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GaijinPunch · Post by **GaijinPunch** » Tue Jul 24, 2012 6:17 am

I knew there was something I needed to go watch.

I own Heat on BluRay too, PCEFX. Watched it not too long ago. I loved the hat tip it received in The Town.

rapoon · Post by **rapoon** » Tue Jul 24, 2012 7:10 am

GaijinPunch wrote:I knew there was something I needed to go watch.

I own Heat on BluRay too, PCEFX. Watched it not too long ago. I loved the hat tip it received in The Town.

^^ one of the best heist flicks since Heat. Yea, check out Thief. nice hidden gem

emphatic · Post by **emphatic** » Tue Jul 24, 2012 9:27 am

Heat is biring as fuck and the shootout is stupid. Would cops really engage in a firefight like that with civilians popping up left and right like a rookie firearms training ground? The only decent Mann film I've seen is Collateral.

xbl0x180 · Post by **xbl0x180** » Tue Jul 24, 2012 10:15 am

I think Michael Mann also directed Manhunter and The Last Of The Mohicans, which were alright. Thief is his best movie. Count me in as another one who thought Heat was boring as hell with all the excess/unneeded back-and-forth between DeNiro and Pacino, as well as the scenes of their respective private lives - stuff that shoulda been on the cutting room floor ended in the final film

jonny5 · Post by **jonny5** » Tue Jul 24, 2012 10:41 am

GaijinPunch wrote:
jonny5 wrote:Project X - I don't even.....ugh. But boobs.

Oh, and watched the Miami Vice movie last night. Quite a thought provoking film. I felt enlightened after watching it. How many Oscar's did this get?
None since it was kinda sub-par for Mann, but still fun. Those Aryans at the end. Whew...

Heat is his best. One of my faves. I think one of Pacino's last roles where he isn't pussified at least a little.

I was being horribly sarcastic.

Miami Vice was horri-bad!!

Heat was badass!! I will check out Thief; it's on Netflix.

Skykid · Post by **Skykid** » Tue Jul 24, 2012 11:13 am

emphatic wrote:Heat is boring as fuck and the shootout is stupid.

Mann is boring as fuck, a poster child for overrated directors. Manhunter is probably his best film.

GaijinPunch · Post by **GaijinPunch** » Tue Jul 24, 2012 12:13 pm

emp, xblox, and skykid need to get a room and have a lemon party.

Manhunter is probably his best film.

No, Heat definitely was. But then again, it is far more epic in the theater. You were still sucking on your mom's tits (even though we all know you do now as well most likely) when it was out, so I would hardly expect you to have seen it. I remember it, Twelve Monkeys, and Se7en all coming out within a relatively small time frame, and being really excited about going to movies in the theater. Boy how times have changed.

would cops engage in a firefight like that

Uh... yes. Especially when civillians are around. They're not just going to let them go.

From IDMB

In 1997 two men were so inspired by the film 'Heat' they equipped themselves with assault rifles and body-armour and staged a near identical robbery on a Hollywood bank which resulted in a massive shootout with the responding units from the LAPD. The gunfight was so fierce that the police at the scene had to ask for extra-ammunition to be brought to them from the police station and broke into a nearby gun shop to obtain rifles as their pistols and shotguns could not penetrate the gunmen's bullet proof vests (as a result Sergeants in the LAPD were afterwards issued with assault rifles to be carried in their cars for just such a contingency). Eventually one robber was shot dead by a responding SWAT team and the other killed himself after being wounded in the leg, the entire battle broadcast live on national television. Police officers, journalists and witnesses all made reference to the film in their account of the incident and it has come to be known as the 'Heat shootout'.

A couple of bullet points of awesome on the outline of this project.

The cast was given weapons and tactics training by former British Special Air Service Sergeant Andy McNab. He has a cameo as one of the cops who breaks into Henry Rollins's flat.

In June of 2002, the scene involving the shootout after the bank robbery was shown to United States Marine recruits at MCRD San Diego as an example of the proper way to retreat while under fire.

Later, girls.

xbl0x180 · Post by **xbl0x180** » Tue Jul 24, 2012 12:34 pm

*Yawn* Big deal. You wanna keep sucking Mann's dick, that's fine. He still directs boring stuff

jonny5 · Post by **jonny5** » Tue Jul 24, 2012 12:38 pm

xbl0x180 wrote:*Yawn* Big deal. You wanna keep sucking Mann's dick, that's fine. He still directs boring stuff

Dude, enough with the glasses smiley. You use it even when it doesn't make sense. You don't need to end every post with it. /rant

GaijinPunch · Post by **GaijinPunch** » Tue Jul 24, 2012 1:35 pm

CMoon · Post by **CMoon** » Tue Jul 24, 2012 2:33 pm

LOL, netflix says Miami Vice is 27 discs long. Go for it, bitches!

Skykid · Post by **Skykid** » Tue Jul 24, 2012 4:00 pm

GaijinPunch wrote:But then again, it is far more epic in the theater. You were still sucking on your mom's tits (even though we all know you do now as well most likely) when it was out, so I would hardly expect you to have seen it.

Actually I was sucking on your mom's tit while you were at the theatre.

mesh control · Post by **mesh control** » Tue Jul 24, 2012 4:18 pm

fuck this emoticon

GaijinPunch · Post by **GaijinPunch** » Tue Jul 24, 2012 4:19 pm

Skykid wrote:
GaijinPunch wrote:But then again, it is far more epic in the theater. You were still sucking on your mom's tits (even though we all know you do now as well most likely) when it was out, so I would hardly expect you to have seen it.
Actually I was sucking on your mom's tit while you were at the theatre.

I would imagine about as much from a member w/ such caliber.

jonny5 · Post by **jonny5** » Tue Jul 24, 2012 5:20 pm

CMoon wrote:LOL, netflix says Miami Vice is 27 discs long. Go for it, bitches!

Are you talking the TV show or the movie from 2006? Don't think we have the series on Canadian Netflix.

I actually wanna go back and re-watch the original series; haven't seen it since I was a kid. I love the Jan Hammer scores!

CMoon · Post by **CMoon** » Tue Jul 24, 2012 6:14 pm

jonny5 wrote:
Are you talking the TV show or the movie from 2006?

TV show.

mesh control wrote:fuck this emoticon

(formerly Rando's favorite emoticon)

GaijinPunch wrote:
Skykid wrote:
GaijinPunch wrote:But then again, it is far more epic in the theater. You were still sucking on your mom's tits (even though we all know you do now as well most likely) when it was out, so I would hardly expect you to have seen it.
Actually I was sucking on your mom's tit while you were at the theatre.

I would imagine about as much from a member w/ such caliber.

My god I love this forum.

xbl0x180 · Post by **xbl0x180** » Wed Jul 25, 2012 1:56 am

Another satisfied customer

Mischief Maker · Post by **Mischief Maker** » Wed Jul 25, 2012 2:12 am

jonny5 wrote:Project X - I don't even.....ugh. But boobs.

At first I thought you were talking about the Matthew Broderick movie with the chimps.

CMoon · Post by **CMoon** » Wed Jul 25, 2012 5:41 am

Watched Bakshi's Wizards tonight. Funny thing loving animation, I end up seeing almost everything by a director I absolutely can't stand. Wizards might be Bakshi's best--very much in part because of the 70's psychedelic rock soundtrack and some meticulously done stills narrated with a tone of nostalgia and lament. Nothing however could get in the way of Bakshi reusing animation like an episode of super friends, rotoscoping shit just for the sake of looking weird, or having a story that really holds together in any way.

All that said, I rather enjoyed it. I just don't get why people ever thought Bakshi was hot shit. Maybe it was because there wasn't anything for adults in the world of animation, or maybe something in its overt shittiness just spoke to people in the late 70's. Seriously don't even know who the target audience is for half his films, and yet they remain a phenomenon.

Anyway, this one was quirky enough and visually entertaining (helluva mess though), AND that incredible soundtrack that I'd have to give this one the 'go see it once, what else do you have to do?!' nod.

drauch · Post by **drauch** » Wed Jul 25, 2012 6:04 am

Realllllllllllly. I haven't seen Wizards in a good 7 years or so, but at the time I absolutely hated it. I'm by no means a Bakshi worshiper or anything, for I'm really just a big fan of Fire & Ice, but I'd much rather just watch his crap adaptation of Fritz the Cat than Wizards. I dunno, I think the reason I hated it so much is because I was expecting a dark, post-apocalyptic animated film, and instead got farting dwarves.

Ed Oscuro · Post by **Ed Oscuro** » Wed Jul 25, 2012 8:38 am

I actually got ahold of some episodes of Police Story recently, the 86-88 one, because it shares a name with the Jackie Chan movie (looking into the HK cops & robbers flick scene lately, although nothing will top Hard Boiled, which makes me kinda sad). Mann's stuff is always watchable at least. There are plenty of gripes about firearms safety (I recall that in one episode of that very series a team of SWAT operatives are depicted going up or down a staircase, and one of them shoots off his shotgun in the process ^_~) but the series is also responsible for one of the most incredible scenes in television history. So it's good in my book. I dunno where I quit watching the series, but I will pick it up again sometime. The look of the remake has turned me off so far.

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What I wanted to say was this:

Pull up the pilot of the original Mission Impossible and watch until about 46 minutes in. You'll see a jet rush down a runway. If you're fast, you can pause it as the plane is turning so the tail number is visible: N175FS (sounds like a pistol model name...) Just plug this into the FAA registry and you will see this now somewhat elderly bird is still active! Internet, amazing thing.

Incidentally there was a "new" Mission Impossible in 1988-1990, and these two seasons are finally out on DVD, but sadly they appear to transfers from VTR / VHS, instead of using the original film stock. Some interesting casting choices - Greg Morris' son Phil Morris takes up the same role, and one of the commentators on Amazon picked out this performance as an improvement over the original! Speaking of The Jeffersons (which came up recently due to Sherman Hemsley's passing), Morris appears in a spoof of his MI role there. Man, it's a small world.

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A totally different story is my recent screening of the various films collected in this DVD. I only bought it because of the 70-minute feature piece - "I was a fireman." Jennings was a promising director who died at a very young age, but during his career he managed to put together a pretty good collection of hagiographical documentaries of wartime Britain. DVD contents:

London Can Take It (1940), Words for Battle (1941), Listen to Britain (1942), Fires Were Started (1943), A Diary For Timothy (1943), Family Portrait (1951)
Includes the bonus film Myra Hess [Note: This is not the DVD case's given title for the last piece, which is a film of the famous pianist performing a movement from Beethoven, I think; Hess appears in two of the other films on this DVD, including Listen to Britain; I am not sure, but during Listen to Britian's featured daytime concert by Hess, I believe the late Queen Mother and other royalty are featured in a few shots.]

The first three films are very short, so they run together a bit in my mind. One of the films begins literally in clouds, which immediately brings to mind the masterful opening of Triumph of the Will, and the use of imagery of great English fields of wheat and the countryside definitely also brought to mind the 1984 production of Nineteen-Eighty-Four's in-movie propaganda. Despite those potentially sinister connections, the worst is merely Family Portrait's dancing around the problems of colonialism and perhaps giving a bit more credit for some inventions to British people than might be warranted. But this is amply balanced out by other worthwhile qualities.

As far as the transfer goes, the audio was very problematic on most of the films. I understood very little of what was being said throughout the first half of "I Was A Fireman" (aka Fires Were Started), but what the modern viewer will mostly note is that the pace is generally quite slow. You see a lot that is very suggestive of what actual firefighting and its coordination would have involved during the Blitz, through all its stages from the day before to the day after, after the sandwiches and tea arrive and after the weary firefighters have returned to their bunks. Perhaps you have to have more of the mindset of the historian rather than the lover of film and action to really enjoy this. I certainly enjoyed it, and there are a number of rewarding points in the film (I think my favorite points are the grim determination of the firefighters trapped on the roof of a burning warehouse stuffed with ammunition - unfortunately the payoff is very modest by modern standards, although given this was produced in wartime London, special effects-laden action sequences and special effects detonations are a bit much to expect. I also liked the various points where bombs attempt to disrupt the activity of the people in the scenes (I won't give these away, other than to say that you should watch the scene during the firefighters raucous singing as all the units are sent off to reported firebombing sites and the last unit is waiting to be called, and especially watch the painting on the wall above the piano). It is fascinating to see the contemporary equipment and material in use.

There is an early scene where a new member of the firefighting unit asks a person on the street for directions to the unit, and the man looks and sounds Japanese or Chinese. It is one of the remarkable features of the documentaries in this compilation that, although they extol the virtues of the British and feature predominantly British people, they make the argument clearly that the world is changing, that there needs to be cooperation between peoples, and that Britain need not feel too small in the face of those challenges, but not too reserved with pride either.

One can read a nice article on Wikipedia about the reception Listen To Britain got. Some of the films are available on Youtube. I don't know how to guess how the quality is; it is probably not improved over the DVD. Some of the films I didn't bother watching; I watched only the last half of A Diary For Timothy, which is a month-by-month documentary (very loosely) giving sweeping terms of the general feeling of British people as the war came to an end, as it might be recounted to a very young child (the "Timothy" is an infant actor who the narrator is supposedly telling about the end of the war and preparing him for his place in the new world after). It is probably the fuzziest of a collection of fuzzy films, which share an exceedingly gentle hand and often have a very fuzzily-defined chronology and scenes do not progress in a logical order, but instead a rigorously emotional and pedagogical one. I don't mean this as a criticism - aside from my comparisons to Leini Reifenstahl's work and the fictional Ingsoc propaganda from 1984, Jennings has also been credited with "the sense of juxtaposition of a Soviet," probably a reference to Sergei Eisenstein, but Jennings' work is very refined. You won't find any comically inept "juxtapositions" like sailors imagining themselves hanging from the mast of the Battleship Potemkin (not to knock the movie, but c'mon). I fear I don't make the case very well for Humphrey Jennings, so I will just say this: Find "Words for Battle" and let Laurence Olivier do the talking!

CMoon · Post by **CMoon** » Wed Jul 25, 2012 3:30 pm

drauch wrote:Realllllllllllly. I haven't seen Wizards in a good 7 years or so, but at the time I absolutely hated it. I'm by no means a Bakshi worshiper or anything, for I'm really just a big fan of Fire & Ice, but I'd much rather just watch his crap adaptation of Fritz the Cat than Wizards. I dunno, I think the reason I hated it so much is because I was expecting a dark, post-apocalyptic animated film, and instead got farting dwarves.

I think you've got a stronger opinion here because you actually enjoy some of his films. Ultimately I don't really much care for anything by him at all; but Wizards did enough things that that were unusual and silly that I didn't want to rage quit. Still, the ending was pretty horrible.

drauch · Post by **drauch** » Thu Jul 26, 2012 12:43 am

Do you not like Fire & Ice? I figured something like that would be up your alley...

xbl0x180 · Post by **xbl0x180** » Thu Jul 26, 2012 12:47 am

I even liked Cool World in spite of how badly it was made. At the time I saw it at the cinema, I was already getting tired of seeing too much syndicated Disney, WB, and Hanna-Barbera cartoon series, so I welcomed something different

CMoon · Post by **CMoon** » Thu Jul 26, 2012 3:33 am

drauch wrote:Do you not like Fire & Ice? I figured something like that would be up your alley...

Like everything by Bakshi, the rotoscoping drives me crazy. Also, there's virtually no plot short of being chased. Again, when Bakshi actually animates it seems to be shit poor. I really WANT to like Fire and Ice, but no, it just doesn't do as much for me as I wish it did. I'm glad I saw it. I guess I'd put it with Wizards as at least being interesting enough to watch, but I haven't seen a single thing by the man I would want to see more than once.

Your not thinking wrong though; Fire and Ice is doing what I want, just not very well. I mean, somebody, please make more Frank Frazetta based films. I think I could actually deal with every element of this film if the story was just better.

PC Engine Fan X! · Post by **PC Engine Fan X!** » Thu Jul 26, 2012 4:21 am

CMoon wrote:
drauch wrote:Do you not like Fire & Ice? I figured something like that would be up your alley...
Like everything by Bakshi, the rotoscoping drives me crazy. Also, there's virtually no plot short of being chased. Again, when Bakshi actually animates it seems to be shit poor. I really WANT to like Fire and Ice, but no, it just doesn't do as much for me as I wish it did. I'm glad I saw it. I guess I'd put it with Wizards as at least being interesting enough to watch, but I haven't seen a single thing by the man I would want to see more than once.

Your not thinking wrong though; Fire and Ice is doing what I want, just not very well. I mean, somebody, please make more Frank Frazetta based films. I think I could actually deal with every element of this film if the story was just better.

In a sense, Fire & Ice was filmed twice: once for the live action and again for the animation super-imposed on the live action segment.

Fire & Ice Factoid: If you watch the ending credits, a young Thomas Kinkade did some of the gorgeous background oil paintings for this F&I flick. This was before he founded his own art gallery and business. Too bad that he died suddenly on 4/06/12 as the art world lost another talented artist.

PC Engine Fan X! ^_~

CMoon · Post by **CMoon** » Thu Jul 26, 2012 5:04 am

The backgrounds in F&I are amazing. Likewise, Wizards has some excellent stills.

ArmoredCore · Post by **ArmoredCore** » Thu Jul 26, 2012 7:05 am

Devil's Double, a hit & miss with the refiews but i certainly enjoyed Udan Hussein in the film lol

null1024 · Post by **null1024** » Thu Jul 26, 2012 9:01 am

Star Trek III: The Search for Spock.
Eh. It was OK. Heard it was one of the better of the odd-numbered Trek films, so I watched it.

Acid King · Post by **Acid King** » Thu Jul 26, 2012 12:52 pm

Shame - Dull, pretentious junk. Fassbender is good in it, but the movie is glacially slow and it didn't feel like the characters addiction was adequately developed before he goes off the rails.

ArmoredCore wrote:Devil's Double, a hit & miss with the refiews but i certainly enjoyed Udan Hussein in the film lol

I saw this recently too, and yes, while the movie wasn't very good, Uday was great. Definitely an instance where the concept was far better than the execution.

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