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John Wick is very well made and very, very entertaining. I know a lot of people criticize Keanu Reeves for his acting, but when you give him a part like this that fits him like a glove, he's dynamite. The number of goons Keanu takes out is really high, something like 77, and did you notice, YW, his style is a double tap to the head? LOL I can't wait for the sequel. Oh yeah, Ian McShane is great as the proprietor of a hotel for assassins which has quite specific house rules.
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Keanu Reeves seemed to drop of the radar for a while there but it now seems that he's making a bit of a comeback though I've read some pretty negative reviews about his latest Exposed which is a 2016 crime drama dealing with the well worn theme of police corruption.
I'd say John Wick is definitely one of the better revenge thrillers that they've done for a while and is a movie that i feel certainly warrants a sequel,talking of sequels I see that Keanu and Alex Winter are going to reprise there roles for a Bill & Ted 3 which if done right could be fun.
I think the Keanu Reeves movie I'm most curious about at the moment is the 2015 horror thriller Knock Knock which I've read mostly bad reviews for but for some reason i still feel the urge to want to watch it!
Have you seen it Crash?
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Absolutely Anything (2015) starring Simon Pegg, Kate Beckinsale, Sanjeev Bhaskar, Eddie Izzard, Robin Williams and the surviving Monty Python team.
Funny comedy, if a little predictable in places, about a schoolteacher who gains the power to do anything he wants, as a test by aliens to see whether the earth is worth saving. Beckinsale plays the 'unattainable' love interest in the flat below
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Watched two movies on Dutch TV the past few days :
Journey 2 ; The Mysterious Island (2012)
Entertaining family adventure (but mostly aimed at kids) starring Dwayne -The Rock- Johnson, Michael Caine, a cute Vanessa Hudgens, and a very annoying Luis Guzmán.
World War Z (2013)
Impressive mass zombie scenes (especially the attack on Jeruzalem, Israel) do not make a good movie. The whole movie is rather tame and bloodless, and failed to keep me interested all the way through.
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I have not seen Eli Roth's Knock Knock, but I have seen the original Death Game a/k/a The Seducers (1977), which had an excellent cast of Seymour Cassel, Colleen Camp, and Sondra Locke. It's a flawed, but interesting, film, a product of its time, with good performances as psychos by Camp and Locke and a jaw-dropping ending. Cassel didn't much like the way the filming was going so he didn't participate in the post-production. He's dubbed by another actor, which just adds to the surreal weirdness of the proceedings.
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Special Correspondents, written and directed by Ricky Gervais, with Gervais, Eric Bana, Vera Farmiga, Kelly Macdonald, and Kevin Pollak. I think that it is pretty much official: I've given up on Ricky Gervais, who has been floundering for the better part of a decade. This Netflix film, a remake of a French comedy, has exactly two good things gong for it: First, finally, at long last, someone recognized that Eric Bana, who had his own sketch comedy show on Australian TV, is actually a good comic actor. Except for Munich, he's been mostly misused as a dramatic actor ever since he came to Hollywood. And second, the always excellent Vera Farmiga is, not surprisingly, a fine comic actress too. She and Bana are good. Everything else is pretty terrible, from the dull TV-movie direction to the extremely weak, mostly laugh-deprived script. Folks like Kevin Pollak and Kelly Macdonald have nothing to do except stand around, with the usually reliable Macdonald adopting a high-pitched, whiny, and annoying American accent as Gervais's potential love interest. This is easily her worst performance ever. All in all, Gervais managed to take the nugget of a good plot idea and turn it into a nearly complete disaster. (Maybe he should've called Stephen Merchant.)
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Watched the Spike Lee MJ documentary Michael Jackson's Journey from Motown to Off the Wall (2016).
Lots of interesting info here and it´s great to see all these studio execs and awesome musicians. However, i think that Mr. Lee has interviewed too many friends of his and the short comment from the director himself was completely useless. The music is great of course and i loved all the archive bits and pieces. I´ve actually never heard Off the Wall in it´s entirety so i may have to purchase the album.
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The Butterfly Effect (2004) - This was really good! It had me on the edge of my seat. Definitely worth a watch! 10/10 Posts: 232 | From: United Kingdom | Registered: Apr 2015 | Site Updates: 0
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quote:Originally posted by Crash: I have not seen Eli Roth's Knock Knock, but I have seen the original Death Game a/k/a The Seducers (1977), which had an excellent cast of Seymour Cassel, Colleen Camp, and Sondra Locke. It's a flawed, but interesting, film, a product of its time, with good performances as psychos by Camp and Locke and a jaw-dropping ending. Cassel didn't much like the way the filming was going so he didn't participate in the post-production. He's dubbed by another actor, which just adds to the surreal weirdness of the proceedings.
Death Game sounds completely nuts Crash and i wouldn't mind checking it out especially to laugh at the dubbed Seymour Cassel but it's really difficult to get your hands on as It now seems to be long out of print!
This is one actually you'd like to see some behind the scenes footage for as it sounded like it was absolute mayhem on set!
This and a Klaus kinski movie now that would be interesting as he was meant to have been absolutely murder to work with!
The Butterfly Effect is a really great movie Chloe, not seen the 2nd part but have seen part 3 and that has very little connection to the original film but it's still quite watchable!
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quote:Originally posted by Crash: John Wick is very well made and very, very entertaining. I know a lot of people criticize Keanu Reeves for his acting, but when you give him a part like this that fits him like a glove, he's dynamite. The number of goons Keanu takes out is really high, something like 77, and did you notice, YW, his style is a double tap to the head? LOL I can't wait for the sequel. Oh yeah, Ian McShane is great as the proprietor of a hotel for assassins which has quite specific house rules.
We went to see John Wick in the theater (a rarity for us lately) and really enjoyed it. I agree Crash, Keanu was meant for this part. I hope the sequel is just as good.
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Well, this certainly goes high into my guilty pleasures list ! Posts: 2176 | From: The Netherlands | Registered: Jun 2011 | Site Updates: 0
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Drive Angry is a guilty pleasure for me too. I saw it in a theatre in 3D. What I enjoyed the most about it, in addition to William Fichtner's funny performance as Satan's accountant, is that it doesn't pretend to be anything other than a stupid, trashy exploitation film.
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I watched and loved Stitches. Really funny. It was like a cross between the wonderful TV show Psychoville and the elm street sequels.
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I have seen that Psychoville is streaming in the US. I'll have to check it out.
What's that great line that Fichtner has about Satan in Drive Angry? "Satan is simply the warden of a very large prison. Quiet man actually, thoughtful, and he's well read." ROFL.
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Yeah I agree Drive Angry is a total blast and not to be taken the least bit serious,I can't at this very moment think of the director's name with out looking it up but I'm sure he also done the My Bloody Valentine remake which while not a patch on the 1981 original was still a lot of fun to watch!
Last night I checked out the recently released thriller Standoff (2016).
A great little thriller this was with a couple of very decent performances from Larry Fishburne and Thomas Jane which more or less takes place entirely in one building (a remote country farmhouse) and as the title suggests plays out like one long standoff between a contract killer as played by Larry Fishburne and a war veteran as played by Thomas Jane.
The plot kicks off with Larry Fishburne carrying out a hit at a funeral (a very low key funeral at that as there's only a couple of people in attendance and it's being held at a cemetary in the middle of nowhere) and while carrying out this dastardly deed he is caught on camera by a young girl who has been brought to the cemetary by her guardian to visit her parents grave,when Fishburne realises that the young girl not only witnessed the killings that he has just committed but also has his face on film he quickly gives chase pursuing her from the cemetary to a nearby farmhouse which is owned by Thomas Jane.
Then it's basically a case of let the battle commence with the hired killer Larry Fishburne going up against the troubled (recently lost his son,hit the bottle etc) war veteran Thomas Jane who will do anything he can to protect the innocent young girl from this ruthless killer!
Tense stuff this that had me glued to the screen for its relatively short running time of just 80 minutes and it is one that I can whole heartedly recommend to any thriller fans out there!
I always thought Thomas Jane didn't make too bad a punisher what did you guys think?
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Vancouver-based film editor Patrick Lussier directed Drive Angry as well as the remake of My Bloody Valentine.
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Jane for me is an infuriating talent. He can be good as in Boogie Nights, and he can be terrible as in Under Suspicion. OK, in Under Suspicion he's acting with Morgan Freeman and Gene Hackman, but that's no excuse for overacting even when he's just standing in a room. The only performance of overacting--or rather, posturing--this bad is Matt LeBlanc in the movie version of Lost in Space. He's up against Gary Oldman, who's only there for rent money, yet LeBlanc's hilariously bad without saying a word. There was an episode of Friends where LeBlanc's Joey was demonstrating the "fish hook eyebrow" acting technique, which was hilarious. Sadly, that is the way LeBlanc really acts. He actually used it in Lost in Space.
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You can definitely tell that Thomas Jane isn't overly picky about his roles nowadays i think that he's another one that just turns up grabs his cheque then runs.
He could be the next Eric Roberts!
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