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Jesus Christ, why haven't they got a publicists out there telling every media organization that it's NOT a 56 year old HALLE BERRY doing a voice for a young looking CGI mermaid, but some new actress named Halle Bailey playing her. I'm absolutely convinced that half the population still thinks it Halle Berry. This is hilarious.
Spider Man: No one Home
You can’t help but contrast his demise with the mass world wide tributes to the recently departed Barry Humphries.
Well it's now 2023 and I have just watched this movie on free to air television. I must say I was mightily confused when I saw the title in the TV guide with a date of 2021 and not 2016. All the alleged publicity must of completely passed me by in 2021 because I had no idea there was a even a movie called 'The Suicide Squad' as opposed to 2016's Suicide Squad. So on that basis I can't say it was overrated to me because I'd never even heard of it, LOL.
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I can’t believe no one has mentioned ‘Albert’ played by Michael Gambon in ‘The Cook, The Thief, The Wife and Her Lover’.
Another couple of notable mentions are a ‘Early Grace’ (Brad Pitt) in ‘Kalifornia’ and Little Bill Daggett (Gene Hackman) in Unforgiven.
I don't know why this isn't the main topic of discussion. Given it's supposed to be a comedy, I can accept the idea that the bullet proof vest saved his life and that he simply mimicked unconsciousness. However the vehicles crashing through his body and not killing can not be justified by simply saying it's a comedy. Perhaps they were lamely spoofing the fact that it was Ryan Reynolds (from Deadpool) to explain the immortality, I don't know. But all this and more is why I gave this rubbish 4/10.
I only just found out he died in late 2022. One of the most suave comedy actors there ever was, Even lent his voice to the sorting Hat in Harry Potter. In his later years. RIP to a comedy legend
Amen to that.
You might remember that Isaac Hays left the show because he fell out with the creators over their anti Scientology episode. So they decided to write Chef out (after Hays had departed ways) by making him a strange robotic version of his former self and cobbling together specific Chef sound bites to make him look evil and like he was turning into a bit of a pedophile. They would have him talking to say, Kyle and all of a sudden he would go "I wanna make love to ya Baby" or "suck my salty balls" etc. The kids would protest and with replies such as "Chef what are you saying ?". Of course in the end Chef met a bizarre, unpleasant and completely undignified end in keeping with the fact the writers had completely fallen out with Isaac Hays. Anyway, the much loved Dalai Lama all of a sudden trying to instigate this creepy tongue think with the boy just reminded of the sinister change that come over the formerly loved Chef.
Funny you should mention South Park, because this incident kind of makes me think of the demise of Chef. It's almost like the devil is trying to write the Dalai Lama out of public life the way Trey Parker and Matt Stone wrote Chef out of South Park, lol.
For me, the main problem was the sound editing as pertaining to the excruciating volume differential between the loud musical numbers and the barely audible mumbling, whispering that made up much of the dialogue scenes.
I've watched it twice now and I swear you're right. The Jaguar seems to be almost gleaming when it first appears. Irrespective of the dust and possible dent it may have received from touching Kowalski's car in their race, the transformation into a completely beat up, dirty jag just before it crashes (in the space of a couple of minutes) is astonishing.
Part 3
Yes I am almost 70% certain that this is what I saw part of as a child. Unless someone knows of an American film from the time that had a copy cat scene in a Brady Bunch style house as my memory wanted me to believe, then I am getting ready to call this life long mystery solved. So the Movie is called 'Petersen' from 1974 and starred Jack Thompson, Jackie Weaver and many other well known Australian actors from the time. The girl who's Birthday was so rudely crashed by the thugs was a character named Annie played by a Christine Amor. An actress I had actually scene in later Australian productions. If only I could get hold of an old TV guide that proved to me that movie 'Petersen' did in fact screen on TNT Channel 9 (Tasmania) some time between about 1977 and 1981, my Euphoria or certainty level would immediately jump to above 90%. Never the less, for now I'm calling it solved. Oh and in America I believe the film was actually called Jock Petersen. The party scene starts as about the 26 minute 15 second mark.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLEFr5gQaFc
Part 2
A few days ago I watched a DVD of a bizarre old Australian Television comedy from the early 1970s called the Auntie Jack Show. Seeing the comedians on it, I was interested to find out more about the female actress/comedian named Sandra McGregor. Whether she was still alive and what else she had been in. Looking at her IMDB credits, I noticed a movie from 1974 staring Jack Thompson and appearing to be rated R. As unlikely as it was, I decided to see if it was on YouTube and you guessed it, scanned for any likely party scenes as described in the original post. Low and behold, something unbelievable happened. I came across a scene of a young woman's party being invaded by a group of bikies. One said "Your the birthday girl are ya" (only in a very Australian accent, not American). They ripped her dress leaving her in just a bra and pantyhose. Yes a character then came down the stairs (a young man gun, not her father) and shot it in the air, warning off the thugs. Her father did appear in the scene, but he got belted in the face with a telephone by one of the bikies and he wasn't the one who came down the stairs with the gun.
continued in part 3
Part 1
Hello ladies and gentlemen. It seems almost impossible to believe that I could ever know where this scene came from was with such scant detail and a vague late 70s early 80s childhood memory of it. Now I was lucky to finally find out over 20 years later that an erotic American movie that I saw on TV back in 1996 was 'The Last Seduction' and it starred Linda Fiorentino and not Jeanne Triplehorn as my confused memory lead me to believe. I was lucky to find out from a fellow Australian on IMDB that a TV series from my childhood series about truckers (which I believed must have been American) with a theme song titled Maggie was in fact Australian and was called 'The Truckies'. This Truckies in particular gave me cause to wonder whether perhaps the 'party girl scene' may not have been American after all in spite of the details my dark distant childhood memory may have constructed. For several years now, I have made use off YouTube by scanning through countless 1970s exploitation movies to look for the party scene. All to no avail. It's not looking good
continued in part 2
Part 3
Yes I am almost 70% certain that this is what I saw part of as a child. Unless someone knows of an American film from the time that had a copy cat scene in a Brady Bunch style house as my memory wanted me to believe, then I am getting ready to call this life long mystery solved. So the Movie is called 'Petersen' from 1974 and starred Jack Thompson, Jackie Weaver and many other well known Australian actors from the time. The girl who's Birthday was so rudely crashed by the thugs was a character named Annie played by a Christine Amor. An actress I had actually scene in later Australian productions. If only I could get hold of an old TV guide that proved to me that movie 'Petersen' did in fact screen on TNT Channel 9 (Tasmania) some time between about 1977 and 1981, my Euphoria or certainty level would immediately jump to above 90%. Never the less, for now I'm calling it solved. Oh and in America I believe the film was actually called Jock Petersen. The party scene starts as about the 26 minute 15 second mark.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLEFr5gQaFc
Part 2
A few days ago I watched a DVD of a bizarre old Australian Television comedy from the early 1970s called the Auntie Jack Show. Seeing the comedians on it, I was interested to find out more about the female actress/comedian named Sandra McGregor. Whether she was still alive and what else she had been in. Looking at her IMDB credits, I noticed a movie from 1974 staring Jack Thompson and appearing to be rated R. As unlikely as it was, I decided to see if it was on YouTube and you guessed it, scanned for any likely party scenes as described in the original post. Low and behold, something unbelievable happened. I came across a scene of a young woman's party being invaded by a group of bikies. One said "Your the birthday girl are ya" (only in a very Australian accent, not American). They ripped her dress leaving her in just a bra and pantyhose. Yes a character then came down the stairs (a young man gun, not her father) and shot it in the air, warning off the thugs. Her father did appear in the scene, but he got belted in the face with a telephone by one of the bikies and he wasn't the one who came down the stairs with the gun.
Continued in part 3
Part 1
Hello ladies and gentlemen. It seems almost impossible to believe that I could ever know where this scene came from was with such scant detail and a vague late 70s early 80s childhood memory of it. Now I was lucky to finally find out over 20 years later that an erotic American movie that I saw on TV back in 1996 was 'The Last Seduction' and it starred Linda Fiorentino and not Jeanne Triplehorn as my confused memory lead me to believe. I was lucky to find out from a fellow Australian on IMDB that a TV series from my childhood series about truckers (which I believed must have been American) with a theme song titled Maggie was in fact Australian and was called 'The Truckies'. This Truckies in particular gave me cause to wonder whether perhaps the 'party girl scene' may not have been American after all in spite of the details my dark distant childhood memory may have constructed. For several years now, I have made use off YouTube by scanning through countless 1970s exploitation movies to look for the party scene. All to no avail. It doesn't look good.
Continued in part 2