[quote=“scherpschutter, post:5100, topic:372”]Thanks Lindberg. Wonderful!
Always loved the scene, good to know there was such a thing as this device[/quote]
Yeah, it’s a nice clip 
I’m surprised some of you didn’t know the jetpack existed though :o
[quote=“scherpschutter, post:5100, topic:372”]Interesting subject: the Bonds dated.
I think most of them are, and it doesn’t necessarily harm them. The first four or five movies, usually considered to be the quintessential Bond movies by fans, seem to have dated the most. I still like Goldfinger to a certain degree, but it very much feels like an old movie. Acually it often feels more like a fifties than a sixties movie. The same goes for Dr. No.[/quote]
I think both Dr No, From Russia & Goldfinger look pretty old and dated… old cars, clothes, and other stuff
But I think Thunderball definitely has aged better, it has a more timeless look
All 4 films have however both sex, violence and hard-edged humour that make them more 1960s than 1950s
This is of course right, and it’s most probably the reason that we identify them as ‘typically sixties movies’
It’s not only the look of the movies; the stories are often reminiscent of the idea of the ‘mad scientist’ threatening the world, which is more fifties than sixties. Most probably Fleming was at the base of these things, he was an excellent writer (great style, nice storytelling), but his ideas of the wold of espionage were a bit old-fashioned (like the man himself; in some ways the Bond-stories breathe more a WWII, or even pre-WWII atmosphere; according to some, the character of James Bond, was based on German/Dutch prince Bernard, Dutch Queeen juliana’s husband).
[quote=“Lindberg, post:5102, topic:372”]I think both Dr No, From Russia & Goldfinger look pretty old and dated… old cars, clothes, and other stuff
But I think Thunderball definitely has aged better, it has a more timeless look
All 4 films have however both sex, violence and hard-edged humour that make them more 1960s than 1950s[/quote]
3 x Yes
I do believe I’ll give Night of the Serpent a go tonight, have had it on the watch pile for a while now.
In memory of Gulio Petroni?
Yes.
Viewed Badge 373.
A cop is suspended re an accident type killing. While suspended his ex partner is killed, so decides to do a spot of snooping around. Finds out plenty amongst more killings with the people around him.
Fine example of an early 70’s cop movie which should be available on dvd. Robert Duvall is great in the lead. Not as fast paced as some cop films from this period, but still manages to fit in some exciting action scenes. When Duvall is chased by the bad guys and hijacks a bus is one such scene. Duvall does not come out with one liners like Clint Eastwood style cops from the 70’s. He is a bit more low key and not as sharp looking, but just as interesting character to watch.
I think what makes these films look ‘old fashioned’ is the rear screen projection used for sequences filmed in cars. The technique was never done very well, but is done especially poorly in the Bond films and the color films of Hitchcock.
I’m watching 3 BULLETS FOR RINGO tonight, gonna watch the Koch version in Italian with English subs.
Watched amores perros. The director is famous for the movie Babel which i did not like very much.
And the problems i had with babel are also there in this one.
To be honest it is really 3 movies in one, connected are the stories by a car crash, but the persons are not interacting at all.
The music is good and I liked some actors (i have a mild mancrush on gael garcia Bernal, and he is also a good actor) . But the one story about the model and some guy just slow the movie down and were not really interesting to me. It was okay but did not fit to the pace of the rest of the film.
So it is a good film, but only in parts.
I now wonder if i should see 21 gram by the same director or just ignore it.
Anybody seen any of these three films?
[quote=“valenciano, post:5111, topic:372”]Watched amores perros. The director is famous for the movie Babel which i did not like very much.
And the problems i had with babel are also there in this one.
To be honest it is really 3 movies in one, connected are the stories by a car crash, but the persons are not interacting at all.
The music is good and I liked some actors (i have a mild mancrush on gael garcia Bernal, and he is also a good actor) . But the one story about the model and some guy just slow the movie down and were not really interesting to me. It was okay but did not fit to the pace of the rest of the film.
So it is a good film, but only in parts.
I now wonder if i should see 21 gram by the same director or just ignore it.
Anybody seen any of these three films?[/quote]
I’ve seen all three, amigo.
And for what it is worth, I thought the best of them was AMORES PERROS.
I felt much the same as you do about this movie.
And I didn’t like BABEL at all, really.
Been a while, but i remember liking 21 GRAMS.
Yes this is certainly an old-fashioned technique, and it wasn’t just used for scenes with cars in the Bond movies
What’s funny is also they kept using this out-of-date thing even in the 1980s :o
For the very best in rear projection check out CROSSPLOT with Roger Moore!
May watch that one at weekend.
[quote=“ENNIOO, post:5116, topic:372”]May watch that one at weekend.[/quote]It’s good fun but no masterpiece, i’ve never seen a film with so much back projection in it in my life!
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There aren’t too many feature films about football (soccer); I remember a silly film, Escape to Victory, with Pele and Sly Stallone, a good French movie, Coup de Tête with Patrick Dewaere, a nice German film, Das wunder von Bern, about the German surprise victory over the magnificent Magyars in the '54 World Cup, and a kiddies movie, In Oranje, from Holland. There might be a few others, but the number is all but overwhelming. A surprise if you know that football is by far the most popular sport in the world.
This one, the first part of a trilogy according to one of the extras, is quite enjoyable (especially if you like the game), even if every cliché of the sports movie is left intact. Just imagine a Latin American boy living (illegally) in the US, being discovered by a former British pro, and subsequently making it the British premier league. At St. James’s Park, no less.
Funny thing: I always thought Newcastle was a dull, completely unattractive industrial city. While not exactly looking like a medieval Tuscan town, it seems quite nice in this movie.
The Damned United is also a good movie Scherp.
I will be most likely be viewing Quentin Tarantino’s Jackie Brown later today.