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Post by Deleted on Oct 12, 2017 1:51:49 GMT -5
Doc Savage - The Man of Bronze will be on tomorrow night - Late Night on TCM. I'll be watching this for sure and it's been 25 years since I last saw it. Looking forward seeing it tomorrow night at 11:30 PM - Pacific Standard Time.
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Post by Hoosier X on Oct 12, 2017 13:04:55 GMT -5
Doc Savage - The Man of Bronze will be on tomorrow night - Late Night on TCM. I'll be watching this for sure and it's been 25 years since I last saw it. Looking forward seeing it tomorrow night at 11:30 PM - Pacific Standard Time. I've already set the DVR!
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Post by codystarbuck on Oct 12, 2017 22:48:55 GMT -5
Doc Savage - The Man of Bronze will be on tomorrow night - Late Night on TCM. I'll be watching this for sure and it's been 25 years since I last saw it. Looking forward seeing it tomorrow night at 11:30 PM - Pacific Standard Time. I have the Warner Archive dvd; but, man this movie disappoints me, every time I watch it. Ely was a decent choice for Doc and Pal had a good pedigree for adventure/sci-fi; but, the campy tone kills it and it looks so low-rent. The Sousa soundtrack just doesn't fit. Imagine if John Williams had scored this? If it had an Indian Jones budget and ILM doing the effects. The actors who play the Fabulous Five are all great character actor's; but, they aren't given much to work with. Ilike enough of the movie to own it; but, I shake my head at a lot of it. I probably wouldn't have minded it if they had gone for pure comedy, like Batman; but, they can't quite seem to decide which way to go. You get some great action, then some lame, campy bits. Had the camp been funny, it might have worked better. I have the same problem with the Joseph Losey Modesty Blaise. Really, the best Doc Savage movie is not a Doc Savage movie; it's Once Upon a Time in China 5. Wong Fei Hung is Doc, the superbly skilled hero and master of all disciplines. He is surrounded by a group of assistants, all with a specialty of which they are the master. They are also a source of comic relief; but, they are more consistently funny. They work as a group, under Wong Fei Hung's leadership, while he gets the climactic battle, against the main villain. It's everything Doc should have been, in an Asian setting, with an Asian hero.
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Post by berkley on Oct 12, 2017 23:00:56 GMT -5
Time Bandits (1981) Watched this for the first time on TCM On Demand and thought it was quite good. I'm kind of jealous of anyone who saw it for the first time as a kid. The story is interesting and fun, the casting is great and it was directed by Monty Python alumni Terry Gilliam. Went to see it on my 15 th birthday. We didn't have much planned and my dad asked if I wanted to see a film and I said "Time Bandits," based on the trailer. Loved it from start to finish. My dad wasn't a Python person; but, he enjoyed the comedy and the fairy tale-style adventure. It wasn't offensive, nor was it exactly a kid's movie. It had some pretty broad appeal and was extremely well acted. Love John Cleese as a Duke of Kent-style Robin Hood. Connery's part was awesome. If you ever get the chance, watch the Criterion dvd, with commentary from Gilliam and child star Craig Warnock, who was now an adult. Lot of great memories and insight. Gilliam talks about how for Agamemnon, the script said the "warrior removes his helmet, revealing Sean Connery, or an actor of equal but cheaper stature." David Rappaport was so damn good. Shame what happened to him (Jack Purvis, too, for that matter). I laughed at the Connery thing - I wonder if he read that himself in his copy of the script? Would love to hear his reaction. I was a big Python fan from an early age, so I saw this when it came out - which I see from wiki was in 1981, so I would have been 19 years old.
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Post by berkley on Oct 13, 2017 0:32:16 GMT -5
Doc Savage - The Man of Bronze will be on tomorrow night - Late Night on TCM. I'll be watching this for sure and it's been 25 years since I last saw it. Looking forward seeing it tomorrow night at 11:30 PM - Pacific Standard Time. I have the Warner Archive dvd; but, man this movie disappoints me, every time I watch it. Ely was a decent choice for Doc and Pal had a good pedigree for adventure/sci-fi; but, the campy tone kills it and it looks so low-rent. The Sousa soundtrack just doesn't fit. Imagine if John Williams had scored this? If it had an Indian Jones budget and ILM doing the effects. The actors who play the Fabulous Five are all great character actor's; but, they aren't given much to work with. Ilike enough of the movie to own it; but, I shake my head at a lot of it. I probably wouldn't have minded it if they had gone for pure comedy, like Batman; but, they can't quite seem to decide which way to go. You get some great action, then some lame, campy bits. Had the camp been funny, it might have worked better. I have the same problem with the Joseph Losey Modesty Blaise. Really, the best Doc Savage movie is not a Doc Savage movie; it's Once Upon a Time in China 5. Wong Fei Hung is Doc, the superbly skilled hero and master of all disciplines. He is surrounded by a group of assistants, all with a specialty of which they are the master. They are also a source of comic relief; but, they are more consistently funny. They work as a group, under Wong Fei Hung's leadership, while he gets the climactic battle, against the main villain. It's everything Doc should have been, in an Asian setting, with an Asian hero. wow, can't recall how far along I reached in the Once Upon a Time in China series back when I watched them years ago but pretty sure I haven't seen this one.Will definitely be looking out for it - and whichever of the preceding instalments I missed.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 13, 2017 3:52:35 GMT -5
Doc Savage Movie - 1975Remember, this is a 1975 movie and the problem of this movie is allotted time for the five amazing adventurers and only that and I was impressed by their performance in their limited capacity. I know some of you don't think this movie very highly and I did read some of the Doc Savage Comic Books back in the 70's and I felt that Ron Ely was ideal to play Doc Savage and fit the part back in 70's and this movie is rather retro/vintage because it's 42 years old movie that's I haven't seen in years and I wanted to see this movie badly tonight because when I was 16 years old when this movie came out and I was very happy to see it then and now. I totally forgot that Pamela Hensley who played Mona ... Pamela Hensley as Monawas very good in this movie and she had a significant role helping Doc Savage and that made this movie believable and enjoyable to watch. I like the fight between Captain (Paul Wexler) Seas and Doc doing the various fighting styles and the word flash on the screen for laughs and fun so the viewer knows briefly what is happening here. The scenes of Doc Savage of the bullets blasting on him by Captain Seas was fun also. There are so many things that I could discuss here and the time that they spent on each character is quite difficult to do and that's why some of you here are very critical about it. I've don't care about that because this movie is pretty much the best that they can do back then and the limited resources and it was released at the same time as Jaws and it's got buried in the box office. I did see both Jaws and Doc Savage and to be honest with you nobody was talking about it except of few die-hard fans of this character. I felt the secondary cast should be dramatically cut and that alone would given more lines to the fabulous five and gave them something to work on. Anyway, I did enjoy this film and I chuckled to see that the beginning of the movie the words of Fortress of Solitude was shown at the beginning of the movie having some Superman reference here and the scene of the bullets bouncing off indicating that he's invulnerable like Superman. It's has some comedy and that's not what this movie is about and it's all about adventure, finding out how his Father died, and figuring out what's happening here. I loved many scenes of which he did a flying kick on Captain Seas and occasionally sho a sparkle of his eyes and that's what I remember the most back in 1975 as a kid back then. I haven't seen this movie for more than 30 years and I enjoyed it very much tonight on Turner Classic Movies. I dig that handsome tuxedo that he wore in that movie. TrailerWatch out for those deadly green glowing snakes!
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Post by codystarbuck on Oct 13, 2017 8:12:34 GMT -5
Well, actually Superman is referencing Doc. He had the Fortress of Solitude first (it's even the title of one of his adventures, a battle with John Sunlight), was the Man of Bronze, before Superman was the Man of Steel, and was Clark Savage before there was a Clark Kent.
I like Ely as Doc; but, just wish they had done this as a more straightforward adventure film. That part works well.
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Post by codystarbuck on Oct 13, 2017 8:16:08 GMT -5
I have the Warner Archive dvd; but, man this movie disappoints me, every time I watch it. Ely was a decent choice for Doc and Pal had a good pedigree for adventure/sci-fi; but, the campy tone kills it and it looks so low-rent. The Sousa soundtrack just doesn't fit. Imagine if John Williams had scored this? If it had an Indian Jones budget and ILM doing the effects. The actors who play the Fabulous Five are all great character actor's; but, they aren't given much to work with. Ilike enough of the movie to own it; but, I shake my head at a lot of it. I probably wouldn't have minded it if they had gone for pure comedy, like Batman; but, they can't quite seem to decide which way to go. You get some great action, then some lame, campy bits. Had the camp been funny, it might have worked better. I have the same problem with the Joseph Losey Modesty Blaise. Really, the best Doc Savage movie is not a Doc Savage movie; it's Once Upon a Time in China 5. Wong Fei Hung is Doc, the superbly skilled hero and master of all disciplines. He is surrounded by a group of assistants, all with a specialty of which they are the master. They are also a source of comic relief; but, they are more consistently funny. They work as a group, under Wong Fei Hung's leadership, while he gets the climactic battle, against the main villain. It's everything Doc should have been, in an Asian setting, with an Asian hero. wow, can't recall how far along I reached in the Once Upon a Time in China series back when I watched them years ago but pretty sure I haven't seen this one.Will definitely be looking out for it - and whichever of the preceding instalments I missed. I saw it in a Hong Kong action film festival. Wong and his entourage are travelling somewhere and end up staying in a fishing village, which is plagued by pirates. They end u taking on the pirates, with lots of great action scenes and some pretty good comedy, mainly from two of the assistants (the fat guy and the one with glasses). The guy with the glasses is more than a bit hapless; but, he stumbles across the fact that he is actually a really good pistol shot and that becomes his specialty. Great fight at the end.
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Post by Hoosier X on Oct 14, 2017 11:57:50 GMT -5
I watched the 1975 Doc Savage movie yesterday. I started reading the Doc Savage paperbacks when the movie came out. My copy of The Man of Bronze was a movie tie-in edition with several pages of black and white photos in the center. I became a big Doc Savage fan, and eventually, by around 2012, I had read all the Doc Savage novels from the 1933 to 1949 series. I didn't see the movie until it was on TV a few years after it came out, but I don't remember it very well. Watching it yesterday, I thought "Well, it's not so bad that I would be happier if it didn't exist." I find it kind of charming. I see that Caped Crusader mentioned Pamela Hensley. I didn't realize it was her until I saw her name in the credits! The Buck Rodgers TV show was a long time ago! But I did notice a few other people. I recognized them and double-checked IMDB to make sure I wasn't mistaken. The actor playing Long Tom is the principal from The Breakfast Club. The guy playing Ham Brooks was Mr. Mulray in Chinatown! He's married to Faye Dunaway and he ends up drowned on the beach. And then there's Karen: This is actress Robyn Hilton. She doesn't have a big part but she's in a few scenes. She's stunning! I didn't recognize her from anything, but I checked all the major cast members from Doc Savage to make sure I wasn't missing anything. And Robyn Hilton's most famous stint as an actress is almost iconic. She was in Blazing Saddles!
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Post by Hoosier X on Oct 14, 2017 12:04:20 GMT -5
Since we're on the subject of Doc Savage and the movies, I thought I would include my dream cast for a Doc Savage movie circa 1940:
Doc - Joel McCrea. I think Buster Crabbe would be a good but weird choice. Monk - William Bendix Ham - William Powell Renny - Nat Pendleton Johnny - John Carradine Long Tom - George Chandler Pat - Esther Williams
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Post by Deleted on Oct 14, 2017 16:03:53 GMT -5
Since we're on the subject of Doc Savage and the movies, I thought I would include my dream cast for a Doc Savage movie circa 1940: Doc - Joel McCrea. I think Buster Crabbe would be a good but weird choice. Monk - William Bendix Ham - William Powell Renny - Nat Pendleton Johnny - John Carradine Long Tom - George Chandler Pat - Esther Williams That's an excellent line up!
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Post by Jesse on Oct 15, 2017 11:16:40 GMT -5
Stand by Me (1986) Another one of those films I've only seen parts of growing up but never sat through the whole thing before. Interesting story, great acting, incredibly quotable and arguably the best projectile vomiting scene ever filmed.
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Post by Jesse on Oct 15, 2017 11:33:56 GMT -5
Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze (1975) I didn't know there was a Doc Savage movie so this was a treat. One of George Pal's lesser works it definitely feels dated and some of the acting is bad but visually I think it fits the source material well enough plus some of it was actually kind of fun.
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Post by codystarbuck on Oct 15, 2017 23:17:28 GMT -5
Since we're on the subject of Doc Savage and the movies, I thought I would include my dream cast for a Doc Savage movie circa 1940: Doc - Joel McCrea. I think Buster Crabbe would be a good but weird choice. Monk - William Bendix Ham - William Powell Renny - Nat Pendleton Johnny - John Carradine Long Tom - George Chandler Pat - Esther Williams Naw, you have to have Steve Holland, from the Flash Gordon tv series. He was perfect for the role...
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Post by berkley on Oct 16, 2017 13:16:08 GMT -5
Since we're on the subject of Doc Savage and the movies, I thought I would include my dream cast for a Doc Savage movie circa 1940: Doc - Joel McCrea. I think Buster Crabbe would be a good but weird choice. Monk - William Bendix Ham - William Powell Renny - Nat Pendleton Johnny - John Carradine Long Tom - George Chandler Pat - Esther Williams Naw, you have to have Steve Holland, from the Flash Gordon tv series. He was perfect for the role... Yeah, it's almost a crime that he never got to make a Doc Savage film after those Bama covers he modelled for. Not sure who would have played the other characters, but I'd love to see Anita Ekberg as Pat Savage. Of course, her accent would have been a barrier, but who cares! I still haven't seen the 1975 movie but I think Ron Ely was an excellent choice for the role at that time, physically.
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