General Chat

Hi Pam,

I've seen Electra Glide in Blue on telly twice - once in the early 80s and I think perhaps once about ten years later.

Yes the ending is quite undexpected, but there again that line at the end of Easyrider, delivered by the redneck in the pickup "We'd better go back ..." is delivered to make you think something else too ...

Ha Ha! Now then young Ed, have you seen Milla on the L'Oreal Advert yet?!

Evening Ed, not heard of that one. Is it true Roman Polanski is still not allowed back in the USA or it wouldn't be wise for him to return? Strange chap. I believe I read somewhere he lost very near relatives in the Holochaust.

On a lighter not, I remember going to see this next film with friends in 1973/4 time. Electra Glide in Blue. It starred a very short actor who's name I can't remember but he plays a motorcyle cop in the deep south of America. He's a nice character, and the end is very unexpected. One of the scenes when he finds an elderly chap who's apparantly shot himself I found quite grim at the time.To my knowledge it's never been shown on telly, so I forget the general plot.

Pam, language please!!

I don't think you sound depressive either Lynda.

You'd think I'm obsessed with Milla Jovavich and Kate Beckinsale and spend all my time collecting trivia by what I've written here. (Actually that sound pretty close to the truth ...)

Hi all, just thought of one that I haven't mentioned yet - Roman Polanski's The Tragedy of Macbeth, with Jon Finch in the title role and Martin Shaw as Banquo.

I remember seeing it at the cinema, as part of our English 'O' Level preparation, at the Odeon on Holloway Road.

Hi Lynda, I have heard about the film The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas. I think I read that it was one of those films that maybe has two endings, perhaps I read that on here.



You don't sound a depressive kind of a gal to me Lynda! If you read some of the tosh that I've written on this thread since Christmas Eve of last year...well you'd think I was some shallow type of a woman who only likes films if the leading man looks like he'd be a good sh*g and has lovely brown eyes!!! LOL ! Perish the thought!

I see Tod Carty got voted off ,Dancing on Ice about time to! It wasn't funny anymore!

Here's another oldie but goody I think.


' Al Capone.' Rod Steiger plays the lead in this film. haven't seen it for ages, but it was a good old black and white classic. and of course Rod Steiger as usual gives a good performance.

Nudge

I liked Jackie Chan in Shanghai Noon and Shanghai Knights with Owen Wilson.

Night Pam

Off to bed now, night to all you film fans and speak soon. :0)

Never knew that Ed. Not a patch on the original though I bet.

Yes Ed I liked Bruce Lee, in a 'ladies sort of way' I mean! Strrange about Brandon Lee dieing on the set of The Crow, awful.

I enjoyed Steve Coogen in Around the World in Eighty Days with Jackie Chan. I like Steve Coogan in 'a ladies way' too! He is so funny as a stand up I think. I love him when he does Paul and Pauline Calf! He was up here last year at the Theatre Royal Norwich, oh he was good and I think some of the Norfolk people got the 'ump about Alan Patridge. ha ha.

Hi Pam, I've just Gooogled it and they remade it in 2000 with Sly Stallone as Carter. Suprisingly, Michael Caine was in it too as Brumby, the character originally played by Bryan Mosley.

Hi Nicky,

Not too sure about Jackie Chan - I can take him or leave him myself. I'm more of a Jet Li man.

But there is one and only one master of martial arts films - BRUCE LEE.

Oh yes Alun Armstrong of New tricks. He got roughed up bad in the film didn't he. Poor old Ian Hendry, he was a gravelly voiced chap who didn't make old bones did he.I think he liked a drink a bit to much, shame.

I don't know Ed about the Yanks doing a similiar one or trying to.

Hi Pam, yes Get Carter is a great film - had some good British actors in supporting roles too: Alun Armstrong, George Sewell, Ian Hendry and Bryan Mosley.

Didn't the Yanks try to rip of the story a few years back and set it in America?

Nicky, yes James Stewart was a lovely man and I agree about the voice. He was over here in the USAAF and flew his twenty five missions from Old Buckenham airfield here in norfolk. I remember seeing him on our regional news some years back talking about his war time experiences.

Night all ...off to bed now, OH is watching a Jackie chan film ......again!!.....and if I sit down with him i`ll be asleep in the chair in 5 minutes.......What is it about men and Jackie Chan films? Over to you Ed..



Nicky

Hi Nicky, yes I didn't get too excited over Pearl Harbour either - like Pam I thought the CGI Japanese aircraft made it look too "clean".

Yes I love A Wonderful Life as well. James Stewart is one of my favourite actors - I remember seeing him on Parky in the 80s, just before he died. He came across as one of those lovely, genuine people who are all to rare nowadays.

One I haven't mentioned was the 1939 version of the Hunchback of Notre Dame with Charles Laughton and Maureen O'Hara. I think it's the best rendition of the story.

Just thought of a film for the girlies {sorry Ed}...


Bridget Jones, itwas very funny, and i think we could all identify with Bridget at some point in the film, though i always thought her standing on the scales at the beginning and disparring at weighing I thinkl it was about 10 stone, was hardly obese..... she didn`t look much bigger than a size 12 to me, but then I suppose in hollywood size 12 IS obese..!! Lol


Rennee Zellwegger had to fatten up for the role didn`t she? mind you when she slimmed back down i thought she looked painfully thin, I`ve seen bits of the sequel, but never the whole film.


Nicky