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Picking up on the car-chases thing, then surely it’s The French Connection. Friedkin didn’t even have the roads closed, or use stunt drivers, or some such high-tale. What you see isn’t staged – pedal to the metal, balls out. The sequel wasn’t much cop though.
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Nah, Bullitt is the daddy, Lalo Schiffrin soundtrack too
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Bullitt is an absolutely brilliant film for many reasons other than the car chase, which I agree is also ace. The scene in the bar/restaurant with the jazz and the phone call! No audible dialogue, just bags of feeling.
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Great from the very start
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Bullit is without doubt one of my favourite films, I even had the green 350E Mustang with a Steve McQueen figure as a kid. But I think the chase is a tad overrated. It's an excellent chase, no doubt about it. Especially at the start where the bad guys in the Charger belt up and roar off. The thing that ruins it for me is the fact that little green Beetle popping up all the bloody time because they were too lazy to do multiple runs and just used different angles to make the chase seem longer.
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I dunno, the car chase is pretty great! I love how the music skips along but then as soon as the front car burns off it cuts out and the engines/tyres scream instead. Masterful.
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Oh and Luci - Taxi is french, and awesome. Luc Besson, and Gotan Project soundtrack. If you haven't seen it I'll happily send you my copy.
Absolutely excellent of you to offer, photoben, but I shall make the purchase. I'll not judge Tommy's choice of films completely until I've viewed it, but I still think he's wrong to dismiss the King's Speech just because it doesn't wank his eyes enough with thrills and spills.
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Alien and Aliens are both excellent films. Its the rubbish sequels that followed these movies is what I take issue with. They could have made some excellent movies, but the studios really messed things up. First there were many re-writes due to director changes and actor changes. Renny Harlin started on Alien 3, but left during the pre-production stages. Then they went through a couple of people before they settled on Fincher. It was his first movie, he quit after filming completed. The studio got someone else to edit it together. Fincher has totally disowned Alien3 as being his work, he cites studio interference as being the culprit. (See http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103644/trivia)
The script which Fincher started Alien 3 was set on a monastery colony. With just Ripley's and Bishop's pods arriving on the planet. (Hicks and Newts pods were meant to drift into space, for Alien 4). The rest of the film was pretty much how things turned out though there were some key scenes that were shot, but then left totally out of the movie.
As for Resurrection the original concept was Hicks and Newt capsules get picked up some years later, by a USMC Military Research Station where a General has an Alien Queen in captivity. They are breeding Aliens to use as weapons. His plan is to some how control the Aliens using fire. This obviously goes wrong. I'm guessing what was supposed to happen was more akin to a cross between Alien and Aliens on a space station. I still can't explain WTF happened in Alien 4.
Alien 4 was also meant to setup the story so that the Earth War series could me turned into movies. (http://www.jokerdesigns.com/alienhost/comics/index.html#2)
The first AvP film was total crap, the second one Requiem was pretty good. Possibly influenced by the Earth War comics in some way. Scott is now working on an Alien prequel, I'm hoping it at least turns out to be watchable, and Russell Crowe isn't in it.
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Talking Steve McQueen though, I thought his best role was in The Thomas Crown Affair.
He was also brilliant in The Getaway, and you get a great car chase in that film too. The Getaway is one of Peckinpah's finest films, and the writer of the novel on which the film is based, Jim Thompson, is about as hard-boiled as American writers get.
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You sound like you just had to adjust your erection then, Jason!
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which acting roles give you a stiffy then?
Actually, Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway in the chess scene in THe Thomas Crown Affair gives me quite a chubby-on...
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Paul and Barry in Pirates of the River Rother?
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big fat me too plus one recomendation for "a room for romeo brass". best shane meadows film by a nose i reckon.
also, (did i mention this already?) has anyone else seen a film called "heartlands" with michael sheen in it? amazing little uk indie from a few years back about a socially awkward newsagent who goes on a roadtrip to blackpool on his honda cub to win back his wife from the captain of the darts team. such a sweet, smart and well observed film.
the scene after his wife leaves him when he's sat crying on the floor of his closed shop surrounded by empty cans of bitter while opening another packet of cheese and onion makes me giggle and tear up at the same time.