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Can you not apply a credit in the bank rating? Willis would have a pretty good credit balance to begin with, Travolta less so and Cage was pretty much on a nil balance to start with.
Are you using Die Hard 1-3 as credit to balance out everything?
Cage has got a pretty good balance too with Face Off, Leaving Las Vegas, The Rock, Con Air etc.
**Not sure why but have never really got into Nicolas Cage or his movies.
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Surely Travolta in Saturday Night Fever woukld have been up there in the scale, just pipped by Pulp FictonProbably something to do with him being an annoying, hammy, over the top fuckhead.
It is called shamian acting, or meta-acting according to Cage.
I am arguing with some Greek friends, they claim he is part Greek and a terrible actor.
I claim he is Italian (a Coppola) and don't argue the second part.For some reason though, I enjoyed Con Air.
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@nostrildamus Malkovich was very good in ConAir
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@nostrildamus said in Movie review thread...:
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@catogrande said in Re: Movie review thread...:
Can you not apply a credit in the bank rating? Willis would have a pretty good credit balance to begin with, Travolta less so and Cage was pretty much on a nil balance to start with.
Are you using Die Hard 1-3 as credit to balance out everything?
Cage has got a pretty good balance too with Face Off, Leaving Las Vegas, The Rock, Con Air etc.
**Not sure why but have never really got into Nicolas Cage or his movies.
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Surely Travolta in Saturday Night Fever woukld have been up there in the scale, just pipped by Pulp FictonProbably something to do with him being an annoying, hammy, over the top fuckhead.
It is called shamian acting, or meta-acting according to Cage.
I am arguing with some Greek friends, they claim he is part Greek and a terrible actor.
I claim he is Italian (a Coppola) and don't argue the second part.For some reason though, I enjoyed Con Air.
I don’t blame ya, must be the soundtrack. I always bust this one out in the car to embarrass the boys.
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@nostrildamus said in Movie review thread...:
As to Brosnan's Irish accent, I suspect it was a little bit put on, didn't he go to school in London?!
It wasn't a serious comment. He certainly embellished the accent.
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Any one seen the 1985 Soviet film, The Detached Mission, aka the russian rambo?
https://thedissolve.com/features/exposition/707-comrade-rambo/
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@tim said in Movie review thread...:
Any one seen the 1985 Soviet film, The detached Mission, aka the russian rambo?
https://thedissolve.com/features/exposition/707-comrade-rambo/
No.
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@taniwharugby yes he was. I also thought he was great in Red and quite a few other films.
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Ida Red
3.5 warmths out of 5 Heats
Frank Grillo can't have slept the past two years, he's in everything.
Good to see William Forsythe
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I'm in
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Interesting article in The Australian nominating the Top 10 SciFi movies:
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@antipodean said in Movie review thread...:
Interesting article in The Australian nominating the Top 10 SciFi movies:
At least they got number one right
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@bovidae said in Movie review thread...:
Metropolis is a movie I have always been meaning to watch. It looked interesting since I first saw the video for Radio Ga Ga.
If you use IMDb ratings then Inception should be in a Top 10.
I recommend Metropolis, watched it about 30 years ago, which is still relatively recently. I think it was a colourized version? Anyway, still disturbing.
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@antipodean said in Movie review thread...:
Interesting article in The Australian nominating the Top 10 SciFi movies:
I'm not sure those are all my top 10 but certainly some excellent films and excellent posters!
I'd also nominate Forbidden Planet and possibly The Day The Earth Stood Still.No VR film apart from the Matrix? Possibly a P . K. movie, but which one?!
Probably not Fifth Element and Solaris is fantastic but really for the ending, it is very very slow. His other film STALKER is a bit bizarre as the radiation may have killed Tarkovsky in real life.
And no 2001: A Space Odyssey?
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@taniwharugby said in Movie review thread...:
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@nostrildamus said in Movie review thread...:
I'd also nominate Forbidden Planet and possibly The Day The Earth Stood Still.
Like Metropolis, Forbidden Planet is still fresh, even 60 years later
. His other film STALKER is a bit bizarre as the radiation may have killed Tarkovsky in real life.
One of the eeriest films I've seen - brilliant though.
There were some great British Sci Fi films in the 50' s about a rocket scientist, Bernard Quatermas, written by Nigel Kneale which were years ahead of their time and still really watchable. Quoted as hugely influential by the likes of Spielberg and Ridley Scott.
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@machpants agreed but i think they'd say you can have empire without hope
probably get shot down but id throw in Jurassic Park, cutting edge technology that still looks pretty good the better part of 30 years later and quite literally science Fiction, just not set in the future or in space
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@nostrildamus said in Movie review thread...:
@bovidae said in Movie review thread...:
Metropolis is a movie I have always been meaning to watch. It looked interesting since I first saw the video for Radio Ga Ga.
If you use IMDb ratings then Inception should be in a Top 10.
I recommend Metropolis, watched it about 30 years ago, which is still relatively recently. I think it was a colourized version? Anyway, still disturbing.
Metropolis Redux is the best version out there. A kiwi spent 2 years restoring it, combining bits from different versions (film, dvd, vhs) to combine the most complete version. This is primarily based on Georgio Moroder's 1980's version (colourized with modern soundtrack).
I watched it with the kiwi's production notes as subtitles, and that was awesome - I learnt a lot more about the different versions and the process of film editing
Interview with the creator here:
The Detached Mission (1986) ⭐ 5.3 | Action, Drama
The Detached Mission - Wikipedia
