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I have this on blu ray I haven’t watched it in a long time but remember really liking it
Thanks, enjoyed your review as always! Even the soundtrack is great. I particularly love the aural textures of the bar scene in which Al Pacino's character slowly and masterfully reels in poor Jonathan Pryce. Ice tinkling in their glasses, the seductive, noirish horn crooning in the background and Roma's hushed, hypnotizing patter as he inches ever closer to his prey. Then, as Ricky moves to close the deal, the abrupt cut to the L train whizzing by. Someone's getting railroaded alright. Wonderful.
Just had revenge of the blood beast. Raro video uk. And skinned alive and the pleasure new on 88 film
This video popped up again. I'm still doing this. I had everything under control for about a year and now I seemed to have lost it again. Spent £200 that was for something else on movies (hit the Arrow sale twice), didn't mean to but when you find Blu Rays like A breed Apart, Stay Tuned and Tank on Amazon Germany (along with nearly 20 others) it's easy to do. Soooooo I am setting a movie buying cash limit every month, starting with £250 a month and in a few months bringing it down to £200 and the other £50 to be saved for sales (no point doing that now, half the sales are on at the moment). Lets see if I stick to it. I even had £220 cex credit this month and I still overspent. I reckon it must have been close to a grand this month on movies including the CEX credit.
One of the top uses of a macguffin: what are 'the leads' exactly? Is that really a thing? Doesnt matter. I love the early scene showing Roma's winning sales technique- like a seduction. There is a dark ironic homosexual subtext in this film. Not a single woman and the men all trying to 'fuck' each other in one way or another.
It's an interesting film, almost Hitchcockian and almost social realist.
Tank Girl I could probably do with seeing again. I didn't really like it back in the day, but I'm guessing time has been kind to it
Absolutely one of the best 90s films based on script alone. Fun fact: Gil from The Simpsons was based on Jack Lemmon in this film
Yeah, I felt like Conan the destroyer just didn’t feel it was on the same level. The writing wasn’t quite there. The plot itself felt off. Even the filming, costumes, sets etc all felt almost on par with a TV movie or a knock off. I think you’re right about the fantastical elements being a little bit too much. Like with the original Conan the barbarian yes there was fantasy involved, but it was mixed with this medieval feel of sword and shield. The big thing the writer of Conan and the first movie does is make it feel like historical fiction, a real world much like our own but with a twist. The world of Conan the destroyer feels too detached and fantastical. It just occurred to me, Conan the destroyer feels like fan fiction.
Skinned alive and the pleasure in the post 📫 88 films
I saw this before I saw Star Wars :) my poor grandmother fell asleep beside me in the cinema. :)
Bit late for this, but super review of what I personally consider an exceptional movie. Dreyer actually gave a rather good little statement regarding what he was seeking with vampyr, and when you think about it it's can make one a little more receptive: "imagine you're in a room, we notice there is a coffin behind the door. All of a sudden our whole perspective of the room has changed; it feels like we're not in the same room anymore". Of course with 99% of movies we are a viewer, an audience, we watch what is happening at all times. Vampyr of course is trying to portray a vampire movie, from the viewpoint of a bystander, even though involved, is clueless as to what is happening, bar his own visual experiences. Dreyers little statement is that the room (the village) is a normal village. However this vanishes from normality and our perspective has completely refocused into the uncomfortable. There's that part in the start which really is an outliner of the whole movie: he's in his room; the door slowly unlocks and the old man steps in. Or a spectre of the old man. Thing is: how would YOU react? It's so easy to say I'd take him on or try to talk to him etc. However would we? That I think is what Dreyer was attempting: how normal people would react in very unsettling, abnormal events.
His brogue is so thick that I can’t understand a word.
Foley also did the great AT CLOSE RANGE and AFTER DARK, MY SWEET
Mamet is one of the great writers of any medium, and his output as a screenwriter--THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE, THE UNTOUCHABLES, HOUSE OF GAMES, THE SPANISH PRISONER, THINGS CHANGE, THE VERDICT, STATE AND MAIN, WAG THE DOG, HOFFA, WE'RE NO ANGELS---is an amazing roster of achievements.
Mamet and Schrader are two of my favourite screenwriters. I would love to see Lakeboat turned into a film.
@@alexinterconnects it was turned into a film, directed by Joe Mantegna, with Peter Falk, Denis Leary, Charles Durning and Robert Forster. It's on KZread.
@@yournamehere6002 Thanks I had no idea
Fun flick - waiting on a Shout discount then prob scoop it up!
Interesting to note the play this film is based on hasn’t got the Baldwin character in it at all, Mamet wrote it in for the screenplay as it would be a stronger start to the film. I also played Levene on stage it was great, Mamet dialogue is very precise and you can bet all the actors delivered it word perfect, I have the Kino bluray the Jack Lemmon commentary is superb he talks about his career as well as this film.
Read the play at uni when I was too young or ignorant to appreciate it. Saw the film in my twenties and of course my friends and I would insult each other with quotes from the film, especially with those Al Pacino soundboard prank calls that were going around on KZread at the time. That Alec Baldwin monologue was added for the film and wasn't even in Mamet's play, amazingly. Don't need to quote: pretty much anything by Pacino (especially his rant at Spacey) is legendary! Also worth mentioning that the desperate salesman Gil from The Simpsons is based on Jack Lemmon's character in this film! Brilliant movie!
Cool flick - def hope to pick this one up soon!
Incredible film.
Definitely the most questionable entry into the collection
I was hoping that mine would have arrived today, but alas it was not so. Thoughts on the web exclusive from Eureka for Super Cops? I have some fomo but if the online trailer is true to form, it looks like an awful transfer.
yah this is a marvelous film its in Al Pacinos HEAT years, not surprised if Pacino is on Coke (Pacino admitted he was high on cocaine when he was acting in HEAT). . One of Al Pacinos best movies, I have the Shout Region A blu ray.
I knew he was on something. He was wild in that film.
Love this film. Jack Lemmon so good - as pathetic as the others but my heart breaks for him at the end. Al pacino playing it low key until he rails at Spacey and goes full in early 90s hooah Pacino - “you never open your mouth until you know what the shot is!”
There is a great moment in the Foley interview where he says that all the characters represent where they were in their career. Pacino is the man on top. Lemon is a once legendary salesman who seems to be struggling. And so on.
Hey Graham, can you believe that I've never seen this film! I have to say that your review has at least sold one copy as I'm going to order it right now. Thank you for all of the work you do for the love of films/art.
You’ll love it. Guaranteed! It’s so bloody good.
YOU WILL NOT REGRET IT I PROMISE
I love this movie.
Who doesn’t? Losers! People who can’t close, that’s who!
That ending! wow.
Indeed!
This film is in The Bad Movie Bible. If a film is in that book, I buy it.
I need to get a copy of that
I really liked this movie . its probably my favorite Star Warsploitation film
Just received it today. Can't wait to see it!!!
This is a really good film, how it hasnt been released in the UK is beyond me
Great video is the gonna be standard edition of this film
There is a standard already available, but it’s either Blu-ray or 4K. Not a double pack like the LE
I find it very fun to see Sonny Chiba and the actor then known as Henry Sanada in a space opera.
Yeah it’s a little funny seeing streetfighter and sister streetfighter in very different roles
I'm definitely interested in this one.
Love Tank Girl - that SE can complement my old copies of Deadline
Just call it what the beginning Credits say it's called The Savage Island
There are certain films (like this one) which come out when you are like twelve or thirteen and you think my God this movie was made for me. The 1980's could be counted on for movies like that.
Watched the 4k boxset recently as well, having not seen either movie for a long, long time. Barbarian is unarguably the better film, but Destroyer is a lot more fun and I enjoyed it far more than I was expecting to. Also watched The Beastmaster 4k and that was a hoot. They certainly don't make films like this anymore!
I love the beastmaster. I got the vinegar syndrome release a few years ago.
Conan the destroyer is the Conan the comic rather than Conan closer to Robert E Howard with sensibilities by the screenwriters John Milius and Oliver Stone really made Conan teh Barbarian a classic that has aged very well. Conan the Destroyer was written by marvel comic writers Roy thomas and jerry Conway. who wrote many a Conan comic stories and it shows in Conan teh Destroyer.
well really loved Conan the destroyer when I first watched it in bootleg betamax in 1984. and I have watched it about 10 times on laserdisc, VHS TV, DVD and Blu ray since 84 now I watched it most recently in 2018(last time I watched it before that was in 2005 on DVD) on an Australian umbrella release blu ray and it did not age well. While I still listen to teh excellent soundtrack to this day, well the movie is mehhh. the First Conan Movie which has aged very well blows Conan the Destroyer out of the water.
Completely agree, the first is an epic that I never tire of watching.
So much resonance between different plot elements - Laura/Carmen - but also that the search or yearning only continues and evolves, our lives continue and evolve, because the object (object petit a?) is never actually obtainable - not Laura, not Elisa, not the creature, not the last plant for Laura's project, not the truth of what happened with Carmen. Also, many many references to the primacy of the masculine in the text (the letters from the books are all from the man, who occasionally quotes Carmen Zuna, the lack of female scientists in the Trenque Lauguen library). Elements of Antonioni for sure, both L'Avventura and Blow-Up, in the question of absences. In a way, Laura appears only when there is no more text - that is the wide screen nearly silent last section. Saw it whole with a 15 minute intermission. Bought both the Radiance and the Cinema Guild releases. Love this film so much.
My niece who's now 9 years old prefer watching movies from my childhood and series from my teenage years than the new ones. Me too doesn't like new movies, the storyline is poor in most of them and I'm getting tired about the remakes, the beggining's of sequels, it's destroy all the beauty from the originals and it's story. For now I'm watching tv series from foreign countries because they are more decent and there is an endding to the story. I really hate to see at the end of season 1 a big punch that will get a new story plot for a next season, but never came out because a compagny decide it won't be a hit. They prefer the same stupid story line, no creativity, boring than being original and bold.
My daughters are much the same, although they watch the odd new film.
Picked up the disc, looking forward to watching it.
It’s a long watch but being broken into two parts helps a lot.
I watched this at the theater at NYFF and it was quite the marathon event. I found it actually quite sweet. Longest film I've ever seen in theater
Well being able to watch it on two parts was a good way to watch it. Allowed me to mull over part 1 before going into part 2
Hmmm I recently picked up the Umbrella box set of Tank Girl but I have a feeling the Eureka release will be better. I'll have to wait until it comes out and find out more about the transfer and special features and compare it to the Umbrella release. As for foreign films I always watch them in their native language with subtitles. I'm not usually a fan of dub tracks unless it's something nostalgiic rom my childhood and I'm used to it that way. Can't think of any films where that is the case but can think of some Japanese TV shows and anime like Star Blazers, Astro Boy and Monkey Magic that I use to watch as a kid with English dubs and would probably still want to hear them that way today.
Oh man I used to love monkey magic. I remember watching that with my dad.
@@manvfilm great show. Via Vision have a Blu ray set if you're ever super keen to get a copy. Not sure if there's a native UK Blu ray.
@darrenblizzard3851 it’s never something I’ve looked into. I’d be worried incase it didn’t live up to the memories.
@@manvfilm haha. Sometimes stuff you liked when young doesn't hold up years later so I know what you mean but for me personally it did in this case. Was very nostalgic to see it again....
Totally bizarre story that goes nowhere near what I was expecting but found it really memorable. The extras were really good explaining the back story of how the films production affected the story over COVID.
I think overall I liked part 1 more than 2.
This was always one of my favorites of Fukasaku's 70s era yakuza films. Super excited that Radiance released this. Its great!
Great film, I can imagine watching this one a lot.
how is the transfer compared to umbrella?
I haven’t seen the umbrella release, but this is a 4K transfer.
Already have both the Umbrella and Shout versions of TANK GIRL. If it was 4K and had a lot of new extras, I'd buy it.
Yeah three copies is a bit much. 🤣
Just pre order who saw her die on shameless with slip George Lazenby August