Movie review thread...
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<p> Realised I completely forgot any Tarantino movies in my original list so from his stuff add Pulp Fiction, Jackie Brown, Inglourious Basterds and Reservoir Dogs.</p>
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<p>Also with the sad news that Gene Wilder passed away it would do to mention Blazing Saddles ( an absolute all time comedy classic ) High Anxiety and Young Frankenstein.</p> -
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<p>Gene Wilder was one funny man, his movies with Richard Pryor were pretty good but he could have retired after blazing saddles and still been a legend . Didn't he have to give away acting because he lost his hearing?</p>
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<p>I didn't know that but I'm sure in all the online obituaries over the next few days we'll find out more.</p>
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<p>Blazing Saddles is genuinely laugh out loud funny to this day. So many funny, dodgy and inappropriate scenes. Needless to say my sons love it although I do fast forward the "nigger" scenes ( which are funny as fuck when you're grown up ) The Waco kid is one of many brilliant characters in it.</p>
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<p>I think they quite literally watched the farting by the camp scene a hundred times in a row once.</p>
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<p>But in tribute to Genes best role I give you this.....</p>
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<p>War Dogs: Jonah Hill and Miles Teller star as two young guys who sell arms and other equipment to the US military - things go a bit pear shaped as they have to slightly bend the laws to get the job done. It's kind of a comedy drama, a bit like The Big Short is style. Jonah Hill is great as an obnoxious character. The story is pretty interesting and led me to the article the movie is based on.</p>
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<p>I'll post a link to the article on the good reads thread.</p>
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<p>3.5 AK47 rounds out 5.</p> -
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No. It is my gift to the Fern.<br><br><br><br><br>- copyright
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<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="NTA" data-cid="605800" data-time="1471338494"><p><em>The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty</em><br><br>
Family movie night on Saturday, and the kids have already seen anything animated worth watching. As Little Miss the Aussie is only 8, Batman vs Superman was off the table.<br><br>
So we saw this instead, and I regret none of it.<br><br>
What a fucking excellent film. What a wonderful statement to a guy like me, in his 40s now, and wondering what the fuck he's doing with his life. <br><br>
Loved the scenery. The acting was great. The zone-out scenes were funny as, and the whole family loved it.<br><br>
5 out of 5 middle-aged men who woke up to the banality of their lives and did something about it.</p></blockquote>
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I'll concur. 4.5 porpoises out 5 snow leopards. -
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dude, it's Monica Belucci, seeing her naked is not exactly difficult. However i had little else to do<br><br>
But, it was called "The Brotherhood of the Wolf" and it was about a werewolf i think. I don't know, it was a bit shit. I'm pretty sure Monica was the werewolf, but i didn't stick around to find out. The main character looks like pre-drugs Mickey Rourke. Vincent Cassel, in a change for him, plays a smug arrogant Frenchman. And Monica is a whore. <br><br>
It's shit, just use google images.</p></blockquote>
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Saw that years ago. Think I quite enjoyed it. May gave been drunk.<br><br>
It lost me towards the end. In my recollection Monica was not the wolf and it was some dudr dressed up.<br><br>
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Gene Wilder was one funny man, his movies with Richard Pryor were pretty good but he could have retired after blazing saddles and still been a legend . Didn't he have to give away acting because he lost his hearing?</p></blockquote>
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He was a pretty good Willy Wonka too. Much better than the bizarre Michael Jackson creature depicted by Depp.<br><br>
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<p>He was a pretty good Willy Wonka too. Much better than the bizarre Michael Jackson creature depicted by Depp.<br><br>
See no evil hear no evil is pretty bloody funny.</p>
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<p>From IMDB....</p>
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<p>The role of Bart was intended for <a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001640'>Richard Pryor</a>, but due to the controversial nature of Pryor's stand-up routines of the day and his background, <a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000316'>Mel Brooks</a> couldn't secure financing for the project with Pryor in that role. So Pryor was made a co-writer of the script, and <a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001476'>Cleavon Little</a> played Bart. Pryor later got to star in a different western comedy - <a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072604'>Adiós Amigo</a> (1976). </p>
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<p>I think the bloke who did play Bart did an awesome job though even though I never saw him in anything else, him and Wilder were fucken classic....</p>
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Cleavon Little is cool.
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<p>Delirious is absolutely hilarious. But his career would be dead if he said a lot of those things now.</p>
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<p>alltime:</p>
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<p>1 Borat</p>
<p>2 Raw</p>
<p>3 Delirious</p>
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<p>*bonus points for watching Borat on a plane and the little kid across the aisle from me, and one row in front, who was also watching it, and who unwittingly decided to pause it for his 30-minute lunchtime right at Borat's epic bedroom wrestling scene with hairy ox-man manager. So hungry right now</p>
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<p>You won't find one iota of an argument about 2 and 3 ( I didn't bother with them as they're not "movies" as such ? ) but I personally found Borat ( like all SBC's work ) has just as many cringey WTF moments as genuine comedy.</p>
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<p>Eddie is ( or rather was ) a deadset stand up comedy genius, I don't know a single bloke my age who doesn't love those two concerts but I for one would be interested how he'd go today over 30 years since his heyday.</p>
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<p>Richard Pryors stand up is probably just as good to be honest, Youtube has some awesome stuff on it ( and Eddie freely admits to stealing so much of his material ), as good as he is though I agree, I can't see him doing Sheriff Bart as well as Cleavon Little did.</p> -
<p>Rambo, Rambo II, Rambo III, Rocky, Rocky II</p>
