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Sus og dus på byen 4/6 , similar to Olsen Gang films , same director & actors , its passable
I’d give both 10/10. Then it went downhill. But the Spielberg ones were amazing.
I think you'll enjoy them, @DarthDimi. Seeing Neo Nazis being brutally offed by a teenage girl with anger issues, it's fun for all.
I just finished watching the first one, @MajorDSmythe, and really enjoyed it. Kevin James was the true surprise for me, since I only know him as a comedian. Some of his brutal actions in the film were rather upsetting. Lulu Wilson is like a teenage John Wick but with teen anger giving her all her strength instead of training and experience. I'm quite looking forward to the Wrath Of Becky now. I'm glad you gave me the push I needed to finally press play on Becky.
Honestly jaws is and always will be my favorite film seeing it with the orchestra live at martha’s vineyard i cant believe how amazing that was….
Jaws 3 is one of those films that people love to hate but i honestly love it and meeting Joe Alves and learning how universal basically butchered that film i will say this 3 was a nostalgia love but after talking with Alves about it i may almost love this more than 2… though the fact that we didn’t get a good gotcha line right before they blew up the shark kind of annoys me…
1. Jaws
2. The living daylights
3. Black bag
4. Running Scared
5. Jaws 3-D
6. A complete unknown
7. When harry met sally
8. Mystic pizza
9. Casino Royale 1954
10. A haunting in venice
11. Superstar
I'm glad you liked it. Kevin James as the very chilling villain, brought to mind Robin Williams in Insomnia/One Hour Photo, quite the revelation. The same goes for Wrath Of Beckie's villain, of which i'm awaiting your thoughts on.
I will let you know, Major.
Episode 11: Brenda Starr (shot 1986, released 1989 and 1992)
(not a great poster, to be frank)
I watched some parts of Brenda Starr on TV some 25 years ago, and not again since. Having now revisited it and given it a full watch, I consider it to be yet another case of "why did the critics think this movie completely sucked?" And while IMDb gives it a 4.8/10 (poor), Letterboxd gives it a 6.0/10 (fair). This could be nostalgia speaking, but I tend to side with the more positive evaluation.
It's not a great film, but a perfectly enjoyable, competently made, Sunday afternoon-type of escapism. A highly silly adventure romp in which our heroes™ are never in any real danger. It moves quickly from one crazy situation to the next, so although it's only an hour and a half, it feels very substantial. The physical humor isn't all that funny at times (the movie's biggest shortcoming), and occasionally, a joke is stretched a bit thin, but even then, there is a fun sense of imagination at play. Every physical bit is built around a concept that's at least mildly amusing (and sometimes much better than that), and their cartoon logic tickles my fancy.
The picture not only feels substantial because of how much happens in it, but because the plot itself has a lot of moving parts: there's Brenda and her job, the difficulties at her newspaper, the secret formula for fuel, the intelligence agents, the rival reporter (fantastic performance by Diana Scarwid, but everyone's good-to-great in their roles), the love interest with the eyepatch (Dalton) and of course, the artist who draws Brenda and who enters the comic strip to lure her back into his now-empty panels. I've known the actor's name for many years, but only now I discover that Tony Peck is actually Gregory Peck's son.
Curious choice, adding that metafictional element. Perhaps the filmmakers thought a straight adaptation of the comic strip would be too old-fashioned for its time. It makes no difference when it comes to the lead character's charmingly quaint brand of feminism (make-up and purses are used by Starr in her daring escapes), but it provides a love triangle, an interesting emotional element and some kind of unspoken reflection about the relationship between an artist and their creation (or that which they help create, in this case). In simpler words, it elevates the film a bit. Gives it a tad more weight.
Brooke Shields was right: this film needed to come out much earlier; for the US, 1992 was just too late. Strike while the iron is hot, or hotter, at least. In 1986, Shields was not that far removed from Blue Lagoon, Dalton was about to be cast as Bond, and yes, films like Dick Tracy or Batman hadn't come out. Not that Brenda Starr lacks visual style altogether, in fact, at times it's damned cool to look at (especially with those comic strip transitions), but the aforementioned films just had bigger budgets and an even more cinematic style. No matter. Brenda Starr is a fun little companion piece to those two, along with The Rocketeer, The Shadow, The Phantom and I don't know what other 80s/90s picture based on a comic strip or comic book set in the early 20th century. Frankly, I just can't get enough of them.
As for myself:
PIRATES (1986)
Directed by Roman Polanski
Also not quite a critics darling, or a general audience one. Nevertheless, beautifully shot in gorgeous decors and with a sense of escapism / adventurism that strikes a peculiar balance between autoparody and cynicism. Clearly Verbinski and Disney were inspired by it, even though this one doesn't try to please its audience at every turn, on the contrary in fact. It shows a seaworld with almost no-one to root for and full of opportunism. Make of it what you will, but it's an artist's take on a genre that all too often veers into unwarranted romanticism (even though I can enjoy those films as well), which this one doesn't. Yet it still looks amazing.
I was recently in Genoa, and the galleon "Neptune", used for this film, lies in the harbour there and is definitely worth a visit. My 3-year old son loved it too, though the film in question is for when he's a bit older :p
I bought this dvd last year! Still haven't watched it! Got slaughtered by critics, but anything by Polanski AND starring the great Walter Matthau camt be all bad!
For what it's worth, I really enjoyed it :)
Funny that you mention this film, because a) Tony Peck from Brenda Starr is in it, b) Timothy Dalton was almost in it, c) I've been thinking about watching it. Might not be an outstanding film, but looks like an interesting watch.
I just finished watching The Wrath Of Becky. A lot more comedy in this one, but well balanced with the serious stuff. Lulu is even better in this one, in my opinion.
I had a good time with this second film. It's fast, it's mean, but it's a satisfying ride for sure.
I must say, I enjoy it, although I'm not into musicals. But it's one of my mum's favourite.
Apart from it being an enjoyable film in itself, it also brings real-life villains into focus, turning the film into a secret (well... not anymore) revenge fantasy of my own. 😎
In a sense, these films take me back to some exploitation revenge flicks of the '70s.
I was also pleasantly surprised to see Kate Siegel show up!
I am certainly hoping for a sequel now. I mean, we HAVE to know what that one object is all about, don't we? 😄
Round two did absolutely nothing to diminish returns for me. That's MY Superman and he IS the real punk rock.
10/10
MATERIALISTS (2025)
I'm sorry, I really do try not to swear on these forums anymore but...what the fuck, Celine Song?
I absolutely adored Past Lives and I was really rooting for this despite very polarizing reviews. It's shocking how she can go, in one film, from making a wonderfully profound, quasi-autobiographical and poetic rumination on the lives we choose to live vs. the ones we're curious about, to making...this. One-dimensional "How to Screenplay" archetypes who are repeatedly telling eachother how they're in a rom-com but it's all being subverted! I really loathe the generic American rom-com formula too, but you can't throw your story out with the rules you're so averse to. Should have been 15 minutes shorter, on top of all the problems. Really hated Materialists.
2.5/10
Came back from my second viewing as well. Not sure I would give it a 10, but I’m definitely comfortable bumping it up from an 8 to a 9. Absolutely fantastic.
Seeing it again really surprised me. It's not some Hollywood fantasy. The thing that really stands out today is its fairly gritty, working-class aesthetic and raw depiction of Brooklyn life in the 1970s. And to that extent it has a lot more in common with a contemporaneous movie like Taxi Driver than an unsuspecting viewer only familiar with the soundtrack might expect. I mean, there's crumbling infrastructure everywhere, economic stagnation, and dead-end jobs, contrasting with the disco’s escapist glamour [which itself is small and not exactly that glamorous]. But the disco is all the Travolta character has, and provides his life with meaning, identity, transcendence, etc. Gotta be better than his job in a paint store, right!
I really like that film. It's got much more depth than what one might expect. The music is awesome too, of course.
Just what the doctor ordered. Bruckheimer movies give me life:
Days of Thunder
Bad Boys
Crimson Tide
Dangerous Minds
The Rock
Con Air
Armageddon
Enemy of the State
Gone in 60 Seconds
Top Gun: Maverick
Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F
>>> F1 >>>
I love all of them. I want more.
You'll be delighted to hear they are planning a 'Days of Thunder' sequel then!
Of that list, I only really enjoy 'Con Air' cos it's bonkers, and 'Enemy of the State', which has Hackman, superb as always!