movie reco

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Ok, great, I haven't seen this one or at least don't remember seeing it, so I'm in. Thanks for the reco. Shit, we might end up watching all the A-team episodes again at this rate (actually I don't think I saw all of the episodes of the A-team back when it aired).

I have the A-Team Box Set.
Peppard said in an interview that he got bored after season one.
He continued on because the money was good, and he finally got out of debt.
I enjoyed the first 3 seasons.
Seasons 4 and 5 lost its charm for me after they introduced new characters and changed the formula.

Great info Monet, thanks. Stephen J. Cannell Productions for the win.

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Continuing on with my Peppard kick.
It's free.
It's something to watch if you're bored.
Cop Movie.
I think Tarantino said this movie is what inspired the Dirty Harry, Clint Eastwood films.
Peppard smoking cigarettes, drinking whiskey and slapping women.
It doesn't get any better than this lol.

Pendulum 1969

I have to agree with Tarantino here. In particular, the 1st Dirty Harry film (Dirty Harry, 1971), where a complete nutjob (shown below) gets soft treatment by the law and then goes on to commit additional mayhem (kidnapping and traumatizing the bus full of kids and the bus driver, etc.). Peppard doesn't fuck around - he evades arrest and proves his own innocence by going to the murderer/rapist's mom's place where the killer is staying (so what if killer's mom looks the same age as the killer) saving himself huge attorney's fees potentially and a possible wrongful conviction. These independent spirit films are inspiring. That's the same reason I like the Dirty Harry and the Escape from New York/LA movies so much. Thanks again for the reco - I enjoyed the film.

[monet]

I have to agree with Tarantino here. In particular, the 1st Dirty Harry film (Dirty Harry, 1971), where a complete nutjob (shown below) gets soft treatment by the law and then goes on to commit additional mayhem (kidnapping and traumatizing the bus full of kids and the bus driver, etc.). Peppard doesn't fuck around - he evades arrest and proves his own innocence by going to the murderer/rapist's mom's place where the killer is staying (so what if killer's mom looks the same age as the killer) saving himself huge attorney's fees potentially and a possible wrongful conviction. These independent spirit films are inspiring. That's the same reason I like the Dirty Harry and the Escape from New York/LA movies so much. Thanks again for the reco - I enjoyed the film.

Yeah, that movie is very simple and straightforward, but it has a lot of complexity to it.
It's so realistic how all the people that have known you for 14 years will turn on you in an instant.
His wife is literally killed in his apartment, and nobody gave a shit, lol.
He literally lost every partner and friend overnight.
They would have lynched him if it was 100 years prior.
It really showed how corrupt and phony the system really is.
Especially the so called "Justice" System.
Lucky it was the 60s.
In many states today they would have jailed him for resisting arrest and obstructing justice not to mention some other charges.

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It's so realistic how all the people that have known you for 14 years will turn on you in an instant.
His wife is literally killed in his apartment, and nobody gave a shit, lol.
He literally lost every partner and friend overnight.

Excellent point. The only one that didn't turn on him was the housekeeper. The big lesson from this movie is just how easily an event outside one's control can ruin their life. If a very unlikely event happens (or more than one), you're done (homelessness, severe injury, death). All the innocent people that have been incarcerated for life or for decades can identify with this film. There is always a large supply of morons available to apathetically discard the improbable.

On a lighter note, I used to think that Commodore character (William Windom) in the Doomsday Machine episode of Star Trek (Season 2, Episode 6) was Peppard, when I was a kid. But, of course it's not - it's a vastly inferior prototype.

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Welp, since you brought Star Trek into the mix, we might as well feature this movie.
I haven't watched it yet, but it was supposed to be bigger than Star Wars.
Of course it wasn't.
Supposedly the studios took a million dollars out of the Star Wars Budget for this film.
YouTube has 4 or 5 uploads if this one isn't working.
George Peppard and Jan Michael Vincent in:

Damnation Alley (1977)

[monet]

Welp, since you brought Star Trek into the mix, we might as well feature this movie.
I haven't watched it yet, but it was supposed to be bigger than Star Wars.
Of course it wasn't.
Supposedly the studios took a million dollars out of the Star Wars Budget for this film
Damnation Alley (1977)

Alright, I got some bad information about this movie.
lol... I can't believe I watched the entire thing.
I have no idea why Peppard decided to do some sort of Southern Accent for this movie.
I have no clue how this movie got greenlit.
At least the actors got paid.
I do think the Book of Eli stole some ideas from Damnation Alley, lol.

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Welp, since you brought Star Trek into the mix, we might as well feature this movie.
I haven't watched it yet, but it was supposed to be bigger than Star Wars.
Of course it wasn't.
Supposedly the studios took a million dollars out of the Star Wars Budget for this film
Damnation Alley (1977)

Alright, I got some bad information about this movie.
lol... I can't believe I watched the entire thing.
I have no idea why Peppard decided to do some sort of Southern Accent for this movie.
I have no clue how this movie got greenlit.
At least the actors got paid.
I do think the Book of Eli stole some ideas from Damnation Alley, lol.

Thanks for the reco Monet. I saw this movie a few years (maybe 7 or 8 years, but I don't remember for certain) after it came out. It gets shown every once in awhile on TV. I guess they figured that they could just coast on Jan-Michael Vincent's mega-star power of the time (The World's Greatest Athlete, The Mechanic, etc.). One of my favorite authors is Roger Zelazny (you may recall that he wrote the famous The Chronicles of Amber series). This movie was based on the book Damnation Alley as you may recall. The book wasn't one of Zelazny's best, but the movie doesn't even respect this mediocre effort (comparatively speaking) of Zelazny's.

A few words must be written here about Jan-Michael Vincent since his story has to be one of the biggest tragedies of all time in Hollywood. This dude was on top of the world in the mid-70's as you know. He had it totally made. He could have any woman he wanted for example at that time. But alcohol totally ruined him. I mean words can't even describe how badly this guy got wrecked. Some of his final straight to VHS movies make Damnation Alley look like The Godfather by comparison. When he died somewhere in the South a few years, back, it wasn't until a couple weeks later that people other than from that little town he lived knew about it. And this guy was a world-wide megastar as mentioned above. I mean, it would have been like if when Michael Jackson died, that the tabloids and MSM didn't know about the death until a couple weeks later.