I guess he didn't see "Batman Begins". *eyes rolling*
I can spend an hour at the local video store and not find a single film I am interested in seeing the FIRST time; much less the second time. He's right.
Movie I recommend to freepers is the Manchurian Candidate (the original one)
he has a point, hollyweird comes up with sequel after sequel, remake after remake, movies filled to the rim with boring CGI special effects. total lack of originality.
Loved Man Who Would Be King.
Right, Peachy?
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Joe: You're Norma Desmond. You used to be in silent pictures. You used to be big.
Norma (bristling): I am big. It's the pictures that got small.
Joe: I knew there was something wrong with them.
One word describes todays movies. Boring.
Caine forgot being asked once on Carson about why he made so many less-than-stellar films. His simple reply "Its my job".
Memory does strange things once you get older.
Somebody made him sit through Gigli.
This from the guy who was in "alfie".
?! I assume that's the UK release title of How to Eat Fried Worms, an adaptation of a children's book that many here are probably familiar with. If that's a "horror drama," I'd hate to see what the Brits make of The Plant that Ate Dirty Socks, Hello My Name is Scrambled Eggs, and My Teacher's an Alien.
Caine chose the screen surname Caine because he felt so strongly about the excellence of the film The Caine Mutiny, which was based on Herman Wouk's novel of the same name. The Caine Mutiny is one of the best-ever screen adaptations of a novel, and its featured players, in addition to Bogie, who may have demonstrated his abilities as an actor better in this film than in any other he ever made (he was the anti-Bogie in this one), were never, in my opinion, better in any of their other films: Fred MacMurray, Van Johnson and Jose Ferrer -- probably because the script and characterization they were given in The Caine Mutiny were of surpassing excellence.
Made in the mid-1950s, the screenplay of The Caine Mutiny departed from Wouk's novel in one very significant particular: the novel placed heavy emphasis on antiSemitism. As good as it was, the film might bear a remake in which the theme about antiSemitism is retained. It would have a choice part for Michael Caine, playing either Queeg, or the Caine's captain who is relaced by Queeg as skipper of the good ship Caine at the beginning of the film and who replaces Queeg as the skipper of the Caine at the end of the film. As with the other featured players in the original film, Tom Tully, who played this latter part, was probably never better in any other film that he made.
It would be an oversight to fail to mention that the producer of the film (Stanley Kramer) and the director (Edward Dmytryk, who, like Elia Kazan, co-operated with HUAC) have few if any equals in to-day's Hollywood.
He is so right.
Caine is right. I gave up watching movies on a regular basis about ten years ago. Every now and then a good flick comes out, but it's very rare. Virtually all of todays filmmakers are diehard libs who are careful to inject tons of lib propaganda and otherwise pretentious pc drivel in their wretched works.
Michael...talk about banal films...where you a little light in the checking account when you did JAWS 4???
It also doesn't help that there seems to be no place for maturity in movies these days. I'm tired of the endless stream of movies starring unknown actors and actresses who just got out of high school.
Michael Caine starred in many trite, commonplace movies concerning the military all his career. Further he had a starring role in the following regrettable releases: Blame It On Rio, Beyond The Poseidon Adventure, and Victory (which combined war cliches, prison cliches, Yanks vs. Brits cliches, and sports cliches).
Michael Caine's comments are akin to Elvis saying there was too much drug abuse in the music industry.
Graham Greene would be redacted these days.