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Last Man Standing

Mycroft

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I was looking at PADDY's website and I nodiced some pics from Last MAn Standing with Bruce Willis, I liked it, any comments from anyone else who say it etc.

P.S. PADDY get well soon and I like your patches
 

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I liked it, too, but I just like that story. I liked it as Dashiell Hammett's Red Harvest, as Akira Kurosawa's Yojimbo, as Sergio Leone's A Fistful of Dollars and as David Drake's At the Sharp End. It's just a cool tale. (Just about any of Leslie Charteris' The Saint stories are also somewhat similar.)

And Bruce Willis had just too many magazines for those .45's!
 

Mycroft

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Yea, I see how it is like all of those, addtionally I think it so funny in the movie how he just sits there and loads all the magazines, man he must be a good shot because he dosen't want to waste his hard work.
 

Mycroft

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One can of .45's is around let's say holds 16 boxes of 20 rounds a box. So he has around 300 something rounds. Thats like 25 magizines of 7 rounds a piece. Ouch thats a lot of weight to carry and load, plus 2 M1911's.
 

LuckyLighter

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Here is another example of a movie that I was crazy about when it was released, while the critics panned it (I was also a big fan of "Heaven's Prisoners", but then again put Teri Hatcher in movie where she's not wearing much--if anything at all--and you've got my attention :cheers1: ;) ). Well that was long digression.

Anyway, everything about that movie is pitch perfect, from the way it was shot--all raw, and dusty, and faded--to the soundtrack, to the acting. Christopher Walken! My main man, had some awesome lines:

Walken: I heard you got Finn. That was Doyle's best shooter.
Willis: I thought you were the best.
Walken: Nah, just the best lookin'.

The dialogue was so gritty and clever:

Finn: I guess you'll just have to kill me.
John Smith: It'll hurt if I do.

I think this will turn out to be one of those cult movies, that over time will get the recognition it deserves. I know a lot of people who are fans of this movie, as well as--and this is surprising--college film professors who really dig this movie.
 

Marlowe

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LuckyLighter said:
...I know a lot of people who are fans of this movie, as well as--and this is surprising--college film professors who really dig this movie.
That doesn't really surprise me. As you say, there's a lot to like about this movie. And it does a good job of telling this story as a gangster movie set in the Twenties with homages/references to other genres of "film" like Westerns and Eighties action flicks. It just does it all in a low-key-yet-intense kind of vibe that's pretty hard to pull off as well as it does. (I bet these are the same film prof's that also like Ronin with Robert DeNiro, Sean Bean and Jean Reno.)
 

Badluck Brody

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Actually watching it right now...

I usually let something play in the BG and just picked an old tape up for a song. One of my favorites just for kicks.

Brody
 

HaraldTheSwede

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I think this is a decent movie at least, but doesn't make it all the way. Willis looks great and his voice is perfect. Walken is pure evil, and the dialogue isn't bad. But somehow I feel this movie lacks a soul. It just isn't engaging or convincing.
 

Matt Crunk

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Marlowe said:
I liked it, too, but I just like that story. I liked it as Dashiell Hammett's Red Harvest, as Akira Kurosawa's Yojimbo, as Sergio Leone's A Fistful of Dollars and as David Drake's At the Sharp End. It's just a cool tale. (Just about any of Leslie Charteris' The Saint stories are also somewhat similar.)

And Bruce Willis had just too many magazines for those .45's!


Let's not forget Miller's Crossing is also essentially the same story, retold via an adaptation of both Red Harvest and The Glass Key. Both Miller's Crossing and Last Man Standing are among my favorite comtemporary films, the later being very underrated IMHO.
 

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LuckyLighter said:
but then again put Teri Hatcher in movie where she's not wearing much--if anything at all--and you've got my attention

Therapy will help that problem...but then you would just go and watch back episodes of Desperate Housewives right?[huh]
 

vintage68

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I'm obsessed with this movie, and find it very compelling for reasons I don't really understand myself. I've watched it more times than I care to admit.

The movie was also the reason I started getting into vintage stuff in the first place.

I went so far as to have THREE custom double shoulder holster rigs made, before I found a leather craftsman that could duplicate the movie rig exactly. The rig will be featured in the magazine "Combat Handguns" coming out soon.
 

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Just rewatched this for the first time in years. I loved it more this time around. Many of the suits look vintage to my eye (lots of heavy looking wools), everyone's got a great fedora or newsboy, and Willis' haircut is pretty cool too!
 

vintage68

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Yep, still one of my all-time favorites. Watch it every once in a while. I have the book (yes, they made a novelization of the movie), and in it John Smith has an "institutional" haircut to indicate he had recently spent time "inside."
 

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