A Prayer for the Dying (1987)

de LMA Mickey Rourke revazut A PRAYER FOR THE DYING, l-am luat acum 3 ani din Franta sub titlul L'irlandais, regizat de Mike Hodges in 1987. E infamous pentru ca Rourke s-a luat de Samuel Goldwyn dupa film,
Rourke is on record calling producer Samuel Goldwyn Jr. a scumbag and a liar,

apoi din salariul de la Francesco (sfintul Francisc) al Lilianei Cavani (1989) a donat banii IRA (in film MR e Martin Fallon, un terorist irlandez pe fuga). Teme catolice all over, despre pacat si redemption, dar nah, dupa un roman de Jack Higgins...ma lipseseam de melodrama dar el e Chul, cu parul vopsit roscat si accent irlandez vero (nu ca Brad Pitt in Devil's Own). Again he's a falle angel (fallon ?), si are 2 scene de motivatie bune, in rest e cam monosilabic...cu ochelari de soare a a la Zbigniev Cybulski ?


o scena misto in care Rourke cinta la orga in biserica parintelui De Costa (Bob Hoskins, cam constipat, pina-si da drumul la furie, ins cena barului luminat Courage-Rage)
bad guy, gangsterul Jack Meehan-Alan Bates, si Liam Neeson in rolul partenerului IRA al lui Rourke, era pe vremea cind IRA devenise subiect la Hollywood, dupa cum s-a vazut din Patriot Games si In the Name of the Father ! Alison Doody, la fel de blonda si de rea ca in Indy III sau poate si mai shi
dvd extras: none
3 din 5 sau 6 din 10 (cu ingaduinta)

LMA Mickey !

oh, he's doing well, anul trecut luase premiu la Venezia as randy the Ram ! acum joaca in enshpe filme, toate high profile more or less ! am aflat ca a fost la Sarajevo la festival, daca stiam ma duceam si io, ca imi promisese Pjer ca ma invita ! Acum am zis de ziua lui (fuckin 57) sa revad un film pe care mi-l amintesc ca fiind cam prost, A PRAYER FOR THE DYING, v. next post !!!
Vorbele lui Adrian Lyne se pare ca se adeveresc: "He was hugely talented, but he was surrounded by so many creeps," says Lyne. "I often think if he had died after Tasking Angel Heart, he would have been a legend on the scale of James Dean. Maybe he still will be."

Chiar daca fatza nu-i permite sa joace junii din tinerete, proiectele lui Rourke includ filme cu Walter Hill (St. Vincent), megabadguy-ul de anul viitor Whiplash in Iron Man 2, Passion Play (unde o va avea ca inger pe Megan Fox !), Expendables si poate Rambo V cu Stallone, si un remake la Mona Lisa de Larry Clark ! cu Eva Green...(BTW, in A Prayer for the...joaca cu Bob Hoskins, soferul original al Monei Lisa), ar mai fi un proiect interesant, Pretty, Baby, Machine, dupa un comix, daca s-o face ! si indianul Broken Horses !



articol in People "MR-on the Ropes" October 10, 1994

Gamer (2009)

un gunoi, cam asta e Gamer intr-un cuvint.
LATIMES says better:

"Some years from this exact moment," we're told at the beginning of the dismal "Gamer," Americans will be lining up to become flesh-and-blood avatars inside violent and lurid video game worlds. The bad news: Participants are likely either to be killed or imprisoned in an environment that looks like a David LaChapelle photo shoot. The good news: These kinds of games would render garbage like "Gamer" obsolete.

"Gamer" actually makes you feel nostalgic for the time when the filmmaking team of Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor (the duo behind the "Crank" movies) didn't feel burdened by the need to conjure up a story line or reflexively comment on American culture. Thought is antithetical to these guys' absurdist, Red Bull action aesthetic.

abysymal, garbage, true ! Hiperviolent in acelasi timp ! si pretentios, si cu un look extrem de ugly si nereusit! Gerald Butler nu e Jason Statham

Gladiatorul ? nah, i'm fat and uncharismatic !

si Crank era funny si tongueincheek nu avea cliseul de plot ultima data vazut in Max Payne, cu nevasta si copilul, nevasta porn model Amber Valletta (din Transporter 2), dar cam trecuta fata. Si acest cross de Running Man cu Death Race si daca vrei ca ciulamaua de voma sa fie completa mai baga si matrix, tron si rollerball ! Bravo Neveldine si Taylor, nici camera nu e destul de kinetica ci epileptica si
"I've Got You Under My Skin" de Sammy Davis Jr. cintata de Michael C. Hall. e o secventa destul de funny si suprarealista, in rest el badgheiul (din Six Feet Under si Dexter) e fix pix si..ghei, ma enerveza cind iau oameni din seriale TV si-i fac badnomofo, ca Dominic West in Punisher: War Zone, de ex ! Poate cu JCVD sa fi functionat, sau funny cu Jason S, sau pe vremuri la Corman, si on the funny side, nu voit drmatic ! John Leguiziamo maninca si el un burger ceva de pe urma filmului asta, dupa cum o fac si Keith David (cameo as cop), si Ludacris (rapper hacker) si Kyra Sedgwick (obosita rau)...sunt curios cit are rating, ca io sub 18 nu i-as da...
3 din 10, 1 1/2 din 5
metacritics score de 27 puncte cu epitete gen "A futuristic vomitorium of bosoms and bullets."(New York Times)

RIP Troy Kennedy Martin

The Italian Job screenwriter Troy Kennedy Martin dies at 77
16 September, 2009 | Screen Daily

Troy Kennedy Martin, the British screenwriter whose credits include The Italian Job, died of cancer yesterday (September 15) aged 77 years old.

The award winning writer began his career at the BBC in 1958 and wrote several plays for the broadcaster before creating his first series, Storyboard, in 1961. His most famous TV creation was Liverpool-based police drama Z-Cars, which ran for 15 years although he was only involved in the first two series.

He moved into feature films in the early 1970s with the original screenplay for Peter Collinson’s The Italian Job, which starred Noel Coward and Michael Caine. He followed it up with Kelly’s Heroes, The Jerusalem File and Sweeney 2, based on the popular TV series, The Sweeney, created by his brother Ian Kennedy Martin. He also co-wrote the screenplay for Red Heat with director Walter Hill in 1988 and Red Dust, directed by Tom Hooper, in 2004.

He returned to TV work during the 1980s, including the critically acclaimed political thriller/science fiction drama Edge Of Darkness, and the popular ITV drama Reilly, Ace Of Spies. He also adapted Andy McNab’s book Bravo Two Zero for the BBC.

Although he was best known for his work spanning TV and film, he also penned a novel, Beating The Damask Drum, published in 1959, and gave many lectures including the McTaggart Lecture at the Edinburgh International TV Festival in 1986.
(Via AC), Edge of Darkness se reface, un soi de comebak la acting Mel Gibson !