tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post4199849255110878724..comments2024-03-18T18:27:23.680-07:00Comments on Raconteur Report: Murder On The Orient Express (2017)Aesophttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07834464741531503378noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-42390803998521366592017-11-13T15:29:23.435-08:002017-11-13T15:29:23.435-08:00http://www.mercurynews.com/2009/05/08/kenneth-bran...http://www.mercurynews.com/2009/05/08/kenneth-branagh-stars-as-swedish-detective-on-3-part-masterpiece-mystery/Papanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-42218545272827336082017-11-13T15:28:38.844-08:002017-11-13T15:28:38.844-08:00http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-3589108/...http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-3589108/How-missus-Wallander-miserable-Returning-Swedish-detective-Sir-Kenneth-Branagh-reveals-wife-visit-set-lift-gloom.htmlPapanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-77710305430365028002017-11-13T15:26:27.673-08:002017-11-13T15:26:27.673-08:00Also check out the series "Wallender".Also check out the series "Wallender".Papanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-36412963324542188812017-11-13T15:20:57.934-08:002017-11-13T15:20:57.934-08:00We saw "...Orient Express" this past wee...We saw "...Orient Express" this past weekend. <br />Loved it!<br />Agree with your four stars. Four stars out of four? I would give it 5 if five were available. <br />The filming and scenary was well done.<br />During the initial train ride, there was a scene of going g towards and over a mountain range, the going down to the train. Made my stomach rise!<br />A great people and charecter movie.<br />Branagh does well in Henry V, Dunkirk, Orient, and other roles.Papanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-67740530089097669522017-11-12T20:39:11.753-08:002017-11-12T20:39:11.753-08:00Best True Grit was cartoonist Mort Drucker's p...Best True Grit was cartoonist Mort Drucker's piss-take on the original movie in MAD MAGAZINE.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-33405792852336782752017-11-11T16:23:21.525-08:002017-11-11T16:23:21.525-08:00I have to "defend" my like of the True G...I have to "defend" my like of the True Grit remake ;Dukes Oscar was more of a lifetime achievement, I can think of many other roles he did as well or better (Shootist anyone?) <br />Boat GuyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-70888280850575833192017-11-11T10:55:29.431-08:002017-11-11T10:55:29.431-08:00On True Grit, we'll just have to disagree. In ...On True Grit, we'll just have to disagree. In real life, can not stand Matt Damon but he was almost stole the movie, he was light years ahead of Glen Campbell's take. There's no doubt that Wayne's take was fabulous, I happen to like Bridges' version better. If I'm not mistaken, as I read the book many years ago, but the Coens returned to a closer accounting and I think that they did a better job with the vernacular too. The cinematography in the remake was certainly better especially the starry night shots. I think the remake was just gritter.<br /><br />Didn't see either Tron so I can't comment on them but for 40+ years, Bridges has been in the zone. Even I have made some windows I wish I could take back.<br /><br />Having surreptitiously read my Ian Fleming behind textbooks starting in the 6th grade, I've been a life long Bond fan and IMO, Craig's take is the proper one. The wisecracks and snark from every other actor just does not fit an assassin like Bond. Bronson had a decent run but Moore was, hands down, the worst.<br /><br />Not a fan at all of horror either and while there were some horror like aspects to The Thing, it was an excellent and tense sci-fi movie.<br />MMinWAhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03791810228821770464noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-80591272392444633712017-11-11T07:53:59.944-08:002017-11-11T07:53:59.944-08:00You have to be joking.
John Wayne won his sole Bes...You have to be joking.<br />John Wayne won his sole Best Actor Oscar for <i>True Grit</i>.<br />His final scene with Robert Duvall was iconic; the Coen remake was atrocious.<br />I saw that utterly regretable remake, the same week they released the 30-years-too-late shitastic sequel to <i>Tron</i>.<br />I like me some Jeff Bridges, but that was one entire year he should have stayed home. He was a clown attempting <i>Hamlet</i> in the remake, and it showed. <br />O, how it showed.<br />That awful remake is one of the poster-children for <i>Don't Ever Remake Classic Movies</i>, long and distinguished as that list of stinkers is.<br />(And if anyone was going to waste $10 or more on the horrible current <i>Bladerunner</i> disasterpiece, stay home now. You're welcome.)<br /><br />As noted, the two versions of <i>Casino Royale</i> were entirely different pictures, sharing only a title; the latter was not a remake, it was an entire re-boot after Pierce Brosnan rode the series into the ground, after getting some of the worst scripts ever penned. <br /><br />But when you can pull David Niven out of your hat, you'll usually win the trivia contest of naming every actor to play James Bond in major motion pictures.<br /><br />As for <i>The Thing</i>, the genre is horror, from which I would recuse myself, considering nearly all - to the last one - of them to suck ass as pure low-budget hell and irredeemable crap for both producers and audiences, so a better remake of two awful movies doesn't really count, with me. We can agree to disagree on that, because I hate the genre on principal, while others obviously think it's fantastic.<br /> <br />I note that when you do them as comedy-adventures, as in the two Brendan Fraser iterations of <i>The Mummy</i>, you get a much more harmonious outcome, both in terms of absolute film quality, and box office.<br /> <br />If you root around amongst the first 10,000 flicks or so given an MPAA number, you'll also find a lot of 1930's era low-budget three-reel crap, churned out purely to keep the studios' doors open. By about 1945 or so, they'd settled down to just making real movies. My list, a couple of years back, was solely 366 of the greatest movies made. Even if we expanded it to 1000, that leaves 50,000 examples of the worst movies ever made. Hollywood should learn to leave the pinnacle alone, and concentrate on redeeming the crap, or making new flicks, to assuage their culpability in churning out mounds of utter dreck, which is at minimum a 50:1 ratio.<br />When you ponder that most years lately Hollywood churns out 200-400 flicks, remember that ratio.<br /><br />MotOE is one of the few films able to claw it's way into that pinnacle <i>twice</i>, which is an infinitesimally small club; the fact that it took Kenneth Branagh at the height of his powers as both actor and director, with Ridley Scott producing, to nearly equal Sidney Lumet's earlier level of work, is the takeaway point here.Aesophttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07834464741531503378noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-13147661609164940792017-11-11T06:42:36.829-08:002017-11-11T06:42:36.829-08:00Gotta concur with Carpenter and the Coen brothers ...Gotta concur with Carpenter and the Coen brothers remakes the latter primarily because of the gal playing Mattie, though Jeff Bridges did a great job with Rooster. Even whatsisname did better than Glen Campbell.<br />As for Always ... well, it's been a long time since I saw A Guy Named Joe so I'll take your assessment of that one along with the recommendation of the new MOTOE. I usually like Branagh anyway<br />Boat GuyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-46607513192548046492017-11-11T05:40:30.207-08:002017-11-11T05:40:30.207-08:00Hitchcock's remake of his own The Man Who Knew...Hitchcock's remake of his own The Man Who Knew Too Much is far superior and one of my top 20. I wonder if there are any other instances of a director remaking his own film.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-29023987517991607212017-11-11T05:05:22.555-08:002017-11-11T05:05:22.555-08:00Off the top of my head, IMO, Carpenter's The T...Off the top of my head, IMO, Carpenter's The Thing was a 100x better then the 50s' version. While the original Casino Royale was intentionally made campy, the Bond reboot with Danial Craig was fantastic.<br /><br />Finally, I hope I'm not stepping on any John Wayne toes here but I think the Coen Brothers remake of True Grit, especially Jeff Bridges as Rooster, was also great.<br /><br />We have a one screener in Lamesa but I'll keep my eye peeled for your recommendation.MMinWAhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03791810228821770464noreply@blogger.com