Man on Fire 2004 Denzel Washington, Dakota Fanning, Christopher Walken, Radha Mitchell
I see many similarities with Denzel’s Equalizer character. Same style of speech and attitude. Creasy, in the beginning, is more broken and embittered by his violent past.
Many of Creasy’s interrogations of the people responsible for kidnapping the child are very similar to what the Equalizer would do.
Good movie. I really, really liked Creasy’s sacrifice and spiritual redemption at the end.
8 out of 10 stars
A bomb, if I remember correctly (it’s been 20+ years)
The people that rag on this film have a bug the size of an enigma machine up their butts.
I mean, no one ever claimed U-51 was a historical docudrama. It’s not “the THRILLING TRUE STORY!” It’s just a movie!
Are these same folk complaining about The Dirty Dozen? Do they picket The Great Escape? A Bridge Too Far? The Battle of the Freaking Bulge, where the battle of the Ardennes forest was filmed in a Spanish desert? Or Memphis Belle, which about the only thing it got right of the actual facts was a B17 was involved.
Leave U-571 alone. Like it or hate it, fine, but hate it on its own merits, not some whiny ass “it’s not accurate” BS.
Last night’s film was 1951’s Showboat. Every year we watch That’s Entertainment and they feature a lot from the film, so when it was on TCM we decided we should see what all the fuss was about. Boy, there’s not a lot there if you remove the singing and dancing. I think Joe Friday could describe the whole plot in just one monologue!
Fascinating film. The biggest and best MGM production values. And a racial subplot I did not expect from a happy musical.
I agree. I liked it. For realism, there is a biopic called Jim Thorpe on NFLX that is factual all the way through. I read a biography about Thorpe a couple of years ago and this film follows that to the letter. Good historical footage of the greatest athlete the world has ever seen.
The Punisher 2004 Thomas Jane, John Travolta
Watch about 3/4 and turned it off. Guys entire extended family is murdered. He turns vigilante.
I felt like it was like a snuff film from the very beginning. I finally lost intrrest and went to bed.
Man on Fire is violent but it has many good scenes with Creasy and the child.
The Punisher is just one killing after another.
Definitely don’t watch Punisher: War Zone, then. It’s much more violent.
First came the novel in 1980. Then came the original movie in 1987 with Scott Glenn. It’s both somewhat more atmospheric, a lot more subdued and rather less coherent than the 2004 version.
Then came the TV mini-series on Netflix, released just a couple of months ago.
Such a goofy film. Punisher’s whole family was murdered (in an overextended action scene that just goes too long) and his main way of getting revenge is to out one of the villain’s lieutenants, get them parking tickets with a fake fire hydrant, and then start a skull-shaped fire in the parking lot.
I think a lot of people are tired of American propaganda rewriting history.
You mean, except for Sharknado.
Yep. Worst type of revisionism. If they wanted American heroes they could have done the capture of U-505, which would have been much more interesting, especially the fallout from same.
Sharknado was from Asylum? I stand corrected. Check “surprise hit” and “cult classic” off the list.
Except 1) it’s not rewriting history, and 2) it’s not propaganda. It’s just a war movie. Like hundreds of other war movies, with inaccuracies or simply completely fictional. other than that, well…
Oh come on. It took a critical part of WWII – capturing the Enigma machine – and pretended it was Americans who did it, not British.
David Ayer, who wrote the movie, expressed regret for writing it and suggesting it was Americans who captured the Enigma.
“It was a distortion… a mercenary decision to create this parallel history in order to drive the movie for an American audience.”
Argo is a prime example of that. It depicts the CIA as superheroes in the rescue of American hostages from Iran, completely obfuscating the crucial role of Canadian officials in the rescue. There was even an extraordinary special directive from Cabinet to the passport office to make Canadian passports for the American hostages.
If you watched the entire film, there is a roll at the end that says exactly who did what and when. A disclaimer of sorts.
Today’s movie was Fallen, a 1998 Denzel movie that I mercifully missed the first time around. Spirits and devils, etc.
Put it in a glass, son. You’ll enjoy it more.
What a coincidence that this not propaganda advanced the lie that America were the heroes.
Only to those simple-mided folk that think they’re watching a documentary.