tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2856547151523423474.post366405613386074027..comments2024-03-12T12:38:23.542-04:00Comments on The Kind of Face You Hate: I'm Gonna Get Those Bastardsbill r.http://www.blogger.com/profile/17748572205731857892noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2856547151523423474.post-49899042704153645122011-01-19T20:07:38.981-05:002011-01-19T20:07:38.981-05:00Oops. I mean Rene Clement. And it's Rider on...Oops. I mean Rene Clement. And it's <b>Rider on the Raid</b>. That film and <b>Farewell, Friend</b> were both written by Sebastien Japrisot, a kind of famous French author and screen writer. I haven't seen <b>Farewell, Friend</b>, but Bronson and Delon are together in that film as well.Peter Nellhaushttp://www.coffeecoffeeandmorecoffee.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2856547151523423474.post-62224197363392849552011-01-19T20:02:21.100-05:002011-01-19T20:02:21.100-05:00It seems to only be available as a British DVD, bu...It seems to only be available as a British DVD, but if you can, check out Rene Clair's <b>Rider in the Rain</b>. Also, only available as an import is <b>Red Sun</b> with Bronson squaring off against both Toshiro Mifune and Alain Delon.Peter Nellhaushttp://www.coffeecoffeeandmorecoffee.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2856547151523423474.post-34768167436656524292011-01-19T18:21:27.797-05:002011-01-19T18:21:27.797-05:00One very good latter day (1975) Bronson is Hard Ti...One very good latter day (1975) Bronson is Hard Times. It's Walter Hill's debut feature, and Bronson is paired with James Coburn who plays really well off of him. <br /><br />If your looking for one were the people on screen and off actually seem to give a fuck I heartily recommend it. <br /><br />Another latter day Bronson Movie I like is Death Hunt, which suffers a bit from Going through the motions-itis but still gets a lot of fun out of Bronson and Lee Marvin basically playing a dress up version of First Blood.Bryce Wilsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17040954580033470664noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2856547151523423474.post-60301396410463260902011-01-18T21:55:30.017-05:002011-01-18T21:55:30.017-05:00Hi,
Well, I wouldn't say dtv movies are &quo...Hi, <br /><br />Well, I wouldn't say dtv movies are "almost universally" bad. A lot of 'em are, sure, maybe even most of 'em, but a lot of B movies back in the day were pretty dire, too. Right now, for example, I'm watching the "Mister Wong" Boris Karloff movies via streaming Netflix. These are a lot of things, but "good" is not one of them.<br /><br />I do think there are fewer good dtv movies than there were good B movies, all in all, but let's not toss the baby out with the bathwater. <br /><br />(Here's one, off the top of my head and because your post reminded me of it -- Dolph Lundgren's 2005 flick THE MECHANIK. I wouldn't make any humongous claims for it but it's a solid action flick, certainly no worse than a lot of the Bronson movies I've seen. Which is maybe damning with faint praise, but you know what I mean.) <br /><br />I would be interested in knowing about studio involvement myself. Not so much because I think it's the determining fact of a B picture, but because I suspect studio interest is the determining fact of a *good* B picture. The microcheapies I've seen have all been pretty dire, and it would be interesting to speculate the whys and wherefores of that, too.Dougnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2856547151523423474.post-50832155799329782892011-01-18T21:14:34.683-05:002011-01-18T21:14:34.683-05:00That's certainly true about DTV movies, Doug. ...That's certainly true about DTV movies, Doug. Those are the modern B movies. I guess because I almost never watch them, outside of the occasional Fearnet option, I tend to forget that they exist, and that people watch them.<br /><br />Plus, as you say, they're almost universally bad, which is not something anyone would say about B movies as we traditionally think of them. Plus, how often are DTV movies backed by a big studio, or a wing of a big studio? And I'm actually asking here, because I don't know.bill r.https://www.blogger.com/profile/17748572205731857892noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2856547151523423474.post-92032648121491583462011-01-18T19:54:18.497-05:002011-01-18T19:54:18.497-05:00Hi,
Long Time Reader, First time poster.
Anywa...Hi, <br /><br />Long Time Reader, First time poster. <br /><br />Anyway, I'd argue that of course there's plenty of B movies about, that stuff just doesn't go away, you know. There's something endemic in all mass entertainment that neatly bifurcates between lowbrow/highbrow. <br /><br />God, that sounded stuffy. Point is, there's plenty of B movies about, they're just all direct to video product. Hell, Dolph Lundgren's maintained his career off it. <br /><br />More interesting question -- why are so many dtv movies so darned cruddy?Dougnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2856547151523423474.post-88052341739697065502011-01-18T13:29:50.310-05:002011-01-18T13:29:50.310-05:00I know there's no such thing as a B-movie anym...I know there's no such thing as a B-movie anymore -- as that was sort of my point, I probably should have made it. Anyway, you can't unring a bell.<br /><br />I remember -- and meant to mention in the post -- seeing commercials for Bronson movies on TV all the time as a kid, and thinking that they appeared to be the most violent, cold-blooded, adult movies ever. I remember the titles THE MECHANIC and MR. MAJESTYK being spoken in a deep, sinister voice by the commercial voice-over guy, and really wanting to watch the movies but thinking I probably wouldn't be allowed to by my parents (I never asked them).<br /><br />I also remember commercials for LOVE AND BULLETS, but even as a kid thinking that was a dumb title.<br /><br /><i>I should have bullet-pointed that comment. Re-reading it, it has positively no coherent flow to it whatsoever, like I fired up my crack pipe before writing it</i>.<br /><br />That's okay. Shit, did your read my <i>post</i>?! Talk about no coherent flow!bill r.https://www.blogger.com/profile/17748572205731857892noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2856547151523423474.post-77582758261134256432011-01-18T13:23:33.361-05:002011-01-18T13:23:33.361-05:00I should have bullet-pointed that comment. Re-rea...I should have bullet-pointed that comment. Re-reading it, it has positively no coherent flow to it whatsoever, like I fired up my crack pipe before writing it.Greghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05730146625671701859noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2856547151523423474.post-80307724025688657582011-01-18T13:22:10.007-05:002011-01-18T13:22:10.007-05:00Bronson had quite the look in the seventies. He w...Bronson had quite the look in the seventies. He was the porn mustache king!<br /><br />I watched all of his films as a kid and thought they were the coolest thing in the world. The <b>Death Wish</b> movies were favorites and I still liked them even when I was old enough to notice how barely made they were. <br /><br />There is no such thing as a B movie anymore because anything backed by the studio has money, and lots of it, pumped into it while anything low budget is usually a new writer/director's first effort and thus, has no "B" movie feel but plenty of "art house" feel.Greghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05730146625671701859noreply@blogger.com