Fwiw, I didn't like The Raid.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 4 September 2013 17:02 (ten years ago) link
u get the side eye
― One burly voice screamed and that was one of many. (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 4 September 2013 17:02 (ten years ago) link
Dredd made me want to see Trespass again. and every movie where people have to shoot their way out of a building.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 4 September 2013 17:03 (ten years ago) link
It kind of made me want to see Lockout again.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 4 September 2013 17:16 (ten years ago) link
Parker is streaming now. #Statham4ever
― scott seward, Wednesday, 4 September 2013 17:17 (ten years ago) link
Parker was a fine action film but didn't feel much like a Parker film, if you know what i mean.The opening heist scene is cool but there were several things later in the film that seemed wrong to me.
― ian, Wednesday, 4 September 2013 17:25 (ten years ago) link
Something about Statham to me seems like he should be right for that role, but isn't? But I still haven't seen it.
― Nhex, Wednesday, 4 September 2013 17:48 (ten years ago) link
haven't seen the parker movie but it seems like while statham has the right face and attitude for the character, he's maybe not big enough? parker is always described as huge and hulking while statham seems like he might be short.
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 4 September 2013 17:56 (ten years ago) link
Hooboy, by that criteria you'd better avoid Jack Reacher.
― bad bad disco (Eazy), Wednesday, 4 September 2013 17:59 (ten years ago) link
i don't mind non-hulking action guys and i like statham. it's just that parker is supposed to be BIG and SCARY.
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 4 September 2013 18:00 (ten years ago) link
it could be that Statham is such a known commodity now it's hard to take him seriously enough. (and I am a fan! but he will never top Crank)
― Nhex, Wednesday, 4 September 2013 18:13 (ten years ago) link
would have preferred statham as reacher, that's for sure. maybe too young though. kinda hard to tell how old statham is though. neeson in top form would have been perfect reacher. yeah, he's not perfect in parker. his americanisms are way off, but i didn't care, it was fun enough.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 4 September 2013 18:34 (ten years ago) link
i said it before and i'll say it again, other than neeson, the governor would have been PERFECT reacher.
http://wac.450f.edgecastcdn.net/80450F/screencrush.com/files/2012/11/The-Walking-Dead-the-walking-dead-32297713-1600-1200.jpg
― scott seward, Wednesday, 4 September 2013 18:36 (ten years ago) link
dude has the ex-military bearing, the bulk and height, and he looks like he could snap you in two. and he looks like he doesn't have a problem being really quiet for weeks at a time.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 4 September 2013 18:38 (ten years ago) link
when i read parker books i vacillate between picture him as lee marvin à la point blank and, for some reason, burt lancaster
― socki (s1ocki), Wednesday, 4 September 2013 19:09 (ten years ago) link
hey u guys, movies have never been beholden to physical attributes in a novel. Rooster Cogburn is sposed to look like Grover Cleveland.
― Miss Arlington twirls for the Coal Heavers (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 4 September 2013 19:12 (ten years ago) link
that would have just confused people
― socki (s1ocki), Wednesday, 4 September 2013 19:13 (ten years ago) link
i'm going off the previous movies and comics tbh, not even the original book
― Nhex, Wednesday, 4 September 2013 19:21 (ten years ago) link
I'd already seen Point Blank and Payback when I read the first Parker novels, but in my head he looked like a 30-something Robert Mitchum.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Wednesday, 4 September 2013 19:25 (ten years ago) link
Croupier-era Clive Owen would work, if he were less cool.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Wednesday, 4 September 2013 19:27 (ten years ago) link
Yeah, you all tell Statham he is too small.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 4 September 2013 20:50 (ten years ago) link
the physical stuff about statham in the parker movie doesn't bother me. nor even his acting, particularly. but the writers make him do things that parker just wldn't do, imo. especially in the final scene wherein he breaks into an office guns blazing to off some baddies -- parker is much more subtle than that, and prefers to avoid killing ppl.
― ian, Wednesday, 4 September 2013 23:44 (ten years ago) link
Hitchcock's Frenzy, apparently
(warning: maybe his most graphic and disturbing film)
― Miss Arlington twirls for the Coal Heavers (Dr Morbius), Friday, 6 September 2013 18:09 (ten years ago) link
Thankfully broke the surprisingly dull losing streak of the previous three movies. Is that the only Hitchcock up right now?
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 6 September 2013 18:13 (ten years ago) link
they used to have some UK-era hitchcock, don't know if that's still the case
― congratulations (n/a), Friday, 6 September 2013 18:15 (ten years ago) link
dull losing streak of the previous three two movies
― midnight outdoor nude frolic up north goes south (Eric H.), Friday, 6 September 2013 18:29 (ten years ago) link
don't be dissin' Marnie, JiC
xp!
― Miss Arlington twirls for the Coal Heavers (Dr Morbius), Friday, 6 September 2013 18:32 (ten years ago) link
Yeah, Marnie is pretty good.
― I Am the Cosimo Code (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 6 September 2013 18:34 (ten years ago) link
Y'all be lovin' "Marnie." That's cool. But for sure it's a drop-off of his, say, '51-'63 streak, no? Either way, man, this director had an impressively fruitful output, in several prolonged bursts.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 6 September 2013 18:46 (ten years ago) link
I'd take it over at least half the films in that "streak." (Which actually starts in '46. Or '43. Or '40.)
― Miss Arlington twirls for the Coal Heavers (Dr Morbius), Friday, 6 September 2013 18:48 (ten years ago) link
Hitchcock does "The Streak."
― midnight outdoor nude frolic up north goes south (Eric H.), Friday, 6 September 2013 19:08 (ten years ago) link
You'd take "Marnie" over half of these?
Strangers on a Train (1951)I Confess (1953)Dial M for Murder (1954)Rear Window (1954)To Catch a Thief (1955)The Trouble with Harry (1955)The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)The Wrong Man (1956)Vertigo (1958)North by Northwest (1959)Psycho (1960)The Birds (1963)
There are four I'm not so hot on but the rest are pretty unimpeachable.
I think this is another streak:
Rebecca (1940)Foreign Correspondent (1940)Mr. & Mrs. Smith (1941)Suspicion (1941)Saboteur (1942)Shadow of a Doubt (1943)Lifeboat (1944)Spellbound (1945)Notorious (1946)
I didn't want to consider 40-63 a streak because in between the above comes The Paradine Case (1947) Rope (1948) Under Capricorn (1949) and Stage Fright (1950), which I consider less than what came before or after. Obviously those "lesser" films all have a lot going for them!
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 6 September 2013 19:13 (ten years ago) link
The only ones in the first group I'm SURE are better than Marnie are Rear Window and the last four (except I'm wobbly about The Birds).
But anyway, Frenzy is as perverse and bleak as a prime Bunuel, even.
― Miss Arlington twirls for the Coal Heavers (Dr Morbius), Friday, 6 September 2013 19:33 (ten years ago) link
how can you be wobbly about the birds? its the birds!! i got kinda unconditional love for that movie though. could probably watch it once a week.
― scott seward, Friday, 6 September 2013 19:52 (ten years ago) link
oh hey wow i get to watch To The Wonder on streaming netflix now. i'll break out the good weed.
― scott seward, Friday, 6 September 2013 19:53 (ten years ago) link
i still can't bring myself to watch there will be blood. its 4 hours long, right? and there are tons of brimstone preacher scenes? i hate that shit. unless its elmer gantry or a face in the crowd or night of the hunter.
― scott seward, Friday, 6 September 2013 19:56 (ten years ago) link
if you end up not liking the brimstone preacher, then the movie will do things for you eventually
― space is deep (mh), Friday, 6 September 2013 20:18 (ten years ago) link
re: Hitchcock streaming, North by Northwest is on Amazon Prime
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Friday, 6 September 2013 20:26 (ten years ago) link
There Will Be Blood
I'm never watching it.
― Tottenham Heelspur (in orbit), Friday, 6 September 2013 20:27 (ten years ago) link
why not?
― Moodles, Friday, 6 September 2013 20:29 (ten years ago) link
btw it's a misnomer there's never really any blood
― space is deep (mh), Friday, 6 September 2013 20:31 (ten years ago) link
a few milkshakes, though
― space is deep (mh), Friday, 6 September 2013 20:32 (ten years ago) link
more like bloodshakes
― Moodles, Friday, 6 September 2013 20:32 (ten years ago) link
i thought it was pretty good
― no fomo (La Lechera), Friday, 6 September 2013 20:38 (ten years ago) link
it is not 4 hours long
turn it off 20 mins before the end
― Miss Arlington twirls for the Coal Heavers (Dr Morbius), Friday, 6 September 2013 21:09 (ten years ago) link
I think "There Will Be Blood" is incredible, even the ending. There are much harder movies to watch. Certainly if you like "Night of the Hunter" you'll dig this one.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 6 September 2013 21:11 (ten years ago) link
it's also pretty humorous, nowhere near as dry as some ppl might lead you to believe
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 6 September 2013 21:13 (ten years ago) link
marnie's my fave non-cary grant hitchcock
― balls, Friday, 6 September 2013 21:14 (ten years ago) link
I'm totally going to revisit Marnie!
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 6 September 2013 21:20 (ten years ago) link
marnie is great, there will be blood is "fine" but definitely a movie i have 0 interest in seeing a second time.
― ian, Friday, 6 September 2013 21:25 (ten years ago) link