just watched FLIGHT on netflix.... Denzell Washington as a heroic / alcoholic PILOT....John Goodman is great in this but is only in two scenes....pretty good , has a leaving lasVegas vibe *SHADES*
dm i saw it and the entire premise is a one trick pony though. didnt like it. saw fast 6. they get worse and worse. sad to think that is the second to last movie paul walker ever made.
Saw "The Wrong Man" on TCM the other night -- good Henry Fonda flick about a man wrongly accused of robbery and the impacts it has on his family. Also liked "Remember the Night" with Barbara Stanwyck and Fred MacMurray.
thanks for that, axe. i'd seen the wrong man listed (on TCM i think) but never got around to watching it. now that i've cancelled my directv account, i might just have to download it, unless it's up on youtube.
axe-i watched that the other night it was on. good flick. and saw the one with mcmurray as the accused murderer too. good stuff.
noir is a great genre. when done right, it's a thing of beauty - even able to be a great film in spite of a storyline that makes no fucking sense (the big sleep).
LOVE good film noir, even the more modern takes (Fargo, The Usual Suspects, Chinatown). But love the oldies, too -- Double Indemnity, Key Largo, The Third Man...
they need to stop making dumb remakes axe - RoboCop and go back to this noires like LA Confidential did in 1997!
I know -- thank God discussed remakes of "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" and "Slapshot" never got done.
sunset boulevard, kiss me deadly, witness for the prosecution... i don't usually like a remake of an already great film, but i'll give thumbs up to both the wages of fear and sorcerer. and unlike the original, whose ending is both silly and telegraphed, the ending of sorcerer is brilliant.
Classics all! "I AM big! It's the pictures that got small." Loved "Witness for the Prosecution" -- as great as it is, it somehow seems to fly under the radar a bit.
it's sad, axe. people are more concerned with catching the 8th installment of a movie about a comic book. so many great films out there that most will never see, because they're not marketed. TCM is hands down the best thing on cable.
Yep. Aside from channels carrying football games, I'd be pretty happy if all I got was TCM, AMC, and FX (need me some Sons of Anarchy).
axe and lulz--wow you just mentioned one of my favs - witness for the prosecution. my older brother who is a top philly lawyer now saw this movie in the early 90's and told everyone in my family about it etc. the movie box, which i still have says - don't tell people the ending etc. even in theaters it told people that. it's awesome. charles laughton is fantastic! it's a crime/law movie but he makes it comical! great call guys. never saw sorcerer but i am checking it out now... just saw sunset boulevard for the first time 4 weeks ago. good stuff.
