July 7, 20223 yr RIP. At least we’ll get to see Jimmy in one more new film, Fast Charlie. “When Oscar nominee James Caan passed away in Los Angeles on Wednesday night, aged 82, he left behind one final performance opposite Pierce Brosnan in the hitman thriller Fast Charlie, which he’d wrapped production on in New Orleans. The film from director Phillip Noyce is based on Victor Gischler’s Edgar Award-nominated novel, Gun Monkeys. It centers on Charlie Swift (Brosnan), who has worked for aging mob boss Stan (Caan) for 20 years, skillfully operating as a prolific fixer and efficient hitman. When a rival boss moves to eliminate Stan and his entire team, he fails in wiping the team clean. Now on his own, Charlie will stop at nothing to avenge his friend, and has no plans to leave anyone alive. Fast Charlie‘s ensemble also includes Gbenga Akkinagbe, Morena Baccarin, Toby Huss and more. Richard Wenk (The Magnificent Seven, The Equalizer) wrote the film, with Daniel Grodnik (Bobby) and Mitchell Welch (Chain of Command) serving as its producers.”
July 7, 20223 yr 1 hour ago, South Austin said: Most of the Playboy interviews were works of fiction and satire. See e.g., Hustler Magazine v. Falwell. I did not know that. /Carson
July 7, 20223 yr 3 hours ago, Celery Man said: There are a lot of different versions of.... being remembered for something different than you meant to be remembered for. Joe Theismann, or Elizabeth Holmes. Or... I was listening to a podcast about a kid who went missing in Minnesota in the 80s and one of the (innocent) suspects talks about how it destroyed his life and living with the fact that that is his mark on this earth. And then there's a version of it where James Caan acts in arguably the greatest movie of all time, has a long and fairly celebrated career, and then does a goofy comedy about a 40 year old man who thinks he's a Christmas elf and that's going to be right there on chyrons and headlines alongside his name today. I mean, Elf is pretty fantastic.
July 7, 20223 yr Gentlemen, we’re not doctors. The NC2A has a testing program for this sort of thing. I suggest we let them handle it. And its not that hard to gain 35 pounds over the summer if you hit the weights really hard.
July 7, 20223 yr Been moons since watching it but Caan and Alan Arkin were great together in Freebie and the Bean, just about everyone e is great when working with Arkin.
July 7, 20223 yr 5 hours ago, UTCzech III said: Enjoyed him in Thief, great early Michael Mann flick (totally forgot Willie is in this movie as well). This is one of the tightest movies ever made. I love the scale. I love the way Michael Mann puts it together. Caan is immortal in this movie. It's a hard look at a hard world. His understated style was so good in so many things. I don't know how the movies hold up, but The Gambler, Cinderella Liberty, and Slither are showcases for him. Truly one of my favorite actors. All I know is that you have my money in your pocket. I'm the last person in the world you want to fuck with. I'm feeling the pain. Rip James Caan.
July 7, 20223 yr 4 hours ago, South Austin said: Most of the Playboy interviews were works of fiction and satire. See e.g., Hustler Magazine v. Falwell. Not sure how anything in Hustler reflects on anything in Playboy. Isn’t that sort of like citing Penthouse Letters as a reason to not trust Playboy interviews? Ive read a number of Playboy interviews but the only ones I really remember are one with John Lennon and one with Frank Zappa and I don’t think there’s any fiction or satire in those. Lennon: http://www.beatlesinterviews.org/db1980.jlpb.beatles.html Zappa: https://www.afka.net/Articles/1993-04_Playboy.htm
July 8, 20223 yr 22 minutes ago, WhatTheBuck said: Not sure how anything in Hustler reflects on anything in Playboy. Isn’t that sort of like citing Penthouse Letters as a reason to not trust Playboy interviews? Ive read a number of Playboy interviews but the only ones I really remember are one with John Lennon and one with Frank Zappa and I don’t think there’s any fiction or satire in those. Lennon: http://www.beatlesinterviews.org/db1980.jlpb.beatles.html Zappa: https://www.afka.net/Articles/1993-04_Playboy.htm He’s doing a bit for the interview. It’s like I’m message boarding with my brothers kids or something.
July 8, 20223 yr 18 minutes ago, BehoId, The Underminer! said: He’s doing a bit for the interview. It’s like I’m message boarding with my brothers kids or something. Like Charles Grodin on Carson. That doesn’t make Carson’s interviews fiction and satire.
July 8, 20223 yr For those with the DECADES network, there's a rerun of the 1980 James Caan interview on the Dick Cavett show.
July 8, 20223 yr I remember seeing some tmz or something article a few years back and he was dating some 20 something smoke show. Probably fucked to death lol. I liked him in that Las Vegas crap tv show for a easy watch back in the day as a guilty pleasure and of course the movies he did. Edited July 8, 20223 yr by Hook1997
July 8, 20223 yr 9 minutes ago, Hook1997 said: I remember seeing some tmz or something article a few years back and he was dating some 20 something smoke show. Probably fucked to death lol. I liked him in that Las Vegas crap tv show for a easy watch back in the day as a guilty pleasure and of course the movies he did. If you watched Las Vegas for any other reason than the wimenz you were doing it wrong. No offense intended Jimmy, and may you RIP.
July 8, 20223 yr He was ok, but also is probably the worst casted person ever in a movie - Elf. Yeah, they needed a tired, overworked, curmudgeon. Maybe someone who could be Will Farrell’s dad. Who could they have gotten?
July 8, 20223 yr 4 hours ago, RomaVicta said: This is one of the tightest movies ever made. I love the scale. I love the way Michael Mann puts it together. Caan is immortal in this movie. It's a hard look at a hard world. His understated style was so good in so many things. I don't know how the movies hold up, but The Gambler, Cinderella Liberty, and Slither are showcases for him. Truly one of my favorite actors. All I know is that you have my money in your pocket. I'm the last person in the world you want to fuck with. I'm feeling the pain. Rip James Caan. As a Michael Mann fan, how the hell have I never watched that? Looks like lots of parallels to Deniro's character in Heat. Going to rectify that really soon.
July 8, 20223 yr 1 hour ago, mdmost said: As a Michael Mann fan, how the hell have I never watched that? Looks like lots of parallels to Deniro's character in Heat. Going to rectify that really soon. You're right about that. Mann is a great director. Heat and Thief are the hard boiled real deal. Music by Tangerine Dream in Thief is on point.
July 8, 20223 yr https://twitter.com/bingley567/status/1545034545648615424 Going to see if I can find either Thief or Rollerball on one of the various streaming services tonight. He was also good in Misery, but I'm not really in the mood for that.
July 8, 20223 yr 16 hours ago, conVINCEd said: If you watched Las Vegas for any other reason than the wimenz you were doing it wrong. No offense intended Jimmy, and may you RIP. Pretty sure the only reasons caan did that show was 1) they filmed it where he lived and 2) the wimmin
July 8, 20223 yr 20 hours ago, austingirl said: He'll always be Mississippi to me. He wore 3 inch lifts in El Dorado to be the same height as Robert Mitchum.
July 9, 20223 yr 6 hours ago, High Plains Drifter said: He was also good in Misery, but I'm not really in the mood for that. It’s a tough watch. Great movie but pretty brutal. There’s an episode of 3rd Rock From The Sun where Kathy Bates plays an alien hunter and she and her idiot son take the Solomons and their friends into captivity. That’s pretty funny and was sort of a callback to Misery. It was a comedy so you didn’t have to deal with any torture.
July 9, 20223 yr 21 hours ago, austingirl said: He'll always be Mississippi to me. Yeah, but what is that thing he has on his head?
July 9, 20223 yr 1 hour ago, NotActuallyALonghorn said: Yeah, but what is that thing he has on his head? It's called a hat. Well, I'll have to take your word for it.
July 9, 20223 yr On 7/7/2022 at 1:34 PM, Cheeseweasel said: Only real Star Wars fans will get it. You mother fucker
July 10, 20223 yr I rewatched Rollerball again this morning. I don’t know how long it’s been since I’ve watched it but it still holds up. I bought my first DVD player in 1998 and I must’ve bought this disc the same year. The director’s commentary was recorded in ‘97. I listened to a little bit of it to start then just switched over and watched the film. A lot of the scenes are fairly Kubrick-esque. It’s not just a great story but it’s also beautifully staged and shot. If you’ve never seen it then you should check it out and if you haven’t seen it in a long time then you should check it out again. “Jonathan! Jonathan! Jonathan!” I also forgot that Robert Ito, aka Sam Fujiyama in Quincy M.E., had a small role And then there’s Maud Adams who’s sneaky hot. I can’t recall whether I saw her pictorial in Playboy before or after I first saw Rollerball but...hey now.
July 10, 20223 yr My old man had a Playboy sub when I was growing up so this hits close to home, #riplaststapledissue
July 10, 20223 yr Hmmm. I meant to post this but I guess looking up that Playboy cover distracted me and I forgot.
July 10, 20223 yr My old man had a Playboy sub when I was growing up so this hits close to home, #riplaststapledissueThere was something special about a Playboy in the mailbox.
July 10, 20223 yr 2 hours ago, Texzilla58 said: There was something special about a Playboy in the mailbox. Is that slang?
July 10, 20223 yr Nope I was a latchkey kid. I got a sub at 14 because I got home before my mom. It had a fake name just in case it came while I was gone. The mail used to be the bearer of good stuff. My weekly Sports Illustrated. My annual Dave Campbell’s Texas Football. Letters from girlfriend’s off at grandma’s house for summer.
July 10, 20223 yr When I was a kid I loved Rollerball for the action scenes, but I didn't really get the rest. Now I appreciate the film a lot more. It has been showing on one of the free movie channels on DirecTV latelyi, MGM or one of those, and I've caught chunks of it several times. Classic and original. The people responsible for the remake or whatever that was should have their credentials revoked.
July 10, 20223 yr John Houseman is so perfectly cast as the evil cold blooded illuminati corporate world order motherfucker.
August 13, 20223 yr On 7/7/2022 at 9:16 PM, RPM said: MFer made me cry as a kid. Just watched this again for the first time in forever. For 114 minutes, it really flew by. This is unquestionably a classic, but if any film needs to be remade (and done right), this is the one. The ABC TV Movie of the Week production values really stick out.
August 14, 20223 yr On 7/10/2022 at 2:27 AM, billfromlaketravis said: El Dorado, not on any of the major streamers right now. This an outrage. Seems like I just watched it a few months ago on HBO Max or some other streamer. It must have been removed. Sad day, that is one of my all time favorite older westerns, partly because I used to watch it with my grandad when I was little, but also just because it is a great movie.
September 12, 20223 yr Just watched Flesh and Bone on Prime--pretty good movie. SPOILER--this trailer is a huge spoiler to the movie, if not damn near the whole movie . Edited September 12, 20223 yr by Mdhorn
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