Last Movie You Saw & Your Recommendations II

[Namcot]

Smokey And The Bandit (1977)

http://imdb.com/title/tt0076729/



Can't believe this was the 2nd highest grossing film of 1977, earning $300 million: second only to Star Wars and ahead of the 3rd highest grossing film of that year, Close Encounters Of The Third Kind.

The stars admitted later that many of the scenes were improvised and you can tell.

There are scenes that just felt out of place or not part of any continuity and that they were just thrown in as filler to make a movie.

Sally Field invented camel toe long before there was even a word for it.



2.5/5

FYI:

In honor of Burt Reynolds, Smokey And The Bandit is back in theaters in the USA starting this Friday and through September 20th.

How were they able to dig up a clean negative copy, remaster it to today's audio and video standards and quality and make multiple prints of them and get them in theaters in a week?

[Namcot]

And also in that same year of 1977, Jacqueline Bisset invented the Wet T-Shirt in The Deep.

The Producer of the film even quipped later "That T-Shirt made me a very rich man!"

The Deep earned almost $48 million against a budget of $8.5-9 million.

[johnell]

I saw the Fright Night the first again and i enjoy it.
And waiting for the Nun to realease.

[RavenHawk999]

Guardians of the Tomb

http://imdb.com/title/tt4915672/

[Namcot]

Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018)

http://imdb.com/title/tt3778644/



The origin story of Han Solo: where he comes from, how he met Chewie and Lando, how he became a double crossing women chasing scoundrel, smuggler and the best pilot (in his own mind of course) of the fastest piece of junk spaceship in the galaxy.

This movie's intention was good but unfortunately because of issues during production, it resulted in a very poorly executed and put together final product.

The original directors, yes, directors! There were 2 of them working together, were fired after having filmed 70% of the film based on one script.

After they were fired, Ron Howard was brought in to reshoot the film and while doing so, he made changes to the original script by omitting parts in it that were already filmed and needed to be reshot but Howard chose not to do so.

He also added new things to the script that had no continuity or relation to the original script.

So there were things in the original script that were already filmed that needed to be reshot that were left out; there were things in the original script that were not filmed that needed to be filmed that were left out; there were new things added to the original script that no one bothered to check for continuity and adherence to the original script; there were things in the original script that would had helped the storyline that needed to be filmed and Howard also chose not to do so:

in other words, the Final Cut of this movie is a Big Hot Mess.

This Big Hot Mess costs $300 million dollars to make and translated into a box office failure earning only $382 million dollars domestically and internationally.

One of the other times in film making history something similar happened was during the production of Superman II which was filmed by Richard Donner.

He was fired when the movie was nearly completed.

The movie was almost completely reshot by a new director Richard Lester with scenes that were already filmed in Donner's version that needed to be reshot, featuring big cast members like Marlon Brando and Gene Hackmanm that ended up being omitted when the actors refused to show up for the reshoots.

I have seen both version and frankly, Donner's version is better.

So originally Disney was planning on making 3 Han Solo origin films including this one and a Jabba The Hut origin film.

After the dismal box office performance of Solo: A Star Wars Story, those plans are now on hold.

GOOD!

The actor that plays a younger Han Solo in this doesn't even come close in charisma and character to Harrison Ford's Han Solo.

It's as if he didn't bother to prepare for the role by watching the 3 original trilogy Star Wars film.

Even the actor who plays the young Lando Calrissian is not convincing in his role:

Billy Dee Williams' Lando Calrissian is cool and aloof and charming.

This actor (whom I've only previously seen once in The Martian as some NASA whiz kid) has the personality and emotional maturity of a rotting and stinky dead sardine.

Furthermore, both of the aforementioned actors can't act their way out of a paper bag if their heads were stuck in one and they were suffocating to death from lack of oxygen.

Then there is the female lead which is the same high school age kid looking Emilia Clarke actress from Terminator Genisys who I see that 3 years since that film was released and she was criticized for her poor acting, still has poor acting skills.

Did she not bother to improve her skills by taking acting and speech classes in the past 3 years?

Finally one complaint I have which is the same as many Star Wars fans had after watching Star Wars Episode VIII: The Last Jedi.

Directors and producers for Disney's Star Wars films: leave your personal political agenda and social warrior justice liberal politics out of the script of these Star Wars films!!

That is another reason why Solo is the first movie in the Star Wars universe to fail at the box office.

The Star Wars fans revolved and boycotted Solo after The Last Jedi's director Rian Johnson bombarded the film with his own social warrior justice political messages turning it into what many Star Wars fans felt was a social justice liberal propaganda piece.

Sorry Mouse Company but I can only give your latest installment in the "Let's milk the Star Wars cash cow name for every dollar we can because we need to recover the $4 billion investment we paid to George to buy the Lucasfilm and Star Wars trademark" film franchise a:

1/5

[johnell]

Finally i will see Sicario Day of the Soldado 2018!!!
I waiting to be an ecxellent movie like the hidden jewel Sicario.
Action, plot,good actors all the packet for nice movie.

[virkole9]

I didn't hate Solo - and I expected to, given that Ron Howard is IMO the worst top-tier American director of the last 50 years, and that I hadn't liked any of the other new SW films all that much. But it wasn't good either and if this helps to kill the franchise - or forces Disney to try to do something else - fine. I have to admit at this point that it is just pure, total nostalgia that has kept me going to these films, if I'm objective about it the last film that didn't disappoint me is The Empire Strikes Back. And yet I keep paying money to see them.

I need to make a pact with myself not to pay for any big-budget franchise pictures at all anymore, but certainly not any Star Wars films. Probably the only "good" reason to see this stuff is to have something to talk about with my family who don't share my taste for the more specialized films.

[Namcot]

The only decent acting in SOLO was done by Chewbacca and all he has to do was growl.

That speaks volume about the lack of acting talent by the rest of the cast.

Even veteran actor and actress Woody Harrelson's and Tandie Newton's characters came across as cut and dry.



Currently watching:

A crime drama classic based on another best selling novel by Joseph Wambaugh



http://imdb.com/title/tt0068997/





International Poster with the title changed



Featuring several actors at the start of their careers.

Ed Lauter (R.I.P.)

http://imdb.com/name/nm0491590



James Sikking (purple shirt)
http://imdb.com/name/nm0797725
(to me, he will always be Howard Hunter in Hill Street Blues and Sgt. Montone in Outland)



Erik Estrada
http://imdb.com/name/nm0261805

and Stacy Keach
http://imdb.com/name/nm0005078



I miss Keach's Mike Hammer TV series that was produced before he was busted for cocaine.

In contrast to the charming male leads in other popular detective shows of the day (e.g., Remington Steele, Thomas Magnum), Mike Hammer was unapologetically masculine with little concern for political correctness. A prominent feature of most episodes was the inclusion of a number of female characters (known in casting sessions "Hammer-ettes") who would exchange a double entendre or two with Hammer while wearing very low tops and push-up bras emphasizing their ample cleavage. Hammer would regularly wind up in bed with the highly sexualized female characters in the show, who would never fail to melt once they had fixed their eyes upon the brawny detective.

The series was revived after he served his prison sentence but it was sanitized.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mickey_Spillane%27s_Mike_Hammer_(1984_TV_series)#The_New_Mike_Hammer

Guess we will never see the 26 episodes of the first 2 season of pre-sanitized version on DVD.

[Norwick]

Last movie I saw was called Tag. It's a pretty cool comedy that is worse seeing, especially as it's based on a true story.

[Namcot]

Sicario: Day of the Soldado (2018)

http://imdb.com/title/tt5052474/



Not sure what was the point of this movie.

I didn't much care for the story.

The 2 things I came away with after watching it which I've already knew beforehand:

do not work for the U.S. Government's C.I.A.

To them you are nothing but an expendable asset.

When they don't need your services anymore, they will murder you or abandon you to a death situation that's very difficult for anyone to get out of alive.

The CIA has done so many times in real life:

it's not something that's made up in the movies.

Also do not work for the Mexican Cartels.

Their employee's retirement plan is also like the CIA's: not very attractive.

2/5