(24-05-2020 18:13 )*Kal-El* Wrote: [ -> ]Firefox
One of my fav Clint Eastwood movies.
Loved this as a kid, snuck into my local flicks to see it (was a AA certificate of I recall back in 82) and I was defo not AA age!!
Playtime
Jacques Tati - 1967
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Jacques Tati’s gloriously choreographed, nearly wordless comedies about confusion in the age of technology reached their creative apex with Playtime. For this monumental achievement, a nearly three-year-long, bank-breaking production, Tati again thrust the endearingly clumsy, resolutely old-fashioned Monsieur Hulot, along with a host of other lost souls, into a bafflingly modernist Paris. With every inch of its superwide frame crammed with hilarity and inventiveness, Playtime is a lasting testament to a modern age tiptoeing on the edge of oblivion." (from Criterion Collection)
Tati is one of those filmmakers loved by the black polo neck brigade and Rowan Atkinson has said that Hulot was one of the inspirations for Mr Bean. That set off a few warning bells but I was still looking forward to my first Tati film "crammed with hilarity". What I actually got was two hours of the least funny "comedy" film I have ever seen. One bit of slapstick three quarters in made me chuckle and that was it. We need to crowdfund a release of Danny Dyer's "Run for your Wife" in France to show them how it ought to be done.
Ranked 47 in the TSPDT list of the 1,000 greatest films.
The Rookie
Another great Clint Eastwood movie with a young Charlie Sheen and main villain Raul Julia. One of my fav lines for in the movie:
Henchmen “I saw you die”
Clint Eastwood “Welcome To Hell, asshole”
Batman (1989)
Still my 2nd favourite batman film with my favourite Joker Jack Nicholson
Really enjoyable and it still holds up being 31 years old.... Tim Burton was really the right director to bring gotham alive, his style suits the batman universe so well, I still have hope for a batman beyond movie with burton and keaton returning i think that would be amazing
8.5/10
The vanishing (1988)
The superior Dutch version without the Hollywood ending of the Kiefer Sutherland film.
9/10
Justice League Dark: Apokolips War.
If only dc could pull this sort of film off in live action it would be incredible.
Ending the dc animated movie universe which started with flashpoint paradox back in 2013, This is a fantastic movie that i can not recommend enough, Go watch it.
10/10