hmm why no discussions on pre 80s action movies

these are my favourites (not including war and cowboy movies...those are not action movies 2 me even if there are great gun fight scenes)

1)bullit (first car chase ever in hollywood)
2)the french connection (all hail the only action movie ever 2 win best picture best director best leading actor best writing in the oscars...also the car chase is more sick like hell)
3)dirty harry and the next 2 sequels...the last 2 sequels in the 80s bore the crap out of me
4)the getaway (sam peckinpah first attempt in action movies)
5)the seven ups (from the makers of bullit and the french connection)
6)gone in 60 seconds
7)the killer elite
8)convoy (sam peckinpah final 70s movie all together)
9)the driver (walter hill first directorial work before become one of the best action directors ever)
10)enter the dragon and all the bruce lee hong kong works

not forgetting the italian job which is 100% british made haha

Mov_freak do you know any other pre-80s pre-schwarzenegger pre-stallone era movies 2 recommend? this month i going 2 turn back time 2 explore the action movies in pre-80s period. there wont be stallone and the expandables if it aint 4 these top pre-80s pick by me.

Happy Labour's Day everyone!

What?

You setting a TASK for me on Labour's day!!

Okay here goes.

Before Schwarzenegger and Stallone, action movies were much MUCH different.

Basically, no one man war!!

This is actually a tough question, every John Carpenter and Kurt Russell (I'm no longer Disney) Escape From New York was release on the world in 1981!!

The closes I examples I can give you are:

Steven Spielberg
Duel (1971)

Charles Bronson
Death Wish (1974)

Clint Eastwood
Escape from Alcatraz (1979)
The Gauntlet (1977)
The Enforcer (1976)
Magnum Force (1973)
Dirty Harry (1971)

Mix Bag
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974)
The Towering Inferno (1974)
Earthquake (1974)
Airport 1975 (1974)
Airport (1970)

Hope this is helpful.

I watched apocalypse now many years ago, but what's the meaning of redux?

Pre-80's Stallone movies:-
- Rocky, Rocky 2 (1976)/(1979) film which makes him famous for his future career
- Death Race 2000 (1975) with legendary kung fu master David Carradine
Others more kinda of drama film likes F.I.S.T. (1978), Paradise Alley (1978), Capone (1975) and many more....

As far as I knew, there isn't any pre-80's schwarzenegger action films on that moment until Conan the Barbarian (1982) came out!

haha thanks

redux cut is like directors cut i think more scenes and longer than theatrical cut

haha yeah

hey thanks

Babarrella (1968)

Watch it on NETFLIX a while ago....really no idea it was some soft porn movie!!!! LOL.

Classic!!!!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbarella_(film)

... With a name like this, I would have thought it is obvious!!

Topaz (1969)

Well, I have actually seen this before and had forgotten, and that is actually a good summary of the movie.

Most people believe this is the beginning of the end for the career of Hitchcock!

Things were changing around Hitchcock at this period in his life... The Studio system which he is very comfortable with was crashing around him. Hollywood was changing. America, his adopted country was changing. Film making was changing, and he was aging...

For me, these are the issues with the movie

1) The Subject matter, Cuban missile crisis... I really did not care much for the subject matter.

2) I have no issue with a director experimenting. Outside of the of Hitchcock English movie, this has the most European feel, and adding to that making a spy thriller, with actors who are actually very good, the characters are... almost alien, and not VERY relate-able.

3) After Torn Curtain (1966) and having alot of issues with it's stars Paul Newman & Julie Andrews, Hitchcock choose to use mainly European actors, who, outside of Europe is not very recognizable...

This movie was not well received, even when it was being previewed before the launch of the movie. The test card after the movie was really really bad, which cause the studio to go into a panic, and they pressured Hitchcock to make several alternate ending to the movie and none tested well... It is my personal opinion that the one that ended up in the movie were the worst of the lot. Cest La Vie...

Do not let my opinions to stop you from watching it.

It is a Hitchcock movie, and even a second tier Hitchcock movie is a good movie compared to most director's first tier movie!!

As always, My Two Sen.

no lah. i knew there's a Duran Duran song based on this movie, and its a scifi movie...just didnt know its a scifi porn movie...hahaha

In fact, Duran Duran based there band name on a character in this movie...Dr Durant Durant.

This post has been edited by Matrix: May 2 2014, 07:01 AM

Really? I thought they just liked the king of fruits.

Try Bridge over the River Kwai. I don't remember it much anymore but I remember I liked it.

My thoughts exactly!!

Again, not big on War movies, and have to add a little bit of historical fact to this. Melaka, being one of the oldest state in Malaysia, used to have a Train Station (The Brits built it.). During WWII, the rails for the said station were removed by the Japs and ship to Myanmar, to built The Bridge Over The River Kwai (actually Khwae Noi River).... So to date, at the center of Melaka City, there is still no train system.... Blood Japs....

Matrix

Thanks for that bit of trivia

Then how about Dirty Harry?

What would Dirty Harry say if he was a Potter (as in make pottery)?

Give up?

"Go ahead! BAKE my CLAY!!"

It's okay

haha nice review

check this out



this is the first movie 2 bring the whole studio system down 2 its death

conservative society got its taboo blown away with violent shoot out and gory bloody death

this one sparks the glory of bloody crime genre movies today

Oh...okay...I see

Family Plot (1976)

Alfred Hitchcock's last movie.

And... I like it!! I REALLY do!

After the two more European feel movies, Topaz (1969) & Frenzy (1972), Hitchcock's movies return to the States, namely San Francisco!!

It started with a little Agatha Christie and ended up, like Clue!! (Yes, the board game). I do not mean for it to sound like a put down. This movie is good!

No big stars attached and have to add, he got very good character actors for his roles, and they are good!! Barbara Harris's (Blanche Tyler) a RIOT!!

As dysfunction as the characters Blanche Tyler & George Lumley are, they really REALLY care for each other, and that is really sweet!! They really STEAL to show!!

A lot have been made off his more well know works, Rear Window (1954), North by North West (1959), Vertigo (1958) etc (the 50s was a golden age for Hitchcock), I have to say, the Master showed the world that in 1976, he is STILL the Master of Suspense!!

This movie is based on The Rainbird Pattern is a thriller novel by Victor Canning, and supposedly, the book is much much darker than the movie. Screenplay Ernest Lehman did an amazing job!!

Alma Hitchcock was fighting cancer during this period, and Hitchcock himself was also sick himself. They were both devoted to each other.

Through all that, he still made this GREAT movie! And underrated at THAT!!

The IRONY in this movie is palpable!!

He paid Paul Newman and Julie Andrew US 750,000 each on Torn Curtain (1966) (he never got over that), and when it was suggested that Al Pacino be cast as the lead in Family Plot, he put his foot down and cast Bruce Dern as the lead because he had been working with him for 12 years (in bit roles and also on Alfred Hitchcock Presents) and also he only needed to pay Bruce Dern USD 100,000!!

Another interesting bit of trivia about this movie is, John Williams (right after Jaws) did the score for this movie!! And it is CHEEKY (fits like a glove)!!

Nobody knew that this would be his last movie... He was working on another project when it occurred to him he physically cannot do it (The Short Night)

If you consider yourself a Hitchcock fan, watch this!!

My Two Sen.

That's time out for you. Go stand in the corner and reflect on your sins.

What I do, what I do??

too much lame jokes. and weak use of puns