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Scottish Dubliner Posted Thu 03 Mar, 2011 5:36 PM |
Didn't really enjoy this, I think the director was going for the old "film noir" feel. He missed, everyone hams it up, the women are over sultry and the males are too clean. I've read some James Ellroy (Brown's Requiem [highly recommend]) and it's pretty dark stuff, this film is too shiny it's over polished while trying to be gritty. Which is really quite weird as it's directed by Brian DePalma (Scarface). I don't know if it's bad casting or just a bad film but it just doesn't feel like a proper thriller.
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Turtleneck Posted Fri 04 Mar, 2011 3:14 PM |
I'm in the middle of a cool Hitchcock movie called Saboteur
but Don keeps falling asleep and I have to keep rewinding to where he remembers, so tonight we're going on a third attempt to finish this movie. The girl, Priscilla Lane, is the one who was in Arsenic and Old Lace. The guy, Robert Cummings, has been in lots of Hitch movies. My grandma always thought he was handsome and I never could understand why, until I saw this movie. In 1944, he is handsome. Anyway, it's about a guy who is mistakenly accused of helping the Nazis by acts of sabotage in the US. He knows who is really responsible, but can't get anyone to believe him and it seems that everywhere he goes, he only finds people who are sympathetic to the opposition. So far, at least. |
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ricv64 Posted Fri 04 Mar, 2011 4:03 PM |
Turtleneck wrote: I'm in the middle of a cool Hitchcock movie called Saboteur
but Don keeps falling asleep and I have to keep rewinding to where he remembers, so tonight we're going on a third attempt to finish this movie. The girl, Priscilla Lane, is the one who was in Arsenic and Old Lace. The guy, Robert Cummings, has been in lots of Hitch movies. My grandma always thought he was handsome and I never could understand why, until I saw this movie. In 1944, he is handsome. Anyway, it's about a guy who is mistakenly accused of helping the Nazis by acts of sabotage in the US. He knows who is really responsible, but can't get anyone to believe him and it seems that everywhere he goes, he only finds people who are sympathetic to the opposition. So far, at least.
remember he had his own TV show ?????
Lurve that movie |
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monkey Posted Sat 05 Mar, 2011 9:54 AM |
Kelly Brook, Bikins, Boobs and Bums. It doesn't get any better. |
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Turtleneck Posted Sat 05 Mar, 2011 4:13 PM |
| Finally finished Saboteur. It ended with a long fall. Just like Rear Window and Vertigo. But I guess this was made before those, so it's ok. Hitch must have been a fan of long falls. AAAAahhhhhhhhhhhh! |
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monkey Posted Sat 05 Mar, 2011 4:56 PM |
Turtleneck wrote: Finally finished Saboteur. It ended with a long fall. Just like Rear Window and Vertigo. But I guess this was made before those, so it's ok. Hitch must have been a fan of long falls. AAAAahhhhhhhhhhhh!
Rear Window is a great film |
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Turtleneck Posted Sat 05 Mar, 2011 5:28 PM |
monkey wrote: Rear Window is a great film
I know! Grace Kelly is fab. Have you seen "Dial M For Murder?" |
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monkey Posted Sat 05 Mar, 2011 5:38 PM |
Turtleneck wrote: monkey wrote: Rear Window is a great film
I know! Grace Kelly is fab. Have you seen "Dial M For Murder?"
James Stewart is also fab in it. Can't say i have seen that film, is it any good? |
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Turtleneck Posted Sat 05 Mar, 2011 6:15 PM |
monkey wrote: Turtleneck wrote: monkey wrote: Rear Window is a great film
I know! Grace Kelly is fab. Have you seen "Dial M For Murder?"
James Stewart is also fab in it. Can't say i have seen that film, is it any good?
Yes, you'll love it. Gracy Kelly plays a woman whose husband plots to have her murdered. |
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Scottish Dubliner Posted Sat 05 Mar, 2011 10:53 PM |
Smart(ish) "Spy" Action Movie, Not bad for killing (no pun intended) an hour and a half, large body count and loads of martial arts type fight scenes. A retired spy is working "security" when his daughter is kidnapped in France. Neeson is actually quite good in this, although some of the stunts/fights etc are nowhere near believable, he pulls off the man possessed very well.
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fenchurch Posted Sun 06 Mar, 2011 4:09 AM |
Scottish Dubliner wrote: Didn't really enjoy this, I think the director was going for the old "film noir" feel. He missed, everyone hams it up, the women are over sultry and the males are too clean. I've read some James Ellroy (Brown's Requiem [highly recommend]) and it's pretty dark stuff, this film is too shiny it's over polished while trying to be gritty. Which is really quite weird as it's directed by Brian DePalma (Scarface). I don't know if it's bad casting or just a bad film but it just doesn't feel like a proper thriller.
Dubz
Hated that movie so much!!! Although I kinda like Aaron Eckhart. He's in a new movie, called Battle LA. I'm part of the scifi society in my college, and we got invited to the press screening of it next week. Yay :) |
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hennypenny Posted Sun 06 Mar, 2011 5:32 AM |
It was alright. George Clooney, Vera Farmiga, and Anna Kendrick were all good. I guess I was expecting something a little more. It also makes me hope I never get fired. |
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ricv64 Posted Sat 12 Mar, 2011 10:46 PM |
Couldn't help myself and went it fine for a matineee . Kinda videogamelike . Guess what the aliens are after ? |
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Turtleneck Posted Sat 12 Mar, 2011 11:07 PM |
| Saw another Hitchcock..."I Confess." Usually I like everything Hitchcock directs, but I must confess, I found this BOOOORRRRIIIIINNNNG. |
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ricv64 Posted Sun 13 Mar, 2011 3:43 AM |
Turtleneck wrote: Saw another Hitchcock..."I Confess." Usually I like everything Hitchcock directs, but I must confess, I found this BOOOORRRRIIIIINNNNG.
kinda agree ....39 steps ,LIFEBOAT !!!!! . You see those yet ? |
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