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Post by codystarbuck on Oct 7, 2020 2:03:44 GMT -5
I haven't seen The Wild Geese or Ffolkes but remember very well hearing about them when they were new. I don't know if The Wild Geese was a big box office smash or not but it was a bit of a legend in my peer group as a great action movie, can't think why Ive never gotten round to seeing it myself. Ffolkes OTOH I don't think was a great success but I recall seeing Roger Moore on tv at the time doing the round of talk shows promoting it and saying that he was playing a character much more like himself than James Bond - and I think I've read somewhere that it's one of his favourite roles that he's done to this day. It wasn't a hit in the US; but did well in Europe. ffolkes was not a hit, here. I think it did modest business in the UK and Europe. They were staples of 80s HBO and Cinemax, like when I was in high school, as were other McLaglen films (including The Sea Wolves) and other Euan Lloyd (The Final Option, aka Who Dares Wins, with Lewis Collins and Judy Davis) action films. Wild Geese had a pretty decent marketing campaign; but, it was a bunch of older British guys. The sequel, with Scott Glen and Edward Fox, is another matter. What a mess.......(Burton died before filming and the plot is pretty thin). McLaglen also directed one of my favorite 60s military/action films: The Devil's Brigade. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 7, 2020 2:22:09 GMT -5
So, anything on film or tv from places you've lived? And is the film or tv show really good aside from that? Plenty of Breaking Bad was filmed here in Albuquerque but most notably for me is the local Twisters Mexican restaurant which doubled as Gus Fring's Los Pollos Hermanos. It's just about a 10 minute drive from my house. It's always surreal seeing it in the show as I've eaten there quite a few times. |
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Oct 7, 2020 8:15:45 GMT -5
Most of Pale Rider was filmed in the Wood River Valley (Sun Valley/Ketchum). Not that I've lived there, but I've spent a lot of time there. It's a good film. See also, Bus Stop and Sun Valley Serenade. Bronco Billy was filmed all over Boise, Meridian, Eagle and Nampa. It's been eons since I've watched it but the Ada County Fairgrounds is immediately recognizable. There have been a handful of movies filmed in Twin Falls but I don't think I've seen any of them. Breakheart Pass was filmed in Lewiston. I never lived in Lewiston itself, but lived up the goat-trail in Moscow for three years. I want to say that the train scenes in Wild Wild West (the shitty movie) were also filmed on the same railroad. Do you live anywhere near Preston, Idaho? I re-watched Napoleon Dynamite the other day, which is filmed there, and I thought of you. The Goonies is one of those films that you had to see at a certain age, if you ask me. This. Exactly this. No, it's not a cinematic masterpiece, but if you were 12 or thereabouts when it came out, as I was, it will always have a place in your heart. Preston is about a two hour drive. So fairly close. I didn’t mention Napoleon because I’ve honestly only been in Preston maybe once in my life so I’d never recognize any of the locations. My wife’s family love that movie though. |
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Post by beccabear67 on Oct 7, 2020 14:01:16 GMT -5
I can say I personally got to visit and play on the Payson sets of Grizzly Adams thanks to my grandfather being on night security. Me and my brothers during Thanksgiving would sleep in the security trailer overnite and then have breakfast in the morning with the cast and crew when they came in to film. Since Payson has a slighter winter, they would film during the fall, winter and spring thaw, saving money and time. After the show was cancelled, my grandpa took a lot of the props home with him. Mostly it was the handcrafted furniture like tables, chairs and beds and a few smaller things left like pots, pans, knives, a few indian blankets and such. Was a thrill meeting Dan Haggerty, Denver Pyle, Don Shanks and of course Ben the Bear. Waaaaah! Jealousy warp factor 7 here! I loved that show. I still half want to go find a bear and make pals and lecture others in how to become nature empathic! A club I use to own - The Funhouse on 5th Ave & John St in Seattle, torn down around 2012 - is briefly in the background of a buggy chase scene from the film SCORCHY McQ with John Wayne and Harry In Your Pocket with James Coburn were other Seattle filming location movies where I get a bit of a buzz from seeing how places looked in the early '70s. Never heard of or seen Scorchy before. Astoria also figures in Short Circuit, made around the same time as The Goonies. |
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Post by Farrar on Oct 7, 2020 15:57:00 GMT -5
Egads, I won't even try listing all the movies and television series filmed here in Arizona.... I won't try either (with NYC  ). There was cinema here called the Little Carnegie on the same block as Carnegie Hall, just a couple of doors away. I'll never forget when my friends and I went to the Little Carnegie to see the movie "The Turning Point" starring Anne Bancroft, Shirley MacLaine and the great Baryshnikov. The movie contained a lot of NYC locations near Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center (a few blocks away), as it was about characters who were part of the NYC ballet & concert scene. Well, wouldn't you know, in the film there was a shot of Carnegie Hall, and then the camera panned down the block and we see--the Little Carnegie! The whole audience erupted with applause, shouts, whistles, etc. Great meta moment. |
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Post by beccabear67 on Oct 7, 2020 16:06:29 GMT -5
Great NYC shot film: Midnight Cowboy! I'd love an extra DVD of just raw footage on location! Also had some great music by Harry Nilsson (doing the Fred Neil Everybody's Talkin' song), Elephant's Memory and The Groop.
Also the 1990 film Metropolitan, they even go to the Automat!
You can see a lot of vintage NYC in the old Decoy: Police Woman tv series on DVD too.
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Post by Rob Allen on Oct 7, 2020 16:19:05 GMT -5
The Hunted from 2003 has a lot of Portland locations, but don't believe everything you see - one scene shows a light rail train on a bridge that doesn't actually carry light rail.
And in another post here recently I found the scene in Demolition Man that was filmed at the office building where I worked at the time.
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Post by impulse on Oct 13, 2020 9:52:16 GMT -5
I just read an Op-Ed piece about Netflix starting to lose the plot. The gist was their out-of-touch analytical approach to renewing or cancelling shoes is woefully out of touch with how long shoes need to breathe and oblivious to the fact they keep pissing off fans of their shows by cancelling them midstream and not giving the creators time to finish them. They haven't had a massive breakout star like Stranger Things since...well, Stranger Things. They seem to be pushing quantity over quality chasing new subscribers but are missing the boat on retention, and especially with COVID wrecking production schedules, there's about to be a drought of new content, so maybe kneecapping all their niche shows and not taking creative risks is going to bite them in the ass.
I completely agree, and after seeing they cancelled two of their original shows I cared about in the same year they are about to lose some of their syndicated cash cows like The Office, I'd say they're going to learn a thing or two about it soon. I'm nearly to the point of not starting a show until it's completed so as not to waste my time.
Get it together, Netflix, before you go become digital Blockbuster. There I said it.
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Post by The Captain on Oct 13, 2020 14:43:19 GMT -5
I just read an Op-Ed piece about Netflix starting to lose the plot. The gist was their out-of-touch analytical approach to renewing or cancelling shoes is woefully out of touch with how long shoes need to breathe and oblivious to the fact they keep pissing off fans of their shows by cancelling them midstream and not giving the creators time to finish them. They haven't had a massive breakout star like Stranger Things since...well, Stranger Things. They seem to be pushing quantity over quality chasing new subscribers but are missing the boat on retention, and especially with COVID wrecking production schedules, there's about to be a drought of new content, so maybe kneecapping all their niche shows and not taking creative risks is going to bite them in the ass. I completely agree, and after seeing they cancelled two of their original shows I cared about in the same year they are about to lose some of their syndicated cash cows like The Office, I'd say they're going to learn a thing or two about it soon. I'm nearly to the point of not starting a show until it's completed so as not to waste my time. Get it together, Netflix, before you go become digital Blockbuster. There I said it. Netflix is also in trouble because Disney announced today that they are going to be investing HEAVILY in their streaming platforms while pivoting away from cinema and theme parks as their primary revenue streams. Sorry for Netflix, but they don't have access to Disney's IP like Marvel and Star Wars, they don't have the rabid fanbase like Disney does for its own created works, and their pockets aren't nearly as deep. It's going to be a rough go of it for them once Disney gets moving full steam ahead on this. |
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Oct 13, 2020 14:56:07 GMT -5
In my opinion, Netflix and all the other streaming services are facing the same hurdle: price.
It was fine to pay ten bucks a month to get Netflix, especially since I could cancel at any time. Now prices have increased enough that I'll soon have to start wondering if I watch enough TV to warrant the cost. And I certainly won't be getting multiple streaming services.
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Post by impulse on Oct 13, 2020 15:24:22 GMT -5
In my opinion, Netflix and all the other streaming services are facing the same hurdle: price. It was fine to pay ten bucks a month to get Netflix, especially since I could cancel at any time. Now prices have increased enough that I'll soon have to start wondering if I watch enough TV to warrant the cost. And I certainly won't be getting multiple streaming services. And to touch on that, it would be a lot easier to justify the price if they took the time developing out their own intellectual property so that it was valued as much as Disney's or HBO's etc. A bunch of unfinished shows kneecapped before they found their footing isn't a big motivator to subscribe. HBO has a lot of completed good shows that draw people in. Netflix has a ton of mediocre crap, and even when they have something good it's rarely finished. I wonder how long they can last at this rate. |
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Oct 13, 2020 15:33:14 GMT -5
I've said before, and I'll say again, the Balkanization of streaming services leads to one thing...streaming from pirate sites. I'm not saying it's right. But that is what it leads to.
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Post by impulse on Oct 13, 2020 15:49:36 GMT -5
As I understand it, this has already started to happen. The thing that is changing is people won't even bother pirating Netflix's shows if they are chronically unfinished garbage.
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Post by The Captain on Oct 13, 2020 16:01:04 GMT -5
In my opinion, Netflix and all the other streaming services are facing the same hurdle: price. It was fine to pay ten bucks a month to get Netflix, especially since I could cancel at any time. Now prices have increased enough that I'll soon have to start wondering if I watch enough TV to warrant the cost. And I certainly won't be getting multiple streaming services. We're at that point with Hulu pretty much. I rarely if ever watch it, as we have Netflix, Disney+, Amazon, and a host of free stuff on our Roku (we like Pluto TV a lot, especially for the British TV and travel shows). This opinion might change once Disney starts putting more "adult" Marvel fare on Hulu (especially if they get the Netflix shows on there), but my wife and I now watch ZERO shows that are airing on network TV currently (and the one that I do watch, Supernatural, has six episodes left in its epic 15-year run and I can watch it for free on the CW app on my Roku), so there is a chance we just say to heck with it and save the $12 per month. I could easily imagine a time, particularly once my daughters move out of the house, when we have little to no access to TV. Might want Peacock Premium for Premier League and other Euro league football, but I probably won't even keep Disney+ at that point, let alone Hulu, Netflix, and any others that I have to pay for. |
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Post by impulse on Oct 13, 2020 16:43:18 GMT -5
Hulu is actually the one I am happiest with at the moment. We watch the occasional current network show, but mostly use it for Golden Girls reruns or some other old show. The kids get a lot of use out of Disney+ and we are still getting it in that free window. Once all the free window evaporate and everyone gets more possessive with their own content, I'm not sure what we will end up keeping aside from Spotify Premium Family for music. I use it constantly.
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