Pahonu wrote: ↑Wed Jan 24, 2024 11:11 pm
ZelenskyTheValiant (Ivan) wrote: ↑Wed Jan 24, 2024 5:08 pm
Luther's nephew Dobie wrote: ↑Tue Jan 23, 2024 2:14 am
In the penultimate episode of Nash Bridges, "Cat Fight", Nash's partner Joe has been trying to unload the racehorse "Mister Woody" that he owns with Nick Bridges.
When a famous mystery writer makes an offer for the nag,the always scheming Joe figures the longer the negotiating is dragged out the more likely it is the offer will be upped.
Unfortunately near the episode's end Nash hands Joe a newspaper with a headline announcing the would be buyer's demise -
CRIME WRITER VICTIM OF REAL LIFE CAPER
along with a photo of the deceased.
The photo is of the real mystery and crime writer, Carlton Cuse, creator of Nash Bridges and other series such as Lost.
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"That dude just took his last crap"...Terminal Island(1973)
Apparently that line is the oft quoted lone standout - really? - from this exploitation film.
Set in the future, Terminal Island is where America sends all it's convicted murderers and leaves them to fend for themselves. Two warring gangs fight over ownership of the women inmates.
One gang's second in command is Roger Mosley, while the island's doctor is played by Tom Selleck.
Also on hand is Lost In Space's Judy Robinson(Marta Kristen), and going by the pictures of her in one review, all I can say is Holy Smokes! I met her some 20 years later and she still
was strikingly beautiful.
I have never seen this film nor do I recall anyone at Magnum Mania saying they have seen it, perhaps it's not in circulation. Maybe it's one of those flicks so bad it's good.
Hey Dobie,
You seem to be a NASH BRIDGES fan. I remember when the show was on in the 90s on CBS and I would tune in from time to time but it never really caught my interest. I just remember the Barracuda and those dutch angles that the show used (which must have been out of date by that time). By the way I loved the use of dutch angles on the original Hawaii Five-O - there it was used to great effect! Though I guess 60s Batman was what really popularized it. Anyway, NASH BRIDGES didn't appeal to me much. Too many other subplots going on that I probably didn't care for. When it came to CBS I was a huge WALKER TEXAS RANGER fan and I also loved tuning into DIAGNOSIS MURDER whenever I could. Then there was JAG which was another show that didn't appeal to me much, though I loved the opening theme tune.
Speaking of Don Johnson are you also a MIAMI VICE fan? Or just NASH. I never could get into MIAMI VICE either.
I don’t think Dutch angle shots are really a fad from a particular era. The documentarian Vertov is one of the earliest users of the effect. We watched Man with a Movie Camera in one of my film history classes. It’s really common in German expressionist films, but I would argue it was popularized in more mainstream film by Hitchcock. I never watched enough of Nash Bridges to notice it, but H5-O did use it to good effect. It’s typically a visual choice to add a sense of disorientation and anxiety, but Batman used it a little differently, I think.
Hi Ivan and Pahonu,
Wow, you guys make me smile as what fan site('fan site' isn't quite right, MM is much more than some fanboy TV show love fest) like Magnum Mania is going to have a discussion on Dutch angles!
Little Garwood would love this. Come back Shane, er, Little Garwood, come back.
Ivan, I didn't care for Miami Vice - admittedly I only saw perhaps 6 episodes - back then as I thought it was too much style over form. Take beach babes for we men to gawk at and 2
eye candy leads for the ladies, add music, presto it's the MTV Cops.
Unlike Hawaii 5-0, I was never surprised by any story twist, you could see each one coming a mile away.
You were never going to get a great line like Kono's - "one day we will be strangers in our own land."
To be fair there is a place for lightweight cop shows to unwind with after work, but I'd rather ride along with Pete and Jim on Adam-12.
I will catch Walker Texas Ranger one day - it's hard to have seen every series out there - as ever since I saw Chuck Norris being interviewed on the Dick Cavett Show I am a big fan of the man.
You can't help but admire his character, totally honest, a stand up guy who conducts himself in real life the way Randolph Scott's character did in those 7 GREAT Westerns he did
with director Budd Boetticher, known as the Ranown Cycle.
Norris related how his teenage self had to throttle and send on his way his no account, drunk, awful father who showed up one day ready to again prey/beat on his family.
Another time when he recounted his work with troubled Vets he was scorned by a woman who said he just had no understanding of the Vietnam War.
The ever dignified Norris pointed out his brother was killed over there. He also made no secret of his contempt for - now proud Russian citizen and Putin pal - Steven Seagal.
If that interview is on You Tube somewhere it's well worth catching, as I am not doing justice to the above stories since it must be 5 years plus since I saw it.
As for Nash Bridges, I only relatively recently embraced it as I didn't "get it" before.
It does have many ongoing subplots and issues that run thru the entire series but that just made the characters travails more meaningful and layered.
On it's surface the twice married Nash seems to keep dating and going thru the latest beautiful women he meets and is having a heigh ho time. In reality as revealed in the later episodes
he has been deeply unhappy in his love life, he is looking for the right woman, who like Jim Rockford's women ALWAYS let him down or betray him in the end.
The very last one in a utterly brutal fashion. He desperately wants a relationship like his partner Joe has with his wife, though without their craziness.
Later on an introspective Nash painfully notes he wanted to be an architect, still does, he never wanted to be a cop or desired his daughter to be one.
He is living a life he never wanted on many levels.
He only became a cop to replace his big brother Bobby who disappeared in Vietnam (who was going to be a cop after achieving the highest ever entrance scores) in order to please his father Nick.
To no avail, he will forever be in his bro's shadow, his father seems oblivious he is the best cop on the force - with a photographic memory - and often waxes poetic on how Bobby would
have done better.
By the way Bobby left Nash the iconic Cuda, so Nash's trademark car is actually his brother's trademark, and along with his job he is living his brother's life.
As well he is always helping others with their problems but no one seems to notice Nash has them as well.
He is everyone else's guardian angel, which the show commented on by assigning him one in the form of a homeless derelict named Angel who wore a dirty robe and beat up wings,
invariably showing up when Nash was low and needed guidance.
The show has excellent production values, good writing, many surprise guest cameos and Stone Cold Steve Austin is brilliant as a renegade copper in a handful of episodes, it is a crime
he wasn't spun off into his own series. The camera loves him and he steals every scene he is in, not many series stars would have allowed that.
Hunter S. Thompson suggested the germ of an idea that was the show's basis. He appears in episode one as a piano player. He was neighbors with Don Johnson in Aspen.
Johnson had a major input in the series, he is highly intelligent and always pushed for smart scripts, I can't recall a really bad episode during the entire run.
No shark jumping here.