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| billyweeds |
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| The Lifeboat DVD extras are as forthcoming about the bitchy qualities of a star as you're apt to get. Tallulah musta been murder to work with. |
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| Joe Vitus |
| Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2006 6:36 am |
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| You've sold me. |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2006 9:49 am |
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tirebiter wrote: Marantz: My son saw the first Evolution movie and was unimpressed, but last week went to see Underworld: Evolution and said it was "much better," whatever that means. I guess I'll check it out on cable in six months....
I never saw the first one, but I remember it getting bad reviews. Which is probably the reason I didn't see it. I checked IMBD to see if there were different people working on the second one. The only change I found was that the head writer of the story seemed to be demoted to one of the writers of 'characters', whatever that means. |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2006 9:50 am |
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| Joe, I saw Lifeboat on the screen when I was living in Paris. I liked it a lot. |
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| Joe Vitus |
| Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2006 11:17 am |
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Thanks.
I've been lucky to see a few Hitchcocks on the big screen. Family Plot in first release (not much of a movie, but the opening scared the shit out of me, since I was a little kid). A re-release of Rear Window in the 80's (incomparable with television screenings; yes, I've watched it many, many times on television, but it just in no way compares). A film class showing of Marnie (it dragged; I'd already seen that movie enough, and it needs to be cut by twenty minutes at any rate). And a 16mm print of Foreign Correspondent. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2006 11:28 am |
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Joe--I know I'm in a minority, but I think Family Plot is really good, in the firm second rank of Hitchcock. Far better than Marnie, acres ahead of Torn Curtain and Topaz, and--in the black comedy genre--more successful than the way-too-twee The Trouble with Harry.
Barbara Harris and Bruce Dern have terrific chemistry (although they apparently couldn't stand each other off screen), and the movie manages to achieve what comedy thrillers always want to do but almost always don't: it's both very funny and legitimately scary, sometimes at the same time. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2006 11:30 am |
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| Joe--You may not be aware that Hitchcock changed the ending of the book Family Plot was adapted from (I think it was called The Rainbird Pattern). In the book the Barbara Harris character got iced. The movie is totally different, as you know. In fact, it's one of the cutest endings I know, and a fitting ending for Hitchcock's career--a wink. |
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| Joe Vitus |
| Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2006 11:58 am |
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| Come to think of it, I probably agree with you. I like the ending. I loooooooooovvvve Barbara Harris in everything. I haven't seen the movie in too long to comment on her chemistry with Dern. Certainly you're right about the movie being superior to Torn Curtain and probably Topaz (haven't seen it). |
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| Syd |
| Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2006 1:16 pm |
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| I think the only Hitchcocks I've seen on the big screen are Frenzy, which I saw when it first came out, and Rear Window, when someone connected with it was on campus. I was surprised Rear Window was in color, because I'd only seen it on a black-and-white tv. It actually looks better in black-and-white. |
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| Joe Vitus |
| Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2006 1:51 pm |
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No, no, no.
....well, maybe Raymond Burr's terrible dye job. |
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| chillywilly |
| Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2006 1:58 pm |
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billyweeds wrote: Joe--I know I'm in a minority, but I think Family Plot is really good, in the firm second rank of Hitchcock.
Add another to your minority. I really like Family Plot as well. A very well done film. In fact, I was looking at Hitchcock films the other day and thought of that movie. If I am correct, it was also his last film. |
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| mo_flixx |
| Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2006 2:45 pm |
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Syd wrote: I think the only Hitchcocks I've seen on the big screen are Frenzy, which I saw when it first came out, and Rear Window, when someone connected with it was on campus. I was surprised Rear Window was in color, because I'd only seen it on a black-and-white tv. It actually looks better in black-and-white.
Horrors! I've seen almost of them on the big screen. In either 16 or 35mm. (And I'm younger than Marantz.)
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2006 3:16 pm |
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| I'm younger than springtime. |
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| Ghulam |
| Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2006 4:35 pm |
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| Except for Lifeboat, I am sure I have seen almost all of them in theaters. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2006 5:20 pm |
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billyweeds wrote: Joe--You may not be aware that Hitchcock changed the ending of the book Family Plot was adapted from (I think it was called The Rainbird Pattern). In the book the Barbara Harris character got iced. The movie is totally different, as you know. In fact, it's one of the cutest endings I know, and a fitting ending for Hitchcock's career--a wink.
Chills--I've bolded what I wrote earlier. Yeah, it was Hitch's last movie. |
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