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L.A. Confidential

https://www.amazon.com/L-Confidential-Kevin-Spacey/dp/B001N3HUP6

Another movie from list of movies I couldn't see when I as a kid

I did not understand most of the complex story except that it involves dirty cops.

Nominated for 9 Oscars including Best Picture and Best Director and it won Best Supporting Actress and Best Screenplay.

This is one of the many nominated films that year that lost to Titanic.

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The timeline of Mulholland Falls takes place in the same era, 1950's Los Angeles.

It also has a pretty power house cast.
Nick Nolte, John Malkovich, Chazz Palminteri, Melanie Griffith, Jennifer Connelly, Treat Williams, Michael Madsen, Andrew McCarthy, Chris Penn, & Daniel Baldwin


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Thanks for the rec, Wheels.

It's on Prime, I will watch it.

https://www.amazon.com/Mulholland-Falls-Nick-Nolte/dp/B09XFJKHR1

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L.A. Confidential is really good.

If you found that film complicated, you might steer away from 1940s noir. The caliber of writing has declined, immensely since then.

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I watched “LA Confidential” once and it didn’t do much for me. That was over 20 years ago though so I might have a different impression if I ever watch it again.


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It's not the best but it's no $ required

Damnation Alley (1977)

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Early '90s cheesy action anyone?

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She don't look thrilled to be handling a shiny silver pistol. Maybe it's bigger than what she is used to having. Someone get her something more appropriate for her delicate girly hands, like this

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Originally Posted by Crane Hunter


Early '90s cheesy action anyone?


That guy must have been the poor man’s Jean Claude van Damm.


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Originally Posted by PanzerMeyer
That guy must have been the poor man’s Jean Claude van Damm.

I'm surprised the Sherrie Rose wench wasn't a bigger name though.

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Originally Posted by NoFlyBoy
She don't look thrilled to be handling a shiny silver pistol. Maybe it's bigger than what she is used to having. Someone get her something more appropriate for her delicate girly hands, like this

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To be fair a Taurus 92 is rather big in the grip for anyone who's hands aren't big enough to palm a basketball.

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Originally Posted by PanzerMeyer
Originally Posted by Crane Hunter


Early '90s cheesy action anyone?


That guy must have been the poor man’s Jean Claude van Damm.

He was the star of Flash Gordon, but later was in quite a few "Thursday Night Prime" movies on HBO in the 90s. They were a special kind of martial arts cheese that all of us practitioners back in the day loved to watch.

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Originally Posted by NoFlyBoy
It's not the best but it's no $ required

Damnation Alley (1977)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075909/


This movie is where Tim Cain and Leonard Boyarsky, the creators of Fallout, got the idea for rad roaches. Was a fairly well known movie back in the day--something a kid would not forget once watching.

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Originally Posted by Mr_Blastman
Originally Posted by PanzerMeyer
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Early '90s cheesy action anyone?


That guy must have been the poor man’s Jean Claude van Damm.

He was the star of Flash Gordon, but later was in quite a few "Thursday Night Prime" movies on HBO in the 90s. They were a special kind of martial arts cheese that all of us practitioners back in the day loved to watch.


The guy in the YT screenshot was in the Flash Gordon movie from 1980? He doesn’t look familiar.


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Originally Posted by Mr_Blastman
He was the star of Flash Gordon, but later was in quite a few "Thursday Night Prime" movies on HBO in the 90s. They were a special kind of martial arts cheese that all of us practitioners back in the day loved to watch.

That genre is apparently known as kickboxing noir.

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Just watch the final episode of Season 3 of Reacher. Awesome!

Now to wait at least a year for Season 4.

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Originally Posted by NoFlyBoy
Just watch the final episode of Season 3 of Reacher. Awesome!

Now to wait at least a year for Season 4.

Reacher is good?

This interests me, having finished "Dark" a couple weeks ago, and then watched the unfortunately quite woke "Fallout" after. The latter was very average, and nothing inspirational.

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Originally Posted by Mr_Blastman
Originally Posted by NoFlyBoy
Just watch the final episode of Season 3 of Reacher. Awesome!

Now to wait at least a year for Season 4.

Reacher is good?

This interests me, having finished "Dark" a couple weeks ago, and then watched the unfortunately quite woke "Fallout" after. The latter was very average, and nothing inspirational.


In which ways did you find the Fallout series “woke”? I haven’t seen it yet but I’ve been contemplating giving it a shot.


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Reacher is great. If you read the books you'll be impressed and if not it's a well done ex army drifter type actioner helping out wherever he goes. Some humour, good action and very "just one more episode" vibe.

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