"I haven't gone to a theater since TOP GUN". Well, that's me! I thought -- naively -- that Top Gun 's popularity as a "big screen popcorn experience" might jump-start and restore movie-going, but it didn't really. A number of months ago I stopped to get something to eat in a nei...

AndyDursin wrote: ↑Sun Apr 21, 2024 10:45 am thankfully the action scoring is robust and one has to thank Ken Thorne for that, as the veteran composer is credited with orchestrating and conducting the score.

And probably ghosting some of it too I suspect!

The Three Musketeers: D'Artagnan (6/10) How many times are they going to remake this story? Ok, I'll accept than an actual French adaptation of a story written by a Frenchman is valid. But this is a very uneven movie which ultimately doesn't work. First the good. This film is visually sumptuous, wi...

^^ I'd hazard a guess Ridley Scott won't be casting Brian Cox in his films anytime soon.

The Ten Commandments (9/10) My first viewing in five years. DeMille's picture remains one of great epics -- biblical or otherwise -- and every subsequent epic, Ben-Hur, Spartacus, Lawrence of Arabia, Gladiator , et all -- stands on its shoulders. I reviewed it in detail after my previous screening ...

This week is a good show -- imagine THE WARRIORS, THE GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY and HARDCORE all in theaters at the same time. A whole different universe than the crap sent out to audiences today. I liked The Warriors myself, but (as you probably recall Andy) was laughing during much of Hardcore ! I agre...

Eric Paddon wrote: ↑Fri Apr 05, 2024 4:33 pm I'm assuming that extra hour is where all the scenes that explained WHY Napoleon was invading other countries went to?

I know that Kingdom of Heaven was not improved by the restoration of footage. I doubt it will help Napoleon.

Oh well.

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Incredible she had to tell Steven and George to shoot the RAIDERS ending with Indy and Marion that was scripted -- yet they felt they didn't need it! :lol: :lol: People tend to assume the writer and director come-up with all the ideas, but in reality the director is working with a bunch of creative...

Further on Marcia Lucas, here's an interesting Youtube video that provides a lot of background on her contributions to Star Wars (as well as Raiders) and her career in general...

Yes, thank-you Andy for your wonderful reminiscences.

....as was the snubbing of Bernstein for a Best Score nomination, though I don't quibble with the posthumous Oscar given to Victor Young). I suspect it had something to do with Bernstein having been grey-listed in Hollywood for several years (from which he was rescued by DeMille). Of course as valu...

Monterey Jack wrote: ↑Sun Mar 24, 2024 12:11 am The original Mad Max made $100 million!

https://screenrant.com/mad-max-1979-rec ... e-history/

But was not a success in the US. I said "it was a sequel to a film almost no one in America saw".

Greatest Geek Year Ever: 1982 (8.5./10) Written by Mark A. Altman, this first-rate documentary series explores what many consider (hence the title) the greatest single year for cinema ever, 1982. Whether one agrees with that assessment or not, '82 was without question a phenomenal epoch in movie hi...

No. Just no. I'm sooooo tired of the way "way too late/way after the fact/bring out the fossils" sequelitis. I think I hate this even more than prequelitis and that's saying something. This is at least 20 years too late. With you 100%. What's next? Breakfast Club 40-Year High School Reuni...