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Watching the classic Steven Seagal flick "Out For Justice"

"Anybody seen Ritchie?!?"

thejokeriv wrote:

Watching the classic Steven Seagal flick "Out For Justice"

"Anybody seen Ritchie?!?"

Jokerman I am not sure if the word classic and Steben Seagal should be used in the same sentence.

jstate wrote:

Miracle Mile

A straight to video 80's movie with Anthony Edwards about an impending nuclear accident and a guy falling in love. People have raved about what an unheralded movie this is. Certainly wasn't for me. In fact it gave me a bad headache. Which may have been from the eighties fashion horror going on. At one point it looked like the movie was going to take an awesome turn - but it didn't. And my headache got worse.

Actually, I thought that it was pretty cool. They played this on TV a while ago here. You can tell that it is a German Production and it has an excellent Tangerine Dream soundtrack.... If you like Electronic Music, that is.

manny wrote:

thejokeriv wrote:

Watching the classic Steven Seagal flick "Out For Justice"

"Anybody seen Ritchie?!?"

Jokerman I am not sure if the word classic and Steben Seagal should be used in the same sentence.

LOL!!! His early movies were great!!!!! Classic low budget revenge flick!

Pulp Fiction came on afterwards. Interesting how they changed some of the "dialogue"

Seagal's first four movies are all at least pretty good, especially Above the Law and Under Siege, which are two of the best action movies ever. After that...things start getting weird although he still made some entertaining stuff. If nothing else, his eccentricity means he's never boring to watch

I haven't seen a Seagal movie since "The Patriot," which was a godawful direct-to-video piece of crap he made in the late 90s/early 00s.

I did dig his first couple of movies though, especially "Under Siege," which was a great "Die Hard" ripoff. Tommy Lee Jones is hilariously awesome as the bad guy in that movie. Plus you got Gary Busey in drag and onetime Playmate Erika Eleniak when she was still hot.

Steven Seagal makes Charles Bronson seem Shakespearean by comparison.

One Seagal anecdote I read recently is that on Out for Justice he got on William Forsythe's bad side by lecturing Forsythe on how to improve his Brooklyn accent. Forsythe is from Brooklyn. Seagal also accidentally clipped Forsythe a few times during the filming of the climax, which didn't help.

INCEPTION (Dicaprio at his best for the 2nd time. perfect awsome superb. rocmended)

Unthinkable

All I can say is WOW! IMO, this is a VERY good movie!!

And watched another one:

Repo Men

Really enjoyable! Kinda expected the 'twist', but still a very fun movie to see.

Saw The Other Guys. Best Will Ferrell movie since Anchorman.

XYZ wrote:

Saw The Other Guys. Best Will Ferrell movie since Anchorman.

You didn't like Talladega Nights or Step Brothers? Those are like my two favorite Ferrell movies. My wife wants to see The Other Guys. She has a thing for Mark Wahlberg.

Watched The Blindside last night. It was very good up until the very end when he is picked by the Baltimore Ravens. I hate the Ravens.

Who Dey!!

Started re-watching The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy last night but began to drowse about 40 minutes in, so I turned it off. Will pick up where I left off last night.

Ice From The Sun

The lowest of low budget independent horror movies. Some interesting ideas but it's severely restricted by budgetary constraints and atrocious acting.

Watched Inception today. Very good movie.

Finished "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" (2nd time seeing it) last night. I know a lot of fans of the novels hated the movie because it "didn't stick to the book" but anyone who's read those novels should know that they're so random and non-linear that making a truly faithful "adaptation" film would've been impossible.

As it is, I dig it. It still captures the insane feel of the novels even if it doesn't reproduce the story to the letter.

Fat Freddy wrote:

Finished "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" (2nd time seeing it) last night. I know a lot of fans of the novels hated the movie because it "didn't stick to the book" but anyone who's read those novels should know that they're so random and non-linear that making a truly faithful "adaptation" film would've been impossible.

As it is, I dig it. It still captures the insane feel of the novels even if it doesn't reproduce the story to the letter.

That's the way I feel about it. I just picked up a used copy over the weekend, looking forward to revisiting it sometime soon.

detuned wrote:

Fat Freddy wrote:

Finished "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" (2nd time seeing it) last night. I know a lot of fans of the novels hated the movie because it "didn't stick to the book" but anyone who's read those novels should know that they're so random and non-linear that making a truly faithful "adaptation" film would've been impossible.

As it is, I dig it. It still captures the insane feel of the novels even if it doesn't reproduce the story to the letter.

That's the way I feel about it. I just picked up a used copy over the weekend, looking forward to revisiting it sometime soon.

I recently borrowed the "new" Hitchhiker's book ("And Another Thing...") from the library and enjoyed it, even though it's by a new author (Eoin Colfer) he did a nice job keeping the same bizarre feel/vibe. Supposedly Douglas Adams' widow hand-picked this guy to write the book from some notes that Douglas had written up before he passed away.

My old paperbacks of the other "Hitchhiker" books got so dog-eared from repeated reads that I finally had to retire'em a couple of years ago. I've seen a really nice hardcover book that compiles all five of Adams' books in one big volume, I'd like to get my hands on that one of these days.

Saw the first Narnia movie again last night.

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I've seen a really nice hardcover book that compiles all five of Adams' books in one big volume, I'd like to get my hands on that one of these days.

That's the one I have.

Balls of Fury. The idea of parodying Enter the Dragon by focusing the plot on ping-pong is kind of funny but this is still pretty dumb.

Speed. Still a good flick although Keanu is even more wooden than I remember him being in this. That's saying something.

All The President's Men.Great movie. I'm slowly making my way through AFI's 100 Greatest.

So far, I've seen:

Citizen Kane
The Godfather
Lawrence of Arabia (The best I've seen so far)
Schindler's List
The Wizard of Oz
Star Wars
E.T.
The Godfather, Part II
Dr. Strangelove
The Sound of Music (I was only seven. Even then, I didn't really want to watch it. I listen to Slayer now, so I think it all balances out.)
King Kong
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
M*A*S*H
Duck Soup
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Saving Private Ryan
The Shawshank Redemption
Forrest Gump
All The President's Men
A Night at the Opera
Twelve Angry Men
The Sixth Sense
Pulp Fiction
Blade Runner
Toy Story
Ben-Hur
Patton

I am going off the '97 and '07 lists.

Rcoky 4 (Drago)
Me, Myself & Irene

Watched the Rob Zombie remake of Halloween 2. I wasn't impressed with it. Also watched another horror flick called Open House that was even worse than the Halloween movie.