Im surfing the TV looking for something to watch whilst chatting to you guys , I cant go out because we have a carpenter in today ,we are having 6 new doors put on. Anyway some one in the TV company planning dept ,has decided in his wisdom to put on The Muppets Christmas Carol ?? ,the stupid part is, some one else in the TV company has agreed with him
The Final Counrdown (1980 )
This was a film I'd always wanted to see and I feel a little disappointed, as it's
simply an average time travelling story. Which (I feel) cheats the viewer, by not
Giving us the promised all action ending.
It does have a couple of Bond connections with Soon-tek ho as a Japanese pilot and
special visual effects by Maurice Binder.
"I've been informed that there ARE a couple of QAnon supporters who are fairly regular posters in AJB."
The Legend of Tarzan. I'll give it points for addressing the Berlin Conference that divided Africa like a side of beef and for dealing with Belgian atrocities in the Congo. . .but it still comes down to an aristocratic white man saving Africa. Plus it's slow and boring. And when will Margo Robbie stop being ten times better than the movies she's in?
Probably he best MCU movie to date. Better than the first, and it is just crazy fun, with a lot of risks taken. Plus, Kurt Russel is the best villain in the MCU so far (even better than Loki IMO).
ive just finished watching a jolly good English comedy film "The Titchfield Thunderbolt ,a typical jolly hockey sticks film about a small Kent village and a few well minded residents who want to run a local train service ,Its in the same time frame as another of my favorites Genevieve ,post war Britain ,lots of Harris tweed jackets,cavalry twills,paisley ties ,Tattersall shirts ,polished brogues ect ect .The film is spoken in an English language ,that sadly is no longer heard ,you know,no swearing no slang,no American bastardisation of our tounge,and certainaly no sexual references ,a good film to be had
I just saw The Last Sunset (1961) starring Kirk Douglas and Rock Hudson on TV. It's a really good western. Not among the greatest classics (The Searchers, Once upon a time in the West, etc) but more than good enough to put on your "to watch" - list.
After many years, I re-watched " Batman and Robin " last night ....... It was even worse than I
Remembered. And nothing like " Robin and Marion" at all.
"I've been informed that there ARE a couple of QAnon supporters who are fairly regular posters in AJB."
Probably he best MCU movie to date. Better than the first, and it is just crazy fun, with a lot of risks taken. Plus, Kurt Russel is the best villain in the MCU so far (even better than Loki IMO).
Written and directed by Emilio Estevez, the film takes place over a single day at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles -- specifically, the day and place in which Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated in 1968. Estevez tells the story through a series of fictional characters (a retired doorman, a boozy night club singer, an idealistic campaign staffer, a busboy, etc.) whose lives partially intersect in the hours leading up to the shooting. RFK himself is a minor character, shown mostly in archived footage.
Unfortunately, while well-intentioned, the film ultimately feels more like The Towering Inferno than anything else -- a set of independent narratives that are ultimately connected (loosely) by a tragic event. The cast is full of well-known actors (Anthony Hopkins, Sharon Stone, Helen Hunt, Demi Moore, Christian Slater, Lindsay Lohan, Elijah Wood, Shia LaBeouf, Bill Macy, the director's dad Martin Sheen) and while they do decent work, I couldn't help feeling they were all doing it as a favor to a son of Hollywood.
This is a late 80s spy thriller. It has Bond might have been Pierce Brosnan as a Russian spy on the British mainland, in what may be a bit of stunt casting. Brozzer is okay actually, but it's the kind of film where all the Russians still speak with a transatlantic twang. His role doesn't allow for much range, but it's a Day of the Jackal type role, and Edward Fox didn't show much range in that either.
There are other Bond nods, and the plot is Octopussy really, unsurprisingly seeing as it's by Freddie Forythe who had a hand in the plot of OP, and whose book on which this is based came out in 1984, just a year later. It's the whole frame a bomb on a Nato airbase to make it look like an accident and get Britain to pull out of Nato type thing. Actually not untopical nowadays.
It's a low key effort but Michael Caine's leading performance makes it highly watchable and I know he made some dross but I can't think of anyone like him today who can pull that off. It is a brilliant star performance, it could almost by Harry Palmer older, though the character is not quite the same, simply a bit anti authority. An added pleasure is seeing character actors of the era, such as Julian Glover (another Bond nod), Anton Rodgers, Ronald Pickup (NSNA), Ian Richardson and so on. And those old-style trains where you can run along a platform and open the clanging door and jump on!
Saw this today and was really disappointed as the ending renders the first 2/3rds of the film and the events in Prometheus all but pointless. Prometheus was a flawed movie but set up some interesting questions; sadly Ridley Scott all but abandoned that story arc in favor of a followup which is supposed to segue more directly to the first Alien movie; yet it doesn't really succeed in doing even that as the ending to this does not remotely line up with the beginning of Alien.
The one thing I expect of a movie is that it have a worthwhile point to it; the point of Covenant seems to be to set up another movie and that made its 2+ hour length feel like a waste of time. Visually impressive but creatively bankrupt with a cast of disposable characters and a story that goes nowhere. I'm kind of dreading what Scott is going to do with Bladerunner 2049 now.
Probably he best MCU movie to date. Better than the first, and it is just crazy fun, with a lot of risks taken. Plus, Kurt Russel is the best villain in the MCU so far (even better than Loki IMO).
I saw it with my grandkids last weekend. It's a fun, exciting, terrific movie that can be enjoyed by all ages. Certainly one of Marvel's top films, although the first Avengers movie is still my favorite.
"Hacksaw Ridge" by Mel Gibson.
This is based on a true story about Desmond Does, a man who served in the frontline in WWII in the Pacific despite not carrying weapons because of his strong religious beliefs. He saved 75 sounded soldiers single-handedly during the battle of Hacksaw Ridge. This movie is very good movie and I reccomend it. Now I hope Mel Gibson can make his viking movie! Knowing Gibson's work it will be historically inaccurate and still a great movie.
Well, I caught a bit of King Kong, the 1970s sequel.
What a dog of a film.
I kept meaning to see it, or rather the all-important finale with Kong standing astride the Twin Towers, seemingly grasping at an aeroplane (bit dodgy now, but I think the poster had a train actually anyway).
But the finale is shot in darkness and there is no such iconic shot seen in the movie! You don't really get the money shot at all. King Con, more like.
John Barry has wasted his talents on some tripe hasn't he?
I read that Lorenzo Semple did the script, and mentioned how the original Kong was very old hat and the special effects were very simple, and a reader wrote in saying, yeah, but do you think Jeff Baker (or whoever it was) jumping around in an ape suit was any better? And that's quite right, that's exactly what it looks like! It's risible.
It's prolly my favorite Kong , the ending is really scary cuz it's so brutal.....you can almost feel Kongs pain when he's hit
Loved Barrys atmospheric music :x
They had several movie posters : Kong on twin towers , Kong vs helicopters , Kong vs jet planes , Kong behind Skull Island walls , Kong vs snake , Kong vs subway train.......beautiful poster campaign unlike say todays Bond posters which looks like H & M clothing campaign , no style any more 8-)
"Let's see--the story of a man who takes over someone else's creation, makes a lot of money on it, bullies and legally manipulates the creators out of their own business and buys them off for a fraction of what the business is worth"
Sounds like you're describing Vince McMahon jr , who inherited from his father Vince sr (who will be getting a movie soon as a matter of fact)
This is the newest version of the famous story. I think both the political conflict and the relationship between Ben Hur and Massala are more interesting and complex here than in the Charles Heston movie, but it's still an inferior version. The story needs bigger stats with more charisma who can hold the screen better than Jack Houston and Toby Kebbel. The only one who isn't in too big sandals is Morgan Freeman.
I recently watched High-Rise
Hiddleston's in it, so it may be of interest to Bondfans
I'm quite sure his performance in this film is nothing like how he might or might not portray Bond, should he get that chance
but it is a good J G Ballard adaptation, to be added to Cronenberg's Crash and Speilberg's Empire of the Sun
Not a terrible film, but you've seen it already: 33% "Lord Of The Rings", 33% "Game Of Thrones", 33% any King Arthur movie. Apparently it cost £175m to make, £100m to advertise, and has only made £14m- so any thoughts of a series go out of the window.
Jude Law is the villain, and is good value- in fact, he carries the film. Charlie Humdrum (not my joke, Mark Kermode's) is ok but there's no sign of charisma.
Comments
It to be great, but was surprised at how bad it was
It was shown on a flight I was on earlier this year. After 20 minutes half the people on board tried to get off, in mid-flight (Ba-dum).
This was a film I'd always wanted to see and I feel a little disappointed, as it's
simply an average time travelling story. Which (I feel) cheats the viewer, by not
Giving us the promised all action ending.
It does have a couple of Bond connections with Soon-tek ho as a Japanese pilot and
special visual effects by Maurice Binder.
Brilliant mystery thriller -{ and very creepy in some scenes. Well worth watching
Trailer for Kingsman 2
Looks like fun.
I liked it
Probably he best MCU movie to date. Better than the first, and it is just crazy fun, with a lot of risks taken. Plus, Kurt Russel is the best villain in the MCU so far (even better than Loki IMO).
Remembered. And nothing like " Robin and Marion" at all.
+ 1
Written and directed by Emilio Estevez, the film takes place over a single day at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles -- specifically, the day and place in which Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated in 1968. Estevez tells the story through a series of fictional characters (a retired doorman, a boozy night club singer, an idealistic campaign staffer, a busboy, etc.) whose lives partially intersect in the hours leading up to the shooting. RFK himself is a minor character, shown mostly in archived footage.
Unfortunately, while well-intentioned, the film ultimately feels more like The Towering Inferno than anything else -- a set of independent narratives that are ultimately connected (loosely) by a tragic event. The cast is full of well-known actors (Anthony Hopkins, Sharon Stone, Helen Hunt, Demi Moore, Christian Slater, Lindsay Lohan, Elijah Wood, Shia LaBeouf, Bill Macy, the director's dad Martin Sheen) and while they do decent work, I couldn't help feeling they were all doing it as a favor to a son of Hollywood.
Don't bother.
This is a late 80s spy thriller. It has Bond might have been Pierce Brosnan as a Russian spy on the British mainland, in what may be a bit of stunt casting. Brozzer is okay actually, but it's the kind of film where all the Russians still speak with a transatlantic twang. His role doesn't allow for much range, but it's a Day of the Jackal type role, and Edward Fox didn't show much range in that either.
There are other Bond nods, and the plot is Octopussy really, unsurprisingly seeing as it's by Freddie Forythe who had a hand in the plot of OP, and whose book on which this is based came out in 1984, just a year later. It's the whole frame a bomb on a Nato airbase to make it look like an accident and get Britain to pull out of Nato type thing. Actually not untopical nowadays.
It's a low key effort but Michael Caine's leading performance makes it highly watchable and I know he made some dross but I can't think of anyone like him today who can pull that off. It is a brilliant star performance, it could almost by Harry Palmer older, though the character is not quite the same, simply a bit anti authority. An added pleasure is seeing character actors of the era, such as Julian Glover (another Bond nod), Anton Rodgers, Ronald Pickup (NSNA), Ian Richardson and so on. And those old-style trains where you can run along a platform and open the clanging door and jump on!
Roger Moore 1927-2017
2015 thriller with Liam Neeson and Ed Harris.
Only watched it because it had those two in but it was very mediocre.
Ed Harris is such an underrated actor.
I really enjoyed this silly over the top action thriller. Pure popcorn fun, ignore the
Plot holes etc, it's a hoot.
Saw this today and was really disappointed as the ending renders the first 2/3rds of the film and the events in Prometheus all but pointless. Prometheus was a flawed movie but set up some interesting questions; sadly Ridley Scott all but abandoned that story arc in favor of a followup which is supposed to segue more directly to the first Alien movie; yet it doesn't really succeed in doing even that as the ending to this does not remotely line up with the beginning of Alien.
The one thing I expect of a movie is that it have a worthwhile point to it; the point of Covenant seems to be to set up another movie and that made its 2+ hour length feel like a waste of time. Visually impressive but creatively bankrupt with a cast of disposable characters and a story that goes nowhere. I'm kind of dreading what Scott is going to do with Bladerunner 2049 now.
Great movie! Scared the hell out of me, even though I laughed out loud quite a few times throughout.
I saw it with my grandkids last weekend. It's a fun, exciting, terrific movie that can be enjoyed by all ages. Certainly one of Marvel's top films, although the first Avengers movie is still my favorite.
This is based on a true story about Desmond Does, a man who served in the frontline in WWII in the Pacific despite not carrying weapons because of his strong religious beliefs. He saved 75 sounded soldiers single-handedly during the battle of Hacksaw Ridge. This movie is very good movie and I reccomend it. Now I hope Mel Gibson can make his viking movie! Knowing Gibson's work it will be historically inaccurate and still a great movie.
King Ralph 4/6 , haven't seen this in yrs and yrs.....Goodman sort of looks like Burt Ward in this one
It's prolly my favorite Kong , the ending is really scary cuz it's so brutal.....you can almost feel Kongs pain when he's hit
Loved Barrys atmospheric music :x
They had several movie posters : Kong on twin towers , Kong vs helicopters , Kong vs jet planes , Kong behind Skull Island walls , Kong vs snake , Kong vs subway train.......beautiful poster campaign unlike say todays Bond posters which looks like H & M clothing campaign , no style any more 8-)
Sounds like you're describing Vince McMahon jr , who inherited from his father Vince sr (who will be getting a movie soon as a matter of fact)
This is the newest version of the famous story. I think both the political conflict and the relationship between Ben Hur and Massala are more interesting and complex here than in the Charles Heston movie, but it's still an inferior version. The story needs bigger stats with more charisma who can hold the screen better than Jack Houston and Toby Kebbel. The only one who isn't in too big sandals is Morgan Freeman.
Hiddleston's in it, so it may be of interest to Bondfans
I'm quite sure his performance in this film is nothing like how he might or might not portray Bond, should he get that chance
but it is a good J G Ballard adaptation, to be added to Cronenberg's Crash and Speilberg's Empire of the Sun
Not a terrible film, but you've seen it already: 33% "Lord Of The Rings", 33% "Game Of Thrones", 33% any King Arthur movie. Apparently it cost £175m to make, £100m to advertise, and has only made £14m- so any thoughts of a series go out of the window.
Jude Law is the villain, and is good value- in fact, he carries the film. Charlie Humdrum (not my joke, Mark Kermode's) is ok but there's no sign of charisma.