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Untouchables

  • 08-08-2010 9:20pm
    #1
    madmac187
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 671 ✭✭✭


    I thought I would share my thoughts with everyone and see what the general concensus is of the movie Untouchables. Just watching it at the minute on Film Four.

    I think it has to be Sean Connery's and Kevin Costner's roles of their careers. It led to many more roles for Costner.

    What does anyone else think?


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  • #2
    MrSir
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    It is an excellent film all right I personaly love the 'Baseball' scene. Robert De Niro is just pure awesome in that scene.


  • #3
    Klingon Hamlet
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    Brilliant film. Loved the team. Even Connery with his weak attempt at an irish accent. Best bit is when Connery
    props a dead guy up against a wall, threatens to blow his brains out, and proceeds to do exactly that...all to scare the sh1t out of a surviving scumbag.


  • #4
    A V A
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    great film !!!!!! 5 stars


  • #5
    LittleBook
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    Love, love, love it ... right behind Scarface in my De Palma faves. Fantastic score, Costner is perfect as the (initially) irritating, naïve do-gooder ("Let's do some good!"), as is Connery as the tired out Irish (?) ;) beat cop with one last fight left in him ("he pulls a knife, you pull a gun") and a terrific supporting cast in the unlikely band of brothers.

    The ending perfectly summed up Ness's maturity as a crime fighter and, on a personal note, Billy Drago still scares the bejesus out of me!


  • #6
    monkeypants
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    LittleBook wrote: »
    Billy Drago still scares the bejesus out of me!
    He was the same in Pale Rider and some other movie with Chuck Norris. Such dead eyes.


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  • #7
    LittleBook
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    monkeypants wrote: »
    Such dead eyes.

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    :eek:


  • #8
    ziggy
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  • #9
    bonerm
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    I think DePalma is an over-rated hack (and always has been) but I do have a soft-spot for this one. I do get a wry smile from observing how earnest all the principle characters are when they populate what is essentially a cartoonish two-dimensional world full of supporting characters that are essentially nothing more than talking-heads. Anyway, recommended!


  • #10
    keano_afc
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    Its my favourite film, must have seen it a dozen times. Love the part where they go to recruit Stone, Connery's reaction to his Italian heritage is hilarious.

    The tension in the scene in the station at the end is brilliant too.


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