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That's a really sad ending for such an esteemed star. Being puppeted in low-budget flicks by hangers-on.
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The article suggests a chronic issue. Alzheimer’s, perhaps. CTE, maybe."The problem with quotes on the Internet is that it is sometimes hard to verify their authenticity." -Abraham LincolnComment
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MISSION IMPOSSIBLE FALLOUT aka MI6 (2018)
d. Christopher McQuarie
Starring: Tom Cruise, Henry Cavill, Simon Pegg, Rebecca Ferguson, Ving Rhames, Alec Baldwin, Sean Harris
The first movie in the series to really carry over any continuity, Ethan has to clean up the remnants of the Syndicate who are trying to buy weapon grade plutonium.
It's a solid sequel but lacks some of the memorable set pieces from the earlier films. There's a really good fight scene in a men's room at a night club. Otherwise they are fairly generic. Chase scenes and helicopters flying in the mountains. Nothing like the opera hall fight in MI5. Or the Dubai stuff from MI4. It's all solid, it's competent, the acting's fine, but in 5 years I'll struggle to remember many details.
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Review: Triple Frontier
This became a Netflix release after a decade in devopment hell. Read about it on the Google machine. Basically a lot of different stars were attached to it, including Tom Hanks at one point. The plot revolves around 5 retired special forces stealing from drug kingpin. Oscar Isaac is the leading man who recruits old buddies Ben Affleck (the captain of this crew), brothers Charlie Hunan and Garrett Hedlund and their pilot Mando Pascal. Isaac has been working in Columbia as a private miltia guy going after a drug kingpin who keeps all of the money at his house in the middle of a jungle.
The heist part of the movie is a little under baked. The meat of the movie is the getaway trying to get out of South America. I don't want to spoil anything but the three main questions come down to
1. How well can you stick to a plan
2. How much greed can fuck up your plan
3. The logistical problems that stealing cash presents when you are trying to get out of Dodge. Most heist movies gloss over this issue.
It was an OK movie, but it seems like a movie that would have been better made back in the 80s and 90s. I think the problem with these Netflix action movies is either they don't do screen tests or don't do enough of them. You are getting a movie that's 90 percent there.Comment
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PRIME CUT (1972)
d. Michael Ritchie
Starring: Lee Marvin, Gene Hackman, Sissy Spacek, Gregory Walcott
I mentioned this movie with AA a few weeks ago. Lee Marvin plays an enforcer for the Chicago Irish mob who is sent to Kansas City to collect. Seems the boys there are getting rebellious and disrespectful. This movie constantly flirts with bad taste. Gene Hackman, the leader of the Kansas City branch, runs a meatpacking plant and slaughterhouse. He also has a weird, possibly incestuous relationship with his brother. He also runs a human trafficking ring where nude girls are kept drugged up in cattle pens and sold off to the highest bidder. It's all pretty borderline stuff for a movie made 50 years ago.
Lee Marvin, Gene Hackman, and Sissy Spacek are all really good. This was Spacek's very first film as I understand it.
I've read some stuff interpreting this movie to be a lot more political than it appears on the surface. It was made at the height of Nixon's "Silent Majority" rhetoric. Hackman's character rails against the weakness of the city mob. It's a pretty grotesque depiction of "middle America", AKA Real America in today's terms.
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I saw this in the theater, maybe drive in, when it came out. Didn't remember much other than a bunch of naked girls. Ha!Originally posted by Dr. Strangelove View PostPRIME CUT (1972)
d. Michael Ritchie
Starring: Lee Marvin, Gene Hackman, Sissy Spacek, Gregory Walcott
I mentioned this movie with AA a few weeks ago. Lee Marvin plays an enforcer for the Chicago Irish mob who is sent to Kansas City to collect. Seems the boys there are getting rebellious and disrespectful. This movie constantly flirts with bad taste. Gene Hackman, the leader of the Kansas City branch, runs a meatpacking plant and slaughterhouse. He also has a weird, possibly incestuous relationship with his brother. He also runs a human trafficking ring where nude girls are kept drugged up in cattle pens and sold off to the highest bidder. It's all pretty borderline stuff for a movie made 50 years ago.
Lee Marvin, Gene Hackman, and Sissy Spacek are all really good. This was Spacek's very first film as I understand it.
I've read some stuff interpreting this movie to be a lot more political than it appears on the surface. It was made at the height of Nixon's "Silent Majority" rhetoric. Hackman's character rails against the weakness of the city mob. It's a pretty grotesque depiction of "middle America", AKA Real America in today's terms.
I feel like I am watching the destruction of our democracy while my neighbors and friends cheer it onComment
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You had me at "bad taste".Originally posted by Dr. Strangelove View PostPRIME CUT (1972)
d. Michael Ritchie
Starring: Lee Marvin, Gene Hackman, Sissy Spacek, Gregory Walcott
I mentioned this movie with AA a few weeks ago. Lee Marvin plays an enforcer for the Chicago Irish mob who is sent to Kansas City to collect. Seems the boys there are getting rebellious and disrespectful. This movie constantly flirts with bad taste. Gene Hackman, the leader of the Kansas City branch, runs a meatpacking plant and slaughterhouse. He also has a weird, possibly incestuous relationship with his brother. He also runs a human trafficking ring where nude girls are kept drugged up in cattle pens and sold off to the highest bidder. It's all pretty borderline stuff for a movie made 50 years ago.
Lee Marvin, Gene Hackman, and Sissy Spacek are all really good. This was Spacek's very first film as I understand it.
I've read some stuff interpreting this movie to be a lot more political than it appears on the surface. It was made at the height of Nixon's "Silent Majority" rhetoric. Hackman's character rails against the weakness of the city mob. It's a pretty grotesque depiction of "middle America", AKA Real America in today's terms.
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JFC, are you 95?Originally posted by CGVT View PostDan Patrick: What was your reaction to [Urban Meyer being hired]?
Brady Hoke: You know.....not....good.Comment
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He's not that spry...Shut the fuck up Donny!Comment
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DEADLINE USA (1952)
d. Richard Brooks
Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Kim Hunter, Ethel Barrymore, Ed Begley, Warren Stevens
A very very random viewing for me but I'm trying to watch stuff I bought long ago and get rid of what I don't think I'll ever watch again.
It's a Humphrey Bogart movie. You're not likely to hate it. It's just not that exciting. Bogart plays the publisher of a newspaper that's been told it's shutting down in three days and he's determined to publish a blockbuster about organized crime in that small window.
If you're a big Bogart fan, by all means give this a chance. Otherwise you're not missing a lot.
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Frankly I don't give a damn...Shut the fuck up Donny!Comment
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That was Clark Gable, you fucking corncob-stroking hilljackOriginally posted by THE_WIZARD_ View PostComment
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Here's looking at you kid...to STFU...Last edited by THE_WIZARD_; April 3, 2022, 04:29 PM.Shut the fuck up Donny!Comment
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Morbius Has a 16% on Rotten Tomatoes. Ouch."The problem with quotes on the Internet is that it is sometimes hard to verify their authenticity." -Abraham LincolnComment
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