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Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels
Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels
Jason and the Argonauts (1963)
One of the great fantasy adventure stories on film, and CGI just cannot compete with Ray Harryhausen's animation of the Skeleton Warriors.
Without this battle(Skeleton warriors) I doubt War Hammer or any similar fantasy games would exist
My thoughts exactly. Apparently, in Bruckheimer's world Tonto is related to Captain Jack Sparrow. Still, it could have been worse--as I understand it, early treatments of the script called for Reid and Tonto to be battling werewolves (hence the Lone Ranger's use of silver bullets). :eusa_doh: Speaking of which...I watched it too. I agree that it's too long and the plot is needlessly convoluted, and it steals pretty shamelessly from a number of iconic John Ford westerns. It's absurdly overblown in the usual Jerry Bruckheimer manner. But it's not the disaster I expected...It's quite watchable... if you're in the mood for a Pirate of the Carribean film in old west drag!
I don't think this is limited to the American West; it seems any movie set in an era prior to the mid-90s performs poorly among "today's young folks" unless it somehow involves time travel, aliens, vampires, superheroes, or some other form of "supernatural" element. shakeshead...It was a huge financial flop, but part of that goes back to my oft-stated observation that the myth of the American West - which used to be THE story around here, e.g., when every other TV show was a western in the late 50s and early 60s - simply doesn't speak to today's young folks, raised on SF/fantasy/superheroes...
I saw it today(?)."Goodbye Mr. Chips" - Sorry.. I'm just a sucker for this one...
"and all of them boys...."
Worf
That's a great movie."Larceny, Inc." from 1942 with Edward G. Robinson, Broderick Crawford, Anthony Quinn and Edward Brophy. An entertaining comedy-gangster film.
"Goodbye Mr. Chips" - Sorry.. I'm just a sucker for this one...
"and all of them boys...."
Worf
Yes, I have seen that one, it is great too. "Brother Orchid" is also very good, another comedy gangster film. With Humphrey Bogart too!That's a great movie.
Also check out A Slight Case of Murder, with many of the same people.
Robinson is a riot in this as well.