Book of Eli - Denzel Washington - took two attempts to watch it all the way through - a bit of a duff Mad Max type film. Watchable. 4/10

 

Green Zone - Matt Damon - enjoyed it, always like films based out in Middle East, etc. 7/10

 

Planet 51 - was enjoying it til I nodded off, kids liked it - must be good. 6/10

 

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs - see above - 6/10

 

Good Will Hunting - Matt Damon/Robin Williams - look, there was fook all else on this Saturday just gone, never seen it before - quite enjoyed - the scene were Robin Williams was going on about his late wife farting in bed had me in tears - half decent. Oh, and Minnie Driver looked far better than I can ever remember. 7/10

 

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - its Swedish so no famous actors/actresses - great thriller - didn't bother me that it was in subtitles great revenge scene on the pervy Probation Officer- looking forward to the 2nd in the trilogy in the next week or so - well worth the watch and highly recommended. 9/10

 

That's me, Jonathan Woss, over and out.

just watching  Blazeing Saddles 

On 26/08/2021 at 15:30, little whitt said:

just watching  Blazeing Saddles 

Which channel has snuck that onto their schedule?

1 hour ago, DavidLeesMullet said:

Which channel has snuck that onto their schedule?

some US one 

1st time ive seen it all way through 

Just now, little whitt said:

some US one 

1st time ive seen it all way through 

Was it uncut and uncensored?, In this day and age I'd doubt it.

For me along with Airplane, The Naked Gun, The Producers etc, one of THE funniest films ever made.

4 minutes ago, DavidLeesMullet said:

Was it uncut and uncensored?, In this day and age I'd doubt it.

For me along with Airplane, The Naked Gun, The Producers etc, one of THE funniest films ever made.

yes was N this and N that 

Bullitt. Best ever car chase; coolest actor of all time; ace cars; ace clothes (Johnny Ross in the hotel foyer - smooth as fuck); Jacqueline Bisset in her prime. What's not to like?

Was on TCM.

8 hours ago, bolty58 said:

Bullitt. Best ever car chase; coolest actor of all time; ace cars; ace clothes (Johnny Ross in the hotel foyer - smooth as fuck); Jacqueline Bisset in her prime. What's not to like?

Was on TCM.

As for best ever car chase Bullitt is good but in my opinion THE best was the original 1974 version of Gone In 60 Seconds

Watched Dirty Harry on TV last night and was annoyed that it was cut to pieces for political correctness reasons, apparently Scorpio wanted to kill just a Catholic priest according to his note and Fatso didn't mention the fact that Harry was an equal opportunity hater.

Watched Kingdom Ashin Of The North the other day, really enjoyed it. You need to have watched the Kingdom series though and you'd need to be a zombie fan to do that.

Scorpio also only wanted 'every last penny's worth'...

Which made the 'this is on the house' kick look like the act of a sadist.

The thing is the original dialogue displayed that the villain was a complete cunt, and the hero, for all his outer machismo, was in reality a good bloke.

I was surprised the strip bar scenes survived the cut.

Edited August 29, 20214 yr by Youri McAnespie

1 hour ago, DavidLeesMullet said:

As for best ever car chase Bullitt is good but in my opinion THE best was the original 1974 version of Gone In 60 Seconds

Nope. Best car chase is in Ronin.

18 minutes ago, Youri McAnespie said:

Scorpio also only wanted 'every last penny's worth'...

Which made the 'this is on the house' kick look like the act of a sadist.

The thing is the original dialogue displayed that the villain was a complete cunt, and the hero, for all his outer machismo, was in reality a good bloke.

I was surprised the strip bar scenes survived the cut.

Scorpio may have been a cunt but what a cunt, people are still talking about Andy Robinson's brilliant performance 50 years after the movie was made.

The next major film he starred in is worth checking out too, Charley Varrick, where he and Walter Matthau rob a bank that holds money belonging to the mob

Edited August 29, 20214 yr by DavidLeesMullet

Just now, DazBob said:

Nope. Best car chase is in Ronin.

Good shout, years since I've seen that film though. The Blues Brothers had a decent car chase in it too and at the time I think it was the most expensive and destructive ever filmed.

I vaguely remember that, does Mattheu work as a crop sprayer or sommat?

I remember he donned an old man disguise for one of their blags iirc.

Just now, Youri McAnespie said:

I vaguely remember that, does Mattheu work as a crop sprayer or sommat?

I remember he donned an old man disguise for one of their blags iirc.

That's the one, rarely gets shown on TV anymore sadly.

I don't remember anything controversial in it...

I'd rather they simply didn't show stuff than butcher them like with Dirty Harry last night.

17 minutes ago, DazBob said:

Nope. Best car chase is in Ronin.

Agreed. French Connection was pretty good too.

It's just one of those films that only gets shown every so often, like Thunderbolt And Lightfoot, Dirty Mary Crazy Larry, Vanishing Point, Point Blank, Prime Cut etc, nothing really controversial about any of them

11 minutes ago, Youri McAnespie said:

I don't remember anything controversial in it...

I'd rather they simply didn't show stuff than butcher them like with Dirty Harry last night.

Enter The Dragon shown afterwards looked pretty much untouched, even including the flashback confrontation between the two cops and Williams

Edited August 29, 20214 yr by DavidLeesMullet

Just seen The Matrix, actually a decent enough watch.

6 hours ago, ErnestTurnip said:

Just seen The Matrix, actually a decent enough watch.

Leave it there 

Under no circumstances watch 2 or 3

Was going to ask the question so you've saved me 4 hours there 👍

13 hours ago, DavidLeesMullet said:

As for best ever car chase Bullitt is good but in my opinion THE best was the original 1974 version of Gone In 60 Seconds

Fair enough. All about opinions. I also make allowances for the actual cars being used. Bullitt and your suggestion win hands down on that score. Mercs and Audis? Naaah.

Should have posted this in the "Films I have watched recently" thread - not this one.

12 hours ago, Zico said:

Leave it there 

Under no circumstances watch 2 or 3

Really really didn’t need a sequel it ended perfectly 

Only good thing about the second one was the 15 minute car chase 

I have no fuckin idea what the third one was about 

2 hours ago, Rudy said:

Really really didn’t need a sequel it ended perfectly 

Only good thing about the second one was the 15 minute car chase 

I have no fuckin idea what the third one was about 

Don't ask the directors FFS