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I saw Event Horizon on the big screen, a shocker in the day 😎 Great SciFi/Horror film, very much a firm favourite...
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OK, so I watched this one on Sunday night, [because I actually hadn’t heard of it and I like ‘deep space sci-fi movies‘.]
So my first thoughts this movie actually makes me think a lot of the film ‘Sunshine’ [2007], but obviously with a different plot of what happened to the crew-members.
Anyways, I’m not gonna lie, E.H.movie was creepy as hell. You can tell it’s very dated back from 1997, And it starts out a little slow, but for it’s time, it actually has quite a bit of horrific gore without that much CGI.
Lawrence Fishburne was really good (As he is in an all his films), however; I admit this particular film wasn’t for me, you definitely have that feeling of ‘What happens next‘ question going on in your mind.
The director {Paul W.S. Anderson} is the same director for the Resident Evil movies as well, So you could see some of his film work transcends over those movies if you’re a fan of those Films.
Watching Speed (1994) on the TV, for the third time in as many days. No idea why they show this every night, but hey, it's entertaining so why not. Not my favorite Reeves movie (that would be the masterful Point Break, and that's without a single hint of irony), but a fun film nonetheless. Dennis Hopper seems to have fun chewing the scenery every chance he gets, and Annie as played by Sandra Bullock is a good sidekick to Reeves' Jack Traven. A little sad about how things ended for the bus, but every movie need it's heroes. Come to think of it the subway car in the end doesn't fare much better either. Not a puff piece for public transportation, this one.
Great clip!
Jeez, I remember watching The Net (the one with the girl from the bus, as I'm going to henceforth refer to the movie) at the movies when it came out and thinking that ordering a pizza online was the most futuristic thing ever. And I was already at that time aware of movies with flying cars in them.
Within the Whirlwind (2009), a biopic based upon a memoir by the Russian writer Yevgenia [Evgenia / Eugenia] Ginzburg (1904-1977). She was a literature professor and a member of the Soviet Union's Communist Party of the 1930s, who was swept up in the first of Stalin's purges (the one that ensued after the assassination of high party official Sergei Kirov in 1934).
A common pretext for Stalin's purge of party members at that time was accusation of having been complicit in Kirov's death, although it's still not clear that Stalin himself was not somehow involved, using the assassination as a way to be rid of a potential rival, and also then to weaken or execute hundreds of officials who might have impeded his own tenure atop the party.
Ginzburg survived interrogations in two of Moscow's most notorious prisons and received a 10-year sentence to the gulag in Magadan (eastern Siberia) after a 7-minute trial.
She was ordered to remain in Magadan for another five years, later enduring a second arrest and exile that was never even explained. After Stalin's death in 1953, her exile was revoked and her political rights were restored in 1955, but her memoir was banned in Russia, so was published instead in Germany and Italy. It has now been translated into many languages.
English actress Emily Watson plays Ginzburg. The film is streaming on Film Movement Plus and on Prime Video. Original audio is in English.
A common pretext for Stalin's purge of party members at that time was accusation of having been complicit in Kirov's death, although it's still not clear that Stalin himself was not somehow involved, using the assassination as a way to be rid of a potential rival, and also then to weaken or execute hundreds of officials who might have impeded his own tenure atop the party.
Ginzburg survived interrogations in two of Moscow's most notorious prisons and received a 10-year sentence to the gulag in Magadan (eastern Siberia) after a 7-minute trial.
She was ordered to remain in Magadan for another five years, later enduring a second arrest and exile that was never even explained. After Stalin's death in 1953, her exile was revoked and her political rights were restored in 1955, but her memoir was banned in Russia, so was published instead in Germany and Italy. It has now been translated into many languages.
English actress Emily Watson plays Ginzburg. The film is streaming on Film Movement Plus and on Prime Video. Original audio is in English.
I’ve been referring to Speed as that for years! 😂
American Graffitti (1973)- 84% RTAS. A favorite film about a night of cruising up and down the strip in 1962 Modesto, California as two high school grads contemplate their futures.
Besides the great songs of the era and many parts I love, I especially like the talk between Terry and Debbie about the Goat Killer, tieing the police car‘s rear axle to a cable, the race at the end between Milner and Falfa on Paradise Road, to the tune of Green Onions, and as Curt lifts off in a DC7 for college out East as he sees the white T-Bird with the girl he fantasizes about, driving down a country road.
For reference I missed this by about 8 years and I lived on the wrong coast and younger than Carol. I saw this movie in college. 😄
Based on a real restaurant, but this was built on the Studio back lot.
Paradise Road
George Lucas, Director hanging out.
Besides the great songs of the era and many parts I love, I especially like the talk between Terry and Debbie about the Goat Killer, tieing the police car‘s rear axle to a cable, the race at the end between Milner and Falfa on Paradise Road, to the tune of Green Onions, and as Curt lifts off in a DC7 for college out East as he sees the white T-Bird with the girl he fantasizes about, driving down a country road.
For reference I missed this by about 8 years and I lived on the wrong coast and younger than Carol. I saw this movie in college. 😄
Based on a real restaurant, but this was built on the Studio back lot.
Paradise Road
George Lucas, Director hanging out.
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Cobra [1986]
Freakin’ love this movie. Not a huge fan of Stallone, but I really like him in this Film.
For an 80s movie, this really has a strong plot with good acting. It’s about a group of sadistic killers randomly murdering people, and Lt. Marion Cobretti (Hence ‘Cobra‘) is assigned to the case to protect a witness [Brigitte Nielsen] and hunt down those responsible for the onslaughts.
This movie kind of makes me think it’s a combination of Steve McQueens Bullet and Judge Dredd, if you like both of those films, this kind of fits that genre.
Ok, anyone that knows me, knows that I’m a car fanatic/collector. The 1950 Mercury that Stallone was driving in this movie, was actually his own car.
This is one bad azz ride. 😁
Freakin’ love this movie. Not a huge fan of Stallone, but I really like him in this Film.
For an 80s movie, this really has a strong plot with good acting. It’s about a group of sadistic killers randomly murdering people, and Lt. Marion Cobretti (Hence ‘Cobra‘) is assigned to the case to protect a witness [Brigitte Nielsen] and hunt down those responsible for the onslaughts.
This movie kind of makes me think it’s a combination of Steve McQueens Bullet and Judge Dredd, if you like both of those films, this kind of fits that genre.
Ok, anyone that knows me, knows that I’m a car fanatic/collector. The 1950 Mercury that Stallone was driving in this movie, was actually his own car.
This is one bad azz ride. 😁
I love this film and I used to live in Modesto!
I was little buggar back then though. The one of houses we lived in there was one of my favorites that we ever lived in.
We lived on two different streets. I don't recall the names ... Thunderbird, I think, was one and the other I could swear had "Orange" in the title... it was across the street from some peach orchard... I think...
My older brother would go swimming/inner tubing in the canals with his friends.
Wasn't she driving a White T-Bird... not a vet... Love the race at the end.
Yeah, it's a '56 T-Bird and of course, that's Suzanne Somers (who I lived with, her and another girl named Janet ... oh wait ...
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Yes my mispeak.
LOL... It is still a very classic scene and very fitting to boot.
Watching that scene I could feel myself going away to college and sensing I was losing something. There is some emotion there.
I read that Lucas originally wanted to do something like make her/the car almost like apparition, to say, "This is totally in his mind ...", though I always felt like that anyway (even when he sees her at the end).
I like they way he did it... I don't know if it would have had the same feeling or emotion if it was played out on how you described it.
It happened, I think Curt was a chance target, but he needed to make more of it than it was.
Regarding the Duece Coup, they sell a kit $15-25k, I don’t think the drive train is included: http://www.trcauto32.com/index.cfm/page/ptype=results/category_id=15/mode=cat/cat15.htm
Article about the American Graffitti cars: https://www.hagerty.com/media/archived/american-graffiti-deuce-coupe/
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Uhhh... I’m pretty sure the answer is obvious..it’s because of Brigitte Nielsen is in the movie. I mean, who doesn’t like Brigitte Nielsen.😁