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Post by Ish Kabbible on Mar 17, 2016 16:16:38 GMT -5
You probably don't have this one:  I wish, I wish, I wish, I wish
Those Matt Helms films are bad, really bad for a major studio release with bankable actors. Terrible stuff
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Post by Deleted on Mar 17, 2016 20:48:46 GMT -5
My Favorites Spy Movies 60's and 70's
1. Our Man Flint - James Corburn
2. Casino Royale - David Niven
3. The Silencers - Victor Bruno
4. In Like Flint - James Corburn
5. The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe - Pierre Richard
6. The Murderer's Row - Karl Malden
7. Modesty Blaise - Monica Vitti
8. The Last of the Secret Agents - Nancy Sinatra
The Weak Two
9. The Wrecking Crew - Elke Sommers
10. The Ambushers- Janice Rule
Number 5, was a gem of a movie and my memory is rather dim but I've remembered loving it at first and I haven't seen this movie in 25 years and I don't have it on DVD. It was cleverly done and has so many plots and sub-plots it's keeps you on the edge of your seat. Modesty Blaise at first - I did not care for it and after watching the 2nd time a few years later - I gotten more and more interested in this Monica Vitti flick.
The Last of the Secret Agents - Was a good movie but it's has a large cast and that's kind of spoil the fun - but it was on par with Modesty Blaise and that's why I like it. Casino Royale with David Niven was a riot and I just loved the charm of this movie and I love Woody Allen in this movie along with Joanna Pettet, Ursula Andress, and Peter Sellers.
Numbers 9 and 10 were fun to watch but I was disappointed by the casting call of these movies and I don't consider them quite good. I have seen all of these movies at least twice and some of them at least 4-6 times and I never, ever, gotten tired of them.
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Post by berkley on Mar 17, 2016 22:12:37 GMT -5
I'm a huge fan of John Wayne's movies and of The Shootist in particular. But I'm a big sucker for "end of the west" films. If you haven't seen it, take a look at Ride the High Country. Another "end of the west" film that was the last film for Randolph Scott and near the last for Joel McCrea. Would you count Missouri Breaks as one of those "end of the west" films? I always thought that was a pretty good one, even though it got bad reviews, IIRC. I like John Wayne in the movies but I'm not too sure he was such a nice guy in real life, even apart from his politics. I remember reading an interview with Ed Asner years ago (in Playboy I think) and there was an anecdote about working with him on a movie in which Wayne did not come across very well. |
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Mar 17, 2016 22:39:34 GMT -5
I'm a huge fan of John Wayne's movies and of The Shootist in particular. But I'm a big sucker for "end of the west" films. If you haven't seen it, take a look at Ride the High Country. Another "end of the west" film that was the last film for Randolph Scott and near the last for Joel McCrea. Would you count Missouri Breaks as one of those "end of the west" films? I always thought that was a pretty good one, even though it got bad reviews, IIRC. I like John Wayne in the movies but I'm not too sure he was such a nice guy in real life, even apart from his politics. I remember reading an interview with Ed Asner years ago (in Playboy I think) and there was an anecdote about working with him on a movie in which Wayne did not come across very well. I've honestly only seen Missouri Breaks once and it was probably at least 20 years ago. So I have only the most vague recollection of it. As too Wayne...I suspect that Asner and he were never going to get along well given their diametrically opposed political views. Wayne had a lot of demons. He was absolutely not his screen persona in real life and was far more comfortable working with people he knew well. |
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Post by dupersuper on Mar 17, 2016 22:40:44 GMT -5
I thought Into Darkness was AWFUL. Chris Pine's Kirk isn't just a maverick captain who doesn't play by the rules, he has a major anger management problem. No responsible organization would ever put him in charge of a starship. And he's not very smart either. That part where he's mad at Spock because Spock didn't falsify his report and so Kirk looked bad because he DID lie on his report. Yeah. Hey, Kirk, when you lie on your report, it's a good idea to let the other officers know so that you can all put down the same lies. It was moronic of Kirk to think that Spock would support that and it was doubly moronic of Kirk to think that Spock would somehow independently get the idea to lie on his report and that somehow, magically, Spock would come up with the same lies and Starfleet Command would never be the wiser. And Zachary Quinto's Spock doesn't come off as being amused and a bit baffled by human behavior, he comes off as a half-witted dingdong, completely flabbergasted by human behavior that he sees all the time. The whole movie was full of dumb stuff like that. The first Chris Pine Star Trek wasn't great, but it wasn't so bad that it annoyed me. It was another fairly-exciting, lazily-written adventure blockbuster. But Into Darkness was a nonsensical crapfest. I felt so bad for Zoe Saldana because I feel like her Uhura is a real highlight of the reboot. I think the first movie was decent, but it did have some plot issues and wasn't a perfect movie. I really like Into Darkness, though. It might even be my favorite Star Trek movie. Wow. It's my 11th favourite Star Trek movie (still beats Nemesis). |
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Mar 17, 2016 23:08:27 GMT -5
Would you count Missouri Breaks as one of those "end of the west" films? I always thought that was a pretty good one, even though it got bad reviews, IIRC. I like John Wayne in the movies but I'm not too sure he was such a nice guy in real life, even apart from his politics. I remember reading an interview with Ed Asner years ago (in Playboy I think) and there was an anecdote about working with him on a movie in which Wayne did not come across very well. I've honestly only seen Missouri Breaks once and it was probably at least 20 years ago. So I have only the most vague recollection of it. As too Wayne...I suspect that Asner and he were never going to get along well given their diametrically opposed political views. Wayne had a lot of demons. He was absolutely not his screen persona in real life and was far more comfortable working with people he knew well. I've heard a few instances of hard-core left leaning actors working with John Wayne and found him to be friendly and gracious. They knew not to get into discussions about the Vietnam War for instance and got along fine. Ed Asner however I had more of a feeling to be cantankerous and confrontational with what he believed |
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Post by batlaw on Mar 18, 2016 2:59:17 GMT -5
Personally I've only been a marginal trek fan. I loved the rebooted Star Trek movie. I enjoyed into darkness but it was flawed. there were bits and pieces I didn't care for.
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Post by Prince Hal on Mar 18, 2016 9:56:43 GMT -5
I also DVRed The Wrath of Khan. I'm trying to get my nephew to watch it with me so he won't think the recent "Star Trek" reboot is what "Star Trek" is. He hates the first one and he just flat-out refused to see Into Darkness. Isn't Wrath of Khan still the best one of all? I heard they couldn't reuse any of the sets from that one because Ricardo Montalban (channeling Ahab) had chewed them down to nothing. |
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Post by Hoosier X on Mar 18, 2016 12:22:37 GMT -5
I also DVRed The Wrath of Khan. I'm trying to get my nephew to watch it with me so he won't think the recent "Star Trek" reboot is what "Star Trek" is. He hates the first one and he just flat-out refused to see Into Darkness. Isn't Wrath of Khan still the best one of all? I heard they couldn't reuse any of the sets from that one because Ricardo Montalban (channeling Ahab) had chewed them down to nothing. Yes. The Wrath of Khan is the best Star Trek movie. People who choose either of the reboot Trek films over Khan baffle me almost as much as people who think The Dark Knight Rises is a good movie. Of course, as much as I love The Wrath of Khan, my favorite movie with Montalban is the sublimely ridiculous Fiesta with Esther Williams. |
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Mar 18, 2016 12:30:21 GMT -5
Another vote for Wrath of Khan as best Star Trek film . By far. I went with a friend to see I when it opened in the theaters. He was not an SF fan, not a Star Trek viewer at all. I don't recall how I convinced him to go but he actually enjoyed it.
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Post by Hoosier X on Mar 18, 2016 12:38:28 GMT -5
I saw The Silencers last night. So much better than The Ambushers! Extravagantly silly but highly entertaining and fun.
Stella Stevens and Daliah Lavi are both sooo sexy, but also funny and charging along in the spirit of the film. I didn't even know Cyd Charisse was in it! I saw the end of it last year but Charisse had already died before the point where I started watching it. She's so great performing the theme song over the opening credits! And then her night club act a little later is great!
And so many great supporting players, like the girl playing Lovey Kravezit. And James Gregory, Victor Buono, Robert Webber and Roger C. Carmel, the guy who played Harry Mudd on two Star Trek episodes.
Another movie of this kind that I like a lot is Deadlier then the Male with Elke Sommer, Sylvia Koscina and Jill Banner.
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Mar 18, 2016 12:52:49 GMT -5
Kagemusha (1980) Written/ Directed By Akira Kurosawa
A powerful Japanese warlord, in the late 1500s, discovers there is a condemned man who bares an uncanny resemblance of himself. The vulgar thief is saved from execution by agreeing to pose as the Warlord's double when he is needed. During a war with a rival kingdom, the Warlord dies and , according to the Warlords wishes, his death will remain secret for 3 years as the doppelganger assumes the throne
Kurosawa had not released a film in 5 years prior to this one. Its a big spectacular epic and Akira was struggling to get the necessary funding for his vision. It would wind up being the most expensive, up to that point, Japanese film ever produced. George Lucas and Francis Ford Coppola helped provided the money in the end when it seemed it would not be made. 5,000 extras where used in the film as well as 200 specially trained horses. Real 16th century armor loaned from museums were employed as well. The movie was the first as well to be distributed outside Japan by a Hollywood studio (20th Century fox). It was also the first Kurosawa film released on Blu-Ray in the USA. The Criterion version (Of course it's Criterion) runs 3 hours, 20 minutes longer than it's foreign release version
And as expected it is spectacularly magnificent in it's visual portrayal. It deals with a large cast of characters and can be a bit complex but rewards the viewers repeatedly. The one thing that I found rather odd was that when it came time to depict the final battle between the 2 warring forces, you don't see it. You see thousands of troops marching to the battle, hundreds of horseback riders rushing into battle, the reactions of those viewing the battle from the sidelines, the sounds of the battle and about 10 minutes dwelling on the visual aftermath of the battle. But no actually battle.
Was a $6,000,000 budget not enough to cover that scene or did Kurosawa feel it unnecessary? Interesting
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Mar 18, 2016 12:55:32 GMT -5
I saw The Silencers last night. So much better than The Ambushers! Extravagantly silly but highly entertaining and fun. Stella Stevens and Daliah Lavi are both sooo sexy, but also funny and charging along in the spirit of the film. I didn't even know Cyd Charisse was in it! I saw the end of it last year but Charisse had already died before the point where I started watching it. She's so great performing the theme song over the opening credits! And then her night club act a little later is great! And so many great supporting players, like the girl playing Lovey Kravezit. And James Gregory, Victor Buono, Robert Webber and Roger C. Carmel, the guy who played Harry Mudd on two Star Trek episodes. Another movie of this kind that I like a lot is Deadlier then the Male with Elke Sommer, Sylvia Koscina and Jill Banner. Great cast but ruined by Dean Martin. Totally lame and unbelievable as an action type spy and you constantly hear him singing in the background. The moronic silliness gets grating as well. It is the best of the Helms films which just proves the wretchedness of the others |
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Post by dupersuper on Mar 18, 2016 19:48:07 GMT -5
My most reliably willing Star Trek moviegoer friend hated Into Darkness so much, I'm worried I won't be able to convince him to go to Beyond. I'll keep reminding him Simon Pegg wrote it and hope I can sway him...
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Post by Deleted on Mar 18, 2016 21:47:28 GMT -5
Wrath of Khan is hands down the BEST Star Trek film...but Voyage Home is my FAVORITE Star Trek film.
I have no interest whatsoever seeing any of the new films.
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