I’m with you, I dig Collins totally for what he is. Phenomenally talented POP musician.
Sean Connery as Bond. And then there was Zardoz.
Michael Caine has multiples on both sides, by design to hear him tell it.
Zardoz was all interstallar awesome.
But on a horse.
heh.
Bill!
(or maybe George?)
I’ll nominate Sylvester Stallone. Rambo is an excellent action flick with interesting characters and a pretty top notch movie. On the other hand Cobra was made because the producers of Beverly Hills Cop didn’t want to give into Stallone’s demand he turn their comedy into something serious. Even by 80s action movie standards, Cobra is a terrible movie.
Yeah I have, I have also seen more than 10 movies in my life, and anybody who suggests those are among the worst movies ever must not have. Try something by Uwe Boll, or just check out a few the 100 worst rated movies on IMDB. And then see if you can make your comment again with a straight face.
I contend that anything Clapton did after Derek and the Dominos on record or live is a pale imitation of what he is (was, as he once said in an interview that he’s amazed at some of his playing in the past) capable of. There were brief moments like Stormy Monday during the Cream reunion when he came close to letting go, but as usual, held himself back.
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Went from *Crazy On You *and Magic Man to These Dreams. When my ex-girlfriend’s brother showed us his CD that it was on (don’t even know the name), I wanted to recommend Dreamboat Annie, but realized the band that made These Dreams was completely different.
Yes, Ann and Nancy could still bring it live, but the damage was done and can never be undone.
Special mention has to go to Sandra Bullock who won an Academy Award for Best Actress and a Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actress within 36 hours.
Doesn’t mean it was good.
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I’ve always felt that “You Better You Bet” sounds like the Who imitating their earlier selves.
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Doesn’t Cosmic Encounter (from 1977, well predating Magic: The Encounter count? It was massively popular, was a card-based play system, and had expansion packs.
The worst film I have seen Michael Caine in is On Deadly Ground----a film directed, co-produced and starring Steven Seagal. Here is one anecdote about it:
Andrew Lloyd Webber’s next musical after Jesus Christ Superstar was Jeeves.
A couple of further suggestions:
The Carry On movies (so the artists are producer Peter Rogers and director Gerald Thomas). If you don’t know them, think: the idiot child of Ealing comedies; cheap, but in their heyday they were gloriously silly, smutty and hilariously funny. As British society grew up a bit, the smut became an embarrassment; the budgets got cut and the formula got (very) old. At the end they were beyond irrelevant - simply awful.
The great days: Carry on up the Khyber (sorry about the picture quality) (they were smarter in those days as well - the title is a filthy pun in rhyming slang: Khyber Pass = …)
The lingering death: Carry on England.
The Sex Pistols. Did any band fall so far so fast? From Lydon snarling for a generation: There’s no point in asking you’ll get no reply- to Sid Vicious singing My Way (link intentionally omitted; all you can really say about that is that the singer and the song deserved each other).
Made the long list but not the short list:
Monty Python - great, yeah, but always viewed through rose tinted classes. There were many, many awful unfunny sketches, played out to forced laughter barely covering the sound of tumbleweeds.
David Bowie - Too much greatness to list, but remember The Laughing Gnome? And Little Drummer Boy with Bing Crosby? {Shudders} - Actually, put him on the short list.
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Garfield cites Cosmic Encounter as an inspiration but I don’t believe it had the same tradeable (and marketable) competitive deck-building aspect which is a defining feature of the CCG.
I don’t follow Clapton’s doings closely enough to know whether rehab had successfully rendered him “clean & sober” when he recorded Layla Unplugged.
I’m happy for him if becoming substance-free gave him peace of mind and stability, but it seems to have dulled his musical edge and banked his creative fire-- ironically, pretty much the same way immoderate drug use does.
It’s a tangent, but this brings to mind “Maxwell’s Silver Hammer”. I find it tolerable; it’s obviously intended as a lightweight snarky, macabre tune in the tradition of Ringo’s “Don’t Pass Me By”.
But I was recently checking out some Beatles analysis/criticism on the Internets, and belatedly discovered that some professional critics and fans hate this song with the white-hot intensity of ten thousand burning suns. One critic was infuriated that such utterly tasteless adolescent dreck was deemed fit to include with the rest of “Abbey Road”.
Meh. I see where they’re coming from. But I can still listen to it.
The first Rambo was sort of OK, if questionable in various ways, but the other two were pure crap.
Some their work is good, I’ll go without the massive enthusiasm, as I am not a huge Beatles fan. Partly because they have a tendency to be infantile. McCartney solo in Wings showed he needed the restraining influence of Lennon to save him from his own worst excesses. But Lennon was also pretty uneven. “Imagine” is a classic, but “Give peace a chance” was just a half-assed dirge with tedious thumping.
That said, the classics don’t fare much better. Quite a lot does not get played any longer, and often with good reason.