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The Naked Spur




Excellent 1953 western, one of the five that James Stewart made for the director Anthony Mann.

Stewart plays a bounty hunter who is tracking Robert Ryan, who is wanted for the murder of a sheriff, assisted by two less than trustworthy accomplices and Ryan's girlfriend played by Janet Leigh.

Nicely shot in technicolor in the Rocky mountains with an oscar nominated sceenplay by Sam Rolfe and Harold Jack Bloom, it is ranked 1,097 on the TSPDT list and is one of the 775 films on the US National Film Registry.

Men In Black II

I, Robot - 7/10. Haven't watched it in years, so thought why not. It wasn't as good as I remember, but still enjoyable.

The Hunt - A bunch of stereotypical American woke lefties kidnap a dozen redneck conspiracy nuts and have fun trying to kill them in a variety of inventive ways on a hunting weekend, but then some of them start fighting back. Advertised as causing outrage to Trump supporters, it actually pokes fun at both sides. Good fun. The moral of the story - think before you write stupid comments on internet forums

Juggernaut (1974) - currently on Film 4 and about 30 minutes in on Film4+1.

Disaster movie/thriller about a cruise liner with bombs on board being held to ransom by a mysterious terrorist calling himself "Juggernaut".

A veritable roll-call of 70s British / Irish / Welsh thespians : Richard "Dumbledore" Harris as the ship-board maverick bomb disposal expert drilling into the bomb-filled oil drums full of booby traps; Anthony "Hannibal" Hopkins as the police inspector rounding possible suspects back on shore in Blighty, Ian "Bilbo" Holm as the harrassed ocean liner CEO prevented from just paying the ransom by oily "no surrender" government officials; Omar "Dr Zhivago" Sharif (OK yes, he's Egyptian) as the stricken liner's captain; Julian Glover, of Indiana Jones and Empire Strikes Back fame, as your typical stiff upper lipped Navy type... the list goes on.

And spare a thought for Roy Kinnear as the ship's entertainment officer, struggling to persuade the passengers to join in such exciting entertainments as bingo even before the explosions start going off, his job just gets more and more difficult.

A mid 1970s Atlantic cruise in what looks like the most miserable winter weather ever just seems to emphasise how grim 1970s Britain looks at this distance, outside of the usual view from old Top Of the Pops reruns and BBC4 music documentaries: it wasn't all Slade, Bowie, Bay City Rollers and Abba

the boy 2 2020 was ok film noting like form this frist one but even so there was some jumping bits in it 10/5

Insidious: The Last Key 2018 i think tese film are ace just hope there will be a 5th one very soon 10/10

Rocky 1976, Ranked 584 on the TSPDT list



Famously written in three days (so he says) by Sylvester Stallone who was then largely unknown, and made on a small budget by director John Avildsen.

I managed to avoid this for thirty four years so I didn't know that Rocky (spoiler alert) loses his title fight. Otherwise the film is very predictable, one long cliche from start to finish really.

It won three oscars including Best film and Best director and had four nominations in the actor categories including Stallone for Best Actor where he was beaten by Peter Finch for "Network". The iconic theme song (lyrics only thirty words) should have won the oscar but was beaten by Barbara Streisand's sickly "Evergreen" from "A star is Born"

It was the biggest box office film in North America in 1976 and made an 11,000% return on its budget. With that level of success I'm amazed they never made a sequel.

^^^ TBF it probably wasn't as much of a cliche when it was made. But due to its astonishing success, it has since been "remade" a hundred times -- not just by its lesser sequels, but by every other sport movie that includes a plucky underdog overcoming the odds, with the help of a sage old coach, a love interest, and a training montage. Which now describes 95% of all other sport movies.

Also, social distancing notwithstanding, I will challenge any forum member to a duel if they don't agree that Rocky IV is the greatest movie ever made. ... The Russians chanted his name, for godsake! He ended the Cold War!

(In fact with Stallone now in the 'vulnerable' age bracket, I'd love to see a new Rocky where he fights Coronavirus ... and wins!)

That's probably a valid point about Rocky spawning a load of similar films that are even more shite but that's just something else to add to its rap sheet.

As for Rocky IV, I've not seen it but then I don't need to as we in the Tyler Taliban believe that "Your Highness" is the greatest film ever made and always will be.
Best Stallone performance? I'd say "Escape to Victory".