Great film, it's available on an Australian dvd release for those who haven't seen it.commander0077again wrote:I did catch the Man from Hong Kong, and it has a Bonded credits shot of soaring Hong Kong / hanglider with a Bondish theme song!
Does anyone know the details of 'Col' Parker chaining the King to mediocre, but often fun, movies? When I flew to Hawaii, I chose Elvis in-flight movies, and then on Kauai did the Elvis tour! which stopped at the Coconut Palms hotel (I think that's the name, Cmdr 0077 is bad with details) .. all the while, the big van played Elvis in the background, At the hotel, which was in sad shape, with the lagoon muddy (maybe an investor has been found now), the guide said during filming of Blue Hawaii (the film I had just watched on the flight), Elvis would play at being a waiter to the hotel guests. He said Elvis was very nice to everyone; I've heard that he called older people sir or m'am.***carl stromberg wrote:It's a shame that we did not get to see Bruce Lee make some classic action films in the 80's. It's also a shame that Colonel Tom Parker chained Elvis to a stage in Las Vegas and prevented him from doing some different types of acting roles.
.. during the meal, M'am pressed her thigh against the Commander; her friend must have noticed something, for she switched seats! "I wouldn't touch that horrible girl!" 
That's because it was the 1970s when people were asking for "light" visions instead of blood and gore and over the top violence. It wasn't Moore's fault that the fight choreography of Bond's was lame, now if Vic Armstrong was there, he would have had dismissed those "light" views and showed some real actions, as it was with the mansion fight in Octopussy. In Moore's Saint TV Series, he was a one professional martial artist, so that explains Moore was tough enough. They just didn't know how to handle the spy films in the early-to-mid 1970s, all going for a Burt Reynolds styled comedies. It didn't work. Now, take a look at Dalton, the man knows how to fight. And for some reason, starting with TWINE, they've toned down Bond melee skills again, and putting the blame on Brosnan for it. Hasn't anyone seen the fast paced hand to hand fight with Alec at Janus Satellite control room? Too much like Grant vs Bond fight in FRWL. And Brosnan's downfall was caused by the damned Barbara Broccoli on purpose!commander0077again wrote: Btw,Bond's fight at the martial arts academy was pretty lame. He just kicks the guy in a 'special place' and that's that! A far cry from YOLT's fight in Osato's office.
I love all the Elvis films. He wanted to do more films like King Creole but his films made money and that was all the studios cared about. He passed on the Streisand film A Star Is Born which would have been his best role, because he would not get top billing and the Colonel refused to allow that.commander0077again wrote:Does anyone know the details of 'Col' Parker chaining the King to mediocre, but often fun, movies? When I flew to Hawaii, I chose Elvis in-flight movies, and then on Kauai did the Elvis tour! which stopped at the Coconut Palms hotel (I think that's the name, Cmdr 0077 is bad with details) .. all the while, the big van played Elvis in the background, At the hotel, which was in sad shape, with the lagoon muddy (maybe an investor has been found now), the guide said during filming of Blue Hawaii (the film I had just watched on the flight), Elvis would play at being a waiter to the hotel guests. He said Elvis was very nice to everyone; I've heard that he called older people sir or m'am.***carl stromberg wrote:It's a shame that we did not get to see Bruce Lee make some classic action films in the 80's. It's also a shame that Colonel Tom Parker chained Elvis to a stage in Las Vegas and prevented him from doing some different types of acting roles.
On the Bruce, check out the Bruce Lee animation ad / Johnny Walker. The likeness has him slightly older, and speaking Mandarin (he spoke Cantonese). His daughter defends the ad as a tribute, and not whisky ad.
*** Met a beautiful Bond girl from Thailand in Hong Kong named M'am, which sounds very funny, yes M'am! She was visiting her best friend, who Cmdr 0077 was 'with' .... we went to a Thai closet café (almost that small) where 0077 proceeded to eat a dish that was sun-hot, and almost collapsed! Thankfully, was able to have self control, and cooly drink water
Welcome. I think BJMDDS, our resident Elvis superfan, will appreciate this post.VolcanoCat wrote: Thu Jun 13, 2024 5:00 am That image seems familiar! Delighted to share: https://volcanocat.blogspot.com/2013/07 ... eline.html
