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I know score n film has lots of fans on here but for me was about as limp as Joe Kidd. Id give it 6.2. .
Hmmm. I'm not seeing a lot of daylight between your 6.2 and my 7.0.
Possibly i was being generous. 
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Halleluja and Spartana are sons of God (1973) 5/10 with Ron Ely, Alberto dell'Aqua and Uschi Glad. Ron & Al are a pair of horse thieves thrown together by the story. Ron vets dressed as, and thus mistaken for, a preacher. They helpna village in their fight against the main arsehole, I mean villain. He goes roun howling like a coyote and head buttting wooden pillars! Ron and Al work well together and it's nice.to see Ron in something other than Tarzan. It was more of a comedy than some and I'm not really keen on them but it was watchable nonetheless( mainly for the leads). Though not slapstick that would have been a 2. Uschi was quite pretty, which helped. Music by two unknowns was pleasantly catchy, although a bit too poppy for me.
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I Protect Myself From My Enemies ( what a title) (1968) 6/10with Charles Southwood and Julian Mateos. Charles is on the search for three gold coins which, together, reveal the location of a large treasure. Julian keeps turning up in the nick of time to help save his ' partner' (eh up Charlie). The face off at the end and Julian wants it all.He shoots Charlie, who doesn't die. Did he fire blanks, no. What saved the hero was on of the two said coins he had in his shirt pocket. The punch line is - neither gets the treasure as the bullet struck the coin on the numbers( i.e. part of code) and obliterated them. So no one can find the gold, now. So the hero goes back to town and settles for the girl, who incidentally was played by Alida Chelli( Carlo's daughter). Music was by Carlo R and was ok and bit more serious than some of his I have heard.
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Kingsman the golden circle 7/10 more of the same. Crazy over the top action. Very entertaining even if it's as soft as shite.
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Yes .. but did he ever find Miranda?
Ah, so you've been watching some of the Film Four Arnie season. I wondered why it was called Miranda, it's not an acronym. Well I looked it up & it comes from a US 1966 Supreme Court case, Miranda v Arizona, all about informing people of their rights on arrest.
I heard about them from a Kojak episode, the. Miranda rights. You live and learn.
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THE LAST BRITZKRIEG
1959
Dir Arthur Dreyfuss.
Anyone who has seen The Battle of the Bulge remembers Ty Hardin's sneaky group of german of saboteurs dressed as GIs "Hey, The MPs are Krauts!" ...Well, this b/w film tells the story of that group, training for the mission. Based on an actual group of English-speaking Germans led by Otto Skorzeny (the man who rescued Mussolini). In reality i dont think they played much of a role in the Ardennes (changed signs, blew up ammo dumps, etc) but they did exist and did hamper the Americans. Van johnson and Kerwin (Sinbad) Matthews play the leads. In training school they are taught to act like Americans more convincingly, and some of their tasks is to "not click their heels when they stand to attention" and to "learn to chew gum...and enjoy it!"
6.7 out of 10
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Comin' at Ya! !(1981) 7/10 with. Tony Anthony and Victoria Abril. Enjoyable late entry into the genre. Tony's wife gets kidnapped he goes looking for her. He finds her and others- being sold in mehiko (sic). I quite like his films that I have seen this far. Carlo Savina's music is fine. I would have gave it 8/10 but for its excessive use of 3d visual gags etc. I know it was meant for 3d but in places there were loads.
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Duel of the Champions(1962) 6/10 with Alan Ladd and Jacques Sernas. Decently made and on the whole enjoyable, directed by Terrence Young,music by AFL was quite good, I'd buy it. The only real negative point was casting Ladd in this. It was like going to the circus, to see the lion tamer. Only to find that he was using.a mouse.
Trivia/ novelty value. I saw, receded, then watched an episode of the Dick Powell theatre . Why, because William Berger was in it!.It was from '61, so before his trip to Italy. Off seeing.him clean shaven and short haired. And, surprisingly ( at least to me), he didn't have an Austrian accent. And his dubs in Italy sound like his own voice, so there.
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Nov 12, 2020 - 6:44 AM
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Death Wish (2018) - 6/10
I liked it. It isn't a great film, nor does it compare to the original in content or moral value, if you will - I just wish they hadn't used the same name, but I enjoyed it.
For me, Bruce Willis, whose acting I like, is, like many "A"- list actors, Bruce Willis in his role. I mean, some "character actors" can disappear into their roles, but Tom Hanks, Tom Cruise, etc., not so much.
I was thinking that at some point in the film, one of his attackers would end up in his hospital and he'd be faced with the decision of what to do about him. It almost happened, not quite how I thought it might.
Anyway, I even liked Vincent D'Onofrio - he actually added a little soul to the film.
I assume that it comes off as a "gun nut revenge fantasy film" to lots of folks and I wish they had been a little more balanced in the portrayal of the buying and possession of firearms. Despite how they are portrayed so often by media types, the vast majority of gun owners aren't of the mindset of "Come get you some!" or "Make my day!". All the folks I know that own/collect, use firearms, have CWPs, etc., are conscientious types whom hope and pray that they never even have to draw their weapon, let alone actually use it.
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Jackfu have you tried Death Kiss with the Bronson lookalike. I thought it was ok
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Nov 12, 2020 - 7:37 AM
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The Thing From Another World (1951) - 8/10
I enjoy this film very much. It was one of those I liked as a child, as it was scary and suspenseful, yet didn't give me nightmares or cause me to leave the bedroom closet light on all night.
I find it superior to Carpenter's version in many aspects, lesser in some, and as with the 1982 version the creature is a huge disappointment and the one in this version only slightly less idiotic-looking than Carpenter's. I really don't know what I expected it to look like, but it certainly wasn't either of these.
It's a bit talky and way overcrowded in many scenes, the characters are mostly unexplored and it hasn't aged well in many respects.
It's been quite a while since I read "Who Goes There", so I can't remember for sure but it seems I recall that the story briefly touches on the idea that the creature might not have been the pilot of the spaceship, but was instead a life form that was brought on board by the spaceship crew. Not that it's a major issue, but I think it might clarify things and I don't recall it being discussed in either film. By that I mean does the organism itself have any recognizable intelligence/cognitive abilities or does it only possess those of the beings it assimilates? The creature in both films doesn't appear to have such. Maybe it doesn't matter anyway.
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Nov 12, 2020 - 12:49 PM
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I read Who Goes There over my lunch hour. Honestly I'd forgotten how superior it is to all the movies. It's talky, by necessity, and maybe is somewhat vague in its visual descriptions, except for the creature, but it is, after all, a novella written with a pulp Sci-Fi type audience in mind. I read somewhere that Campbell kept the graphic nature of the killings, etc. toned down for its intended audience and the sensibilities of the time (1938).
I'd say it was way ahead of its time, especially technology-wise, and seems quite informed, especially regarding atomic power and the generation thereof.
I'd say Carpenter was closer to the original, especially as far as the assimilation stuff, but I do wish he had stayed closer to Campbell's vision of the creature, in that it did have a "default" morphology. I suppose Carpenter wanted the creature to be amorphic in that it might be more scary and mysterious and less stylized, but the laughable creature we see on screen failed miserably IMO. Had they not used the noise of cicadas, I might have given them more credit.
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