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If any of you like war movies, these WW1 aerial combat movies are GREAT. They are all done with REAL planes, no CGI and are from the 60s and 70s. Great guy movies. See trailers for them below. They sure don't make them like they used to.

The Blue Max (1966) starring George Peppard, from the A-Team. He plays a German pilot ace during WW1. The Blue Max was the medal of honor awarded to German pilots, the equivalent of the Victoria Cross in the Royal Air Force. Trailer below.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060177/?ref_=vp_back

Aces High (1977) starring Malcolm McDowell and Christopher Plummer. About pilots in the Royal Air Force during WW1. Doesn't Malcolm McDowell's face look so wicked and psychotic? lol. Trailer below.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075627/?ref_=vp_back

The Red Baron (2008). Movie about the legendary German flying ace during WW1. This is more modern so I'm not sure if there's any CGI used.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0365675/?ref_=vp_back

Von Richthofen and Brown (1971). 1971 movie about the Red Baron. Real planes! Wow.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067658/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

Aren't the men in these movies so masculine compared to the ones today? lol

We've been watching movies that are filmed in the Caribbean (looking into dual citizenship options there IRL), and I decided to blow some $$ on a DVD of Weekend at Bernie's II. It was awesome, LOL. (In addition to good stuff with a voodoo priestess who turns disobedient minions into goats, among other things, it has lots of nice footage of the Virgin Islands.)

Here, I uploaded the poster for it, so you'll all be so inspired, you'll go see it too:



The original Weekend at Bernie's was also good, even though it was filmed in the United States instead of Caribbean. It was supposed to be the Hampton Islands, I think, but the waterskiing scene was still good:

Wow heck out this 1976 thriller with dustin hoffman called "marathon man". It looks pretty good. See trailer below. They don't make them like they used to.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074860/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

@jamesbond

Check out this James Bond movie called "The Living Daylights" starring Timothy Dalton. The trailer below looks very good and the blonde woman in it looks so pure and wholesome! Have you seen it before?

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093428/?ref_=vp_close

The 007 symphony soundtrack for the movie is really good too. See below.

Winston wrote: ↑

April 1st, 2022, 6:18 am

@jamesbond

Check out this James Bond movie called "The Living Daylights" starring Timothy Dalton. The trailer below looks very good and the blonde woman in it looks so pure and wholesome! Have you seen it before?

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093428/?ref_=vp_close

The 007 symphony soundtrack for the movie is really good too. See below.

Dalton is my favorite Bond of all time for sure. I've been into this movie since I was a kid.

The 2nd one License to Kill was solid as well. Too dark and violent vs the more fun Living Daylights, I thought, but the alpha male scenes between Dalton and Robert Davi were awesome (both while Bond was still undercover, and afterward when they were trying to kill each other).

WilliamSmith wrote: ↑

April 1st, 2022, 12:13 pm

Winston wrote: ↑

April 1st, 2022, 6:18 am

@jamesbond

Check out this James Bond movie called "The Living Daylights" starring Timothy Dalton. The trailer below looks very good and the blonde woman in it looks so pure and wholesome! Have you seen it before?

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093428/?ref_=vp_close

The 007 symphony soundtrack for the movie is really good too. See below.

Dalton is my favorite Bond of all time for sure. I've been into this movie since I was a kid.

The 2nd one License to Kill was solid as well. Too dark and violent vs the more fun Living Daylights, I thought, but the alpha male scenes between Dalton and Robert Davi were awesome (both while Bond was still undercover, and afterward when they were trying to kill each other).

Dalton???!!! A sensitive, angst-ridden Bond grappling with ambiguity? That's my recollection of how he played the role, and why he was cashiered in short order. No, no, no -- it's Connery, Craig, Lazenby, Brosnan, Moore (too physically delicate a fellow) and Dalton, in descending order. IMHO.

Want to weigh in, jamesbond?

Dalton was a pretty good James Bond. He looked suave. Why did he only do two Bond films? Why not more? The blonde in "The Living Daylights" is so perfect looking and acts so sweet and humble and feminine, why can't women be like that in real life? lol

Btw, why do you guys like Daniel Craig's James Bond? He looks so cold and soulless like he doesn't care about anything. No charm at all. That's not how James Bond is supposed to be. I don't get why anyone would like that.

Craig also had to dress as a woman too, in that dumb commercial, if you remember. For some reason male actors have to dress as women at some point in their career. It's some kind of Hollywood Illuminati ritual of some sort, like part of their evolution or initiation that they go through. That's why Dustin Hoffman dressed as a woman in Tootsie, and why Robin Williams did so too in several movies. Even David Duchovny played a cross dressing woman in the Twin Peaks TV series, if you remember. Very weird. What kind of guy would wanna do that?

gsjackson wrote: ↑

April 1st, 2022, 4:42 pm

Dalton???!!! A sensitive, angst-ridden Bond grappling with ambiguity? That's my recollection of how he played the role, and why he was cashiered in short order. No, no, no -- it's Connery, Craig, Lazenby, Brosnan, Moore (too physically delicate a fellow) and Dalton, in descending order. IMHO.

Want to weigh in, jamesbond?

LOL, no way, you must be thinking of a different one. "Sensitive and angst-ridden" LOL?! If he'd played it that way I would've thoroughly disliked it.
I would say Dalton is the best because of the added masculinity and having more of an edge to him, with Connery being 1st-rate as well, but in second place, just since I prefer Dalton's masculinity and intensity vs Connery's more smirking and vain approach (though he was still great).
Also, Dalton didn't get cashiered in short order either: Apparently what happened was that he was lined up for a bunch more Bond films, but the producers and rights holders started squabbling in a big legal battle behind the scenes, and after they dragged it on for a long time Dalton wanted out of the contract to go make actual other films. Too bad, IMO! That was still the late '80s/early 90's era when it was still possible to make good action flicks without shoe-horning in leftwing and globohomo stuff.
I love some of Roger Moore's bond films too (I personally liked the added goofball humor), but he just had such a different approach to the role that I thought he sort of went in a class of his own. I thought Brosnan did a solid job, but they were starting to force in so much pre-globohomo era leftwing BS that the films themselves were going down the drain.

Winston wrote: ↑

April 3rd, 2022, 1:16 pm

Btw, why do you guys like Daniel Craig's James Bond? He looks so cold and soulless like he doesn't care about anything. No charm at all. That's not how James Bond is supposed to be. I don't get why anyone would like that.

I only saw the 2000-era Casino Royale and thought it was a badly made movie, but based on that one I definitely agree with you about Craig's bond: Craig looked very tough and masculine, which is great, but for some reason he chose to play the role completely devoid of charm, cold and soulless with no chemistry with the women, unlike all of Connery, Moore, Dalton, and Brosnan.
Interestingly though, I saw Craig in some other movie and he actually was doing a very good job acting and did have at least some charisma, so he probably could've done it differently. The charmless scowling approach like a SMERSH henchman was just his choice for how to play the role I guess?! Also, I recall the media tub-thumping about how brilliant it was that he showed up to play Bond and then, basically, just didn't even try to play Bond at all, LOL. Wow, genius.
I'm curious about something though: I actually heard some of the other Craig bond films were better than Casino Royale (from other people who also thought that one was a turkey), but usually don't waste time watching anything in the mid-2000's or later... but did I actually miss anything good in those other Craig bond films?

Winston wrote: ↑

April 3rd, 2022, 1:16 pm

Dalton was a pretty good James Bond. He looked suave. Why did he only do two Bond films? Why not more?

Well, I wasn't the only one who thought he played Bond as sensitive, angst-ridden and morally puzzled. My recollection is at least two prominent national critics had the same take and presumed that was the reason he lost the job. I believe he had been a fairly serious trained stage actor, who maybe thought every character needs a bit of Hamlet ambivalence in him, or else the intellectuals would trash the effort. I'd like to see one of those movies again to see if I'm remembering correctly.

Personally, I enjoy the Triple A blockbuster movies the most, but since this thread seems to be more on the subject of movies that slipped passed the radar here’s a few I enjoyed.

The Peacemaker with George Clooney https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UURCLhzk5P8
I thought this movie was really entertaining.

Into the Sun with Steven Seagal I enjoyed this one because of the setting in Japan, and the Yakuza were actually Japanese actors that did seem like badasses. Also had some pretty dope action scenes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJmjPdgH4Uc

Jumper- Pretty cool sci fi action movie that a lot of people probably missed. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtacNQkFHvo

Red Notice with Dwayne Johnson, Ryan Reynolds and Gal Gadot. Movie was a lot of fun. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xif8QHeMPak

LOL, +1
I love Steven Seagal, been watching his movies since I was a kid in the 90's.
That happened to be one of the last Seagal flicks I saw and I remember it being pretty damn entertaining, so I'd better watch it again soon. It's awesome that he kept on making them even when he was a big old guy into his 60's.

NPCslammer wrote: ↑

April 4th, 2022, 1:59 am

Into the Sun with Steven Seagal I enjoyed this one because of the setting in Japan, and the Yakuza were actually Japanese actors that did seem like badasses. Also had some pretty dope action scenes.

P.S. For any of you guys that like Japanese badasses, you might like one of my favorite retro film series of all time from the 70's: The english Title is "Battles Without Honor & Humanity" aka "Yakuza Papers" in one release. It's 5 movies total. (仁義なき戦い is the Japanese title.)

Here's the trailer for the 2nd one "Deadly Fight in Hiroshima," which has a young Sonny Chiba featured as the young up and coming Yakuza goon:
仁義なき戦い 広島死闘篇(予告編)

WilliamSmith wrote: ↑

April 4th, 2022, 5:01 pm

LOL, +1
I love Steven Seagal, been watching his movies since I was a kid in the 90's.
That happened to be one of the last Seagal flicks I saw and I remember it being pretty damn entertaining, so I'd better watch it again soon. It's awesome that he kept on making them even when he was a big old guy into his 60's

No it isn't. If he was going to become a useless fat sack of crap he should have have disappeared into obscurity or killed himself or something. Apparently he is a blubbering pantywaist in real life.

Cornfed wrote: ↑

April 4th, 2022, 5:07 pm

WilliamSmith wrote: ↑

April 4th, 2022, 5:01 pm

LOL, +1
I love Steven Seagal, been watching his movies since I was a kid in the 90's.
That happened to be one of the last Seagal flicks I saw and I remember it being pretty damn entertaining, so I'd better watch it again soon. It's awesome that he kept on making them even when he was a big old guy into his 60's

No it isn't. If he was going to become a useless fat sack of crap he should have have disappeared into obscurity or killed himself or something. Apparently he is a blubbering pantywaist in real life.

No, you're confused: Like I said, Steven Seagal is badass, and it's awesome that he's still making movies even as a big old dude in his 60's. You can thank me later for setting you straight on that one.
By the way, slightly off-topic, but Seagal even happens to be "on our side" so to speak regarding the war in Ukraine, LOL:
https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/s ... aine-putin

Steven Seagal is speaking out amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

"Most of us have friends and family in Russia & Ukraine," the action star told Fox News Digital on Monday. "I look at both as one family and really believe it is an outside entity spending huge sums of money on propaganda to provoke the two countries to be at odds with each other."

"My prayers are that both countries will come to a positive, peaceful resolution where we can live & thrive together in peace," the 69-year-old shared.
...
Seagal is an accomplished martial artist — like Russian President Vladimir Putin. The actor, who was granted Russian citizenship in 2016, has vocally defended the Russian leader’s policies, including Russia’s 2014 annexation of Crimea, and has criticized the U.S. government.

WilliamSmith wrote: ↑

April 4th, 2022, 5:11 pm

Steven Seagal is badass

Sammy the Bull on Steven Segal