The French Connection: Gilbert Perreault, Rick Martin and Rene Robert
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Hahahaha... I see your french connection and raise you.. "The Hanson" brothers. Staying within the realm of movies of course.
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Hahahaha... I see your french connection and raise you.. "The Hanson" brothers. Staying within the realm of movies of course.
Started this last night as well, haven't gotten to finish it yet.
Atomic Blond (2017)- Watched 3 times in the last 2 weeks.i love just about everything in this quintessential espionage story. Theron has an incredible screen presence.
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What kind of amazes me is how the melee fighting looks so real and forceful, it‘s as if you can see Theron’s muscles contract and expand as she delivers blows and receives them, without these actors hurting each other. And you know there is a stunt double but I can’t see the switch I think she may have done the tumble down the stairs in this, one of many impressive fight sequences, and how they got the camera in the middle of this has to set some new standard:
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My favorite of the three original movies, but probably the most controversial of the three as well.
A lot of people probably don't remember or never knew, but the media criticized Spielberg for the amount of violence in Temple, so much so, that he said that he would never do a movie that violent again and has since publicly disowned the movie.
Another thing that casual Jones fans might have missed is that Temple of Doom is actually a prequel to Raiders, and this explains a lot of the plot holes and inconsistencies in the second film.
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Great film, great novel.was anything wrong with the original?:
J'started my Oscar™ Nominee watching now, this is:
Simplicity insane and beautiful with incredible cinematography
worthy of the statue for best film!
Simplicity insane and beautiful with incredible cinematography
worthy of the statue for best film!
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Not bad. 4/5 for me. Murder mystery.
Well, having just finished The Queen's Gambit, I might have to look at this to see how Dudders does...! ;^p
Ref: Atomic Blond
What kind of amazes me is how the melee fighting looks so real and forceful, it‘s as if you can see Theron’s muscles contract and expand as she delivers blows and receives them, without these actors hurting each other. And you know there is a stunt double but I can’t see the switch I think she may have done the tumble down the stairs in this, one of many impressive fight sequences, and how they got the camera in the middle of this has to set some new standard:
This is R rated action
Stunt Analysis of apartment fight
Ok, I gave John Wick (2014) a try, it is decent but it’s mostly him shooting people in quick succession. It can’t compete in story or with the ratio or quality of melee fighting and gun play in Atomic Blond.
I did not know it is a prequel, are there hints in Raiders or Temple? As far as violence, that is part and parcel of action films unless they are PG. Even in PG-13, it is death and destruction even people being ripped apart minus the blood and gore.
I may have to watch Queen’s Gambit again.
Well, not so subtle hints. In both films they display the date:
Raiders 1936:
Temple of Doom 1935:
Besides that, it is character differences which are a bit more subtle.
First of all, Indy was more of an antihero, and a pretty unsavory dude at the beginning of Temple of Doom. He is very selfish, shady, and kind of a bad guy. These character traits coincides with the events at the beginning of the third movie, where Indy is a kid in 1912 when Indy "earned" the fedora hat for losing to the grave robbers.
He is basically punished for doing the right thing, and the bad guys won, so this made him very jaded, and after he started living a more shady life style, becoming a thief himself.
This included seducing and sleeping with a minor (15) when he was 27 (happens offscreen years before the events of Temple, most likely around 1925).
So, in Temple, the whole beginning shows an unscrupulous side of Indy, a shady deal, threatening to stab Willie (the woman singer), and using a little kid to commit crimes is just a small part of it.
I can list a bunch of questionable things, but it is better if next time you watch the movie, just think about it, and see if you can see a difference between Temple Indy and Raiders Indy.
The events of Temple of Doom changed Indy in many ways. One way is that it made him more of a believer of magic and the supernatural (at the beginning of Temple, he was very skeptical of magic). Also seeing what happen to the slave kids, and the stuff he went through when he was under the thrall of Mola Ram changed him a lot for the better. He remembered what it was like to be the good guy.
That is why even though it was only a year later (in movie time), Indy was a different in Raiders. He wasn't all good, but more of a hero than antihero. What happened to him and what he experienced in Raiders, especially the end, changed him some more.
He basically went all good after that, full hero mode, with the third movie starting in 1938 (after the 1912 scene) with getting that cross artifact back that he lost to the bad guys in 1912.
Actually, Temple of Doom was rated PG at release. PG-13 wasn't created yet, only G, PG, R, and X at the time.
This was part of all the outrage against Steven Spielberg, with the media asking, "how could he make a movie that is rated PG so violent?".
Temple of Doom was, in part, the reason why the PG-13 rating was created. The movie wasn't quite an "R", but more than a "PG".
Today PG-13 is just sanitized violence, people end up just as dead, even lose their heads without the blood and gore.
As for what movie I am watching now...
Okay, NOT recommended...
Ever-so-slightly comedic, but too many inconsistancies & improbabilities to ignore...
Shame, heist & vampire movies are a weakness; yeah, I've seen some horrible heist & vampire flicks...!
Avatar 2 (2022)- I’m going to have to watch this again. My first impression are the visuals are photorealistic and considering this was all CGI, the big battle that takes place is technically impressive, the underwater shots are wonderful, and Neyteri becomes a super bad ass in a fight for her family, however the story did not really grab me.
The same music, bringing back all of the characters including the dead ones, the same characteristic vocalizations and exclamations such as “Let’s get some!”, “Your not in Kansas any more” made it feel like the writers were trying to remind the audience how good the original was, but it felt repetitious to me. And that big battle, kind of fissiles out as a setup for the next movie, where instead of running away again Sully at the end of three hours declares it’s time to fight again. Uh huh….
The same music, bringing back all of the characters including the dead ones, the same characteristic vocalizations and exclamations such as “Let’s get some!”, “Your not in Kansas any more” made it feel like the writers were trying to remind the audience how good the original was, but it felt repetitious to me. And that big battle, kind of fissiles out as a setup for the next movie, where instead of running away again Sully at the end of three hours declares it’s time to fight again. Uh huh….
The first time Sully took it upon himself to organize the clans and surprise, all the Pandora fauna decided to jump in and kick some human butts, ejecting them off the planet. So here they come again, and no organizing the clans, where’s Eywa (?), and just running away? Sully should know that the best way to defeat the colonists is to hit them hard and quickly before they can get established, seems like a better time to call up Taruk Makto. Maybe that will happen sometime in the future timeline.
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Yeah, you are kinda required to make some appraisal, even if minimal.TAR
Finally got around to watching The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent. Really liked this one, and felt this was one of Cage's best movies in recent years. I loved seeing him doing some action again. I think it would have been even more amusing if they had more younger Cage personas, but I don't really have any complaints about this movie.
I had to see the film first.Yeah, you are kinda required to make some appraisal, even if minimal.
I mean what isn't to like about this movie! Good stuff!
Watched Star Wars Rogue One the other night. Man, how I freaking love this movie... While the scene with Darth Vader is amazing, my favorite scene is the beach scene with our two main characters. Ugh!