I remember really loving "The Fugitive" but its been a long time so I didnt vote for it.
― Michael B Higgins (Michael B), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 16:16 (twelve years ago) link
andrew davis 85-93 is a pretty good run of action movies
― max, Tuesday, 14 February 2012 16:16 (twelve years ago) link
lol no way i'm standing behind that spielberg quote ps munich sucked tho, movie for boring adults imo
― beware of greek bearer bonds (darraghmac), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 16:17 (twelve years ago) link
anyone willing to ride for the sequel?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Marshals_%28film%29
― I spend a lot of time thinking about apricots (DJP), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 16:17 (twelve years ago) link
you're a movie for boring adults
― the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 16:17 (twelve years ago) link
not you dan
i remember thinking US marshals wasnt bad? definitely no fugitive tho
― max, Tuesday, 14 February 2012 16:18 (twelve years ago) link
God someone wake me up when The Transporter places.
― one little aioli (Laurel), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 16:18 (twelve years ago) link
yeah i havent seen it in a long time, but i remember it p much perfectly. my recollection is that it pretty snugly fits the mold of 90s action-thriller, but is really well done within those constraints. and TLJ owns in it
― RudolfHitlerFtw (Hungry4Ass), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 16:18 (twelve years ago) link
well there was literally no fugitive in that movie iirc
― the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 16:18 (twelve years ago) link
re: fugitive
yeah the fugitive is okay but i never thought it was great.
oh and don't blame me for voting for jaws. blame whoever nominated it on the ballot thread. i never would have thought of it either for this poll.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 14 February 2012 16:18 (twelve years ago) link
Fugitive is such a well made movie. What happened to Andrew Davis? Chain Reaction?
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 14 February 2012 16:19 (twelve years ago) link
(I hope Chain Reaction does not make it)
damn, forgot to vote for Crank
― Michael B Higgins (Michael B), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 16:19 (twelve years ago) link
us marshals and the art of war is a pretty decent double bill iirc
― beware of greek bearer bonds (darraghmac), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 16:19 (twelve years ago) link
btw I loved both The Fugitive and US Marshalls
― I spend a lot of time thinking about apricots (DJP), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 16:19 (twelve years ago) link
― beware of greek bearer bonds (darraghmac), Tuesday, February 14, 2012 11:17 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark
munich's a really accomplished thriller underneath all the ~grownup stuff~!
― RudolfHitlerFtw (Hungry4Ass), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 16:19 (twelve years ago) link
i think this lil "speech" is delivered just as perfectly as the neeson "special set of skills" thing
Deputy Marshal Samuel Gerard: Alright, listen up, people. Our fugitive has been on the run for ninety minutes. Average foot speed over uneven ground barring injuries is 4 miles-per-hour. That gives us a radius of six miles. What I want from each and every one of you is a hard-target search of every gas station, residence, warehouse, farmhouse, henhouse, outhouse and doghouse in that area. Checkpoints go up at fifteen miles. Your fugitive's name is Dr. Richard Kimble. Go get him.
― max, Tuesday, 14 February 2012 16:20 (twelve years ago) link
yup xp
― the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 16:21 (twelve years ago) link
i wanna see fugitive 2: in the doghouse
hell yeah
― RudolfHitlerFtw (Hungry4Ass), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 16:21 (twelve years ago) link
max OTM, TLJ just owns that character so thoroughly
― I spend a lot of time thinking about apricots (DJP), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 16:22 (twelve years ago) link
yes, there was
― Number None, Tuesday, 14 February 2012 16:22 (twelve years ago) link
no it was just about a bunch of us marshals chasing each other around
― the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 16:23 (twelve years ago) link
the fugitive is no switchback. that's all i know. hell i should have voted for switchback.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 14 February 2012 16:23 (twelve years ago) link
set to the benny hill theme music xp
― http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1tAYmMjLdY (dayo), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 16:23 (twelve years ago) link
Someone wake me up when MIB places.
― Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, 14 February 2012 16:23 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MTTSxrbpyY
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 14 February 2012 16:24 (twelve years ago) link
kinda h8 the Fugitive anyway. Probably due to it being one of my dad's favourite movies and having to watch it a million times
― Number None, Tuesday, 14 February 2012 16:24 (twelve years ago) link
Oh look, a bunch of movies I've never seen. And demolition man, which is a hoot.
― a hoy hoy, Tuesday, 14 February 2012 16:25 (twelve years ago) link
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CASINO ROYALE
Martin Campbell2006United Kingdom(205 points, 8 votes)
saw this last night.thought it was a brilliant action flick. probably my favorite straight-up action film (not that there are many anymore) since bourne identity.
craig was just fantastic i thought, kept enough of what i liked about old bond films but dispensing with all the ho-ho-ho smarmy smug shit.
the opening action sequence was pretty breathtaking i thought.
yeah, overall, way better than i had hoped.
― M@tt He1geson: Sassy and I Don't Care Who Knows It (Matt Helgeson)
I'm impressed with the range of actors they got in, even if the roles were at points thankless. Giancarlo Giannini as Mathis, Isaach de Bankole is Obanno (the African armed group leader), Jesper Christensen as Mr. White...not quite the ensemble group dynamic of From Russia With Love but still.
Mads Mikkelsen did pretty well as Le Chiffre precisely because of two factors in the script rather than his own pretty good performance: 1) no time wasted on his backstory, 2) carrying over from the book the fact that he's as much under severe pressure as 'in charge.'
― Ned Raggett (Ned)
the getting ready scene in the hotel bathroom, before the big game, may have been my favorite - vesper looking even more gorgeous without her makeup, preparing to fix her face in the mirror, and telling bond, via the mirror, after he's feigned dignified outrage that she's had the temerity to buy a dinner jacket FOR him - "there are dinner jackets and then there are dinner jackets - and this is the latter" and "i'd sized you up the moment i laid eyes on you" - phewEE! and capped with the luxuriously long take of bond trying it on, and looking at HIMself in the mirror, and loving what he sees (shades of the boy who did not come from money, learning how to "pass")
and the equally generous shot just after, of vesper looking at herself in the mirror with an unexplained weariness, trying to rise above her burgeoning interest in this thug, knowing more specifically than bond the way that it would all end badly
― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand)
New James Bond = Daniel Craig.
― omar little, Tuesday, 14 February 2012 16:25 (twelve years ago) link
I would watch this movie
― I spend a lot of time thinking about apricots (DJP), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 16:25 (twelve years ago) link
too long
― the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 16:25 (twelve years ago) link
I liked Casino Royale a lot. The one after it is utterly incoherent, though.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 14 February 2012 16:26 (twelve years ago) link
casino royale sucks
― a hoy hoy, Tuesday, 14 February 2012 16:26 (twelve years ago) link
ya quantum of solace was sooooo bad
― the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 16:26 (twelve years ago) link
CR gets points for the introduction of the seatless ball-slapping torture chair.
wasnt the bad guy in quantum trying to do something really mundane like control water rights in bolivia or something?
― the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 16:27 (twelve years ago) link
Casino Royale is amazing
Quantam of Solace is very silly but I enjoyed it
― I spend a lot of time thinking about apricots (DJP), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 16:27 (twelve years ago) link
it beat goldfinger proving you guys h8 bond
― a hoy hoy, Tuesday, 14 February 2012 16:27 (twelve years ago) link
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, February 14, 2012 11:26 AM (2 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
that was in the book too and i remember wondering whether it'd be in the movie and then when i saw the dude cutting out the bottom of the chair i nearly fainted
all bonds kinda look alike to me. i mean i would watch any of them if i was bored and had nothing to do. but picking favorites is too much work.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 14 February 2012 16:28 (twelve years ago) link
i actually liked remington steele bonds too. i like them all kinda.
Tracer's dissection of that scene in CR is really brilliant. As was Drew Daniel's takedown of Sin City up-thread. Both of you, thank you.
― one little aioli (Laurel), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 16:29 (twelve years ago) link
I don't know why I didn't consider The Fugitive. It maintained high-tension throughout with some good wise-cracks, and a great pairing of likely and unlikely hero types matching wits.
― Unleash the Chang (he did what!) (Austerity Ponies), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 16:29 (twelve years ago) link
i gave casino royale 34 points and i could've spared some more. i think its the 2nd best bond movie ever, with a thin margin b/w 1st and 2nd. craig & green have awesome chemistry, the action is inventive & exciting and superbly staged, its just a fuckin ownage movie. im a lifelong bond fan so i probably dig it more than i would if i was just appreciating it as a good action picture, but fuck, i think its great on its own merits
― RudolfHitlerFtw (Hungry4Ass), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 16:29 (twelve years ago) link
I'm not a big fan but Casino Royale is quite distinct from the previous ones
― Number None, Tuesday, 14 February 2012 16:29 (twelve years ago) link
(in that it's largely a Bourne rip-off)
― Number None, Tuesday, 14 February 2012 16:30 (twelve years ago) link
i did not like either of the new bonds because they were not funny
― "renegade" gnome (remy bean), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 16:30 (twelve years ago) link