Movie review thread...
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@canefan said in Re: Movie review thread...:
The Battle of Britain
I love Spitfires
I was at the Kent Country Show a couple of years back, loads of shitty craft stalls selling tat, plenty of beer tents though. However, all trading stopped for about 10 minutes as this Spit flew over and did some gentle aerobatics. Everyone stopped and stared at the sky. The sound of the Merlin engine was unmistakeable and just sent the shivers down the spine. Awesome doesn't do it justice.
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This guys story would make a great film , he wasn’t able to work in Battle of Britain due a scheduling conflict, damn shame.
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@taniwharugby said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@jegga watched The Beast of War the other night, pretty decent flick, amusingly though, Russian flick about the Afghan war, made by Americans...
I remember watching that way way in the day. Like the 80s. Seem to recall quite enjoying it.
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@tim said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@booboo Not exactly WW2.
But what a soundtrack.
Men of Harlech sing ye, sing ye
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Speaking of Michael Caine, Play Dirty is a decent little WW2 movie about dubious motives.
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I still haven't worked up the courage to watch Come and See.
Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence is on the to-watch list too.
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An idiotic film. Best part is beginning and end, when you get to hear Donna Summer moaning over John Barry’s theme. (I’m pretty sure he ripped that melody off an old jazz song.)
Mm-mmmm, deeeep inside...
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@salacious-crumb said in Re: Movie review thread...:
An idiotic film. Best part is beginning and end, when you get to hear Donna Summer moaning over John Barry’s theme. (I’m pretty sure he ripped that melody off an old jazz song.)
Mm-mmmm, deeeep inside...
Mm-mmmm, Jacqueline Bisset...
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@jegga said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@canefan said in Re: Movie review thread...:
I saw Baywatch on the weekend. So bad it was funny, there were a few good points
1,2,3
3 then the other two in any order.
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@nepia said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@jegga said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@canefan said in Re: Movie review thread...:
I saw Baywatch on the weekend. So bad it was funny, there were a few good points
1,2,3
3 then the other two in any order.
I forgot to rate the movie.....
Um, what was the question?
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@catogrande said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@salacious-crumb said in Re: Movie review thread...:
An idiotic film. Best part is beginning and end, when you get to hear Donna Summer moaning over John Barry’s theme. (I’m pretty sure he ripped that melody off an old jazz song.)
Mm-mmmm, deeeep inside...
Mm-mmmm, Jacqueline Bisset...
The part where she’s getting frisked below the belt was terrific. Still an idiotic film, though.
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I’ve been watching a pantload of el-cheapo box sets of very old John Wayne cowboy movies (“dusters”) made for Poverty Row studios like Lone Star and Republic, in the 1930s, very low-budget b-movies between his making the big budget The Big Trail in 1929 (a big flop) and Stagecoach a decade after (the film that made his career).
These are not especially good films — most are 55 minutes in length, formulaic, badly written, badly acted, and poorly shot. Most from early ‘30s, like Hell Town, Sagebrush Trail, Frontier Horizon, ‘Neath the Arizona Skies, The Trail Beyond, Riders of Destiny, West of the Divide, Texas Terror, Winds of the Wasteland, etc.
But like a good train wreck, I cannot pull my eyes away from them.
The stunt work is breathtaking, half the soundtrack is the sound of gun shots and horse hoofs, and when you see stampeding piles of horses crashing into each other and somersaulting down hills and raveens, you’ll know there was no such thing as PETA back then, and you’ll NEVER see a “No animals were harmed in the creation of this movie” disclaimer. It looks like total carnage, and for better-or-worse I am mesmerized by it. Been watching them on repeat over-and-over-and-over. I expect lots are probably available on youtube, but they can be found in packages of multiples for less than $5. Worth. Every. Penny.
And of course, whatever else you think about the mythology, when Wayne was an unknown he was very-very charismatic and believable. Oh yeah, the fistfights are fuckin’ hilarious too.
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@jegga said in Re: Movie review thread...:
I want to see a movie about this guy, created his own machine gun because the one they gave him wasn’t lethal enough for his tastes.
He sounds a bit like the character from The Pacific, the guy that won the CMoH got sent home. He married then went back and got himself killed
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@canefan said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@jegga said in Re: Movie review thread...:
I want to see a movie about this guy, created his own machine gun because the one they gave him wasn’t lethal enough for his tastes.
He sounds a bit like the character from The Pacific, the guy that won the CMoH got sent home. He married then went back and got himself killed
That was a great episode, I enjoyed that series.
Ken Adam - Wikipedia
Play Dirty (1969) ⭐ 6.8 | Adventure, Drama, War
Come and See - Wikipedia
