Micheal Caine

xxtimboxxtimbo Posts: 8,870
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He does nt seem to have done a lot of TV
spent his life in the movies......
nice tribute vid
go here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNmkh_aW-R4



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  • [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 1,316
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    Can't stand the fella . .
    We're told by the media how wonderful this man is, so we're supposed to like him, or else.
    F-Off . .
    He's made so many sh*t movies . .
    Dreadful actor & so overrated. .
  • Cantona07Cantona07 Posts: 56,910
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    Awesome actor

    Love him.
  • -GONZO--GONZO- Posts: 9,624
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    Hootie wrote: »
    He's made so many sh*t movies . .

    Like what?
  • xxtimboxxtimbo Posts: 8,870
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    He served in the military, ( prob in the 50s )
    must have put him in good stead for Zulu (1964)
  • Phoenix LazarusPhoenix Lazarus Posts: 17,305
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    I once shared a house with a bloke who said he'd been in London one day, and seen Michael Caine walking his way. He told me that he took that opportunity to say, 'Hello Mr Caine!'

    I waited for more, but seeing he was not planning to volunteer it, I asked him what the upshot of the encounter and greeting had been.

    'He said "Hello' back,' answered my friend.

    He's quite the raconteur, this former housemate of mine. Highly on demand on the after-dinner circuit.
  • Cantona07Cantona07 Posts: 56,910
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    I once shared a house with a bloke who said he'd been in London one day, and seen Michael Caine walking his way. He told me that he took that opportunity to say, 'Hello Mr Caine!'

    I waited for more, but seeing he was not planning to volunteer it, I asked him what the upshot of the encounter and greeting had been.

    'He said "Hello' back,' answered my friend.

    He's quite the raconteur, this former housemate of mine. Highly on demand on the after-dinner circuit.

    Well ive just read this and i was impressed.

    Back in the day I would have paid £14.99 for a choice or orange juice or prawn cocktail followed by steak diane for someone with even more flair than yourself to deliver it with the aid of a microphone and a couple of gin and tonics.
  • CravenHavenCravenHaven Posts: 13,953
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    Now you're a big man but you're out of shape and with me it's a full-time job.
  • [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 10,488
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    Good, working class boy made....................Tory!:(
  • rioniarionia Posts: 1,657
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    -GONZO- wrote: »
    Like what?

    The Swarm
    Escape To Victory (though thats almost in the So bad its good category)

    and I vaguely remember one about a pirate (which also had David Warner in it?)

    And I'm sure I read somewhere that he's admitted doing some rubbish films just for the money (and because he was a workaholic) and he doesn't regret them in the slightest.

    But he's also done some of my all time favourite films

    Zulu
    The Italian Job
    The Man Who Would Be King
    The Ipcress FIles

    and
    Alfie
    Sleuth
    The Eagle Has Landed
    Harry Brown
  • Billy_ValueBilly_Value Posts: 22,919
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    the muppets Christmas carol is epic
  • MicrokorgMicrokorg Posts: 2,670
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    The Swarm is a classic B movie

    I'll get me coat
  • mred2000mred2000 Posts: 10,050
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    rionia wrote: »
    And I'm sure I read somewhere that he's admitted doing some rubbish films just for the money (and because he was a workaholic) and he doesn't regret them in the slightest.n

    He has admitted to that, I'm sure it was in one of his autobiogs.
    Not a lot of people know that he worked in rep. theatre before hitting films. He has the old school ethic of "grab any money paying job that comes your way because you never know where or when the next pay cheque is coming from" which is shared by Samuel L Jackson amongst others, who has also worked on some stinkers.

    As for Micklewhite's stinkers, how about Jaws: The Revenge? And I'm sure he was in a 70's film about piranha's but I could be wrong....
    xxtimbo wrote: »
    He does nt seem to have done a lot of TV

    Yes he did, but we're talking back in the 50's and 60's...
  • xxtimboxxtimbo Posts: 8,870
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    From mem he got picked up by some
    top Hollywood producers who planned a series of Bond type movies but more low key... (Harry Palmer )
    and Micheal found himself on a contract paying him some obscene figure like.... £10,000 per week !
    (how much were you on back in the mid 60s ?)
    The first thing he did was to go out and buy himself one of those huge American fridges.
  • Andy2Andy2 Posts: 11,942
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    I quite like Michael Caine but often his acting is very wooden, sometimes delivering his lines as though he's reading them.
  • Cantona07Cantona07 Posts: 56,910
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    Microkorg wrote: »
    The Swarm is a classic B movie

    I'll get me coat

    :D:D:D:D
  • peroquilperoquil Posts: 1,526
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    He's excellent in "The Prestige"
  • Eddie BadgerEddie Badger Posts: 6,005
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    Andy2 wrote: »
    I quite like Michael Caine but often his acting is very wooden, sometimes delivering his lines as though he's reading them.

    He tends to talk...in a ...flat monotnous...voice...with pauses...and THEN STARTS BLOODY SHOUTING.
  • VerenceVerence Posts: 104,575
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    xxtimbo wrote: »
    He served in the military, ( prob in the 50s )
    must have put him in good stead for Zulu (1964)

    I think he served in the Korean War as part of his National Service
  • sconescone Posts: 14,850
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    He did a very poor American accent in one of the Jaws movies if I remember rightly, but he is a great actor regardless :D
  • MoggioMoggio Posts: 4,289
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    This is what Michael Caine sounds like:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFIQIpC5_wY
  • sconescone Posts: 14,850
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    Moggio wrote: »
    This is what Michael Caine sounds like:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFIQIpC5_wY

    Hahahaha :D
  • broadshoulderbroadshoulder Posts: 18,758
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    I read his autobiography and went off him as he said he left south beach as there were too many gays

    But you cant stay mad at michal for too long.
  • sconescone Posts: 14,850
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    I read his autobiography and went off him as he said he left south beach as there were too many gays

    But you cant stay mad at michal for too long.

    I could swear he has either portrayed a gay man in a film or dressed as a woman, one or the other
  • Sargeant80Sargeant80 Posts: 1,413
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    To be fair he's quite open about taking some roles purely for the money.

    I have never seen it, but by all accounts it is terrible. However, I have seen the house that it built, and it is terrific.” [Jaws: The Revenge]
  • neo_walesneo_wales Posts: 13,625
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    Hootie wrote: »
    Can't stand the fella . .
    We're told by the media how wonderful this man is, so we're supposed to like him, or else.
    F-Off . .
    He's made so many sh*t movies . .
    Dreadful actor & so overrated. .

    Thankfully thats only your opinion.

    He has admitted that he woke up one day and realised he was broke so just made pretty much any film offered and why not, he's not the first actor to do this but is one of the few that is honest about it. He has made some poor films but he's also done some good solid work. His politics (as mentioned by others here) is his business and not ours.
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