"What Movie Did You Watch?" - 2020 Edition

[DieselDaisy]

Funeral in Berlin (1966)

Billion Dollar Brain (1967)

Harry Palmer sequels, Caine in his pomp.

[Len Cnut]

4 hours ago, DieselDaisy said:

Funeral in Berlin (1966)

Billion Dollar Brain (1967)

Harry Palmer sequels, Caine in his pomp.

There was a later one made in the 90s I think, its name escapes me but I liked it.  Something to do with St Petersburg, though I might've pulled that out of my arse.  I'm a massive Caine fan, see most everything he's done. 

[DieselDaisy]

28 minutes ago, Len Cnut said:

There was a later one made in the 90s I think, its name escapes me but I liked it.  Something to do with St Petersburg, though I might've pulled that out of my arse.  I'm a massive Caine fan, see most everything he's done. 

Yes, he did two made-for-tv films, Bullet to Bejing (1995) and Midnight in Saint Petersburg (1996), neither of which are based on the original Len Deighton novels. I have seen neither. There was a fourth Harry Palmer novel, Horse Under Water, which was going to be made into another film in 1968 but it got canned because Billion Dollar Brain tanked at the box office. Shame because Ipcress and Funeral in Berlin are terrific films. I'm a Bond fan and I would probably rank them higher than any Bond which of course shared the same production team (Salzman, John Barry). Funeral in Berlin was directed by Guy Hamilton, Goldfinger, Diamonds Are Forever, etc.

I think that is Salzman's idea for doing them. He was rather answering the critics of Bond, that Bond was unrealistic and a bit silly.

[marlingrl03]

The Fugitive with Harrison Ford. Been ages since I last saw it.

[lame ass security]

26 minutes ago, marlingrl03 said:

The Fugitive with Harrison Ford. Been ages since I last saw it.

Great movie, holds up well.  Not sure who I like more in it, Harrison Ford or Tommy Lee Jones.

[DieselDaisy]

Operation Finale (2018)

About Mossad's capture of Adolf Eichmann, Argentina. I thought it was excellent. 

Alone in Berlin (2016)

Quite a poignant film about Otto and Elise Hampel who led a sort of micro resistance against the Nazis by scattering a series of postcards around Berlin saying basically, ''Hitler is a wanker''. They were both caught and guillotined.

House of 1000 Corpses (2003)

I didn't like this when it first came out. I like it a bit more on second viewing but still maintain it descends to absolute wankery in the final third. It is at its best when it is basically ripping-off Texas Chainsaw Massacre. 

The Devil's Rejects (2005)

It is probably a better film than the aforementioned but still rather uneven. 

The Hills Have Eyes (1977)

It's funny how Wes Craven began making exploitation films such as this and Last House On The Left, but ended up making mainstream horror like Scream! Not necessarily knocking it but just find it curious how he reigned-in his earlier grindhouse edginess.

Edited August 6, 2019 by DieselDaisy

[Len Cnut]

23 hours ago, DieselDaisy said:

Yes, he did two made-for-tv films, Bullet to Bejing (1995) and Midnight in Saint Petersburg (1996), neither of which are based on the original Len Deighton novels. I have seen neither. There was a fourth Harry Palmer novel, Horse Under Water, which was going to be made into another film in 1968 but it got canned because Billion Dollar Brain tanked at the box office. Shame because Ipcress and Funeral in Berlin are terrific films. I'm a Bond fan and I would probably rank them higher than any Bond which of course shared the same production team (Salzman, John Barry). Funeral in Berlin was directed by Guy Hamilton, Goldfinger, Diamonds Are Forever, etc.

I think that is Salzman's idea for doing them. He was rather answering the critics of Bond, that Bond was unrealistic and a bit silly.

Yeah, thats the one, Midnight in St Petersburg.  I've seen Bullet to Bejing too.

Beverly Hills Cop (1984)

Trading Places (1983)

[DieselDaisy]

This is a brilliant war film, based on a true story, a downed Luftwaffe and a RAF aircrew having to work together to survive in the Norwegian wilderness, 

It is Norwegian I believe, although multi-language (predominately English but some Germany). It has that ginge from the Harry Potters who is actually superb in it as a straight talking scouser.

[Len Cnut]

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About Mossad's capture of Adolf Eichmann, Argentina. I thought it was excellent. 

Mossad don't fuck around, do they?  I ain't seen this film but from what I've seen in docu's and such they just nabbed him off the streets of Buenos Aires whilst buying flowers and next thing he knew he was in an undisclosed location in Israel.  Shame they never got Mengele, the sick cunt.  He basically got away with it, didn't he?

[DieselDaisy]

1 hour ago, Len Cnut said:

Mossad don't fuck around, do they?  I ain't seen this film but from what I've seen in docu's and such they just nabbed him off the streets of Buenos Aires whilst buying flowers and next thing he knew he was in an undisclosed location in Israel.  Shame they never got Mengele, the sick cunt.  He basically got away with it, didn't he?

He was picked up getting off the bus after work, near his home. He was held in various safe houses for a total of nine days whilst his identity was confirmed before, sedated, he was dressed as a flight attendant and smuggled out on board the same plane that brought Mossad in. Incidentally, how they were alerted to his presence was because a German girl with hidden Jewish ancestry began dating his son, masquerading as his nephew.

Mengele, alias ''Wolfgang Gerhard'', suffered a stroke whilst swimming in Brazil and drowned in 1979 which, you have to concede, is a fairly cushy death,

 

[Len Cnut]

47 minutes ago, DieselDaisy said:

He was picked up getting off the bus after work, near his home. He was held in various safe houses for a total of nine days whilst his identity was confirmed before, sedated, he was dressed as a flight attendant and smuggled out on board the same plane that brought Mossad in. Incidentally, how they were alerted to his presence was because a German girl with hidden Jewish ancestry began dating his son, masquerading as his nephew.

Mengele, alias ''Wolfgang Gerhard'', suffered a stroke whilst swimming in Brazil and drowned in 1979 which, you have to concede, is a fairly cushy death,

 

It must have been hard, being jews no less, to not give the cunt a good shoeing whilst in custody.

Edited August 6, 2019 by Len Cnut

[Dazey]

On 29/07/2019 at 12:16 AM, Len Cnut said:

Ghost (1990)

Poof!  

[Len Cnut]

1 hour ago, Dazey said:

Poof!  

If you knew what half those 40s and 30s films i stick up on here were I’d be getting that accusation a lot more often   It just so happens that you’re an ignorant uncultured swine who would know your Roman Holiday from your Shop Around the Corner  

 

[Dazey]

26 minutes ago, Len Cnut said:

If you knew what half those 40s and 30s films i stick up on here were I’d be getting that accusation a lot more often   It just so happens that you’re an ignorant uncultured swine who would know your Roman Holiday from your Shop Around the Corner  

I'll happily admit that your knowledge of corner shops is probably superior to mine!  

[Len Cnut]

21 minutes ago, Dazey said:

I'll happily admit that your knowledge of corner shops is probably superior to mine!  

In your defence I’m not sure how knowing about mainstream Hollywood films, literally the most tackiest and artless movie industry of the western world, makes one cultured.  However, you were too uncultured to even point that out  

Edited August 6, 2019 by Len Cnut

[Dazey]

8 minutes ago, Len Cnut said:

In your defence I’m not sure how knowing about mainstream Hollywood films, literally the most tackiest and artless movie industry of the western world, makes one cultured.  However, you were too uncultured to even point that out  

I could probably have done a little more research but the corner shop joke was just a gift from heaven if I'm honest.  

[DieselDaisy]

9 hours ago, Len Cnut said:

It must have been hard, being jews no less, to not give the cunt a good shoeing whilst in custody.

If the film is correct they had strict orders to bring him to trial which was unprecedented but then Eichmann was ''big fish'', the biggest fish of all you might say post-Nuremberg, and this trial was going to be screened globally. I think the film implies Peter Malkin, who led the operation to capture Adolf Eichmann, was a member of Tilhas Tizig Gesheften (''Lick My Arse Business''); these were former members of the Jewish Brigade, a formation of the British Army recruited in Palestine, who then, using their British uniforms, vehicles and credentials, went on a rampage throughout occupied Germany bumping-off ex-Nazis/SS. I suspect both the Jewish Brigade and TTG were a source of inspiration for Tarantino's (American) ''Inglorious Basterds'' - https://www.thelocal.de/20090830/21581

I don't know if this is true about Malkin being in TTG but he was definitely in Haganah which was an Israeli paramilitary formation which supplied many in the Jewish Brigade. 

[Axl's Agony Aunt]

Guns N' Roses America:

Jesus' Son (Jack Black and Dennis Hopper support Billy Crudup in poetic Beat-style hobo heroin mess): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0186253/fullcredits/?ref_=tt_ov_st_sm 
The Driftless Area (poetic loner (Izzy or Steven?) v local mafia [Guns?]): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3687304/?ref_=nv_sr_1?ref_=nv_sr_1
Vincent N Roxxy (low-budget True Romance, makes me once again question Brit liberals loving gangstas!): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3704298/
Mojave (Axl-style dude duelling with similar psycho [Hetfield in the '80s?]): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2322517/?ref_=nv_sr_1?ref_=nv_sr_1

[Axl's Agony Aunt]

Showing my Vincent N Roxxy comment wasn't 'racist' these black 'gangstas' look cool: https://selvedgeyard.com/2009/11/04/chosen-few-east-bay-dragons-americas-black-biker-set-revisited/

[Len Cnut]

Got a busy week at the movies, going to see Pulp Fiction tonight, then Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is a week...but...but but but but but, my favourite, drum roll please...(I don't get excited about things in general, I don't tend to give a fuck but this i'm excited about!) Apocalypse Now....I'll repeat that, Apocalypse Now...one more time Apocalypse fuckin' Now, in the cinema, that new fuckin' final cut thing!   Its in the new cinema in town which is like a big IMAXey thing, I dunno what the fuck an IMAX is but a quick google tells me it means a big fuckin' screen and good picture, works for me!

Apocalypse Now...I fuckin' missed A Clockwork Orange when it was screened at my local thinkin' 'fuck it, you've seen it a million times anyway' in one of my more cynical, can't be bothered moods so I weren't about to miss this.  Yeah...Apocalypse Now

[Len Cnut]

11 hours ago, DieselDaisy said:

If the film is correct they had strict orders to bring him to trial which was unprecedented but then Eichmann was ''big fish'', the biggest fish of all you might say post-Nuremberg, and this trial was going to be screened globally. I think the film implies Peter Malkin, who led the operation to capture Adolf Eichmann, was a member of Tilhas Tizig Gesheften (''Lick My Arse Business''); these were former members of the Jewish Brigade, a formation of the British Army recruited in Palestine, who then, using their British uniforms, vehicles and credentials, went on a rampage throughout occupied Germany bumping-off ex-Nazis/SS. I suspect both the Jewish Brigade and TTG were a source of inspiration for Tarantino's (American) ''Inglorious Basterds'' - https://www.thelocal.de/20090830/21581

I don't know if this is true about Malkin being in TTG but he was definitely in Haganah which was an Israeli paramilitary formation which supplied many in the Jewish Brigade. 

I remember watching a documentary about Nuremberg and like, though I don't remember fuck all about it it seems to me that like...who was it Goebbels with the cynanide pill?  Now could you let that shit happen?  Speer got out eventually didn't he and wrote books, Speer was the architect if I recall?  Donitz got a ten stretch...whereas Von Ribbentrop got death, I don't see why Donitz got the softer touch.  Hess was the only one of the really big names who got proper fucked and served out his stretch.  Now, I'm not a big one for human suffering and you will rarely see me celebrating at anyones death or lifelong misfortune but...I dunno, overall, when I look at Nuremberg...well, OK, a fair few were hung weren't they so perhaps I'm talking bollocks.  Goebbels should not have got away like that.  I suppose he was gonna hang anyway so it make no odds. 

I wonder what would've become of Hitler had he survived.  Death penalty most likely but its still like...not a nailed on certainty cuz he was the governer of em all weren't he so perhaps he would've been made an example of in a more unique way.  I could just imagine Longford in the 60s campaigning for his release

[DieselDaisy]

37 minutes ago, Len Cnut said:

I remember watching a documentary about Nuremberg and like, though I don't remember fuck all about it it seems to me that like...who was it Goebbels with the cynanide pill?  Now could you let that shit happen?  Speer got out eventually didn't he and wrote books, Speer was the architect if I recall?  Donitz got a ten stretch...whereas Von Ribbentrop got death, I don't see why Donitz got the softer touch.  Hess was the only one of the really big names who got proper fucked and served out his stretch.  Now, I'm not a big one for human suffering and you will rarely see me celebrating at anyones death or lifelong misfortune but...I dunno, overall, when I look at Nuremberg...well, OK, a fair few were hung weren't they so perhaps I'm talking bollocks.  Goebbels should not have got away like that.  I suppose he was gonna hang anyway so it make no odds. 

I wonder what would've become of Hitler had he survived.  Death penalty most likely but its still like...not a nailed on certainty cuz he was the governer of em all weren't he so perhaps he would've been made an example of in a more unique way.  I could just imagine Longford in the 60s campaigning for his release

- Göring with cyanide, cheating the hangman.

- Ribbentrop executed at Nuremberg 

- Others executed at Nuremberg: Hans Frank (governor of the Polish ''General Government''), Jodl and Keitel (German Army lackeys), Rosenberg (Nazi ideologist), Sauckel, Julius Streicher (publisher of antisemitic rag Der Stürmer) and Seyss-Inquart.

- Goebbels killed himself in the Führerbunker soon after Hitler and Eva Braun's suicide. Goebbels and his wife Magda killed their six kids in their sleep before shooting themselves outside the Führerbunker in a spot close to where Hitler's body was cremated and buried. It is all dramatised in the film Downfall (2004).

- Speer was imprisoned in Spandau until 1966 and wrote books which are fascinating and vital for historians on the inner workings of the Third Reich. Yes, architect, he and Hitler worked on designs for Hitler's Berlin, ''Germania'' as it would have been called.

- Dönitz got ten years. Utter Nazi zealot but just ran the German Navy really.

- Hess had served time in Britain don't forget, including the Tower of London, as a consequence of his infamous flight in 1941. After VE-Day he was transferred to Nuremberg and ended up in Spandau.

The Reich biggies (in loose order) were Hitler, Göring, Himmler, Goebbels, Hess, Speer, Ribbentrop, possibly Bormann - and 4 of them committed suicide (Himmler in British Army custody). Goebbels would have probably been executed hadn't he killed himself because Julius Streicher was executed but that would have been controversial as with Streicher, because all Goebbels did was utilise propaganda, creating horrible antisemitic films and media. Julius Streicher merely published quasi-pornographic antisemitism.

Streicher was utterly foul. 

If you are going off crimes against humanity, specifically the Jews, the thorough bastards, the main architects of the Final Solution, you'd probably go: Heydrich (executed by British trained Czech agents in 1942), Himmler, Hans Frank, Eichmann, Höss (Auschwitz) - too many to name and they are all utter scum but in a loose order of those having the most power. Göring, although he didn't get his hands dirty, shouldn't be left off the list because it was his order which convened the Wannsee Conference in 1942.

 

Edited August 7, 2019 by DieselDaisy

[Len Cnut]

The Shining (1980)

[lame ass security]

8 hours ago, Len Cnut said:

The Shining (1980)

Love The Shining but I never thought it was scary.  I watch it for Nicholson's over the top performance and of course Kubrick's direction.  I always thought it was interesting that Stephen King did not like the movie, mostly because of Kubrick.  

[Len Cnut]

16 hours ago, lame ass security said:

Love The Shining but I never thought it was scary.  I watch it for Nicholson's over the top performance and of course Kubrick's direction.  I always thought it was interesting that Stephen King did not like the movie, mostly because of Kubrick.  

I don't think he really made genre movies after a certain point, they were more like 'how could i film this?' movies.

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Rush Hour (1998)

The Exorcism of Emily Rose (2005)