its like speed on boats
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 15 February 2012 19:08 (twelve years ago) link
speed 2's set on a runaway cruise ship iirc
― RudolfHitlerFtw (Hungry4Ass), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 19:08 (twelve years ago) link
SPEED 2 was all boat! Going slowly, yet somehow... fast!
― (thinks and smiles) (DJP), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 19:09 (twelve years ago) link
but not speed boats if u follow
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 15 February 2012 19:09 (twelve years ago) link
lol
― RudolfHitlerFtw (Hungry4Ass), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 19:09 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncR2_pnzngM
― ⚓ (gr8080), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 19:09 (twelve years ago) link
Speed 2:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avaSdC0QOUM&ob=av3e
― Unleash the Chang (he did what!) (Austerity Ponies), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 19:11 (twelve years ago) link
granted it's just a clip, but what snoball posted reminds me why I didn't like alien resurrection, it's like french directors think sci-fi style requires campy bad acting and dumb joeks
not a big besson fan in general, le femme nikita was good but I don't think I've liked anything else he's done, also had no idea he bothered to direct 2 sequels to arthur & the invisibles
― I GUESS THAT CINNABON GETTIN EATEN (Edward III), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 19:13 (twelve years ago) link
Speed2 short version:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8T095mFdW8
― max buzzword (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 19:13 (twelve years ago) link
Who are those guys? I keep seeing stupid videos with them in it. xxp
― getting good with gulags (beachville), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 19:13 (twelve years ago) link
dunno if it will place (hope so!) but the conan the bargarian comments are similarly amazing
― Critique of Pure Moods (goole), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 19:14 (twelve years ago) link
er commentary track
― Critique of Pure Moods (goole), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 19:15 (twelve years ago) link
conan the bulgarian
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 15 February 2012 19:16 (twelve years ago) link
conan the bargain hunter
― max buzzword (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 19:16 (twelve years ago) link
omg I am dying at the Arnold commentary. Literally anything that mans says is funny but especially when he's just telling you exactly what's happening in the scene play-by-play.
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 19:17 (twelve years ago) link
lol whoops
― Critique of Pure Moods (goole), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 19:17 (twelve years ago) link
― lag∞n, Wednesday, February 15, 2012 2:16 PM (59 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Would watch.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86-vveE9DI4
the fact that you corrected "comments" is what's really killing me
― (thinks and smiles) (DJP), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 19:18 (twelve years ago) link
This is me Arnold S. This is me on the screen here, riding towards the camera.
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 19:18 (twelve years ago) link
omg THANK YOU GOOLE
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 19:19 (twelve years ago) link
Oh shit, why didn't I vote Conan? Also, I see that Point Break is not on my list. Let's delete this thread and start over.
― Unleash the Chang (he did what!) (Austerity Ponies), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 19:19 (twelve years ago) link
"I was getting laid a lot in this movie. It was amazing."
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 19:21 (twelve years ago) link
he sounds like hes on pills in the conan track
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 15 February 2012 19:22 (twelve years ago) link
I never saw Conan. I tried to read one of the books at some point (there were like a million of them, right?) and it was so rapey and snuff-filmy and awful that I never looked back. Although it occurs to me now that maybe it was a Conan imitation series trying to cash in but being worse than the original. Anyway. Too bad. Couldn't deal.
― one little aioli (Laurel), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 19:22 (twelve years ago) link
i saw conan a few times when i was a kid, feeling like maybe i need to rescreen
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 15 February 2012 19:23 (twelve years ago) link
it's a great movie. i could talk about it forever. will wait to see if it even places tho!
― Critique of Pure Moods (goole), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 19:24 (twelve years ago) link
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v212/etienne_saint/lesammm.png
LE SAMOURAI
Jean-Pierre Melville1967France(284 points, 9 votes)
see Le Samourai, but be prepared to be slightly dissapointed. At least i was. I dont mind it being all about style, but the style wasnt too interesting or imaginative to me. I cant think of any reason why that film is admired more than, for a random noir example, "Out of the Past." but i need to see it again.
Melville's films seem to portray a 15 year old's sense of "existential cool" (as the critics say) but i find them a little shallow. as draining a standard noir story of all incident or action somehow makes it philosophical? i dont know, maybe it does.
― ryan (ryan)
just don't think JPM is at his best with Army of Shadows, he does the existential gang thing best, and I like that when it's most stylized (hence, LE Samourai).
― Dr Morbius
― omar little, Wednesday, 15 February 2012 19:24 (twelve years ago) link
yeah there are a million Conan books. some of the comics are allright. but yeah it's pretty heavy on the misogyny/racism/ultraviolence
xp
― max buzzword (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 19:24 (twelve years ago) link
I watched conan for the first time a few years ago and loved it.
― Unleash the Chang (he did what!) (Austerity Ponies), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 19:24 (twelve years ago) link
Conan is fucking amazing
― (thinks and smiles) (DJP), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 19:26 (twelve years ago) link
Conan has a giant bowl of soup with human body parts in it. Does Yojimbo have that? Does Citizen Kane? I don't think so.
― The Large Hardon Collider (Phil D.), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 19:27 (twelve years ago) link
I'm actually asking, I don't know if they do or not.
― The Large Hardon Collider (Phil D.), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 19:28 (twelve years ago) link
ilxors, tell me about le samourai
― Unleash the Chang (he did what!) (Austerity Ponies), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 19:28 (twelve years ago) link
Yojimbo has a dog with a human hand
... for a head?
― (thinks and smiles) (DJP), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 19:29 (twelve years ago) link
Throw that in a pot with some vegetables, you got a stew!
― The Large Hardon Collider (Phil D.), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 19:29 (twelve years ago) link
but yeah it's pretty heavy on the misogyny/racism/ultraviolence
Seriously there was implied tentacle rape ending with the victim's murder at the hands of a subterranean monster. But it's not really rape because she liked it. At least up until the murder. I was like, this is writing?
― one little aioli (Laurel), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 19:32 (twelve years ago) link
Le Samurai is one of my favourite films of all time, but I thought of it when Tuomas said an action film is a film that uses action to resolve plot (or w/e) and I was going to say, really? Because Le Samurai is p much about inaction, invisibility, until he decides/is forced to take action, which brings about the end of the film. Action resolves it but you wouldn't call that an action film, surely.
(Feel the same way about this as Get Carter - love it, but not an action film.)
Well ok, but the metro chase scene is amazing.
― The Winged Devil Ape (Fizzles), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 19:32 (twelve years ago) link
havent seen le samourai in a really long time, barely remember
― RudolfHitlerFtw (Hungry4Ass), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 19:32 (twelve years ago) link
Is that the one where he lives in a hovel with a bird?
― one little aioli (Laurel), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 19:33 (twelve years ago) link
The original Howard Conan books were pretty tight, I was surprised to discover. I mean, they're pretty much what you would expect, but they're well done and straightforward. Kinda reminded me of, like, Barbarian Bourne. Man as pure expression of will, drilling his way through all obstacles. Pretty effing fascist, I guess. Ha.
― SNEEZED GOING DOWN STEPS, PAIN WHEN PUTTING SOCKS ON (Deric W. Haircare), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 19:33 (twelve years ago) link
this exact same scene happens in the movie "Forbidden World" (aka "Mutant")
― (thinks and smiles) (DJP), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 19:33 (twelve years ago) link
le samourai an example where action/thriller line getting blurred
― I GUESS THAT CINNABON GETTIN EATEN (Edward III), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 19:34 (twelve years ago) link
Amazing existential film noir, where motives are completely obscure and can only be inferred by the action that Jeff (is it? Delon anyway) eventually takes. Full of coded ambiguous decisions and looks, and as a consequence the viewer is kept in a perpetual state of uncertainty. Great grey-green Paris.
― The Winged Devil Ape (Fizzles), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 19:34 (twelve years ago) link
the o.g. conan books are kind of energetic and fun but you can tell they were written in the 30s, a bit creaky and impolitic, yes.
(speaking of which, has anybody on earth seen the biopic of robert e howard??
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118163/
vincent d'onofrio and renee zellweger)
(this is my last derail i promise)
― Critique of Pure Moods (goole), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 19:35 (twelve years ago) link
late to thread but here's Alex Cox on seeing The Wild Bunch as a kidin Liverpool (he was sneaked in by masons!)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2_JRTwP4J0
― piscesx, Wednesday, 15 February 2012 19:36 (twelve years ago) link
jesus christ i just almost downloaded the 2011 conan
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 15 February 2012 19:37 (twelve years ago) link
i saw it a long ass time ago goole. i liked it but i was like 12 or something
― RudolfHitlerFtw (Hungry4Ass), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 19:37 (twelve years ago) link
Yes. Inaction movie is bang on
― Number None, Wednesday, 15 February 2012 19:38 (twelve years ago) link