Post by 42ndstreetfreak on Jun 28, 2006 19:47:58 GMT -5
My recent non-horror viewing has consisted of:
Suddenly -
Frank Sinatra plans to shoot the President with a sniper rifle from a window. OUCH!
Sterling Hayden's stiffly acted Sheriff and the most upstanding American family ever seen are out to stop him
This wildly melodramatic and outrageously theatrical movie would probably have drifted into obscurity if it was not for two linked events.
JFK was later assassinated.
And Sinatra stopped distribution of the film because of it.
Such is the way movie folklore is born.
It is very strange to hear Sinatra, when he is told other assassins have never escaped, going through the list of President killers (and why they are inferior to him) and not of course have any mention of Oswald and JFK as that was 9 years away.
If the film was made now it would of course be explicitly mentioned,
Sinatra chews the scenery, it's outrageously patriotic, it's all rather silly (after the Sheriff and the head Secret Service guy go missing and another Cop is shot in the streets...why would Sinatra ever think the Presidential visit would still happen!!?) but it's all very entertaining.
In fact how could a film where Ol' Blue Eyes slaps around an 8 year old boy and threatens to cut his throat not be entertaining!?
"Kickboxer 4" -
Very cheesy, with a villian stuck with a stupid latex face to try and make hin look Asian...but otherwise this was surprisingly good popcorn entertainment.
Packed with extremely violent fights it moves at a nice pace and also manages to cram in some welcome nudity (including a surprisingly exploitative threesome sex scene that stops the plot dead) and a brutal torture scene with a surprisingly nasty (especially given the victim), entrail exposing outcome.
A good, solid, brutal popcorn fight-fest that does what it needs to do without pretension.
"American Yakuza" -
Viggo Mortensen plays an undercover Cop who hitches up with the Yakuza and finds his loyalties torn as he becomes to close to his new crime 'family'.
Some good, solid action scenes, a very good cast (including Robert Forster), some impressive cinematography and an interesting screenplay that gives us engaging characters means this little B movie gem delivers all it should.
A great spot of theatrical high emotion during the finale is the icing on the cake.
Check it out.
Suddenly -
Frank Sinatra plans to shoot the President with a sniper rifle from a window. OUCH!
Sterling Hayden's stiffly acted Sheriff and the most upstanding American family ever seen are out to stop him
This wildly melodramatic and outrageously theatrical movie would probably have drifted into obscurity if it was not for two linked events.
JFK was later assassinated.
And Sinatra stopped distribution of the film because of it.
Such is the way movie folklore is born.
It is very strange to hear Sinatra, when he is told other assassins have never escaped, going through the list of President killers (and why they are inferior to him) and not of course have any mention of Oswald and JFK as that was 9 years away.
If the film was made now it would of course be explicitly mentioned,
Sinatra chews the scenery, it's outrageously patriotic, it's all rather silly (after the Sheriff and the head Secret Service guy go missing and another Cop is shot in the streets...why would Sinatra ever think the Presidential visit would still happen!!?) but it's all very entertaining.
In fact how could a film where Ol' Blue Eyes slaps around an 8 year old boy and threatens to cut his throat not be entertaining!?
"Kickboxer 4" -
Very cheesy, with a villian stuck with a stupid latex face to try and make hin look Asian...but otherwise this was surprisingly good popcorn entertainment.
Packed with extremely violent fights it moves at a nice pace and also manages to cram in some welcome nudity (including a surprisingly exploitative threesome sex scene that stops the plot dead) and a brutal torture scene with a surprisingly nasty (especially given the victim), entrail exposing outcome.
A good, solid, brutal popcorn fight-fest that does what it needs to do without pretension.
"American Yakuza" -
Viggo Mortensen plays an undercover Cop who hitches up with the Yakuza and finds his loyalties torn as he becomes to close to his new crime 'family'.
Some good, solid action scenes, a very good cast (including Robert Forster), some impressive cinematography and an interesting screenplay that gives us engaging characters means this little B movie gem delivers all it should.
A great spot of theatrical high emotion during the finale is the icing on the cake.
Check it out.