The Designated Victim has been viewed (1971).
Tomas Milian is fed up of his wife and one day meets a count, who comes up with a plan to kill his wife. In return though, Milian must kill the counts brother.
Strange atmosphere to this one at times, mainly due to the role of the count played by Pierre Clementi.
[quote=āENNIOO, post:2361, topic:372ā]The Designated Victim has been viewed (1971).
Tomas Milian is fed up of his wife and one day meets a count, who comes up with a plan to kill his wife. In return though, Milian must kill the counts brother.
Strange atmosphere to this one at times, mainly due to the role of the count played by Pierre Clementi.[/quote]
This one is pretty good, I purchased it recently on the NEW label.
[quote=āENNIOO, post:2361, topic:372ā]The Designated Victim has been viewed (1971).
Tomas Milian is fed up of his wife and one day meets a count, who comes up with a plan to kill his wife. In return though, Milian must kill the counts brother.
Strange atmosphere to this one at times, mainly due to the role of the count played by Pierre Clementi.[/quote]
Sounds like a reworking of Stranger on a Train. Same plot premise anyway.
Watched the most succesful Dutch film of the moment in cinema:
OORLOGSWINTER (Winter in wartime/Martin Koolhoven, 2008)
Itās based on a famous Dutch novel (aimed at children) about a young boy who finds a wounded English pilot in the woods near his birthplace. He starts helping the guy and is very proud to be part of the resistance now; To him itās only an adventure, but then his father, mayor of the village, is arrested, because the pilot has killed a german soldier after his plane crash
More than half a million Dutch saw the film since it was released in the last week of november
The director loves spaghetti westerns, hopefully heāll be here on the forum one day to make a chat
Dan van Husen has a nice cameo as a German officer
Donāt worry that the film is based on a book aimed at children, itās very exciting and quite violent
Great film, a companion piece to Soldier of Orange and Black Book
Donāt miss it if it hits a cinema nearby
āyoung frankensteinā tonight
Seven Murders For Scotland Yard has been viewed.
Murders are taking place in early 70ās London in Jack the Ripper style, and Paul Naschy is the main suspect.
Not bad, dubbing made me chuckle a little. All the people with not bad jobs in the film had super āposhā accents and the rest of the people had not so āposhā accents.
I watched Woody Allens Vicky Cristina Barcelona.
Not much story really happening but i somehow still liked it. Maybe it was the nice atmosphere of Barcelona and spain that is well caught. It presents the problems of relationships and plays with some clicheĀ“s. If you like allen movies its worth checking out, but if not stay away, even though you see scarlett johannson and Penelope cruz making out.
Happy new year kiddos
" The Brave One" tonight
my dear killer
and what gave the done to your daughters
ratman
gonna be a nice night
No movie today folks, Iām off to denmark tomorrow, my girl and me will leave quite early, so thereās no time for SWs to have more time to sleepā¦
Thats really to bad. :ā(
" the illusionist" tonight
Hope you like it. I enjoyed it (Maybe because the Story takes place during the time of the Austria-Hungary Empire) Itās a bit similiar to The Prestige but not as dark and more lightweighted. 
Watched NEVER SAY NEVER AGAIN
The unofficial 007, with Connery once again as Bond, although he had said heād never play the part again
One of the better Bonds of the 80s, if you ask me. The story is hardly worth describing, but Connery is in fine form, and so are Barbara Carrera and Kim Basinger. I have the idea the budget was a bit more reduced than for most other Bonds, and this somehow helps the movie. I never cared much for those chase scenes that go on forever. In NEVER thereās only one chase scene, with Sean on moter bike chasing Barbara, resulting in a wonderfully silly scene in which the latter goes up in smoke (except for her shoes - I guess the director was a foot fetishist)
I bought the DVD in Brussels for only 3,33 ā¬ (3 DVDs for 9,99, the other two being La Reine Margot, a French historic drama, and Blood Simple from the Coens). It was one of the older releases, and not a great one, but good enough for me (for that price). The biggest problem was the audio track, a so-called virtual surround track. Some scenes seemed to be recorded in a cathedral, echoes all aroud.
Made me wonder: if I can have Kimās or Barbaraās voice all around me, why not their legs?
Always remember Rowan Atkinson in this one, a.k.a Mr. Bean to alot of people I guess now.
Wonder which performed better at the box office between this one, and the Roger Moore Bond Octopussy of around the same periodā¦ Maud Adams who starred in Octopussy also played a Bond girl in another Moore Bond film, and was also an extra in a A View to a Kill .
In fact Never Say Never Again had a higher budget than every Roger Moore Bond. It was about 36 mio $ and earned 137 mio $. Octopussy was made for about 25 mio $, but surprisingly made much more money than the Connery comeback, about 194 mio $.
Re-watched half a dozen Bond films last months, everything which was shown on german TV. For unknown reasons itās suddenly fun to meet them again after so many years.
But NSNA belongs to the weaker Bond films imo. Too mechanicically developed.
Brandauer was fantastic, but Connery couldnāt convince me. And he looked too old, even compared with Moore, who was actually a few years older.
[quote=āENNIOO, post:2375, topic:372ā]Always remember Rowan Atkinson in this one, a.k.a Mr. Bean to alot of people I guess now.
Wonder which performed better at the box office between this one, and the Roger Moore Bond Octopussy of around the same periodā¦ Maud Adams who starred in Octopussy also played a Bond girl in another Moore Bond film, and was also an extra in a A View to a Kill .[/quote]
Atkinson of course, yeah, wonderful performance
I think Maud Adams also was in The Man with the Golden Gun
I like Bond, but Iām not an expert, so I donāt now which movie did beteer at the box-office, this one or Octopussy, released the same year
This one had the better looking ladies, thatās for sure. I donāt think Carrera and Basinger ever looked better than in this movie.
I think NEVER is also the better movie; Octopussy is enjoyable, thanks to the magnificent stunts, but itās one of those movies that made a silly punster out of 007 (not to mention the visual jokes that were even more silly)
Worst Bond: Moonraker
Thanks, and figures surprised me.
Correct of course.
[quote=āStanton, post:2376, topic:372ā]In fact Never Say Never Again had a higher budget than every Roger Moore Bond. It was about 36 mio $ and earned 137 mio $. Octopussy was made for about 25 mio $, but surprisingly made much more money than the Connery comeback, about 194 mio $.
Re-watched half a dozen Bond films last months, everything which was shown on german TV. For unknown reasons itās suddenly fun to meet them again after so many years.
But NSNA belongs to the weaker Bond films imo. Too mechanicically developed.
Brandauer was fantastic, but Connery couldnāt convince me. And he looked too old, even compared with Moore, who was actually a few years older.[/quote]
The budget surprises me
Like my wives always says: I donāt know anything about money
I rewatched most Bonds some 18 months ago
I prefer the early Bonds (Goldfinger, Twice, I donāt care much for Russia though), this one , the Daltons, and the Craigs
And I loved the title Tomorrow never dies
Connery looks old in this one, thatās true, and the movie sure is mechanically put together, but I donāt watch the Bonds for their scripts, but mainly for their atmosphere, the villains, even the silly jokes (provided theyāre not too silly)
I will watch them all the next weeks, if I can my greedy fingers on them.
I think I see it the same way, they are all a bit silly, but I donāt like these totally flat jokes.
And you never know where all the money was wasted in certain films. Scorsese had claimed in the mid-80s that you canāt make a film like The King of Comedy in Hollywood for less than 20 mio.