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Post by geode on May 24, 2018 5:23:46 GMT
I always liked this political thriller but it failed to gain much of an audience on release. I saw it in a theater in Bangkok, Thailand. I think John Travolta was in a career slump, but it is one of his best. Nancy Allen was never better and John Lithgow is spot on. It is definitely a Brian De Palma film, with the obligatory shower murder scene, split screen, slow motion, and a 360 degree shot. That last item is used more effectively than usual, at the end in a heartbreaking scene.
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Post by RiP, IMDb on May 24, 2018 5:28:34 GMT
I always liked this political thriller but it failed to gain much of an audience on release. I saw it in a theater in Bangkok, Thailand. I think John Travolta was in a career slump, but it is one of his best. Nancy Allen was never better and John Lithgow is spot on. It is definitely a Brian De Palma film, with the obligatory shower murder scene, split screen, slow motion, and a 360-degree shot. That last item is used more effectively than usual, at the end of a heartbreaking scene.
I really liked it a lot when it first came out. Haven't seen it in its entirety since...
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Post by bravomailer on May 24, 2018 15:07:23 GMT
An okay movie but ridiculously derivative of Blow Up, right down to the title.
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Post by geode on May 24, 2018 15:11:04 GMT
An okay movie but ridiculously derivative of Blow Up, right down to the title. Yes, but the resulting film was much better.
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Post by Ass_E9 on May 24, 2018 16:37:53 GMT
I love it and own it, but it's too depressing to re-watch over and over.
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Post by geode on Jun 22, 2018 10:23:00 GMT
I love it and own it, but it's too depressing to re-watch over and over. It is a bit of a downer.
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Post by Captain Spencer on Jun 22, 2018 17:03:58 GMT
It's a good thriller with all that Brian De Palma camera trickery. But I tend to agree with Toasted Cheese about Nancy Allen's performance. It's like she was stoned all the time.
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Post by geode on Jun 23, 2018 13:18:41 GMT
It's a good thriller with all that Brian De Palma camera trickery. But I tend to agree with Toasted Cheese about Nancy Allen's performance. It's like she was stoned all the time. I often disagreed with Paulene Kael, but I agreed with her about Nancy Allen in this film. From her review: "In the early scenes, in the hospital and the motel, when the blonde, curly-headed Sally entreats Jack to help her, she’s a stoned doll with a hoarse, sleepy-little-girl voice, like Bette Midler in The Rose—part helpless, part enjoying playing helpless. When Sally is fully conscious, we can see that she uses the cuddly-blonde act for the people she deals with, and we can sense the thinking behind it. But then her eyes cloud over with misery when she knows she has done wrong. Nancy Allen takes what used to be a good-bad-girl stereotype and gives it a flirty iridescence that makes Jack smile the same way we in the audience are smiling. She balances depth and shallowness, caution and heedlessness, so that Sally is always teetering—conning or being conned, and sometimes both. Nancy Allen gives the film its soul; Travolta gives it gravity and weight and passion." So we have two votes against her performance, and two thumbs up.
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