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    Alien Resurrection Special Edition, I had a lot of fun with this watch, it is for me the worst of the main films in the series though still has the odd good scene and littered with invention. The acting, directing and script are quite bizarre at times that kept me interested. The 90's was a decent era for science fiction films as they often did not hold back, these types of films always had great ensemble casts.

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    The Avengers I have been revisiting the TV show recently which has been a lot of fun, the movie is a bit light weight though 1hr and 20mis of escapism. The actors seems to be having fun with the shenanigans. The film looks pretty good in HD, I had only watched this on VHS or DVD previously I forget which. Sir Sean chews up the scenery as the Bond villain lol.

    I remember thinking Jean-Pierre Jeunet was a brave choice for the fourth 'Alien' movie, as I loved his first couple of films 'Amelie', 'Delicatessen' (a particular favourite!) and 'The City of Lost Children', but it didn't really come off, the underwater scene was great, but the final depiction of the Xenomorph with blinking eyes made me laugh out loud!
  • Fire_and_Ice_ReturnsFire_and_Ice_Returns I am trying to get away from this mountan!
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    Mathis1 wrote: »
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    Alien Resurrection Special Edition, I had a lot of fun with this watch, it is for me the worst of the main films in the series though still has the odd good scene and littered with invention. The acting, directing and script are quite bizarre at times that kept me interested. The 90's was a decent era for science fiction films as they often did not hold back, these types of films always had great ensemble casts.

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    avengers-3.jpg
    The Avengers I have been revisiting the TV show recently which has been a lot of fun, the movie is a bit light weight though 1hr and 20mis of escapism. The actors seems to be having fun with the shenanigans. The film looks pretty good in HD, I had only watched this on VHS or DVD previously I forget which. Sir Sean chews up the scenery as the Bond villain lol.

    I remember thinking Jean-Pierre Jeunet was a brave choice for the fourth 'Alien' movie, as I loved his first couple of films 'Amelie', 'Delicatessen' (a particular favourite!) and 'The City of Lost Children', but it didn't really come off, the underwater scene was great, but the final depiction of the Xenomorph with blinking eyes made me laugh out loud!

    Agree the underwater sequence is pretty cool, the hybrid alien is weird though to be fair there is a threat there when he acts like a baby he could crush a skull on a whim lol
  • DarthDimiDarthDimi Behind you!Moderator
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    This scene made me laugh.

    Say what you want about the film, it has a GREAT score!
  • Fire_and_Ice_ReturnsFire_and_Ice_Returns I am trying to get away from this mountan!
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    DarthDimi wrote: »
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    This scene made me laugh.

    Say what you want about the film, it has a GREAT score!

    The film is fun, I meant laugh in a good way, I agree it has a good score.
  • MaxCasinoMaxCasino United States
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    DarthDimi wrote: »
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    This scene made me laugh.

    Say what you want about the film, it has a GREAT score!

    The film is fun, I meant laugh in a good way, I agree it has a good score.

    A lot of bad movies can be entertaining, honestly. Plan 9 from Outer Space by Ed Wood is great to watch with friends.
  • Fire_and_Ice_ReturnsFire_and_Ice_Returns I am trying to get away from this mountan!
    edited August 21 Posts: 25,044
    MaxCasino wrote: »
    DarthDimi wrote: »
    Sean-Connery-Avengers-Teddy-Bear-Suit-2.jpg
    This scene made me laugh.

    Say what you want about the film, it has a GREAT score!

    The film is fun, I meant laugh in a good way, I agree it has a good score.

    A lot of bad movies can be entertaining, honestly. Plan 9 from Outer Space by Ed Wood is great to watch with friends.

    True, the 90's had many so bad its good movies, I would welcome films like that now.

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    As a side note Uma would have made a interesting Lara Croft, the doppelganger in The Avengers reminds me of Tomb Raider Underworld.
  • mattjoesmattjoes Julie T. and the M.G.'s
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    I've only seen parts of the original series (one of these days I'll watch the whole thing), but I quite enjoyed the Avengers movie. That teddy bear scene is magnificent, and Connery is good as a bad guy.
  • DarthDimiDarthDimi Behind you!Moderator
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    DarthDimi wrote: »
    Sean-Connery-Avengers-Teddy-Bear-Suit-2.jpg
    This scene made me laugh.

    Say what you want about the film, it has a GREAT score!

    The film is fun, I meant laugh in a good way, I agree it has a good score.

    Absolutely, the film is a lot of fun. I saw it in theatres in 1998. I was down with it, but I knew nothing about the '60s series, so I didn't know how the film compared to that. ;-)
  • Fire_and_Ice_ReturnsFire_and_Ice_Returns I am trying to get away from this mountan!
    edited August 21 Posts: 25,044
    mattjoes wrote: »
    I've only seen parts of the original series (one of these days I'll watch the whole thing), but I quite enjoyed the Avengers movie. That teddy bear scene is magnificent, and Connery is good as a bad guy.

    Both The Avengers and The New Avengers had two of the best TV show themes ever.

    Both great shows, I watched an episode the other day from the Tara King era with Christopher Lee (Lee appeared more than once as different characters), so many Bond connections from the shows.
  • j_w_pepperj_w_pepper Born on the bayou, but I now hear a new dog barkin'
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    @j_w_pepper to be fair the film is pretty consistent with the TV show, the show got really hokey at times.
    Absolutely no contest. Though I remember that it gradually got hoakier. And I know this sounds strange considering stuff like The Cybernauts even in the early (Peel) seasons.
  • Fire_and_Ice_ReturnsFire_and_Ice_Returns I am trying to get away from this mountan!
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    j_w_pepper wrote: »
    @j_w_pepper to be fair the film is pretty consistent with the TV show, the show got really hokey at times.
    Absolutely no contest. Though I remember that it gradually got hoakier. And I know this sounds strange considering stuff like The Cybernauts even in the early (Peel) seasons.

    I liked the surreal elements of the show, I did think earlier maybe they should have gone with the Cybernauts in the movie.

    Purdy against the Cybernauts is one of my earliest TV memories.
  • Fire_and_Ice_ReturnsFire_and_Ice_Returns I am trying to get away from this mountan!
    edited August 21 Posts: 25,044
    Laurie Johnson - The New Avengers 1976 ( Original TV Version )

    @j_w_pepper Great edit of the theme.

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    @mattjoes I think you will enjoy the evolution of the shows themes here...
    The Avengers (All series openings)
  • Fire_and_Ice_ReturnsFire_and_Ice_Returns I am trying to get away from this mountan!
    edited August 21 Posts: 25,044
    @mattjoes I think you will enjoy the evolution of...

    The Avengers (All series openings)


    Diana Rigg is gorgeous, the Emma Peel intro's are the best.
  • DwayneDwayne New York City
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    j_w_pepper wrote: »
    @j_w_pepper to be fair the film is pretty consistent with the TV show, the show got really hokey at times.
    Absolutely no contest. Though I remember that it gradually got hoakier. And I know this sounds strange considering stuff like The Cybernauts even in the early (Peel) seasons.

    Yes, there was a major spy-fi element to series 4 (Emma Peel. B&W) and series 5 (Emma Peel, color). That said, however, series 6 (Tara King) was a major step back from that toward more traditional spy craft, albeit done with the normal tongue in cheek. The major exception to this was the introduction of Patrick Newell's character, "Mother" and the "goofy-headquarters-of-the-week" running gags.

    http://theavengers.tv/forever/

    The problems with series six, IMO lay mostly behind the scenes and with the fact (again, this is subjective) that US audiences didn't seem to warm to the Tara/Steed relationship. That, along with programming it opposite the most popular TV show of the era ("Laugh-In") killed it.

    As for the 1998 film, I found it pleasant enough, and IIRC, there is a longer version of the film which fans are attempting to get released. Apparently, some of the plot points were hurt by the decision to edit the film down to its released runtime.
  • GoldenGunGoldenGun Per ora e per il momento che verrà
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    The passing of Alain Delon, one of my three favourite actors of all time, made me go back into my French library and I arbitrary took two titles from my catalogue;

    MR. KLEIN

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    Superb film about an opportunist who remains indifferent to the atrocities of fascism during WW II, even though he's being mistaken for a Jewish man who has the same name. Phenomenal end scene, too.

    Jeanne Moreau and Michael Lonsdale (credited as Michel Lonsdale) also appear. As well as an impressive turn by Francine Bergé as Nicole.

    LE CERCLE ROUGE

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    A crime film by Jean-Pierre Melville. Ergo, a masterpiece. The highlight here is a masterfully constructed heist scene in almost complete silence. The bleak cinematography by the legendary Henri Decaë is magnificent too.

    Also featuring excellent performances by Yves Montand, Gian Maria Volontè and Bourvil.
  • mattjoesmattjoes Julie T. and the M.G.'s
    edited August 22 Posts: 7,020
    @mattjoes I think you will enjoy the evolution of...

    The Avengers (All series openings)


    Diana Rigg is gorgeous, the Emma Peel intro's are the best.
    Very nice. I'm thinking I'll start with the Diana Rigg episodes, then the others, including the first season episodes that still exist.

    I'm also interested in checking out more of Diana's filmography. Some movies and filmed plays.

    GoldenGun wrote: »
    The passing of Alain Delon, one of my three favourite actors of all time, made me go back into my French library and I arbitrary took two titles from my catalogue;

    MR. KLEIN

    eyJidWNrZXQiOiJmZGMtc2l0ZXB1YmxpYy1tZWRpYS1wcm9kIiwia2V5IjoidXBsb2Fkc1wvMjAyM1wvMDNcLzk0NTUwLmpwZyIsImVkaXRzIjp7InJlc2l6ZSI6eyJ3aWR0aCI6MTYwMCwiZml0IjoiY292ZXIifX19

    Superb film about an opportunist who remains indifferent to the atrocities of fascism during WW II, even though he's being mistaken for a Jewish man who has the same name. Phenomenal end scene, too.

    Jeanne Moreau and Michael Lonsdale (credited as Michel Lonsdale) also appear. As well as an impressive turn by Francine Bergé as Nicole.
    I saw this at a theater last year or the year before. I'm increasingly fascinated by stories like these, that take a strange concept and push it further and further until we are almost in the realm of madness.

    GoldenGun wrote: »
    LE CERCLE ROUGE

    3712522.jpg

    A crime film by Jean-Pierre Melville. Ergo, a masterpiece. The highlight here is a masterfully constructed heist scene in almost complete silence. The bleak cinematography by the legendary Henri Decaë is magnificent too.

    Also featuring excellent performances by Yves Montand, Gian Maria Volontè and Bourvil.
    This one has been on my radar for a while.
  • DwayneDwayne New York City
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    FYI,

    "Staring Alain Delon" is the first thing that I see when logging on to my Criterion Streaming account (US).
    The beautiful boy of French cinema whose steely, ice-blue gaze betrayed more than a hint of danger, Alain Delon was a favorite of modernists like Luchino Visconti, Jean-Pierre Melville, and Michelangelo Antonioni, all of whom were seduced by his impossible good looks and air of cool detachment. This selection of many of Delon’s finest moments spotlights his star-making performance as the gorgeous, duplicitous Tom Ripley in René Clément’s Patricia Highsmith adaptation PURPLE NOON; his career-defining turn as a zen contract killer in Melville’s LE SAMOURAÏ; his subtle portrayal of an amoral art dealer mixed up in a case of mistaken identity in Joseph Losey’s unsung classic MR. KLEIN; and more.

    Having already watched Le Samourai last weekend (yet again!), I'm adjusting my schedule for this weekend so that I can watch MR. KLEIN and LA PISCINE (Romy Schneider and Jane Birkin! :x ) since I didn't catch them during NYC The Film Forum's Delon retrospective a couple of months ago.



  • GoldenGunGoldenGun Per ora e per il momento che verrà
    edited August 22 Posts: 7,105
    Happy viewing @Dwayne!!

    For me Delon is the definitive Tom Ripley, and Purple Noon the definitive Ripley adaptation. Superb.

    Rocco e i suoi fratelli is a film I had to study meticulously, it was one of my projects at univeristy for the Italian cinema course.

    Then there's also L' Eclisse, possibly the most impressive film I have ever seen, definitely recommended. Scorsese is right, the film is revolutionary. Also Monica Vitto and Alain Delon together! That's two of my three favourite actors of all time together.
  • mattjoesmattjoes Julie T. and the M.G.'s
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    By the way, I forgot to bring this up the other day, but apart from his nationality, Delon would have been a superb James Bond.
  • GoldenGunGoldenGun Per ora e per il momento che verrà
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    mattjoes wrote: »
    By the way, I forgot to bring this up the other day, but apart from his nationality, Delon would have been a superb James Bond.

    True! He could make everything work. Definitely would have been a cool returning Deuxième Bureau colleague à la Leiter... A younger Mathis if you will.
  • edited August 24 Posts: 1,707
    Big Boss part 2......3/6 , this is not bruceploitation even tho Bruce Le in it for 5 mins at start but Lo Lieh. Lacklustre fights , poor mans boat chase , nothing about drug smuggling like original film but about gold smuggling. The manager from first film is now the main boss. Half baked romance with Lo&WangPing. Boss' death scene was decent but thats about it. IMO mediocre but th film had been missing for yrs&yrs
  • HasanDaferHasanDafer Baghdad, Iraq
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    I watched Longlegs last night, it is an okay horror film, though it doesn't quite live up to the hype generated by its marketing. Some reviews suggest it's the pinnacle of the genre, but it falls short of being exceptional.

    On the positive side, the cinematography is captivating and eerie, beautifully shot in a way that enhances the film's unsettling atmosphere. The jump scares are well-timed and effective, catching me off guard more than once. The acting is solid across the board, but Nicolas Cage stands out with his portrayal of Longlegs-his performance is both creepy and terrifying, making the character truly memorable. The film's ending is also a highlight, delivering a surprising twist that left me impressed.

    However, the story lacks originality, feeling like a blend of "Silence of the Lambs" and "Annabelle." While this combination isn't inherently bad, it does feel overly familiar, making it hard to connect with the narrative. You can't always reinvent the wheel, but the film's reliance on well-trodden ground makes it less impactful.

    The dialogue is another weak point, often lacking engagement and causing some scenes to drag. It's clear the actors are giving their all, but the uninspired dialogue and weak character development don't do them justice.
  • peterpeter Toronto
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    @HasanDafer

    We also watched Longlegs last night. My feeling is identical to yours, and I’d just like to add a creepy note:

    Cage’s performance was truly spine-tingling and frightening, and…….. He based his characterization on his mother, who suffered mental illness. Knowing that tidbit stretched his performance into something truly sad, played on top of the sinister…
  • Fire_and_Ice_ReturnsFire_and_Ice_Returns I am trying to get away from this mountan!
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    mattjoes wrote: »
    @mattjoes I think you will enjoy the evolution of...

    The Avengers (All series openings)


    Diana Rigg is gorgeous, the Emma Peel intro's are the best.
    Very nice. I'm thinking I'll start with the Diana Rigg episodes, then the others, including the first season episodes that still exist.

    I'm also interested in checking out more of Diana's filmography. Some movies and filmed plays.

    Riggs era is peak years of the show, best place to start for sure.

    Evil Under the Sun
    and The Assassination Bureau are good and decent, I must admit other than Doctor Who, Game of Thrones and Diana;'s final film Last Night in Soho there is a large part of her career i have not watched.

  • edited August 25 Posts: 5,989
    Well, you can begin with Theater of Blood. I can assure you, you will never be able to see Shakespeare the same way again, and she's magnificent in it (Vincent Price is too, BTW).

    And of course, there's OHMSS, but I shouldn't have to mention it on this forum.
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  • j_w_pepperj_w_pepper Born on the bayou, but I now hear a new dog barkin'
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    Gerard wrote: »
    Well, you can begin with Theater of Blood. I can assure you, you will never be able to see Shakespeare the same way again, and she's magnificent in it (Vincent Price is too, BTW).

    I absolutely hate Theater of Blood. I had such great expectations about it, and I was totally disappointed. In my opinion, a terminally stupid and even boring movie. It may have been the first DVD ever that I regretted to have bought. Even Diana Rigg is no reason to watch that drivel again IMO.
  • mattjoesmattjoes Julie T. and the M.G.'s
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    Gerard wrote: »
    Well, you can begin with Theater of Blood.
    j_w_pepper wrote: »
    I absolutely hate Theater of Blood.
    Now I don't know what to watch. What do I do? I'm befuddled.

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    Oh, never mind. I'm sure I'll avenge my way out of this one.
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    Alien Romulus

    Really enjoyed it. I am not too familiar with the Alien franchise (I have seen them a while back) or the wider lore, but really enjoyed this one as its own film.
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    SCARECROW (1973)
    I had seen this film many years ago, and when it popped up on the Amazon page, I bought it. Am glad I did. It's a wonderful road movie, with Gene Hackman and Al Pacino as oddball characters who meet hitchhiking, Hackmans Max is an ex con who wants to start a car wash business in Pittsburgh, and Pacino as Francis who wants to visit his kid he's never seen, in Detroit. They have many lively encounters with people on their travels, one very harrowing one with Richard Lynchs prison inmate. Both leads are fantastic, and have many wonderful heartfelt scenes, and the finale will crush you, but Director Jerry Scharzberg cushions it with a final moment where we finally find out why Max always sleeps with one boot under his pillow!! Definitely recommended, on the bluray case it states it won the Grand Prize at the Cannes Film Festival
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