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Post by politicidal1 on Apr 15, 2024 15:00:22 GMT
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Post by TheGoodMan19 on Apr 16, 2024 15:12:27 GMT
It was all that and a bowl of spice
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Post by LeBeauSerge on Apr 16, 2024 18:48:16 GMT
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Post by 99999 on Apr 17, 2024 3:18:59 GMT
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Post by Teleadm on Apr 17, 2024 4:19:57 GMT
Sienna Miller and Chadwick Boseman in 21 Bridges 2019
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Post by politicidal1 on Apr 17, 2024 14:10:02 GMT
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Post by Teleadm on Apr 18, 2024 5:09:56 GMT
Se ying diu sau aka Snake in the Eagle's Shadow 1978 "An orphan who has been raised at a kung fu school, where he is treated as little more than a dogsbody and practice target for the students, has a life-changing experience after helping an old peripatetic beggar." Parallel to his story there is also an ongoing war between different Martial Arts schools, where two different styles are trying to make the other extinct, or something like that. The movie that made Jackie Chan a star, he actually replaced another actor, and the success of this movie paved the way for the Martial Arts comedy fusion. It wasn't the first movie that had tried that fusion though. As a movie it has a rather lame plot, the comedy and slapstick is rather childish, but the main attraction is offcourse the training and the Kung Fu fighting sequences. The latter are very impressively staged for the most part, the cinematographer doesn't seems to be on par with the action at times. Not really my kind of movie, but interesting to have seen. Fans of these kind of movies probably rates this one higher than I do.
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Post by LeBeauSerge on Apr 18, 2024 19:03:56 GMT
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Post by politicidal1 on Apr 19, 2024 1:46:29 GMT
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Post by Teleadm on Apr 19, 2024 5:26:43 GMT
Hellzapoppin' 1941 "Olsen and Johnson, a pair of stage comedians, try to turn their play into a movie and bring together a young couple in love, while breaking the fourth wall every step of the way." Fast-paced frenetic movie mayhem that throws in everything but the kitchen sink... well, they actually did threw in a kitchen sink too. Based on a successful Broadway show that played for over 1400 performances, an astonishing number for a show that started in the late 1930's, that also involved audience participation so no performance was like the other. It might have lost a bit being transformed into a movie, and might have lost a bit of the freshness it once had, but there is still much to like as it parodies a lot of movie conventions of the time. Like being forced to have a romantic couple squezed into the plot for no reason, like the Marx movies at MGM. Olsen and Johnson made a couple of other movies following this movie, but non as successful as this one.
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Post by politicidal1 on Apr 20, 2024 1:01:34 GMT
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Post by theravenking on Apr 20, 2024 12:30:21 GMT
The Clan of the Cave Bear (1986; Michael Chapman)
There doesn't seem to be much love for this prehistoric epic about a young Cro-Magnon woman (played by Dary Hannah as a grown-up) who is found and raised by Neanderthals. It was mercilessly thrashed by fans of the book series for being too shallow and lacking the complexity of the source material. However I found it to be a a handsome visual spectacle with a marvellous score by Alan Silvestri. True, the plot isn’t anything special and Daryl Hannah only gets to wear her kick-ass warrior make-up from the poster for about five minutes. I still think the good outweighs the bad here, and it’s the sort of movie I wish I could’ve seen on the big screen.
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Post by LeBeauSerge on Apr 21, 2024 16:32:07 GMT
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Post by primethefirst on Apr 21, 2024 20:37:49 GMT
MY FRIENDS NEED KILLING - 1976 - Zero budget war thriller about a Vietnam vet who cracks up from memories of the atrocities committed by his unit so he goes around killing them. The lack of production values actually helps make it feel more intimate and creepy because the acting is good. In one particularly disturbing scene he shoots a guy in the hand and leg and then rapes his wife. It sounds like an absurd exploitation but the performances are completely professional and sincere. The finale is weird and suspenseful but severely undermined by a terrible choice of music for characters urgently traveling to prevent a horrible outcome for a pregnant woman at the mercy of the killer. They chose a piece that sounds like funky muzak that you would hear in a 1970s department store.
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Post by Chalice_Of_Evil on Apr 21, 2024 21:26:51 GMT
I really want to see this^ movie. How would you rank it in comparison to the last two Kenneth Branagh Poirot movies, Murder on the Orient Express (2017) and Death on the Nile (2022)?
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