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He regretted missing out on Dirty Harry so much that he made McQ and Brannigan in 1974 and 1975, which were both heavily inspired by Dirty Harry's "tough cop who doesn't play by the rules" image.
The only civil rights he would limit are rights that no decent person really wants anyway. The right to take and sell recreational drugs, the right to kill unborn babies, the right to enter the country illegally, the right to steal with no penalties, the right to commit voter fraud, the right to sexually and chemically mutilate children, the right to enter bathrooms of the opposite sex, etc. Only weird anti-American, anti-society Leftists really want those rights.
Probably the last in a very long line of political mistakes that this otherwise honorable, decent and gentle man has made in his long lifetime.
Hall got AIDS from a blood transfusion, much like Isaac Asimov.
Buffalo '66 is Canadian? Great film, but I had no idea.
It's got to be one of the strangest, most atmospheric films I have ever seen. It runs the gamut from laugh-out-loud funny to truly tragic. The part where his brother spends months exercising and body-building to defeat a bully, only to find that his cowardice was the real problem was devastating!
I cannot think of any other films that are really similar to Leolo. Maybe The Tin Drum comes closest, but as I am a Canadian ex-pat, Leolo is way better IMO.
Man! I forgot all about Leolo! That would be tied for my number one spot. How could I forget Leolo?
You'll love The Silent Partner if you watch it. Great movie!
Joint productions are fine. All 3 of my picks had British and/or American involvement.
It's about time black people wised up to the trap Democrats have had them in for the past 60-odd years. Decades of hollow promises, and they are still dealing with all the same issues, only many of those things, like drugs, crime and broken families, have gotten WORSE.
Democrats: "Vote for me or you'll lose your welfare!" Also Democrats (LBJ): "I'll have those N-Words voting Democrat for the next two hundred years!"
That's quite a streeeeeetttttccccchhhhh there, Stretch Armstrong! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycumxKt1zFk
There's a die-hard handful of Far-Left lunatics here who seem compelled to "help" their cause by posting unhinged Leftist rants. I don't know if this site is popular enough to warrant the use of Chinese pro-Democrat bots, though.
The Spanish armor should have been left out of the story when they changed the tribe from Comanches to Sioux. I suppose it is possible that Spanish armor made it that far north through trade, but it's unlikely. Another movie with an unlikely armored warrior is the 1980 movie The Mountain Men which has an ancient Crow warrior (also a Northern Plains tribe) who wears one.
I believe I read somewhere that the reason for the tribal change was that there were problems in dealing with the Comanche language, and as a knowledge of Lakota (aka Sioux) is more common in the modern era, they went with that tribe instead.
The creator of Yellowstone has a Quanah Parker movie planned, but as with many projects, we'll have to wait to see if it ever gets produced.
I am an early Gen Xer and in our 1980s' teens and early-20s, my buddies and I were fascinated with Viet Nam, thanks to movies like Apocalypse Now, Platoon, Full Metal Jacket, etc. We also listened exclusively to bands like The Who, Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath instead of the New Wave and Hair Metal that was popular at the time.
I do notice that there seems to be a desire in entertainment to portray the recent past as primitive, scary and dangerous. We don't see many shows now about golden nostalgic happy moments of the past like we used to. It's all grim and ugly and sexist and racist and sad in the past as far as 2020s' Hollywood goes.
I'm thinking that Walz's inner evil shows on his face. I saw him angrily jerking his autistic son around like a puppet in front of the whole world. God knows what he does to the boy in the privacy of their own home. He's probably a very domineering and cruel father.
I'm wondering why a simple comment about Walz's prematurely geriatric looks upsets you so much? Odd.
Walz is like just a little less than a year older than me, but if we were side-by-side, you would think he was 20 years older. He definitely does not look like most people in his age group.
We Were Soldiers was my late father-in-law's pick for best Vietnam film. He actually served in action as a combat engineer in the time and area depicted and he said it was extremely accurate. He called the standard drugs/fragging/angst Vietnam movies like Apocalypse Now, Platoon and Full Metal Jacket "obscene Liberal fantasies". He said even the John Wayne film "The Green Berets" was closer to the truth than those.
Great assessment! Great post!