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Spoilers What Movie Are You Watching?
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So I was looking for something else to post about this book (got derailed), but I noted this:
Holy smokes, I guess I need to find my copy
(I think it's in these big stacks of paperbacks in the "equipment closet", but it will require some spelunking ...).Too bad it's not a hardback
Yeah, it's a __steal__ at ~$2, especially since it's the complete work, with audio, vs. the book or audiobook at like $99.
Good thing there is: https://msuweb.montclair.edu/~furrg/i2l/shorttimers.pdfSo I was looking for something else to post about this book (got derailed), but I noted this:
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Holy smokes, I guess I need to find my copy
Too bad it's not a hardback
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Yeah, it's a __steal__ at ~$2, especially since it's the complete work, with audio, vs. the book or audiobook at like $99.
It’s been a long time, but I want to say the movie deviates from the book as I try to remember if I liked the book.
Can't stand it... sorry !
It’s been so long, I’d have to rewatch that too. I seem to remember Kirk Douglass singing a song and fighting a Kraken. Movies you see as a child don’t always hold up as an adult, but I have fond memories of another Jules Vern story, Mysterious Island (1961) which relied on stop motion for it’s effects. The entire movie has been posted on YouTube.
Struggling to think of any remake that was better than the original.
Not sure on that one. I enjoyed them both, but I wouldn't say the new one was better. Just different.
William Friedkin: Sorcerer (1977)
Four guys living, for various reasons, in a Latin American village get drafted on a dangerous mission of transporting old and extremely unstable cases of dynamite in old and extremely unstable trucks in order to put out a fire in an oil field they are working in.
Wow, what a ride. My favorite Friedkin movie has always been To Live and Die in L.A. (with The Exorcist very, VERY close to it), but this one was really great. My first time seeing it in it's entirety, and the version I saw was the director's cut. So no idea how it differs from the theatrical version.
Was nice seeing this at the movies, in a small cinema with barely even twenty people in attendance, so social distancing was not an issue. The seats were a bit too comfortable, but luckily the film kept me on the edge of my seat so I didn't fall asleep.
Some minor criticisms about the directing choices in the prologue, but nothing major to complain about. Tangerine Dream was wonderful on the sound track. Great, great film that I need to see again.
Four guys living, for various reasons, in a Latin American village get drafted on a dangerous mission of transporting old and extremely unstable cases of dynamite in old and extremely unstable trucks in order to put out a fire in an oil field they are working in.
Wow, what a ride. My favorite Friedkin movie has always been To Live and Die in L.A. (with The Exorcist very, VERY close to it), but this one was really great. My first time seeing it in it's entirety, and the version I saw was the director's cut. So no idea how it differs from the theatrical version.
Was nice seeing this at the movies, in a small cinema with barely even twenty people in attendance, so social distancing was not an issue. The seats were a bit too comfortable, but luckily the film kept me on the edge of my seat so I didn't fall asleep.
Some minor criticisms about the directing choices in the prologue, but nothing major to complain about. Tangerine Dream was wonderful on the sound track. Great, great film that I need to see again.
I believe the original movie was a French (?) or other non-American film from the 1950s and also excellent! I've seen both and you may want to try finding this other version.
I don’t think Casino Royale is a remake. The two films are completely different.
The original has such a great theme tune.
As soon as I got home from the cinema I ordered the 1953 Clouzot original, so now I'm just waiting for it to arrive!
I could watch this movie every day and never get tired of it. I’ve already peppered my thoughts on this movie many times over, however; for a movie cast consisting of three actors, it’s an incredible movie trickled with mind games of ‘I’m one step ahead you’. Domnhall Gleeson and Oscar Isaac Trying to outsmart each other in this movie was so brilliantly acted, it makes me want to watch this movie right now. And don’t even get me started on Alicia Vikander’s performance, we seriously don’t see enough of her on the big screen, she is incredibly talented. (And she nailed her role in the Jason Bourne reboot).
Watched this a while back. I'd seen it a few times before over the years. I always forget just how camp and bizarre it is.
Camp and bizarre? Seems pretty regular to me!
Funny thing is when you watch things from the 60’s and 70’s you forget how much things have changed.
The original is absolutely played for laughs, I mean, it was written as a satire by design!
Well, I guess it gets into some debate about the label "remake", personally, i.e., do you call a second (or 3rd ...) movie based on the same source material a remake [?] They're both __technically__ a film based on the Ian Fleming Casino Royale novel, even if they have completely differents takes on the material.
This is another great example of the above:
The 1982 The Thing is the first "remake" of The Thing [from Another World] from 1951, but it's clearly a completely different, (and far more on point), take on the original Campbell source, Who Goes There?
Remake because of the same source? Not a remake because of the different spin on the source? Some other 3rd thing?
I vaguely remember this movie as a slapstick lark? Memorable intro Burt Bacharach, played by Herb Albert and the Tijuana Brass, a favorite in the 60s.
I would call both Casino Royale (Daniel Craig) and The Thing 1982, excellent remakes, both using the same source material, and The Thing 3 2011 is a prequel. After Sean Connery, I seriously disliked the original CR, but the second one more than made up for it.
A bit like Austin Powers.I vaguely remember this movie as a slapstick lark? Memorable intro Burt Bacharach, played by Herb Albert and the Tijuana Brass, a favorite in the 60s.