Is Under Seige the greatest film ever made?

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"he can't talk right now, he's in a gunfight"

haha!

"I'm the cook, mumble mumble"

jel -- (jel), Thursday, 12 December 2002 10:06 (twenty-two years ago)

I take your silence as agreement.

jel -- (jel), Thursday, 12 December 2002 10:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Don't!

Lara, Thursday, 12 December 2002 10:41 (twenty-two years ago)

No. 'Salright though - as good as Die Hard on a Ship can be (with Speed 2: Cruise Control being an example of how bad it can be).

Those On A Ship varients of movies:
Carry On Cruising (Carry on on a ship)
The Posidon Adventure (DIsaster movie on a ship)
Deep Rising (Alien on a ship with sense of humour)
Virus (Alien on a ship without sense of humour and a lousy Donald Sutherland performance)

Any more for any more?

Pete (Pete), Thursday, 12 December 2002 10:54 (twenty-two years ago)

sorry, i watched marnie over on itv instead.

marnie = NOT one of hitchcock's better films, but still very entertaining for psychodrama/repressed memory themes which were probably very scandalous at the time, but merely weepy womens film fodder now...

and what kind of NUT upon finding out that the employee that you were sleeping with was really a convicted spying fraudster thief, would proceed to MARRY HER and drag her off into high society... (no cherie blair jokes, please...)

kate, Thursday, 12 December 2002 11:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Any film with Colm Meaney, Gary Busey in a dress, and Tommy Lee Jones as Dave Lee Roth can't be all bad. It tries pretty hard, though. Bonus point for one of Erika Eleniak's first lines being "I'm not an actress". Bonus points removed for her having further lines.

Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 12 December 2002 11:38 (twenty-two years ago)

haha Andrew I thought she said she WAS an actress.

I like SS's really minimalist kick-ass style though - his 'fights' usually last about 2 seconds, and he's quite happy to just shoot someone instantly or even sneakily without shouting 'drop your gun!' first.

Snowy Mann (rdmanston), Thursday, 12 December 2002 11:44 (twenty-two years ago)

It is GREAT. I'm told that The Last Boy Scout is similarly classic. And there's always Super Mario Bros (Is it Super Mario Bros or Demolition Man??) with that weird "Three sea shells instead of toilet paper joke" - where did that come from?

Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Thursday, 12 December 2002 11:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Demolition Man has the three shells joke (and hence the slightly distasteful idea that Stallone is wandering around with a dirty arse for the rest of the film).

Last Boy Scout is indeed grimly great.

Pete (Pete), Thursday, 12 December 2002 12:01 (twenty-two years ago)

I too watched Marnie instead, although I managed to catch the bit with Erika jumping out of the cake. yum.

Fuzzy (Fuzzy), Thursday, 12 December 2002 12:08 (twenty-two years ago)

"It's me! And I've brought me tits!"

Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 12 December 2002 13:02 (twenty-two years ago)

serious answer:

no, Under Siege II is - (Die Hard on a Train).

There's slightly less scope for the classic forearm-to-the-neck-down-they-fall fighting style referred to above, but the scooby doo sex triangle involving Casey, his niece and the porter (?) is far more interesting than the wooden hero/playboy trophy relationship of SS I (Die Hard on a Marine Vessel). Actually, I can't remember anything interesting about the ship film.

ds, Thursday, 12 December 2002 20:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Those On A Ship varients of movies:

The shipboard portions of A Night at the Opera--the Marx Brothers at sea, in classic form.

j.lu (j.lu), Thursday, 12 December 2002 20:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Fitzcarraldo (hauling a boat through the mountains with Klaus)
Das Boot (German U Boats were claustrophobic, apparantly)
African Queen (beware of leeches)

Aaron W, Thursday, 12 December 2002 21:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Couple more "those on a ship" movies: Juggernaut (Richard Harris as spastic bomb defuser) and Cityhunter (Jackie Chan)

Chris Barrus (xibalba), Friday, 13 December 2002 00:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Titanic: Fictionalized history... on a boat.

jm (jtm), Friday, 13 December 2002 02:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Moby Dick = Star Trek 2 on a ship!

Justyn Dillingham (Justyn Dillingham), Friday, 13 December 2002 13:51 (twenty-two years ago)


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