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| Marc |
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Quote: I can't count Eastwood with other two, he's much older.
so what? He directed THE BEGUILED in the same year Spielberg directed DUEL. |
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| ehle64 |
| Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2007 12:49 am |
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Rod wrote: ehle64 wrote: I'm glad to be a member/moderator of a film society that has a member that can actually feel Director's muscles atrophy.
Catty prick.
Yeah, probably so, BUT, I totally meant it as a compliment. |
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| ehle64 |
| Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2007 12:51 am |
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and, i'm sorry, who was in Duel? The fucking Goddess Geraldine Page was in Eastwood's flick.
Oh shit, was that the one Duval was in? I know Robert's a fucking scumbag homophobe, but god damn, he's an awesome actor. |
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| Marc |
| Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2007 12:52 am |
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| ehle64 |
| Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2007 12:54 am |
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Oh well, 'nuff said.
I was actually thinking Garner. What a stoopid thing marijuana is to a brain. |
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| jeremy |
| Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2007 1:00 am |
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I'd go for Hook as Spielberg's nadir. I think it's failure may have been partially due to the fact that he and the critics did not fully appreciate his his strengths and weaknesses. He may have been an exemplary maker of family entertainment, but to my mind he was never really a maker of children's films, which at their most enchanting have real darkness and danger and are essentailly amoral. Peter Pan, a whimsical, yet psychologically resonant and magical tale about the end of the end of childhood was very different type of tale from Spielberg's explorations of an interrrupted childhhod and the search for paternal guidance. It was not his lack of skill as a fillmaker that sunk Hook low, but his burdening it with adult morality. Spielberg might believe in aliens, but unlike del Toro, he can't bring himself to believe in fairies.
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| Syd |
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He had serious trouble with Always, too. I thought Sally Field had more chemistry with John Goodman than the guy she was supposed to fall in love with.
He did do Empire of the Sun a couple of years before that, which I like a lot. |
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| ehle64 |
| Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2007 1:08 am |
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| Was Sally Field in Always? I thought it was Holly Hunter. |
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| Syd |
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| Holly Hunter, then. Shows how often I've seen the movie. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2007 1:46 am |
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I have never seen 1941, Always, or Hook. I don't need to. I have seen The Lost World: Jurassic Park 2 and A.I. and therefore know how badly Spielberg can bomb out.
However, IMO it's a huge mistake to lump the original Jurassic Park with the sequel. The original was a marvel of special effects, and the story was not too shabby either. It's a singular and memorable movie. |
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| Marc |
| Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2007 1:48 am |
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Quote: However, IMO it's a huge mistake to lump the original Jurassic Park with the sequel. The original was a marvel of special effects, and the story was not too shabby either. It's a singular and memorable movie.
yes indeed. Seeing Jurassic Park on opening night (midnight show) at the Ziegfield was a mindblower. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2007 1:50 am |
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Marc wrote: CLOSE ENCOUNTERS sucked.
This is a wild, incontinent overstatement, but it was rather overrated.
Duel was terrific, however, and Dennis Weaver was very good in it. |
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| ehle64 |
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| I agree. I took a great friend of mine from Kentucky to the movies when he was up for Wigstock. I had zero interest in seeing Jurrasic Park, but the Ziegfeld was screening it, so, off we traipsed uptown and we had a fucking fabulous time. |
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| Marc |
| Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2007 1:51 am |
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Quote: What a stoopid thing marijuana is to a brain.
boy do I agree. I can't stand pot. |
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| Marc |
| Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2007 1:52 am |
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billy,
I really really disliked CLOSE ENCOUNTERS. Really. |
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