Walken made that movie. He made it seem bigger and more ominous and more important. awesome menace.

I think he makes everything he is in. Really, what was Dogs of War without Walken?? Haha, he was even great in Sarah, Plain and Tall, in fact, I think that was my first introduction to Chris Walken back in elementary school! Suicide Kings was total shit, but Chris was delightful in it. It was like a TV movie knock of Kings of New York, wait, that is probably because it was made by a TV movie director ;) I don't know HOW THE FUCK I haven't seen Seven Psychopaths yet, I mean really.. In Last Man Standing he manages to out swag Bruce Willis in one of The Bruce's most swag roles. Was thee drug lord villain in Day of Atonement, a movie that would have been a disaster without him. Ok, Communion didn't work, but that is only because Walken kept doing devious Walken gestures and mannerisms, we weren't sure who was the villain then, him or the aliens? At Close Range was epic, even with that bad mustache. He couldn't save A View To Kill, even as a blonde. Mousehunt was fucking hilarious, it is what makes Walken Walken, the blend between absurdly funny deadpanning and ruthless evil (sort of like the bad cop version of Liam Neilson). Mr. Smith in the Nick of Time was sinister. I even enjoyed Catch Me If You Can.. I won't even bring of King of New York, its unnecessary. Same with Deer Hunter, though I don't think its his best at all..

Did Walken kill Natalie Wood?

No, but he was there on the boat. Walken was considered part of the fight, but not a suspect. It is suspicious either way, but I recall Walken has taken accusations to be so absurd so as to not even respond to them. After all, he is said to have loved or at least been deeply involved with Natalie Wood, I'm sure its a sensitive issue to say the least...

Whatever. I once saw a website that said he did.

she was a Russkie Natalia Nikolaevna Zacharenko

recently watched saló. i had a copy sent to my by the legendary toxic johnny back when it was still banned/impossible to find/etc. that time around it was very hard to watch and incomprehensible to me, but it left a mark-- i knew i was missing something.

this time i got the criterion disc and prepared for like a week: watched all the included documentaries first, read articles about it, etc. only then i was able to watch, and it still took me all of 4 days to finish the movie itself (one day for the antechamber and then one "circle" per day.)

damn.

as a critique of fascism and totalitarian consumerism i have to say-- amazing job. still very difficult to keep eyes on it. between falling asleep and being horrified, it was a heavy homework, and it wasn't "enjoyable" --but it was worth the effort.

I must watch that. I'm not familiar with the film, I know its on Criterion and the artwork of that version is quite eye-grabbing, so I've had it on my watch list. Its sounds quite unsettling and suspenseful.

It's often categorized as a horror movie, and I can assure you there is nothing bonerific about it. It's just abuse upon abuse upon abuse while the warplanes fly overhead. Rape survivors and other PTSDed people should definitely avoid.

That's how I feel about most "modern" movies now. The abuse of CGI and "loudness" have made movies disorienting. Its like, "Can we bring back actual make-up, costumes, set building, actors please?"

As usual, it was actually a fairly terrible movie, yet Chris Walken somehow mad it excellent. His dead-panning was superb, and Woody almost beat him out! This movie was totally stupid, but I loved it for no reason in particular. Maybe because it evolved from a murder movie to a stoner comedy?

They're on a Brian De Palma spree on tv.
I watched Blow Out and eventually liked it more than the dubbed version I remembered (I'd keep thinking I was hearing Gérard Depardieu's voice whenever Travolta spoke, and Nancy Allen's French voice harmed her acting).
So I decided to give Obsession another try - I hadn't liked it at all some 20 years ago.
I thought then that Cliff Robertson was terrible.
Three years ago maybe I saw him in Samuel Fuller's Underground USA; the film was grrrrreat and Robertson was no stranger to that.
Today's verdict on Obsession: terrible with glimpses of wow; Bernard Herrmann's music is too present, the light doesn't seem to fit the story, there's no tempo, the plot is ludicrous, a camera move reminding me of Contempt is out of place, Robertson doesn't play at all, John Lithgow's sudden impulse to reveal too much is cretinous... and yet... Geneviève Bujold is brilliant, the little girl part is splendid, the scales work, and Cliff Robertson's last (long) shot is truly great, as he delivers something quite astounding.

Expectation has everything to do with how I watch a movie. Probably a bad thing.

SALO: I heard it was REALLY fucked-up. I found it only mildly fucked-up, so I was actually kinda bored by it.

2012: I heard it was a worthless piece of shit, so I ended up enjoying it a lot because it doesn't entirely suck. Great special effects, HUGE death count.

Seriously, I'd rather watch 2012 again than Salo.

Both Piranha movies are so cheesy stupid that I can't help but enjoy.

The Goonies

5/10

The World's End

What is sad is how for a large part from 1988-1995 in certain parts of Los Angeles, this terrible B-minus made-for-TV style after school special movie was a true fucking story :(

Gimme The Loot, 7 or maybe 8 out of 10. A good teenage adventure movie, in the sense that it's the kind of adventure only teenagers have, roaming the streets semi-aimlessly trying to get to a place/get something done and not really having your plans come to fruition but having a more important experience in the process.

Really interesting film, I've never seen the original, just heard things about it, but so many movie sites horror based and otherwise have praised this.

I actually enjoyed Nighthawks, its like one of the
few decent Stallone movies,but he doesn't have
to talk much, has a kick ass beard, and we didn't
have to watch Gene Hackman slaughter the French Connection
theme with a terrible French Connection III as this was
originally scripted to be until Gene turned it down. And who
can hate on Billy Dee Williams?



Also watched some Charles Bronson movies
not worth mentioning. Funny thing about Bronson movies
they are every bit as B-minus, bad casting, made-for-tv
produced as most Chris Walken movies, yet, Walken
himself makes these movies become epic, yet Bronson
leaves them as shallow and lame as they actually are.

Bronson is like a wooden statue.

hard to believe he was the only one of the dirty 12 that survived.

The funny part, is they try to act like he had all this pimpness and swag with the ladiez, yet, he always came across as somebodies genteel grandfather, not some kind of sex symbol, rather somebody just too damned nice to have sex with people. The chicks always falling for him seemed so damned arbitrarily written into the plot that the movie was over before it began, even with all the shit casting and production. How did this guy have some kind of career? Making Clint Eastwood parody flicks? The 1980s are almost worse than the 1990s in regards to giving shit actors star careers. Almost worse than the 1990s..

watched linklater's "before midnight" the other day.

had lots of fun watching it, good dialogue, and probably the best marital argument i've ever seen on the screen. (yes, they are not "married" but they are married all they same-- they have a nest & offspring).

one thing that bugged me after the fact though was the céline character talked too much like an american-- i don't mean just julie delpy's accent which obviously has to sound american since she's spent a long time in hollywood, but rather the content of the dialoge-- e.g., the way she humorlessly tries to hang the guy on a pike in front of everybody else at the table, or her annoying preoccupation with her "fat ass." the former is an established american tradition, the latter strikes me as a highly anglosaxon worry, not so much french. am i wrong here? jesse on the other hand is a tried and true american teenager, from the rocket in his pocket to his time machine story.

thing is though, it doesn't matter that the characters are highly imperfect or culturally accurate-- it was the argument itself that had us cackling and saying "oh hell yes, this shit is true life." highly watchable.

Watched some flicks while taking care of my dog. Missed wortk for two days cuz dog went crazy and tore up a door and ate wood and paint and shit. we thought she was dying! all better now thank mario. Luckily the cable had some good flicks to while away the days.

Are you saying that you dig Bronson, or that his swag seems authentic?

Btw the way, I love John Carpenter but The Fog is such a terrible fucking movie. What a waste.

I do like him and I think for a while he was one of the most authentic/believable tough guys out there, but I'll admit that by the 80s he'd become a bit ridiculous. But then you mention that being a decade when he was making Clint Eastwood parodies which is sort of true (although not really parodies) but then again pretty much what everyone was doing that in the 80s, including Clint Eastwood.

Bronson's movies from the 70s though, stuff like Mr Majestyk, Cold Sweat, were great.

And what's so terrible about The Fog? It's not my fave by Carpenter and the ending's a definite let down but until that point it hardly puts a foot wrong.

Dude you must be choking on nostalgia, have you re-watched an actual Bronson movie since like 25 years ago, because you may unfortunately discover that they suck. Believe me, its nothing personal against Bronson, its just a kind of reality check.


If anything, the ending was the only redeeming part, as with most John Carpenter movies, the ending is really the only point. And as with Big Trouble in Little China, The Fog was really pointless up until that point, but unlike as with Big Trouble, the Fog was no where near as entertaining or go for broke campy (e.g. in the Evil Dead/Army of Darkness form).

Carpenter makes The Fog into a morality play on hypocrisy within Christianity, particularly the Catholic Church, as he has in several of his movies, but in this instance, it seems like NONE of the plot developed or enhanced or even built up to this. It was like some kind of "surprise" ending, but the movie itself was not credible enough to sustain it. If you just saw the final 30 minutes, it'd be a better movie in my opinion.

Halloween, The Thing, Escape From New York, Prince of Darkness, In the Mouth of Madness, these are great fucking movies, but The Fog I think is a miss. Just meandered too much..

hey, hey, suchfriends

YOU'RE WRONG

i have images turned off so i can't see your dumb meme but

YOU'RE TERMINALLY WRONG.

i can't see the image again, so i don't know what your mental laziness is attempting to signify, but you're wrong regardless.