I didn't want to give away the whole movie! I gotta leave some sort of surprise so they have something to look forward to.
On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 12:44 PM, Martin Baxter <[email protected]>wrote: > > > Mr Worf, you left off what happened after he waded through that first > bunch, when he reached the elevator. ;-) > > > "If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in > bloody hell hired the director?" -- Charles L Grant > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik > > > > > ------------------------------ > To: [email protected] > From: [email protected] > Date: Sun, 7 Feb 2010 21:21:09 -0800 > > Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Great Action Flicks on TCM Tonight > > > Yes. There are two good fight scenes in the movie after he is released > from captivity. There is one long fight where he takes on all of the > henchmen for one of the bosses that he was tracking. It was in a basement > and a slow side scroll to it. He only had his fists when he came in but he > fought about 20 guys hand to hand. It wasn't martial arts really but more > like a style he invented while he was imprisoned. > > > On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 8:02 PM, Keith Johnson > <[email protected]>wrote: > > > > So "Oldboy" has good fight scenes? I was completely caught off guard at the > first fight scene in "Eli". The way it was silhouetted, the quick and brutal > nature of it, but the fact that I could follow everything--it was heaven to > me in this ADD world in movie direction. > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Mr. Worf" <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Sunday, February 7, 2010 4:26:16 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern > Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Great Action Flicks on TCM Tonight > > > We end up with ADD style directors or mumblecore as style of direction. > The fight scene in Eli reminded me of the fight scene in Oldboy. > > > On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 11:56 AM, Martin Baxter <[email protected] > > wrote: > > > > Keith, I think you once said that too many of today's movie directors grew > up in the Video Music Era, and the Crazy-Cut Technique is all they know. Too > many of the Old Guard have either hung up their chairs or are only able to > direct every five to ten years, owing to age. It's an era which, IMO, we'll > never get back. :-( > > > "If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in > bloody hell hired the director?" -- Charles L Grant > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik > > > > > ------------------------------ > To: [email protected] > From: [email protected] > Date: Sun, 7 Feb 2010 09:43:35 +0000 > > Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Great Action Flicks on TCM Tonight > > > > Some of it may have been the time and money, but I think more of it was > director's aesthetic tastes. In watching "The Book of Eli" a couple of weeks > ago, I was impressed at how the Hughes brothers had more of an old school > take on cinematography. The fight scenes were brief but brutal, and I could > see everything very well. They used wide shots, pan-and-zoom, to let me take > everything in, without all the crazy quick cuts and multiple angles a lot of > other directors use. I really think directors like Scorsese, Redford, Spike > Lee, etc., just think it's a better way to tell a story. note that in > Britain, Mexico, France, and other countries, there's a lot less of this > music video type direction than in American film. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Mr. Worf" <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Sunday, February 7, 2010 2:30:01 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern > Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Great Action Flicks on TCM Tonight > > > I think that they had to stick to stagnant angles in older movies because > they usually only had one or two cameras running at once, because they > couldn't afford more than that. If they wanted multiple angles they would > reset the scene then reshoot it. > > Now they can afford to rent 10 or 20 cameras and set them up at 50 angles > and record them all in one take. > > The thing with big actors is that they don't want to take direction from > the director. So some of them believe whatever their point of view is, is > more valid than the director's vision. Which I believe is wrong! > > > On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 6:20 PM, Keith Johnson > <[email protected]>wrote: > > > > Watching it now. I was just telling my wife jubilantly, "they just don't > film movies like this anymore!" Nowadays director would have twenty > thousand camera angles, and you'd never be able to follow the action. This > thing is fast-paced and exciting as hell, but I can take it all in. > > Speaking of great car chase scenes, another all-time one is from "Ronin", > one of my fav films. And I also love the classic pursuit of Batman's car in > "Batman Begins". > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Martin Baxter" <[email protected]> > To: "SciFiNoir2" <[email protected]> > Sent: Saturday, February 6, 2010 9:01:42 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern > Subject: RE: [scifinoir2] Great Action Flicks on TCM Tonight > > > I'm there right now, waiting for that chase scene, Keith. "Bonnie and > Clyde" I'll be passing on, as it aired just last month. "The French > Connection", though, is a must, particularly since I picked up a bit of > trivia about Gene Hackman's performance in it. In the scene where he roughs > up the suspect, Hackman nearly quit the movie. An ardent liberal, he almost > couldn't bring himself to do the scene. > > "If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in > bloody hell hired the director?" -- Charles L Grant > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik > > > > > > ------------------------------ > To: [email protected] > From: [email protected] > Date: Sun, 7 Feb 2010 01:57:57 +0000 > Subject: [scifinoir2] Great Action Flicks on TCM Tonight > > > > http://www.tcm.com/2010/31Days/index.jsp > > You know what? Forget SyFy Originals. Forget the eleventy-millionth airing > of "Caprica". Blow off Lifetime Movies. Turner Classic Movies is airing a > great block of films tonight. Starting at 8 pm EST, we have Steve McQueen > in "Bullitt", with the man-of-few-words McQueen, and one of the great car > chases of all time. That's followed at 10 pm by "The French Connection", > with a typically intense Gene Hackman in one of the other great car chases > of all time. And then, at midnight, it's "Bonnie and Clyde", Warren Beatty's > violent New Hollywood tale of the famous robbers. > > The movies are part of TCM's "31 Days of Oscar", a month long airing of > Oscar-wnning and -nominated films done every year. This is a great time to > catch up on some of the best films of all time, from "Casablanca" to > "Citizen Kane", from "Some Like it Hot", to "Cabin in the Sky". The good > thing about TCM is that in addition to showing Oscar-nominated films, this > being Black History Month, they also show a lot of classic Black film dating > back to the '20s. Ethel Waters in "Cabin in the Sky" is just one example. > It's about the only place I've seen this and many other of those films from > that time. > > Gonna be a long fun night! > > > ------------------------------ > Hotmail: Trusted email with Microsoft’s powerful SPAM protection. Sign up > now. <http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/201469226/direct/01/> > > > > > > > -- > Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! > Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/ > > > > ------------------------------ > Hotmail: Trusted email with powerful SPAM protection. 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