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Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2017 11:59 pm Post subject:
OregonLakerGuy wrote:
Honorable mention goes to Tom Selleck in Quigley Down Under
I've seen it countless times. I still watch it when it airs. Classic ending. Alan Rickman played Elliot Marston to the hilt. Better than Die Hard. Also like him in Crossfire Trail with Mark Harmon. _________________ Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.
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Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2017 3:27 pm Post subject:
numero-ocho wrote:
Not Denzel Washington. That's for sure.
Have you seen it? It got a 74% like from audiences. _________________ Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.
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Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2017 10:10 am Post subject:
Way high on top of the list is Jack Palance. Curly from City Slickers. Jack Palance is one of my personal heros. _________________ "The best there is. The best there was. The best there ever will be.", said Bret Hart regarding the Los Angeles Lakers.
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Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2017 11:07 am Post subject:
jodeke wrote:
numero-ocho wrote:
Not Denzel Washington. That's for sure.
Have you seen it? It got a 74% like from audiences.
I did. Denzel is great dramatic actor but his record on action movies is hit and miss. I thought this one missed badly, especially given the hype. It was just a bad collection of western cliches tied together by over-the-top action sequences. _________________ "Suck it up. Don't be a baby. Do your job." - Kobe Bryant
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Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2017 11:36 am Post subject:
numero-ocho wrote:
jodeke wrote:
numero-ocho wrote:
Not Denzel Washington. That's for sure.
Have you seen it? It got a 74% like from audiences.
I did. Denzel is great dramatic actor but his record on action movies is hit and miss. I thought this one missed badly, especially given the hype. It was just a bad collection of western cliches tied together by over-the-top action sequences.
Thanks n-o. The original Magnificent 7 also had western cliches and over the top action scenes.
I'll wait for it to go to DVD.
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Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2017 1:36 pm Post subject:
jodeke wrote:
numero-ocho wrote:
jodeke wrote:
numero-ocho wrote:
Not Denzel Washington. That's for sure.
Have you seen it? It got a 74% like from audiences.
I did. Denzel is great dramatic actor but his record on action movies is hit and miss. I thought this one missed badly, especially given the hype. It was just a bad collection of western cliches tied together by over-the-top action sequences.
Thanks n-o. The original Magnificent 7 also had western cliches and over the top action scenes.
Classic westerns like the original Magnificent Seven establish the stuff that becomes cliches when others try and copy them. I'm not a huge fan of the original either. Some times it works. I actually liked the remake of True Grit better than the original. _________________ "Suck it up. Don't be a baby. Do your job." - Kobe Bryant
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Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2017 2:25 pm Post subject:
numero-ocho wrote:
jodeke wrote:
numero-ocho wrote:
jodeke wrote:
numero-ocho wrote:
Not Denzel Washington. That's for sure.
Have you seen it? It got a 74% like from audiences.
I did. Denzel is great dramatic actor but his record on action movies is hit and miss. I thought this one missed badly, especially given the hype. It was just a bad collection of western cliches tied together by over-the-top action sequences.
Thanks n-o. The original Magnificent 7 also had western cliches and over the top action scenes.
Classic westerns like the original Magnificent Seven establish the stuff that becomes cliches when others try and copy them. I'm not a huge fan of the original either. Some times it works. I actually liked the remake of True Grit better than the original.
OK Pilgram. _________________ Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.
America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
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Posted: Sat Jan 21, 2017 11:17 pm Post subject:
@n-o. I watched the Magnificent 7 tonight. It didn't live up to the hype. I found it a bit boring.“If God didn't want them sheared, why did he make them sheep?” taken from the original.
It's very difficult to do a remake that tops the original. I guess the use of Denzel was for box office.
I like some of his action movies. Training Day, Man On Fire, The Equalizer, to name a few. _________________ Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.
America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
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Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2017 2:01 am Post subject:
lakerjoshua wrote:
Cowboy Dan. He's a major player in the cowboy scene. Likes to drive to the reservation, drink and get mean. He says he's didn't move to the city the city moved to me and he wants out desperately.
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Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2017 5:22 pm Post subject:
Goldenwest wrote:
Tuco
"If your going to shoot, shoot, don't talk"
Eli Wallach got as much attention as Eastwood. He played a hellofa role. If you didn't know he was Jewish you may have thought he really was Mexican. _________________ Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.
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That's what the job calls for. There are different ways to put it, but it reads the same. That's the difference between us, and it's all the difference I need. _________________ “Always remember... Rumors are carried by haters, spread by fools, and accepted by idiots.”
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Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2017 7:53 pm Post subject:
ChickenStu wrote:
Surprised there's been no love for The Waco Kid from Blazing Saddles, played by the one and only Gene Wilder!
(Come to think of it, Gene also played The Frisco Kid, but I digress.)
LOL! Awesome pull on both counts.
And speaking of Blazing Saddles, what about Mongo? _________________ You thought God was an architect, now you know
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And everything you built that’s all for show
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Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2017 9:48 am Post subject:
jodeke wrote:
@n-o. I watched the Magnificent 7 tonight. It didn't live up to the hype. I found it a bit boring.“If God didn't want them sheared, why did he make them sheep?” taken from the original.
It's very difficult to do a remake that tops the original. I guess the use of Denzel was for box office.
I like some of his action movies. Training Day, Man On Fire, The Equalizer, to name a few.
I like those movies too although I consider "Training Day" as more of a drama. His chops as a dramatic actor are unquestionable. I was referring more to movies like this one and, "Fallen", "Virtuosity", and "Deja Vu" and wonder why an actor of his caliber even takes roles like those.
I also want to mention Lee Marvin as Liberty Valance as one of my favorite cowboys. _________________ "Suck it up. Don't be a baby. Do your job." - Kobe Bryant
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Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2017 12:16 pm Post subject:
numero-ocho wrote:
jodeke wrote:
@n-o. I watched the Magnificent 7 tonight. It didn't live up to the hype. I found it a bit boring.“If God didn't want them sheared, why did he make them sheep?” taken from the original.
It's very difficult to do a remake that tops the original. I guess the use of Denzel was for box office.
I like some of his action movies. Training Day, Man On Fire, The Equalizer, to name a few.
I like those movies too although I consider "Training Day" as more of a drama. His chops as a dramatic actor are unquestionable. I was referring more to movies like this one and, "Fallen", "Virtuosity", and "Deja Vu" and wonder why an actor of his caliber even takes roles like those.
I also want to mention Lee Marvin as Liberty Valance as one of my favorite cowboys.
He's at a level in his career that says he's box office. I imagine that's what the makers of The Magnificent Seven were counting on.
Denzel's done most of it. I guess sooner or later he'll do a Shakespearean sonnet. I don't remember him doing one. _________________ Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.
America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
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Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2017 1:26 pm Post subject:
jodeke wrote:
numero-ocho wrote:
jodeke wrote:
@n-o. I watched the Magnificent 7 tonight. It didn't live up to the hype. I found it a bit boring.“If God didn't want them sheared, why did he make them sheep?” taken from the original.
It's very difficult to do a remake that tops the original. I guess the use of Denzel was for box office.
I like some of his action movies. Training Day, Man On Fire, The Equalizer, to name a few.
I like those movies too although I consider "Training Day" as more of a drama. His chops as a dramatic actor are unquestionable. I was referring more to movies like this one and, "Fallen", "Virtuosity", and "Deja Vu" and wonder why an actor of his caliber even takes roles like those.
I also want to mention Lee Marvin as Liberty Valance as one of my favorite cowboys.
He's at a level in his career that says he's box office. I imagine that's what the makers of The Magnificent Seven were counting on.
Denzel's done most of it. I guess sooner or later he'll do a Shakespearean sonnet. I don't remember him doing one.
He was in "Much Ado About Nothing" back in the early 90s. _________________ "Suck it up. Don't be a baby. Do your job." - Kobe Bryant
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Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2017 1:44 pm Post subject:
numero-ocho wrote:
jodeke wrote:
numero-ocho wrote:
jodeke wrote:
@n-o. I watched the Magnificent 7 tonight. It didn't live up to the hype. I found it a bit boring.“If God didn't want them sheared, why did he make them sheep?” taken from the original.
It's very difficult to do a remake that tops the original. I guess the use of Denzel was for box office.
I like some of his action movies. Training Day, Man On Fire, The Equalizer, to name a few.
I like those movies too although I consider "Training Day" as more of a drama. His chops as a dramatic actor are unquestionable. I was referring more to movies like this one and, "Fallen", "Virtuosity", and "Deja Vu" and wonder why an actor of his caliber even takes roles like those.
I also want to mention Lee Marvin as Liberty Valance as one of my favorite cowboys.
He's at a level in his career that says he's box office. I imagine that's what the makers of The Magnificent Seven were counting on.
Denzel's done most of it. I guess sooner or later he'll do a Shakespearean sonnet. I don't remember him doing one.
He was in "Much Ado About Nothing" back in the early 90s.
I didn't see it. How do you rate his performance? Was it true Shakespearean? e.g. Othello. Guess I'm thinking tragedy. _________________ Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.
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