franchise soon turned to parody itself, turning the cool spy into a smiling jester. Our Man Flint feels very much like one of those parodic, would-be funny Bond movies from the eighties; it’s a bit funnier, but those Bonds had bigger scripts and more impressive sets (there are a few very ugly scale models on display here).
Coburn seems to enjoy himself but the movie works best when he and Lee J. Cobb (playing his grumpy superior) share the screen. Some of their verbal sparrings are genuinely funny. And listen to that ringtone![/quote]
Damn it ! what a sexy poster !!! damn ti** !!!
Is it a Italian comedy film ??
I drive a Peugeot (the tiny one that also exists as a Toyota and a Citroen). But I didn’t buy it. I’d prefer a Fiat 500 over that one, but it’s also pricier.
Anyway, I looked up my best rated Eurospy flicks (according to what I’ve reviewed):
(alphabetical order, these all rated 7/10)
Ipcress File, The (UK)
Lucky, el intrépido (Spain)
Rapporto Fuller, base Stoccolma (Italy)
Sono stato un agente CIA (Italy)
I rate Diabolik just as high, but one could argue it’s not a spy film. The best French spy film I’ve seen is Alphaville (6,5/10). The only OSS I’ve seen (Niente rose per OSS 117) is pretty damn bad (4/10). The next French one I’m going to watch will probably be Fantomas vs Scotland Yard.
The Ipcress File works as a supposedly more ‘realistic’ rebuff to Bond but I have to say I’m rather more fond of Ken Russell’s far more Bondian Billion Dollar Brain as a movie.
Azumi
Japanese samurai film based on manga. I was mainly bored while watching it but afterwards I remember it quite fondly, maybe because the good, big fight in the end and the overall cool look of the film. Villains are really over-the-top with unique look on everyone (even the bunch of 200 hundred bandits) and the girl in the lead as Azumi is super-cute. But there’s hardly any plot, you don’t care enough for any of the characters and fight scenes are not especially spectacular.
Last night I watched Andrzej Zulawski’s Possession. I had heard good things about this probably not so well known movie, so I finally decided to check it out… and oh boy what an experience this film was!! Of course the subject of the movie is very dark so this might not be for everyone’s taste, but Possession definitely had a big impact on me, so big that I still can’t stop thinking about the movie and all the fascinating aspects of it. I also have to mention Isabelle Adjani’s gut-wrenching, beautiful and absolutely magnificent performance, for that reason alone people should check this movie out. For example that subway scene… I can’t even describe how powerful that acting performance was, makes me think that how Adjani was even able to reach that state mentally. All in all this is pure and raw cinema, I just wonder why I hadn’t seen this (or Zulawski’s other movies) earlier!? Well, better late than never.
Last night I watched Andrzej Zulawski’s Possession. I had heard good things about this probably not so well known movie, so I finally decided to check it out… and oh boy what an experience this film was!! Of course the subject of the movie is very dark so this might not be for everyone’s taste, but Possession definitely had a big impact on me, so big that I still can’t stop thinking about the movie and all the fascinating aspects of it. I also have to mention Isabelle Adjani’s gut-wrenching, beautiful and absolutely magnificent performance, for that reason alone people should check this movie out. For example that subway scene… I can’t even describe how powerful that acting performance was, makes me think that how Adjani was even able to reach that state mentally. All in all this is pure and raw cinema, I just wonder why I hadn’t seen this (or Zulawski’s other movies) earlier!? Well, better late than never.
This tragicomedy is a self-ironic portrait of a young man who drops out of university and ends up wandering the streets of the city he lives: Berlin.
The film deals with the desire to participate in life and the difficulty to find one’s place.
A serial killer is on the loose on Galveston Beach, Texas and Roy Scheider is trying to track him down. With a plot about serial killing, you’d expect a movie to be dark and disturbing, but this is actually a black comedy. And surprise surprise, the comedy (mainly gallows humor) works better than the thriller aspects. Scheider is not only the police detective, he’s also to be married to a young woman who’s repeatedly stalked by the killer, who never really attacks her until the finale (a lot of red herrings there).
The killings take place every time a baseball game is played (and won) by the Houston based Astros in the Astrodome and the killer uses a hook to slice the throats of his victims. Looks like a case a police unit would solve within 48 hours (the clues aren’t to difficult to combine), but there’s no profiler, no CSI miracle team, only Scheider, and it takes him an awful lot of time to get to the killer. He seems more busy fighting off his fiancée’s mother (Carlin Glynn, in excellent comedy form), who thinks he’s too old for her little girl.
Not great but worth picking up if you can locate a copy. Scheider’s okay, but you can’t help watching over your shoulder to look for a great white when his face appears on the screen.
I’ve seen Trainspotting a few times, when it came out I had to watch with two different girlfriends (at differetn tiems), it didn’t matter was a great film, still is but felt a bit dated this last view, maybe I’ve got to give it more time between viewings.
But like I said still a great film a trademark of the nineteen’s, it seems and feels like all the excess of the last decades were reunited and came together in Trainspotting.
Great acting also even Mcgregor na actor I don’t usually like looks god in it. Some amazing and
One of the other aspects of the film, and one not most mention, is that way that ends with youth urban tribes, it was normal for kids of my generation to belong to some tribe of any kind, punks, gothics, futuristic, posh kids, metal heads, surfers rockbillies you name it, your dress code was an importante. Now that doesn’t exist anymore, the tribes are all the same, and all like the same stuff.
Trainspotting portraits that change in youth culture pretty well, let’s face it who knows Iggy Pop? My nephew a big fan of Foo Fighters, didn’t even know that Grohl was Nirvana’s drummer.
Well he doesn’t know Iggy Pop either
Boyle’s following career was a disappointment for me, Trainspotting still his major work and he never managed to get a bit near it’s quality.
Black Sea (2014) This sub movie had potential, but the plot holes and the actions by some of the characters sank this one for me. C.
Blackhat (2015) This was a boring mess, couldn’t even get through half of it. D.
OUIJA (2014) The makers of this horror movie must’ve had 7 year old kids in mind…Fucking awful!F
Fury (2014) Did not like this Brad Pitt war movie at all, absolutely ridiculous right to the very end. I would elaborate more on it, but i don’t have the time. C
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