Paid Members Murtz Posted September 25, 2012 Paid Members Share Posted September 25, 2012 Will Ferrell does. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alanchiz Posted September 25, 2012 Share Posted September 25, 2012 Gina Carano the first name for an all female "expendables" Rothrock, Hamilton and Weaver have to be in this surely. I'd probably put lucy lawless in their too  Geena Davis, what with the archery and the Long Kiss Good Night should be considered, Michelle Rodriguez for pretty much everything, and then any from Milla Jovovich, Uma Thurman, Angelina Jolie, Kate Beckinsdale, Ali Larter, Jennifer Garner, Michelle Yeoh, Zoe Saldana, Scarlett Johanson, Grace Jones, Bridget Nielsen and possibly Trish Stratus  That sounds bloody awful.  And your list is? Oh right, yeah, pouring scorn is much better.  Wasnt knocking your individual list, its just a really bad idea for a film.  As you said later, women action stars are far and few between, which just goes to show that there isnt much of a market for such a film. Looking at your list, some of them would either be far too old or expensive anyway. As such, I dont have a list like that of my own. Putting a couple of token females in "The Expendables III" would do the same job. If people want to see an all women action film, they'll watch Charlies Angels. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members LaGoosh Posted September 26, 2012 Paid Members Share Posted September 26, 2012 (edited) Will Ferrell does. Â He's made one...maybe two. Â It's remarkable how shit most comedy movies are these days. It makes me cry when people talk about how great The Hangover, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Horrible Bosses and Bridesmaid are. Edited September 26, 2012 by LaGoosh Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Bellenda Carlisle Posted September 26, 2012 Paid Members Share Posted September 26, 2012 I agree about modern comedies, I was just thinking about it yesterday, they're awful, so over the top (in the wrong way) those comedies lagoosh mentioned are dreadful. The last good comedy I saw was probably "World's greatest dad' with Robin Williams. Horrible bosses was dire. Having said that I rewatched a couple of my favourite 80s comedies with my girlfriend who hadn't seen them and they had dated badly so um, feel free to point out any good comedies I might have missed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Polish Dad Posted September 26, 2012 Share Posted September 26, 2012 For anyone familiar with Star Trek, Galaxy Quest is a cracking comedy. I know it's got Tim Allen in it, but I promise you he's really good at being William SHatner. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Devon Malcolm Posted September 26, 2012 Paid Members Share Posted September 26, 2012 Having said that I rewatched a couple of my favourite 80s comedies with my girlfriend who hadn't seen them and they had dated badly so um, feel free to point out any good comedies I might have missed  You know, I think we might need a helping hand with this task. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loki Posted September 26, 2012 Share Posted September 26, 2012  Tom Hanks being awesome. Why can't he be in more films i actually want to watch  I know it's not a flattering picture, but he looks about 65 there, like an ageing Jimmy Stewart who's still dying his hair.  What was the last decent film he did? Road to Perdition? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Chest Rockwell Posted September 26, 2012 Moderators Share Posted September 26, 2012 Incorrect. Road to Perdition sucked balls. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Devon Malcolm Posted September 26, 2012 Paid Members Share Posted September 26, 2012 Catch Me If You Can. He was great in that and it was a cracking film. Sleepless In Seattle was where it all started to go wrong with him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members MichaelScarn Posted September 26, 2012 Paid Members Share Posted September 26, 2012 (edited)  Tom Hanks being awesome. Why can't he be in more films i actually want to watch  I know it's not a flattering picture, but he looks about 65 there, like an ageing Jimmy Stewart who's still dying his hair.  What was the last decent film he did? Road to Perdition?  Before I got to the caption underneath, I thought it was David Cameron, and was wondering what the fuck it was all about. Edited September 26, 2012 by MichaelScarn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alanchiz Posted September 26, 2012 Share Posted September 26, 2012 I know it's not a flattering picture, but he looks about 65 there, like an ageing Jimmy Stewart who's still dying his hair. What was the last decent film he did? Road to Perdition?  Does Toy Story 3 count? I dont think he looks that bad there really, considering he's no spring chicken (56) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GalaxyV.2 Posted September 26, 2012 Share Posted September 26, 2012 He might be in crap films but he's still watchable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ultimo the great Posted September 26, 2012 Share Posted September 26, 2012 (edited) Â Park Chan-wook's first English language film. With who the script is by, it being the first film he didn't write himself and some of the actor choices (Goode & Mulroney) i wasn't much looking forward to it but this looks promising. Â I'd watch anything with Tom Hanks in, yet having just checked i haven't seen him in anything since The Ladykillers. He's fun in Ladykillers and The Terminal but his last great performance is in Road to Perdition. Edited September 26, 2012 by ultimo the great Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Devon Malcolm Posted September 27, 2012 Paid Members Share Posted September 27, 2012 Herbert Lom has died  Herbert Lom was a familiar face on the big screen for more than 60 years, playing a variety of exotic characters, most notably Chief Inspector Dreyfus, long-suffering boss of Peter Sellers' Inspector Clouseau in the Pink Panther films. He was born Herbert Charles Angelo Kuchacevich ze Schluderpacheru, in Prague in 1917, of aristocratic parents.  He grew up in Prague, then part of the Austro-Hungarian empire, and was educated at the city's university.  Lom began acting on stage and screen in what had by now become Czechoslovakia. He left his homeland for England at the start of World War II where he undertook additional training at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London.  His English language debut came in the 1940 feature, film Mein Kampf - My Crimes, with barely a hint of a Czech accent.  He was offered a seven-year contract with Twentieth Century Fox and began securing leading roles including Napoleon Bonaparte in The Young Mr Pitt (1942) and the same character again in War and Peace in 1956.  In a rare starring role he played twin trapeze artists in Dual Alibi (1946).  By the 1950s Lom was considered a British counterpart to the screen idol Charles Boyer, whom he resembled.  He did not get the same number of starring roles as Boyer, though he developed a growing reputation as a character actor.  He played opposite Alec Guinness and Peter Sellers in Ealing comedy The Ladykillers (1955), and opposite Robert Mitchum, Jack Lemmon and Rita Hayworth in Fire Down Below (1957).  Later he became a familiar face on British TV in the 1960s when he starred as Dr Roger Corder in the series The Human Jungle.  More notable cinema roles came as Captain Nemo in Mysterious Island in 1961, a pirate in Spartacus (1960) and Ben Yusuf in El Cid (1961).  In 1962 he was the Phantom in the Hammer Films production of The Phantom of the Opera.  Lom's exotic features and manic eyes made him ideally suited for horror movies and saw him play doctors, vampire hunters, witchfinders, murderers and all manner of obsessive characters.  One controversial film - Mark of the Devil, in which he starred - was acclaimed both as a work of genius and denounced for its inclusion of a litany of medieval torture techniques.  Sick bags were given out to members of the audience during the film's opening run.  When asked about his various roles in low-budget movies, he said he felt it was better to be miscast than not be cast at all.  It was Lom's depiction of various madmen that persuaded director Blake Edwards to give him his most famous role, as Inspector Clouseau's boss Chief Inspector Dreyfus in the Pink Panther movies.  Although he was not in the 1963 original, he appeared in all the subsequent Pink Panther movies up to Son of the Pink Panther in 1993.  Lom's manic depiction of the man frustrated and literally driven mad by Clouseau's incompetence, resulting in the familiar nervous twitch, became one of the highlights of the Panther movies.  "It was a godsend when I was offered the part", he once said. "But it did become a double-edged sword as people started to associate me with Dreyfus and I lost a number of dramatic parts as a result of it."  In 1983 Lom worked with director David Cronenberg in The Dead Zone opposite Christopher Walken in one of the more successful adaptations of a Stephen King novel.  Lom was married to Dina Schea in 1948 and divorced in 1971. In the meantime he had a long relationship with the celebrated potter, Brigitte Appleby, with whom he had a daughter, Josephine.  As well as acting, Lom wrote two novels Enter A Spy (1971) and Dr Guillotine (1993).  The actor once grumbled at directors who asked him to give it his best. "It's my job to give my best," he said. "I can't give anything else."  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-19743817 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr.PeterVenkman Posted September 27, 2012 Share Posted September 27, 2012 Always remember him basically playing Dreyfus in The Detectives, he was quality in The Ladykillers as well Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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