Unofficial Tex Murphy

After Death Race 2000 do you find yourself saying "Our sworn enemies, the French!"?

One of the things I loved about the movie was that you get to see Stallone get the crap kicked out of him by David Carradine. If you like that sort of thing, there was a 1975 movie called The Prisoned of Second Avenue, starring Jack Lemon and Ann Bancroft. It's a Neil Simon comedy about a suddenly unemployed ex-executive having a hard time being suddenly poor and trying to make it in New York. Anyway, I mention this because Stallone has a bit part in the movie where he get beat up by Jack Lemon, of all people. Funny stuff.

Mad Money was pretty good, but you should know that it is a remake of a British made-for-TV movie called Hot Money which was based on true events.

Speaking of older films with Stallone bit-parts in them, how's about Farewell My Lovely from 1974, with Robert Mitchum as Philip Marlowe?

Great film!

-Fred

DrPaul wrote:After Death Race 2000 do you find yourself saying "Our sworn enemies, the French!"?

One of the things I loved about the movie was that you get to see Stallone get the crap kicked out of him by David Carradine. If you like that sort of thing, there was a 1975 movie called The Prisoned of Second Avenue, starring Jack Lemon and Ann Bancroft. It's a Neil Simon comedy about a suddenly unemployed ex-executive having a hard time being suddenly poor and trying to make it in New York. Anyway, I mention this because Stallone has a bit part in the movie where he get beat up by Jack Lemon, of all people. Funny stuff.

No didn't find myself cursing the French this time... lol
Though I did enjoy watching Stallone die, it's always nice once in awhile to see the "Always The Good Guy" be the bad guy once in awhile...

Same thing with Chuck Norris in the one Bruce Lee movie... But I did enjoy watching David Carradine get His ass kicked by Norris in Lone Wolf McQuade... That was a good movie...

The film where Bruce Lee beats Chuck Norris is Return of the Dragon. Acting and dialogue was crappy but the fight scenes were incredible.

Hey Jim, I can't remember, did Bruce Lee just beat him or did he actually kill him in the movie??? If memory serves, Chuck Norris has Never Died in a Movie... Very Few Actors can make that claim throughout their whole career...
That was the Only movie that Norris was ever a Bad Guy as well, I believe...

Chuck Norris was also the bad guy in the film "Slaughter in San Fransisco," which featured one of the worst quotes of all time.

The line was, spoken by Norris himself: "There are two kinds of people I know. The people who work for me, and the people that die."

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070705/

Why do you call it the Worse Quote of all time??? Looks like it might be a decent movie for the mid 70s that is...

Hey, speaking of decent movies, I saw a sort of indecent movie last night.

Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanimo Bay.

One thing I don't like is what I call "cheap" humor. By that, I mean things like characters just being plain stupid, or inappropriate, shock-value behavior like sweet little old ladies having a foul mouth. That is cheap humor and it isn't really funny.

Now, Harold and Kumar movies tend to have a lot of what you might call tasteless humor usually featuring drugs, sex, and body functions. That being said, the movies are actually very clever, funny, and genuinely good, albeit, tasteless humor. I enjoyed it immensely.

I especially enjoyed the scene where H and K are smoking pot and getting high with President Bush in the President's game-room.

Baf - Norris was killed in Return of the Dragon. However, the show he and Lee put on was nothing short of fantastic.

BTW, Fred Williamson, star of many Blaxpoitation movies, had a rule: He never dies in a movie and to my knowledge he never did.

BTW, Fred Williamson, star of many Blaxpoitation movies, had a rule: He never dies in a movie and to my knowledge he never did.

Never say never.

Fred was in the original Robert Rodriquez classic(?) vampire movie From Dusk Till Dawn.

Fred puts up a good fight against the vampires, but eventually gets infected, turns and is finally killed.

A very crazy movie, in case you haven't seen it. There were two sequels. The third one was pretty cool if you are an Ambrose Bierce fan (Incident at Owl Creek Bridge.)

DrPaul wrote:

BTW, Fred Williamson, star of many Blaxpoitation movies, had a rule: He never dies in a movie and to my knowledge he never did.

Never say never.

Fred was in the original Robert Rodriquez classic(?) vampire movie From Dusk Till Dawn.

Fred puts up a good fight against the vampires, but eventually gets infected, turns and is finally killed.

A very crazy movie, in case you haven't seen it. There were two sequels. The third one was pretty cool if you are an Ambrose Bierce fan (Incident at Owl Creek Bridge.)

I loved the first From Dusk Till Dawn...I didn't watch any of the sequels because I always feel like movies like that are always trying to capitalize on the success of the first one and they always....ALWAYS...fall waaaayyy short of the success and of the quality. I.E. - The Crow series. First one great...the rest, not so much.

I loved the first From Dusk Till Dawn...I didn't watch any of the sequels because I always feel like movies like that are always trying to capitalize on the success of the first one and they always..

True. The first one was the best. I didn't care much for the 2nd. But the third one was very different and had an interesting twist. The third one The Hangman's Daughter takes place in the 19th century south west. The main character is Ambrose Bierce.

For those who don't know who Ambrose Bierce is, he was an American author, often called the father of sarcasm. He is probably most famous for his short story Incident at Owl Creek Bridge, on which the all-time most popular Twilight Zone episode of the same name was based.

Anyway, Ambrose Bierce disappeared one day. Rumor had it that he went down to Mexico to join up with Poncho Villa and the Mexican Revolution. He was never heard from after that. The Hangman's Daughter (Episode three of From Dusk Till Dawn is a bit of historical fiction about the disappearance of Ambrose Bierce.

This might not mean anything to you if you aren't a Bierce fan. If you'd like to read the short story, and a few other selected things by Bierce, you can get them from my web page here:
http://home.comcast.net/~pdrallos131681/eBooks.htm

Bafitis, that movie was bad for the mid-70's. It was bad for any generation. Unless you're into the cheesy martial arts flick filled with bad dubbing.

And, it's not the worst quote of all time, it's one of. It's high on the list. It sucks.

Well it's only a "Quote" because people repeat it... Stop the repeating and you stop the "Bad" Quotes...


So Norris died on the Bruce Lee film... So much for trying to find an Actor with a Perfect record...
Doc crushed the Fred Williamson thing, because I remember From Dusk Til Dawn... He was Bitten by the Biker Guy, Tom Savini who played Sex Machine... Savini gets bitten in the arm and then hides it by putting his jacket back on... Then while the group is talking Savini is behind Williamson, who played Frost, and jumps on his back biting him in the Neck... Williamson in turn killed Savini and then was later killed himself, for some reason I can't remember by which other character... I remember he got the shotgun shoved in his stomach... I think he was killed by Harvey Keitel's character before he changed into a Vampire...

I just came back from seeing The Chronicles of Narnia - Prince Caspian.

Great movie. I'd have to say that I liked it more than The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. This one (Prince Caspian) had more sword fighting, fewer 'cute' characters and a little harder edge.