What movie should I see?

[JaiDee]

Sorry, can't be bothered to go back 7 pages {sorry Mods!!} but has anyone mentioned Death Wish?? 1974 release.

 Chuck Bronson, a bit past his prime but still able to kick some ass.....great flick for its time also.

[kahuna]

Damn...You guys are taking me back...One of my favs is Fandango with Kevin Costner, Judd Nelson and Sam Robards from 1985...Haven't thought about it in a few years...Tossed the old VHS some time back...Gonna have to pick up a DVD...Some great scenes...The skydiving scene is truly a classic...Give it a watch...

[Lefty]

(JaiDee @ May 17 2010,16:35)

(Lefty @ May 13 2010,21:37) 5. The Warriors. This cult classic is about a New York street gang from Coney Island ..... I saw this when it first came out in 1979

Same, same......loaded up my Mom's old Camaro  back in HS and went to the drive-ins {people below 35 are saying HUH?? right now} with some buddies, smoked massive amounts of weed, drank a couple cases of Buds and thoroughly enjoyed this highly under-rated movie.....what I can remember of it of course.  

   Watched it with my boy when he was about 15 and he was indifferent ....I still enjoyed it.  I guess this one did NOT stand the test of time as most people below 35 or so would say they have never heard of it, but man, for its time it was a classic.

You are perhaps aware there was a Warrior video game released a couple years ago, based on this movie. I'd guess anyone our kid's age would relate much more to the video game than the movie, given the choice.

[Lefty]

Since Uncle Kahuna mentioned a Costner movie from the mid 80s, I felt I should include a favorite of mine that he was in at the same time.

American Flyers. About 2 brothers competing in a bicycle race in the Colorado Rockies. Kevin is the wise, seasoned older brother, and David Marshall Grant plays his talented but raw and somewhat cocky younger brother. Costner's character has a potentially fatal health problem that may recur if he engages in any strenuous exercise, Of course he races anyway, and I won't divulge the outcome for those who ain't seen it. The main reason I watched it was because Rae Dawn Chong was in it as Costner's GF and she was a real favorite of mine back then and if she was in a movie, and she was in some clunkers, I'd watch it just to see her.  
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Flyers

[Ivor Biggun]

Since we're going 80s i pulled down Red Dawn the other day- really hokey to watch it now!!!

[whore]

I seen Robin Hood the other night and thought it was just ok. I'd say the other installments will be better. Ridley Scott is planning on making 3 Robin Hoods.

Seen Brooklyn's Finest last night and thought it was very good. Its a real gritty cop movie.

[Jake_Sully]

Best movie from the 80's is Lifeforce. Its a cult classic, once you see it, you'll know why

[Bobcat]

(Ivor Biggun @ May 17 2010,05:45) Robin Hood just opened in Phuket- not sure if I can handle Russel Crowe as the lead. Apparenty his Irish (!!)) accent has been slated. Just downloading some of the above recommendations

More like Robin Wood  

Paid the value of a bar fine to see it. Ridley what are you doing making a film like this. I did fall to sleep half way through it. Cate Blanchett at least acts marginally better but Russell Braveheart Crowe was appauling. Agree on the confused accent.

" Rise & Rise again until the Lambs become Lions"

Nice bit of skirt being shagged by King John that was the highlight. I think its a case of Crowe interfering doning himself a producers credit and Ridley going along with it. Apparently it was a 20 Bar purse.

Pass unless you like Horses, battles and arrows. The Strongbow adverts got more content. Oh & in the final sequence there's even a bit of Saving Private Ryan beach intro.

Why do brilliant Directors pamper to Hollywoods buck philosophy and sell their soul for a piece of cheese.

Sorry Guys but not worth the download  

[Lefty]

Here is another movie that I found very enjoyable, although not for everyone I'd guess:

The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert.  1994 Australian comedy-drama film based around the journey of three drag queens travelling across the Australian Outback from Sydney to Alice Springs in a tour bus that they have named "Priscilla". The encounters they have along the way with the various outback citizens in places like Broken Hill and Coober Pedy was very funny to me. The film was written and directed by Stephan Elliott and starred Hugo Weaving, Guy Pearce and Terence Stamp as the three drag queens, one of whom is a transsexual and the other two are gay. I thought Guy Pearce made a good drag queen.   First movie I saw him in.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...._Desert

The Sum of Us. Another Australian movie from the same year. It starred Russell Crowe, in the first movie I ever saw him in, as a young gay man and the superb Jack Thompson as his widower father. They live together and the dad wants his son to be happy, accepts him being gay and is always encouraging him in potential relationships. The dad meets a lady through a dating ad and they hit it off at first. Then she discovers he has a gay son, and no problems with it, but she is not accepting of his son. She leaves abruptly and right after that the father suffers a stroke and loses his speech. She has a change of heart and when she finds out the dad had the stroke, feels badly because it coincided with her walking out on him.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111309/

This leads me to a really great movie, IMO, that starred both Pearce and Crowe...
L.A. Confidential. This was the 2nd movie I saw either Crowe or Pearce in and to me it was ironic that my exposure to them both prior had been as playing gay characters in Aussie movies from the same year. Or is that a coincidence and not an irony? Also has one my favorite white actresses and high on my milf list, Kim Basinger. The entire cast was extremely strong thoughout.
Set against the backdrop of the glamor, grit and noir of early 1950s Los Angeles, the film revolves around three Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) officers caught up in corruption, sex, lies, and murder following a multiple murder at the Nite Owl coffee shop. The story expands to encompass organized crime, political corruption, heroin, pornography, prostitution, tabloid journalism and institutional racism, which result in a huge body count. The novel's title refers to the infamous 1950s scandal magazine Confidential, portrayed fictionally as Hush-Hush (although a tabloid magazine called Hush-Hush also existed in the 1950s.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L.A._Confidential_(film)

[anthony70]

"bloomin boy still have tickle tackle."
EAST IS EAST.

RITA, SUE, AND BOB TOO.

[thaibound]

(whore @ May 08 2010,16:39) Ticked off Trannies with Knives movie preview.

It will be on worldwide release soon and is tipped for an Oscar  

I cant believe this actually a real movie  

That trailer is a movie in itself and i see no need to expand it by two hours -- but riddle me this batman -- why why why must they cast so, pardon my non-pc here, but let's just say UNattractive ts's?
Imagine if you will...such a film made starring a few of our favorite ladyboys expert in muay thai? Imagine the hulking rednecks suddenly overpowered by the relatively tiny beauties who wield fingernails in place of knives and whose baseball bats are attached at the groin.
Now *that* would be a film worthy of the title "Kickass: Trannies with Nails".

[guydesavoy]

  Good selection Lefty  

If you liked Jack Thompson you should check out 'Sunday too far away' a classic Jack movie  

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunday_Too_Far_Away

He was also in 'Breaker Morant' with Brian Brown and Edward Woodward. A great Aussie actor.

If you want to see Russell Crowe's (maybe) 1st movie, the one that got him noticed in Hollywood, check out 'Romper Stomper'.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romper_Stomper

[Lefty]

I listed Breaker Morant as a favorite in post 130. Thompson's performance as defense attorney Maj J.F. Thomas, was impeccable.

Sunday Too Far Away sounds like a great movie to me and one I'll be on the lookout for. Thanks a lot for the heads up.

[pacman]

(Bobcat @ May 17 2010,22:40)

(Ivor Biggun @ May 17 2010,05:45) Robin Hood just opened in Phuket- not sure if I can handle Russel Crowe as the lead. Apparenty his Irish (!!)) accent has been slated. Just downloading some of the above recommendations

More like Robin Wood  

Paid the value of a bar fine to see it. Ridley what are you doing making a film like this. I did fall to sleep half way through it. Cate Blanchett at least acts marginally better but Russell Braveheart Crowe was appauling. Agree on the confused accent.

" Rise & Rise again until the Lambs become Lions"

Nice bit of skirt being shagged by King John that was the highlight. I think its a case of Crowe interfering doning himself a producers credit and Ridley going along with it. Apparently it was a 20 Bar purse.

Pass unless you like Horses, battles and arrows. The Strongbow adverts got more content. Oh & in the final sequence there's even a bit of Saving Private Ryan beach intro.

Why do brilliant Directors pamper to Hollywoods buck philosophy and sell their soul for a piece of cheese.

Sorry Guys but not worth the download  

I have to ask if you watched Robin Hood on the big screen. In fact, did you even see it at all? Because after watching it myself I can give it a far higher recommendation.

And I am no fan of Russell Crowe either but here he doesn't come across quite as much as Mr Macho Man, at least not like that other big Ridley Scott movie he was in - Gladiator.

I really appreciated the historic perspective given through out the movie, it would appear that Richard the Lionheart wasn't the good guy I believed him to be. And his brother King John is played perfectly as an arrogant prick while just avoiding making him into a cartoon-type figure of derision.

And the pace of the film really moves along. Some of the scenes were so tightly edited, a minute would have run for 10 in other productions, I really noticed how efficiently it comprised a long time frame into a bit over 2 hours.

As for the complaints about Crowe's accent, if that was all that people could take away from the film & choose to focus their whinging on that, then I can only say they missed out on enjoying one of the finest made action films ever bought to the screen.

From the casting to the costumes to the settings, this film just reeks of class & money. I expected nothing less from Ridley Scott & I am still amazed by the negative reviews it has had.

I went with a sense of dread & left the theatre very pleased. I guess there's no pleasing some people.

[Torurot]

Some years ago I watched "Master & the Commander" with a LB in one of the super plush theatres in downtown BKK. (She went to sleep pretty quickly) and I hated both the movie, and Crowe's acting. I recently saw it again, and loved both the movie AND Crowe's acting which was brilliant. Take it or leave it. Maybe you have to be in the right mood to watch certain movies. I recently saw Gladiator for the first time and quite enjoyed it. My 2 Satang! (can you still find them in the outer suburbs?)