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Yuri Petrovitch
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Edmond O'Brien: an actor so committed to being gross and disgusting, you can smell him.

"Ninja Jimmy Caan" needs to be a gimmick commentator name.

"THEY?" WHO THE HELL IS "THEY?!?"

I dunno man, Killer Elite is pretty lifeless, which is weird considering it's proximity to Alfredo Garcia which, for whatever its other flaws . . .not a movie that drags its feet.

It can be two things.

Cable Hogue and Junior Bonner may surprise you, then.

"GIMME ALL YA GOT! GIMME ALL YA GOT!"

Though to be fair, I kinda love Yelling Al Pacino in Devil's Advocate, just because he seems to be trying to make the movie better by yelling at it.

Tragically, they plumb ran outta money.

I keep drifting back to the weird fast-motion bits.

Well, Lucas and Milus and all of them went to see "Wild Bunch" just when they were breaking in—I don't see how you can't be totally primed for something like that to blow your ideas of what action in movies can be wide open.

Cross of Iron is pretty great, even if the ending sorta jumps the rails. It's kinda like Major Dundee, except you're following Richard Harris' character rather than Charlton Heston's

In between all these are Junior Bonner which is probably one of his most fully-realized character studies and The Ballad of Cable Hogue which is. . .basically Peckinpah doing a Fellini film.

DIRECTED BY SAM PECKINPAH

"I said I'd send them back. It's all I said I'd do."

Pat Garrett isn't perfect, but it it is great. Just a wonderful, depressed, dark movie about destroying yourself.

Gotta give props to Robert Ryan in the scene just after the massacre. That moment when he takes Pike's gun and sits down and it's pretty much wordless (except for Strother Martin and L.Q. Jones playing vultures) and sad and exhausted. In that moment you imagine he must look like what people who see the movie for the

Truth. Ride the High Country is basically fantastic.

Heat is basically like treasure in that it's a phenomenal movie that Crazy Al Pacino also wandered into.

The 2 things I remember about Virtual Fighter 2 is Lion's theme, which had this awesome slap-bass breakdown in the middle of it, and that eerie atmospheric fight under the ocean with Dural.