General Movie (Film for snobs) News Thread

[chokeout]

Not that we need an excuse to rewatch it but it's 50 years this week since Deliverance was first released, a film that did for rural people what Jaws did for sharks. 

Superb casting (let's not forget Ronnie Cox was in stuff before he became the baddie in every 80s film) an actual good performance out of a motivated Burt Reynolds and in between all the bits that people remember, a beautifully made film. 

Boorman never really lived up to the first 5 years of his Hollywood career with Point Blank, Hell in The Pacific and Deliverance all being heavily ripped off, even to this day, but going on to make the god awful Exorcist sequel and Zardoz would have sunk pretty much anyone. He also tried his best to kill the cast of Deliverance by making them do their own stunts in an uninsured production. It's madness seeing Burt Reynolds go over the side of a waterfall or Jon Voight scaling a rock face to save a few quid. 

Edited July 28, 2022 by chokeout

[Factotum]

For anyone interested, Picturehouse are doing a re-release of PARIS, TEXAS in their cinemas.

[SuperBacon]

A fun little list. Nice to see National Treasure on here, but the lack of Speed is glaring. High concept at its best. 

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/aug/01/from-die-hard-to-the-raid-guardian-writers-on-their-favourite-action-movies

[Devon Malcolm]

Going to Twitter to block Jesse Hassenger immediately. Of all the action films made in history, you choose Once Upon a Time in Mexico ffs.

[Loki]

23 hours ago, Devon Malcolm said:

Going to Twitter to block Jesse Hassenger immediately.

I’m sure they’ll be distraught.

On 7/28/2022 at 9:27 PM, chokeout said:

Boorman never really lived up to the first 5 years of his Hollywood career with Point Blank, Hell in The Pacific and Deliverance all being heavily ripped off

Point Blank is just so fantastic.  You have to imagine if it were modern Hollywood we’d have had a bunch of sequels to that.

He may not have scaled those heights again but I adore Excalibur for its British eccentricity.  And Tailor of Panama was a great spy movie.

 

[Devon Malcolm]

13 minutes ago, Loki said:

I’m sure they’ll be distraught.

 

[SuperBacon]

This is a bit shit isn't it?

 

[DavidB6937]

That would be a huge blow for cinema and the film industry in general. Surely someone somewhere will step up and do something? I don't know how these things work..

[SuperBacon]

11 minutes ago, DavidB6937 said:

That would be a huge blow for cinema and the film industry in general. Surely someone somewhere will step up and do something? I don't know how these things work..

Well they say operational business will continue as normal, but surely that all depends on who buys the group? 

[Keith Houchen]

9 minutes ago, SuperBacon said:

Well they say operational business will continue as normal, but surely that all depends on who buys the group? 

Disney, probably. 

[seph]

So much for the redeveloped Dolphin Square in WSM. Four and a half years old and five restauants have folded, now its centerpiece is on the bubble.

Edited August 19, 2022 by seph

[Steve Justice]

I'm actually surprised it hasn't happened to Vue before now. Round here, Cineworld is significantly more popular than Vue. 

[WeeAl]

I actually don't think I've seen a Cineworld anywhere in Northern Ireland. There may be, but I can't recall them. It's all Omniplex here, pretty much everywhere. Some Odeon. Then Movie House had a good few picture houses for years, though a while back I think several, if not all, of those have closed.

Shame to see other chains going down the drain too. 

Edited August 19, 2022 by WeeAl

[CleetusVanDamme]

https://collider.com/national-treasure-3-script-jerry-bruckheimer-comments/

Nice. Didn't know there was a TV show in the works too.

[Mr_Danger]

Yeah but the streaming show doesn’t have Cage and it looks shit.