if only Walter Hill had directed some SNL shit, this thread wd be getting some attention
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Friday, March 30, 2012 1:43 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
if it makes you feel better brewster's millions was like my favourite movie when i was 8
― A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Friday, 30 March 2012 17:53 (twelve years ago) link
God, I had no idea he ever sank that low.
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Friday, 30 March 2012 17:56 (twelve years ago) link
Good Grief, that p&s Hard Times dvd is horrid. I got it from netflix but missed Morbs warning upthread. A bunch of scenes literaly cut in half image-wise. Why were they still doing this in 2004 (when the disc was issued)?
― 50 Shades of Greil (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 26 September 2012 20:46 (eleven years ago) link
bc they don't want to invest in a new transfer and use the 1980s one.
the driver should have won this, of course.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Wednesday, 26 September 2012 21:12 (eleven years ago) link
he'll be appearing at a NYC screening of Southern Comfort next Monday
http://www.92y.org/Tribeca/Event/Walter-Hill.aspx
― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 22 January 2013 23:10 (eleven years ago) link
Twilight Time have announced limited edition blus of Hard Times and The Driver for release in June.
― Big Sambola & The Tailspinners (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 1 February 2013 20:18 (eleven years ago) link
Stallone film is out
― Gukbe, Friday, 1 February 2013 21:07 (eleven years ago) link
GK likes it, but I don't trust him: http://movies.msn.com/movies/movie-critic-reviews/bullet-to-the-head/
― Gukbe, Friday, 1 February 2013 21:08 (eleven years ago) link
Re-watching The Long Riders tonight. The casting (real-life brothers playing real-life brothers) works really well, and plot-wise it's basically Justified 150 years earlier, told entirely from Boyd's POV.
― 誤訳侮辱, Sunday, 17 March 2013 01:06 (eleven years ago) link
https://fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/944123_593874047297932_938811487_n.jpg
― Sheela-Tubb-Mann, You Real Know-It-All (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 9 May 2013 19:58 (eleven years ago) link
^^out next month
omg how weird I am watching the driver RIGHT NOW! and it is awesome but the lovefilm player suddenly cut out & is now doing the "infinite buffering" thing. 20 minutes before the end :-(
― Moldy ★☆☆☆☆ (wins), Thursday, 9 May 2013 20:02 (eleven years ago) link
I just watched Hard Times last night and it was awesome! Some beautiful location shots and I loved the visual contrast between the two leads - Coburn all teeth and limbs, Bronson stocky and tight-lipped. Strother Martin as the quack with "a weakness for opium" was great too. Bronson's crappy apartment and cat reminded me of Le Samourai a bit
― Number None, Thursday, 9 May 2013 20:09 (eleven years ago) link
The Driver now on Blu-Ray
http://www.slantmagazine.com/dvd/review/the-driver
― Miss Arlington twirls for the Coal Heavers (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 10 August 2013 05:22 (ten years ago) link
― Gukbe, Friday, February 1, 2013 4:07 PM (6 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Gukbe, Friday, February 1, 2013 4:08 PM (6 months ago) Bookmark
he's way too generous, and i actually liked the movie.
― i wanna be a gabbneb baby (Hungry4Ass), Saturday, 10 August 2013 12:48 (ten years ago) link
i'm going to rank them now. (just the stuff that he directed, not the films he wrote but did not direct, which are fairly many.)
The DriverHard TimesSouthern ComfortThe Warriors48 Hrs.Extreme PrejudiceLast Man StandingJohnny HandsomeStreets of Fire (have very mixed feelings about this one)Geronimo: An American LegendTrespassThe Long RidersAnother 48 Hrs.Red HeatWild BillUndisputedBrewster's MillionsBullet to the HeadCrossroads (has some nice moments, but concept is just too aggressively stupid for me to give it anything like a pass)
Haven't seen:Supernova (not so good, I hear)
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Tuesday, 26 November 2013 22:47 (ten years ago) link
the 1st four are totally unfuckwithable, with 48 hours close behind. the rest, to my mind, are all quite mixed. not really sure how I feel about Streets of Fire. I think I'd have to see it on a big screen.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Tuesday, 26 November 2013 22:48 (ten years ago) link
could easily switch Southern Comfort/The Warriors
latter is more audacious but also maybe a bit more flawedformer is close to perfect
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Tuesday, 26 November 2013 22:49 (ten years ago) link
I have to admit with a few exceptions, I'm really glad even his lesser films exist, I get a lot of pleasure watching them
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Tuesday, 26 November 2013 22:51 (ten years ago) link
I'll take this challenge! My rankings:
The DriverHard TimesSouthern ComfortThe WarriorsThe Long RidersExtreme PrejudiceTrespass48 Hrs.Johnny HandsomeLast Man StandingUndisputedWild BillStreets of FireBrewster's MillionsRed HeatAnother 48 Hrs.Wild BillUndisputed
Have not seen:Bullet to the HeadCrossroads (has some nice moments, but concept is just too aggressively stupid for me to give it anything like a pass)Geronimo: An American Legend
― Humorist (horse) (誤訳侮辱), Tuesday, 26 November 2013 22:51 (ten years ago) link
do the two appearances of wild bill signify your ambivalence?
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Tuesday, 26 November 2013 22:52 (ten years ago) link
I like many of these movies without falling in love with'em
― the objections to Drake from non-REAL HIPHOP people (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 26 November 2013 22:54 (ten years ago) link
when you start to think too much about 48 hrs it begins to fray (the characterizations don't completely make sense, and the villain isn't interesting) but it's so much fun to watch. i just try to keep the misogyny out of my mind i guess. i would never show that to students, because you just don't see that kind of bawdy man-humor (and all the contempt for women it implies) in movies anymore, and they would probably be startled.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Tuesday, 26 November 2013 22:54 (ten years ago) link
No, they signify that after I copied it to paste it higher up, I forgot to delete it. (Same with Undisputed.) The higher rankings are the accurate ones.
― Humorist (horse) (誤訳侮辱), Tuesday, 26 November 2013 22:55 (ten years ago) link
(I have to admit that as directors of manly action movies go, I prefer don siegel. not to mention howard hawks. but hill was about as good as we got in the 1980s, a few films by john mctiernan aside.)
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Tuesday, 26 November 2013 22:57 (ten years ago) link
A long time ago I wrote about Extreme Prejudice for my blog.
― Humorist (horse) (誤訳侮辱), Tuesday, 26 November 2013 22:57 (ten years ago) link
(spielberg is good at action, but I don't really think of him as an "action director." hill started out as a stranger animal, but by the 1980s he wears the label comfortably.)
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Tuesday, 26 November 2013 22:58 (ten years ago) link
i kind of like red heat, but it doesn't feel like a walter hill movie, whatever that means. brewster's millions is probably his most uncharacteristic film and also very nearly his worst. I don't blame hill for bullet to the head btw; stallone is just a horrible presence these days, and it sounds like he really crowded hill out of a lot of the decision-making.
can we attribute hill's fallow years solely to the failure of his big westerns in the 1990s and the underperformance of stuff like johnny handsome and last man standing? (i don't count trespass and undisputed, since those were barely released.)
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Tuesday, 26 November 2013 23:10 (ten years ago) link
mostly agree with your ranking amt. 48 hours i always liked a lot more than bev hills cop
bullet to the head frankly would've been a lot better if sly didnt push wayne kramer off the picture. I thought hill did a solid job though...
― http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZD7PvtbkH0I (Hungry4Ass), Tuesday, 26 November 2013 23:41 (ten years ago) link
i think his best moment though might be this one shock zoom in the deadwood pilot
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Wednesday, 27 November 2013 00:45 (ten years ago) link
too bad the rest of the series
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Wednesday, 27 November 2013 00:46 (ten years ago) link
great interview: http://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/jul/17/walter-hill-action-movie-interview
love this guy so much, too bad he can't seem to make good movies anymore :(
― I dunno. (amateurist), Tuesday, 22 July 2014 22:36 (nine years ago) link
I guess I need to watch 48 Hours.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 22 July 2014 22:51 (nine years ago) link
The amount of hack work he wrote and/or directed is crazy: Brewster's Millions, Red Heat, Another 48 Hours, Undisputed.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 22 July 2014 22:53 (nine years ago) link
he directed a couple okay movies (the Warriors, the Driver) and a lot of crap. don't get the love. He's no Don Siegel.
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 22 July 2014 22:58 (nine years ago) link
He's better than OK: add The Long Riders, Southern Comfort, Extreme Prejudice, bits of Wild Bill (I don't get Streets of Fire.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 22 July 2014 23:12 (nine years ago) link
he directed three flat-out great movies in a row: hard times, the driver, the warriors
southern comfort is near-great
48 hrs and a few others are very good
― I dunno. (amateurist), Tuesday, 22 July 2014 23:12 (nine years ago) link
i don't really get streets of fire either, though a lot of walter hill cultists really love it
seems like a misfire to me, albeit a almost grotesquely strange one
yeah i like extreme prejudice, it's like three movies in one--for better and for worse
― I dunno. (amateurist), Tuesday, 22 July 2014 23:13 (nine years ago) link
Streets of Fire is a cheapo MTV-indebted future shock movie with a good-looking cast.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 22 July 2014 23:14 (nine years ago) link
He's no Don Siegel.
who is?
― I dunno. (amateurist), Tuesday, 22 July 2014 23:14 (nine years ago) link
xpost
yeah i get that hill was trying to do MTV w/ streets of fire but it doesn't really come across like MTV per se, it's like hill's weird-ass version of MTV
― I dunno. (amateurist), Tuesday, 22 July 2014 23:15 (nine years ago) link
Dan Hartman's theme song says all I need really.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 22 July 2014 23:15 (nine years ago) link
also the music is terrible
haha xpost
― I dunno. (amateurist), Tuesday, 22 July 2014 23:16 (nine years ago) link
In the last two weeks, I bought Southern Comfort and Hard Times on Blu-Ray. They look amazing, and honestly I'd forgotten just how good they are. Hard Times is black-humored and surprisingly humanistic, and Southern Comfort is one of the most tense movies of that period, and gets male group dynamics pretty much perfect.
― Humorist (horse) (誤訳侮辱), Tuesday, 22 July 2014 23:17 (nine years ago) link
(I have to admit that as directors of manly action movies go, I prefer don siegel. not to mention howard hawks. but hill was about as good as we got in the 1980s, a few films by john mctiernan aside.)― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Tuesday, November 26, 2013 4:57 PM (7 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Tuesday, November 26, 2013 4:57 PM (7 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― I dunno. (amateurist), Tuesday, 22 July 2014 23:17 (nine years ago) link
there are some dumb plot holes/plausibility issues in southern comfort but it's mostly a brilliantly directed film... powers boothe is so good.
― I dunno. (amateurist), Tuesday, 22 July 2014 23:18 (nine years ago) link
as far as '80s pure action directors i think mctiernan is probs the best for sure (at least stateside), unless we count james cameron i guess.
hill is right up there with them, though, as well as john carpenter though i guess he was working less in action and more in sci-fi and fantasy (as did cameron, of course.)
andrew davis had a really great run at the end of the decade; at face value code of silence and above the law look like generic action films but they're really pretty stellar gritty chicago thrillers (the package seems even more generic but is just about as good.)
honorable mention to spielberg and richard donner, since the former released the indiana jones trilogy and the latter did the first two lethal weapons.
― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Tuesday, 22 July 2014 23:46 (nine years ago) link
'extreme prejudice', though, is really the ultimate overlooked '80s action flick. the central conceit of nolte facing down boothe across the border is pretty sweet but throw in the black ops CIA guys and a bank robbery and it just takes it next level. and that cast is incredible.
― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Tuesday, 22 July 2014 23:47 (nine years ago) link
I tried to watch Long Riders a while back, but I didn't really like it & bailed halfway through
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 22 July 2014 23:50 (nine years ago) link