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@MN5 said in Movie review thread...:
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The Great Escaper with Michael Caine and Glenda Jackson in their final films (though dubious in Caine's case..)
True story about a WW2 Veteran who decided to go to France for the D-Day celebrations without telling anyone. Great if you like the "Old buggers are still young at heart" genre and brilliantly acted but found it pretty formulaic.
3.5 Care Home workers out of 5 Old Soldiers
Watched a few classics recently: All the Presidents Men with Redford & Hoffman, Witness for the Prosecution with Marlene Dietrich…and the Caine Mutiny with Humphrey Bogart. This film is where Michael Caine chose his onscreen name, replacing White.
That reminds me…..
I watched Get Carter the other night.
Dated, and some pretty dubious stunts and action scenes ( it was the early 70s ) and he is the most cockney sounding northerner I’ve ever heard……but Caine was absolutely cool and ruthless as fuck in this. Definite charisma and screen presence in spades.
Cool film, he played an unlikable arsehole really well.
4 bitters in thin glasses out of 5 big men in bad shape
Along with The Long Good Friday one of the best British gangster movies ever made. Hold their own against any of the great US ones as well.
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@Billy-Tell said in Movie review thread...:
…and the Caine Mutiny with Humphrey Bogart. This film is where Michael Caine chose his onscreen name, replacing White.
Fantastic movie, and also a fantastic read.
A movie in a similar vein which doesn’t get the love it deserves is Mr Roberts
Stellar performances from Cagney and Fonda
Going back to Wouk, this is a great read which resonated with me after working 14 summers at two predominantly Jewish Summer Camps in the Poconos of Pennsylvania and the Catskills of NY
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Caine has this amazing ability to look and sound like Michael Caine on screen but not be Michael Caine on screen.
Incredibly versatile actor as well - can do anything.
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@MiketheSnow said in Movie review thread...:
Stellar performances from Cagney and Fonda
I recommend Bad Day at Black Rock with Fonda and Spencer Tracy...
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@Victor-Meldrew said in Movie review thread...:
@MiketheSnow said in Movie review thread...:
Stellar performances from Cagney and Fonda
I recommend Bad Day at Black Rock with Fonda and Spencer Tracy...
Great movie
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@Victor-Meldrew said in Movie review thread...:
@MiketheSnow said in Movie review thread...:
Stellar performances from Cagney and Fonda
I recommend Bad Day at Black Rock with Fonda and Spencer Tracy...
Fonda? You’re maybe thinking Robert Ryan?
But yes, great film.
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@Victor-Meldrew said in Movie review thread...:
Caine has this amazing ability to look and sound like Michael Caine on screen but not be Michael Caine on screen.
Incredibly versatile actor as well - can do anything.
Yeah steady on, definitely a terrific presence as I said but like Clint Eastwood, Sean Connery, Harrison Ford etc it’s still very much Michael Caine being Michael Caine. He’s no Oldman or Day Lewis.
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@MN5 said in Movie review thread...:
@Victor-Meldrew said in Movie review thread...:
Caine has this amazing ability to look and sound like Michael Caine on screen but not be Michael Caine on screen.
Incredibly versatile actor as well - can do anything.
Yeah steady on, definitely a terrific presence as I said but like Clint Eastwood, Sean Connery, Harrison Ford etc it’s still very much Michael Caine being Michael Caine. He’s no Oldman or Day Lewis.
I was doing to mention the difference between Caine and Oldman. Oldman completely disappears into a role physically, Caine doesn't yet still manages to be the character he wants to portray as well as Oldman et al.
And he can play any genre - tough guy, comedy, drama, rom com, musical, historical - equally well and is a bit like Spencer Tracy in that regard. Heck, he can even produce one of the great portrayals of Scrooge starring with a bunch of muppets.
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You are, of course, right.
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Would you mind yelling Mrs Cato that?
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@Catogrande said in Movie review thread...:
Would you mind yelling Mrs Cato that?
I'm not a home-breaker.
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Caine’s legacy will always be tainted by the dross he appeared in during the 70s and 80s purely for the cash. But in between he did some great stuff.
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Ice Storm
Previously I gave less than glowing review of The Day After Tomorrow. But that's 12 Angry Men in comparison to this steaming turd. The one impressive aspect of this movie is that the drooling imbecile that wrote the script is still better than McKenzie Westmore's acting.
1 bowling ball sized hail out of 5 tuning forks.
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Army Of Thieves
Before we go any further: Ruby O Fee and Nathalie Emmanuel are hawt. So hawt.
Centred around a German safe cracker, who is otherwise the most boring man in Germany. Which is saying something.
I liked the classical links and the action bits. Plenty of laughs and generally just good fun, with the events of the "sequel" mentioned almost as a peripheral event.
4 Walküre out of 4 Götterdämmerung
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Army Of The Dead
Because of course I watched this next. Duh.
Not too much brain required. Zombies. Guns. Plots. Undead tigers. Nuclear bombs. You see where this is going...
A bunch of people make a bunch of bad decisions and end up dead. That's your zombie flick right there. Still fun tho.
3.5 alphas out of 5 shitty helicopters
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@NTA said in Movie review thread...:
Army Of The Dead
Because of course I watched this next. Duh.
Not too much brain required. Zombies. Guns. Plots. Undead tigers. Nuclear bombs. You see where this is going...
A bunch of people make a bunch of bad decisions and end up dead. That's your zombie flick right there. Still fun tho.
3.5 alphas out of 5 shitty helicopters
A fun film. The prequel was even better IMHO
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@Victor-Meldrew said in Movie review thread...:
@MiketheSnow said in Movie review thread...:
Stellar performances from Cagney and Fonda
I recommend Bad Day at Black Rock with Fonda and Spencer Tracy...
Speaking of Fonda I’m about a third of the way through a film starring his daughter: Cat Ballou.
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@Billy-Tell said in Movie review thread...:
@Victor-Meldrew said in Movie review thread...:
@MiketheSnow said in Movie review thread...:
Stellar performances from Cagney and Fonda
I recommend Bad Day at Black Rock with Fonda and Spencer Tracy...
Speaking of Fonda I’m about a third of the way through a film starring his daughter: Cat Ballou.
It was actually Robert Ryan in Bad Day at Black Rock....I got confused.
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@Billy-Tell said in Movie review thread...:
@Victor-Meldrew said in Movie review thread...:
@MiketheSnow said in Movie review thread...:
Stellar performances from Cagney and Fonda
I recommend Bad Day at Black Rock with Fonda and Spencer Tracy...
Speaking of Fonda I’m about a third of the way through a film starring his daughter: Cat Ballou.
A pretty shite film imo, though saved to a degree by Marvin.
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I watched The Creator last night. Others have talked about the movie but the Making Of extra is well worth watching. Gareth Edwards did the opposite of most sci-fi movies and used guerrilla-filming techniques on location and spent the majority of the budget in post-production with ILM to add the sci-fi elements.
Mister Roberts (1955) ⭐ 7.6 | Comedy, Drama, War
