The microsecond in between when Kathleen Byron says “I love you” to David Farrar and he shuts her down, you can see him weighing the hot sex vs psycho consequences. Brought a lot of plausibility to the scene with just an acting tic.
That might be odds-on correct, but I could give you a long, long list of movies that came and went leaving barely a trace, which you’d have little hope of finding now in any form, and which I loved.
But I won’t because that’s a whole other thread.
I finally got around to watching The Sting a couple of years ago, over forty years after its release.
I had high expectations. It had been a box office hit and had won a Best Picture Oscar. It was by the same people who made Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and I love that movie.
But I was disappointed. It wasn’t a horrible movie but it was average. It makes me think William Goldman was probably the key factor in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.
I’ve never watched “Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid”, but I first watched “The Sting” about 35 years ago, and have rewatched it every time I had the opportunity (it often runs on TV). I think it’s a brilliant film, great chemistry between Newman and Redford, and I like how it makes the spectator feel that you’re in on the sting, but then everything turns out differently. One of my favorite movies.
It Conquered the World: Directed by Roger Corman. With Peter Graves, Beverly Garland, Lee Van Cleef, Sally Fraser. A well meaning scientist guides an alien monster to Earth from Venus,
Wait - that looks like Zontar the Thing from Venus. Same monster, same plot - I’m confused - how could two Space Alien movies be so similar? Unless… it really did happen!
The book was so much better, it was more about the thinking - inside the head - of the housewife, at a certain time. It was a very nice portrait of a NYC that is no more, when middle class people could actually live there. The lady was married to a pretentious snob and social climber - who scorned the lowly middle class life. Onward and upward, NOTHING but the best! In desperation, she had an affair with a cad…Very mild compared to today, I Loved the book.
Black Narcissus. I’ve seen this more times than I can count, on Turner Classic Movies, where it turns up at least twice a year! 
I just have old-fashioned cable tv, no hoodoo or voodoo or anything…it’s available at every public library, too, AFAIK
He was a wise man in Black Narcissus - with the psycho ex-nun clambering down to see him in her Ugg boots!.. ‘do not stik ur dik in tha crazy’. not a recent invention!
The Zulu warriors doing their warm-up for doing battle was worth the price of the movie, IMO. You can imagine being on the other side of that battle and hearing these ferocious fighters chanting about how they’re going to slaughter you. Very authentic, and raised the hairs on my neck.
Turner Classic Movies airs it about once a year. I’ve seen it several times, and I personally think it’s really good. The music is great, too.
No, I’ve never cared for “2001” either.
My dad took my brother and me to see it when it was re-released in the late 1970s (we were probably about 10 and 13) and we didn’t get it then. I’ve seen it since, and nope, didn’t get it then, either. I did like the “Skype” scene at the beginning where the dad talks to his daughter on the video phone, and the the Bell Telephone logo pops up with the fee.
MAD’s version was called “201 Minutes Of Space Idiocy.”
I actually have it recorded, sitting in my DVR queue. Watching it will be as easy as clicking a button.
I have no excuse.
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I remember seeing that as a kid. The one scene I remember (correct me if I’m wrong)
Spoilered
His wife has a baby and he discovers, “It has no teeth.” He thinks it was cursed because of something he (Quinn) had done and wants to set it out on an ice floe or something.
For me it was the quote:
Pvt. Cole: Why is it us? Why us?
Colour Sergeant Bourne: Because we’re here, lad. Nobody else. Just us.
It was Michael Caine’s introduction to American audiences. When he was approached he said, “I can’t play an officer! I have a Cockney accent!” Stanley Baker told him it didn’t matter.
Finally, History Buffs has a 19-minute video covering the history of Roarke’s Drift and how authentic the movie might be. It was Nick Hodges’ first episode and he said watching the movie when young started his love of history. A bit of the chant you mention is shown at 9:30.
Nearly 20 years from the time I saw the trailer for Endless Summer. I finally watched it on video and it’s one of the two dozen Western movies I keep on my watch list.
Blow-Up was my very first Beta videocassette movie in 1981. I’d seen it on TV before then, but the photographer frolicking with the models scene was always cut down. Arguably, I didn’t really see the movie until the mid-'80’s when it released letterboxed on Laserdisc.
Along with Easy Rider, these movies embody my mystical dream of a '60’s that never really was.
In an interview, Caine said the hardest part of that film was, as a young actor, trying to figure out what to do with his hands.
But that’s a surfer movie.
just wanna chime and and say that thanks to this thread I learned about “Nothing Lasts Forever” and subsequently tracked it down and gave it a watch. I kinda liked it. Daffy, sweet picture that feels like David Lynch on MDMA. Lots of great and sometimes surprising cameos. I can easily see why MGM buried it, though; the audience for extended Eddie Fisher and Imogene Coca bits wasn’t a hot demographic in 1984.
When I was in high school (30 years ago), we had a video marathon, and were running out of time. So we watched the fast-forwarded version of Alien and Aliens. Somebody, who had seen both movies fast-forwarded to the scary parts.
I finally saw Alien last week. The parts I hadn’t seen dragged a bit. Might have been better I had never seen the parts I did.
Freejack was based on Immortality Inc., a novel by Robert Sheckley that was Hugo nominated (under its original title, Time Killer). I’d read the novel – I have read a lot of Sheckley’s stuff – and thought it could be an interesting film. Especially with a cast like that.
Unfortunately, Sheckley hasn’t been well served by TV and the movies. If they adapt a story directly they always botch it. What usually seems to happen is that they steal his idea and don’t give him credit.
The Tenth Victim, Freejack, Condorman, the “Watchbird” episode on Masters of Science Fiction. You wouldn’t think they could screw these up. But they did. As for ripoffs, I’ve argued here that The Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy ripped off Dimension of Miracles. Sheckley himself thought that The Running Man ripped off The Prize of Peril. And I’ve frequently maintained that the bulk of the original Total Recall derives not from Philip K. Dick’s short story (which they exhaust in the first 20 minutes or so), but from Sheckley’s The Status Civilization.