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"The Force will be with you.Always"-Obi Wan Kenobi
Director:George Lucas
Cast:Mark Hamill,Harrison Ford,Carrie Fisher,Alec Guiness
Genre:Action,Adventure,Science Fiction
Year of release:1977
Running Time:120 minutes
Plot:
The story, for the tiny number of people not familiar with it, concerns a farm boy named Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) who discovers that the used robot recently purchased by his family plays back a message from one Princess Leia (Carrie Fisher), begging for help from Obi-Wan Kenobi. Luke asks his father's friend Ben Kenobi (Alec Guinness) about this, and he discovers that Ben and Obi-Wan are one and the same. Kenobi tells Luke of the battle of the rebels against the ruling Empire and the spiritual energy called "The Force." Soon Luke, Kenobi, and a mercenary named Han Solo (Harrison Ford) join forces to rescue Princess Leia from the Empire's mammoth warship, the Death Star, controlled by evil genius Darth Vader.
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May 25th,1977 is the date where cinema was made when a tiny sci fi movie became one of the most sucessfull blockbusters of all time.I m taking about Star Wars,an oustanding space adventure that begun one of the greatest sagas of all time.I m not a huge fan of Star Wars but i have a tremendous respect because Star Wars changed not only the movies but also became a culture phenomenom.Since 1977,Star Wars continues to thrill the audience and conquering a new generation of fans and moviegoers.
Mark Hamill delivers a great perfomance as Luke Skywalker,a young boy who enters into a adventure of a life when he´s persuaded to join the battle against the Galactic Empire.Luke also learns to use the Force and starts his path to become a Jedi Knight.Mark was born to be Luke Skywalker because he´s brave and also idealistic character to identify with.I couldn´t imagine anyone on the role because Mark Hamill owns it.Harrison Ford is fantastic as Han Solo,the arrogant and cocky mercenary who joins Luke in the battle.Ford stole the entire movie thanks to his star-studed perfomance as Han Solo,becoming one of the greatest movie stars in the world.Carrie Fisher is amazing as Princess Leia because she´s a very strong female character who can take care of herself.Sir Alec Guiness is oustanding as Obi Wan Kenobi,an older Jedi who teaches and guides Luke with the ways of the Force.Sir Guiness makes Kenobi one of the most memorable character of the series.
George Lucas revolutionized cinema with his amazing space adventure that changed movies forever.He may not be the greatest filmmaker for some people but Lucas was able to create the kind of movie audience love to watch over and over again.The visual effects are amazing and very revolutionary,making Star Wars an oustanding cinematic spectacle.
Star Wars is one of the greatest action-sci fi movies every made and the kind of movie that can never be beaten.Almost 34 years after the release,Star Wars will always continue to amaze the audience and fans many years to come.
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"The son of a bitch is here. I saw him. I'm gonna get him"- Jimmy "Popeye"Doyle
Director:William Friedkin
Cast: Gene Hackman,Roy Scheider,Fernando Rey,Tony Lo Bianco
Genre:Action,Thriller
Year of release:1971
Running Time:104 minutes
Plot:
Alain Chanier is a dapper businessman from Marseilles, France, who is in reality a drug lord working on a big score - to sell $32 million worth of 89% pure heroin to New York City. But his potential buyer - small-time hood Salvatore Boca - is being tailed by two undercover NYC cops, James "Popeye" Doyle and Buddy "Cloudy" Russo. The more Popeye and Cloudy dig, the closer they get - to where Chanier agrees to an attempt on Popeye's life that results in a brutal train hijacking and automobile pursuit, and eventually to a showdown between police and mobsters outside the city.
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"I love the smell of napalm in the morning. You know, one time we had a hill bombed, for 12 hours. When it was all over, I walked up. We didn't find one of 'em, not one stinkin' dink body. The smell, you know that gasoline smell, the whole hill. Smelled like... victory".-Kligore
Director:Francis Ford Coppola
Cast:Marlon Brando,Martin Sheen,Robert Duvall,Dennis Hopper
Genre:War
Year of release:1979
Running Time:153 minutes
Plot:
During the Vietnam War, the young American Captain Willard is given the assignment to hunt down and kill one of his own: Colonel Kurtz, who has apparently gone insane, murdered hundreds of innocent people and constructed a strange kingdom for himself deep in the jungle. Willard and his crew embark on a surreal river journey to find Kurtz, meeting along the way a Lieutenant-Colonel who surfs during live combat, Playboy bunnies dropped in by helicopter to entertain rowdy troops, and the inhabitants of a French plantation trapped in colonial times.
Review:
The war of Vietname is a very important subject that was portrayed many times in films like Platoon and Full Metal Jacker.but none of them is darker as Apocalypse Now.Despite the contorvorsery around the making of the film,Apocalypse Now is a fantastic film and a brilliant and shocking masterpiece that focus on the Vietname and how you make it in a living hell.A very dark,disturbing and shocking vision of the Vietname war,Apocalypse Now is one of the best war movies of all time,
Martin Sheen delivers a great perfomance as Cpt.Ben Willard ,a burned down war veteran who is assigned to go to Vietname and track down Col.Kurtz but the mission won´t be easy and Willard finds himself going to a downfall in hell.Sheen´s perfomance was great and we can sense his emotional status even physical.Marlon Brando was great as Col.Kurtz,the man who will make Willard ask himself about his orders.Brando is a remarkable legend who gives us memorable perfomances.Robert Duvall was fantastic as Kilgore,the charismatic but wacko leader of the US platoon.Duvall was really awesome.The rest of the cast was great including Dennis Hopper,Laurence Fisburne and Harrison Ford.
Francis Ford Coppola delivers another remarkable masterpiece after The Godfather.Perhaps his most complicated movie he has ever made,Coppola managed to create a fantastic story with a memorable cast,making Apocalypse Now his most oustanding movie effort.
Apocalypse Now is one of the greatest war movies ever made and an instant classic that will live on forever.Everybody should watch or re-watch Francis Ford Coppola´s amazing war epic.
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"There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pete, Georgie and Dim and we sat in the Korova milkbar trying to make up our rassoodocks what to do with the evening.? The Korova Milk Bar sold milkplus, milk plus vellocet or synthemesc or drencrom which is what we were drinking. This would sharpen you up and make you ready for a bit of the old ultra-violence"-Alex De Large
Director:Stanley Kubrick
Cast:Malcom McDowell,Patrick Magee,Mihcael Bates,Warren Clark
Genre:Science Fiction,Thriller
Year of release:1971
Running Time:136 minutes
Plot:
Alex, a teenage hooligan in a near-future Britain, gets jailed by the police. There he volunteers as guinea pig for a new aversion therapy proposed by the government to make room in prisons for political prisoners. "Cured" of his hooliganism and released, he is rejected by his friends and relatives. Eventually nearly dying, he becomes a major embarrassment for the government, who arrange to cure him of his cure. A pivotal moment is when he and his gang break into an author's home: the book he is writing (called "A Clockwork Orange") is a plea against the use of aversion therapy, on the grounds that it turns people into Clockwork Oranges (Orang is Malay for "Man"): they are not being good from choice (sentiments later echoed by the prison chaplain). The film reflects this: many bad scenes in a Clockwork Orange are accompanied by jolly music; if we are to experience them as we should, we have to do it consciously, by realising they are bad, and not because the director tells us so through the use of music and images.
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I didn t know what to expect about A Clockwork Orange because it looked such a violent and disturbing movie that bothered me at the beggining but as a Stanley Kubrick,i decided to watch this movie on TV and boy,this movie is absolutely stunning and it blew me away big time.A Clockwork Orange is one of the most shocking,disturbing,contorversial and definetly brilliant films of all time,showing a shocking vision of a futuristic and dystopic Britain.I really enjoyed this movie and i knew that A Clockwork Orange is a stunning masterpiece.
Malcom McDowell delvers a stunning,disturbing but briilaint perfomance as Alex De Large.Alex is a young delinquent who loves to create havoc with his friends in the streets of Britain but he went too far when he accidentaly kills a woman with,well,a penis statue.He gets arrested and he is subimted into a behavior modification therapy that changes his personality and makes him a peacefull person but the modification will make a impact in his own life and existence.McDowell s perfomance is absolutely brilliant because he looks so damn scary but at the same time very vulnerable and realistic aswell.This is probably Malcom McDowell s most memorable and popular role yet.
Stanley Kubrick is one of the greatest directors of all time and i have no shame to say that.Kubrick shows all his brilliance and talent no making this amazing movie.The camera work is definetly one of the bests i ver ever seen in a movie that makes a Clockwork Orange such a enjoyable movie.
A Clockwork Orange is a stunning masterpiece and definetly Kubrick s most contorversial and shocking movie but is such a great movie and deserves the title of one of the greatest movies of all time.Masterpiece.
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"The chain in those handcuffs is high-tensile steel. It'd take you ten minutes to hack through it with this. Now, if you're lucky, you could hack through your ankle in five minutes" .-Max Rockatansky
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Director:George Miller
Cast:Mel Gibson,Joanne Samuel,Hygh Keays-Byrne,Steve Bisley
Genre:Action
Year of release:1979
Running Time:93 minutes
Plot:
In a dystopic future Australia, a vicious violent biker gang murder nicknamed the Nightrider, a cop's family and make his fight with them personal. He escapes from police custody by killing an officer and stealing his vehicle. Max pursues the Nightrider in a high-speed chase, which results in the Nightrider's death by fiery explosion. Following the dangerous chase, which resulted in injuries for a number of officers, the police chief warns Max who thinks nothing of it at the time that now the bandits are out for him because of the death of the Nightrider. The biker gang, which is led by the Toecutter plans to avenge Nightrider's death by killing MFP officers. Toecutter's young protegé, the biker Johnny the Boy, sets a trap for Max's close friend and fellow officer, Jim Goose. When Goose's vehicle is flipped over, the bikers burn him alive in retaliation for the Nightrider's death.
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Mad Max is a classic that can stand of it s own,creating a new side of the action genre.I think is such a brutal,violent and intense film because in the first minutes,you re already caught in the intensity of this apolalyptic thriller that spawned two follow up.The Road Warrior may be my favorite but the original remains as one of the greatest classics of actions films and perhaps the most popular of the australian cinema.
Mel Gibson delivers a household perfomance as "Mad"Max Rockantasky,a young police officer who tries to contain the violence in a futuristic and dystopic Australia ruled by savage bikers.After killing The Knight Rider,Max becomes the target of the gang leaded by the relentless The Toecutter.When his family and partner are murdered,Max decides to take matters of his own hands and confronts Toecutter in a deadly confrontation in the roads that will change him forever.Mel Gibson became the movie star that he is today thanks to his fantastic perfomance as Max.Gibson brings such a raw intensity,emotion and brutality to the character as long as he is affected by the violence.If Mad Max didn t turn to be sucessfull,we wouldn t see Mel in the sequels and as Martin Riggs in the Lethal Weapon series.You can say what you want but Mel Gibson is one of the best actors ever.
George Miller s direction is amazing and boy,couldn t imagine another director making this film.Miller created such a well done film with the most spectacular,amazing and hardcore chase scenes that still thrills the audience.This is Miller s most accomplished film effort next to the excelent Mad Max:The Road Warrior and i hope he comes back to his true roots.
Mad Max is an oustanding classic of the action cinema who earned his place in film history.If you loved The Road Warrior,then watch the movie that started George Miller s legendary apocalyptic trilogy.
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"I know what you ´re thinking.Did he fire six shots or only five? Well,to tell the truth,after all that excitement i kinda lost the track myself.Since this a Magnum 44.,the most powerfull handgun in the world and would blow your head clean off,you gottta ask yourself one question:Do i feel lucky?Well do you,punk"?-Harry Callahan.
Director:Don Siegel
Cast:Clint Eastwood,Reni Santoni,Andy Robinson,John Vernon
Genre:Action,Crime
Year of release:1971
Running Time:102 minutes
Plot:
1971. San Francisco is under the terrorizing eye of a psychopathic sniper called Scorpio, and claims in one of his written letters to the SFPD, that he will keep killing until his demands are made. Inspector 'Dirty' Harry Callahan is a San Francisco police officer, with a dirty attitude and uses little methods to what the law prescribes. It becomes a menacing task for Callahan, as he's been assigned to apprehend the menacing killer at all cost, which later unravels into a cat-and-mouse game between the two men. One killer with a sinister, distasteful laughter. The other, a killer with just a plain dirty attitude who holds the badge.
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What excited me about the first time i ve heard about Dirty Harry is how memorable the movie is and i wanted to see it so badly because i love Clint Eastwood.When i first saw the movie,it blew me away from the beggining to the end with such a incredible intensity and violence never seen.Dirty Harry is the ultimate cop movie because left it s mark not only in the genre but also in film history,inspiring another cop epics like Lethal Weapon,Heat or Training Day.Almost 40 years later,Dirty Harry is a timeless classic.
Clint Eastwood is absolutely memorable as Inspector Harry Callahan,best known as Dirty Harry.Callahan is a good but ruthless cop who uses unusual methods to take down criminals.Callahan faces a huge challenge when a shooter known as Scorpio is killing innocent people in the city of San Francisco and demanding a ransom,otherwise he will continue to kill until getting his money.Harry decides to hunt down Scorpio in his own way and stop him once and for all.Eastwood became the icon that he is today thanks to his most emblematic role that turned him to a legend.Eastwood s perfomance was brilliant on making Harry a ruthless and tough cop who believes the only way to face criminals is to hunt down.If you cross in Dirty Harry s way,you should ask yourself one question:do you feel lucky,punk?
Don Siegel s direction was absolutely electrifying and explosive that grabs you every minute,Siegel managed to create such a amazing movie with control and a brilliance that can t be matched.The action scenes are legendary,specially when Harry stops a bank robbery,Dirty style.
Dirty Harry is one of the greatest cop movies ever made next to Bullit and The French Connection and one of the greatest movies of the 1970 s.An immortal movie that live on forever and Clint Eastwood s most iconic movie ever made.
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"You still don't understand what you're dealing with, do you? Perfect organism. Its structural perfection is matched only by its hostility"-Ash
Director:Ridley Scott
Cast:Sigourney Weaver,Tom Skerritt,Ian Holm,John Hurt
Genre:Horror,Science Fiction
Year of release:1979
Running Time:117 minutes
Plot:
In deep space, the crew of the commercial ship Nostromo--comprised of five men and two women--is awakened from their cryo-sleep capsules, halfway through their journey home to investigate a distress call from an alien vessel. The tale unfolds as they further look into the S.O.S. distress call from that battered commercial space vessel--only to discover that it's a warning call, rather than a call for help. However, it is too late to turn back as three members of the crew have already left to investigate the derelict ship. Far away in space and time, all five encounter an awesome galactic horror, that begins to kill the crew members one by one.
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I remember when i first watched Alien on TV and i was 10 years old and it gave me the creeps and after i watched i had nightmares because this classic is one of the scariest and most intense movies of all time and no other movie of this genre(with the exception of The Shining)comes close.Alien is the start of one of the most popular sagas of movie history and although Aliens is my favorite,Alien is an oustanding sci fi classic that will never die.
Sigourney Weaver is absolutely fantastic as Ellen Ripley,the woman who is destined to batlled the most deadly creature of space.Before unleashing her emotional fury like no other in Aliens,Sigourney left her mark in her first feature.Ripley and her crew of Nostromo land in an unknown planet to retrieve an living organism but they soon realize that his organism is hostile and it s about to destroy the entire crew.All died except Ripley,who has the guts to face the monster.I couldn t imagine the series without Sigourney because she makes Ripley a beilievable character with full of strenght and courage and only Sigourney would pull Ripley off.John Hurt makes one of his appearences as Kane,the member who stars in two of the creepiest scenes of the movie:The face hugger and of nasty chestbuster scene,one of thew scariest scenes of movie history.
Ridley Scott s direction is outstanding and he leaves his mark in the genre just like he did in Blade Runner.His direction makes the movie great because he mixes the intensity and suspense that makes Alien such a scary movie.Ridley Scott is the best director of the series next to James Cameron in Aliens and his best movie next to Gladiator and Blade Runner.
Alien is one of the greatest classics of science fiction and Ridley Scott s ultimate classic.30 years after the release,Alien is and will always be a standard in movie history and in space,no one will hear you scream.
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"You talkin' to me? You talkin' to me? You talkin' to me? Then who the hell else are you talking... you talking to me? Well I'm the only one here. Who the fuck do you think you're talking to? Oh yeah? OK".. -Travis Bickle
Director:Martin Scorsese
Cast:Robert De Niro,Harvey Keitel,Jodie Foster,Cybil Sheppard
Genre:Crime,Drama
Year of Release:1976
Running Time:113 minutes
Plot:
Travis Bickle is an ex-Marine and Vietnam War veteran living in New York City. As he suffers from insomnia, he spends his time working as a cabbie at night, watching porn movies at seedy cinemas during the day, or thinking about how the world, New York in particular, has deteriorated into a cesspool. He's a loner who has strong opinions about what is right and wrong with mankind. For Travis, the one bright spot in New York humanity is Betsy, a worker on the presidential nomination campaign of Senator Charles Palatine. Travis becomes obsessed with Betsy. After an incident with Betsy, Travis believes he has to do whatever he needs to to make the world a better place in his opinion. One of his priorities is to be the savior for Iris, a twelve year old runaway and prostitute who he believes wants out of the profession and under the thumb of her pimp and lover Matthew.
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I wanted to see Taxi Driver for a long time but i never had the chance to see the movie,which made my excitement growing up a lot.When i watched it for the first time,i was blown away about Martin Scorsese s urban saga.Taxi Driver is probably one of greatest movies ever made and i had a good feeling on watching the movie.With great perfomances,great directing and a brilliant but dark history,Taxi Driver is an amazing masterpiece.
Robert De Niro delivers one of the most memorable and popular perfomances of his legendary career as Travis Bickle.Bickle is an emotionally unstable Vietname war veteran who gets a job as a taxi driver in New York City.During his work,Travis walks in the streets full of crime and decandence and starts to get consumed by it.Affected by the ongoing violence in the streets,Travis believes he can change the world by trying to help a teenage prostitute,which it leads him to extreme actions.De Niro is one of the greatest actors of all time and Taxi Driver shows De Niro s at his best.His perfomance was so intense and realistic that made Travis Bickle a sort of urban anti-hero.I think this De Niro s most iconic role ever next to Jake La Motta in Raging Bull.Jodie Foster makes one of her first appearences as Iris,the teenager prostitute who makes a connection with Travis.Not bad for Jodie sharing the screen with De Niro.She showed the signs of the great actress she would become.The rest were great including Cybil Sheppard as Besty and Harvey Keitel as Benjamin,the pimp.
Martin Scorsese is a master what comes to classics and Taxi Driver is no exception.Scorsese managed to capture the urban side of New York like no other director could do and Scorsese did it prefectly.The score is one of the best things of the picture,so is Pual Schraeder s brilliant script.
Taxi Driver is a amazing urban saga and one of the greatest movies of all time.Almost 35 years later,Taxi Driver is an unforgetabble classic of film history,courtesy of Martin Scorsese.
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"You will travel far, my little Kal-El. But we will never leave you... even in the face of our death. The richness of our lives shall be yours. All that I have, all that I've learned, everything I feel... all this, and more, I... I bequeath you, my son. You will carry me inside you, all the days of your life. You will make my strength your own, and see my life through your eyes, as your life will be seen through mine. The son becomes the father, and the father the son. This is all I... all I can send you, Kal-El".-Jor-El
Director:Richard Donner
Cast:Christopher Reeve,Gene Hackman,Marlon Brando,Margot Kidder
Genre:Action,Adventure,Comic Book Adaptation
Year of release:1978
Running Time:143 minutes
Plot:
The infant Kal-El, of the planet Krypton, makes his journey to Earth in a ship constructed by his father, Jor-El, just as the planet explodes. Crashing down in the midwest United States, the boy is adopted by farmers Jonathan and Martha Kent. After Jonathan's death several years later, Kal-El - now known as Clark Kent - learns of his true identity from the ghost of Jor-El. He has great powers - he can fly, outrun a train, and lift up a 1-ton truck. But it isn't until he gains a job at Metropolis' Daily Planet newspaper that things begin to come together. One night, after leaving work, he sees a helicopter crash on the building's roof. From this night on, he will be known by a new name...SUPERMAN! His mission: "To fight for truth, justice and the American Way". Lex Luthor, however, has other ideas - to sabotage a pair of nuclear missiles and use them to create an earthquake that will wipe out the California coastline. Superman must race against time and stop a sinister plan by Luthor to eliminate him before millions of innocent people are killed.
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I love Superman since i was a kid because he s the greatest super hero of all time and culture phenomenon.I always followed his adventures in the comics but when i watched Superman:The Movie,it made such a impact on myself that made me love Superman.A lot of people believed The Dark Knight is the best comic book movie ever but this is and will be always the greatest super hero movie of all time.With a great story,brilliant cast and oustanding visual effects,Superman:The Movie shows that the legacy of The Man of Steel will never die.
Christopher Reeve delivers a memorable and unforgettable perfomance as Superman/Clark Kent and he s the heart and soul of the movie.You didn t have to say anything because you can look at him and say:he s Superman.Chris s perfomance was amazing because he makes Superman such a believable and strong character and he s also hilarious as Clark Kent.No other actor would pull the character better than Reeve because he s perfect for Superman,not just phisically but vocally too.Christopher Reeve is and will be always be Superman because he made me believe a man can fly.Gene Hackman is fantastic as Lex Luthor,Superman s arch nemesis.Hackman makes Luthor a menancing and a egomaniac villain obcessed on destroying Superman.Margot Kidder was fantastic as Lois Lane.She and Chris have a great chemistry in the relathionship between Clark and Lois and the romance between Lois and Superman.Marlon Brando makes a special appearence as Jor El.Superman s father.His perfomance was amazing for a small apperance.
Richard Donner s direction was amazing and made this movie the classic that it is today.With his brilliance and sensitifity with the story and the characters,Donner made the movie fans would be very proud of.The visual effects are amazing,still impressive until today and Superman s flying scenes are mind-blowing.
Superman:The Movie is one of my all time favorite movies and no other movie of the genre can capture the magic and the soul of this oustanding movie.Sorry Superman Returns but this movie is definetly the best movie of The Man of Steel and will always make people believe a man can really fly.Classic.
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chevypillow posted 14 months ago
Rocky?