View Full Version : I just realized...
...that I may have never seen a flick with Steve McQueen in it. :unsure:
I'm looking at a list of his movies and I can't say that I've seen a single one. Is there one or two that are must sees? Recommendations?
I'm stealing The Great Escape at the moment.
Bullit, mang, Bullit.
And maybe Papillon, although that's sort of boring.
FFS, the board is posting extra for me, now.
IdolEyes787
11-08-2008, 12:36 PM
Bullitt gets a lot of hype and it's the movie that people most closely associate with McQueen but in my opinion it's over- rated.
The Great Escape(the motorcycle bit is great),The Magnificent Seven(you must have seen it and forgotten McQueen was in it right?),The Getaway(Peckinpah for Christ's sake)or The Cincinnati Kid(nice companion piece to The Hustler) are all good.
The Sand Pebbles is also classic McQueen and was nominated for a bunch of Oscars but it drags worse than Papillon.
Just about any McQueen is good but a lot of his films seem dated now.:(
The Flying Cow
11-08-2008, 01:24 PM
Papillon is cule, but it takes about 2 years to finish. The movie that is.
Other than that it shows a rising Hoffman, you can see he's got big things ahead of him.
IdolEyes787
11-08-2008, 01:39 PM
I would argue that some of Hoffman's best work preceded Papillon.
Before
The Graduate.Midnight Cowboy,Straw Dogs,Little Big Man.
After
Kramer vs. Kramer,Tootsie and even Rain Man ,while entertaining ,are mostly tripe.
He was on a roll with Lenny,All the President's Men and Marathon Man though.
The Flying Cow
11-08-2008, 04:09 PM
Whilst The Graduate is without question one of the few best classics of all time, be it soundtrack, pwetty babes, or plotline-wise, those other movies you mention I've never seen.
Plus I've seen many a great feature with Hoffman of late, things like Finding Neverland, Perfume, Runaway Jury, I Heart Huckabees, Meet the Fockers, Kung-fu Panda, and so on. He's a pearl on all of the aforementioned.
I dare you to argue contrariwise.
Oh and Rain Man was not an easy role. To say he wasn't stellar as an autist on it, means you know shit about autism. It was damn near perfect.
IdolEyes787
11-08-2008, 06:35 PM
Whilst The Graduate is without question one of the few best classics of all time, be it soundtrack, pwetty babes, or plotline-wise, those other movies you mention I've never seen.
Plus I've seen many a great feature with Hoffman of late, things like Finding Neverland, Perfume, Runaway Jury, I Heart Huckabees, Meet the Fockers, Kung-fu Panda, and so on. He's a pearl on all of the aforementioned.
I dare you to argue contrariwise.
I would argue but it would be pointless so I will just say crap and bigger crap.
Suggest you steal yourself a copy of either Marathon Man or Straw Dogs and see what movies should look like.
Oh and Rain Man was not an easy role. To say he wasn't stellar as an autist on it, means you know shit about autism. It was damn near perfect.
I'm an excellent driver. I like to drive slow on the driveway.
Something Else
11-08-2008, 06:53 PM
Bullit, mang, Bullit.
And maybe Papillon, although that's sort of boring.
Bullit is win. Papillon also. I didn't find it boring.
IdolEyes787
11-08-2008, 07:09 PM
http://www.logosoftwear.com/cgi-images/MI1280.JPG
See that's a good example of autism .
Already stole The Great Escape.
Getting - Papillon, The Magnificent Seven, and The Getaway now.
I'm still off work for another 3 weeks so I should get to all 4.
That's 6 flicks. :ermm:
If I make it through the initial 5 five and still want more, I'll snatch it up.
It's a question of need, rather than want.
Delete Papillon, if you must.
chalice
11-08-2008, 07:42 PM
Hoi Skiz, watch this, like. It's win to the max.
It's a 1960 episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents starring McQueen and Peter Lorre called Man From The South. It's based on a Roald Dahl short story and it's been remade tons of times cos it rawks the sawks so much.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=3wlUY3FjsKI
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=i9lDfqxQPg4&feature=related
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=GyoScurawPU&feature=related
I didn't expect that! :o
Standard Hitchcock quality. :smilie4:
I have seen a version of this acted out before in Four Rooms. You may have seen it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfXuc_Tp5dk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUz8aSISmws
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JabSfywLng
Something Else
11-08-2008, 08:16 PM
Hoi Skiz, watch this, like. It's win to the max.
It's a 1960 episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents starring McQueen and Peter Lorre called Man From The South. It's based on a Roald Dahl short story and it's been remade tons of times cos it rawks the sawks so much.
I stole all the Alfred Hitchcock Presents episodes off the usenets a while ago.
What's the number/name of that episode, if you'd please.
JPaul
11-08-2008, 08:19 PM
You can't not have scene The Magnificent Seven, Skizo. No way no how.
chalice
11-08-2008, 08:20 PM
Hoi Skiz, watch this, like. It's win to the max.
It's a 1960 episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents starring McQueen and Peter Lorre called Man From The South. It's based on a Roald Dahl short story and it's been remade tons of times cos it rawks the sawks so much.
I stole all the Alfred Hitchcock Presents episodes off the usenets a while ago.
What's the number/name of that episode, if you'd please.
Season 5, Episode 15.
Yeah, saw the Tarantino version like. Different ending which I didn't expect so it was quality too.
Something Else
11-08-2008, 08:21 PM
Chars. I thought Four Rooms was a good fillum. Better than that 'Traffic' shite.
chalice
11-08-2008, 08:22 PM
Chars. I thought Four Rooms was a good fillum. Better than that 'Traffic' shite.
Absolutement all over the place.
The marvelous part about the Four Rooms skit is how long the scenes go on. It's brilliant acting and improvisation.
You can't not have scene The Magnificent Seven, Skizo. No way no how.
I'm not sure. The screenshots don't look familiar. I'll be watching it next week though and I'll be sure to post back.
JPaul
11-08-2008, 08:36 PM
You can't not have scene The Magnificent Seven, Skizo. No way no how.
I'm not sure. The screenshots don't look familiar. I'll be watching it next week though and I'll be sure to post back.
You've seen it, there's no way you haven't.
I saw Three Amigos. Does that count?
JPaul
11-08-2008, 08:43 PM
I saw Three Amigos. Does that count?
Yeah, that was based on The Three Ninjas. Kurosawa's magnum opus.
I'm off to go watch the LSU vs Bama game. Should be choice. :smilie4:
chalice
11-08-2008, 08:44 PM
I saw Three Amigos. Does that count?
Have you seen Kurosowa's Seven Samurai?
Basically the same film only one is black and white and has Japs in it and the other is in colour and has cowboys in it.
Seven Samurai is way better though.
Edit 1:The Magnificent Seven, not Three Amigos.
Edit 2: :pinch: Jp got in first.
Are you sure you're not me, JP?
JPaul
11-08-2008, 08:53 PM
I saw Three Amigos. Does that count?
Have you seen Kurosowa's Seven Samurai?
Basically the same film only one is black and white and has Japs in it and the other is in colour and has cowboys in it.
Seven Samurai is way better though.
Edit 1:The Magnificent Seven, not Three Amigos.
Edit 2: :pinch: Jp got in first.
Are you sure you're not me, JP?
Sometimes I wonder.
I really do.
JPaul
11-08-2008, 08:54 PM
I'm off to go watch the LSU vs Bama game. Should be choice. :smilie4:
What, are you being forced into watching it. That's appalling.
IdolEyes787
11-08-2008, 09:20 PM
Have you seen Kurosowa's Seven Samurai?
Basically the same film only one is black and white and has Japs in it and the other is in colour and has cowboys in it.
Seven Samurai is way better though.
"Seven Samurai is frequently described as one of the greatest and most influential films ever made (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Films_considered_the_greatest_ever), and is one of a select few Japanese films to become widely known in the West for an extended period of time.
It is the subject of both popular and critical acclaim; it was voted onto Sight & Sound's list of the ten greatest films of all time in 1982 and 1992, and remains on the director's top ten films in the 2002 poll".
The Magnificent Seven has this though
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iteRKvRKFA
Plus Mexicans so I consider it a tie.
JPaul
11-08-2008, 09:25 PM
Have you seen Kurosowa's Seven Samurai?
Basically the same film only one is black and white and has Japs in it and the other is in colour and has cowboys in it.
Seven Samurai is way better though.
"Seven Samurai is frequently described as one of the greatest and most influential films ever made (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Films_considered_the_greatest_ever), and is one of a select few Japanese films to become widely known in the West for an extended period of time.
It is the subject of both popular and critical acclaim; it was voted onto Sight & Sound's list of the ten greatest films of all time in 1982 and 1992, and remains on the director's top ten films in the 2002 poll".
The Magnificent Seven has this though
<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/9iteRKvRKFA&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/9iteRKvRKFA&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>
Plus Mexicans so I consider it a tie.
Ubber Fail
IdolEyes787
11-08-2008, 09:33 PM
So I noticed.
Always worked before and previewed OK.
It appears that Ad Block got it.
chalice
11-08-2008, 09:36 PM
So I noticed.
Always worked before and previewed OK.
It appears that Ad Block got it.
Give us the link then, you nut.
It better be good though. :smilie4:
JPaul
11-08-2008, 09:36 PM
This is much better, with the video and the pictures and stuff.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Htli7MvJyTQ&feature=related
chalice
11-08-2008, 09:38 PM
Just noticed the edit.
JPaul
11-08-2008, 09:39 PM
Seriously but.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Hqj-GYz3gho&feature=related
Coburn was my fave.
JPaul
11-08-2008, 09:40 PM
How the fuck can you not have seen the Magnificent Seven, Skizo.
chalice
11-08-2008, 09:40 PM
:lol:
Excellent.
Eli Wallace ftw, btw.
The Flying Cow
11-08-2008, 09:43 PM
Kurosawa "The Hidden Fortress" FTW. Got it off ben's shite, too.
BTW, where could I find all that Alfred Hitchcock presents 1337age?
IdolEyes787
11-08-2008, 09:46 PM
Brad Dexter:unsure:
And James Coburn In like Flint :thumbsup:
Makes Matt Helm look like shite.
The Hidden Fortress where Lucas stole Star Wars from noice.
JPaul
11-08-2008, 09:51 PM
And James Coburn In like Flint :thumbsup:
Makes Matt Helm look like shite.
Have my children, now.
Just for a couple of weeks, like.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=XnF2057m244&feature=related
The Flying Cow
11-08-2008, 09:55 PM
Nice sig, JPish. So basically Kev's come out of the closet at 51? Or he can't get an erection anymoar?
'Ey Kev?
:P
chalice
11-08-2008, 09:57 PM
Our Man Flint always astounded me when I was a nipper. He would kick the fuck outta James Bond pound for pound.
Colburn was trained by Bruce Lee, wasn't he? Or was that Lee Marvin. I used to get the two mixed up all the time. Much like Newman and McQueen, like.
Never got around to In Like Flint.
JPaul
11-08-2008, 09:58 PM
Nice sig, JPish.
:glag::earl:
All this thyme and that's the first JP adaptation I've actually :glag:ed at.
JPaul
11-08-2008, 09:59 PM
Our Man Flint always astounded me when I was a nipper. He would kick the fuck outta James Bond pound for pound.
Colburn was trained by Bruce Lee, wasn't he? Or was that Lee Marvin. I used to get the two mixed up all the time. Much like Newman and McQueen, like.
Never got around to In Like Flint.
Marvin Lee trained Cole Jameson. :O
To do what. :blink:
chalice
11-08-2008, 10:01 PM
Our Man Flint always astounded me when I was a nipper. He would kick the fuck outta James Bond pound for pound.
Colburn was trained by Bruce Lee, wasn't he? Or was that Lee Marvin. I used to get the two mixed up all the time. Much like Newman and McQueen, like.
Never got around to In Like Flint.
Marvin Lee trained Cole Jameson. :O
To do what. :blink:
Make spoonerisms.
Or spake moonerisms.
One of those.
The Flying Cow
11-08-2008, 10:05 PM
Now that we're on the subject of older movies, any of yon poofs laid yer eyes on "M"? or "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre", or "The Maltese Falcon", or "The Third Man", or things like that?
Epic masterpieces, every single one.
JPaul
11-08-2008, 10:08 PM
Now that we're on the subject of older movies, any of yon poofs laid yer eyes on "M"? or "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre", or "The Maltese Falcon", or "The Third Man", or things like that?
Epic masterpieces, every single one.
Watched every single one.
enoughfakefiles
11-08-2008, 10:11 PM
Now that we're on the subject of older movies, any of yon poofs laid yer eyes on "M"? or "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre", or "The Maltese Falcon", or "The Third Man", or things like that?
Epic masterpieces, every single one.
I have a record sleeve at home with a picture of the film `M` on it.
IdolEyes787
11-08-2008, 10:14 PM
Ever seen The African Queen Sherman?
Not the best Bogart maybe but my favorite('cept for Casablanca of course)
Barbarossa
11-09-2008, 12:08 AM
I'm not reading all this shit, but someone has mentioned Towering Inferno, right? :dabs:
The Flying Cow
11-09-2008, 12:48 AM
Lolol barbarella. Know exactly what that feels like. A bit like checking "Last one to post gets 2000cents" about a day or so later, it's already 5 pages in.
The Flying Cow
11-09-2008, 12:48 AM
No I haven't seen that one Idol. I'll give it a whirl.
It's superb. The movie rests heavily on the dialogue between the two giants and does great.
anoneemuse
11-09-2008, 03:50 PM
you have to be atleast 60 years old to enjoy bankofwanka
JPaul
11-09-2008, 06:04 PM
It's superb. The movie rests heavily on the dialogue between the two giants and does great.
Doesn't sound like The Magnificent 7 to me.
IdolEyes787
11-09-2008, 06:56 PM
you have to be atleast 60 years old to enjoy bankofwanka
I'm sure that sounded a lot better in your head .:dabs:
It's superb. The movie rests heavily on the dialogue between the two giants and does great.
Doesn't sound like The Magnificent 7 to me.
Sorry. Was referring to Idols post about The African Queen.
bornwithnoname
11-10-2008, 01:52 AM
Nevada Smith
Just finished watching The Magnificent Seven.
It was ok. About as predictable as a movie could be though.
JPaul
11-11-2008, 06:58 PM
Just finished watching The Magnificent Seven.
It was ok. About as predictable as a movie could be though.
That's because you've see it before, yah muppet.
Something Else
11-14-2008, 07:02 PM
There's a nice copy of Pappilon on http://www.ben.chez
JPaul
11-15-2008, 03:40 PM
Link doesn't work
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