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[20th Century Boy]

Anyone else leave a few off your own list and add to your Christmas for others to get ya?

[20th Century Boy]

Originally Posted by Bates_Motel

It's funny, its one of his only films that seems to work on all cylinders for me. Probably because, for once, he had a coherent script from a great writer. Most of his films feel like a few "cool" sequences strung together by nothing. But I love Untouchables.

Even the music? I just can't fathom it.

The whole movie looks like a high school play to me. I'm not gonna go into it because it's probably moot to all sides, I thought I was gonna love it. The opposite happened. Just my own tastes I guess.

[20th Century Boy]

Originally Posted by SeanJoyce

Funny, I could see opponents of De Palma using The Untouchables as the most damning example of that criticism (bridge, train station.)

I too like The Untouchables but Costner's awfulness and the ending's hokiness bring it down several notches for me. And while I love De Niro and appreciate the lengths he went to for Capone (enlisting Capone's tailors for his suits), I'll always wish we got Hoskins as originally intended.

This and the music are the main culprits for me.

[20th Century Boy]

Originally Posted by ShellOilJunior

They are up early. An exciting month!


#912 House Party 3

Stop playing games with my heart.

[20th Century Boy]

Originally Posted by BagheeraMcGee

I always thought Oliver Stone's run from 1985-1999 was impressive:

[B]
Talk Radio (when is this coming to Blu-ray?)

Have always wanted to see this. Is it in right hell or what?

[MassiveMovieBuff]

Originally Posted by BarnDoor

Many say the 80s offered the best action flicks, and while I love them too, for me the early 90s was a special period, largely for the reasons outlined in the above posts. On top of those, there's the sublime Hard Target, Chuck had one of his best in The Hitman, and we also had the likes of Ricochet, Fifty/Fifty, The Taking of Beverly Hills and even Excessive Force. And that's just the tip of the iceberg.

It kills me that we may never get the criminally underrated Ricochet on blu ray.

[20th Century Boy]

Originally Posted by MifuneFan

I think you missed the part where he said Kurosawa made masterpieces. I like Miike, but dude, didn't make 20 straight top tier films. And saying he along with Kurosawa are the "legit" leaders of J-cinema makes your whole post seem like a joke (was it?). I would easily put Ozu, Mizoguchi, Miyazaki, Oshima, Imamura, Naruse, Kobayashi, Ichikawa, Suzuki, and many others above Miike.

I knew someone was gonna say this. Not gonna take the bait in this thread but I'm more than happy to elsewhere. No one touches Miike's creativity. Not by a long shot. Given the resources he had I disagree with your assessment whole heartedly.

P.S. and don't straw man me by insinuating that I dismissed the other directors you've named. I'm probably the biggest frothing fan of Suzuki in the forums among the others you've listed.

[BagheeraMcGee]

Originally Posted by SeanJoyce

Funny, I could see opponents of De Palma using The Untouchables as the most damning example of that criticism (bridge, train station.)

I too like The Untouchables but Costner's awfulness and the ending's hokiness bring it down several notches for me. And while I love De Niro and appreciate the lengths he went to for Capone (enlisting Capone's tailors for his suits), I'll always wish we got Hoskins as originally intended.

I didn't think he was awful, but he did get blown off the screen by pretty much every other major actor in that film (Connery, DeNiro, even Andy Garcia and Charles Martin Smith in their supporting roles, etc.). Oddly enough, No Way Out came out two months after The Untouchables in the summer of 1987, and I was wondering, "what happened?" He went from getting upstaged by damn near everyone in The Untouchables to going toe-to-toe extremely well with both Gene Hackman and Will Patton (who basically stole the movie and should've been nominated for an Oscar).

[Reddington]

Amidst all this Hitchcock talk, the postman has just delivered a DVD copy of Under Capricorn I ordered from Amazon in France. I'd only ever seen it once before via a pretty rough copy on YouTube, and didn't know until recently that it had received an official home video release anywhere. Of course, Criterion will announce the BD a little later today...

Interestingly, it includes a 30-minute supplement with Claude Chabrol reminiscing about Hitchcock.

[PipesDonatello]

To me, the trifecta of over the top, brainless action movies is Road House, Stone Cold and Hard Target. It would be perfect if Lance Henriksen also played Brad Wesley on top of playing the lead villain in the other two movies.

[20th Century Boy]

Originally Posted by Nicolawicz

All of David Lynch's films are great (except Inland Empire).

And Dune.

Inland Empire had a sensational ending though. Total slog to get there though.

[BagheeraMcGee]

Originally Posted by 20th Century Boy

Have always wanted to see this. Is it in right hell or what?

Talk Radio is great. Still timely to this day. I would've loved to have seen Eric Bogosian perform it on stage (or for that matter Liev Schreiber, who starred in the play in a later run).

[theater dreamer]

Is the sky blue? 😝

Originally Posted by 20th Century Boy

Anyone else leave a few off your own list and add to your Christmas for others to get ya?

[20th Century Boy]

Originally Posted by Nicolawicz

Reiner is just a hack with quality, in my opinion (kind of like Richard Donner or Barry Levinson).

I love Dick Donner. He's got genuine skill and technique.

[20th Century Boy]

Originally Posted by BagheeraMcGee

Mine's still "Under Siege" (narrowly beating out "Above The Law", and mostly because of Tommy Lee Jones and Gary Busey), but Screwface is definitely a great Seagal movie villain.

We've gone from director's amazing runs to Seagal films. Criterion should probably make their announcements soon for the sake of this thread.

The Onion Movie for me.

[theater dreamer]

At Cinemark waiting to watch Casablanca. I’d say I’m the only person below 50 here thus far, but about 15 people on a Wednesday afternoon with time to spare is a pretty good showing.

Ticket with online “convenience fee” is only about $6. That’s great! They get ya at the consession stand, though. $12 for a small popcorn and medium Coke. Holy hell! There’s the greatest argument for having a home theater and film collection of your own!

[20th Century Boy]

Originally Posted by MassiveMovieBuff

It kills me that we may never get the criminally underrated Ricochet on blu ray.

Isn't that up Shout's alley? (or rights issues?)

[Scottie]

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[20th Century Boy]

Originally Posted by BagheeraMcGee

Talk Radio is great. Still timely to this day. I would've loved to have seen Eric Bogosian perform it on stage (or for that matter Liev Schreiber, who starred in the play in a later run).

What's the optimal way to see it currently?

[BagheeraMcGee]

Originally Posted by 20th Century Boy

What's the optimal way to see it currently?

It's available on DVD. I'm holding out hope that either Shout or Indicator (now that they have a deal with Universal) will release it.