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Post by johncfc on Mar 9, 2019 17:42:47 GMT -5
So, with all due respect to the small number of players so far -- when are the cinematic savants gonna show up? You guys know who you are... Or has the coveted PCAC suffered the same fate as the Oscars? Nobody gives a damn anymore? Hard to believe. You have a lot of faith if you think the cinematic savants still post here.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 14, 2019 10:42:07 GMT -5
So, I guess I have to show cinematically lame we have become? OK. But I still say these films are well-known & I'm surprised nobody has solved at least half of them...
#1: Kill the Irishman. The cast alone sells this 2011 film about the Cleveland Mafia car-bomb wars in the 1970s. It also includes Paul Sorvino and Tony LoBianco, 'cuz the local street capo suggested that, maybe, it woulda been a shame if some more spaghetti-suckers weren't included.
You can't help wondering one thing, however: WHY did those wiseguys keep stepping into cars that may have been tampered with? There were MANY bombings in that war...
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Post by Deleted on Mar 14, 2019 11:26:04 GMT -5
#2: Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance. A kidnapping for ransom goes horribly wrong, and an aggrieved father seeks vengeance -- only to discover that it is a two-headed snake. Released in 2002.
This is one of the FEW films in this quiz that did not get a wide USA release. It is the middle movie in Korean director Park Chan-wok's famed "revenge" trilogy. Oldboy was first; Sympathy for Lady Vengeance concluded the series. ALL THREE are well-worth a look!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 14, 2019 12:05:49 GMT -5
#3 and #13: Across 110th Street. This 1972 Blaxploitation film illustrates the down side of robbing the Mafia quite convincingly. Anthony Quinn is the cop that confesses he took mob money (for gambling), and Yaphet Kotto is his college boy boss. Look for Burt Young (Rocky Balboa's brother-in-law) in the early Mafia money-counting scenes.
Tony Franciosa is positively scary as a mob enforcer who's sadistic to the point of psychosis.
Antonio Fargas (Huggy Bear in the Starsky & Hutch TV show) plays one of the robbers who lacks the proper discretion when spending his loot. Guess who gets crucified first?
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Post by verbal0knit on Mar 14, 2019 12:21:11 GMT -5
So, with all due respect to the small number of players so far -- when are the cinematic savants gonna show up? You guys know who you are... Or has the coveted PCAC suffered the same fate as the Oscars? Nobody gives a damn anymore? Hard to believe. You have a lot of faith if you think the cinematic savants still post here. There's a fine line between faith and delusion.
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Post by verbal0knit on Mar 14, 2019 12:22:57 GMT -5
#3. Across 110th Street. This 1972 Blaxploitation film illustrates the down side of robbing the Mafia quite convincingly. Anthony Quinn is the cop that confesses he took mob money, and Yaphet Kotto is his college boy boss. Look for Burt Young (Rocky Balboa's brother-in-law) in the early mafia money-counting scenes.
Tony Franciosa is positively scary as a mob enforcer who's sadistic to the point of psychosis.
Antonio Fargas (Huggy Bear in the Starsky & Hutch TV show) plays one of the robbers who lacks the proper discretion when spending his loot. Guess who gets crucified first?
I always remember Yaphet Kotto as the police chief from the TV series, Homicide: Life On The Streets. That was a really good TV show.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 14, 2019 12:27:33 GMT -5
#3. Across 110th Street. This 1972 Blaxploitation film illustrates the down side of robbing the Mafia quite convincingly. Anthony Quinn is the cop that confesses he took mob money, and Yaphet Kotto is his college boy boss. Look for Burt Young (Rocky Balboa's brother-in-law in the Rocky movies) in the early mafia money-counting scenes.
Tony Franciosa is positively scary as a mob enforcer who's sadistic to the point of psychosis.
Antonio Fargas (Huggy Bear in the Starsky & Hutch TV show) plays one of the robbers who lacks the proper discretion when spending his loot. Guess who gets crucified first?
I always remember Yaphet Kotto as the police chief from the TV series, Homicide: Life On The Streets. That was a really good TV show. One of my all-time favorites also. Did you see the TV-movie finale which revealed that Bayliss had murdered the Internet Killer?....and where Giardello (Kotto) was killed by an extremist who opposed his pot-legalization views?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 14, 2019 13:49:47 GMT -5
#5: Horror Castle. A 1963 film with Christopher Lee. An insane old Nazi war criminal getting into mischief in his family's ancient castle.
Below, the crazy old fella demonstrates WHY he prefers the medieval ways....as he prepares to attach a cage, containing a hungry rat, to a woman's face!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 15, 2019 6:52:17 GMT -5
#6: The Untouchables. Absolutely no excuse for not getting this one; apparently only slackjawed fans of the old Republic serials remain on this forum....driven to the weekly Saturday morning movie matinee by their caregivers, and treated to an ice cream cone afterwards?
Released in 1987, but it might as well have been 1887. Except the film industry didn't exist then...
Oh yeah, the quote is from Al Capone, as played by Robert De Niro. Maybe some of you have heard of him?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 15, 2019 9:17:30 GMT -5
#7: The Raven from 1935. Lugosi is a Poe-obsessed surgeon (hence the title, taken from the poem) who promises escaped murderer Karloff a new face if he commits new crimes for him....
Old Poverty Row horror classics from the dawn of the Talkies aren't familiar either? What happened? Did I wander into another dimension, inhabited by humanoid vegetables who binge-watch old Beverly Hills 90210 episodes?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 15, 2019 9:43:46 GMT -5
I suppose Baph is over looking at the Great Wall in China, and PatSox is fighting for Social and Economic Justice on the front lines. OC is likely aiding our ruthless oppression of border-jumping criminals and Fasthands has already tapped out. I'm gonna wait for a few more days just in case the experts decide to look at my 'lil old quiz.
Meanwhile I'll just sit here and finish my Buttered (NOT that fag canola oil shit) Popcorn.
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Post by verbal0knit on Mar 15, 2019 14:45:38 GMT -5
I always remember Yaphet Kotto as the police chief from the TV series, Homicide: Life On The Streets. That was a really good TV show. One of my all-time favorites also. Did you see the TV-movie finale which revealed that Bayliss had murdered the Internet Killer?....and where Giardello (Kotto) was killed by an extremist who opposed his pot-legalization views?
Holy shit, I never knew that movie existed. I was always really pissed off because they ended the show without a definitive conclusion after they had done such a nice job setting up the storylines. It's good to know that they made a movie to conclude the series. Thanks for the heads up, I'm gonna find it now. It was honestly a groundbreaking TV show as most other crime dramas on TV at the time weren't serials, just one off episodes.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 15, 2019 17:19:15 GMT -5
One of my all-time favorites also. Did you see the TV-movie finale which revealed that Bayliss had murdered the Internet Killer?....and where Giardello (Kotto) was killed by an extremist who opposed his pot-legalization views?
Holy shit, I never knew that movie existed. I was always really pissed off because they ended the show without a definitive conclusion after they had done such a nice job setting up the storylines. It's good to know that they made a movie to conclude the series. Thanks for the heads up, I'm gonna find it now. It was honestly a groundbreaking TV show as most other crime dramas on TV at the time weren't serials, just one off episodes. I'd always figured that Bayliss had murdered the Internet Killer. Right after the culprit was to leave town as a free man, he'd bragged to Bayliss that he was heading to New Orleans to continue his "work."
....Bayliss was immediately shown to be angered by the boast. And then the scene ended.
Left unanswered was whether or not Bayliss had ALSO murdered Pratt, the main suspect in the shooting of Howard, Bohlander and Felton years earlier. Pratt was a loser played by Steve Buschemi, you may recall, who was assassinated by an unknown person after being questioned and released.
Bayliss had previously shown his violent side in an even earlier episode, punching a restrained suspect in a child - killer manhunt. Hence my suspicions.
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Post by slaytan on Mar 15, 2019 20:03:56 GMT -5
The untouchables was so fucking awful
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Post by Deleted on Mar 16, 2019 7:04:21 GMT -5
The untouchables was so fucking awful I'm curious. What specifically was so bad about it?
I thought Sean Connery knocked it outta the park (he won a Best Supporting Actor award) as Malone, and De Niro was brilliant as Capone too. A tight, authentic storyline (except for the "Switch the juries" nonsense at the end) without any ass-kicking, karate-expert females anywhere in sight.
I still watch it just to see the dramatic shootout at the train station, and to see a pissed-off Elliot Ness throw Frank Nitti off the roof.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 16, 2019 11:33:52 GMT -5
Looks like OC's not gonna ride in here either.
I guess it's time to send out the Baph-Signal. I pray he answers in time...
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Post by Deleted on Mar 22, 2019 7:19:27 GMT -5
#9: The Human Centipede. Released in 2009. Dieter Laser is the skull-faced doctor quoted....
No doubt the good doctor could find a few likely patients -- that society is unlikely to miss -- right here on this forum.
Vag-ita, had you had a checkup lately?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 22, 2019 7:27:17 GMT -5
#10: Motel Hell. A horror-comedy from 1980, featuring old cowboy Rory Calhoun with a cameo from Wolfman Jack.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 22, 2019 17:14:54 GMT -5
#11: Needful Things from 1993. A Stephen King adaptation, Max von Sydow (the Devil) consoles his soul-giver....
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Post by Deleted on Mar 22, 2019 17:22:58 GMT -5
#12: Walking Tall from 1973. Joe Don Baker as Buford Pusser, on trial for robbing the casino where he was nearly killed.
No pix are necessary, this film SHOULD be indelibly branded on all redblooded males' psyches in childhood.
Several man cards may come under reviews -- strictly routine of course -- after this one.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 22, 2019 17:31:41 GMT -5
#15: Basic Instinct from 1992. Michael Douglas's partner doesn't approve of his partner's investigative techniques...
And yes, the scope of the mancard credential reviews is indeed expanded.
ALL OF YOU GENTLEMEN ARE WELCOME! ENJOY A PEEK OR TWO...
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Post by Deleted on Mar 23, 2019 6:49:52 GMT -5
#16: The Dead Zone. Christopher Walken sees premonitions of future calamities -- each with a "Dead Zone" that represents his ability to prevent their occurrence. Here he saves a kids' hockey team from drowning...
A 1983 Steven King adaptation. One of the few truly successful ones also, and NOBODY here saw it? What were you all looking at? Lou Ferrigno-as-Hercules flicks, where he battles aliens in space ships and throws a bear into outer space....where it becomes the Ursa Major constellation?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 23, 2019 7:00:52 GMT -5
#17: Re-Animator. A 1984 release. Let me guess: You were all standing in line to see Goonies instead...
The quote refers to a re-animated cat.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 23, 2019 7:08:40 GMT -5
#18: Magnum Force. A 1974 release. OF COURSE nobody here saw it.
Too much testosterone.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 24, 2019 14:23:38 GMT -5
#20: Dawn of the Dead from 1978.
I think it was about this forum....
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Post by Deleted on Mar 24, 2019 14:29:24 GMT -5
#21: Cape Fear. The 1991 remake. Robert De Niro's psycho ex-con saying and doing REALLY scary stuff and --
Well, nevermind, I know you don't like to think about such things.
Time for cookies in our safe place!!!
Yaaaay...
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Post by Deleted on Mar 24, 2019 14:53:23 GMT -5
#22: From Russia With Love from 1963. The second Bond film with Sean Connery.
Robert Shaw was the KGB agent that Bond was insulting in the quote-clue for this one...
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Post by Deleted on Mar 24, 2019 15:19:53 GMT -5
#23: The Hound of the Baskervilles. The 1959 version with Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 24, 2019 15:27:49 GMT -5
#24: The Good, the Bad & the Ugly from about 1966. Eli Wallach (as Tucco) promising to kill the Mexican sergeant that's been beating him up...
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Post by Deleted on Mar 24, 2019 15:38:33 GMT -5
#25: The Hills Have Eyes from 1977. Papa Jupiter is enthused over adding a young baby to the menu...
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