What movie did you watch last night? (8 Viewers)

[ratmonkey]

This is great. First 15 minutes or so are completely dialogue free, just Bronson going about his business in silence, which is not fixing cars.

 

[Jerry Twig]

Two thumbs up

 

[Cormcolash]

This is great. First 15 minutes or so are completely dialogue free, just Bronson going about his business in silence, which is not fixing cars.

I just saw the Statham version. Fuck all excuse for a plot, mainly Statham going round getting in fights and shoot-outs and killing people. Great.

 

[ratmonkey]

Wong Kar Wai's wuxia film. Does pretty much what you'd expect and does it well.

(aside - this may be the only film where the Chinese woman puts on hat and pretends to be a man trick doesn't actually fool anyone)

 

[ratmonkey]

Solid but unexceptional 80s Hong Kong police film. Directed by Andrew Kam (not familiar with his other work) and Johnnie To, who's done a whole lot of better stuff since.

The tagline about a kung fu heart attack is meant to be taken literally - one of the bad guys has a kung fu style to control his opponent's heart. Which might seem a touch silly, but there's also dudes shooting lasers from there chests and silk from their hands, so it's not out of place. Lo Lieh has a minor role. Appropriates a chunk of Morricone's score for Death Rides a Horse. Anyway, this is highly entertaining if you like kung fu films with silly special effects.

 

[Ferox13]

This is how I imagine ratmonkey:

 

[ratmonkey]

That's more like my brother who's an actual Buddhist monk. He's never pulled out a three section staff or anything though.

Not the Craig R. Baxley classic, this is the TV film with Tom Selleck as a grizzled cop. Directed by Robert Harmon. Solid, Selleck does a good grizzled cop. There's a few more of these as well.

This is some entertaining nonsense in back in the day Japan, except with a few anachronisms like heat seeking missiles and motorbikes. The lad from Versus is dragging around a coffin Django-style, other people want it. Steven Seagal's son is also in this somewhere.

 

[xsteox]

Lot less "fun" than Statham's other films, still good 7/10

 

[jonah]

I just watched Tangled, am on a disney kick and it was LOOOOOVELY.

 

[ratmonkey]

The kind of goodness you'd expect with Charles Bronson in a film written by Elmore Leonard about a watermelon farmer.

 

[xsteox]

Bad Lieutenant port of call.

Rubbish, 3/10 tops.

 

[Jill Hives]

A film I love and can watch over and over... there are so many good lines. The bicycle scene with Rain Drops Are Falling On My Head is a classic.


Then not realizing the connection... it was only okay. I don't think I like Danny Boyle. Anyone know what the real dude thought of it? I might have to hunt that information down.

 

[David Kronenbourg]

Bad Lieutenant port of call.

Rubbish, 3/10 tops.

what are you on about. this is an important film

 

[ratmonkey]

Bad Lieutenant port of call.

Rubbish, 3/10 tops.

This is the talk of a crazy person.

 

[hugh]

Wong Kar Wai's wuxia film. Does pretty much what you'd expect and does it well.

(aside - this may be the only film where the Chinese woman puts on hat and pretends to be a man trick doesn't actually fool anyone)

I had no idea what wuxia was so did a wiki on it. It mentioned The Water Margin right at the start. I was obsessed with that when I was a kid. I am now very excited about a Wong Kar Wai wuxia movie ...

Watched Ip Man last night (finally!). Good stuff.

 

[Mormon Nailer]

yeah. it was a nice film.

I was at the premiere. That Emma Roberts lady, she's a bit pretty.
The film got almost universally royally pissed on by the critics (except IIR Andrew O'Hehir in Salon)
It's enjoyable. I think the Under Pressure think was a bit too Glee for my taste but otherwise nice.

 

[Mormon Nailer]

I'll need to see it again.
I enjoyed it - but I never seem to grasp Cohen Brothers films on the first watch.

There is a lot more of Millers Crossing in it than any of their recent films.
Perhaps its the score

How the hell does Hailee Stienfeld or however she spells it get nominated for "supporting" actress? surely that was a leading role?

 

[ratmonkey]

This makes Dirty Harry look like a staunch advocate of the rights of the criminal. Christian Bale's American Psycho look may have been modelled on the bad guy in this.
Also I have no idea why this is called 10 to Midnight.

Wasn't gone on this. Not particularly exciting made for TV film.

Geoffrey Lewis is in both of the above.

 

[Lili Marlene]

I'll be honest, i'm more interested in the sequel

 

[ratmonkey]

Death Hunt. Lee Marvin leading a posse through the mountains after Charles Bronson.

Flaming Star. This is a Don Siegel western with Elvis as a half white half Indian forced to choose between a white shower of pricks and an Indian shower of pricks. He sings one song at the very start, straight up acting after that. He also engages in a bout of fisticuffs as indicated above.

The American. Clooney as the hitman type going about his business not saying a whole lot. Down the same lines as Le Samurai, the Mechanic (Bronson version, probably not remake), Ghost Dog.

Spoiler

Trailer for this was made by pricks. It as good as waves a big sign in your face telling you Clooney's going to die. Anyone who's seen more than two films ever knows what it means when a hitman wants out, and this doesn't come up in the film until over halfway through. Cop on, trailer making people.