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2 hours ago, Peebs said:
I've never seen the Will Smith version just the earlier versions. Have you ever seen 28 Days Later?
never saw it yet
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13 minutes ago, TomJH said:
Goldfinger (1964)
I hadn't watched any of the Bond films for a good number of years so felt that if I was just going to view one this was the most appropriate title for me. After all, it features, for me, the greatest of the Bond actors at the peak of his charm (with a hint of danger) and physicality, the most desirable of all Bond leading ladies in the delectable presence of Honor Blackman, two of the most memorable villains in the series, with Gert Frobe (his English dubbed) as the title character and Harold Sakata as Oddjob and, arguably, the most iconic of all Bond title songs, as sung by Shirley Bassey at her most powerful and glorious.
Guy Hamilton sprightly directs this film, with three international settings, England, Switzerland and the United States and its Fort Knox climax. Sakata, a former wrestler and all round athlete, had his hands burned in his classic final confrontation scene with Bond in which he was electrocuted. Sakata's hands were really burning as his held them to the electric grid, not releasing them because Hamilton hadn't yelled "cut" (the director had no idea the actor was in pain).
Goldfinger has a number of iconic moments for the series. Bond strapped to the metal table as a laser's red burning beam is inching closer and closer to his one of his favourite body parts. "Do you expect me to talk?" Sean Connery's Bond yells out. "No, Mr. Bond," Goldfinger replies, "I expect you to die!"
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There's the tussle and judo flipping scene in the hay between Bond and P u s s y Galore (Blackman). There is also that indelible moment, underscored by John Barry's classic musical score, in which Bond, regaining consciousness hours after having been knocked out by Oddjob, first sees the gold painted torso of Shirley Eaton lying naked in bed. Once you've seen that image you don't forget it.
There is also, of course, for car enthusiasts, the wonders of Bond's gadget laden aston martin. Among other things this sleek four wheeled wonder has machine guns that can protrude out front, an oil slick splurting out back for anyone chasing the vehicle and, of course, a breakaway roof and ejector seat for any unwelcomed passenger in the car.
Goldfinger holds up as great ridiculous suspenseful, sexy fun which doesn't make the mistake of taking itself seriously. I find the Bond films to be an uneven collection, with Bond actors of varying degrees of success. But this film stands apart from the rest for me (with apologies to From Russia With Love and, to a lesser degree, The Spy Who Loved Me). Goldfinger holds up as the most fun Bond ride of them all.
3 out of 4
Robert shaw was another strong villian
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1 minute ago, Peebs said:
that will smith film I am legend was good those zombies made the walking dead one's look boring
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5 minutes ago, spence said:
borgnine was the nicest guy in the world
that final scene with hackman hanging on the wheel was tremendous
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4 minutes ago, spence said:
borgnine was the nicest guy in the world
stella steven s has dementia real bad now
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2 minutes ago, spence said:
borgnine was the nicest guy in the world
there was a bad sequel with telly savalas
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1 minute ago, spence said:
borgnine was the nicest guy in the world
most. t of them are gone now
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Just now, spence said:
borgnine was the nicest guy in the world
hackman was superb
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On 4/1/2020 at 11:21 PM, Rudy's Girl said:
First time I saw this I was expecting to see the entire ship as the helicopter lifts off, but I don't think they had the budget.
borgnine was the nicest guy in the world
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2 minutes ago, spence said:
jake what do you think of the original l951 version James Arness is the tallest name above the title actor in screen history at 6'7
strong score again by john carpenter
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Just now, spence said:
jake what do you think of the original l951 version James Arness is the tallest name above the title actor in screen history at 6'7
KEITH DAVID FROM PLATOON
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On 4/15/2020 at 9:57 PM, JakeHolman said:
jake what do you think of the original l951 version James Arness is the tallest name above the title actor in screen history at 6'7
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very good film (***1/2
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5 hours ago, Bogie56 said:
Do we know if anyone has managed to get pregnant after contracting Covid-19?
never heard of it yet? check out my post about Madonna knowing people with it though, but not her
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Just now, spence said:
jeff bridges earned his first nomination for it too
the original that is can't believe he;s 70 now!
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15 hours ago, CinemaInternational said:
To try to sum up briefly from what little I know about Texasville (via what is printed online and what other details I could rustle up) is that Jacey became a film star for a while until her career crashed and burned. She returns a bit of a wreck but also a bit warmer and wiser, and immediately takes up into an affair with old [and married] flame Dwayne (Jeff Bridges), who is an oil baron of a company about to go belly-up, married to firey Annie Potts and has a teenage son who is a ladies man. Sonny (Timothy Bottoms) is cracking up emotionally even though he's the town mayor. Ruth (Cloris Leachman) is Dwayne's secretary. Lestor (Randy Quaid) seeks to undermine Dwayne as he is a rival businessman. Genevieve (Eileen Brennan) still works at the diner.
jeff bridges earned his first nomination for it too
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On 4/13/2020 at 3:58 PM, CinemaInternational said:
I think what happened with the nudity is this. Movies are always supposed to be framed, so to speak. There is what would normally be projected, plus there is some extra part of the image on all four sides (top, bottom, left, right) in case the projectionist or projector messed up the image, even though these extra parts were not supposed to be seen. My guess is that Bogdonovich originally framed the shot exposing all of the woman but not quite all of the man in front, but many theatres botched the image at the time so the man got more exposure so to speak. The botch continued to the original pan and scan videotape release (which due to the loss of width would show more up and down), but was changed for the DVD, likely back to what Bogdanovich originally intended. The reason i say this is because I have certain Roger Ebert review books at home, and some man wrote a question to Ebert about a disappearing nudity syndrome (namely Faye Dunaway in Network and even more nudity of Alice Krige in Ghost Story), and Ebert said it was likely because such things were not meant to be in the original image anyway, but just barely offscreen.
This has to be it because TCM has not flinched from showing this male nudity before: The Deer Hunter, Never Cry Wolf, Return of the Secaucus Seven, The Silence of the Lambs, Persona, Who's That Knocking at My Door, Women in Love, Medium Cool, Woodstock, Walkabout, Ali; Fear Eats the Soul, Desperate living, The Onion Field, Amistad, Under the Volcano......
do you have leonard maltin's book?
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On 4/12/2020 at 6:56 PM, kingrat said:
I remember Saint Jack as being pretty good. Wonder if TCM will fuzz out the brief frontal nudity of the young Asian man.
was that the film with ben gazzara, sain jack or another movie
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15 hours ago, CinemaInternational said:
To try to sum up briefly from what little I know about Texasville (via what is printed online and what other details I could rustle up) is that Jacey became a film star for a while until her career crashed and burned. She returns a bit of a wreck but also a bit warmer and wiser, and immediately takes up into an affair with old [and married] flame Dwayne (Jeff Bridges), who is an oil baron of a company about to go belly-up, married to firey Annie Potts and has a teenage son who is a ladies man. Sonny (Timothy Bottoms) is cracking up emotionally even though he's the town mayor. Ruth (Cloris Leachman) is Dwayne's secretary. Lestor (Randy Quaid) seeks to undermine Dwayne as he is a rival businessman. Genevieve (Eileen Brennan) still works at the diner.
shehard is supposed to be a real jerk, that's why you don't see her around much any more she was incrediabally jealous of bruce willis being so huge after they did the tv show moonlighting together
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15 hours ago, CinemaInternational said:
To try to sum up briefly from what little I know about Texasville (via what is printed online and what other details I could rustle up) is that Jacey became a film star for a while until her career crashed and burned. She returns a bit of a wreck but also a bit warmer and wiser, and immediately takes up into an affair with old [and married] flame Dwayne (Jeff Bridges), who is an oil baron of a company about to go belly-up, married to firey Annie Potts and has a teenage son who is a ladies man. Sonny (Timothy Bottoms) is cracking up emotionally even though he's the town mayor. Ruth (Cloris Leachman) is Dwayne's secretary. Lestor (Randy Quaid) seeks to undermine Dwayne as he is a rival businessman. Genevieve (Eileen Brennan) still works at the diner.
you mean the remake with jeff bridges again I thought it was mediocre though ** not great like the original
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23 minutes ago, TikiSoo said:
Thanks for "spoiling" it.
"Is that it? What happened?" was her previous response to Duane's sexual prowess. Character must be desperate.
saw paper moon again the other night with tatum O'Neal and ryan O'Neal a marvelous movie 4 stars he beat his son though badly
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you mean M. BAY I think of THE ROCK?
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21 hours ago, EricJ said:
That's because New Line--which already had Freddy--bought the property rights to the up-for-grabs Jason and Michael Myers, and later Leatherface, off of Dimension when Michael Bay started doing those tricked-up 00's remakes. They thought they had a house franchise, and hoped to become the Universal Horror of 80's Slashers, but just ended up killing most of them off for good with campy matchups and clueless remakes.
You folks really like CLIFTON WEBB, huh Did you see item I wrote yesterday about his famous or infamous grave?
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there is one with dennis hopper in it?