Cult Movies

[cat in the hat]

just saw the trailer for a new 3 Stooges movie. not a classic but hopefully worth seeing.

[jw74]

Originally Posted by Sigaba

• Magnum Force (1973) still asks relevant questions about the rule of law in an environment in which the social contract is in bad decline, albeit at the expense of demonizing the American soldier.
• The Enforcer (1976) has not aged well.

Recently a friend of mine who works for Eastwood was telling me of a conversation the two of them had about some of Clint's movies that were in his words, "stinkers". Being a lifelong Eastwood fan, I said I liked them all. But then I remembered "The Rookie"...

I place the blame of the Enforcer on Tyne Daly. When she tells Callahan she runs 100 yard dash in 13 seconds. She couldn't get out of a chair in 13 seconds.

[ZonieDiver]

Magnum Force (1973) still asks relevant questions about the rule of law in an environment in which the social contract is in bad decline, albeit at the expense of demonizing the American soldier.

I liked this one because of all the cool sunglasses they wore! The fact that "Otter" was an SF vet was cool - even if he was a "bad guy"! My roomie at the time (a 12B4S from 7th) said that Magnum Force, along with several other movies at the time, were to prepare us for the soon to come martial law! Good times! (The early-mid 70's... not the TV show.)

[Sigaba]

The Hunted (2003) remains terrible and I remain an idiot for watching it for a third time.

Characters go from soaking wet to dry in less than a minute of film time. The amount of snow on the ground changes back and forth. Tommy Lee Jones alternates between stoicism and terror from one moment to the next (maybe he was seeing the dailies). A veteran FBI agent gets killed because he doesn't recognize a spreading pool of blood until the film's director tells him to look down at it.

[jw74]

Originally Posted by Sigaba

The Hunted (2003) remains terrible and I remain an idiot for watching it for a third time.

I agree. It seems as if they edited out the story as well. I continue to watch it though because it remains one of the few movies with plausible hand to hand (knife) fight scenes.

They are not objectively good, but the wife and I have been enjoying the Jesse Stone movies. It doesnt matter which one as they are all the same.
If somebody took a shot of tequila every time a character said, "Jesse Stone" in the script, they would be dead of alcohol poisoning 15 minutes in..
I remain a Tom Selleck fan regardless.

[Dusty]

Originally Posted by jw74

I agree. It seems as if they edited out the story as well. I continue to watch it though because it remains one of the few movies with plausible hand to hand (knife) fight scenes.

No pink? You thought they were "plausible"? Hokey. I laughed my ass off during about four-fifths of that idiotic movie.

(The parts where he tracked the squirrel, in grass, at night, and forged his own Tom Brown knife in 5 minutes were plausible, though.)

[jw74]

Originally Posted by Dusty

No pink? You thought they were "plausible"? Hokey. I laughed my ass off during about four-fifths of that idiotic movie.

(The parts where he tracked the squirrel, in grass, at night, and forged his own Tom Brown knife in 5 minutes were plausible, though.)

No Pink. They were plausible compared to Segal, Van Damme, and jason bourne

[Dusty]

Originally Posted by jw74

No Pink. They were plausible compared to Segal, Van Damme, and jason bourne

How many knife fights have you been in? Witnessed?

[jw74]

Originally Posted by Dusty

How many knife fights have you been in? Witnessed?

One. It was quick, unremarkable, and I don't wish to be in another, and no, it was not like in the movie, Dusty. That does not change my opinion that the scenes in the hunted were more plausible than in other movies. I imagine you'll maintain your opinion as well.

[Dusty]

Originally Posted by jw74

One. It was quick, unremarkable, and I don't wish to be in another, and no, it was not like in the movie, Dusty. That does not change my opinion that the scenes in the hunted were more plausible than in other movies. I imagine you'll maintain your opinion as well.

No, after some thought, I've changed mine. I've seen some Segal and Bourne movies, as well as Hunted-after mentally reviewing the knife-fight scenes, I'm gonna have to agree with you; on comparison, the Hunted scenes were more plausible.

I'm sure they included the scene were Che throws his (only?) blade underhanded into a 3 -inch sapling to frighten two deer hunters armed with bolt action long guns for cinematic effect. True, I've never personally heard of a soldier being sent to kill a key enemy commander by sneaking up and sticking a knife in his throat instead of shooting him-maybe with a gun with a can on the barrel?- but I'm relatively inexperienced when it comes to high-speed secret assassin techniques, so I'll have to acquiesce regarding that scene relative to Segal and Bourne stuff.

[Barbarian]

I've not seen any plausible knife fight scenes. I started to mention the one in Saving Private Ryan, but upon youtube review..... nah.

Also I don't see a Tom Brown knife as being all that practical as a soldier's knife. My .02 ....

[Dusty]

Originally Posted by Barbarian

I've not seen any plausible knife fight scenes. I started to mention the one in Saving Private Ryan, but upon youtube review..... nah.

Also I don't see a Tom Brown knife as being all that practical as a soldier's knife. My .02 ....

Have you seen this scene? (Talk about your "plausible". The blood is real.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCojDzo8Qo0

[Richard]

Originally Posted by Dusty

How many knife fights have you been in? Witnessed?

I've never seen Hunted, but other than the hand-to-hand demo for Gabriel Demos, I almost got in one once with some guys from the 82nd Almost Airhorn coming out of the Seven Dwarfs on Hay Street - one guy crouched as he went to unsnap the case for his Buck and I kicked him in the nards - he was lying there while his buddies were tending to him as I departed the area. Does that count?

MYTH BUSTER: PE and I got in one long fight one night over a 'slight misunderstanding' when coming out of the La Cueva in Juarez - we wound up fighting our way with I don't know how many locals with nothing better to do with their time than look for a fight as we worked our way back towards the border crossing into El Paso - we got separated in a struggle with a couple of street vendors and a taxi driver, and I had to beg two pennies for the turnstile to cross back to El Paso. The amazing thing - contrary to all the stories I'd heard about hispanics and knives while growing up - was that nobody pulled a knife that night. FWIW - I'm still miffed that my new jeans got torn that night and I lost these two really cool Bacardi bat-logo glasses somewhere along the way.

And so it goes...

Richard

[Dusty]

Originally Posted by Richard

I've never seen Hunted, but other than the hand-to-hand demo for Gabriel Demos, I almost got in one once with some guys from the 82nd Almost Airhorn coming out of the Seven Dwarfs on Hay Street - one guy crouched as he went to unsnap the case for his Buck and I kicked him in the nards - he was lying there while his buddies were tending to him as I departed the area. Does that count?

And so it goes...

Richard

Yup, that counts.

I've had to disarm guys with knives on two separate occasions-I got cut during one of the altercations, so I was lucky. In both cases, I was the only one who knew the assailant had a knife, and that's only because I was looking for one.

I think the most experienced guy regarding knife fights is a Brother I worked with at Wpns Branch with the initials HH. He thought he was in a fist fight down at the Stab 'n' Jab one night, but when it was over, he had to go down and get over two hundred stitches.

[mark46th]

Richard- Remember one of our TAC's in Phase one, initials TC? He could twirl a knife in his fingers like it was a baton....