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    My main gripe with Hacksaw was that it really tried to project realistic war scenes, but all the actors were way too old for their parts. The privates all felt 30+ and rather big, whereas real WW2 marines were 18-20 year old and scrawny.

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    The Strange Vice of Mrs Wardh
    Revisiting this classic after the recent bluray release. Great film. Still Martino's best, I think.

    My Dear Killer
    Fairly average giallo. Some gory scenes ut overall a straigh up procedurual.

    Who can kill a child?
    Another classic. Love this film.

    Don't knock twice
    Saw it on Netflix. Really boring modern horror film.

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    Quote Originally Posted by EvilNed View Post
    My main gripe with Hacksaw was that it really tried to project realistic war scenes, but all the actors were way too old for their parts. The privates all felt 30+ and rather big, whereas real WW2 marines were 18-20 year old and scrawny.
    The average age would have been about 25. But, yeh, they were all a bit too old looking. But that's a problem with many war films. 'Saving Private Ryan' has a 40+ year old Tom Hanks and worse still is 50 year old Brad Pitt as a tank commander in 'Fury' (another grossly overrated war film from recent output).

    I think the war scenes in 'Hacksaw Ridge' tried hard to be gritty, but still retained that Hollywood veneer, with some really depreciating slo mo scenes that would put Zack Snyder to shame. There's some laughable nonsense going on too, the scene where Doss is dragging Vince Vaughn (another OAP who wouldn't be anywhere near a battlefield in WWII) on a makeshift stretcher while he shoots Japs with his grease gun, is straight out of a 1950's B movie. It's worst offence, though, is that dreadful opening hour - so cheesy I thought I was going to put on 5 stone.

    Amazed at all the good will it got.
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    Quote Originally Posted by shootemindehead View Post
    The average age would have been about 25.
    26 to be more precise. But i-i-i-in Vietnam, he was nineteen, i-i-i-in Vietnam, he was nineteen, ni-ni-ni-ni-nineteen!

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    Quote Originally Posted by JDP View Post
    26 to be more precise. But i-i-i-in Vietnam, he was nineteen, i-i-i-in Vietnam, he was nineteen, ni-ni-ni-ni-nineteen!

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    I'm pretty sure it was actually 26 years and 107 days.

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    Quote Originally Posted by JDP View Post
    26 to be more precise. But i-i-i-in Vietnam, he was nineteen, i-i-i-in Vietnam, he was nineteen, ni-ni-ni-ni-nineteen!

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    ha ha.

    LOL.

    He has a very bad stutter that Paul Hardcastle fella.
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    Spoilers ahead.

    'Dunkirk'

    A war film that deals with the war without the Hollywood glow and veneer that plagues far too many efforts of recent years and is actually, pleasingly, devoid of any "for the sake of it" gore and blood. Although that doesn't mean that it shirks away from the horror of conflict in any way.

    'Dunkirk' deals with the evacuation of the British Expiditionary Force from France in 1940, after a disastrous British and French campaign to defeat the German Army on Frnech soil, initiated by the former's declaration of war on the latter eight months previously. The British and French Armies (plus others like the Belgians) proved unable to deal with the Germans as they steamrolled through France in just six weeks. Something that proved impossible to do in the whole of WWI.

    None of that history is really needed to enjoy the film although I feel, like with most war films, a certain understanding is useful (if somewhat unnecessary) to flesh out the events on the screen. But all one needs to know here is that the Allies have been defeated and the British are looking for a way out. The miles and miles of beaches at Dunkirk fortuitously proved to be it.

    Chirstopher Nolan's film does extremely well to capture the dejected spirits of the men as they trickle down through the beachfront property to the sandy shoreline and form orderly (and terribly British) queues, while they patiently wait for a transport (any transport) to arrive and take them back to Blighty. The images of these queues are matched by period photographs and that attentiveness is what makes 'Dunkirk' a great success, at least the in the "Mole" section of the film, which is one of three timelines that the story is split across. The Mole (another name for a pier) takes place over the course of the week, whereas The Air is over one hour and The Sea is a day's journey. All sections are intertwined in a back and forth timeline, with the The Air being the weakest contribution.

    The Mole unfolds largely from the viewpoint of a British soldier, an unnamed private, ably handled by Harry Styles (A singer from boy band One Direction, who I was blissfully unaware of). Styles does well to capture the fear, confusion, dread and humiliation of the average "Tommy" in a largely "dialogue-less" role. Something that isn't easy to do. He acts as our eyes as he passively observes the situations and people who make up the souls trying to escape the portion of the beach he finds himself on. The Mole is the meat of the film upon which the other two sections are hung and contains the more harrowing of scenes. These are chilling scenes of men drowning in steel hulls as the ship they're stranded on becomes their horribly echoey tomb.

    The Sea deals with the "little armada" of civilian boats that was requisitioned by the Royal Navy, because they didn't want to commit the bulk of the Navy to rescure mission. It focuses on pleasure boater, Mr. Dawson, his son Peter and his friend George, who take it upon themselves to head to Dunkirk to see if they can aid the evacuation. This is based on true accounts of hundreds of boat owners who sailed south in the last days of May 1940 in an admirable, if foolhardy, crusade of sorts. Mild mannered Mr. Dawson is very well played by Mark Rylance who's understated performance contrasts with the horrors unfolding in the water around his little boat.

    The Air focuses on a Spitfire sortie across the channel and their task to deal with the Luftwaffe attacks on the evacuation effort. Tom Hardy is second in a vic of three, lead vocally by Michael Caine. This section is laudable for its use of period aircraft, in the case of the Spitfire MkI and does well to get a post war Spanish made Buchon into the air to act as a Bf109E. Elsewhere there's also a post war Spanish Heinkel playing its part as a target for Hardy's far too good pilot. It's Hardy's unrealistic ability to destroy everything with a Balkenkreuz on it that forms the only real mis-step in the film. Also on a bad note is the film's portrayal of the Germans, who act as suicidal maniacs. While the film went to great lengths to get details correct, it's depiction of Luftwaffe tactics is a mess. 109's linger in turning fights with Spitfires and the film's only German bomber goes around on a bombing run, practically offering themselves as targets. Anyone who's familiar with the air war in WWII will be rolling their eyes, which is a shame because the filmmakers get so much correct elsewhere.

    However, the above criticisms will only be spotted by a handful of people and while it knocks points off, it doesn't destroy the film altogether. It's still hard not to be disapointed about Hardy's "Greatest Spitfire Pilot of all Time" caricature.

    Another criticism would be the lack of use of CGI to augment to air battles. Although some CGI was used to enhance the Stuka remote control models. While I believe Nolan's refusal to do a sweeping vista of a beach full of humdreds of thousands of men was a wise one (as there were never that number on any of the beaches at one time), the limited air war feels extremely anemic. It's correct that the Luftwaffe confined its attacks to mere pin prick harrasment, in lieu of an all out attempt to destroy the BEF, but it's doubtful that any Heinkel crew would be flying into enemy territory alone as is depicted in the film. Those scenes are, of course, victims of the lack of physically available aircraft. But, they could easilly have been fleshed out with computer generated ones to inject a bit more realism. I believe there could have been a ballance attempted, instead of a flat out refusal.

    Elsewhere, Nolan correctly refuses to make the film reliant on an "characters". The fact of the matter being that in real military units, the men rarely got to know one another very well. Men were transfered in and out of units, killed, wounded and captured, that you tended not to know anybody for too long. It would have been a mistake to make the film a squad based cliche with the accompanying Screen Writing 101 "characters", that so many war films do. While this can be troublesome for some viewers, I found it to be another feather in its cap. A cap which possesses quite a large number of feathers, it has to be said. Another of which is Hans Zimmer's spectacular, yet wholly unassuming score. Almost totally devoid of bombast, it's low bass pounding does wonders to increase the sense of dread and tension of the scenes unfolding on the screen. It's an expert example of what a cinematic score should do. It aids the film, without overwhelming it. In one or two places, it swells to unconvincing heights, such as its pinching of Elgar's 'Nimrod', as Hardy lands his out of fuel Spitfre on the beach. But, 99% of the time it aural support is absolutely bang on.

    Despite its shortcomings, 'Dunkirk' is a war film that will largely please people who have studied the war, as I have for more years than I'll mention here. It's emotional, without being forced. It's horrifying in places, without being obsessed about it. It's reasonably factual, without being dull. For me, it joins a small number of war films that can be called great and Christopher Nolan et al deserve all the praise they get.

    8/10
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    The Tuxedo
    (with Jackie Chan) Really bad.

    Superhero Movie
    Better than it deserves to be.

    Death Carries a Cane
    Well crafted giallo with all the elements you'd expect (and want) from a film like this. No element is exceptional however, which prevents it from being one of the standouts of the genre.

    Sicario
    Great film. Weak protagonist.

    Suicide Squad
    One of the worst films I've ever seen. Felt like watching a series of low budget webisodes from the early 00's edited together into a forced narrative by a first-time youtuber DC fan.

    Autopsy
    Interesting giallo. Mostly for the vistas. Mimsy Farmer as played in 3 giallos I believe. She's always a nutcase.

    Lost Souls: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau
    Really interesting documentary on the making of the 90's film. How the film grew out of Richard Stanley's control, how the studio executives were nervous from the start and how Val Kilmer and Marlon Brando just screwed it up. In the end, I don't think Richard Stanley could have handled it (as he apparently didn't) but he does come off as something of a victim in this case.

    Air Bud
    I want to see the 13 sequels.

    Le Orme (Footprints on the Moon)
    Boring trash.

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    La Contrafigura / The Double
    A giallo based around a couple who are suspicious and jealous of each other. Pretty solid.

    The Worlds End
    We all know it. Personally, I was deeply disappointed by this 4 years ago when it hit cinemas. Rewatching it I still feel it just doesn't stack up at all against it's two precursors.

    Faster
    With The Rock. It's not Direct-to-dvd action but it might as well be. Really dull. Really crap writing. I mean, a lot worse than what's usual for dumb action films.

    The Iguana with the Tongue of Fire
    A giallo. Set in Ireland. Did you guys know there used to be an Irish laundy company called "Swastika Laundy Ltd."? Nor did I. But there's a closeup of a receipt of theirs in this film - complete with swastika and all - and I sit there for the rest of the running time thinking it's going to get some sort of payoff... it doesn't. In Ireland I guess nazi cleaning companies are nothing out of the ordinary. The film itself is nothing special.

    The Italian Connection / Hired to Kill
    My second Fernando di Leo eurocrime film. Really enjoyed it. Those italians sure can do action.

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    Been awhile... Been a few...

    Sameblod
    Swedish film. Acclaimed. It's ok. About the oppression of the local sami people up north. Alleged oppresion that is...

    The Bloodstained Shadow
    1978 giallo. Fantastic! Great setting, mystery, visuals, score and killings. Solamente Nero is the italian title.

    The Three Musketeers
    1973 version. The best version. They just don't make em this way anymore. Anyone saw the version from a few years ago? Crap.

    The Square
    Great. Won the Palm d'Or. I worked on this!

    Valerian
    Much, much better than I expected it to be. They really messed up the marketing.

    Rome Armed to the Teeth
    A 1970's polizioteschi about a rogue cop who's fed up with criminals getting away with lenient punishment. You can probably guess what follows. Non-stop action for 90 minutes. Barely any plot... Perhaps one of the best films ever made to enjoy over a few beers? Top it off with Live Like a Cop, Die Like a Man and you've got it made.

    The Wolverine
    Enjoyed it. I liked the X-Men films from way back. Working my way towards Logan.

    The House with the Laughing Windows
    Giallo. Boring. Don't bother. For some reason, internet giallo fans are lauding this as one of the best. It's not. It's just slow with barely any mystery or action in it.

    Sex of the Witch
    Gothic giallo. Pretty nifty but categorically average. Lots of blood, sex and gothic vistas. Family patriarch dies, his relatives are gathered at family mansion, alleged family curse surfaces etc. etc. etc...

    The Bridge on the River Kwai
    Wow, what a film. Never seen it before. Were we supposed to sympathize with Alec Guinness character? By the end of it, I really wasn't... Only in contrast with the japanese camp warden was he sympathetic.

    X-Men: Days of Future Past
    Best of the "new" X-Men films, bar Logan. Tied up some loose ends. But this franchise timeline is messed up way beyond repair. There's continuity errors all over the place. How'd Xavier get back alive? Magneto's powers are back? Why'd they recast Stryker - but nobody else?

    High Noon
    The classic. Nice piece. Not much to say about it.

    X-Men Apocalypse
    A bit of a let down after Days of Future Past, but a solid entry. Too reliant on SFX. There's nothing in it that makes it stand out from any other Superhero film these days.

    Mommy Dead and Dearest
    So-called "True Crime" documentary. Man, some families are messed up...

    Logan
    The R-Rating really helps the Wolverine character. Great film. Loved the action.
    That being said, the X-Men franchise really ends on a dark note. So in the original films with Xavier, Wolverine, Storm etc. etc., they're fighting for a better tomorrow - a brighter future. We know now they are either headed for this, post-mutant world where no more mutants are being born - OR the apocalyptic setting of Days of Future Past...
    Really kinda makes the first three X-Men films sorta pointless.
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    Quote Originally Posted by MinionZombie View Post
    Aguirre, Wrath of God - 8/10
    They played this one the other day on TCM, among other Werner Herzog movies. Considering that Klaus Kinski had a screw loose himself, no wonder that he did a great job portraying a man's descent into madness.
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    Quote Originally Posted by EvilNed View Post
    Been awhile... Been a few...

    Sameblod
    Swedish film. Acclaimed. It's ok. About the oppression of the local sami people up north. Alleged oppresion that is...

    The Bloodstained Shadow
    1978 giallo. Fantastic! Great setting, mystery, visuals, score and killings. Solamente Nero is the italian title.

    The Three Musketeers
    1973 version. The best version. They just don't make em this way anymore. Anyone saw the version from a few years ago? Crap.

    The Square
    Great. Won the Palm d'Or. I worked on this!

    Valerian
    Much, much better than I expected it to be. They really messed up the marketing.

    Rome Armed to the Teeth
    A 1970's polizioteschi about a rogue cop who's fed up with criminals getting away with lenient punishment. You can probably guess what follows. Non-stop action for 90 minutes. Barely any plot... Perhaps one of the best films ever made to enjoy over a few beers? Top it off with Live Like a Cop, Die Like a Man and you've got it made.

    The Wolverine
    Enjoyed it. I liked the X-Men films from way back. Working my way towards Logan.

    The House with the Laughing Windows
    Giallo. Boring. Don't bother. For some reason, internet giallo fans are lauding this as one of the best. It's not. It's just slow with barely any mystery or action in it.

    Sex of the Witch
    Gothic giallo. Pretty nifty but categorically average. Lots of blood, sex and gothic vistas. Family patriarch dies, his relatives are gathered at family mansion, alleged family curse surfaces etc. etc. etc...

    The Bridge on the River Kwai
    Wow, what a film. Never seen it before. Were we supposed to sympathize with Alec Guinness character? By the end of it, I really wasn't... Only in contrast with the japanese camp warden was he sympathetic.

    X-Men: Days of Future Past
    Best of the "new" X-Men films, bar Logan. Tied up some loose ends. But this franchise timeline is messed up way beyond repair. There's continuity errors all over the place. How'd Xavier get back alive? Magneto's powers are back? Why'd they recast Stryker - but nobody else?

    High Noon
    The classic. Nice piece. Not much to say about it.

    X-Men Apocalypse
    A bit of a let down after Days of Future Past, but a solid entry. Too reliant on SFX. There's nothing in it that makes it stand out from any other Superhero film these days.

    Mommy Dead and Dearest
    So-called "True Crime" documentary. Man, some families are messed up...

    Logan
    The R-Rating really helps the Wolverine character. Great film. Loved the action.
    That being said, the X-Men franchise really ends on a dark note. So in the original films with Xavier, Wolverine, Storm etc. etc., they're fighting for a better tomorrow - a brighter future. We know now they are either headed for this, post-mutant world where no more mutants are being born - OR the apocalyptic setting of Days of Future Past...
    Really kinda makes the first three X-Men films sorta pointless.
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    Love "The Three Musketeers"!
    Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there--on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam. [click for more]
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    Quote Originally Posted by Neil View Post
    Wow! You have been busy

    Love "The Three Musketeers"!
    I don't watch any TV-series. So it doesn't really take up that much of my time.

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    Hot Tub Time Machine 2 - 2/10
    Good-feckin'-God, they didn't half screw this one up. I rather enjoyed the original movie, which actually had a bit of heart to it, so it's no wonder that John Cusack avoided this sequel like the plague. Playing out the 'new future' (Lougle, Motley Lou, et al) just isn't enjoyable as a feature - it was fine for a closing gag in the original movie, but Lou is such an unrepentant arsehole for 95% of the film that it's just not fun to watch. I think I chuckled once during the entire run, and the best part of the movie was the random topless moment - and bloody hell, the American style of "just say a bunch of one liners in a locked off shot and we'll cram a few of the 'best ones' into the edit" method of making a comedy sticks out like a sore thumb here.

    Allied - 7/10
    The first act, which plays out like a Brad Pitt version of Casablanca, is the best part. However, what follows is still a solid bit of mystery as Pitt tries to find out if his new war time wife really is who she says she is (or is she a German spy?). For a 'Hollywood movie' with big stars they're able to tread into a couple of surprising moments that shake things up, and they're able to twist the situation enough to keep you guessing. A solid flick in general.

    Vigilante - 7.5/10
    Directed by William Lustig (Maniac), this 1983 revenge flick stars Robert Forster and Fred Williamson. A family man (Forster) has his life torn apart by a gang of thugs and ultimately seeks vengeance with the help of his friends (who, in their spare time, pull off vigilante acts to help hold back the tide of crime consuming New York City). Considering the context of the time - police numbers were low and crime was soaring due to budget cuts after NYC nearly went bankrupt in the 1970s, this is a really cool little 'time capsule' of a movie that captures the feeling of the time as well as the grittiness of what is now "old" New York. Lustig envisioned it as a spaghetti western of sorts, and the awesome themetune says it loud and proud. Well worth checking out for exploitation cinema fans.

    Ned - aye, The Bloodstained Shadow is a great giallo. It's like an otherworldly version of Venice in which it's set.

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    Quote Originally Posted by MinionZombie View Post
    Hot Tub Time Machine 2 - 2/10
    Good-feckin'-God, they didn't half screw this one up. I rather enjoyed the original movie, which actually had a bit of heart to it, so it's no wonder that John Cusack avoided this sequel like the plague. Playing out the 'new future' (Lougle, Motley Lou, et al) just isn't enjoyable as a feature - it was fine for a closing gag in the original movie, but Lou is such an unrepentant arsehole for 95% of the film that it's just not fun to watch. I think I chuckled once during the entire run, and the best part of the movie was the random topless moment - and bloody hell, the American style of "just say a bunch of one liners in a locked off shot and we'll cram a few of the 'best ones' into the edit" method of making a comedy sticks out like a sore thumb here.
    Oh!

    I love the first one!
    Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there--on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam. [click for more]
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    Quote Originally Posted by EvilNed View Post
    The Bridge on the River Kwai
    Wow, what a film. Never seen it before. Were we supposed to sympathize with Alec Guinness character? By the end of it, I really wasn't... Only in contrast with the japanese camp warden was he sympathetic.

    One of the greatest films ever made and fully deserving of that appellation.

    I don't think anyone is supposed to sympatise with anybody in the film though. It has more to do with an examination of a human's ability to get so wrapped up in something as to lose sight of everything else around them. The "My god, what have I done?" is the key set of words in the picture, as Colonel Nicholson realises his folly.

    The only real weakness of the film is William Holden. Never really warmed to him in anything.
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