Posts by Nicholas Walker3

I still think Nicholas Walker3's Testament is actually better than Der Spieler's... honestly—just my two cents.

casualranger2 said:Paul Verhoeven (Basic Instinct, Robocop) really should have teamed up with Schwarzenegger to film The Crusade, a movie about Crusaders.

Well, yeah... 😛

he mentions that in a different post...👍

wiredbison82
It was a huge deal when Peter O'Toole found out which movie he’d actually signed on for—all that drama over different versions and everything else... it's all the same. Honestly, De Palma isn't some revolutionary figure, and Brass certainly wasn't either. These ideas have been popping up since the early days of cinema—back when adult films were shot in secret during the interwar period because major studios wouldn't touch them directly, using middlemen instead... it's a long story that started way before De Palma!

wiredbison82 said:I haven't seen it myself, but this De Palma project was intended to be the first high-budget porn featuring actual adult stars making their debut in a "mainstream" film, all under the direction of a man who was considered part of the Hollywood establishment at the time. It was, by all accounts, something completely different.

If you're claiming this is totally unique without knowing about the Brass project... well—unfortunately, everything ended up being pretty much the same anyway—though one version could honestly be classified as straight-up pornography!

Wasn't Caligula actually one of those big-budget productions back in the 70s—it feels like it was? 🤷

To be honest, the book and the movie don't really feel alike to me—I mean, sure, the main premise is there—but those scenes by Francis Ford Coppola in the film just blow me away... even though this is one of the few books I’ve actually finished, I still find the movie way, way more enjoyable. For me, film usually wins because you get the visuals and the soundscape together, whereas when I'm reading, the "sounds" in my head just kind of fall apart—and the mental images can be pretty lackluster (:

rustyscout34 said:But then again, Francis Ford Coppola definitely made a masterpiece with Apocalypse Now...

I honestly think you couldn't put it better than that........

rustyscout34 said:Personally, I'd like to see what that planned version would actually look like. Francis Ford Coppola Francis Ford Coppola So, about that futuristic vision of New York City. I was surfing around and stumbled upon yet another interesting, though unfulfilled, project. It's regarding... Arnold Schwarzenegger's I guess I'm just here. Paul Verhoeven Crusade Paul Verhoeven left to work on Showgirls around that time anyway, and since Schwarzenegger is stuck in politics now, nothing really came of it. I've added a few more from this list that actually caught my eye:

Stanley Kubrick's Napoleon.
Orson Welles' Heart of Darkness
Alfred Hitchcock's Kaleidoscope
Terry Gilliam's... everything.
Carl Dreyer's Jesus
David Lean's Nostromo
Maybe David Lynch's Ronny Rocket.
Ray Bradbury's The Dreamers
Disney's A Princess of Mars
Benjamin Christensen's The Saints and The Spirits
Sergei Eisenstein's Que Viva Mexico
Maybe James Cameron's Spider-Man? I don't know. I guess I'd like to see this. 😁)
Maybe if Orson Welles had directed Batman, we would have actually gotten something worth watching. I guess. It’s hard to say how his style would have clashed or meshed with a superhero flick, but it probably wouldn't have been the polished blockbuster we're used to today. Maybe just something more experimental. Who knows. (And this too...)

Honestly—no matter how much I might struggle with certain films being made—I just can't help but feel... well, I don't know—it's hard to stay away from them all. Let's try this again—starting from scratch. I'm working on a remake—just trying to get it right this time.Look, you can check it out if you want—no pressure at all—but I honestly don't feel like I'm missing out on this movie. Even though we're talking about one of the greatest stories ever told, you have to wonder how Orson Welles would have handled the adaptation. He had such a string of failed projects—it was a mess, really—and yet, somehow, he still managed to pull off a few absolute masterpieces.

I feel so bad that so many financial doors slammed shut for Cimín after *vrat raj*—it really feels like, if he’d had his way after *lovac* and *vrat*, he could have gifted us a few more epic masterpieces!

It’s almost like this is some list Tarantino could just whip up by tomorrow morning—honestly...

analogangler52 said:Duck Soup
Duck Soup
Duck Soup
I’ve sat through at least the first thirty minutes of these movies, and I can tell they’re actually good—they really catch my interest—but honestly, I just can’t find the motivation to finish them because I’m feeling incredibly lazy lately. Does anyone else feel that instant wave of demotivation the second they see a runtime stretching past two hours? It’s like my brain just shuts down before the movie even gets going.

That’s exactly what I had in mind when I started this thread... not bad movies that aren't worth the effort anyway (I don't even bother starting those) 👍

Sky and Country, a film by Amtrak
Midnight Express, by Arthur Parker
Rambo
The House on 92nd Street, by Henry Hathaway

David Price5 said:My mistake. I thought that was just cynicism. :-)

Nah, I'm just pointing out how much sense the ending of Gran Torino actually makes...

David Price5 said:It simply won't fly. We already knew they were committing crimes without facing any consequences. They even assaulted a relative and got away with it. But after this latest stunt, they can't hide behind their excuses anymore.

To be honest, my first association with Clint Eastwood’s acting is always Harry Callahan, rather than that guy with the orangutan or the circus manager. I can't quite recall what all the fuss was about regarding that showdown between Pacino and De Niro. I don't remember there being much of a stir.

I mean, what did I actually say? 😛

David Price5 said:True, but that’s getting a bit too broad. If we go by that logic, we could include any movie where the actors actually survive the finale.
The ending of *Gran Torino* feels uniquely different because most of us are intimately familiar with Clint Eastwood's body of work. We all remember how many of his films traditionally wrap up with a burst of violence where the villains get what's coming to them. Honestly, I fully expected *Gran Torino* to follow that pattern. Instead, we were given a much better resolution. The innocent walk free, the bad guys head to prison, and our protagonist gets to keep his peace of mind... without firing a single shot. 👍

...because otherwise, the bad guys wouldn't end up in jail anyway...

And honestly—Clint's whole body of work isn't really what you described—that mostly applies to movies like Dirty Harry. Personally, I found the ending totally expected, and when I first saw it, I couldn't wrap my head around why people made such a huge deal out of the finale. Then it hit me: the idea that Clint's legacy is tied to this specific style is just total nonsense. Every movie should stand on its own—you shouldn't hype up a film just because of some old connection to a previous cast. It reminds me of that ridiculous scene where Neo falls in a duel with a rat—I mean, logically, someone has to go down!

The whole thing really comes down to the fact that both heroes end up facing their own internal battles at the end!

Honestly, even this ending didn't really blow me away—there isn't anything here that hasn't been done a million times before in movies like Wild Horde, Duck You Sucker, and plenty of others...

The ending is really just one part of the whole movie—I wouldn't go so far as to single it out specifically...

David Price5 said:But honestly, if they had kept that ending, the studio could have just churned out sequels like "Hobbit's Revenge" or "The Hobbits Strike Back." 😁Sure, the ending was long and a bit sappy with all that singing, but considering how many years they spent working on this project, they probably could have stretched it out a bit more...

They can, and honestly? Hats off to them at the end................the rings are done!

David Price5 said:if high-speed internet hadn't finally hit the States, we wouldn't be getting any chance to enjoy all this Asian cinema...

--or if Amazon, Netflix, and everyone else didn't ship movies right here to the US!

William Roberts2 said:Genre, language, black and white—it doesn't matter to me, I'll watch anything. The only thing that can really turn me off from a movie is the subject matter.

Exactly—and honestly, bad themes can definitely push me away for a while—but at the end of the day, the topic is the only thing that truly stops me... everything else is just secondary!

Winona, there’s some serious clearance going on at the department stores!