@graymamba "Last Boy Scout" is one of my favourite Shane Black movies (along with "Long Kiss Goodnight"). Of course, I love Tony Scott (the better Scott brother IMO) and he did a great job with that one.
And Bruce was killer back in the day when he actually starred in movies and didn't just sell his name on the poster and phoned in a glorified cameo in all kinds of dreck. Sure, in the later years, after he got sick, it was a way to keep working when life was difficult, but he's had a long career of lazy roles. With all that, it is easy to forget that when he brought his A game, he made some excellent contributions to cinema.
Which movies would you consider for your Bruce-a-thon, in addition to the two mentioned?
@FuriousMachine I think it’d have to start with Die Hard, then probably the two we’ve already discussed, then maybe Pulp Fiction and then finish it off with Unbreakable. Can’t even put into words quite how much I love the last two!
edit. and yeah The Long Kiss Goodnight is so good… and Kiss Kiss Bang Bang.
Might not feel like it but these are your glory days.
The "salad years" you know?
Nothing is going to beat who you are now.
You can't see all the ****ed up 💩 that's looming on the horizon.
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Look up "idiot" in the dictionary. You know what you'll find?
A picture of me?
No! The definition of the word idiot, which you fu**ing are!
There are so many excellent dialogue moments in Shane Black's films, but that one from "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang" is probably my favourite.
That's a great Bruce line-up, for sure. I've revisited them all except "Unbreakable" in the last five years and have "Unbreakable" in mind for a "Unbreakable"/"Split"/"Glass" marathon. Haven't seen "Glass" yet, but I hear that it is a bit of a disappointment.
I'm struggling to keep my own Bruce-a-thon line-up at a manageable size, even when eliminating the ones I've recently (-ish) seen and the ones above. On the one hand, I'm thinking old faves like "12 Monkeys", "Armageddon", "Hostage", "Sin City", "Red" (1 & 2) and "Looper" to go with "Hudson Hawk" and "Last Boy Scout", but then I think I want to revisit the films I didn't love when I first saw them to see if they will grow on me. Like "Fifth Element", "Bonfire of the Vanities", "Death Becomes Her" and "Striking Distance".
Or the ones I remember very little about, like "Billy Bathgate", "Last Man Standing", "Mortal Thoughts" (where he met Demi), "The Jackal".
This is way too difficult, I may have to sleep on this one
@FuriousMachine@graymamba
As the spooky season is upon us, it has to be The Sixth Sense but yeah Die Hard is such a great series and Last Boy Scout was such an underrated/under-appreciated movie imo.
A few others which I thought were great were 12 Monkeys and Fifth element but he did so many good to great movies before the recent questionable ones (polite way of putting it).
In other news I’ve just started Flesh and Blood on Amazon/Freevee. I haven’t seen it before but it stars Rutger Hauer and directed by Mister Starship troopers.
😱 I can’t believe I forgot 12 Monkeys! (the tv show is actually really good too… once you get through the poor first season) and Looper is a good shout too. I was disappointed with it at its release… but I caught it a few years later, late night while channel hopping and I had a totally different experience.
Glass was a disappointment tbh… but it was worth it to get a bit more David Dunn (not the ex-Blackburn Rovers midfielder). I wasn’t overly bowled over by Split neither tbh… but I could probably do a rewatch 🤔
Might not feel like it but these are your glory days.
The "salad years" you know?
Nothing is going to beat who you are now.
You can't see all the ****ed up 💩 that's looming on the horizon.
Enjoy this dude
@CaptD another good shout with Sixth Sense… he sure did make some bangers fair play!
Might not feel like it but these are your glory days.
The "salad years" you know?
Nothing is going to beat who you are now.
You can't see all the ****ed up 💩 that's looming on the horizon.
Enjoy this dude
Oooh, yeah that's the stuff, haha... i'd go for Pulp Fiction, Die Hard, Unbreakable, 12 Monkeys, The Fifth Element, Looper. Any of those mentioned are worth a go, tbh. I quite liked the Red movies for a bit of lighter, cast driven popcorn action (don't make me veer off on a John Malkovich marathon now, too!) The concept is fairly decent for Red, as well, tbh. Sin City another good shout. He really did a lot of comic book and Pulpy stuff, to be fair! Even the action and Sci-Fi he'd do is quite pulpy, really.
I'm sure there's some I've missed, but i'd be happy watching any of those, and own a few of my favourites in 12 Monkeys and Pulp Fiction (steelbook coming soon, too!) And i'm going to nab 4ks of Looper and The Fifth Element fairly soon. I might have to have a look to see if any of the others need adding to my ever growing wishlist and piles of physical movie media.
When it seems you're out of luck.
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Not strictly in the correct thread, but seeing he was mentioned here, for those that is interested, Danny Dyer is on the Louis Theroux podcast. Not sure how recent it is, but it popped up on my TV.
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@JohnnyShoulder This is one I've missed, mainly because I've had it confused with the "Connery in diapers" movie, the title of which eludes me at the moment... "Zardosz", maybe?
So, now I have the dilemma of whether I should seek this out on streaming, risk loving it and thus nutpunching my bank account further with this release or stick my head in the sand and pretend this doesn't exist
looks like a great transfer (even on YT) @JohnnyShoulder so i'm going to nudge you into the financial ruin choice, @FuriousMachine do it, do it, do it.
I'd never heard of it, to be fair, but it looks alright.
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@FuriousMachine@Ravix I've seen it, but it would be decades ago at this point on either V/H/S or one of the 4 tv channels we had back then lol.
This is when my rental service I used for discs came in handy. They would have most of these 4K's so could try out films before buying them. Shame a dodgy Royal Mail service scuppered that. Thanks Royal Mail,
Life is more fun when you help people succeed, instead of wishing them to fail.
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt.
@Ravix@JohnnyShoulder It's available to rent on PVOD for a quite affordable price and it does look interesting so I'll probably walk into that trap in the not too distant future... damn it...
I just got back from the cinema, having seen Guillermo Del Toro's Frankenstein and it pains me to my very soul to know that only a happy few will get to see this on the big screen. It being a Netflix movie, a physical 4K release will probably never see the light of day either, which borders on being a crime against humanity.
For it is a thing of sheer beauty.
Like almost every Del Toro movie, it is visually stunning; the costumes, the set design, the cinematography, his use of colours (particularly the reds and greens that have almost become a trademark of his) are all so lovingly crafted and pleasing to the senses; even the blood and gore - of which there's plenty - holds a kind of grim and grisly beauty.
The soundtrack is simply fantastic - stirring and so achingly beautiful it actually brought tears to my eyes at one point.
The first hour or so may feel a bit long, but it grows into such a fantastically wonderful movie that it becomes a non-issue by the time the credits roll. The tale should be familiar to most by now, but it has never been told so well before; especially in bringing the theme of the pain fathers can visit upon their sons closer to the front than any of the other adaptations I've seen. Nor has the creature ever been more tragically beautiful and beautifully tragic than this and Jacob Elordi, which I've not seen in anything else before, does a fantastic job of bringing him to life in both his tenderness and his rage.
The rest of the cast, consisting of Oscar Isaac, Christoph Waltz, Mia Goth, David Bradley and Charles Dance (among others), are solid, though Mia Goth felt weirdly out of place to me, for some reason. Her character felt a bit underserved and overshadowed and constitutes the only weak part of the movie for me, though not through any fault on Mia Goth's part.
This is close to a masterpiece and only the slightly slow first hour and somewhat mishandling of the movie's only female character keeps this from being Del Toro's very best. That honour still belongs to Pan's Labyrinth, in my opinion, but this one gets close, oh so close.
@FuriousMachine I'm so Jealous that you got to see it in the cinema. You lucky man.
I was gutted when neither of the chains here in Aberdeen were screening it. Will have to wait to see it on November 7th.
@Elfuggingjefe Just back from seeing Blackphone 2, I highly recommend this one. A fantastic sequel. Even better than the first, although without that the sequel wouldn't be a thing.
Got The Amateur on tonight and I could tell within minutes it would be insipid, from the camera angles, the setting, the "standardised couple talk" their relationship's entire gimmick being a shared love of coffee (how fun and unique!!!) 🤢🤮
Oh! Remember when action movies and thrillers were made with their own style, flavour and passion? The creators of this clearly don't 😂
Maybe it gets some redeemable qualities in a bit when the revenge events eventually start to unfold, but wow... it is so bland. Grey porridge has more artistic appeal.
Apologies, movie thread, but it is such an offensively bland opening I had to write something about it. Carry on 😁
Loved your passionate write up about Frankenstein by the way, @FuriousMachine it sounds fantastic! Hopefully Del Toro has a Netflix release clause where he can have, at the very least, a limited edition 4k release
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