movie recommendations

[Binnatics]

I'm mad about the comics books of Tintin, and also Asterix. I think I read them all at least 20 or 30 times. My parents didn't have a TV so I filled my childhood with comics books. Lucky Luke was one of my other favorites.
Tintin I like the most with his friend, captain haddock. The way he swears, and does his stuff. I remember when Prof. Sunflower brew special pills which would prevent him from liking alcoholic drinks, man that's hillarious.
I just hope that the film will be like an extra comicbook, in movieformat. Including more fun with the main characters. It seems to be a new story, so if the directors do their w@&k great, it should w@&k out to be very nice  ^-^

Maybe I'm just dreaming of another comic book. I agree that most movies made of comic books lose their shine.

[RedRaven]

Never read any of the Tintin or Asterix books as a kid, but saw the occasional cartoon back in the day.
Just checked it out on IMDB and there is a pretty strong cast of actors for the voices. Jamie Bell as Tintin should be good, a very good actor for a guy in his mid 20's. Good to Simon Pegg's name up there too!


Despite my cynical rant about the movie industry the other day I must admit that animated films are often some of the better films coming out these days. Sat and watched cars on Sunday and was laughing more than not. Looking forward to seeing Cars 2 now but will be waiting for DVD as cinemas now will be rammed full of kids for the summer.


Got a surprise yesterday watching 'The Eagle has Landed' when I recognised a much younger looking Jeff Conaway - plays Zack Allan in Babylon 5, when I checked it out on IMDB was sad to see that he died a couple of months ago, was also surprised by how many other things he has been in over the years.

[Art Blade]

Babylon5 was ace  ;D :-X

[fragger]

OK, I have to ask - who are all those people whose names are in your signature, Red? ????

Great new avatar, btw :-X

[RedRaven]

Cheers fragger, it's taken my original name avatar I had a while back. Its great what 5 minutes with GIMP can produce. The signature is from a song by Neurosis called 'From Where Its Roots Run' and it is a runic poem. There are plenty of sites that give the meaning of each Rune. As far as can recall they are all Futhark runes, from Germanic and Scandinavian tribes.


Song is awesome and thought it would look better than a string of prime numbers, which is my default email signature.

Neurosis - Where roots run

[Fiach]

Was at Neurosis a couple of nights ago, second time seeing them live, think the last time was in the 90's ... wow .... back in the 90's???  It was on the Silver in Blood tour, it was awesome!


Dublin 25/Jul/2011

Neurosis - A Season in the Sky - Live Dublin 25.07.2011

[RedRaven]

You jammy @"£$"£$@"£@$!"£@ not yet been able to see them yet as they hardly ever play the UK. good to hear they good live though.

[RedRaven]

More great news from Hollywood - Total Recall is being made again! Due out next year.
Not sure how much it will copy the original but it is based on the same Philip K Dick story.
Colin Farrell takes the place of good 'ol Arnie.


On a lighter note recently watched Ironclad and Limitless. Both entertaining. Was impressed by the lighting in Limitless, as well as an extremely long zooming shot that seems to go along several city blocks, looked good.

[JRD]

Hey Red... a question for you (at the perfect spot for that  ;) )

I read that S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 is due to 2012 and it will be linked to a movie of the franchise. I saw that on a not-so-trustworthy Brazilian site so I won`t post the link here (it`s in Portuguese too, so...  ::) )

Do you know anything about it?  ????

[RedRaven]

Stalker 2 is due out in 2012 but I have not heard anything about a movie. Still next to no news on the TV series either, keep looking for info every few weeks and so far zip. :(


If you have not read the book that started it all 'Roadside Picnic' by Arkady & Boris Strugatsky from 1977, or the Russian film 'Stalker' by Andrei Tarkovsky (made in 1979, DVD came out in 2002) which is based on the book I highly recommend them.


I was able to get them both together as a package deal from Amazon though having just looked it appears to no longer be available. The book is around £5 where as it now lists the DVD anywhere from £13 to £80 !
There is also a listing for Stalker DVD available to pre order, due August 8th in 2012 but this is just a re-issue and is only £9.


Have also just signed up to a Russian language Stalker site which may give more info than some of English based ones (fingers crossed)


One thing that has always intrigued me is the decision to set the games around Chernobyl as the book and film are both before the time of the disaster in 1986. What ever the reason I think it was a great move by the developers.

[Fiach]

More great news from Hollywood - Total Recall is being made again! Due out next year.
Not sure how much it will copy the original but it is based on the same Philip K Dick story.
Colin Farrell takes the place of good 'ol Arnie.


On a lighter note recently watched Ironclad and Limitless. Both entertaining. Was impressed by the lighting in Limitless, as well as an extremely long zooming shot that seems to go along several city blocks, looked good.

I would have loved TR if Arnie wasnt in it, so I'm looking forward to that! :)

I saw those other two movies last week and enjoyed them alot, IC was quite gory, Limitless was great too, well worth checking out.

[RedRaven]

I would have loved TR if Arnie wasnt in it, so I'm looking forward to that! :)

How can you not like Arnie ? Bet your a Stallone fan instead. :(

[Fiach]

Yes I love Sly, apart from the movies he has acted in, he is an awesome scriptwriter and director.

They dont calle arnie " The Austrian Oak" for nothing mate :)

[RedRaven]

Not heard 'Austrian Oak' before, quality nickname :)


Been an avid movie watcher from before starting school thanks to Disney classics like Mary Poppins and Bedknobs & Broomsticks and Star Wars (of course) and more cartoons than I can remember. Around the early 80's I wanted more from films than the simple, light-hearted stories that enthralled me a few years earlier. During weekends at my grandparents I would watch any film that came on TV, from Alfred Hitchcock to Clint Eastwood, Sean Connery, Clark Gable, Fred Astaire, Dean Martin and many, many others kept me entertained for hour after hour, every film was like an adventure, across all genre's and themes.

During the second half of the 80's whilst baby-sitting my brother Friday and Saturday evenings I would get 2 or 3 videos from the local rental shop. The films shown on TV were from anywhere between the 30's and 70's, more recent films usually shown at christmas time. The video shop had films as little as 6 to 12 months old. Able to now choose what to watch meant renting films I'd heard about or seen impressive posters for. This is when I first saw Sylvestor Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Patrick Stewart, Rutger Hauer, Robert DeNiro, Michelle Pfeiffer, Eddie Murphy and Bruce Willis. And a hell of a lot more too, almost all unkown to me except Eddie Murphy as I'd seen some of his stand-up comedy and Bruce Willis from the TV show Moonlighting.


Looking back I preferred Arnie over Sly then. Sly had done Rocky which I wasn't taken by, never been into boxing. And Rambo, cant recall why didn't like it back then and not watched them since so will have to try them again.
Arnie, on the other hand had done Conan - still one of my all time favourite films, along with Terminator, Red Sonja and Commando. Being interested in sci-fi and fantasy stuff back then also made Arnie more appealing at the time.
All that said I think in some ways Bruce Willis is a better actor than both of them. All 3 of them have been excellent in some films and terrible in others.


Although I never watched all the old Rambo films I did watch the 'Rambo' film from a couple of years ago and enjoyed it, The Expendables was good too.


Whilst writting this post had to check IMDB to spell the names correctly and I read the following on Sly's bio -


"The Expendables (2010) opened at number one at the U.S. box office with a first weekend gross of $35 million. This makes Sylvester Stallone the only person in Hollywood history to have starred in films that have opened atop the box office charts over five consecutive decades."


Good on him I say, lets hope he is still around in 2020 to make it 6 decades.
 

[Art Blade]

Bruce is the one I'd prefer over the other two, Sly coming 2nd and Arnie last. Arnie has never been a good actor but the films he starred in were mostly entertaining  :)

[Fiach]

Well, I hate boxing too, but Rocky written by and starred in by sly is an incredible film, its subsequent sequels are of varying quality.

if you liked Rambo, then you should check Rambo First Blood and Rambo Two as they are much better. Cobra is a good action movie and I think used to hold the record for the most people killed in the shortest amount of time in a movie (or something like that).

Cliff Hanger is quite an excellent movie, with an awesome opening scene with Sly climbing a mountain.

Tango and Cash with Kurt Russel is a great 80's buddy movie.

Nighthawks was a good cop movie.

I wouldnt recommend much more tbh.

One Arnie movie I really liked was with Jim Belushi was Red Heat, a russian cop comes to the US and teams up with a US cop, very entertaining :)

[Fiach]

Bruce is the one I'd prefer over the other two, Sly coming 2nd and Arnie last. Arnie has never been a good actor but the films he starred in were mostly entertaining  :)

I really like Bruce, there is a cool scene in Expendables with the three guys in a church.

(Embarassing moment  :-[) I actually liked Hudson Hawk :)

But he has a great repertoire, Last Boy Scout and the Die Hard movies are great action movies.

Grindhouse Planet Terror was cool.

Armageddon was pretty awesome.

12 Monkeys I really enjoyed, a great scifi flick.

Too many to mention tbh :)

[RedRaven]

I saw First blood in my early teens but can not remember any of it. There is one Sly movie I do like - Demolition Man (no, don't laugh!) though its more due to Sandra Bullock and Dennis Leary than Sly or Snipes.


Looking back over the films that Arnie, Sly and Bruce have made through out the years I'd have to say that Bruce is the better Actor in an all round sense. All 3 of them do action flicks well yet Bruce is much better at comedy than the others, and is also able to play more serious characters or take on more obscure and challenging roles, such as 12 monkeys.


Got to admit that I also liked Hudson Hawk too ;)

[JRD]

You all forgot about Arnie at Predator... one of my favorite sci-fi alien crap movie  >:D

You all wish to forget that movie where Arnie is pregnant or the one with DeVito as his twin brother  :D

Also the first two Terminator were amazing, 2 being one of the best sequels ever written or shot (considering T1 wasn`t meant to have a sequel when it was originally written)

Oh, and Red, thumbs up for mentioning Conan  :-X ... Arnie fresh out of Mr Universe... wow.. maybe two lines over the entire movie... his cooked peanut brain wouldn`t process more than that back then  ^+-+

Tango & Cash is great, so is Cobra  :-X but the reason why I`d put Sly on third over those guys is his abandoned-hero-who-is-not-comprehended-but-will-die-for-you face  ;D

Bruce is more of an actor, at least he has a few different expressions as opposed to a single-faced action hero both Arnie and Sly use to play... actually, that`s why Terminator fits so well in Arnie  ;D

[RedRaven]

Oh yeah, Predator !!! Ace film.


New Conan film is out end of this month too :)


I wonder if Jason Mamoa can knock a camel out in one punch ???

[Art Blade]

his cooked peanut brain wouldn`t process more than that back then  ^+-+

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Now you know what qualified him as Governor of California  ^+-+

[RedRaven]

Now you know what qualified him as Governor of California  ^+-+

Judging by the dire state of affairs politically and economically in most of the so called '1st world' nations of Europe and the USA caused by two-faced scum-bag politicians and the big-business power elite seeking to maintain the status quo at the expense of the majority of the populace I reckon they got Arnie in the governors office to teach them how to act dumb in public and K.O. the occasional democrat senator or two when they needed to get things done.


At least with an actor for a politician you know they are all about lying and pitching an ideal life scenario as they over tax peoples hard earned cash and erode what little real freedoms we still have. Bet it works well as a get out clause too!


As the late, great George Carlin used to say -
"Here's a list of people who should be taken deep into the forest and disembowelled with wooden spoons"

[Art Blade]

Actors and some such as politicians.. reminds me of Ronald Reagan's era (and Italy even tried a porn star Ilona Staller aka Cicciolina) :-D The only thing they couldn't do is put Mickey Mouse into office.  :-()

[Fiach]

Check out Sandra Bullocks movie The Proposal.

It has a great old fashioned feel to its direction, with both main actors displaying a charm and understanding of the movie itself.

I have watched a couple of "rom-com's" lately (Romantic Comedy), all they are made up of, are a series of embarassing situations that are more squirm inducing than laugh inducing, with some downright embarassing to watch, "sexual liasons" that actually caused a significant number of my brain cells to lay down and die in disgust.

One movie to avoid at all costs, Hall Pass, Christ!? Owen Wilson, wtf were you thinking???

[RedRaven]

Well they did get pretty close to having Mickey Mouse in the white house, in the end he couldn't make it so they sent in Goofy and Pluto Bush instead :)


Saw The Proposal a few months ago, funny. Another very good Sandra Bullock film is The Blind Side, based on a true story. A heart-warming story that had me and my son in tears. She won an Oscar for that role too.
Always found her to be an interesting actress, certainly not the typical Hollywood prima-Donna.


I agree with you about Hall Pass, Owen Wilson is good in Marley and Me, which is also based on a true story / real person.