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The Colossus of New York (1958)
"A brilliant surgeon encases his dead son's brain in a large robot body, with unintended results..."
"A brilliant surgeon encases his dead son's brain in a large robot body, with unintended results..."
I saw this movie when I was a kid in the early 60's. It scared the crap out of me. BTW, I posted the whole movie. Check it out.I love these old movies!
Yes, last year I had occasion to be very grateful to Harrison Ford for that role; my mother loved it and thrilled to the old world swagger of the Indiana Jones franchise.
Enjoyable, but, to my mind, none of the Star Trek movies (including the STNG ones) ever matched the best of the episodes form either TOS, or STNG.
Sounds as though that is an excellent, thought provoking exceptionally well made and intelligent documentary. Must remember to keep an eye out for it.
Now, please remind me again: Just which of them can be described as "00Eyebrows"?
This one!
Ah, yes.
That reminds me: Actually, I remember a hilarious Spitting Image sketch about him; actually, about his interpretation and take on the James Bond role. In essence, (and now I do get the '00' eyebrows crack) no matter what he did (being chased down mountains, in speed boats, being shot, wooing a woman) his eyebrow moved a mere fraction of an inch.
I had actually never seen that particular movie until the other day. The only other STNG movie I've seen is the one where both TOS & STNG casts are in it together. The title slips my mind right now.
I do agree with you on that point though. The movies are more just entertainment than presenting a cultural message in the show like the series did.
Finally decided to see "Spotlight". Heard some reviews of it, saw the Oscar praise, so we'll see if it lives up to its hype.
I finally finished Mad Max: Fury Road.
When I was sick at home, The Road Warrior
was my go-to movie. I appreciated Beyond Thunderdome, but when I went back to watch Mad Max, it just wasn't very good.
I had no expectations for Fury Road, apart from knowing that it would be an endless chase. It was, and I pretty much loved it. As a fan of Charlize Theron and Nicholas Holt, I didn't really miss Mel Gibson at all.
When I was sick at home, The Road Warrior
I had no expectations for Fury Road, apart from knowing that it would be an endless chase. It was, and I pretty much loved it. As a fan of Charlize Theron and Nicholas Holt, I didn't really miss Mel Gibson at all.
Oops, I hate when unintended results happen!
As I am transitioning into university, I watched a few films this weekend to make the school stuff a little bit easier to get back into:
Prodigal Son (1981) - Once again, the aging masters mop the floor with their young students as Yuen Biao's title character is nothing of the sort. He wishes to learn kung fu from the awesome, asthmatic, femine Peking Opera star Yee-Tai (the amazing Lam Ching-Ying) and said opera star's hllariously goof-ball brother (Sammo Hung who has never been funnier. "This is drunken calligraphy!" Yeah, I'm not going to forget that moment any time soon.
) Some beautiful Wing Chun on display and a solid movie, but like The Odd Couple, the older dudes make it worth seeing. Shame, that Metrograph won't be getting a 35mm print, otherwise I would have seen this theatrically next month.Heart of Dragon (1985) Brotherly drama that predates Rain Man by three years, Jackie Chan's little brother cop tends to his mentally challenged older brother (Sammo Hung.) As would be the case, Sammo's chlld-like behavior lands him in big trouble with jewel thieves. I was glad they played this straight as some Hong Kong humor can be extremely tasteless, Sammo was good in the role, but this isn't something I'll watch all the way through again. That said, Jackie's ugly brawl with Dick Wei made this worth picking up and will be the moments I watch again. Such a great fight.
Project A (1983) And Dick Wei sails away with this one. Jackie Chan's comedy action film about his Sgt. Dragon Ma trying to bring down the pirates led by Wei. This is one of the very few times, Chan or Hung would allow Wei to act and fight, so it's great fun to see Wei play his pirate chief goofy to start with before revealing just how dangerous he truly is. I wasn't really a Jackie Chan fan before I watched several of these films and I'm still not. But I know when and why I'll watch this one going forward.
Invincible Shaolin (1978) So the courts pit North and South Shaolin against each other, in order to decimate all kung fu schools. The North come across as bad guys, but they're being manipulated as much as the South Shaolin. And unlike most I root for the Northern group (featuring Lu Feng, Sun Chien and Chiang Sheng. Awesome sauce.) Not really one of my favorite Venoms films, but worth a look for the performances from this trio.
Tenebrae (1982) One copy of my Synapse Tenebrae steel books arrived and holy moly it's a beaut. This my favorite Argento film and giallo and one of a very limited few in which Dario actually wrote a linear story. Some psycho in Rome is taking giallo novelist Peter Neal's latest book (Tenebrae) too literally and is killing people inspired by Neal's written words. Once the killer is murdered, the bodies still keep piling up.
It's a great, stupidly bloody murder mystery with solid performances and the stark white / glass environments are the exact opposite of the film's title.
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John Carpenter's Vampires - Hard to jugde for me. Somewhat entertaining in all its cheesiness, can't deny that, but also expected more and a different beast from Carpenter as well tbh. I think if he had shot that movie in the 80s rather than the late 90s I'd like it much much better. Worth a watch if you're into (gory) Vampires and/or Westerns that don't take themselves too serious.
Also started Touch of Zen afterwards, but had to stop after 30mins so will have to finish it later. So far so good! Atmosphere and set design is awesome as well as the direction. Only the transfer is a bit lacking since it somewhat looks like it was filmed off an (old) TV. But I get used to that pretty quickly so won't deter too much. Will have to have a constant look into the online offerings for the (way) superior BluRay version
Also started Touch of Zen afterwards, but had to stop after 30mins so will have to finish it later. So far so good!
Atmosphere and set design is awesome as well as the direction. Only the transfer is a bit lacking since it somewhat looks like it was filmed off an (old) TV. But I get used to that pretty quickly so won't deter too much. Will have to have a constant look into the online offerings for the (way) superior BluRay version
John Carpenter's Vampires - Hard to jugde for me. Somewhat entertaining in all its cheesiness, can't deny that, but also expected more and a different beast from Carpenter as well tbh. I think if he had shot that movie in the 80s rather than the late 90s I'd like it much much better. Worth a watch if you're into (gory) Vampires and/or Westerns that don't take themselves too serious.
Also started Touch of Zen afterwards, but had to stop after 30mins so will have to finish it later. So far so good!
Say John Carpenter and cheesey does not come to mind, but I never saw Vampires. Instead I think of The Fog (1980) and his scifi horror masterpiece The Thing (1982).
Say John Carpenter and cheesey does not come to mind, but I never saw Vampires. Instead I think of The Fog (1980) and his scifi horror masterpiece The Thing (1982).
Um, Escape from L.A.
Seriously, Skip Vampires and definitely skip Ghosts from Mars.To be fair, the novel Vampires was loosely based on was pretty bad too, but I am always annoyed when there's a line of dialog which hints at a character's past that turns out to be better than anything in film (Van Helsing was another such tease.) Here they diverted from the novel in telling the lead Vampire's origin and boy that one line of dialog was better than anything else in the film. I don't like James Wood either and felt neither he nor Sam Neill were John Carpenter anti-heroes. Yeah, okay, I'm still spoiled by Kurt Russell.
and pardon my cranky critic...@twietee glad you liked A Touch of Zen thus far.
Me...
Fight Among the Supers (1985) Extremely silly Taiwan film which takes the core premise of Sammo Hung's delightful The Odd Couple and moves it from human masters into mischief making old deities who seek two human disciples to do their fighting. Lu Feng steals the movie as the God of the Bowls (Lu Feng always steals movies though, I think that was in his contract
) It's very silly, slapstick and dumb at times, but Lu carries it like a pro and performs some of his most agile acrobatics.
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The Champions (1983) Yuen Biao and Dick Wei take on soccer. I'll stop here and say I'm not a fan of the game, but allowing a top acrobat and a combat level martial arts instructor to tackle the sport made this comedy score more goals than fouls with me. Biao's sweet country waif, Lee Tong, is purposely recruited by Wei's football "king" after Tong accidentally humiliates the top athlete. Some funny training sequences and unique applications of Peking Opera acrobatics and Tae Kwon Do (during a Tango no less) make this an entertaining watch. When it turns out King's matches are all fixed, the true ugliness of the game rears its head. Ultimately, Tong and King switch status in the soccer world and the film ends on a cautionary note. This was a fun movie overall, but, I wanted more of the mano - a - mano between Tong and Wei. Not only was it great to watch, but funny too. I never get enough of Yuen Biao and Dick Wei fighting each other, always amazing and very entertaining.
I don't think Dick Wei got enough credit for his acting skills. The guy is a brutal martial artist who can dish out and take some extremely painful blows, and yet, he could be subtle too. In his martial skill and in his acting. In fact, he first came to my attention for his acting in several Shaw Brothers films, most notably as the dying old master of the Venoms house in Five Venoms. He's another one of those martial artists who started out fighting and became very good actors too.
I don't think Dick Wei got enough credit for his acting skills. The guy is a brutal martial artist who can dish out and take some extremely painful blows, and yet, he could be subtle too. In his martial skill and in his acting. In fact, he first came to my attention for his acting in several Shaw Brothers films, most notably as the dying old master of the Venoms house in Five Venoms. He's another one of those martial artists who started out fighting and became very good actors too.
Star Trek Into Darkness (2013) Okay so the character misdirect was an epic fail, but overall, I enjoyed this movie. Good plot, very good performances from the majority of the cast etc. The Trek reboot films are the only J.J. Abrams movies I've liked and I wish he would have stuck with this franchise instead of Star Wars. I could watch Chris P., Zach Q. and Karl U. play their characters all day.