#jack mcliam

[michigandrifter]

Showdown 1973

[abs0luteb4stard]

W A T C H I N G

[genevieveetguy]

He personified the American West in the days of its rowdy youth.

The Missouri Breaks, Arthur Penn (1976)

[argotspeak]

The “almost poetic” firearm that the sadistic, eccentric regulator Lee Clayton (portrayed by Marlon Brando) wields, with deadly accuracy, is enough to unnerve horse thief/would-be farmer Tom Logan (Jack Nicholson); that, and Clayton's bizarre, incomprehensible, disquieting carryings-on. Clayton clearly already knows that Logan is the primary horse-thieving perpetrator; however, he prefers to enact an involved, unfathomable game, for his own pleasure.

Regulator Lee Clayton manages to convey more sheer menace from a bubble bath than has ever been done in the annals of recorded history. An armed Tom Logan (Jack Nicholson), set to avenge the death of Little Tod, is, despite his apparent advantage, summarily unnerved and bamboozled; he does, however, score a minor victory by severely wounding the ontologically-different Clayton's bathtub. Afterwards, Logan converses with a colleague about Clayton’s formidable, uncanny, mesmeric power: “I had him.” “You think anybody could do it? I mean... an ordinary fella?” “I don't know. Seems like somebody oughta be able to get the job done. Just watch it is all. I'll tell you one thing, though. Don't start talkin' to him.”

Lee Clayton has encountered more than one Mental Wizard in his day....and, according to the perceptive regulator, they seem to share one common trait: they can't manage to hold on to their women, necessitating rhetorical queries such as “Where’s your Wife?” Clayton begins to engage in what is known as Undisguised Taunting, with his very employer, David Braxton, as the target.

Lee Clayton employs an extended bat metaphor to further taunt and enrage David Braxton (John McLiam); the land baron, his composure very long gone, delivers one of the most canonical, epoch-defining "Shut Up!, he explained..." moments in human history; and Clayton manages to even further bamboozle his erstwhile employer into stunned silence. And, mission seemingly accomplished, the regulator unhurriedly rides off, to further adventures.

[deepredradio]

Rambo: First Blood

Story: John Rambo, einen ehemaligen Einzelkämpfer einer Spezialeinheit,  kehrt zurück ins Zivilleben und will den letzten Freund besuchen, den er aus früheren Vietnam-Einheit noch am Leben glaubt. Weil dem Sheriff der Kleinstadt weder Rambos Aussehen noch seine Art als Anhalter zu reisen gefällt, nimmt er ihn fest, um ihn “zu einem ordentlichen Mann zu machen.” Er und seine Gehilfen beleidigen…

[bondsmagii]

HI I'm in love with you, you top books rec please?

all my favourites can be found on my ever-expanding favourites shelf on Goodreads! however, to narrow it down a little, my favourites so far this year:

House of Leaves by Mark Z Danielewski

The Bang-Bang Club by Greg Marinovich and Joao Silva*

My War Gone By, I Miss It So by Anthony Loyd*

Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer*

Wyrd and Other Derelictions by Adam Nevill

The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper by Hallie Rubenhold*

and some constant go-tos:

IT by Stephen King

The Secret History by Donna Tartt

The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters

We Need To Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver

The Fisherman by John Langan

Eureka Street by Robert McLiam Wilson

Starve Acre by Andrew Michael Hurley

The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch

Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer*

(* denotes non-fiction)

[eyeliketwowatch]

The Missouri Breaks - Brando gone wild

Oddball quirky western from 1976 which was touted at the time of its release as a ‘meeting of the two greatest actors of our time’, but the box office for this one was a disappointment. The movie is beautiful to look at, with some interesting lighting choices, and nice scenery, and the cast is peppered with some nice character actors including Harry Dean Stanton and Randy Quaid, but the story is mostly pointless, and Brando’s performance, is well... I guess you either love it or you hate it.

Nicholson plays a member of a gang of horse thieves, who decide to pay back a dictatorial rancher who just hung one of their members by buying a ranch nearby him as a way station for selling their stolen stock. Someone kills the rancher’s ‘ramrod’ (not sure which of the gang does this), and he hires an eccentric ‘regulator’ to take care of the horse thieves (Brando). Nearly everybody gets killed by the final reel, and the story seems to have little or no point other than giving the actors a chance to strut their stuff. Nicholson plays it mostly straight, but Brando is having a field day, switching up oddball costumes and hats, changing accents every other scene and chewing as much scenery as he can get his pudgy jaws around. (I especially like the last costume, when he burns the hideout and kills Harry Dean Stanton) This guy is clearly having much more fun than the audience.

3 stars out of 5

Released 1976, First viewing July 2017

[saturdaynightmatinee]

CALIFICACIÓN PERSONAL: 7 / 10

Título Original: Sleeper

Año: 1973

Duración: 88 min.

País: Estados Unidos

Director: Woody Allen

Guion: Woody Allen, Marshall Brickman

Música: Woody Allen

Fotografía: David M. Walsh

Reparto: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, John Beck, Mary Gregory, Don Keefer, John McLiam, Bartlett Robinson, Chris Forbes, Susan Miller, Lou Picetti

Productora: Jack Rollins & Charles H. Joffe Production. Distribuida por United Artists

Género: Comedy, Sci-Fi

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070707/

TRAILER: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FRLeYaut3o

[cinemacinemas-fr]

Rambo de Ted Kotcheff (1982) #Cinemannonce 332

Retrouvez la bande-annonce du film Rambo ponctuée des secrets de tournage et d'anecdotes sur celui-ci. ■ Abonnez-vous sur YouTube ► https://goo.gl/dck70g ■ Suivez-moi sur Twitter ► https://goo.gl/IMyExb ■ Rejoignez-moi sur Facebook ► https://goo.gl/eWnGLq ■ Suivez-moi sur Instagram ► https://goo.gl/N7expq 🎥 Rambo (First Blood) est un film d'action américain réalisé par Ted Kotcheff, sorti en 1982. ✎ John Rambo, ancien combattant du Viêt-Nam où il a gagné plusieurs médailles, est arrêté dans une petite ville pour vagabondage. Maltraité, il décide de fuir. La chasse à l’homme commence... 🎬 Fiche technique ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ Réalisation : Ted Kotcheff Directeur de la photographie : Andrew Laszlo Musique : Jerry Goldsmith Date de sortie France : 2 mars 1983 ☺ Distribution ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ Sylvester Stallone, Richard Crenna, Brian Dennehy, Bill McKinney, Jack Starrett, Michael Talbott, Chris Mulkey, John McLiam, Alf Humphreys, David Caruso ✎ Sources Wikipedia: https://ift.tt/2YVewzg ✎ Sources AlloCiné: https://ift.tt/1IZXd0I #SylvesterStallone #RichardCrenna #BrianDennehy #BillMcKinney #JackStarrett #MichaelTalbott #ChrisMulkey #JohnMcLiam #AlfHumphreys #DavidCaruso #TedKotcheff #DavidMorrell #AndrewLaszlo #JerryGoldsmith https://youtu.be/2KHlpeAbzAg

[bondsmagii]

Books that you consider a masterpiece rec?

oh man this is gonna be tough. I will try to be as harsh as possible so I don't give a list of like 10000 books but god. man.

I will also warn you that I have some very niche areas of interest when it comes to reading so some of these might be both highly specific and not to everyone's taste, but I suppose you can say the same about any book so like. let's go.

Fiction

Eureka Street by Robert McLiam Wilson

The Fisherman by John Langan

The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke

Starve Acre by Andrew Michael Hurley

The Loney by Andrew Michael Hurley

The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch

IT by Stephen King

We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver

The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

A Perfect Spy by John le Carré

Declare by Tim Powers

The Secret History by Donna Tartt

Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters

The Night Circus by Sarah Morgenstern

Non-Fiction

Man is Wolf to Man: Surviving Stalin's Gulag by Janusz Bardach

The Perfect Storm by Sebastian Junger

The Children's Blizzard by David Laskin

The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of the Donner Party by Daniel James Brown

Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad by M. T. Anderson

Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer

Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer

The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin's Russia by Orlando Figes

Chernobyl Prayer: A Chronicle of the Future by Svetlana Alexievich

The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper by Hallie Rubenhold

Nagasaki: Life After Nuclear War by Susan Southard