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Marj

Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2007 11:14 pm

Joined: 21 May 2004 Posts: 10497 Location: Manhattan

Trish wrote:

Marj wrote:

Trish,

I almost forgot to mention. The book explains everything. I understand it's a fun read. You can get it for 6.99 on Amazon. My obsession with this film is forcing me to buy it. I think ...

I wonder if its at my library - I'll look it up

I'm getting more work Trish, so I feel I can afford seven dollars. I'd love to get the book from my library but for reasons I'm not going to go into now, I can't.

I have got to see Play Misty for Me again. It's been way too long. But great pick up Billy. I love Jessica Walter.

ehle64

Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2007 11:27 pm

Joined: 20 May 2004 Posts: 7149 Location: NYC; US&A

You guys (and Christian Bale) have made me interested in The Prestige, however, I can't stand Hugh Jackman, he's such a Huge Bore to me.

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Marj

Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2007 11:31 pm

Joined: 21 May 2004 Posts: 10497 Location: Manhattan

I doubt you'll like him any more in The Prestige then, Wade.

ehle64

Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2007 11:33 pm

Joined: 20 May 2004 Posts: 7149 Location: NYC; US&A

Oh well, I'm still interested in any Bale performance. Even that thing he did last year with Rico from 6FU, I'll eventually watch that.

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Marj

Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2007 11:43 pm

Joined: 21 May 2004 Posts: 10497 Location: Manhattan

Bale is indeed wonderful. I don't know if this is your kind of movie, Wade. But it's a rental and worth it ... I hope.

If you go back a few pages you'll see I had some problems with it. But strangely I'm still obsessed with it. I haven't the faintest idea why. Other than to say, I know I'm not alone.

jeremy

Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2007 11:47 pm

Joined: 21 May 2004 Posts: 6794 Location: Derby, England and Hamilton, New Zealand (yes they are about 12,000 miles apart)

Fatal Attraction was much more of an everyman film than the consciously 'hip' Play Misty For Me, though I usually find baby boomers' portrayals of themselves to be self-serving and, almost by definition, mainstream.

The themes of Play Misty For Me, adultery and obsession, were not really polite conversation in the living rooms of 70's America, but by the time Fatal Attraction was made, they were grist to the water cooler mill, and the term bunny-boiler entered the popular lexicon.

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ehle64

Posted: Thu Mar 08, 2007 1:57 am

Joined: 20 May 2004 Posts: 7149 Location: NYC; US&A

Something New is one of the hottest, contemporary hetero romcoms in recent history. Beautiful leads and cliched, yet, somehow there was a twist. How do we put the beautiful woman in an evening gown for the reunion scene? Bad Mamma, played with delight by Alfre Woodard. Welll, with that much alone it's worth a rental.

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billyweeds

Posted: Thu Mar 08, 2007 2:00 am

Joined: 20 May 2004 Posts: 20618 Location: New York City

Play Misty for Me also featured a pre-MTV music video. Eastwood and Mills walk, kiss, and generally make goo-goo eyes at each other all over Big Sur while Roberta Flack sings "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" in its rather lengthy entirety and the plot screeches to a halt for eye and ear candy. At the time (1971) the idea of music video was far in the future, but Eastwood delivered one of the best.

The long sojourn into Flackville, it must be said, does not lessen the effect of the suspenseful and occasionally horrific goings-on.

billyweeds

Posted: Thu Mar 08, 2007 2:04 am

Joined: 20 May 2004 Posts: 20618 Location: New York City

ehle64 wrote:

Word times two. Sanaa Lathan and Simon Baker are hot, hot, hot. And the story is romantic, touching, and sometimes hilarious. (Love Donald Faison from Scrubs as the buppie bro.)

Syd

Posted: Thu Mar 08, 2007 2:08 am

Site Admin Joined: 21 May 2004 Posts: 12944 Location: Norman, Oklahoma

ehle64 wrote:

I'm glad you discovered that. I thought it was very smart in the details, which it had to be, because we really don't have any problem with the couple getting together. The conflict comes with the woman's expectations of herself opposed to what she really wants.

I really like the cotillion scene.

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Joe Vitus

Posted: Thu Mar 08, 2007 2:19 am

Joined: 20 May 2004 Posts: 14498 Location: Houston

I've never seen Play Misty For Me. I need to.

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Rod

Posted: Thu Mar 08, 2007 3:52 am

Joined: 21 Dec 2004 Posts: 2944 Location: Lithgow, Australia

Apparently Silent Hill is now the centre of the film world. The last four or five films I've looked at on the IMDB have all had, amongst the "If You Liked This Film We Recommend..." titles there's been Silent Hill. Including for Schindler's List. WTF?

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Trish

Posted: Thu Mar 08, 2007 8:16 am

Joined: 21 May 2004 Posts: 2438 Location: Massachusetts

ehle64 wrote:

You guys (and Christian Bale) have made me interested in The Prestige, however, I can't stand Hugh Jackman, he's such a Huge Bore to me.

Check out The Fountain - you may(or may not) change your mind

Trish

Posted: Thu Mar 08, 2007 8:18 am

Joined: 21 May 2004 Posts: 2438 Location: Massachusetts

ehle64 wrote:

Oh well, I'm still interested in any Bale performance. Even that thing he did last year with Rico from 6FU, I'll eventually watch that.

Harsh Times - it was good (if not perfect in every part) Both Bale and Freddie Rodriques are great IMO)

chillywilly

Posted: Thu Mar 08, 2007 9:28 am

Joined: 20 May 2004 Posts: 8251 Location: Salt Lake City

billyweeds wrote:

IMO there is a real plagiarism case to be made against Fatal Attraction, which recycled practically everything in Play Misty for Me. The only significant change (and this is not all that significant) is that Douglas and Archer were married in Fatal Attraction, and Eastwood and Mills were not married yet in Misty. Meanwhile, Jessica Walter's amazing performance is all-but-forgotten while Glenn Close's nowhere-near-as-amazing perf in FA gave her career a jump-start. Sometimes there is no justice.

Play Misty for Me is ten times the movie Fatal Attraction is.

I'm with you and Earl on this one, too.

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