Edgy MD

Yeah, but (1) old for a boxer is relative in the Rocky universe, (2) maybe it's set a few years back, and (3) maybe Rocky IV was set a few years in the future(!!) they're probably hope you're not counting. Spinoff instead of sequel? Brilliant move? Possibly!

To watch it end-to-end for the first time, it seemed pretty insane. I'm generally a fan of John Ford, but the guy was clearly more than a little nutters. This film certainly fueled perceptions of pastoral Irish romance for generations, but it had no shortage of malarkey, and it kind of takes a mulligan on the big question it pretends to wrestle with.

That's pretty close to where I landed.

Mysterious Yank (John Wayne) returns to the Irish country village of his birth, spies comely but fiery lass (Maureen O'Hara) tending sheep. Blarney ensues. I guess I need to turn in my IA card, but I sat through this for the first time this week. [fimg=450:3r6qt9o6]http://aboudjaffar.blog.lemonde.fr/files/2012/07/quiet_man_xlg.jpg[/fimg:3r6qt9o6]

I'm just a font of information this morning about new installments of films by folks just fresh plum out of new ideas. But I guess by sharing the info, I prove the point, sequels are smart business because they promote themselves. Harrison Ford to star in Blade Runner sequel

I actually posted a Rocky/Rambo treatment on the forum way back when.

Definitely a better tagline than "The Best Human Values Never Change." Strange how, despite scoffing at him for Rocky IV and Rocky V, I now find part of me rooting for him in his audaciousness, a limited talent milking his single good idea for all it's worth and then some. Stallone neither writes nor directs, but is one of seven producers and presumably gets a cut of the writer's share for creating some of the characters. But isn't that what a successful old man gets to do? Turn the empire he built over to younger men while still getting a big partner's cut?

COMING THIS THANKSGIVING. Rocky Balboa trains Apollo Creed's son, because... new ideas are really hard.

It's a picture that comes along now and then, like with Crouching Dragon or District 9 or something, where you go, "That wasn't perfect or anything, but it's got polish and sure proves that (insert country here) can do anything Hollywood can do." The filmmakers here have clearly studied Speilberg's bag of tricks. Aside from a damaged family and children put in harm's way, you'll recognize shots and cuts from the Indiana Jones movies, the Jurassic Park series, and the original Jaws. E.T. too. They borrow liberally from some of Peter Jackson's best Lord of the Rings shots and Howard Shore's and John Williams' musical cues as well. You'll even recognize some lines. ("It's a tomb!") And it's remarkable, because like Jaws, the tension and catharsis are achieved with minimal reliance on special effects and CGI. It's a film about a family running around in the woods, but it hits all it's marks, and so achieves it's action/adventure scale through execution, rather than investment. I couldn't conscientiously call it great or anything, because its liberal borrowing is so noticeable, but it's a solid modest-budget shot across the bow, and recalls the start of Jackson's and Roland Emmerich's careers, in announcing to the Lucas-Speilberg drenched world that, hey, there are new players in the game.

Down-and-out Norwegian archeologist stumbles onto a long-buried Viking secret, that may provide the key to Viking mythology and their prophecy of the end of the world. [fimg=400:1ef5r28p]http://www.findelahistoria.com/web/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/GatenRagnarok-Poster.jpg[/fimg:1ef5r28p] in Norwegian, with helpful English subtitles.

Not all 12. More than a few of those monkeys were acting under their own volition.

Career disaster for Francis Ford Coppola and probably a strong knife in the heart of the film musical genre. Yet, I am curious. Should I go away somewhere and sit quietly until that curiosity passes?

It is unknown as yet whether it'll be a re-boot. (My guess is no.) It is known that it won't be Andrew Garfield performing the role. Ceetar wrote: Tired of seeing the origin story. First world problems.

Sony and Marvel strike a deal to bring Spider-Dude into the Marvel Cinematic Uni., with a Spider-Man film produced by Kevin Feige for Sony, among other crossovers. Maybe he'll end up in Star Wars.

Best watched in two doses. The first half is best. But the second half features the insane self-serving logic for the re-union and the backstabbing of "Mr. Felder."

Cure 39, Eagles 21.

Now streaming on Netflix!

I didn't remember unliking this film a much as my contributions to this thread suggest I did.

It's certainly that, but, well... he does get off his leash, if you know what I mean. He also tools around on a motor scooter... [fimg=350]http://blog.immortalance.net/wp-content/gallery/reign-over-me/2007_reign_over_me_001.jpg[/fimg] ... with a hair style he seems to have picked up at a Bob Dylan yard sale. [fimg=350]http://www.sharewallpapers.org/d/418186-1/2007+Reign+Over+Me+009.jpg[/fimg] A lot of notable supporting actors, including Liv Tyler, who still seems in every scene like she's on the verge of crying.

Solid, unspectacular film with familiar themes. Great shots of New York streets � where the crowds are just small enough and there really isn't a lot of threat and aggression lingering in the air, allowing you to just notice stuff. In other words, a New York that doesn't really exist except from about 4:00�6:30 AM. Solid presences of veteran actors, including Melinda Dillon � the mother in A Christmas Story � obsessing over a lamp. I don't think this was an intended irony, but it turned out to be one. Like in JFK, Donald Sutherland and his commanding voice show up to move things along when they start dragging.

Post o' the month, right there. Way to sneak in and steal a talented, stupid, stupid kid, Mets.

Successful New York dentist, frustrated by lack of personal life apart from work and family, runs into his old college roommate, severely traumatized years after losing his family in the 2001 terrorism attacks. They begin tooling around town together. Your dentist is Don Cheadle, whose presence is funny in retrospect, as the film has a lot of parallels with the award-winning turn taken two years later in The Soloist by his Marvel Universe superior Robert Downey. The film is also flecked with several Marvel references, though Cheadle hadn't yet debuted as Col. Rhodes. Adam Sandler, who seems to have played a lot of mentally ill/emotionally ill guys, is your lost roommate. Lots o' classic rock references and classic rock music (mostly Springsteen and [you might well guess] The Who) happening in the soundtrack. [fimg=500]http://www.filmorakel.ch/wp-content/uploads/Reign-Over-Me-movie-poster.jpg[/fimg]

Anthropomorphic bear moves from Peru to London. Hijinx follow. [fimg=450:1pi69cto]http://images.fandango.com/images/fandangoblog/Paddington_Teaser2_900.jpg[/fimg:1pi69cto]

WRT The Millennium Falcon: I'm thinking whatever heretofore-unknown technological harnessing of gravimetric forces there is that makes up up and down down on an interstellar ship, and keeps human beings from being smashed to atoms against the bulkheads, also allows ships to maneuver in a planet's atmosphere, providing hovering capability, pitch control, and vertical and side-to-side thrust.

It was a slog, is what it was.