Recent Viewing Part IV

TIM is that film as good as they say?

I watched one called "Doomsday Machine" last night that has to be in the one category,one of the Elvira package. To further complicate matters I fell asleep while watching it with a coke in my hand and proceeded to spill it all over me and the bed linen which is now being washed this morning. Nothing like changing the linen early in the morning when I could barely stand up.
Tom

I thought some of the score was okay.

I suppose that means it must be crap really.

Hey, don't say that about my boss!

Seriously : http://www.tracksounds.com/reviews/capt … ackman.htm

Oh, I agree with you. In this particular case.

Tonight it's going to be "Magnum Force" which is the first of the Eastwood series with Harry Callahan.
Tom

It's not crap. It's okay. It's an acceptable action movie that just happens to share the same title as a classic 80s action film. It really should have been called Cyborgman or something.

Magnum Force if you've not seen it is a good entry into the series.
Tom

Even though it's been a long while, I decided to finally wathc the Fockford Files TV movies, which I had never seen. There were eight of them. EDIT: there were seven, not eight; people have been counting the pilot movie as an eight TV movie. I'm counting TV movies after the show ended.

I started out of order, since there doesn't appear to be any special need to view them in order.


Generally I've found TV movies from TV series, suck powerful ass, such as the MacGyver ones (which I sampled, but were so terrible I can't believe they made them) and the horrid Andy Griffith's TV movie (among others), but so far these Rockford films seen to have completely avoided that trend.


Garner hasn't lost it at all, though he's certainly not the running around actiony kind of detective he once was in his youth, but it all there, even things that get lost in later movies: he still has his gold car, he still has the same beach hour (which appears to be in the same spot as the TV series), he still has his annoying friend Angel, still has the same police captain, still has Dennis Becker as a friend, and so forth. And also great to have: Mike Post scoring them. And the iconic theme is used to open them (so far, I've not seen all of them), though it's a new performance (but faithful to the original).


Some nice touches: they actually visited Jim Rockford's father's grave (he died while they were making a TV movie); they didn't just glance over the passing of the actor and made so to mention it. And for some reason, probably out of respect from the producers and Mike Post, even though Pete Carpenter passed away before the movies, he's still credited as co-composed for the movie scores.


"If the Frame Fits..."
Is a fun little one where Jim is framed for murder.


"Godfather Knows Best"
Dennis's son is leading an aimless and homeless life.

"Punishment and Crime"
Okay, certainly not as enjoyable as the others. An old flame of Jim's comes back into his life but has problems (and yes, litterally she's reprisingly a role from the original series). A twist of the opening theme isn't bad at all, though short.


I'd say that if these are any indication, the complete scores to all them could fit on one CD -- there's really not that much scoring.


EDIT:
I've seen all but one and I can safely say the first two I mentioned, are the best.

fun and good films too

That does sound pretty adult.

I got the films mixed up. Didn't he do 4 of them?
Tom

5 of them Tom. Here they are in order of release...

Dirty Harry
Magnum Force
The Enforcer
Sudden Impact
The Dead Pool

All scored by Lalo Schifrin except The Enforcer which I know you're aware it is scored by Jerry Fielding.