He was 86 and has passed away today, confirmed by his family. :(
Noooooooo.
Had no idea he was still alive to be frank. Damn, a trashy legend from our childhood :)
I distinctly remember when I once shown "Crime Busters" (Dos Superpolicías) at a film club over at Columbia U. The faces. :lol:
A childhood legend. :( RIP.
I must have watched his whole career when I was a kid, my school organized film matinees on saturdays to raise money for school activities and they'd always show at least one of their films in those double features.
Legend. RIP. :(
Absolutely loved his films as a child. RIP. :(
I never realised he was so old.
Family-friendly entertainment is in mourning.
RIP :(
RIP :(
so many memories from drive-in theaters...
Loved that guy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwhZwnQNPCM
I'm absolutely astonished by the fact that he was so well known outside of Italy. I thought his movies weren't even distributed abroad.
Beside that, his movies with Terence Hill were a staple of every child here, and I'll miss him.
RIP
L.
Quote from: Pedrito on June 28, 2016, 03:49:42 AM
I'm absolutely astonished by the fact that he was so well known outside of Italy. I thought his movies weren't even distributed abroad.
Beside that, his movies with Terence Hill were a staple of every child here, and I'll miss him.
RIP
L.
Iconic legend of my generation's childhood, together with Terence Hill.
I feel sad that he is gone, but he seems to lived a long, happy, and successful life. RIP
Same in Spain, really. Bud Spencer and Terence Hill movies were the bread and butter of my childhood.
I remember when I was very little and I would get in fights with other children and be annoyed that my punches didn't have the same SFX as in those movies. I genuinely thought it was my punching technique that was off.
Quote from: Pedrito on June 28, 2016, 03:49:42 AM
I'm absolutely astonished by the fact that he was so well known outside of Italy. I thought his movies weren't even distributed abroad.
Beside that, his movies with Terence Hill were a staple of every child here, and I'll miss him.
RIP
L.
Berlusconi had a channel in France in the late '80s (La 5) and his movies were a staple of this channel. He was famous before but the 80's or early '90s reruns made it popular for 30 or 40-somethings who remember him so well.
I bet Telecinco in Spain did the same too. ;)
Quote from: Duque de Bragança on June 28, 2016, 04:49:25 AM
Quote from: Pedrito on June 28, 2016, 03:49:42 AM
I'm absolutely astonished by the fact that he was so well known outside of Italy. I thought his movies weren't even distributed abroad.
Beside that, his movies with Terence Hill were a staple of every child here, and I'll miss him.
RIP
L.
Berlusconi had a channel in France in the late '80s (La 5) and his movies were a staple of this channel. He was famous before but the 80's or early '90s reruns made it popular for 30 or 40-somethings who remember him so well.
I bet Telecinco in Spain did the same too. ;)
Telecinco didn't get here until the 90s, and what it brought to our childhoods was wrestling (vintage early 90s WWF), Takeshi's Castle (gloriously dubbed) and scantly clad girls that were the hormonal awakening of our generation (after Sabrina Salerno).
Bud Spence & Terence hill movies were a staple of the video rental era during the 80s. Some of those movies were even filmed in Spain.
La 5 in France brought in the scantily glad girls too: best of both worlds! :)
Quote from: Duque de Bragança on June 28, 2016, 05:03:36 AM
La 5 in France brought in the scantily glad girls too: best of both worlds! :)
When I was in Italy in 2002/03 I was slightly surprised to see that Italian tv still had them as a staple of their programming. In Spain they must have been phased out by the mid-late 90s. :lol:
Quote from: Tamas on June 28, 2016, 03:51:04 AM
Quote from: Pedrito on June 28, 2016, 03:49:42 AM
I'm absolutely astonished by the fact that he was so well known outside of Italy. I thought his movies weren't even distributed abroad.
Iconic legend of my generation's childhood, together with Terence Hill.
Same here in Denmark.
Quote from: The Larch on June 28, 2016, 05:11:21 AM
Quote from: Duque de Bragança on June 28, 2016, 05:03:36 AM
La 5 in France brought in the scantily glad girls too: best of both worlds! :)
When I was in Italy in 2002/03 I was slightly surprised to see that Italian tv still had them as a staple of their programming. In Spain they must have been phased out by the mid-late 90s. :lol:
Well, since free terrestrial digital TV came, you can see a lot more movies, even somewhat "old" ones, on those many new channels. Of course, on "historic" channels they were phased out by the same time. This means I expect a tribute to Bud Spencer on these channels anytime soon now. :)
Quote from: Duque de Bragança on June 28, 2016, 05:20:13 AM
Quote from: The Larch on June 28, 2016, 05:11:21 AM
Quote from: Duque de Bragança on June 28, 2016, 05:03:36 AM
La 5 in France brought in the scantily glad girls too: best of both worlds! :)
When I was in Italy in 2002/03 I was slightly surprised to see that Italian tv still had them as a staple of their programming. In Spain they must have been phased out by the mid-late 90s. :lol:
Well, since free terrestrial digital TV came, you can see a lot more movies, even somewhat "old" ones, on those many new channels. Of course, on "historic" channels they were phased out by the same time. This means I expect a tribute to Bud Spencer on these channels anytime soon now. :)
I meant the scantly clad girls. :P
Quote from: The Larch on June 28, 2016, 05:27:49 AM
Quote from: Duque de Bragança on June 28, 2016, 05:20:13 AM
Quote from: The Larch on June 28, 2016, 05:11:21 AM
Quote from: Duque de Bragança on June 28, 2016, 05:03:36 AM
La 5 in France brought in the scantily glad girls too: best of both worlds! :)
When I was in Italy in 2002/03 I was slightly surprised to see that Italian tv still had them as a staple of their programming. In Spain they must have been phased out by the mid-late 90s. :lol:
Well, since free terrestrial digital TV came, you can see a lot more movies, even somewhat "old" ones, on those many new channels. Of course, on "historic" channels they were phased out by the same time. This means I expect a tribute to Bud Spencer on these channels anytime soon now. :)
I meant the scantly clad girls. :P
Ditto :P
Quote from: Duque de Bragança on June 28, 2016, 05:30:55 AM
Quote from: The Larch on June 28, 2016, 05:27:49 AM
Quote from: Duque de Bragança on June 28, 2016, 05:20:13 AM
Quote from: The Larch on June 28, 2016, 05:11:21 AM
Quote from: Duque de Bragança on June 28, 2016, 05:03:36 AM
La 5 in France brought in the scantily glad girls too: best of both worlds! :)
When I was in Italy in 2002/03 I was slightly surprised to see that Italian tv still had them as a staple of their programming. In Spain they must have been phased out by the mid-late 90s. :lol:
Well, since free terrestrial digital TV came, you can see a lot more movies, even somewhat "old" ones, on those many new channels. Of course, on "historic" channels they were phased out by the same time. This means I expect a tribute to Bud Spencer on these channels anytime soon now. :)
I meant the scantly clad girls. :P
Ditto :P
Btw, in a bit of a crossover post, another kind of movies they used to show in Telecinco back in the 90s where the Alvaro Vitali "Pierino" movies, which were basically soft porn comedies (commedia sexy all'italiana, they were called, trying to make them classier than they were). Did they arrive to other countries as well?
Quote from: The Larch on June 28, 2016, 05:36:30 AM
Quote from: Duque de Bragança on June 28, 2016, 05:30:55 AM
Quote from: The Larch on June 28, 2016, 05:27:49 AM
Quote from: Duque de Bragança on June 28, 2016, 05:20:13 AM
Quote from: The Larch on June 28, 2016, 05:11:21 AM
Quote from: Duque de Bragança on June 28, 2016, 05:03:36 AM
La 5 in France brought in the scantily glad girls too: best of both worlds! :)
When I was in Italy in 2002/03 I was slightly surprised to see that Italian tv still had them as a staple of their programming. In Spain they must have been phased out by the mid-late 90s. :lol:
Well, since free terrestrial digital TV came, you can see a lot more movies, even somewhat "old" ones, on those many new channels. Of course, on "historic" channels they were phased out by the same time. This means I expect a tribute to Bud Spencer on these channels anytime soon now. :)
I meant the scantly clad girls. :P
Ditto :P
Btw, in a bit of a crossover post, another kind of movies they used to show in Telecinco back in the 90s where the Alvaro Vitali "Pierino" movies, which were basically soft porn comedies (commedia sexy all'italiana, they were called, trying to make them classier than they were). Did they arrive to other countries as well?
Ditto :P
Yes, you guessed it, Berlusconi's channel.
No Berlusconi channel in Portugal (unfortunately?) but Pierino in Portuguese = João Broncas. Subtitled as per cinephilia laws. :)
Possibly dubbed in Brazil.
Heh, the same channel seems to have existed in Germany as "Tele 5" in the early 1990s and was also partially owned by Berlusconi. It was refounded sometime much later.
You know, when Italy exported culture, we did it pretty well :yeah:
L.