The Film Thread

[Boozad]

*stops writing 'Boozad & Pabs*

To be fair that could be a winner. Two fat bald fuckers, one who can’t remember what he’s done and the other doesn’t stick around long enough to do it. It’s got legs...

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

The Rambo chronology is all over the place.

 

[Boozad]

The Rambo chronology is all over the place.

I just treat First Blood as a stand-alone film and ignore the others, works loads better that way.

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

First Blood into Rambo works okay chronology-wise. As long as you assume POWs survived for MANY years and Richard Crenna didn't age a day in about ten years.

Rambo III really does fuck with it though. So he leaves Vietnam in 1975. Has his First Blood moment and then ends up in the nick for ages. Then goes to Vietnam and rescues the POWs sometime in the mid-eighties. And then after that off he fucks again to deal with the pesky Commies trying to invade Afghanistan. Despite the fact Russia had pulled out of Afghanistan probably before the time Rambo was set.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

To be fair that could be a winner. Two fat bald fuckers, one who can’t remember what he’s done and the other doesn’t stick around long enough to do it. It’s got legs...

I'm quite a good villain if you need one. Could play two different types of gangster if required, Manchester or London. My Scouse is a bit too "parody".

 

[Tony Towner]

Rocky I - Gritty film focussing more on the human interaction of the Philly working class than the boxing

Rocky II - more Hollywood, but without losing its soul, whilst giving the public the ending it wants

Rocky III - it's really a superhero movie, but I was 11 and the first one I saw in real time. 11 year olds love superhero movies

Rocky IV - As realistic as the Frankie Two Tribes video, but East was bad, West was good so at the time fun

Rocky V - Tried to go back to the working class poignancy with Rocky going skint, doesn't really work. Unrealistically beats up Tommy Morrison in the street. Retro sad because his son is played by his own lad who died a few years later

Rocky Balboa - Seen it, can't remember anything about it apart from Adrian and Mickey being dead

Creed - It's actually ok.

Creed II - stopped watching after the first bout looked like there was going to be a rematch. Hey perhaps he loses. I think not.

Tragically I have a photo of myself after running up the Art Museum steps. It's the main reason I went to Philly and then found the Eagles

 

[Johnny75]

Rocky I - Gritty film focussing more on the human interaction of the Philly working class than the boxing

Rocky II - more Hollywood, but without losing its soul, whilst giving the public the ending it wants

Rocky III - it's really a superhero movie, but I was 11 and the first one I saw in real time. 11 year olds love superhero movies

Rocky IV - As realistic as the Frankie Two Tribes video, but East was bad, West was good so at the time fun

Rocky V - Tried to go back to the working class poignancy with Rocky going skint, doesn't really work. Unrealistically beats up Tommy Morrison in the street. Retro sad because his son is played by his own lad who died a few years later

Rocky Balboa - Seen it, can't remember anything about it apart from Adrian and Mickey being dead

Creed - It's actually ok.

Creed II - stopped watching after the first bout looked like there was going to be a rematch. Hey perhaps he loses. I think not.

Tragically I have a photo of myself after running up the Art Museum steps. It's the main reason I went to Philly and then found the Eagles

It's not tragic and has to be done, did you go and see the statue in front of the Spectrum?

I think, and could be wrong, Rocky I was based on Stallone's acting career at the time and his inability to land roles because he was working class. It was a real dig at Hollywood (the hangers on, jobs at the meat factory representing low paid jobs for aspiring actors).

Won him an Oscar too didn't it?

Rocky II is about race and how poorly treated ethnic minorities were no matter how successful they became. Typified by Apollo's rage behind the showman.

 

[Tony Towner]

It's not tragic and has to be done, did you go and see the statue in front of the Spectrum?

I think, and could be wrong, Rocky I was based on Stallone's acting career at the time and his inability to land roles because he was working class. It was a real dig at Hollywood (the hangers on, jobs at the meat factory representing low paid jobs for aspiring actors).

Won him an Oscar too didn't it?

Rocky II is about race and how poorly treated ethnic minorities were no matter how successful they became. Typified by Apollo's rage behind the showman.

The statue is now at the bottom to the right of the museum and yes the film won Best Picture of 1977

 

[Pablowolf]

I'm quite a good villain if you need one. Could play two different types of gangster if required, Manchester or London. My Scouse is a bit too "parody".

I'm still wrestling with both Boozad and Pabs being 'grizzled' and 'too old for this shit'.

 

[Newbridge Wolf]

Rambo IV was actually pretty good, had surround sound at the time, and for the 20 minutes of just blasting everyone to smithereens it was so enjoyable!

I hadn't realised hed made another one, just ruins the end of IV

 

[Pablowolf]

First film I watched at home with surround sound was Saving Private Ryan, immense.

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

Being deaf in one ear I think that surround sound is modern day clap trap that will never catch on!

 

[BillyDee]

Being virtually blind in one eye, I think the same about 3D...
Does annoy me though when there's an obviously gratuitous scene to utilise the technology.

 

[MARKakaJIM]

Being virtually blind in one eye, I think the same about 3D...
Does annoy me though when there's an obviously gratuitous scene to utilise the technology.

3D is wank.

 

[The Bear]

It is. Especially at home.

The only film I saw in 3D was Gravity in IMAX. That was really good, but it was the perfect film for it.

 

[Boozad]

Well some people are looking forward to Rambo.

 

[BillyDee]

Ha! Just saw that on twatter, and needed a double take...

 

[BillyDee]

Spiderman confirmed back in the MCU for another solo film plus one other film. Woo!

 

[Paul]

Hotel Mumbai....bloody hell

 

[Templeton Peck]

It Chapter 2 is sort of alright. Suffers from a lack of identity. Not scary enough to be a great horror and not charming enough to be an adventure.