Hack Fest

This has been Hack fest honoring one of the greatest actors and milkshake makers in American history Gene Hackman. Join us next time for Queen fest where we will honor the films of actor Steve Mcqueen.

Kill me? Lex Luthor? Extinguish the greatest criminal flame of our age?

I just finished the last film for Hackman week. It is one of the vary few sequels that is as good the first movie.  It's good because it has Clifton James as a cop. For those who do not know who Clifton James is he's Sheriff JW Pepper in the bond films Live and let die and also Man with the golden gun. Anything with him has got to be good. 5 stars for both 1 and 2.

We all have our little faults. Mine's in California.

Today to finish Hackman week. I watched Superman Starring Marlon Brando,Christopher Reeve as Superman and last but not least Gene Hackman as Lex Luthor. The film is directed by Richard Donner director of such films as the Leathal Weapon 1,2,3 and 4. This in my opinion is the best super hero film ever made. And let us not forget the wonderful theme music by John Williams.

God bless Field Marshall Montgomery.

A Bridge to far tells the story of Market Garden a plan to take German factories and win the war.
Everything goes wrong. This movie has pretty much every famous actor. It has Robert Redford,Anthony Hopkins,Sean Connery and of course Gene Hackman. The film was directed by the great actor Richard Attenborough. This movie is a great war film because it shows the failures of Bernard Motgomery. We would have won with George.

Anybody want a milkshake

I just got done watching The second best cop/crime movie behind Dirty Harry. It is the French Connection. It stars Hackman and also Roy Scheider as two narcotics cops from New York City. Who come upon a criminal that is smuggling heroin from France into the United States. The movie has many great lines like the one on top where he and Roy do a drug bust in a bar and he puts all the drugs into a glass with beer shakes it up and asks them if they would like a milkshake then he dumps it on the counter and they leave. A 5 star movie deserves 5 Oscars. It's one hell of a film. Hackman's second best performance after Hoosiers.

Son, whatever you do, don't sell that cow

Yesterday as part of Hackman week I watched Bonnie and Clyde. With Warren Beatty,Fay Dunaway and the first performance of Gene Wilder who is most known for his roll as Willy Wonka. This is a great film because it is one of the first films to have lots of blood in it. And also the famous death scene of Bonnie and Clyde which paved the way for films like the Wild Bunch. Hackman won an Oscar in this film for his performance as Clyde's brother. He deserved it. They made a smart choice for once in there lives.

You want another life? Then take me!

Today as part of my week long Hackman fest I watched The Poseidon Adventure Directed by
Ronald Neame(23 April 1911 – 16 June 2010)RIP. It also has an all star cast including Hackman,Red Buttons,Ernest Borgnine and Leslie Nielsen as the captain. It takes place on new years eve and a large earthquake is recorded. Then the lookout spots a huge wave coming right at them.It is too late for the ship the wave smashes into the boat overturning it and killing many on board. Gene Hackman who plays Reverend Frank Scott tries to get every one out of the dining room but only a few will go. Minutes later there is shaking and the Reverend looks to see water pouring into the dining room and within ten minutes most of them are dead. Then 10 people Hackman,Borgnine,Buttons and a few others have too go around the ship looking for a way out. In the end they are finally saved but with only 6 instead of 10. It is the best of the disaster films of the 1970's Towering Inferno and Airport.

Now all you gotta do is pull the trigger mister.

Last night I watched Unforgiven which was directed and produced by the great Clint Eastwood. Starring Eastwood,Morgan Freeman,Richard Harris and of course Gene Hackman. Clint plays William Munny a outlaw who has given up his old ways to take up farming with his two kids.Then he meets this young who tells him about a reward on two cowboys who cut up a women. So he gets his friend Ned Logan played by Freeman and the three head to kill the two men responsible. Then they find and kill the two cowboys only to learn that Logan is killed. So then Eastwood and the boy part ways and he heads off to kill Hackman which he does in a climactic ending to a great western.

Let's go get our boy back!

After I watched Hoosiers I watched one of his more recent films Behind Enemy Lines. It stars Owen Wilson in which him and another pilot are on a reconnaissance mission over Bosnia when they are shot down and his friend is killed.Then he has to fight his way though Bosnia and wait to be rescued by Admiral Reigart who is Hackman. It is one of Owen Wilson's best performances.

I don't care what the scoreboard says at the end of the game, in my book we're gonna be winners.

I am having a Gene Hackman fest. My first movie in the fest is Hoosiers. I have seen it before and it is one of my favorite Hackman films and also by far my favorite sports movie. I also picked it first in honor of the late great Dennis Hopper who gives a great performance as an assistant coach along side Hackman and also an acholic trying to overcome his drinking problem well his son plays for the team. The team goes though some challenges and so do some of the players such as Jimmy played by Maris Valainis. But in the end they come though to win and become the state champs. It also has the music which is composed by the great Jerry Goldsmith.