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Le professionnelLe professionnel, Blu-ray Disc
Blu-ray Disc - 2019 | French
Added Nov 01, 2020
The LockpickerThe Lockpicker, DVD
DVD - 2018
jimg2000's rating:
2.5 out of 5 stars
Added Nov 01, 2020
Comment:
A lonesome teenager with little parental and school guidance deals with his friend's suicide in destructive ways. Low or No budget indie film that is okay for audience who are interested in what teens do in the antagonist's situation. The lyrics in the song as during the end credit sums his bottled up anguish, see Quotes.A lonesome teenager with little parental and school guidance deals with his friend's suicide in destructive ways. Low or No budget indie film that is okay for audience who are interested in what teens do in the antagonist's situation. The lyrics in…
Quotations
- Wild One by The Fugitives: Oh it's a wild one then When you got it all in your hands With every door unlocked There's no reason to stop Will you hold onto these things for me? The wild is at my memory I tried to show you everything I showed you everything This is a wild one then When you got a heart with no plan And the destined Except the rooms in your hand Will you hold onto these things for me? The wild is at my memories The fights that flail behind my door The face I had beneath my floor I'm trying to show you everything The look you gave was still that same All the same as the sounds at home I'm only trying to leave my room Oh it's a wild one thenWild One by The Fugitives: Oh it's a wild one then When you got it all in your hands With every door unlocked There's no reason to stop Will you hold onto these things for me? The wild is at my memory I tried to show you everything I showed…
jimg2000's rating:
3.5 out of 5 stars
Added Oct 31, 2020
Comment:
Per wiki, It is the first feature film directed by Trier and the first installment of the director's Europa trilogy – succeeded by Epidemic (1987) and Europa (1991). Have watched 8 Trier film so far. Some I enjoyed and others not, but all fresh and interesting. This is an arty psychological crime drama when a brilliant but burnt out detective puts himself in the shoes of an evil serial killer and becomes entangled in a horrific subjective reality state. A crazy story but somehow works out logically at the end.Per wiki, It is the first feature film directed by Trier and the first installment of the director's Europa trilogy – succeeded by Epidemic (1987) and Europa (1991). Have watched 8 Trier film so far. Some I enjoyed and others not, but all fresh and…
PrimalPrimal, DVD
DVD - 2019
jimg2000's rating:
1.5 out of 5 stars
Added Oct 30, 2020
Comment:
Producer Luillo Ruiz explains why he likes the film in the Special feature. He is also credited to produce another bad film with big names Trauma Center (2019) with Bruce Willis. This time, the stars are Nicolas Cage and Famke Janssen (Bond girl Xenia Onatopp in GoldenEye and Jean Grey/Phoenix in the X-Men.) The story premise draws me in but the subplots are insufferable and annoying; the supporting actors do not help.Producer Luillo Ruiz explains why he likes the film in the Special feature. He is also credited to produce another bad film with big names Trauma Center (2019) with Bruce Willis. This time, the stars are Nicolas Cage and Famke Janssen (Bond girl…
Marriage StoryMarriage Story, DVD
DVD - 2020
jimg2000's rating:
3.5 out of 5 stars
Added Oct 29, 2020
Comment:
The relationship problems in the young family are too numerous but nothing really serious, such as death of a child, physical violence (or worse), substance abuse, financial ruin etc. The legal system is not to be blamed in this case, as the couple (Scarlett Johansson and Adam Driver) act like children, unable to give and take to make any relationship satisfying and marriage enduring; although one can easily fault the husband for his old school views on marriage partnership (see note.) An engaging story overall and the performances of the lawyers (Laura Dern, Alan Alda, Ray Liotta) add spice and humor to the film's heartaches.
Note:
-Harvard Business Review survey - high-achieving women are not meeting the career goals they set for themselves in their 20s. It’s not because they’re “opting out” of the workforce when they have kids, but because they’re allowing their partners’ careers to take precedence over their own.
https://hbr.org/2014/12/rethink-what-you-know-about-high-achieving-women.
-Dern's only Oscar win for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role.The relationship problems in the young family are too numerous but nothing really serious, such as death of a child, physical violence (or worse), substance abuse, financial ruin etc. The legal system is not to be blamed in this case, as the couple…
Quotations
- See quotes in IMDb that includes the views from the lawyers. This is the best one in mho, P2 of 2: Because the basis of our Judeo-Christian whatever is Mary, Mother of Jesus, and she's perfect. She's a virgin who gives birth, unwaveringly supports her child and holds his dead body when he's gone. And the dad isn't there. He didn't even do the fucking. God is in heaven. God is the father and God didn't show up. So, you have to be perfect, and Charlie can be a fuck up and it doesn't matter. You will always be held to a different, higher standard. And it's fucked up, but that's the way it is.See quotes in IMDb that includes the views from the lawyers. This is the best one in mho, P2 of 2: Because the basis of our Judeo-Christian whatever is Mary, Mother of Jesus, and she's perfect. She's a virgin who gives birth, unwaveringly supports…
- See quotes in IMDb that includes the views from the lawyers. This is the best one in mho, P1 of 2: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7653254/quotes/?tab=qt&ref_=tt_trv_qu Nora Fanshaw: People don't accept mothers who drink too much wine and yell at their child and call him an asshole. I get it. I do it too. We can accept an imperfect dad. Let's face it, the idea of a good father was only invented like 30 years ago. Before that, fathers were expected to be silent and absent and unreliable and selfish, and can all say we want them to be different. But on some basic level, we accept them. We love them for their fallibilities, but people absolutely don't accept those same failings in mothers. We don't accept it structurally and we don't accept it spiritually.See quotes in IMDb that includes the views from the lawyers. This is the best one in mho, P1 of 2: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7653254/quotes/?tab=qt&ref_=tt_trv_qu Nora Fanshaw: People don't accept mothers who drink too much wine and yell at…
- Driver did a very good job singing: Being Alive Stephen Sondheim Someone to hold me too close. Someone to hurt me too deep. Someone to sit in my chair, And ruin my sleep, And make me aware, Of being alive. Being alive. Somebody need me too much. Somebody know me too well. Somebody pull me up short, And put me through hell, And give me support, For being alive. Make me alive. Make me alive. Make me confused. Mock me with praise. Let me be used. Vary my days. But alone, Is alone, Not alive.…Driver did a very good job singing: Being Alive Stephen Sondheim Someone to hold me too close. Someone to hurt me too deep. Someone to sit in my chair, And ruin my sleep, And make me aware, Of being alive. Being alive. Somebody need me too…
使徒行者. 2, 諜影行動 = Line walker. 2使徒行者. 2, 諜影行動 = Line walker. 2, DVDShi tu xing zheShi tu xing zhe2, Die ying xing dong = Line walker. 2
DVD - 2019 | Chinese
Added Oct 28, 2020
使徒行者 [videorecording] = Line walker使徒行者 [videorecording] = Line walker, DVDShi tu xing zheShi tu xing zheLine walker
DVD - 2014 | Chinese
jimg2000's rating:
3.5 out of 5 stars
Added Oct 28, 2020
Comment:
A clever crime thriller about the unlikely brotherhood between an undercover cop inside a drug organization and a mole in the police force. It stars the trio of familiar Hong Kong actors Nick Cheung, Louis Koo and Francis Ng. Plenty of action and stunts, filmed in Hong Kong, Macau, Shenzhen and Rio de Janeiro. The best sequence is the long car chase stunts against the backdrop of the sprawling favelas.
Note: The film's signature elements are recycled for the 2019 Line Walker 2: Invisible Spy: Rubik's Cube, Morse Code, exotic film locations, wild car chase, brotherhood ...A clever crime thriller about the unlikely brotherhood between an undercover cop inside a drug organization and a mole in the police force. It stars the trio of familiar Hong Kong actors Nick Cheung, Louis Koo and Francis Ng. Plenty of action and…
Dirty moneyDirty money, DVDUn flic
DVD - 2008 | French
jimg2000's rating:
3.5 out of 5 stars
Added Oct 28, 2020
Comment:
Un flic (A Cop; AKA Dirty Money ) Delon plays the 2nd fiddle as a cop, leaving the heavy lifting to the American star Richard Crenna of the first three Rambo movies (1982, 1985 and 1988.) Locations: St.-Jean-de-Monts and various sites in Paris circa 1972.
7.1/10 IMDb
80% Rotten Tomatoes
3/4 Slant Magazine
The blurb from DVD box:
From Jean-Pierre Melville, the legendary director of Bob Le Flambeur, Le Doulos, Le Deuxième Souffle and Le Cercle Rouge comes this action-packed neo-noir... Melville’s last film plays beautifully with all his trademark silences, grim faces and gloomy colors, featuring stunning photography by the great Walter Wottitz (Army of Shadows, The Train). The top-notch cast includes Michael Conrad (The Longest Yard), Riccardo Cucciolla (Sacco & Vanzetti) and Jean Desailly (The Soft Skin).Un flic (A Cop; AKA Dirty Money ) Delon plays the 2nd fiddle as a cop, leaving the heavy lifting to the American star Richard Crenna of the first three Rambo movies (1982, 1985 and 1988.) Locations: St.-Jean-de-Monts and various sites in Paris circa…
Quotations
- A film with few words and the best are posted in IMDb, thanks to its contributors: Commissaire Edouard Coleman (Delon): People will do the wrong thing, they always do. *** Also on screen text: "The only feelings mankind has ever inspired in policemen are those of indifference and derision..." (Eugène-François Vidocq) === Commissaire Edouard Coleman: The only feelings mankind has ever inspired in policemen are those of indifference and derision. === Commissaire Edouard Coleman: I wasn't sure if he would commit suicide. === Cathy (Deneuve): Dead men arrest no one.A film with few words and the best are posted in IMDb, thanks to its contributors: Commissaire Edouard Coleman (Delon): People will do the wrong thing, they always do. *** Also on screen text: "The only feelings mankind has ever inspired in…
使徒行者. 2 , 諜影行動 = Line walker. 2使徒行者. 2 , 諜影行動 = Line walker. 2, DVDShi tu xing zheShi tu xing zhe2, Die ying xing dong = Line walker. 2
DVD | Chinese
jimg2000's rating:
3.5 out of 5 stars
Added Oct 27, 2020
Comment:
AKA Line Walker 2: Invisible Spy (2019,) a clever but a bit too complicated crime thriller about the unlikely brotherhood between an undercover cop in a terrorist organization and a mole in the police force. Sequel to the 2016 film Line Walker with the same trio of actors Nick Cheung, Louis Koo and Francis Ng. Plenty of action and stunts, filmed in and around various locations in Hong Kong, Myanmar and Spain.. The best sequence is the long car chase against the backdrop of running with the bulls in Pamplona near the end.
Note: Recycled elements from the 2016 Line Walker: Rubik's Cube, Morse Code, exotic film locations, wild car chase, brotherhood ...AKA Line Walker 2: Invisible Spy (2019,) a clever but a bit too complicated crime thriller about the unlikely brotherhood between an undercover cop in a terrorist organization and a mole in the police force. Sequel to the 2016 film Line Walker with…
Quotations
- IFF, the Invisible Frontline Force. === We have been apart for so long, many things have become fuzzy. -I only remember the way you laughed when you were happy. === For 30 years, you took the heat for me. If you hadn't come back for me, the one they have taken should have been me. All these years... how could you stand it? How could you? -Dee, it's OK. It's over. It's OK. We're brothers. Whatever I still owe you, in the next life... === When you see me every day, kneel, kowtow, serve me tea, and address me as Shifu. -Pour you a libation and burn incense too? === ...there's an underground organization abroad. This organization kidnaps children and trains them into field agents. These agents have already infiltrated the Police around the world.IFF, the Invisible Frontline Force. === We have been apart for so long, many things have become fuzzy. -I only remember the way you laughed when you were happy. === For 30 years, you took the heat for me. If you hadn't come back for me, the one they…
- "As Promised," theme song with befitting lyrics at the ending: The loner dwells on memories Drifting around like a segment of a story A promise concealed in time condensed into amber after many years One must pay one's debt May those apart find what they want. I loved regrets, I have no regrets. The longing I have is silent I hope we don't have to ask why Who knows why things come and go I hope we can be happy so we won't waste our encounter Time is like a train, we're like passengers. The most beautiful part is we were together. ------- 孤独的人 在回忆里入座 沿途漂泊 像故事的段落 某一句誓言 被时光藏匿了 多年后凝结 成琥珀 人失去的 当欠了该还的 愿失散的 旧爱各得其所 我爱过遗憾 此生才无憾了 赠你的挂念 是沉默 但愿你我 别再问为什么 风吹云散来得也去得 谁参得透因果 但愿你我 能如约的快乐 才不辜负 相遇多难得 时光好似列车 我们都是旅客 最美不过 同行过 (more lyrics not on screen:) 愿每一颗 眼泪都不白流 愿天黑后 有等你的灯火 愿告别的人 只需要抬着头 都将被同一片星河 守护着 但愿你我 别再问为什么 风吹云散来得也去得 谁参得透因果 但愿你我 不跟往事纠葛 想起对方 心却是暖的 时光好似列车 我们都是旅客 最美不过 擦肩过 愿你眼神清澈 愿我也笑着 消失在时间 的尽头"As Promised," theme song with befitting lyrics at the ending: The loner dwells on memories Drifting around like a segment of a story A promise concealed in time condensed into amber after many years One must pay one's debt May those apart find…
Video: 使徒行者2：谍影行动 主题曲《如约》
Lyrics in quotes.
BatwomanBatwoman, DVDThe Complete First Season
DVD - 2020
Added Oct 26, 2020
Comment:
Sep 19, 2020 first take.
Comment: 844 minutes or over 14 hours of viewing time. Watched first 2 episodes and not sure if it is worthwhile to invest so much time in this uneven DC Comics character Batwoman, a cousin of Batman's alter-ego Bruce Wayne.Sep 19, 2020 first take.
Comment: 844 minutes or over 14 hours of viewing time. Watched first 2 episodes and not sure if it is worthwhile to invest so much time in this uneven DC Comics character Batwoman, a cousin of Batman's alter-ego Bruce…
Killing EveKilling Eve, DVDSeason 3
DVD - 2020
Added Oct 26, 2020
Gretel & HanselGretel & Hansel, DVD
DVD - 2020
jimg2000's rating:
3 out of 5 stars
Added Oct 26, 2020
Comment:
An adaption of the "horrible" Grimms' Hänsel and Gretel that two young children saves themselves from a wicked witch. The film omits some of the familiar witty and virtuous elements of the classic folktale and focus on Gretel's transformation to a young woman who comes into her own power: "I looked, and I saw, and I understood ...And I was free." Interesting take.
Note: The Bonus Features: "Storybook: Illustrations that captures the film's cinematography and reimaging of Gretel & Hansel" tells the whole film in 5:21 and worth a watch.An adaption of the "horrible" Grimms' Hänsel and Gretel that two young children saves themselves from a wicked witch. The film omits some of the familiar witty and virtuous elements of the classic folktale and focus on Gretel's transformation to a…
Quotations
- If he's going to find his way, I can't very well be standing in it, just as he shouldn't stand in mine. I could see she was right about that at least. Let him find his own story, and his own courage to live it... just as I now go on to live mine. I have my own power to nurture. I'll help it to grow, and trust that I'll know what to do with it. I know that the choice is mine. I could feed it darkness, or give it plenty of light. I looked, and I saw, and I understood. The captor now gone and her fires all put out, they were free to go... and be at peace. And I was free. To go and never look back, or stay to build something new on top of everything that had been destroyed. I knew my path would reveal itself, and that all was required for me was to be brave and to trust myself. And I am brave. And I will trust myself.If he's going to find his way, I can't very well be standing in it, just as he shouldn't stand in mine. I could see she was right about that at least. Let him find his own story, and his own courage to live it... just as I now go on to live mine. I…
- Come, children, and listen, for the story I tell holds a lesson. A lesson that might one day keep you safe. So, gather in close and hear me well. It's the story of the Beautiful Child with the little pink cap. Her birth was a gift to her mother and father in a time of great suffering ... === The air is swirling with abundance. One need only reach out and pluck it. This is your power, to see what is hidden and to take it. A small mind believes only what it can see. Carves out a little square, waits to be taken, never wondering what governs its fate. === And really, it's the whole system that's so absurd. I mean, senselessly, we owe crop to some bishop, and we're not even permitted to feed our own... === Better that he remember you as you were, rather than as you're meant to be. === What if I had reached across and slapped him? >Would my palm have stung with pride? === Would it have killed you to smile at the man? To just say "thank you"? - He didn't need a housekeeper.Come, children, and listen, for the story I tell holds a lesson. A lesson that might one day keep you safe. So, gather in close and hear me well. It's the story of the Beautiful Child with the little pink cap. Her birth was a gift to her mother and…
The Sean Connery CollectionThe Sean Connery Collection, Blu-ray DiscVol. 2
Blu-ray Disc - 2015
jimg2000's rating:
4 out of 5 stars
Added Oct 26, 2020
Comment:
Mr. Bond, RIP: August 25, 1930 to October 31, 2020
Since the 1962 Dr. No, audiences have been flocking to see the heroic 007 with a license to kill, sexy women, the villains, flirts with Moneypenny, assignments from M, connection to Felix Leiter of CIA, catchy score/songs, stunts, fast cars. props, exotic locations...
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1965 Thunderball - An international blackmail headed by Number 2. The story is as good as Bond's first three films with very good production sets. However, its fight scenes and stunts are poorly choreographed. The ladies all look good but Connery appears haggard being wet, in and out of the water half the time. The bonus feature "The Incredible World of James Bond" is interesting as a promote documentary to Thunderball with some newsreel circa 1965.
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1967 You only live twice - The dated male dominated Japanese culture is cringe worthy these days. With that said, it is another entertaining Bond film with new gadgets (Little Nellie), exotic Japanese location sets and an out-of-this-world terrorist act that warrants personal leadership of SPECTRE's Number 1, Ernst Stavro Blofeld.
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1971 Diamonds are forever - Bond hunts for Blofeld who escaped during the chaos of the explosion of the rocket base inside a volcanic crater and uncovers another SPECTRE international terrorist plot. It incorporates all the usual elements of a Bond film but, after 6 films between 1962 to 1971, it marks an end of an era being the last one with Connery as 007, licensed to kill. Roger Moore would take over in the next 7 films as James Bond (1973 to 1985.)Mr. Bond, RIP: August 25, 1930 to October 31, 2020
Since the 1962 Dr. No, audiences have been flocking to see the heroic 007 with a license to kill, sexy women, the villains, flirts with Moneypenny, assignments from M, connection to Felix Leiter…
jimg2000's rating:
4 out of 5 stars
Added Oct 26, 2020
Comment:
Bond hunts for Blofeld who escaped during the chaos of the explosion of the rocket base inside a volcanic crater and uncovers another SPECTRE international terrorist plot. It incorporates all the usual elements of a Bond film but, after 6 films between 1962 to 1971, it marks an end of an era being the last one with Connery as 007, licensed to kill. Roger Moore would take over in the next 7 films as James Bond (1973 to 1985.)Bond hunts for Blofeld who escaped during the chaos of the explosion of the rocket base inside a volcanic crater and uncovers another SPECTRE international terrorist plot. It incorporates all the usual elements of a Bond film but, after 6 films…
FlashdanceFlashdance, DVD
DVD - 2002
jimg2000's rating:
3.5 out of 5 stars
Added Oct 26, 2020
Comment:
A 1983 musical dance film that is not set in glitzy ritzy NYC but rugged steel town Pittsburgh. Enjoyed the 2015 TV series Flesh And Bone with Ben Daniels, 1980 Fame and its 2009 remake. This one is a good watch as well though with some nudity, and awarded the Oscar for Best Original Song "Flashdance... What a Feeling" performed by Irene Cara, the very same Cara who won the same Oscar for her song in Fame.
Notes per wiki:
--- Inspired by the real-life story of Maureen Marder, a construction worker/welder by day and dancer by night in a Toronto strip club.
--- The dimly lit cinematography and montage-style editing are due in part to the fact that most of Jennifer Beals' dancing in the film was performed by a body double.A 1983 musical dance film that is not set in glitzy ritzy NYC but rugged steel town Pittsburgh. Enjoyed the 2015 TV series Flesh And Bone with Ben Daniels, 1980 Fame and its 2009 remake. This one is a good watch as well though with some nudity, and…
Quotations
- 40 plus quotes that include those offensive Polish jokes in IMDb, thanks to its contributors: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085549/quotes/?tab=qt&ref_=tt_trv_qu
Castle RockCastle Rock, DVDThe Complete Second Season
DVD - 2020
jimg2000's rating:
4 out of 5 stars
Added Oct 25, 2020
Comment:
★★★⅔ Watch this series and wonder no more where had Annie Wilkes (Lizzy Caplan) been before showing up as the nurse from hell in King's 1987 novel and 1990 film Misery with Kathy Bates who won the Academy Award for Best Actress as Annie.
The story works with Tim Robbin's former role in The Shawshank Redemption (1994) and the S1 mystery from inside the Shawshank State Penitentiary located in Castle Rock.
A bit slow at times that seems to be the norm for King's adaptions.★★★⅔ Watch this series and wonder no more where had Annie Wilkes (Lizzy Caplan) been before showing up as the nurse from hell in King's 1987 novel and 1990 film Misery with Kathy Bates who won the Academy Award for Best Actress as Annie.
The…
FameFame, DVD
DVD - 2010
jimg2000's rating:
3 out of 5 stars
Added Oct 24, 2020
Comment:
Remake of the 1980 Fame with modern dance and rap performances that reflect high schoolers in late 2000s. Good that it includes the best songs ("Fame" and "Out Here on My Own") from the original, and adds an excellent song "Hold Your Dream" performed and written by Naturi Naughton, actress/singer from R&B group 3LW, in the graduation show at the end.Remake of the 1980 Fame with modern dance and rap performances that reflect high schoolers in late 2000s. Good that it includes the best songs ("Fame" and "Out Here on My Own") from the original, and adds an excellent song "Hold Your Dream"…
Quotations
- Some quotes in IMDb but the original song "Hold Your Dream" lyrics is the best: Hold Your Dream Naturi Naughton Countless hours of learning more Countless hours of knowing less Can't look behind you You have to look ahead. So many doubts running through your mind All the excuses Don't have the time All the rejection you have to leave behind Leave it all behind Hold your dreams Don't ever let it go Be yourself And let the world take notice You'll find strength When people bring you down They will see If you will only, only believe Someway, Somehow (Yeah, yeah, yeah) Don't give up now (Don't give up) Don't be afraid to succeed (to succeed, yeah) Someway, somehow (Come on, everybody) The time is…Some quotes in IMDb but the original song "Hold Your Dream" lyrics is the best: Hold Your Dream Naturi Naughton Countless hours of learning more Countless hours of knowing less Can't look behind you You have to look ahead. So many doubts running…
- Welcome to the Freshman class, P2 of 2: We don't care about your headshot. Or your dress size. Or your dreams of being in OK! Magazine, on talk shows, on the red carpet. Here, you will learn a discipline. Here, you will come to understand what being a performing artist really means. Here, you will dedicate yourself to your craft. Now, if you're looking for shortcuts, if you want fame, if you want easy rewards, I highly recommend that you get up and leave now. There are many very talented young people who would be thrilled to take your place. So, have a great year.Welcome to the Freshman class, P2 of 2: We don't care about your headshot. Or your dress size. Or your dreams of being in OK! Magazine, on talk shows, on the red carpet. Here, you will learn a discipline. Here, you will come to understand what…
- Welcome to the Freshman class, P1 of 2: Welcome. This year we received over 10,000 applications for the 200 openings from students all across New York City. And you got in. Congratulations! For the next four years, you have the unique opportunity to immerse yourselves in the arts. You can be spontaneous, original, maybe even a little outrageous. You got it made, right? Wrong. You're gonna have it twice as hard as everybody else. In the mornings, you're gonna have all your arts classes. After lunch, you will cram in a full day of academics. Drop below a C average and you're out. No exceptions. Now, let me make this very clear.Welcome to the Freshman class, P1 of 2: Welcome. This year we received over 10,000 applications for the 200 openings from students all across New York City. And you got in. Congratulations! For the next four years, you have the unique opportunity…
Video: Hold Your Dream - Naughton, Panabaker, Book etc
Graduation performance.
jimg2000's rating:
4 out of 5 stars
Added Oct 23, 2020
Comment:
The dated male dominated Japanese culture is cringe worthy these days. With that said, it is another entertaining Bond film with new gadgets (Little Nellie), exotic Japanese location sets and an out-of-this-world terrorist act that warrants personal leadership of SPECTRE's Number 1, Ernst Stavro Blofeld.The dated male dominated Japanese culture is cringe worthy these days. With that said, it is another entertaining Bond film with new gadgets (Little Nellie), exotic Japanese location sets and an out-of-this-world terrorist act that warrants personal…
ThunderballThunderball, DVD
DVD - 2006
jimg2000's rating:
4 out of 5 stars
Added Oct 23, 2020
Comment:
An international blackmail plot headed by SPECTRE's Number 2. The story is as good as Bond's first three films with outstanding production sets. However, its fight scenes and stunts are poorly choreographed. The ladies all look good but Connery appears haggard being wet, in and out of the water half the time. The bonus feature "The Incredible World of James Bond" is interesting as a promote documentary to Thunderball with some newsreel circa 1965.An international blackmail plot headed by SPECTRE's Number 2. The story is as good as Bond's first three films with outstanding production sets. However, its fight scenes and stunts are poorly choreographed. The ladies all look good but Connery…
EndeavourEndeavour, DVDThe Complete Seventh Season
DVD - 2020
jimg2000's rating:
4 out of 5 stars
Added Oct 23, 2020
Comment:
The photo on the DVD box says the toothbrush mustache is gone in this series and the ladies of the new decade seem to approve. As in S6, the three 90 minutes long episodes recall the culture and events of the early 1970s. Unfortunately the main crime mystery is dragged on too long -- beyond reason - even when both Morse and Thursday are distracted and burned out at their job.
Oracle: A murder on an Oxford towpath and male chauvinism. (Event of the day: A glimpse into the past through an old newspaper articles on the Hong Kong flu epidemic which hit the UK in two waves in 1969 and 1970.)
Raga: Politics and racial tensions. The same politics and arguments are being played out around the world.
Zenana: All the little and big things from Oracle and Raga add up to a dramatic operatic end, brought on by the fatal attraction to an exotic woman and one's ego.The photo on the DVD box says the toothbrush mustache is gone in this series and the ladies of the new decade seem to approve. As in S6, the three 90 minutes long episodes recall the culture and events of the early 1970s. Unfortunately the main…
Quotations
- A vote for the Conservative Party is a vote for a better tomorrow. Whatever the result tonight, you can see what happens when you mix their culture and ours. === He talks sense. - About what? About the foreigners. Immigration. The blacks. Pakis. Coming over here, taking all the jobs. and the houses and that. - What, you don't care for them? I don't care for people ruining my country, no. -Is that why you stuck a knife in one of the Asian lads? === Insofar as we appear to have one torso, together with both legs and arms, but we are deficient to the tune of one head. === But you didn't see anyone? -'Apart from the dead guy on the floor, no. 'I wasn't gonna hang around and make introductions.' === He'll bet on two flies crawling up the wall. Chaps like him, it's a disease. -You play with the Sardar family, I believe. Pakistanis. So, your prejudice ends at the poker table. I'll take cash off anybody who's got it. Black, brown, yellow. There's an old saying... "money has no smell".A vote for the Conservative Party is a vote for a better tomorrow. Whatever the result tonight, you can see what happens when you mix their culture and ours. === He talks sense. - About what? About the foreigners. Immigration. The blacks. Pakis.…
- All quotes are from Raga, E2, about racial issues: It's no accident that I use the word "invasion" advisedly. Because it contains the word "Asian". Since the war, we have been literally swamped with a tidal wave of people from our former territories and colonies. But we left! We gave them their countries back! If the British Movement is about one thing, it's about British jobs for British workers. ... British homes for British families! And British hospitals for British patients! ... It's not the colour of your passport that makes you British. It's the colour of your skin! === This place is finished for the likes of us. - Yeah, not for me. No. No. Of course not for you. You're the Great British doctor. Come on. Don't kid yourself. They tolerate you. Because you're useful. That's what... that's what they mean by "tolerance", right? Putting up with something they'd sooner not. I don't want to be tolerated. I want to belong.All quotes are from Raga, E2, about racial issues: It's no accident that I use the word "invasion" advisedly. Because it contains the word "Asian". Since the war, we have been literally swamped with a tidal wave of people from our former…
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Added Oct 23, 2020
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Looking for the soundtrack from the 1980 musical drama Flame, particularly the hit songs by Irene Cara. No luck but Flame is on this double CD musical collections. A total of 40 popular tunes of about 2.5 hours from Broadway, TV and movies, large share from Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice stage mega-hits.Looking for the soundtrack from the 1980 musical drama Flame, particularly the hit songs by Irene Cara. No luck but Flame is on this double CD musical collections. A total of 40 popular tunes of about 2.5 hours from Broadway, TV and movies, large…
GoldfingerGoldfinger, DVD
DVD - 1999
jimg2000's rating:
4.5 out of 5 stars
Added Oct 22, 2020
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The top number one or two in nearly all the Bond film ranking lists by critics. The first time much of Bond's actions are staged in America: Miami, Fort Knox and Baltimore airport. Also the first time car chases in a gadget packed Aston Martin becomes a Bond film signature element...The top number one or two in nearly all the Bond film ranking lists by critics. The first time much of Bond's actions are staged in America: Miami, Fort Knox and Baltimore airport. Also the first time car chases in a gadget packed Aston Martin…
Trilogy of lifeTrilogy of life, DVD
DVD - 2012 | Italian
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4.5 out of 5 stars
Added Oct 22, 2020
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Life presented in vivid color, music, interesting stories, clever peoples, sexual innuendos, religions, cultures, social hierarchy, love/lust, humor ... Don't miss some of the worthwhile deleted scenes and extras, such as special feature on the guided tour on the history of the Italian cities Orte and Sabaudia are amazing.
1971 Decameron: Adapted adult oriented folklore in Giovanni Boccaccio's book written between 1348 and 1352. Don't miss the deleted story "Alibech and Rustico the Monk" in Bonus: The lost body of Alibech (45 min.)" filmed in Yemen.
See book description:
https://sccl.bibliocommons.com/item/show/434028118
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1972 Canterbury Tales: Based on "The Canterbury tales" by Geoffrey Chaucer written in between 1387 and 1400. The same novel that most students have to read in part or full unless banned in their High School systems for anti-Church and sexual innuendos.
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1974 Arabian Nights: Based on "The thousand and one nights," a collection of Middle Eastern folk tales compiled in Arabic during the Islamic Golden Age from 8th century to the 14th century. Not the Arabian Nights films from Disney!Life presented in vivid color, music, interesting stories, clever peoples, sexual innuendos, religions, cultures, social hierarchy, love/lust, humor ... Don't miss some of the worthwhile deleted scenes and extras, such as special feature on the…
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- Rustico is absorbed in prayer off to one side, and Alibech is off to another. But Alibech is distracted. "I came here to serve God, not to remain idle. Let us send the Devil back to Hell." "Rustico, I don't know why the Devil flees from Hell, for if he were to rest there as willingly as Hell holds him, he'd never ever leave." Rustico is exhausted, He looks at the few roots and the little fresh water which are all he consumes. "You see, Alibech, we must punish the Devil and send him back to Hell only when he lifts his head out of pride. ... By the grace of God, we've outsmarted him now, and he wants nothing more than to be left in peace..." "Rustico, though your Devil has been punished and no longer troubles you, my Hell won't leave me alone..." === LOL!Rustico is absorbed in prayer off to one side, and Alibech is off to another. But Alibech is distracted. "I came here to serve God, not to remain idle. Let us send the Devil back to Hell." "Rustico, I don't know why the Devil flees from Hell, for…
- "Praise God that I am better off than you, for I do not have such a Devil." "You have Hell instead, and I believe that God sent you here for the salvation of my soul." "Come, let's send the Devil back to Hell, so that he will leave me in peace." "Oh, in truth, my father, this Devil must be very wicked, and truly the enemy of God, if he even makes Hell hurt when he is sent back there." "My daughter, it will not always be so." "It's now broad daylight, my father, and you have sent the Devil back to Hell six times." "And we must do so until we have driven the pride from his head, so that he can be at peace." Alibech: "Verily, I do not recall ever having done anything that gave me so much joy and pleasure as sending the Devil back to Hell. ... Oh, anyone who thinks of doing anything but serving God is truly a fool...""Praise God that I am better off than you, for I do not have such a Devil." "You have Hell instead, and I believe that God sent you here for the salvation of my soul." "Come, let's send the Devil back to Hell, so that he will leave me in…
- Rustico wages one final battle with his conscience. Then he raises his eyes, defeated. There is a strange light in his eyes. "You should know that the Devil is God's worst enemy, and thus the best way to serve God is to send the Devil back to Hell." "And how does one do that?" "You shall soon see. Do as I do..." And he begins to remove the few garments he has, until he's completely naked, and the girl does the same. Behold "the resurrection of the flesh": Rustico has an erection, in all the purity and simplicity of his chaste youth. "This is the Devil I spoke of. Now you see him. He causes me such torment that I can scarcely bear it."Rustico wages one final battle with his conscience. Then he raises his eyes, defeated. There is a strange light in his eyes. "You should know that the Devil is God's worst enemy, and thus the best way to serve God is to send the Devil back to…
- Plenty of wonderful quotes and story lines from each of the trilogy. These are from the bonus track "Lost Body of Alibech:" Rustico is praying in front of his hut. He's much younger than the other two, and is in fact almost a boy, with pure eyes, eyes a bit bewildered but at the same time hardened in his decision to serve the lord at all costs. But even Rustico's innocent eyes cannot help but notice the youthful flesh of the girl coming to him. "Lord, what should I do? Drive her away so that the Devil does not tempt me? (He awaits divine inspiration.) No! I shall keep her here instead and put my strength to the test, for your glory..." Night has fallen, and Rustico and Alibech are stretched out on their rough beds of palm fronds. Rustico cannot sleep, and he tosses and turns and signs. The Devil is winning out... "Alibech, Alibech, wake up. It's morning."Plenty of wonderful quotes and story lines from each of the trilogy. These are from the bonus track "Lost Body of Alibech:" Rustico is praying in front of his hut. He's much younger than the other two, and is in fact almost a boy, with pure eyes,…
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This is the story from the bonus track "Lost Body of Alibech" before Alibech meets Rustico (see quotes for their devil and hell encounter):
Among the king's daughters is Alibech. She's no more than 14 years old, and her face has a moving innocence. She is clutching a doll, but her eyes stare strangely and obstinately off into space.
Alibech's brother: "Sister, do not listn to the chatter of infidels."
Her sister: "Sister, do not listen to the chatter of infidels."
Alebech, alone, in her young girl's dress, walks through arid and abandoned terrain with sparse brush of a pale green, almost blue color.
She walks and walks.
Night has fallen. Alibech sleeps the heavy sleep of a young girl beneath a cluster of palm trees, while curious little birds flutter about...
She walks and walks. Now it is truly deserted all around, reddish and rocky, with fissures and spires, and large, blazing plateaus. Dusk returns, and off in the distance, among a few desolate shrubs, a hut appears, and at its entrance stands a hermit.
An expression of deep astonishment covers the hermit's face as he sees the young girl.
She approaches silently, her eyes fixed on him, shy, questioning, and almost wild in their devotion, and he asked her: Who are you? "Why have you come here?"
"It was your God who inspired me thus, and I wish to serve him, but I don't know how. I seek someone who can show me."
He looks at her: How lovely she is! Fresh, unblemished, innocent, with that hint of wild nakedness beneath her childish garment.
"My daughter, not far from here is a holy man who is a far greater master of what you seek than I. Go to him..."
Further along is a second hut or small cave. The second hermit is absorbed in prayer, In the distance the small figure of the girl appears.
The eyes of the hermit, tempted by the devil, quickly assess her innocent beauty,
Second hermit (eyes turned up to heaven): What should I do? If I keep her here, I fear the Devil will tempt me. The flesh is weak, Lord!
(As if listening for divine guidance and assenting to it): I should drive her away, eh?
Second hermit: Continue on, child. Not far from here in that direction is another hermit by the name of Rustico who's far greater than I. Go to him... (He signs at what he's losing.)
Alibech continues on, obedient and with saint-like passivity.
(TO BE CONTINUED in Quotes.)This is the story from the bonus track "Lost Body of Alibech" before Alibech meets Rustico (see quotes for their devil and hell encounter):
Among the king's daughters is Alibech. She's no more than 14 years old, and her face has a moving…
The girl in the fogThe girl in the fog, DVD
DVD - 2019 | Italian
Added Oct 21, 2020
FameFame, DVD
DVD - 2009
jimg2000's rating:
4 out of 5 stars
Added Oct 21, 2020
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Can't beat the entertaining and the energetic performances in this musical drama about a group of Performing Arts High Schoolers from the diverse socio-economic and cultural background of NYC. 1980 Academy Award winner for Best Music AND Original Song ("Fame" performed by Irene Cara,) plus 4 other nominations.
Notes: Spin-offs but all about the lives of students at New York's High School For The Performing Arts as they navigate their way through the highs and lows:
Fame Musical TV Series (1982–1987)
Fame remake (2009)
Fame The Musical (2020)Can't beat the entertaining and the energetic performances in this musical drama about a group of Performing Arts High Schoolers from the diverse socio-economic and cultural background of NYC. 1980 Academy Award winner for Best Music AND Original…
Quotations
- 56 quotes in IMDb, thanks!! This one is very funny: Lisa Monroe: I love your coat. I saw that in Bendel's window. Hilary van Doren: My stepmother bought it for me. Lisa Monroe: Really? I wouldn't mind that kind of step mother. Hilary van Doren: She didn't do it for me. She wants my father to think she cares. Besides, she loves shopping. She gets multiple orgasms every time she buys something. Lisa Monroe: Sounds great! I think I like her. Hilary van Doren: You can have her.56 quotes in IMDb, thanks!! This one is very funny: Lisa Monroe: I love your coat. I saw that in Bendel's window. Hilary van Doren: My stepmother bought it for me. Lisa Monroe: Really? I wouldn't mind that kind of step mother. Hilary van Doren: She…
- The standup: I live in the South Bronx. That's the country just north of Harlem and west of Puerto Rico. It's a very tough neighborhood. The dogs carry knives. Did you ever see a baby with a zip gun? You gotta have friends. You can't alienate anybody up there. Nobody. Black people, white people, Chicanos, Puerto Ricans, cockroaches. You gotta respect cockroaches. They got a good union. Last week, 15,000 marched down my block demanding better housing. But I love the South Bronx. Everywhere you go from there is up. Everybody has dreams in the South Bronx. I had dreams. Stop your average boy on a South Bronx street... and ask him what he wants to be. "I want to be an ex-junkie, man. " You can see them every day. You can't drive because of the dreams on the streets being seen by cokeheads. The minute that white line's laid down the street, you got somebody going. It's true. And then there is sex. Oh, yeah. Kids are into sex earlier in South Bronx. Like about 6 a.m.The standup: I live in the South Bronx. That's the country just north of Harlem and west of Puerto Rico. It's a very tough neighborhood. The dogs carry knives. Did you ever see a baby with a zip gun? You gotta have friends. You can't alienate…
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