best movie i've ever seen.

Best movie ever!

I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

Fitfully funny film, too checkered by raw violence to establish a humorous mood or a successful spoof. The first part is the best, resembling a Hitchcock picaresque where an ordinary guy gets in over-his-head and has to prove himself capable. The early rail scenes with a perfectly cast Beatty are a hoot. He's every bulging inch the carousing salesman, while his attempt to pick up sweetie Clayburgh is another hoot. Wilder too manages well, though no Cary Grant in the romantic department. Highlight too is the giant Richard Kiel's sudden appearance in the cramped passageway. His metallic mouth still has me under the covers. And catch grandma's cross-country flying service. From the looks of her spiffy bi-plane she could go one-on-one with the fabled Red Baron.But once the violent clash part takes over, the humor dilutes, and that's despite hip comedian Pryor's late addition. Then too, the extended shootout between cops and robbers is about as convincing as one of those old cowboy matinees where a thousand rounds maybe hits a couple targets. And for a movie that treats violence seriously, that's a drawback. Except for this sequence, special effects are gripping, especially the culminating train crash that's nothing less than spectacular. All in all, it looks like the runtime was padded with repetitive antics to get a feature length production. Nevertheless, with a tighter screenplay and a softening of the violence, the basic idea could be memorable. As things stand, however, the results are mainly for fans of Wilder and Pryor.

As Mr. Wilder passer away last week, i looked over My Collection of Gene Wilder movies and in particularly those with Richard Pryor. This movie also marked Richard Kiel - here with gold teeth and 2 years before "The Spy who loved me" - as a terrifying villain. The movie is also a road movie seeing a Lot of the US country side. It bare resemblance with Trains, planes and Automobiles. There are many unforgettable classic scenes which in Teasers and trailers was used heavy. One scene deals with the accuse that White people ain't got rhythm. Gene are made Black with Black polish. Then he must learn how to walk like a Black Brother giving into the music. Patrick Mcgoohan plays hard boiled villain with No sympathy other than for money. His Løw dry voice is very convincing. The disaster in the end cannot be experienced on TV even we have 70 inch. In the movie Theater you get the impression the train comes though the wall. In My humble view the movie is on the top 100 of any List having seen 4-5000 movies over 45 years.

Silver Streak is the first collaboration between Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor and it is as funny as they come. The movie itself starts off in thriller mode, leaving you the watcher with a form of suspense as you eagerly wait to see what will come off the pairing of Gene Wilder and Jill Clayburgh. Then over an hour passes and Richard Pryor is introduced and then the movie twist to a comedy Thriller mash up and then you find yourself eagerly waiting for what Gene and Richard would do next.Set in America but actually done in Canada with the help of a Canadian director Arthur Hiller, this movie set was done on a fictional railroad named "AMRoad." The plot follows the story of a book editor named George Caldwell (Gene Wilder) who was travelling by train from Los Angeles to Chicago to attend his sister's wedding. The train he boarded was called the Silver Streak and it was on board the train that George met a vitamin salesman who ended up not being who he says he was. Bob (the vitamin salesman) told George to try hook up with a girl on the train, as he found that the girls on trains will hookup with anyone. George took the advice and met and hooked up with Hilly Burns (Jill Clayburgh).Hilly on the other hand works for a Professor, who was about to release a book on Rembrandt. The Professor's enemy and the antagonist of the movie Devereau was ready to do anything to make sure the book never gets released and the only person standing in his way happens to be George, who saw a dead body that looked like the Professor being thrown off the train.Now George and a thief he ran into named Muldoone (Richard Pryor) have to find a way to get on the train that George got thrown off and save Hilly from Devereau.Although Gene and Richard still went on to make three other movies together none was as funny or well received than their first duo together, Silver Streaks. The screenplay is where the movie catches your attention, with more than half of the shots done in a train, which can be clustery the cinematography was actually good. The movie script was well written that the incidents that lead to Gene's in and out of the train actually makes you feel sorry for him other than be disgusted by the characters incompetence to stay on the train.Silver Streak was a critical acclaim movie and also a box office success, it found itself on AFI's 100 Years... 100 Laughs as number 95, and it is one movie that you will enjoy owning the DVD.www.lagsreviews.com

Arthur Hiller's 1976 film is the epitome - and one of the best and at times, the worst - example of what Hollywood came synonymous for in the 1970s.Ending with one of those truly great action set-pieces, when such were actually filmed and not with a computer mouse and starting out with the oh-so-smooth Gene Wilder getting his wicked way with the delectable Jill Clayburgh, an awful lot happens in-between.Taking - and featuring huge chunks of influence from James Bond (inc 'Jaws', the iron-toothed giant), Hitchcock (crime capers on moving trains, espionage, intrigue) and loads of over-the-top big Americanism, this is a rail-road coaster of a ride. You can see bits that have helped influence later films, too and the start of the delicious pairing between Wilder and black comedian Richard Pryor, which spilled out over into the future Stir Crazy and Blazing Saddles.Yes, a lot of it is nonsense - this is essentially Sunday afternoon TV fun, now. There's clever innuendo, dumb stunts, big scenery and baddies. It does pop up on Film 4 and Sky Movies every once in a while, showing that it is still has a place and though obviously looking pretty dated now, you can't go far wrong with this one.