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I absolutely love Barbarella. Jane Fonda is hotter than a bright sun in that film. I only recently discovered the unrated cut, which I must say offered a few nice surprises (always in doubles) ;-). It's a delightfully campy film with a celebration of the sexual revolution of the '60s, a great score, an excellent cast, amazing sets, ... there's nothing not to enjoy. This is one of those films I regularly return to.
Kind of a similar premise featuring our very own Colin Salmon in the beginning and the end of the film. I watched it last week and thought it was pretty good.
Not heard of it before though will look out for Exam.
I saw Exam many years ago. It was okay but I wasn't thrilled by it. It felt like something inspired by Cube, which I still think is the best of its kind.
I'd be very interested in that cut :p Is it widely available or do you need some digging to find it?
@GoldenGun
The Arrow Video Blu-ray of Barbarella is the uncut version. I presume other Blu-rays as well, also in our region. The DVD I owned had the edited '77 version (for that country whose inhabitants love their guns but are afraid of the nipple.)
What the hell happened here? Losey didn't want to make the film? It's hard to imagine a more malicious adaptation.
Hmmm the Arrow one is Region A I see, so can't play it on my bluray player. It's also 98 min, while the version on Prime that I watched was only 94, so I suppose I didn't see the 'unrated' one then. If there's a Region B bluray that has the 98 min version, I'll probably pick it up / order it online. Unless it's like a 100 bucks or so :p
Brian De Palmas conspiracy thriller, part Antonionis 'Blow Up' and part Coppolas 'The Conversation'. John Travolta plays the sound effects man for low rent porn films, one night while recording night sounds, he witnesses a car crashing and plunging into a river. Diving in, he rescues the girl passenger, ( Nancy Allen) but the driver dies, who turns out to be a Governor with Presidential prospects. Later, he discovers on his recordings that there was a gunshot just before the crash, and realises he was witness to an assassination, and he and the girl become targets of a hit man ( a chilling John Lithgow) out to clean up loose ends! Really enjoyable suspenser from De Palma, with a lovely Pino Donaggio score, and lensed by the great Vilmos Zsigmond. Terrific set pieces, with De Palmas usual bravura camerawork ( a scene where Travolta is scrambling through tapes in his office, as the camera circles the room is excellent, as is a beautiful shot in the tense finale of Travolta cradling Nancy Allens character, as fireworks go off behind him) and the downbeat ending is a real choker! Excellent movie!
Excellent movie, indeed!
But wow does this movie work. I was quickly involved in the film. Great performances by the whole cast, including Javier Bardem (got to throw in a Bond reference). I loved Brad Pitt as Sonny Hayes. Nice soundtrack by Hans Zimmer! Definitely worth a watch and one that I would recommend catching either in the cinemas where I saw it or at home on Apple TV. Probably plays better on the big screen.
I've seen Brick advertised on Netflix, but but seen it myself.
LE CERVEAU (1969)
aka The Brain
Jean-Paul Belmondo, Bourvil, Eli Wallach and David Niven have tremendous fun in this eurocaper with a groovy score. Also worth mentioning is the beautiful Silvia Monti, and Niven's pet cheetah. Noticeable as well, is that most of Niv's dialogue is in French. Recommended 60's fun, eurostyle.
I, MONSTER (1971)
No masterpiece but sufficiently creepy. An excellent Christopher Lee performance, with also Peter Cushing appearing, and all set in the foggy streets of 1800's London (or at least that's what I would guess). Good enough, though I would say there are similar options from the same period that are better.
FRANKENSTEIN AND THE MONSTER FROM HELL (1974)
The final Peter Cushing Frankenstein film and the final Terence Fisher film in general. Definitely one of the better ones in the series I'd say. Also always nice to see Madeline Smith appear, as well as a short but rather impressive Bernard Lee performance.
JURASSIC WORLD: REBIRTH (2025)
Certainly the best of the JW series since the original, though not even close to JP of course. I'd say this one has a few likeable characters and some funny bits. The dino action is good too. I also quite like Scarlett in most things I see her in. Predictable stuff, but it gets the job done.
I concur about Scarlett, always had a thing for her! Have you seen 'Under the Skin'? Jonathan Glazers bizarre, fascinating sci fi, where you get to see a lot more of Scarletts skin, than usual!! I'm not a huge fan of The Avengers movies, bloated mess most of them, but I would watch it for Scarlett 😁
I really love it, I'd definitely recommend a rewatch ;)
I have added it to my watchlist, I see I can check it out on Amazon Prime, so will probably do that one of these days. Thanks for the advice :)
As for the Marvel stuff, that just really isn't my thing and I'm rather surprised at how high their average scores are on several film websites. I watched all the earlier one up until Ragnarok (which I thought was decent thanks to Blanchett and the synth music). Overall though I guess I just don't quite see in these films what others see. Maybe it's because I don't have that nostalgic link with them, I grew up with other stuff, like Tintin, Zorro, Astérix, Thunderbirds and of course 007.
Having said that, at a certain point I will give Black Widow a go, for Scarlett primarily, but also because I read it's a bit spy-esque and there's a MR reference. So enough aspects to at least give that one a try.
I had all the Asterisk books growing up, big fan of Uderzo, and had some of the Lucky Luke books too! Can't say I know much about Tintin ( wasn't crazy about Spielbergs movie!) save for a little figurine on my shelf!! Would have seen various Zorro movies over the years, though I found Martin Campbells updated ones overrated! (Saw the Alain Delon version recently in Tower records, was mulling over getting it!)
As for The Avengers movies, I just find them quite tiresome to watch, none of them keep my interest! Just not for me!
Oh, and do watch 'Under the Skin', it's very like 'The Man who Fell to Earth', only wilder, I liked it, and you wont forget it in a hurry, that's for sure!
Nice to meet a fellow Uderzo fan! :) Concerning Tintin, that is pretty much national heritage here in Belgium and there was an animated series running when I was a wee lad :) Wasn't too impressed with the Spielberg either adaption though.
As for Zorro, I grew up with the tv shows with Guy Williams (still holds up) and Duncan Regehr (in hindsight not the greatest production values), though I love the Alain Delon one and I must say I really enjoyed The Mask of Zorro.
Will watch Under the Skin for sure!
Anora (2024). I can see why this independent film won five awards at the Oscars. Mikey Madison is brilliant too.
I saw the new Jurassic movie in the cinema. It’s a visually stunning, entertaining picture like all of these D films even though they’re all about the same thing: humans have an idea, things go wrong, dinosaurs hunt and attack humans, some die, some don’t (kids never die). The films aren’t entirely accurate according to palaeontologists. It’s difficult to fathom that these amazing creatures actually existed…and around 245 to 66 million years ago. Vintage earth. And I thought I was old being a Gen X! I would love to see a restricted 18 dinosaur flick with blood and gore.
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- Department of Social Services, Greenville , South Carolina
Glad you enjoyed it. I also loved it and appreciate you giving the recommendation a chance :)
Heretic I enjoyed this film, you really were not sure where it was going at times. Hugh Grant
Directed and written by Mel Gibson, this is a hugely entertaining adventure film, telling of a Young native called Jaguar Paw, whose tribe are captured by Warriors and brought to a Mayan temple to be sacrificed! Having escaped, the epic finale has him race against time to get back to his village pursued relentlessly by his captors. Visceral, spectacular, bloody, with superbly staged action, I had forgotten how good this film is, and I must upgrade the dvd J have of it! Gibson assembled a great team, such as Dean Semler on camera and James Horner on score, great production design too ( the sacrificial tower where Jaguar Paw and his peers are to be executed is fabulously staged!) Impressive cast too, with Rudy Youngblood as our hero, and terrifying villains portrayed by Raoul Trujillo and Gerardo Taracena!
Highly recommended!