Movie review thread...
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This is a lot of fun - a read through of the never filmed Commando 2 script, written by Steven E. de Souza and Frank Darabont.
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@Tim said in Re: Movie review thread...:
This is a lot of fun - a read through of the never filmed Commando 2 script, written by Steven E. de Souza and Frank Darabont.
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Driving up north for work in the next couple of days so will have a listen.
Interesting question though. How was arguably THE best bullshit over the top action movie of all time never followed up with a sequel ? Surely some Latin greaseballs could have killed Tommy Chongs daughter and driven Matrix to revenge and even more cheesy lines and action ?
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@MN5 said in Re: Movie review thread...:
How was arguably THE best bullshit over the top action movie of all time never followed up with a sequel ?
Basically Schwarzenegger was extremely busy and was offered his pick of movies, and Schwarzenegger was Commando.
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@Tim said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@MN5 said in Re: Movie review thread...:
How was arguably THE best bullshit over the top action movie of all time never followed up with a sequel ?
Basically Schwarzenegger was extremely busy and was offered his pick of movies, and Schwarzenegger was Commando.
To be fair Running Man, Predator, Kindergarten Cop and T2 are absolutely outstanding
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@Tim said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@voodoo said in Re: Movie review thread...:
True Lies in the comedy category
Yeah, a lot of fun. Probably his last genuinely good movie?
I've never actually seen Collateral Damage, and I don't remember Eraser - get it confused with Sixth Day.
probably, neither, and same!
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After some outrageous slander on the Fern recently, I felt obliged to re-see Escape From New York last night, and Escape From L.A. tonight.
Escape from NY - zero bullshit early-80s John Carpenter action movie. Just set up a ridiculous premise within about 2 minutes, and then set-to with an anti-hero fucking shit up. Yeah, plot-holes, and nonsense, and what-ever. But... that's what you expect and want.
3.5 "call me Snake"'s out of 5 "GFY, call me Plissken"'sEscape from LA - my eternal memory of this is the atrocious blue-screen surfing scene. And once again - it was the low-light, but I'd forgotten how many other ridiculous (and ridiculously bad) special effects there were in this. But in general - I see Kurt Russell was listed as a Producer, along with Carpenter - I figure it must have been Russell's brainchild to do a sequel. And they just did the same shit, but throwing in as many LA stereotypes as possible. And... fuck it, it's a shit movie, but fun. It loses a shitload of points for the close-up of "American Spirit" cigarettes, and the general "yay, USA, freedom" in-your-face libertarian bullshit.
2 extreme-sport-tropes out of 5 basketball shots made under duress.The deliberate lack of romantic sub-plots, and the lead character just being a fluffy-bunny (to the point of unlikeable-ness) - were bonuses.
Edit: next on the life-plan... watching Assault on Precinct 13 - original and re-make.
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@Tim said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@Kruse Escape from New York is 4/5 at least.
Brilliant minimal synth soundtrack.
Not as good as Halloween though
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@Tim said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@Kruse Escape from New York is 4/5 at least.
Brilliant minimal synth soundtrack.
I would have agreed on the 4/5 at least before the rewatch. Maybe I went in with too-high expectations.
The minimal soundtrack - yeah, it's not normally something I notice (what's the saying... a good soundtrack is one you don't notice)... but it was so good in NY, that in LA there were a couple of moments when I DID notice the soundtrack, with the fleeting thought "that soundtrack's a bit on-the-nose". And when I think back... it probably would have been considered extremely subtle in most movies, I'd just gotten so used to that minimalist approach.
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@voodoo said in Re: Movie review thread...:
All so good. Watched T1-3 with the boys over the last 3 days. Really no need for T3, but the other 2 are great.
I'd have Total Recall as my fav of the "serious" ones, and don't sleep on True Lies in the comedy category.
Red Heat is fucking good too.
And i have a serious soft spot for Conan the Barbarian
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@mariner4life said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@voodoo said in Re: Movie review thread...:
All so good. Watched T1-3 with the boys over the last 3 days. Really no need for T3, but the other 2 are great.
I'd have Total Recall as my fav of the "serious" ones, and don't sleep on True Lies in the comedy category.
Red Heat is fucking good too.
And i have a serious soft spot for Conan the Barbarian
Red Heat was good. Raw deal is about the only one IIRC that wasn't at the level of the rest
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@mariner4life said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@voodoo said in Re: Movie review thread...:
All so good. Watched T1-3 with the boys over the last 3 days. Really no need for T3, but the other 2 are great.
I'd have Total Recall as my fav of the "serious" ones, and don't sleep on True Lies in the comedy category.
Red Heat is fucking good too.
And i have a serious soft spot for Conan the Barbarian
Conan the Barbarian is great. One of my first experiences with a violent movie ( well it was back in the day)
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@Virgil said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@mariner4life said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@voodoo said in Re: Movie review thread...:
All so good. Watched T1-3 with the boys over the last 3 days. Really no need for T3, but the other 2 are great.
I'd have Total Recall as my fav of the "serious" ones, and don't sleep on True Lies in the comedy category.
Red Heat is fucking good too.
And i have a serious soft spot for Conan the Barbarian
Conan the Barbarian is great. One of my first experiences with a violent movie ( well it was back in the day)
Shame it went extra Campy for Conan the Destroyer.i prefer to believe that Destroyer doesn't exist
