CorpRobinson Posted December 5, 2012 Posted December 5, 2012 Ha Ha i was a member of the Dragonsden forum also and no my Expect no Mercy is the full thrown of the the window with a landing version , and i agree it took me forever to find a copy of One Tough Bastard i managed to Find a Czech copy on ebay like a few months ago
Paid Members Devon Malcolm Posted December 5, 2012 Paid Members Posted December 5, 2012 Stone Cold is a really good action film. Bosworth should have done more, really.
Loki Posted December 5, 2012 Posted December 5, 2012 One of the wierdest things about the Bloodfist series is that, although they have the same name and the same lead actor, after the first couple he plays a different character in each film. Huh?
Paid Members Egg Shen Posted December 5, 2012 Paid Members Posted December 5, 2012 ive never seen a Don Wilson film, he used to do some pundatory for the UFC back in the day.
Paid Members Devon Malcolm Posted December 7, 2012 Paid Members Posted December 7, 2012 Pretty In Pink. SPOILER - Highlight the black box to read I can't believe she went back to Blaine! Fucking hell, Ringwald, he was a right twat! Not a patch on The Breakfast Club, though. It made my fancy for Annie Potts come back full-blown, though. YeeHaa.
Loki Posted December 7, 2012 Posted December 7, 2012 The best thing about that, IIRC, is the fashion for wearing one's jacket over the shoulders without arms in sleeves. It looked extremely cool.You're right that the ending is all wrong though, or is that just our modern perception?
Paid Members Devon Malcolm Posted December 7, 2012 Paid Members Posted December 7, 2012 Possibly. I didn't expect it, I have to say, but it was still all wrong.Also, I thought Ringwald's homemade clobber was far better than anything anyone else was wearing. It wasn't as funny as I was expecting and Jon Cryer was really annoying. James Spader was great, though, I loved his mumbling arrogance, he was probably the best thing in it alongside Harry Dean Stanton.
Wendell Cooley Posted December 7, 2012 Posted December 7, 2012 (edited) As a guy who's watched Pretty in Pink more than any rational person would, I've come to like the ending. It's a proper swerve that does make you think at first that it's fucked up but it's probably what would realistically happen. It's not as if Duckie gets completely shafted, either. You can only be the nerdy best friend in life for so long. James Spader is fantastic in that film. I can think of few other actors as adept at playing decadent, slimy scumbags. I like to think his character in Wall Street is Steff in later life. Not as good as the Breakfast Club? That film had some brilliant bits and others that are just awful - the dancing, Judd Nelson's "paint in the garage" speech etc. Pretty in Pink is more well-rounded but not as quotable or as much fun, perhaps because Hughes was only co-director and had some of his excesses reigned in. Edited December 7, 2012 by Wendell Cooley
Paid Members Devon Malcolm Posted December 7, 2012 Paid Members Posted December 7, 2012 Nah, The Breakfast Club completely enthralled me, it was brilliant. It's more flawed than Pretty In Pink but it's also funnier, the characters are better, it's got a better ending, and I never wanted it to end. Pretty In Pink does have a better soundtrack and Annie Potts, though.
Wendell Cooley Posted December 7, 2012 Posted December 7, 2012 But! But! Ally Sheedy's transformation in the Breakfast Club from sassy weirdo to bland 80s teenager is absolute shite. It's a very good film, but incredibly overwrought and unconvincing in places. It was crying out for a sequel.
Paid Members Devon Malcolm Posted December 7, 2012 Paid Members Posted December 7, 2012 No, I loved that bit because she only does it to get some of Emilio's end. You know as soon as she's had some that she'll be back to sticking Cheerios up her nose or something. She's a canny one, Sheedy. It is overwrought but I don't mind that as long as it's entertaining.
Wendell Cooley Posted December 7, 2012 Posted December 7, 2012 I hadn't thought of it like that before. Hopefully she fucked him and murdered the young Benoit-in-waiting in his sleep afterwards.
Steve Justice Posted December 7, 2012 Posted December 7, 2012 Just watched Pitch Perfect. It's like Sister Act 2 got raped by Glee.
Paid Members Devon Malcolm Posted December 10, 2012 Paid Members Posted December 10, 2012 Downfall. Really good film, really quite overrated, though, aside from Bruno Ganz as the baddie. Was Eva Braun that fit in real life as well? That was an unexpected treat.
Paid Members Up Chuck Posted December 10, 2012 Paid Members Posted December 10, 2012 Just seen Seven Psychopaths. Need to dwell on it some more, but in the immediate afterglow, I'm thinking... <-- click on 'spoiler' to show/hide the spoiler It's pretty great. Some nice deconstruction of the ideas of narrative, some fun self-awareness and parody, and lots of great lines. Superb turn from Tom Waits too. [close spoiler] ");document.close();
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