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Old 11th July 2017, 06:14 PM
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Just seeing the words Tracy Morgan would put me off. He's bearable in 30 Rock... just. But that is all.
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Old 11th July 2017, 06:37 PM
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Just seeing the words Tracy Morgan would put me off. He's bearable in 30 Rock... just. But that is all.
Ice Cube is brilliant in Three Kings and as himself as a rapper and activist, but generally forgettable in every other film he has made.
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Old 11th July 2017, 06:41 PM
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Ice Cube is brilliant in Three Kings and as himself as a rapper and activist, but generally forgettable in every other film he has made.
I liked him in xXx The Next Level and his cameo (spoiler alert) in xXx The Return of Xander Cage. Also Barbershop is excellent so is Ghosts of Mars.

Actually i like Ice Cube in everything i've seen him in.
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I liked him in xXx The Next Level and his cameo (spoiler alert) in xXx The Return of Xander Cage. Also Barbershop is excellent so is Ghosts of Mars.

Actually i like Ice Cube in everything i've seen him in.
I've only seen the first and last of those, and he was good. However, Three Kings is the one that really stands out as the film in which he was best, and the best film in which he's appeared.
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One, Two, Three (1961)

James Cagney's final film, and in my opinion he gives one of his finest performances in this frantic Billy Wilder comedy about the chief of West Berlin's Coca Cola plant who finds himself in dire Cold War straits when the CEO's daughter from the States comes to visit.

One, Two, Three is as vibrant as Wilder films come, fast paced with even faster talking. Cagney who basically carries the whole film, his rapid fire dialogue delivering so many one liners it's impossible to take them all in without missing the next one. Wilder throws in dozens of references to Cagney's past from the cuckoo clock that plays Yankee Doodle Dandy (and speeds up when Cagney's in full flow) to him threatening to push a grapefruit into Horst Buchholz's face, not to mention his lovely secretary Liselotte Pulver who does her best Monroe table dance which certainly echoes Some Like it Hot.

Wilder uses West German locations to the maximum especially the Brandenburg Gate making it all look so authentic and very Cold War with it's bombed out East Berlin. True it pokes fun at communism and freely supports US capitalism but that's where many of the laughs come from.

I only found out about this film earlier this week and bought it immediately. I'm so glad i did as it's become a James Cagney favourite after just one viewing.

Highly recommended.

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Old 15th July 2017, 10:42 PM
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One, Two, Three (1961)

James Cagney's final film, and in my opinion he gives one of his finest performances in this frantic Billy Wilder comedy about the chief of West Berlin's Coca Cola plant who finds himself in dire Cold War straits when the CEO's daughter from the States comes to visit.

One, Two, Three is as vibrant as Wilder films come, fast paced with even faster talking. Cagney who basically carries the whole film, his rapid fire dialogue delivering so many one liners it's impossible to take them all in without missing the next one. Wilder throws in dozens of references to Cagney's past from the cuckoo clock that plays Yankee Doodle Dandy (and speeds up when Cagney's in full flow) to him threatening to push a grapefruit into Horst Buchholz's face, not to mention his lovely secretary Liselotte Pulver who does her best Monroe table dance which certainly echoes Some Like it Hot.

Wilder uses West German locations to the maximum especially the Brandenburg Gate making it all look so authentic and very Cold War with it's bombed out East Berlin. True it pokes fun at communism and freely supports US capitalism but that's where many of the laughs come from.

I only found out about this film earlier this week and bought it immediately. I'm so glad i did as it's become a James Cagney favourite after just one viewing.

Highly recommended.

Im definitely gonna check this out I luv Wilder's films...nice review..
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Im definitely gonna check this out I luv Wilder's films...nice review..
Thanks, Inspector, much appreciated.

It's everything i could have asked for when i think of Wilder, Cagney, comedy, and Cold War.

It's not just me who didn't know of it then?
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Thanks, Inspector, much appreciated.

It's everything i could have asked for when i think of Wilder, Cagney, comedy, and Cold War.

It's not just me who didn't know of it then?
never heard of it until now...
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never heard of it until now...
Good! I don't feel so bad now.
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Old 16th July 2017, 06:41 AM
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Good! I don't feel so bad now
Makes me feel old tho!

I first saw it on BBC2, back in the 1980's!!
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