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1. The streets were crime ridden and some people would've been too scared to go out at night.
2. A lot of people just wouldn't have believed him.
I like Batman Returns even with it's flaws but Batman is the better film.
It made me laugh. It's a film about a bloke who dresses as a Bat and the actors thought they were making a powerful crime drama.
One of the most overrated films of all time. There's so many things that happen in this film that leave me scratching my head.
When Batman's speeding towards The Joker and then changes his mind about killing him, why is he knocked out from a very minor fall from the Batpod?
What happens to The Joker after Batman and Rachel land on the car. Did the Joker just say goodbye to everyone and walk out of the penthouse or did he kill those people?
How does The Joker survive an explosion that killed everyone else just by bending down behind some filing cabinets?
Why does Two-Face who has a vendetta to pursue risk his own life by shooting the driver of the car causing it to crash?
If Batman has a no kill rule and saves The Joker at the end, why does he drop the mobster from the building? He doesn't know he's going to be lucky and land on his feet and only break his legs.
When you try and make a serious crime thriller out of a comic book, the fantastical moments are just jarring. Same goes for the attempts at humour like "Let's not do that again", and "That's not good. Oh, that's not good!".
I liked it when I first saw it but even then I was always disappointed that Gotham didn't look like it did in Batman Begins, thought Batman's voice was way too gruff, felt that it started to go downhill and never really recovered once The Joker escaped from prison, and found Gordon's speech at the end a bit cringeworthy.
6/10
It's great as it is. An international production which means thankfully it doesn't have that shitty Hollywood glamourous look that every other Musketeers film has had before and since. It's got a more European look about it which of course it should because of the setting.
Most of the locations here look a bit grungy and more realistic. You can almost smell the surroundings of the poverty stricken areas. Some great comedy, and sword fights that while humourous look more natural and not overtly choreographed.
Still the best Musketeers film.
It's very British. It feels like Monty Python had an hand in some of the script writing, and of course, I mean that in a good way.
This remains the best version of The Three Musketeers on screen.
Always remember this the next time you watch an Oliver Reed performance. He was a completely untrained actor. He just started out being an extra in films and worked his way up. You would never think it.
In The Four Musketeers, when he threatens Milady, he only raises his voice once "Since when is it possible to insult you madam!" or something like that. The rest of the time he's just speaking to Milady in a low, calm speaking voice but you still absolutely believe that he would shoot her there and then or strangle her with his bare hands. He just had a unique aura and an effortless threat about him.
I watch it for Frank Finlay, Oliver Reed, and Roy Kinnear
Nah, even though there was some good casting in this film, the visuals, atmosphere, and music were always the best things about Blade Runner.
For me, most things about Blade Runner are great but Harrison Ford's performance is one of the film's weakest aspects.
Now I'm not saying I can imagine someone else in the role. I actually think Ford looks his best here, even better than Indy, with the cropped hair and the long raincoat but his performance is all over the shop.
There's parts where he's perfectly fine like when he's trying to escape from Batty and he's scared and exhausted, and when he returns home and he discovers Rachel is still alive but there's other parts where he leaves you scratching your head a bit.
He does his Han Solo lopsided smirk a few times throughout and I don't understand why when Deckard is not supposed to be cocksure but instead a bit broken and alchohol dependent. When he says to Rachel on the phone "I've had women walk out on me before, but never when I was being so charming" he looks and sounds as if he's just walked on set with an hangover and he doesn't know where he is. Then when Leon is throwing him around he does some awful "scared" expressions that are comically over the top.
It's well known that Ford could never really get an handle on Deckard. Partly because when he signed up to it he was expecting a more traditional detective type story and it's not really that at all. In fact, I would even argue that halfway through the film, Batty becomes more of the main focus of the film. And also he was used to collaborating with directors like Lucas and Spielberg, whereas Ridley was much more interested with every little detail of the visuals and he wasn't really "an actor's director". Certainly not then anyway. When you watch the Dangerous Days documentary you can really see Ford's frustration when you see some of the footage of him on set.
I'd never heard of it until (I'm in England) I saw a TV show on BBC4 about Christmas films where film critic Mark Kermode talked about it, and mentioned how obvious it was that Home Alone had borrowed from it.
Yes it did. The producers were threatening to sue the makers of Home Alone for plagiarism.
Yes, Clockwise is another good film he did.
But yes, Cleese has lost me with GB News. He often rightfully calls out the lies and corruption of Boris Johnson and the Tory politicians who like Johnson on his Twitter, and then goes on a station that's basically nothing but propaganda for Johnson and his supporters.
Kill List is his best.
The werewolf still looks fine. The only real problem with it is the film's continuity errors rather than it's design.
When David first changes in the flat, and then later at the cinema, you can clearly see it's dark haired. But there's other times where it's a grey/silvery colour.
5) David's attacked in Yorkshire and taken to hospital all the way down in London.
6) The police shoot the werewolf in a dark alley and manage to hit it even though Alex is stood right in front of it. And how did Alex avoid getting hit by any of the bullets?
Fawlty Towers remains the greatest sitcom ever made and should be left alone.
Connery was great but he was in a lot of shite. Difficult to label one film as THE worst when he was in
Highlander 2
Zardoz
Ransom
The Avengers
Meteor
Diamonds Are Forever
Never Say Never Again
Medicine Man
The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen
Entrapment
Shalako
I haven't found Cleese funny for years but it doesn't take away his track record. At his peak in the 70's and 80's, he was easily one of the funniest performers on the planet. Maybe the funniest.
Hilarious at using his tall, skinny frame for physical gags, hilarious at being deadpan - a lot of the gags in Fawlty Towers comes from his dry, sarcastic delivery towards Sybill, and of course he generously let Kevin Kline have the showier role in A Fish Called Wanda while he played the more straight faced role but was still funny, and obviously he was hilarious at being angry and frustrated.