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Post by Arthur Pringle on Dec 8, 2018 19:26:25 GMT
I was up very late this morning & I came across 'Arthur 2 On The Rocks' on tv, a total stinker. God knows what the Russell Brand remake was like
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Post by Cartman on Dec 9, 2018 13:26:32 GMT
Didn’t think the first Arthur film was much good either. It was from that period when Dudley Moore became quite big in Hollywood, 10 was another of his from that time.
Meanwhile, Peter Cook (IMO one of the funniest men ever) was sat in the pub in London.
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Post by Batgirl on Dec 14, 2018 12:45:30 GMT
Didn’t think the first Arthur film was much good either. It was from that period when Dudley Moore became quite big in Hollywood, 10 was another of his from that time. Meanwhile, Peter Cook (IMO one of the funniest men ever) was sat in the pub in London. It's funny how people think differently. I loved the first 'Arthur'. My friends used to quote from it all the time. I'm sure I could still quote from it. Don't worry Cartman you don't have to watch the vid !
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Post by Del Boy on Dec 20, 2018 22:23:09 GMT
I was up very late this morning & I came across 'Arthur 2 On The Rocks' on tv, a total stinker. God knows what the Russell Brand remake was like I remember that being pushed on its release. I reckon it was 1982. It didn't hit the heights did it.
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Post by Arthur Pringle on Dec 21, 2018 16:44:19 GMT
Surprisingly enough it was released in the UK in 89 Del, 8 years after the original, it's usually a bad sign when a sequel comes that late.
Another bad 80's film I saw late at night recently was 'Jumpin Jack Flash' starring Whoopi Goldberg, bloody hell she's irritating in it.
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Post by Del Boy on Dec 21, 2018 23:14:31 GMT
89! Must of been thinking of the original date and the Arthur 2 trailers. That is a long gap for a sequel and it doesn't help when all continuity is gone. Biggest pile of pony I've seen in recent times is Deadpool. Total crap.
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Post by Sam Tyler on Dec 21, 2018 23:32:39 GMT
I think in more recent years I would add Spectre and The Sweeney (2012 version).
Spectre was overrun with totally implausible CGI and a lazy storyline that bought events from previous Bond films into the fray, and The Sweeney, well I think we've documented that one enough since its release. Totally unrealistic storyline and a plot with more holes than Del-boy's propane filled inflatable dolls.
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Post by Del Boy on Dec 22, 2018 7:27:01 GMT
The totally ridiculous amount of CGI in recent Bond efforts is my biggest issue with the current setup. Casino Royale was a welcome reboot of the franchise and Daniel Craig is a very good Bond. What made this film such a fantastic debut was that it stripped a lot of the OTT nonsense that was on show in Brosnan's reign. The bond on show in Casino Royale along with the rest of the package was close to how the books portray Commander Bond. Sadly we are now at the stage where Craig's tenure has slipped to the absurd offerings of the previous incumbent. With the ever changing world in which we live in pressuring Hollywood, what will the next generation of films be like?
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Post by Arthur Pringle on May 3, 2019 18:12:58 GMT
Showing on talkingpicturestv at this very minute is comfortably one of the worst films I've seen, 'The Villain', aka 'Cactus Jack', a live action version of Wile E. Coyote And The Roadrunner cartoon directed by Hal Needham of Cannonball Run & Smokey And The Bandit fame, it is a spectacularly tedious comedy Western with Kirk Douglas & Arnold Schwarzenegger. To add insult to injury, when shown on tv you can see the trampoline Kirk Douglas uses to mount his horse.
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Post by Arthur Pringle on Aug 16, 2019 14:01:47 GMT
Talkingpicturestv showed one of the most embarrassingly bad films ever produced yesterday, 'Lost Horizon' from 1973.
Woody Allen once said of it- "If I could live my life over again I wouldn't change a thing... except for seeing the musical version of Lost Horizon".
I hadn't seen it before as it's rarely on tv, turned on part way through & couldn't believe what I was seeing, or rather hearing as it's a musical with some of the worst songs you'll hear. I was amazed to discover that the utterly dreadful songs were written by Bacharach & David.
John Gielgud, in Oriental make up, plays a Dalai Lama figure presiding over Shangri La, an island paradise where a group of plane crash survivors including Michael York, Peter Finch & George Kennedy find themselves. What follows is like 'The Love Boat' meets 'Fantasy Island' with song & dance routines, I could only watch it for about 45 mins.
Here is a clip-
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