What are you watching?

[Newt Cox Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Newt Cox]

The Righteous Gemstones season 1-We watched first half of the season last night and damn another great HBO series from McBride.

[Nabonga Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Nabonga]

Wrath Of Man
Predictable (the traitor on the inside is exactly who you think it is) but dependably
entertaining Statham mayhem. A lot of the dialogue is cringy and they did Josh Hartnett
wrong but besides that it was very enjoyable. People shit on Scott Eastwood but I like him
and thought he was good here. Refreshing to see something largely agenda free too, which
sadly is an increasing rarity.

[Dom D Spoon! Find all posts View Profile Close Dom D]

Roadracers. Rodriguez's second and probably my second favourite of his after Desperado. Its a little bit Happy Days-ish but theres a good dose of violence at the end to give it some heft. David Arguette, with a head of full of brill cream, plays the coolest rebel without a cause since the first one. Thematically it has a very clear head, Selma's ridiculously hot as you'd expect andt here's a lot of Body Snatchers talk. One of the better made for TV movies ever in my book.

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Roadracers. Rodriguez's second and probably my second favourite of his after Desperado. Its a little bit Happy Days-ish but theres a good dose of violence at the end to give it some heft. David Arguette, with a head of full of brill cream, plays the coolest rebel without a cause since the first one. Thematically it has a very clear head, Selma's ridiculously hot as you'd expect andt here's a lot of Body Snatchers talk. One of the better made for TV movies ever in my book.

Certainly the best in that series, although Milius' Motorcycle Gang is a decent Straw Dogs variation.

[Matt H. Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Matt H.]

ROADRACERS is awesome, but my favourite from that series is RUNAWAY DAUGHTERS.

[Dom D Spoon! Find all posts View Profile Close Dom D]

ROADRACERS is awesome, but my favourite from that series is RUNAWAY DAUGHTERS.

Series? I thought Roadracers was a one off. What's the story here?

[agent999 Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close agent999]

Series? I thought Roadracers was a one off. What's the story here?

It was a series of remakes of AIP films called Rebel Highway.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebel_Highway

[Matt H. Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Matt H.]

Series? I thought Roadracers was a one off. What's the story here?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebel_Highway

[Matt H. Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Matt H.]

Somebody should really release a boxset of the whole thing.

[Dom D Spoon! Find all posts View Profile Close Dom D]

Cool! That's an impressive group of directors they got for it. I shall have to track down Runaway Daughter. I'm surprised I haven't come across it before given Dantes behind the camera. Love Dante.

[Matt H. Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Matt H.]

Cool! That's an impressive group of directors they got for it. I shall have to track down Runaway Daughter. I'm surprised I haven't come across it before given Dantes behind the camera. Love Dante.

It makes a good double feature with MATINEE.

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Bond, part 2

Live and Let Die (UK, 1974) [VoD] - 3/5
A wonderfully odd blaxploitation adventure, with the very white Moore as its hero. The dialogue is some of the wittiest in the series, and the boat chase a definite highpoint. But it must be admitted this is a bit half-baked filmmaking at times, and tends to lose its grip between its best scenes.

The Man with the Golden Gun (UK, 1974) [VoD] - 3.5/5
Under-rated entry with a fantastic score and theme song, solid Hong Kong and Thai location work, and a pair of fighting school girls (for those who prefer grown-ups, there's Maud Adams and Bitt Ekland). Christopher Lee makes one of the best Bond villains with his sheer charisma, even if the character itself is a bit of a small-timer among Bond baddies.

The Spy who Loved Me (UK, 1977) [VoD] -3.5/5
This is probably Moore's most competently made Bond, with just the right balance between humour and seriousness. Only if the villain wasn't one of the most forgettable one in the series, and the ending so obviously You Only Live Twice on sea.

Moonraker (UK, 1979) [VoD] - 3/5
A childhood favourite that hasn't aged too well. There's 90 minutes of goofy, childish gags mixed with some atmospheric and exhilarating moments before Bond goes to space. Surprisingly enough, that's when it gets much better with solid space action, a superb Barry score and excellent special effects.

For Your Eyes Only (UK, 1981) [BD] - 4/5
This one has almost no storyline, but it's so stacked full of insane action sequences you'll forgive it. The ski and the car chases rank among the best ever filmed. Bill Conti's score delivers big time, and there's an excellent piece of supporting casting with Topol (less so with blond airhead Lynn-Holly Johnson). The more serious tone is welcome as well. Oh, and there are not one but two nipple slips!

Octopussy (UK, 1983) [VoD] - 3/5
A popular entry, but never been among my favourites. Opening and closing aside the action is forgettable, and the casting nothing special, even if Louis Jourdan's acting is good. But it's still an entertaining-enough film to just about deserve a 3 star rating. This film suffered the slightest form of censorship in the cold war era Finland: the line “the hero of the Soviet Union” was left unsubtitled.

A View to a Kill (UK, 1985) [VoD] - 3/5
Moore's last Bond: good but very uneven. There's a solid second half once we get past the horse breeding nonsense. Lots of good action even if it's a stunt double mug-shot galore (Moore is barely present in most action scenes). Walken and Jones make good villains, and there's Dolph doing 30 seconds as a KGB man. Tanya Roberts in turn is completely useless, doesn't even manage a nipple slip. A tad under-rated overall.

[Spaghetti Monkey Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Spaghetti Monkey]

Somebody should really release a boxset of the whole thing.

I've never seen a one of these. But i would buy a boxset in a heartbeat.

Watched the goofy fun that is GWENDOLINE last night for Tawny. Kind'a weird losing both her and Tanya Roberts so close together.

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Q&A - Absolutely riveting police drama from Sidney Lumet. The dialogue is brutal and filled with racial and homophobic slurs, but it serves the story and it's refreshingly not sugar-coated at all. I've never seen a more intimidating performance from Nick Nolte - he's a beast in this! At one point he literally tears a guy's shirt right off his chest just for talking back to him. Insane. Every actor is at their best, with Armand Assante, Luis Guzman and Lee Richardson being particular standouts. And Nolte. I can't stress enough how fucking awesome he is in this.

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This topic is about what we watch. I really like good, good movies. I recently read that a new version of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is coming out. I don't think the Johnny Depp version can be beaten ^_^