Thunderbirds are go. Filming pacing was different back then, but so was the pace of life. While not as exciting or as thrilling as my boyhood memories of it I have to admit I was more engaged with than I was with the last act of justice league.
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Thunderbirds are go. Filming pacing was different back then, but so was the pace of life. While not as exciting or as thrilling as my boyhood memories of it I have to admit I was more engaged with than I was with the last act of justice league.
Suspiria (Dario Argento, 1977)
Although I saw this cult classic decades ago, I did not recall much of it. The DVD I have has to be watched with zapper in hand as the music is pitched at about 100 decibels above the dialogue which was so inaudible I had to switch to headphones, though it didn't matter as the script is poor. The film has its cult status because it broke rules on narrative, music, and mise en scene but for all that remains a silly film about witches in which pretty girls get slashed to ribbons, with the heroine an innocent American who uncovers the 'terrible secret' about a dance academy in Germany. Some enthusiasts for the Giallo genre will love it, I ended up completely uninterested, never scared or taken by surprise as so many of the tropes have been repeated you can see the horror coming minutes before it does.
Incredibly, there is an American re-make which will premiere this November, having gone through numerous versions, and actors.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076786/?ref_=tt_trv_cnn
Argento's later film, with the transgendered Italian actor Eva Robins -Tenebrae (1982)- is superior to Suspiria and worth seeing.
“Death of a Nation”
A TS porn movie!
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An 80s BBC (just to clarify, British TV) movie about a nuclear attack in Sheffield and the aftereffects. Not a feel good movie.
gorky park, which left me pondering several questions. such as is william hurt a good actor? where else has the james horner score been used? why haven't more of dennis potter's scripts been remade?
all in all not a bad film, very much of its time.
Manglehorn (David Gordon Green, 2014)
I bought this for £5 in my local independent shop where it was in the World Cinema section even though the film was shot in Texas.
Manglehorn is an ageing and grumpy locksmith who pines for the woman he loved but did not marry, but is sort of attracted to the bank teller -Dawn- he sees every Friday. The film traces the journey out of the rut he has settled into to suggest that after a messed up date with Dawn he can erase his past and start anew. The film is so low-key as to be soporific, though there are supposed to be 'deep' and profound moments that give depth to the characters, but fail, even with Al Pacino and Holly Hunter trying not to mangle the script. At one point she claims to love watching water emerging from the faucet in the bath and invites grumpy man to share a bath, the kind of sexual symbolism that one would expect from a film school graduate and not much of an improvement on the cat that swallows the key to the safe where Manglehorn keeps the only letter he ever got from his long lost love. And guess what, when a surgeon extracts the key, it opens a whole new chapter in the locksmith's life....yawn....ah well, it was only £5, though Tesco sell a very drinkable Riesling for that sum, and I know which I prefer.
unlocked (which shares the same director as gorky park - but not planned by me) a very watchable spy actioner, with the usual twisty double cross nothing is as it seems story. noomi rapace steps up to the action hero plate very well. decent turns from orlando bloom, michael douglas and john malkovich.
that a large chunk of it was filmed on the streets of my local area helped my pleasure in the film.
it isn't anything special - it is enjoyable.
Mission Impossible: Fallout (Christopher McQuarrie, 2018)
Another superb action movie which, though it has flaws, is one of the longest so far in the MI franchise, even if it has a scenario -Ethan Hunt and the team must save the world from nuclear fallout- that has been done before. The obvious difference with James Bond is that Bond is too much of a wanker to even attempt the stunts Tom Cruise does (but then the Bond films these days only appeal to wankers so they are all in good company), and they are as usual well done with one great shot on a rooftop in London, and though some of the scenes were filmed in the Nubra Valley in Jammu and Kashmir, the astonishing helicopter scenes were filmed in Norway.
The main flaw in the film is Henry Cavill, who can't decide if he is American or Irish, so atrocious is his acting, so hopeless his attempts at accents. He was born in the Channel Islands where his father was a stockbroker. Perhaps he can return to Jersey and retire on the money he has made as a so-called 'actor' and give someone else with talent a chance to make movies. He is a waste of space.
I know one can only go so far with action films, but when you think of the dross that has been dished up in the past by Schwarzenegger, Stallone and the utterly absurd Seagal, you can be lucky to be alive to see the Jason Statham portfolio expose what infantile cowards those aforementioned were, and add Ethan Hunt to the brigade of dazzling film heroes, even if we don't really need them.