The Man Who Would Be King BBC4 tonight.

[Gingerman]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00j275m

A chance for anyone who hasn't seen this excellent film to do so at 10 tonight on BBC4..

 

[Sprocket.]

I am tempted to say the best performances from both lead actors.

 

[Pickman's model]

good to see original british writing making a come-back on the bbc

 

[Gingerman]

John Huston originally wanted Clarke Gable and Humprey Bogart to play the starring roles back in the '40s,then Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas.By the time he got round to making the film in the '70s he settled on Connery and Caine.

 

[Pickman's model]

John Huston originally wanted Clarke Gable and Humprey Bogart to play the starring roles back in the '40s,then Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas.By the time he got round to making the film in the '70s he settled on Connery and Caine.

now it would be cumberbatch and law.

 

[5t3IIa]

I'll watch either of them in almost anything, but I have to say Robin and Marion was a bit of a strain yesterday.

 

[Gingerman]

now it would be cumberbatch and law.

Indeed

 

[Belushi]

It's a great film, one of Caine's best performance.

 

[Pickman's model]

Indeed

yeh, i didn't mean it in a good way.

 

[Reno]

Indeed

Maybe they wouldn't have been right for those particular roles, but they certainly are no worse actors than Caine and Connery. Neither of them have phoned in as many performances as Caine and Connery did in their later years for a pay check.

 

[Gingerman]

I'll watch either of them in almost anything, but I have to say Robin and Marion was a bit of a strain yesterday.

I loved Robin and Marion,think it is a wonderfully elegiac and melancholic film about growing old,its got an incrediblely moving bittersweet ending as well.What a cast,Connery,Hepburn,Harris,Nicol Williamson,Robert Shaw and......Ronnie Barker

 

[hot air baboon]

...remember seeing this at the local flea pit in the holidays in a double-bill with a long forgotten Gene Hackman film called March or Die that from memory was an attempt to do Zulu crossed with Beau Geste...

 

[Pickman's model]

Maybe they wouldn't have been right for those particular roles, but they certainly are no worse actors than Caine and Connery. Neither of them have phoned in as many performances as Caine and Connery did in their later years for a pay check.

both of course still with us

 

[Gingerman]

Maybe they wouldn't have been right for those particular roles, but they certainly are no worse actors than Caine and Connery. Neither of them have phoned in as many performances as Caine and Connery did in their later years for a pay check.

I'd still watch most films they're in though even their phoned in performances, cant say the same for Law and Cumberbatch.

 

[Pickman's model]

I'd still watch most films they're in though even their phoned in performances, cant say the same for Law and Cumberbatch.

i think jude law's best performance was in the oscar wilde film fry was in, and that was back in '97, '98

 

[Reno]

both of course still with us

I probably should have clarified "later years of their career" to make my statement pedant safe.

I'd still watch most films they're in though even their phoned in performances, cant say the same for Law and Cumberbatch.

Ones admiration for Caine as an actor can't help but take a hit after seeing Jaws IV: The Revenge and ditto for Connery in The Avengers (not the Marvel one, the TV show "reimagining").

 

[Gingerman]

i think jude law's best performance was in the oscar wilde film fry was in, and that was back in '97, '98

I struggle to remember any of his roles tbh....

 

[Pickman's model]

I probably should have clarified "later years of their career" to make my statement pedant safe.

if i'd been pedantic i would have pointed out it's cheque not check.

 

[Pickman's model]

I struggle to remember any of his roles tbh....

how fortunate for you.

 

[Gingerman]

I probably should have clarified "later years of their career" to make my statement pedant safe.



Ones admiration for Caine as an actor can't help but take a hit after seeing Jaws IV: The Revenge and ditto for Connery in The Avengers (not the Marvel one, the TV show "reimagining").

Even Caine alluded that Jaws IV was a piece of crap,said it paid for a new swimming pool for his place in Hollywood .

 

[Sirena]

 

[5t3IIa]

Maybe they wouldn't have been right for those particular roles, but they certainly are no worse actors than Caine and Connery. Neither of them have phoned in as many performances as Caine and Connery did in their later years for a pay check.

Caine on Jaws 4: The Revenge "No, I have not seen the movie but I have seen the house it bought and it's very nice"

 

[5t3IIa]

Even Caine alluded that Jaws IV was a piece of crap,said it paid for a new swimming pool for his place in Hollywood .

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093300/trivia

 

[pinkychukkles]

Ones admiration for Caine as an actor can't help but take a hit after seeing...

The Swarm ?

I have never seen it, but by all accounts it is terrible. However, I have seen the house that it built, and it is terrific.

upon being asked about Jaws 4.

e2a: damn, 5t3lla & Gingerman beat me to it!

 

[Gingerman]

Forgot about The Swarm,now that was a big pile of poo,you can almost imagine Caine saying to himself "Just think of the paycheck" in every scene

 

[danny la rouge]

I struggle to remember any of his roles tbh....

I was going to say I've never seen Jude Law in anything (other than the day he walked past me on the street), but it seems I have. So he was in the Stephen Fry film about Oscar Wilde was he?

Who was he?

 

[fishfinger]

I was going to say I've never seen Jude Law in anything (other than the day he walked past me on the street), but it seems I have. So he was in the Stephen Fry film about Oscar Wilde was he?

Who was he?

Bosie

 

[danny la rouge]

Bosie

So that was before he was famous, surely, because I didn't know that .

 

[5t3IIa]

Jude Law was very good in The Talented Mr. Ripley. Pretty, shiny and almost deserved to die - the part was made for him

 

[Artaxerxes]

Ones admiration for Caine as an actor can't help but take a hit after seeing Jaws IV: The Revenge and ditto for Connery in The Avengers (not the Marvel one, the TV show "reimagining").

Connery was ace in that, the rest of it was shite mind. Its like Christopher Lee or Michael Caine, or Sean Bean, you watch the shit film and its clear even phoning it in they are knocking it out of the park. Oooh yes, that reminds me, Peter O'Toole in Troy vs Brad Pitt, no contest.