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Post by aussiedoctorwhofan on Jan 8, 2020 9:29:43 GMT
Double Impact is one of my favourite JCVD films the scene that always cracks me up is..... Bully. "Alright mate, are you the ballet teacher" JCVD. "Yeah i teach ballet & some err karate, excuse me would you show me one of your special kicks" Bully. "you wanna see one of my kicks". JCVD. "Yeah" Bully goes kick JCVD (Chad) misses & gets a JCVD special kick. Fun fact, I used to work with a guy about 20-25ish years ago who's older cousin was a national Australian martial artist champion at that time.. he was called up to be JCVD sparring partner (he usually had 2 different ones at the same time). All he would say to my old workmate is "Jean Claude is the real deal he hits 1 way-hard"
LOL.
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Post by aussiedoctorwhofan on Jan 8, 2020 13:09:41 GMT
"A Few Good Men" just finished on tv.
I can still remember seeing that in the cinemas..
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Post by Timelord007 on Jan 8, 2020 13:44:12 GMT
Double Impact is one of my favourite JCVD films the scene that always cracks me up is..... Bully. "Alright mate, are you the ballet teacher" JCVD. "Yeah i teach ballet & some err karate, excuse me would you show me one of your special kicks" Bully. "you wanna see one of my kicks". JCVD. "Yeah" Bully goes kick JCVD (Chad) misses & gets a JCVD special kick. Fun fact, I used to work with a guy about 20-25ish years ago who's older cousin was a national Australian martial artist champion at that time.. he was called up to be JCVD sparring partner (he usually had 2 different ones at the same time). All he would say to my old workmate is "Jean Claude is the real deal he hits 1 way-hard"
LOL.
Sly & JCVD my childhood heros love there movies.
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Post by Audio Watchdog on Jan 8, 2020 20:00:29 GMT
"A Few Good Men" just finished on tv. I can still remember seeing that in the cinemas.. I remember seeing it onstage years before the film.
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Post by aussiedoctorwhofan on Jan 8, 2020 21:20:40 GMT
"A Few Good Men" just finished on tv. I can still remember seeing that in the cinemas.. I remember seeing it onstage years before the film. Was it just the court room scene as a whole?
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Post by Audio Watchdog on Jan 8, 2020 21:59:59 GMT
Production I saw was a bare stage with desks and chairs walked on and off stage by a company of men like an honor guard.
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Post by Timelord007 on Jan 9, 2020 8:30:00 GMT
Hard Boiled, a John Woo action classic.
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Post by Timelord007 on Jan 9, 2020 8:48:18 GMT
Shocked to discover John Woo's A Better Tomorrow trilogy hasn't yet had a UK Blu ray release.
Sort it please.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 9, 2020 10:26:20 GMT
Jay and Silent Bob Reboot. Looks like we already have a contender for worst film of 2020.
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Post by whiskeybrewer on Jan 9, 2020 13:23:11 GMT
The Frighteners Underrated Peter Jackson film, when you compare it to whats around it. But i really enjoy it. Quite a diverse cast. I'd love to see someone film and edit in a Cryptkeeper intro and outro since it was originally going to be a Tales from the Crypt Movie
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Post by melkur on Jan 10, 2020 0:24:44 GMT
'Just finished watching 'Jay & Silent Bob Reboot' and, well, I've been more disappointed in films, I guess?... Reebot's unlikely to be the best film I'll see this year, but still decent enough? (Shrugs)
'Slight trim (cough) KKK (cough) and it would be definitely be better!
Edit - "I've seen it, I'm happy I have, I wouldn't have gone down the Iron Man 'parody' route..."
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Post by Timelord007 on Jan 10, 2020 7:30:05 GMT
Bram Stokers Dracula, Gary Oldman performance is still my favourite incarnation, love Hopkins Van Helsing portrayal as well.
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Post by Timelord007 on Jan 10, 2020 7:31:20 GMT
The Void, one dark, gruesome gory sci-fi horror flick.
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Post by aussiedoctorwhofan on Jan 10, 2020 7:44:02 GMT
Bram Stokers Dracula, Gary Oldman performance is still my favourite incarnation, love Hopkins Van Helsing portrayal as well. Saw it in the cinemas New Years Eve 1993, it was R rated in Australia and we were a few months into our legal age LOL
Movie finished at 11:30pm
The cd soundtrack was pretty much impossible to find, took me about 10 years but I found one in a 2nd hand music shop, our mate was hangin' for a copy.
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Post by Tim Bradley on Jan 10, 2020 7:45:26 GMT
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Post by Timelord007 on Jan 10, 2020 12:39:07 GMT
Bram Stokers Dracula, Gary Oldman performance is still my favourite incarnation, love Hopkins Van Helsing portrayal as well. Saw it in the cinemas New Years Eve 1993, it was R rated in Australia and we were a few months into our legal age LOL
Movie finished at 11:30pm
The cd soundtrack was pretty much impossible to find, took me about 10 years but I found one in a 2nd hand music shop, our mate was hangin' for a copy.
They used one of the Dracula themes for the Demolition Man trailer lol
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Post by whiskeybrewer on Jan 10, 2020 13:16:43 GMT
Saw it in the cinemas New Years Eve 1993, it was R rated in Australia and we were a few months into our legal age LOL
Movie finished at 11:30pm
The cd soundtrack was pretty much impossible to find, took me about 10 years but I found one in a 2nd hand music shop, our mate was hangin' for a copy.
They used one of the Dracula themes for the Demolition Man trailer lol Lol i love that also Annie Lennox's Love Song for a Vampire is brilliant and suits the mood so well
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Post by Deleted on Jan 10, 2020 14:07:59 GMT
Bram Stokers Dracula, Gary Oldman performance is still my favourite incarnation, love Hopkins Van Helsing portrayal as well. As Mark Gattis pointed out, the major issue is that it's really about as much to do with Bram Stoker's Dracula as the Count from Sesame Street. The film, and Coppola, really did sell it as the most faithful version ever when it just isn't. It's Francis Ford Coppola's Dracula and that would have been fine. Same as the next years "Mary Shelley's Frankenstein" - just because you put a few things in that other versions haven't doesn't make it "faithful" - it's a film. We know what cinematic and dramatic licence are! Dracula is lot campier and stylistic than any before but I think it's a lot of fun in places, not always intentionally, from the atrocious acting of Reeves and Ryder to Oldman doing Vlad by way of Norma Desmond at the start. He's having a lot of fun. Smashing support cast too, especially Tom Waits as Renfield. Genius casting. Hopkins has three roles I think - Van Helsing, the narrator at the start (who is not Van Helsing as Hopkins is using his own accent not the apparently Dutch one he's got as Van H) and the Priest in the pre-credits. So he was game for it to do so much. He's not one of my favourite Van Helsings - I doubt anyone will ever lodge Cushing and Sister Agatha has recently become a real contender -but Hopkins does play it with an arrogance I really like.
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Post by fingersmash on Jan 10, 2020 15:53:29 GMT
Bram Stokers Dracula, Gary Oldman performance is still my favourite incarnation, love Hopkins Van Helsing portrayal as well. As Mark Gattis pointed out, the major issue is that it's really about as much to do with Bram Stoker's Dracula as the Count from Sesame Street. The film, and Coppola, really did sell it as the most faithful version ever when it just isn't. It's Francis Ford Coppola's Dracula and that would have been fine. Same as the next years "Mary Shelley's Frankenstein" - just because you put a few things in that other versions haven't doesn't make it "faithful" - it's a film. We know what cinematic and dramatic licence are! Dracula is lot campier and stylistic than any before but I think it's a lot of fun in places, not always intentionally, from the atrocious acting of Reeves and Ryder to Oldman doing Vlad by way of Norma Desmond at the start. He's having a lot of fun. Smashing support cast too, especially Tom Waits as Renfield. Genius casting. Hopkins has three roles I think - Van Helsing, the narrator at the start (who is not Van Helsing as Hopkins is using his own accent not the apparently Dutch one he's got as Van H) and the Priest in the pre-credits. So he was game for it to do so much. He's not one of my favourite Van Helsings - I doubt anyone will ever lodge Cushing and Sister Agatha has recently become a real contender -but Hopkins does play it with an arrogance I really like. I thought Winona Ryder pulled out a pretty good performance. Keanu is abhorrent but I think he knew he shouldn't have been anywhere near this film even then. He definitely knows his wheelhouse.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 10, 2020 16:12:58 GMT
As Mark Gattis pointed out, the major issue is that it's really about as much to do with Bram Stoker's Dracula as the Count from Sesame Street. The film, and Coppola, really did sell it as the most faithful version ever when it just isn't. It's Francis Ford Coppola's Dracula and that would have been fine. Same as the next years "Mary Shelley's Frankenstein" - just because you put a few things in that other versions haven't doesn't make it "faithful" - it's a film. We know what cinematic and dramatic licence are! Dracula is lot campier and stylistic than any before but I think it's a lot of fun in places, not always intentionally, from the atrocious acting of Reeves and Ryder to Oldman doing Vlad by way of Norma Desmond at the start. He's having a lot of fun. Smashing support cast too, especially Tom Waits as Renfield. Genius casting. Hopkins has three roles I think - Van Helsing, the narrator at the start (who is not Van Helsing as Hopkins is using his own accent not the apparently Dutch one he's got as Van H) and the Priest in the pre-credits. So he was game for it to do so much. He's not one of my favourite Van Helsings - I doubt anyone will ever lodge Cushing and Sister Agatha has recently become a real contender -but Hopkins does play it with an arrogance I really like. I thought Winona Ryder pulled out a pretty good performance. Keanu is abhorrent but I think he knew he shouldn't have been anywhere near this film even then. He definitely knows his wheelhouse. I thought Ryder was nearly as out of her depth as she was in The Age Of Innocence though, unlike there, at least Reeves was on hand to make her look better by comparison. Sadie Frost fit in a lot better to the film's tone and aesthetic as Lucy.
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