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Post by ash2 on Apr 29, 2006 11:12:37 GMT -5
I watched part of the 30's version of the Man who Knew too Much and I have to agree that the 50's version is superior. While I still feel that too much time is spent getting to know the characters in the remake and setting up the story, the opposite is true in the original, you never get to know the characters and the original suffers from this. MJ is right, they are just actors playing parts. So I guess I'll take twenty minutes of exposition and a great rest of the movie over a movie that starts strong and never reaches the same high point.
JG
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Post by ash2 on Apr 28, 2006 0:01:54 GMT -5
Well, I just watched the 50's one and just as I remembered it is lavish. Possible spoilers below, I tried to stay vague...
The movie drags in the beginning, the inciting incident's importance is not known right away and there is 20 minutes of waiting for something to happen. Luckily Jimmy Stewart's likability saved this part from complete disaster. Once plot point one happens (which has that great camera angle) the movie takes off and it held my interest the rest of the way through. The climax is up to Hitchcock's standards of famous locations. Bernard Herrmann the greatest movie composer ever gives a cameo as himself, what's not to like? There is even a great example of Hitchcock's patented dialogue-lessness. Doris Day wears a suit that reminds me very much of Kim Novak in Vertigo. Like they said in that movie "The gentleman knows what he likes."
Is it better than his other version? Won't know until I refresh my memory.
JG
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Post by ash2 on Apr 27, 2006 11:13:42 GMT -5
Hey MJ, where are you in the "Man Who knew too Much" debate? Do you think the old one is better or the remake?
If I remember correctly they differ enough in tone that they both stand alone. I think Jimmy Stewart is a great actor but the original was in Black and White and had more of the noir feel while the remake was in color and was 50's lavish, more Hollywood.
I'm trying to find time to rewatch them both and to watch Rebecca which I don't think I've ever seen.
JG
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Post by ash2 on Apr 18, 2006 14:04:18 GMT -5
A large part of me hopes your wrong on this one, I'd like to think that Hitchcock was proud of Sabotage. JG Oh he was proud of the film as a whole, but not of that scene. Truffaut did an extensive interview with Hitch that was collected in a book called "Hitchcock" and this is the source of my information. Specifically the chapter titled, "The Boy and the Bomb" I'm really glad I said something cause that book sounds fantastic. I looked it up on Amazon and one woman, in her review said she has a bookself full of books on Hitchcock and this is one of the best. So I impulse bought it. Thanks for the heads up. JG
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Post by ash2 on Apr 18, 2006 9:17:10 GMT -5
Rich and Strange SabotageSPOILER ALERTCritics at the time slammed Hitch for this death and Hitch himself said that it was a mistake. But I disagree. If the boy hadn't died, the event (a bombing) would have been effective only in an abstract manner. That it hurt someone we'd invested time with adds poignancy and depth. A large part of me hopes your wrong on this one, I'd like to think that Hitchcock was proud of Sabotage. JG
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Post by ash2 on Apr 14, 2006 12:42:44 GMT -5
Have you watched Sabatoge yet?
JG
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Post by ash2 on Oct 9, 2004 1:23:51 GMT -5
You ever come up with a joke and think, "hey, that just sounds like a MST riff."
Picture the bots and Joel or Mike watching a bad movie, a young Portuguese women comes on the screen.
Crow- Hey it's Nelly Furtado. Servo- I liked her songs till I heard them on the radio.
Now you make up your own.
John
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Post by ash2 on Nov 12, 2004 12:31:35 GMT -5
he Oracle says: Emby Mellay has a Bacon number of 3. Emby Mellay was in Touch of Satan, The (1970) with Robert (I) Easton Robert (I) Easton was in Gods and Generals (2003) with Kevin (I) Conway Kevin (I) Conway was in Mystic River (2003) with Kevin Bacon www.cs.virginia.edu/oracle/oh, you killed it. Now everyone knows the site that has all the answers. Oh well. P.S. It is impossible to find anyone with a Bacon number over 3.
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Post by ash2 on Nov 11, 2004 10:03:45 GMT -5
Miles O'Keeffe was in Silent Hunter (1995) with Anthony Giaimo Anthony Giaimo was in Wild Things (1998) with Kevin Bacon.
Emby Mallay, my favorite Scrabble hand, is next.
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Post by ash2 on Nov 11, 2004 0:39:51 GMT -5
by the way
Joe Don Baker was in Criminal Law (1988) with Kevin Bacon.
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Post by ash2 on Nov 11, 2004 0:34:16 GMT -5
There are two ways...
Coleman Francis uncreditied cameo in This Island Earth which co-stared Russell (I) Johnson, who was in Greatest Story Ever Told, The (1965) with Marian Seldes Marian Seldes was in Digging to China (1998) with Kevin Bacon
Coleman Francis was in Stakeout on Dope Street (1958) with John (I) Savage John (I) Savage was in Godfather: Part III, The (1990) with Eli Wallach Eli Wallach was in Mystic River (2003) with Kevin Bacon
next up Rick Sloane
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Post by ash2 on Nov 12, 2004 12:35:31 GMT -5
Okay 1. What 1972 movie was parodied in the first host segments of the first aired show? 2. What movie screened in the second season was not used until the fifth? 3. What MSTied films did Advok Telmig direct? Who is he better known as? 4. What MSTied actor is going to appear in a movie premiring this week? 5. What episode was originally suppose to go in place of episode 424? 6. What was the incorrect name of Master Ninja II according to early Best Brians mailers? #2 is Radar secret service
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Post by ash2 on Feb 18, 2004 22:47:41 GMT -5
I give this one 8 out of 10 too. If you watch this after "The Beginning of the End" (The other Peter Graves mst) you see that this one really did a better job of trashing him.
Plus you've got Professor Darren and Doctor Super Mario Bothers.
To me, this ep is not boring, it delivers from start to finish
John
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Post by ash2 on Jan 25, 2004 1:47:51 GMT -5
811 - "Parts": The Clonus Horror 814 - Riding With Death Both of these eps are grade A in my opinion. Parts is first right now for four reasons Darren, Dr Super Mario Brothers, Peter Graves, and the fact that I haven't seen it in ages
813 - Jack Frost Some great riffs but I'm just not a fan of the fantasy eps or the Russian/swedish films or whatever country made this 812 - The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living And Became Mixed-Up Zombies Bad movie, people have made better movies in their parent's basement.
John
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Post by ash2 on Mar 25, 2004 0:33:46 GMT -5
"This is where my tongue lives."- Crow in "A Touch of Satan"
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