Showing posts with label Movie Magic. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Movie Magic. Show all posts

Saturday, 24 December 2022

'Come out to the coast, we'll get together, have a few laughs..'

It's Christmas, and time for family get-togethers. over-eating, the odd drink (or two), gifts & celebration etc.

My wife is a massive fan of Christmas movies (like - an authority on the topic; if they ever teach this as a subject, she should be the Department Head). 

These last few years however, especially with Covid restrictions, the traditional Christmas Eve bash has routinely seen a repeat watching of the BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIE EVAAAAR !


Classic trailers, Damsels in distress, curly permed 80s hair, smoking (lots of smoking...like my lungs feel tired after this movie), MP5 and Steyr AUG action, German (but really Viking) terrorists in the 80s, terrible 80s acting (but at the same time awesome), every cop and bad guy stereotype you could wish for, CLASSIC 80s one liners (superior even to the classic 'Aliens') and PUT YOUR SHOES ON JOHN FFS! (did I mention the 80s?)

I hate going to work Christmas parties, and listening to corporates talk BS, but every year, without fear,  deep down, I kinda hope 'Die Hard' will happen ;)

Yippee Ki Ey y'all. Have a great Christmas. ...and of course, 'Welcome to the party pal!'


(Also worth considering that this movie came out in 1988. That's almost 35 years ago. Conversely, 35 years before it came out, it was 1953! The Second World War had been over for eight years, Queen Elizabeth II was crowned, the Korean war ended, Joe Stalin died, the world was still in recovery after the war (some historians would argue it still is), we had no face-book, no blogs, no heavy metal, no carbon framed racing bicycles and computers used valves...).


Wednesday, 22 April 2020

Retro Movie Posters with Retro Casts

Ok - this is not the forum for such wasteful frivolity, I appreciate. This is supposed to be proper wargaming?!?!

I have however, always had a preference for 70s and 80s style movies, as opposed to the clinical, effects based, formulaic romps that we seem to be subjected to today, given the significantly shorter attention span of the modern teenager/young adult (and discuss). They've even made a mess of much of the re-told Star Wars saga (except Rebels). Given Joseph Campbell's basic mythology based story-telling tropes that Lucas originally embraced, I was convinced that it wasn't possible ...until Rogue One...

With that in mind, I therefore very much appreciate some of these 'retro' movie posters, where modern movies have been hypothetically 're-cast' with the the 1950s/60s/70s stars of an earlier time, and been given a suitably retro poster which harks back to an earlier age, with no cell-phones.

This is not just movie nostalgia...this is magic!

Some of these more modern pieces, if done back in the day with classic actors and actresses, would have been unforgettable.


'Who does one call...'



This one especially would have been quite awesome...
Instant classic

Better than more modern attempts surely...



Chris Walken as T1000 !


























 


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