[quote]Waittz wrote:
I am about to blow Lanky Mofo’s mind.
The voice of shredder from the original cartoon series is Uncle Phil from Fresh Prince. [/quote]
Mind = blown!
On a related note, my son got a gift card to Toys R Us last Christmas and picked these out all by himself, he hadn’t even seen the movie yet!
As a father, I’ve never been more proud!
How was Vanilla Ice in the TMNT2 movie?
[quote]LankyMofo wrote:
[quote]Waittz wrote:
I am about to blow Lanky Mofo’s mind.
The voice of shredder from the original cartoon series is Uncle Phil from Fresh Prince. [/quote]
Mind = blown!
On a related note, my son got a gift card to Toys R Us last Christmas and picked these out all by himself, he hadn’t even seen the movie yet!
As a father, I’ve never been more proud![/quote]
Awesome. Only word I can use to describe that. Now you have to go find an old school nintendo emulator and have him play the video game from our child hood hahah.
The screen shot alone should wake up some dormant memories! haha
[quote]dmaddox wrote:
How was Vanilla Ice in the TMNT2 movie?[/quote]
you made me do it. now i need a cold shower
[quote]Waittz wrote:
[quote]dmaddox wrote:
How was Vanilla Ice in the TMNT2 movie?[/quote]
you made me do it. now i need a cold shower [/quote]
The first time I every heard the name Vanilla Ice I was in 6 or 7th grade and asked if it was a snow cone or something. Good Times, Good Times.
[quote]dmaddox wrote:
[quote]Waittz wrote:
[quote]dmaddox wrote:
How was Vanilla Ice in the TMNT2 movie?[/quote]
you made me do it. now i need a cold shower [/quote]
The first time I every heard the name Vanilla Ice I was in 6 or 7th grade and asked if it was a snow cone or something. Good Times, Good Times.[/quote]
damned I just LOL’ed hard at my desk from that.
[quote]Waittz wrote:
[quote]LankyMofo wrote:
[quote]Waittz wrote:
I am about to blow Lanky Mofo’s mind.
The voice of shredder from the original cartoon series is Uncle Phil from Fresh Prince. [/quote]
Mind = blown!
On a related note, my son got a gift card to Toys R Us last Christmas and picked these out all by himself, he hadn’t even seen the movie yet!
As a father, I’ve never been more proud![/quote]
Awesome. Only word I can use to describe that. Now you have to go find an old school nintendo emulator and have him play the video game from our child hood hahah.
The screen shot alone should wake up some dormant memories! haha
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Ha, I already have an emulator saved to a USB drive and I’m pretty sure every Nintendo game ever created, so no problem there!
I don’t want to hi jack the thread any further, but Waittz, not sure if you saw this thread I started a few years ago:
https://tnation.T-Nation.com/free_online_forum/music_movies_girls_life/old_school_nickelodeon
Nostalgia all day.
Edit - and if anyone knows where to buy a piece of the aggro crag, I’m still looking.
[quote]LankyMofo wrote:
[quote]Waittz wrote:
[quote]LankyMofo wrote:
[quote]Waittz wrote:
I am about to blow Lanky Mofo’s mind.
The voice of shredder from the original cartoon series is Uncle Phil from Fresh Prince. [/quote]
Mind = blown!
On a related note, my son got a gift card to Toys R Us last Christmas and picked these out all by himself, he hadn’t even seen the movie yet!
As a father, I’ve never been more proud![/quote]
Awesome. Only word I can use to describe that. Now you have to go find an old school nintendo emulator and have him play the video game from our child hood hahah.
The screen shot alone should wake up some dormant memories! haha
[/quote]
Ha, I already have an emulator saved to a USB drive and I’m pretty sure every Nintendo game ever created, so no problem there!
I don’t want to hi jack the thread any further, but Waittz, not sure if you saw this thread I started a few years ago:
https://tnation.T-Nation.com/free_online_forum/music_movies_girls_life/old_school_nickelodeon
Nostalgia all day.
Edit - and if anyone knows where to buy a piece of the aggro crag, I’m still looking. [/quote]
So upset that thread is locked after seeing one pic that I needed to reply to. My last hijack and then back to the movies. I have mentioned it a few times but my gf is from brazil, moved here 2 years ago so anything pop culture related from my youth is lost on her. One night we went out with friends and I binged until I blacked out completely. The next morning she showed me a video on her cell phone and asked me who Artie was. The video was me incoherently drunk in my kitchen stripped down to my underwear doing a ‘for I am Artie, strongest man…in the world’ impersonation for 5 full minutes complete with the flexing, stretching, contorted mouth and “mehep” noises. Every noise and movement was on point accurate.I still to this day don’t remember doing it or what prompted i since we were alone and she has never heard of Pete and Pete. Glad I shared that.
[quote]Waittz wrote:
Glad I shared that.
[/quote]
Me, too. The strongest man…in the world!
Kahuna, give me a top 10 list of best Sean Connery films and I won’t post spoilers for Star Trek: Into Darkness.
[quote]Gettnitdone wrote:
Kahuna, give me a top 10 list of best Sean Connery films and I won’t post spoilers for Star Trek: Into Darkness.[/quote]
Saw Into Darkness a couple days ago, so your plan is foiled! As an aside, the second didn’t live up to my expectations, especially given the plot and characters staying closer to the upper echelon of Trekkie wet dreams, I still thought it was incredibly good and by no means something to miss. It’s like a newer cut of the first film, that missed out on not really expanding on what the first film could have, I feel it could have been a classic given a few tweaks here and there. I enjoyed it more than the first given the inarguably better villain character and arguably better dialogue and delivery, especially around Quinto’s Spock, what with being slightly “out of place”.
Overall enjoyed it greatly, and I do feel it was maybe slightly better than the first, although with some extra work it could have been even more satisfying.
Hmm, I always find top tens a little lengthy, but I’ll do my best from memory.
(Best to “Worst”)
Took me a while to really set those all into place, and if I were to watch most of them again fresh my mind may change slightly, but I believe those to be, in some order, the best Connery films. There may be a few I haven’t seen and thus unjustly bypassing so I’m welcome to recommendation.
[quote]Big Kahuna wrote:
(Best to “Worst”)
Took me a while to really set those all into place, and if I were to watch most of them again fresh my mind may change slightly, but I believe those to be, in some order, the best Connery films. There may be a few I haven’t seen and thus unjustly bypassing so I’m welcome to recommendation.[/quote]
The Name of The Rose?
Highlander?
Just Cause?
Robin and Marion?
[quote]Irish Daza wrote:
[quote]Big Kahuna wrote:
(Best to “Worst”)
Took me a while to really set those all into place, and if I were to watch most of them again fresh my mind may change slightly, but I believe those to be, in some order, the best Connery films. There may be a few I haven’t seen and thus unjustly bypassing so I’m welcome to recommendation.[/quote]
The Name of The Rose?
Highlander?
Just Cause?
Robin and Marion?
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I did like The Name Of The Rose, but I feel it just dropped out behind the list, around 11-13.
I somewhat liked Highlander, but definitely not enough to put it in a league with those other films.
I haven’t seen Robin and Marion, although if it’s a Robin Hood adaptation as the title suggests I will be on the lookout.
Hated Just Cause, would probably even say it is one of Connery’s worst, I found it to have no redeemable features at all besides some of the casting choices.
Honourable mentions also to the Hitchcock film “Marnie”, not quite so brilliant as a Hitchcock usually is, but definitely worthy as a production in and of itself.
Of course it’s always difficult to make a top ten with a career as extensive as Connery’s, there are a ton of films that don’t get mentioned, and a substantial amount of subjectivity. Of course the Bond films are standard, as is Red October, but past that I could see different opinions wavering quite intrepidly.
Joe Cornish’s Attack The Block
Scanning through films related to Simon Pegg, Nick Frost and their cornetto trilogy (the third of which I am eagerly awaiting the release of), I came across a film by the same producers named Attack The Block. Featuring a gang of British youths in Brixton that have to deal with a hostile alien invasion, along with the help of a nice young nurse they recently mugged and a posh University student stoner that’s as timorous as he is annoying.
I loved this film. Loved, loved, loved this film. All films that trace back to both Simon Pegg and Nick Frost have some element of absurdity, and that absurdity is used wonderfully here. The film looks like just another amateur indie film coming out of the gates, but the subtle beauty is in it’s script. Cleverly satirising the hierarchy of class and the stereotypes that come along with them, Attack The Block is not just another silly movie about Aliens, but a brilliantly humorous and insightful perspective on the abolishment of social stratification when faced with a much more relevant and threatening enemy. The cast are all relatively unknown, but each do wonderfully in their respective roles, it was a joy to watch this film and not be left with a jaded, loathsome mentality over the silly paper gangster demographic. I would liken it’s metaphor of class unto that of District 9 and it’s similarities to the apartheid. But displayed here in a much more comedic, albeit just as well crafted manner.
The action is very fast-paced and there is not a single moment for the entirety of the film that I felt bored or distracted. Given the inventive and unique nature of the film’s premise, I feel Cornish handled the outcome brilliantly, especially for his debut, a film like this must not be a simple task to take head on.
I would recommend anyone with a significant understanding of London’s lower class youth and their terminology to see this film immediately, it is full of snippets of very witty and applaudable humour, with a very devoted cast, and I am sure that this will one day be regarded as a British cult classic. Trust bruv!
re Connery, the Anderson Tapes was good also he has a supreme swagger in Thunderball (even though it was mediocre for a Bond)
[quote]RampantBadger wrote:
re Connery, the Anderson Tapes was good also he has a supreme swagger in Thunderball (even though it was mediocre for a Bond)[/quote]
I’ve never seen The Anderson Tapes, I’ll have a look at that one once I have the time.
Yes, while he’s inarguably one of the best Bonds ever to play the role, I tried to not include too many Bonds so we wouldn’t be in the same old predicament of labelling him in with that all the time. Although most of his Bond films are indeed incredibly good, at least Thunderball showed a little more promise than You Only Live Twice or god forbid Diamonds Are Forever. I infact find the drop off between the early three bonds and those last two shocking.
I don’t particularly strongly dislike any of them, it’s just within the confines of the franchise that they seem rather sluggish. (Although Diamonds Are Forever does irk me sometimes.)
Into Darkness has made me very, very excited and hopeful for the new Star Wars films.
[quote]RATTLEHEAD wrote:
Into Darkness has made me very, very excited and hopeful for the new Star Wars films.[/quote]
Oh I hope they pull Star Wars out of it’s Phantom Menace/Attack Of The Clones gutter (I actually liked the ending of episode 3, so I’m not throwing that in there). I wonder who the villain will be for episode 7. I would have loved a Jacen Solo dynamic, but that’s probably rather unlikely. Not just given his already extensive storyline and death, but also just launching the whole family tree in there and hoping the audience rolls with it.
I will however, on the other end of the spectrum, be kind of pissed if Palpatine returns from the dead. As much as I loved him in the original series, I do not want them to rehash it and slap a shiny new sticker on there just to cut corners.
Star Wars is the greatest film franchise of all-time, bar none. Nothing even comes close, not the Godfather Trilogy or LOTR. Nolan’s Batman series deserves an honourable mention, but it can’t compare to the way the original Star Wars films captured the imaginations of a generation.
[quote]Big Kahuna wrote:
[quote]RATTLEHEAD wrote:
Into Darkness has made me very, very excited and hopeful for the new Star Wars films.[/quote]
Oh I hope they pull Star Wars out of it’s Phantom Menace/Attack Of The Clones gutter (I actually liked the ending of episode 3, so I’m not throwing that in there). I wonder who the villain will be for episode 7. I would have loved a Jacen Solo dynamic, but that’s probably rather unlikely. Not just given his already extensive storyline and death, but also just launching the whole family tree in there and hoping the audience rolls with it.
I will however, on the other end of the spectrum, be kind of pissed if Palpatine returns from the dead. As much as I loved him in the original series, I do not want them to rehash it and slap a shiny new sticker on there just to cut corners.[/quote]
Palpatine is dead. They should respect the original and make the new slew of films with original characters that tie in with the Star Wars universe. I know some of the Star Wars novels have taken significant liberty in terms of crafting out entirely new universes. The films need to do something like that but keep the “fundamentals” that the general viewer recognises from the original films.
Saying that, I’d prefer to see Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill and Carrie Fisher, but as supporting cast members where the story doesn’t revolve around them. No need for Cocoon in space.
