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Tank-the-Hatchet
Nationality: German.
Job: Retired. For medical reasons. Nothing life threating or anything. I just can't work my old job anymore. I worked a lot of professions, so I don't really had ONE particular job, but since I worked so many different proffesions I know a lot about a vast varity of things. [hide] If you would ask me I would tell you "When I was a teenager my name was Tommy Vercetti; after I was done with school my name was Thomas Beckett; while I was working they called my Allan Faulkner; since I`m retired I`m known as Phil Cassidy." - just to tick you off how much you not know about pop culture and shut you up. [devil]
Personal status: In steady relationship. [bigrazz]
Residence: about 50km NNE of Frankfurt/Main in a small town called Gelnhausen.
Personal Note(s): A cat, as in feline, [4eyes] lives with me.
Hobbies: Movies, Guns
Favorite music: Everything from the late '60s (Janis Joplin, Bob Dylan) to the early '90s, except hardcore Techno, german rap, Polka- and Jodelmusic.
Favorite musicans: Bon Jovi, Kylie Minouge, Ice T.
Favorite song: "Let me die in my footsteps" (Bob Dylan)
Favorite movie: Dawn of the Dead; The orginal, not the lame remake [fight10].
Other movies I like: Alien vs. Predator, American Pie 2, Bad Boys II, Black Hawk Down, Black Snake Moan, Breakfast Club, Can't hardly wait, Chasing Amy, Clockwerk Orange, Cross of Iron, Cruel Intenions, Devil's Rejects, Die Hard 2, First Blood, Georgia Rule, Hamburger Hill, Heartbreakers, Highlander, I know what you did last summer, Leon - the professional, Lethal Weapon 2, Menace II Soceity, Once upon a time in America, Outlaw Jose Wales, Point Break, Grosse Point Blank, S.W.A.T., Saving Private Ryan, Scarface (De Palma), Serenity, Starship Troopers, Straw Dogs, Streets of Fire, SW-Ep-III: Revenge of the Sith, SW-Ep-IV: A new hope, Tears of the Sun, The Killer (John Woo), True Romance, We were Soldiers, Wild Bunch, Windtalkers
My DVD-collection:
My DVD's
Favorite actors: Ray Liotta, Robert DeNiro, Chris Farley, Jake Blake, William Dafoe, Jason Statham
Favorite director: Sam Peckinpah, Sergio Leone
Favorite actresses: Mercedes McNab, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Alyson Hannigan, Michelle Trachtenberg, Mia Kirschner, Molly Shanon, Kate Mara, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Isla Fisher
Favorite TV-shows: Miami Vice, Tour of Duty, Space: Above & Beyond, Buffy, Angel, Alias, 24, Lost, Over there, Sopranos, Deadwood
Least liked TV-shows: Reality TV (like Big Brother, American Idol), Soaps
Least liked actors: Jackie Chan, Chris Rock, Robin Williams, Dustin Hoffman, Chris Tucker
Least liked actresses: Halle Berry, Meryl Streep, Glen Close, Angelia Jolie, Cameron Diaz
Least liked movies: 2001, Finding Neverland, Girl Interrupted, Hook (Spielberg), It's a wonderfull life, Twilight ('08)
Least liked directors: Frank Capra
Ratings
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Reviews
Act of Valor (2012)
Could've been a good movie...
...if they just would've stayed with the action and minimized the drama like the did in Navy SeALs. But every time the story gets flowing a bit its interrupted by some Disney Burb Mr.
Rogers Blue Ribbon Cocteau plan Pleasantville crap. This might play well with the American Midwestern bible belt Blockbuster crowd who are into this kind of stuff but the filmmakers seem to have forgotten who the core audience for movies like this is. Beerguzeleing wife beating trailer trash ex-jocks who barfly about when they scored the deceive TD in the Hicktown versus Hogtown game who at one time enlisted but couldn't hack life in the military and got booted live vicariously through movies like this. But to any other persons that has education that surpasses sundayschool stuff like this just makes there skin crawl or makes them laugh out loud that these people actually take this bullshit seriously. Its the same kind of crap that makes you crinch when you watch Lethal Weapon 3 and makes Lethal Weapon 4 unwatchable. The filmmakers actually want to make you believe that the people in this movie are the real deal. But they are nothing but a joke. As anyone who ever worked in a profession such as this knows you have to be a lone wolf to be truly efficient. If you have team of such lone wolfs then you have an efficient fighting force. Women are just a passing fancy and family attachments are a liability that makes you black mailable. There are four types of people who join the military. As a job. Because its a family trade. For patriotic reasons or because they are looking for a legal way to kill people. The ones portrait in this movie are patriots. They are the worst kind of soldiers you can find. Even worse then they wannabe serial killers who get you in trouble every time they open there mouth because they are just itching for a fight. Patriots on the other hand all want to be heroes. So they get you in trouble, hurt or killed because they think only because they are patriots makes them superior then their enemy and then they always go that one step to far. As you can see with the guy that gets killed in this movie. He could've done a dozen different things and he and his fellow operators would've lived but he choose the one thing that would make him a hero. That is why heroes never become legends then heroes always find a way to get themselves or there comrades killed. As I mentioned before this behavior and attitude might work well for the flag waving American type of audience but almost anywhere in the world especially in Europe this sort of patriotism just makes people laugh and think how incredible stupid Americans are.
Action 6 Story 1 equals 3.5.
Whiskers (1997)
Perfect Movie for all furless canopeners
This movie is for all the catlovers out there. It has a nice, belivably plot. Throughout you get some scary and a lot of funny moments. The ending however is for no one who just recently lost a feline friend or ever had to go through that trauma, so be warned! Despite its an upbeat ending, it is because of that ending that smaller children with cats in the house shouldn't watch it alone.
The Audrey Hepburn Story (2000)
Love this movie, hate this movie - you will have to decide about that BEFORE you see it!
I like JLH and I don't think much of Hepburn. I have to say that up front. But do make you understand why I still liked this movie, we have to rewind a little. I don't care much about TV or Soaps in general, so when I first saw JLH I didn't know her work until then. I got a movie called CAN'T HARDLY WAIT - only because Melissa Joan Hart was in it. And I knew she only had a small part. But those two, three scenes she was in, they were funny. But I also noticed JLH. And I saw potential in her. But she seemed strangely familiar. Reading a filmograpy on the DVD, I realized that I had seen her before: In a little know, but extremely funny Jamie Lee Curtis Flick, called HOUSEAREST, which I cramped out of my video collection and watched again. JLH's Part wasn't that big and see didn't have many lines here either, but she practically stole the movie. A couple of month later I got the I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER DVD Double Feature. I only got that movie, because Sarah Michelle Gellar is in the first one, which I am a DEVOTED FAN of, since first seening her in the BEVERLY HILLS FAMILY ROBINSON. And wouldn't you guess? JLH was the lead! After watching these two movies I had to say, see really has potential. So I researched a little about here and found out, she was a TV-Actress (mostly soaps - YUK!) and recently gotten her own spin-off show. Can't wait till I see that one dubbed sometime on German TV, if it ever runs, since it recently got canceled in the US. Not because of JLH mind you, they tell me, but of the show itself. Well, after seeing all these JLH-Flicks and finding a little bit out about here, I decided to watch here a little more closely. After the before mentioned CHW she went on to make an overlooked, extremely funny comedy called THE SUBURBANS. But now one wanted to see that, because it wasn't wise to give away the key plot point/twister of the movie in the trailer! Same mistake MCA made giving the Killer away in the trailer to THE BONE COLLECTOR. Not a very wise choice in either case. After that JLH made TELLING YOU and I tell you I still haven't figured out that movie. She couldn't have save that script, if she would have dance a naked hula! So then I get this movie: THE AUDREY HEPBURN STORY. I knew JLH is a fan of old style romantic comedies and she is a devoted Hepburn Fan. So I knew she wouldn't throw dirt at one of here screen idols. Especially since she is a Co-Executive Producer on this. But I really have to say JLH surprised me, she blew me away! She portrayed the overrated undertalended actress who snatched up an undeserved Oscar for a stupid movie called ROMAN HOLIDAY (the quasi remake with Marisa Tomei called ONLY YOU is better than the original!) from Deborah Kerr in FROM HERE TO ETERNITY in 1951 and didn't get the Oscar in 1961 for BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S, which she deserved it for. JLH also gives us a glimpse of the more private Hepburn, searching for her father and the fight she had with here mother after discovering she had lied to her for years, subsequently losing her first child over this squabble. But thankfully the movie ends in the middle of Hepburns career and we only get to see her humanitarian work in news reel footage and some explaining text at the end. For all the dislike I have for Hepburn, I have to say JLH gives a career performance in this one. This is her shot at the Golden Globe for best actress. And if she doesn't get it for this one, then the Foreign Press Association has become as blind as the Academy in there decisions! This movie is a Hepburn tribute, performed by an actress that has more charm and talent in her little finger, than Hepburn ever had after making five movies, numerous stage plays and getting a political and undeserved Oscar. So the decision is ultimately yours and you have to make it BEFORE seeing this movie: If you're a Hepburn Fan, but hate JLH - go see it! She WILL surprise you in more than one way! If you still hate her afterwards, well than you don't have a clue about movies and real talent. If you're a JLH-Fan - go see it! This movie is a MUST! If you're neither - go see it anyhow - this move will make history at the Golden Globes!
Stealth Fighter (1999)
Can you say "Belonie?"
I only got this movie because of Ice-T. And yes, he's good in his role. But that doesn't make the movie good, sorry! I don't say anything if you use a small snippet or a couple of frames of a movie to cut it into a new one - like they did on "Supreme Sanction" - wich is a good movie btw - where they used a small piece of "Airborne" - but this movie stinks! There are WHOLE chunks of other movies cut into this one: "Flight of the Intruder", "Hunt for Red October", "Navy Seals", "Diamonds are Forever", "Clear and Present Danger", "Iron Eagle", "Blown away", "Bat-21", Stock Footage used in "Under Siege 2" - the list is sheer endless! Almost 80% of this junk is made up of other, mostly really great and good movies. And NO, that's not all: There are so many illogical things in this movie, it makes you SCREAM! The Head-Bad-Guy's Base is in Angola (at least that's what they say in the movie), so how come that the Strike Team is starting in a helicopter of a Carrier in the Mediterranean? Must have one hell of a range, that helicopter. And then they insert via boat - cause that is SO possibily, right! At the end a flight of F-16's takes off from the same CARRIER (!!!) to strike this base. Not only can't an F-16 take off and land on a carrier, no, they wouldn't even reach Angola on a direct route with a sufficent payload, without violating at least a dozend international borders AND had to fly over countries like Egypt and Lybia doing so. Same with the F-117: It takes off from Central Africa to fly (nonstop, of course!) to Thailand to bomb a village. The next day it fires a Videoguided Maverick on a submerged submarine, hitting it just behind the main screw! The strike team loads it's clips without gloves (this is a black-back-op on foreign, unfriendly soil, but who cares, right? Nobody checks spend casings for fingerprints to use as evidence in an UN-Court! ;-) talks WITHOUT headsets in a moving helicopter and so on and so on. The "Set" of the 688-ILA is the biggest joke of all: It's the same set used for "Down Periscope", even the MANUALLY loaded torpedoes (on an SSN, mind you!) are the same. Oh, and of course, the ship get's hit by an EMP-Weapon, but neither the VHF or the battiers are effected by it - but everthing else is! ANYBODY who has the smallest knowlegde of military operations and equipment can only shake his head at what these peoble are presenting the viewers with! There are about a dozend film companies who could sue the hell out of the makers of this movie, cause they don't even credit the pieces of movies the ripped out and reused for this junk! DON'T BUY OR RENT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCE!