Talk About Movies: Part 4
Somehow threads merged, so here's part 4 of our ongoing movie discussion.
Johnnie To's Mad Detective for about the fourth time. It begins with the detective stabbing a pug and getting thrown down stairs while stuffed into a suitcase to solve a crime. Jump forward in time : he cuts off his ear to present to his superior as a retirement "gift."
Then it gets weird.
My favorite Johnnie To film, and I've seen many.
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This is a kind of dumb, and perhaps embarrassing, question. But I have a weird urge to watch the Crocodile Dundee flicks… I’ve only seen the first one, which I am looking forward to, but just how bad are the second and third?
third is terrible...
I love the first and second films and watch them often... Even though the premise for the second movie is ridiculously far fetched, we get that same good nurtured positive uplift story with a host of likeable characters.
and we get Linda Kozlowski in her prime...
Johnnie To's Mad Detective for about the fourth time. It begins with the detective stabbing a pug and getting thrown down stairs while stuffed into a suitcase to solve a crime. Jump forward in time : he cuts off his ear to present to his superior as a retirement "gift."
Then it gets weird.
My favorite Johnnie To film, and I've seen many.
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I just finished Johnnie To's Drug War for maybe he 6th time. While I regard the Election movies as prescient cinematic masterpieces, this may be my most fun Johnnie To ride. But now I have to rewatch the Mad Detectives since it's been so long since I have seen them.
For me, rating movies is pointless. I'm too fickle.
I really liked Vengeance with Johnny Halilday, along with Throwdown and Breaking News. These are lesser films but still entertaining.
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i didn't even know there was a third dundee
I have never seen a Johnny To movie. I will have to rectify that.
Criterion has a collection of films about the
Olympics that span 100 years from 1912 to 2012. First, it's the first time I've seen many of these Olympics in Color. of particular interest is the 1968 games in Mexico. Bob Beamon broke the long jump record by almost two feet, Dick Fosbury changed high jumping forever, the last marathon runner who fell and hurt himself badly struggled across the finish line over an hour behind the second to last finisher. When asked why he didn't drop out, he said that his country (Tanzania) didn't send him 5,000 miles to start the race but to finish.
Oh, yeah, and a couple guys named John Carlos and Tommie Smith did something extraordinary. If you don't know about it, look it up.
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Yeah, but it's the early 1970s patina that meshes best with terrorism IMO.
third is terrible...
I love the first and second films and watch them often... Even though the premise for the second movie is ridiculously far fetched, we get that same good nurtured positive uplift story with a host of likeable characters.
and we get Linda Kozlowski in her prime...
She really was quite something back in the day. Still looks pretty good for pushing 70.
Finished #2 and it was damn good. Linda made the "Oh you..." face perhaps a bit too much, but overall it was really fun. I liked the sort of reverse of #1 approach to it. .
Could be a dud but the template is great, getting all the big Australian/New Zealand names to play the parts.
it's missing Mel... and people don't know the difference, but they should have used Jemaine Clement.
I would watch that, I love Australian Cinema.
Axel F or Bad Boys tonight?
Axel F, though BB4 was pretty damn good. I really didn’t #3 much at all but 4 was about as good as 2
Zack Snyders R rated version of his Rebel Moon duet was released today... more Titties and more Blood, and surprisingly less slomo.
This makes the movie, imo. "Will not stand" starts with Bush and travels around the entire flick. It's the exact opposite of the snappy dialog in nor like The Big Sleep, and yet it somehow works and is just as fun.
Bogart: "In a glass." (When asked how he takes his brandy.)
Walter: "And let's also not forget--let's not forget, Dude--that keeping wildlife, an amphibious rodent, for uh, domestic, you know, within the city--that isn't legal either."
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absolutely perfect. greatest film of all time, and of course PSH being probably the greatest actor ever (ok maybe tied with DDL) is just perfect and like I think I mentioned before I absolutely love how he never has to be told a second time to refer to the dude as the dude.
Yep gotta pile on, every detail in Lebowski is so unique and perfect I can’t even compare it to anything else. I’ve seen it so many more times than any other film there’s no comparison. It will deservingly stand alone for eternity and I’m so grateful it exists
Impossible to pick any single moment or scene but I remember riotously crying my eyes out laughing the first time during the ringer scene, “the beauty of this plan is its simplicity”. from memory it̵
literally LOLing just reading it and picturing the scene.
My favorite from Walter:
I mean, say what you want about the tenets of National Socialism, Dude, at least it's an ethos
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I quote this line sooooooooooooooo often.
smokey this isn't nam this is bowling.
you want a toe? I can get you a toe.
I mean just every single second of the film from the opening to the ending is pure genius and absolute perfection there isn't one single scene that drags or I get bored with on my 321st viewing and pick up my phone til it's over.
I mean making even one movie this insanely good would be enough to make someone a genius but then consider many of the other films the coens made.
jackie treehorn treats objects like women.
phones ringing dude.
Thank you Donny
Say, Friend? You got any more of that good sarsaparilla?
GF and I just got out of a screening at our undie theater I have talked about before, The Beverly.
On tap for tonight was: The Cat Video Fest! 80 minutes of uninterrupted cat videos.
It was awesome.
