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I really want to watch this one. An old school spy thriller with Cate Blanchett? Sign me in!
Last movie I watched was Pirates of the Caribbean at World's End, or whatever it was called. I'm late in the party, I know. I enjoyed the first one very much, the second far less and the third one I thought was both exhausted and exhausting.
Think I saw this on original release. Writer Shane Black , of Lethal Weapon fame, fashions another Christmas set thriller ( what is it and Christmas with him?) About an amnesiac schoolteacher Mum, (Geena Davis) who goes in search of her past with the aid of a low rent private dick (Samuel L. Jackson) Turns out she is a Jason Bourne type assassin called Charlie Baltimore! Directed by Geenas hubby Renny ( Diehard 2) Harlin, with good cast, Brian Cox is in there ( and Patrick Malahide from British TVs Minder series, with an accent more dodgy than the French one he had in TWINE!) it has what you expect from a Shane Black movie, nasty villains, a cute kid, a conflicted hero, wild plot, one liners, and ludicrous action ( the climax is nuts!) Good fun all the same!
Now, me, yesterday, I watched Godzilla : City on the Edge of Battle. As for the first one, I can tell you that my german is really rusty, and I may have lost quite a few subtleties in the dialogues. And the middle part of the movie is very dialogue-heavy. But the ending more than makes up for it. And the teaser gives us something to look forward to in the next movie.
One part historical drama, one part vampire film (!) ... which sounds like it shouldn't work but somehow it does.
But that's partly the point, that America has always been a melding of disparate elements, people & marginalized sub-cultures that form something greater together ... the current real-life horror show notwithstanding.
I haven't seen Coogler's other films but this is by far the best Hollywood movie I've seen this year.
Nice poster. How was the film? :)
I have the same problem as with The Last Boy Scout. It's basically just another rehash of Lethal Weapon. A good idea that ends up being another buddy movie.
Rather good. Fine performances by Tom Cruise and Jamie Foxx, an also appearance by Javier Bardem who doesn't even get a main credit.
For the rest it's a tightly-written, well-paced, good-looking and tense little thriller.
Really loved that scene where Max stops his cab to let the wolves cross the street and Vincent just looks at him completely unable to grasp why he does that. Perfectly illustrates the nature of both characters without a word being uttered.
I had a good time with this one.
Another excellent Michael Mann movie. I rushed to see the film upon its release and harbour great memories of that excellent event. I like the cast, music and, above all, cinematography. Mark Ruffalo is a cool cat in the film, and for some reason, Statham showed up as well, albeit for a few seconds. The action is great fun. A really fine thriller.
With the announcement of a 3rd film in the series, I felt like going back to the original. It took me ages to get around to seeing this the first time, and I immediately feel in love with the film. Thanks to an immensely charismatic lead, Happy Death Day exceeds its Groundhog Day meets slasher movie premise. While the 2nd film was alright, I would have been fine it this had remained a one-off. Tree with the Night Vision Goggles, best montage ever. :))
Excellent thriller. This is the kind of movie I like to see Tom Cruise in, not those forgettable M.I. films.
Mann, as always, delivers in the director's chair, the shootout in the nightclub is cool! And I love the ending!
The wolf scene is the kind of movie magic you just love about Mann. Few filmmakers have made such carefully composed films, yet this was a happy accident from what I've read. Apparently it's a coyote, but not matter, as it perfectly represents, in miniature, familiar ideas about isolation & survival in the big city.
To that end Collateral makes for a nice trilogy of films alongside Thief & Heat. Each has a master criminal at its heart. But where the De Niro & Caan characters at least attempt to form bonds of humanity, the Cruise character seemingly exists only to stalk his prey (a little like the coyote?), which is also exactly what Justine says of Vincent in Heat.
But however monstrous, the Cruise character seems to have some kind of self-realization at the very end.
Enjoyable if you're a fan of The Man From UNCLE. It was a movie version of the two episode season opener for the 2nd season of the series. They made 8 films from episodes of the TV series and released them into cinemas back in the 1960s:
Arthur Penn thriller with the always watchable Gene Hackman, as Harry Moseby, ex football player, now down at heel Private Eye. Harry's just found out his wife is cheating on him, just as he's given a case to find a missing girl ( a very young Melanie Griffith!) Things get complicated after that! It's an enjoyable film noir, and Hackman is brilliant as always. A word for Dede Allen's excellent editing, particularly in a thrilling finale with a seaplane! Oh, and Michael Smalls main theme is still resonating in my head!
This film is so bloody funny. greatest in modern cinema.
So funny Sellers was a genius.
Warren Beattys big budget depiction of Chester Goulds comic book Detective! Hot on the heels of Tim Burtons Batman, it even has Danny Elfman on score! It's a colourful affair, with Vittorio Storaro on lensing duties, and great production design, a lot of matte paintings! An all star cast, some in heavy prosthetics, from Al Pacino to James Caan to Dustin Hoffman. Beatty takes the lead, as well as directing, with songs from Stephen Sondheim, most sung by Madonna no less, who plays Breathless Mahoney!!!, who looks fab ( I was never a fan, but she does the vamp very well here!) Its an enjoyable romp, no classic, and moves at a fair pace with an exciting gun battle climax, and surprising twist! The likes of Sin City owe it a debt in its look, and I remember purchasing the soundtrack on release! Holds up well, I enjoyed this viewing!
I agree, I hardly ever laugh out loud during a film but Peter Sellers as Clouseau does the trick for me. Return might also be my favourite of them all.
I recently bought the Dick Tracy soundtrack on CD, not watched the film for a long time, great cast.
https://imgur.com/a/hZEvozQ
(I remove most of my CDs from Jewel cases and place them in thinner polypropylene sleeves).
It probably my second favourite, A Shot in the Dark is hilarious and just takes first place.
Always loved Dick Tracy, it's so deliciously and unapologetically naive. And Al Pacino as Big Boy Caprice is just perfect.
I think it flopped at the BO, from what I remember. With The Phantom and The Rocketeer, one of the greatest movie franchises that never were.
The Shadow is another example, which coincidentally I've just ordered! Of the ones mentioned, The Rocketeer was most certainly the best of them, imo!
Because of Al Pacino, I personally think Dick Tracy was the best of the bunch. But it unfairly suffered the Batman comparison, I think, so it just didn't really connect with audiences.
It has a great soundtrack, a nice cast, cool visuals, and a lovely atmosphere. Honestly, I think the film has gotten better over the years.
Not really.
Certainly among the nuttiest, most fun, comic-book & stylish, with Marisa Mell, arguably the best Bond-style Girl never to appear in an actual Bond film:
Can't watch the video atm, but I seem to remember this is a Mario Bava film, right?
I haven't seen it since it's release all those years ago! I don't remember much about it. I do remember thinking it was a pretty dull affair for all its garish colours and luminous photography. Perhaps i should give it a re-watch!