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In fact he is so tough he makes the Superman look like an innocent toddler. All of this is sometimes difficult to follow, but things move along brisk enough to maintain interest. He's everything he should be. I gotta admit, this film has style and the beautiful Carrera. And the only prescription is more cowbell!" It's worth watching for any fan of Barbara Carrera and sleazy action movies. It's not about law or even about doing the right thing. The thrilling action climax is great, plus another little after climax, which has Assante properly avenging his friend's death. They don't make films like this anymore. All of this comes with the territory. I first read this over 5 decades ago while serving Uncle Sam’s Army in Germany. The first book in all those series made me want to go on to the next. i heard the jury was still out on science Posted by Tim Brayton Posted on Feb - 5 - 2006 0 Comments From Bad Astronomy Blog , the latest anti-scientific outrage: NASA no … I first read this over 5 decades ago while serving Uncle Sam’s Army in Germany. "I, the Jury" introduced the world to Mike Hammer. FAQ It's been filmed for the big screen at least thr. This is the beginning of something new. You were afraid,”. A must see flick, you must see. Therefore not five stars - but only just. It's not about law or even about doing the right thing. Mike Hammer investigates the murder of a former cop and war buddy, Jack Williams, in what turns out to be a race against the law with one determined to bring the killer to justice, the other, hell bent on exacting his own form of vengeance. Horrible dialogue but tons of … It just isn't very Mike Hammer. It was also cool seeing NYC in the early 80's before certain parts of the city were cleaned up. Juries is the only way to make the noun jury plural. Ending / spoiler for Runaway Jury (2003), plus mistakes, quotes, trivia and more. It's bleak as you like, surprisingly explicit about sex and moderately ugly (in line with its vintage) in its treatment of female and non-white characters, though it doesn't have the actual malevolence in those directions that you find elsewhere. Excuse my English if there are any errors in the spelling. It's just a cartoon full of self-important doofuses, including a midget with a mullet running around NYC pretending to be a hard-@zz private detective. The problem with Keach was that he made Hammer seem almost too much of a teddy bear. Assante isn't the mischievous or lascivious sort, and so when naked sex clinic bunnies pounce on him, his shooing them away seems more awkward and unrealistic than how the old-school private eyes used to handle the broads (either by getting rough or by taking care of their business off-screen). Been a long, long time since I've read a Hammer, and I have to say, just as in that long ago time I don't feel the desire to read more. ...more. If perhaps it was just a ripoff of the pulp classic "I, the Jury" with Armand Assante, I would have enjoyed it. Having not read a Mickey Spillane book so far, I can not estimate how accurate Armand Assante's interpretation of Mike Hammer is, but his performance seems acceptable. Private investigator Mike Hammer and the beautiful Velda go on vacation to a small beach town on Long Island after wrapping up the Williams case from I, the Jury. This was a half-hearted attempt to bring Hammer into the modern world-- or something. Hammer was a rawboned tough irishman private eye that ate nails for breakfast ... assante is a small skinny italian gigolo that's about as tough as a stick of butter in the sun ... he just doesn't cut the mustard even with the great supporting cast, especially the hot eye candy provided by the harris twins, leigh and lynette ... don't waste money to see this film. "I The Jury" delivers about what you would expect from a 1980s action film. The ending is the obligatory fight to the finish. The video machine was new and enormous and my friends an me were in heaven. I probably read ever Mike Hammer, Matt Helm and Travis. Awards I'd also been warned that some of what I read in this book would feel trite and derivative, because so many people have emulated Spillane (and Raymond Chandler, and Dashiell Hammett) in modern mysteries that it's like watching the three stooges and wondering who ripped off whom. He was better than I thought he was, morally, in that he didn't know all along who did it and string them along just to get the proof, but the fact that I thought him capable of that doesn't bode well. It's a tough-guy mystery to please even the most bloodthirsty of fans! I almost feel like I need a 'misogynist' shelf just so I can put this one on it. It drew on the hard-boiled ‘private investigator’ tradition pioneered by Black Mask magazine in the 1930s. Armand Assante's too short & skinny, his accent's all wrong & he seems too laid-back about all the nastiness going on, like he's a wise-guy when he should be a dangerous Neanderthal. The first of Spillane's Mike Hammer series, and my trial replacement for Raymond Chandler's Marlowe series (admittedly I still have a couple to go in that, but I worry for the future). As of this writing, I have not seen the original version of I, The Jury for which this movie is a remake. Armand just pushes some people down stairs, doesn't throw punches. The jury is then called in. So Raymond Chandler seems to be the much better writer, capturing the essence of 1940s Los Angeles and the folks who inhabit skid row. Still caught up in the deaths and killing endured at the end of that conflict. In 2015 there were 361,300 juror summons issued in England and Wales, but the number who actually sat on a jury was just 179,200. He's Hemingway with a bigger dick. Meet Mike Hammer: tough-talking, dame-loving, feisty wise-guy-punching private eye. Now that I got that out of the way, I really did enjoy this book. Mike Hammer gets into fist fights. Everybody was drooling with the steamy sex scenes and gratuitous nudity. The Never Ending Jury: Part 3. by fat vox. I figured they would all be just different shades of the same arch-type character. With Paul Bhattacharjee, Gerard Butler, Nina Sosanya, Nicholas Farrell. He shoots her in the belly. In his search he meets a seductive female psychiatrist, a pair of man-hungry twin sisters, a medical student who lives with a … I’ve read a lot of hard boiled and soft boiled detective novels, but never read a Mickey Spillane book. Everywhere I look, people say that this is the best Mike Hammer film to date, and I can't help but ask "why?" I don't see units jumping in a way of bullets just to protect a JURY either lol So once someone choses you as their taget, you're dead But mostly they go after units guarding you That's what I did once, killed a HELIX then calmly moved to immobilized JURY, because the laws of the universe forbid him from ending a task to save his fucking life These were the single most celebrated lines in pulp literature in 1953. The highlight of the film is no doubt Barbara Carerra, who gets to have one HOT nude sex scene about 2/3rds of the way in-- but it doesn't seem like she's really given much chance to act. ), "I hate too hard and shoot too fast. It's been filmed for the big screen at least three times that I can remember, but none of them have come close to the sheer brilliance and, well, shocking-ness (I'm an English teacher, I swear...) of Spillane's straightforward-as-a-bullet prose. This title is one of April's reads for the Pulp Fiction group -. He's not exactly Chandler's "shop-soiled Galahad" -- heck, not even a Lancelot. I still don't. An 80s film with a lot of stars of the 70s, a not good score from the 70’s, and some bad tv acting and stunts. If you want to read good pulp fiction, go back to the source. This movie belongs to her. We had little means of entertainment over there, nothing short of blowing our pay playing cards, boozing at the EM club, and of course going downtown to the local guest houses. Less acceptable is Barbara Carrera, who has one facial expression throughout the film; at least she has a nude scene, which explains her casting. It's a tough-guy mystery to please even the most bloodthirsty of fans! The first week of November was cold and windy with a few snowflakes floating in the air. Apr. Let us know what’s wrong with this preview of, Published It's pretty short - it was allegedly written in just nineteen days - and it's a tale of vengeance. Mike Hammer is the prototypical tough-guy private dick, and the world he inhabits is one where women are either dames or broads, guns are rods, and nobody is ever truly trustworthy. This so-so detective yarn feels more like a TV movie than the noir-ish piece of cinema you might expect from a Spillane novel. It's a tough-guy mystery to please even the most bloodthirsty of fans! I thought, One of the original hard-boiled detective stories, and it is seriously hard-boiled. She has been good in other movies, but this is her best performance. She blows away Sharon Stone in Basic Instinct. The heart of the story is an overly-convoluted mystery with an improbable ending but if you can look past the regrettable stereotypes and slurs that were probably eye-raising even 70+ years ago, there's lots of pulpy fun to be had. I watched this movie with my mom on cinemax one night when I was in junior high school and I had to sit with a pillow on my lap. It's not a story about saving anyone. Yes, it’s dated with it’s ideals and perception of society, but this was the 50s and the mindset of America was a completely different one (although tRump is determined to set the clocks back to this period of time which we need not revisit, but that’s an altogether different matter). At least Magnum had production values, professional editing, believable characters, and self-deprecating wit. I remember like it was yesterday......"You wanna rock an roll with me". R | 1h 51min | Crime, Drama, Mystery | 22 April 1982 (West Germany) A PI investigates the murder of his one-armed friend, a PI working on a case. In the cover was a guy with a gun and that was enough for us to rent it. “had the social instinct of a woman—that of being dependent upon a man. A perfectly satisfying whodunit. Now that I got that out of the way, I really did enjoy this book. Mickey Spillane was one of the world's most popular mystery writers. It is here, in the text, where it returns to the scrolling words repeating the opening of the novel: This is the true story of Steve Harmon. Bodies pile up. Scrabble; Words With Friends; WordHub; Crossword The scene with those two naked twins, the psycho, a younger better looking version of Richard Lynch, doing them, is intense, and as I can remember, provided heavy viewing on my first watch back in 84 that I got away, renting this R movie, as I did a few others. If you want to read good pulp fiction, go back to the source. It's not a story about saving anyone. His specialty was tight-fisted, sadistic revenge stories, often featuring his alcoholic gumshoe Mike Hammer and a cast of evildoers who launder money or spout the Communist Party line. Meet Mike Hammer: tough-talking, dame-loving, feisty wise-guy-punching private eye. "I, the Jury" introduced the world to Mike Hammer. And hey that's not a bad thing at all. Samantha Fox , Candida Royalle , & Marlene Willoughby lend their Exceptional Charms to the Festivities ! Mike Hammer is the prototypical tough-guy private dick, and the world he inhabits is one where women are either dames or broads, guns are rods, and nobody is ever truly trustworthy. His investigation connects Mike to a secret military program with help from his beautiful secretary Velda. A real tough guy and the ladies and the crooks just cannot leave him alone. Thank you all for your love and support, it’s overwhelming ️ thank you. In "I, the Jury" the rather terrific ending is very quickly brought to the surface is an an abrupt way. User Ratings Hammer, whose New York office is across the street from the Pussycat Theatre (! This list -. We’d love your help. Paul Sorvino as Pat Chambers isn't bad, but he gets forced to involve Hammer against his will, while in the original, he happily fed Mike all the info he could, knowing Mike would not be held back by rules & regulations the way he would be as a cop. I just love the name Mike Hammer. Mike Hammer is a very tough NYC PI. He does a fine acting job, but Hammer is MEAN and always angry. In the rain. Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. How can you not like a booby trap place like the one Mike Hammer drives trough with Alan King being 12 years old. - MERK. In this, Assante is either manic depressive or smirking at the bad guys that he just beat. I was introduced to reading by my roommate, whose taste in books included the likes of Donald Hamilton, J.D. It still is a great popcorn movie and her laughter was contagious. Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. I, The Jury is a remake of a 1953 Mickey Spillane movie. Never Ending Dream by I, The Jury: Listen to songs by I, The Jury on Myspace, a place where people come to connect, discover, and share. It’s a quick, slim read, and if you can wince past some of the dated references, Spillane’s world of dames, .45s, and street smart criminals is worth a try. INTRODUCTION With the April 1, 1991 decision in Powers v. Ohio,1 the United States Supreme Court took another step towards ending discrimi-nation in the jury selection process by broadening the holding of Batson v. 2. Author Mickey Spillane's hard-boiled crime novels might have seriously benefited from the new permissiveness of '70s and '80s Hollywood...but it turns out the filmmakers here weren't interested in doing anything creative with all the old clichés, and so we have Spillane's detective Mike Hammer making love to a sex therapist with saxophones blaring in the background. Assante wouldn't know--he takes off his shirt but nothing more. This was a fun read and reading it brought back memories of good times. Very recommended. It is unique, and it makes you cringe any time you think of this movie. But it has a few moments. Yes, it’s dated with it’s ideals and perception of society, but this was the 50s and the mindset of America was a completely different one (although tRump is determined to set the clocks back to this period of time which we need not revisit, but that’s an altogether different matter). It's unredeemed, gritty, and it is a classic of the genre. Originally it looked like it was cult-filmmaker Larry Cohen's project, as he penned the screenplay and was to direct to only be replaced by Richard T. Heffron (Futureworld). (*1/2). Chandler and Hammett can be bad enough, but this is -- whoa. I, the Jury is the 1947 debut novel of American crime fiction writer Mickey Spillane, the first work to feature private investigator Mike Hammer. OY! I remember renting this film and seeing it with my friends. Hammer isn't a nice guy, he's an asshole, and that's what makes him so damn lovable as a hero. I'd also been warned that some of what I read in this book would feel trite and derivative, because so many people have emulated Spillane (and Raymond Chandler, and Dashiell Hammett) in modern mysteries that it's like watching the three stooges and wondering who ripped off whom. With his slurry, Euro-trash accent and indifferent expression, Assante saunters through like a male gigolo; rumpled panache doesn't come easily to him--and neither does leering. He was better than I thought he was, morally, in that he didn't know all along who did it and string them along just to get the proof, but the fact that I thought him capable of that doesn't bode well. I was introduced to reading by my roommate, whose taste in books included the likes of Donald Hamilton, J.D. Jack's wife Myrna reveals that they had been going to sex therapist Dr. Charlotte Bennett. A few new wrinkles & up-dated so well that it's still relevant Today ! MacDonald and Mickey Spillane. Wow was I surprised with Mike Hammer! I like this slightly over the top interpretation of Mike Hammer, especially after viewing all the previous watered down versions. There were some fancy boys “jogging” and I glared a contemptuous good morning to them. On discovery of the body of a close friend Mike sets out to put a bullet in the killer. Yea, Adult supervision Blah! people who love their guns. Armand Asante is the cocky private detective, hunting his best friend's killer. by Signet. The scene where Armand Assante shoves the bad guy's face onto the hot griddle ranks right up with the dentist "Is it safe?" Great fast paced story that drags you along to the action packed end. But holy cow, this movie was just absolute crap. I loved the fact Assante was in this. There's even some Iconic 70s/80s Porn Stars Involved . Spillane published “I, the Jury” in 1947. So Raymond Chandler seems to be the much better writer, capturing the essence of 1940s Los Angeles and the folks who inhabit skid row. He's no. Private detective Mike Hammer looks into the case to seek revenge when he learns of the killing of his one-armed ex-army buddy. MacDonald and Mickey Spillane. I, the Jury was written in 1948 (I think) so I expected racist, sexist and misogynistic language and attitudes. He bends the rules without investigation, leaving a trail of dead bodies and explosions. Chandler and Hammett can be bad enough, but this is -- whoa. The novel is set in what I presume is New York (since the name of the city isn't mentioned, it's probably New York--ps. See without prejudices and just enjoy Assantes unbounded energy. By 1980, seven of the top 15 all-time bestselling fiction titles in America were written by Spillane. She's very tempting at the end when she confronts Mike Hammer and he's got to make a life and death decision. Browse our Scrabble Word Finder, Words With Friends cheat dictionary, and WordHub word solver to find words that end with jury. Mike follows the gun to mobster Charles Kalecki (Alan King). 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