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Post by kolchak92 on Jun 10, 2022 17:04:46 GMT
Great movie. I love the gritty 70s NYC atmosphere and the performances are superb, particularly Matthau.
Incidentally this is where Tarantino got the color-coding idea for Reservoir Dogs.
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Post by moviemouth on Jun 10, 2022 17:06:30 GMT
It's a good movie.
I like the Tony Scott remake too.
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Post by kolchak92 on Jun 10, 2022 17:07:12 GMT
It's a good movie. I like the Tony Scott remake too. Never saw it. I know there were two remakes.
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Post by politicidal on Jun 10, 2022 18:04:19 GMT
I had to rewatch it a couple times to better appreciate it.
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Post by Jep Gambardella on Jun 10, 2022 19:00:35 GMT
It's a good movie. I like the Tony Scott remake too. Never saw it. I know there were two remakes.
I did not know about the 1998 version with Edward James Olmos and Vincent d'Onofrio. IMDb lists it as a TV movie, so that's probably why.
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Post by Captain Spencer on Jun 10, 2022 19:39:48 GMT
Agreed, it is indeed a great movie. I like to think of it as a sort of Die Hard of the 1970s.
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Post by sdrew13163 on Jun 10, 2022 20:00:36 GMT
Awesome movie. It’s paced so perfectly.
The remake is pretty good too. Denzel and Travolta are fun to watch.
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Post by rudeboy on Jun 10, 2022 21:31:03 GMT
Yes, such good fun. Matthau is great, and I really like Martin Balsam’s performance too.
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Post by Stammerhead on Jun 10, 2022 23:07:29 GMT
A favourite of mine and as I’m from the other side of the Atlantic I’ll give a mention for Robert Shaw’s wonderfully dry villain. I also love the mystery undercover cop, the very unpopular mayor and the short but efficient speeding police car sequence.
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Post by teleadm on Jun 11, 2022 13:43:54 GMT
I liked it! Strangely sold as a disaster movie in Sweden were I live, attracting the wrong audiences. I liked Walter Matthau's three so called serious movies at that time. This one and Charley Varrick 1973 and The Laughing Policeman 1973
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Post by petrolino on Jun 11, 2022 13:57:44 GMT
It excited me greatly as a boy whenever I saw it was being screened on late night television. I always tuned in to see this movie.
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Post by mgmarshall on Jun 11, 2022 18:35:42 GMT
Oh, it kicks ass. Effectively tense hostage thriller that manages to balloon into a city-wide disaster, a great cast headed up by Walter Matthau's schlubby, unassumingly shrewd cop and Robert Shaw's icy, calculating highjacker. It's great little suspense picture.
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Post by kolchak92 on Jun 13, 2022 14:32:01 GMT
Just re-watched it. I love the ending so much. It's one of the best endings of all time, IMO.
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Post by Nalkarj on Jun 13, 2022 15:17:02 GMT
It’s one of the best action thrillers ever made. In addition to the gritty direction and crackling performances (Shaw is just so good, but wasn’t he always), I want to call attention to just how great the script is. It’s by Peter Stone, whom I find a particularly interesting screenwriter: He also wrote Charade, Father Goose, and the excellent TV movie One of My Wives Is Missing, in addition to a bunch of libretti for musicals (his libretto for 1776 is better than Sherman Edwards’s score).
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Post by kolchak92 on Jun 13, 2022 15:23:08 GMT
It’s one of the best action thrillers ever made. In addition to the gritty direction and crackling performances (Shaw is just so good, but wasn’t he always), I want to call attention to just how great the script is. It’s by Peter Stone, whom I find a particularly interesting screenwriter: He also wrote Charade, Father Goose, and the excellent TV movie One of My Wives Is Missing, in addition to a bunch of libretti for musicals (his libretto for 1776 is better than Sherman Edwards’s score). Shaw's performance was particularly ingenious. It could have been played as sort of a cliched "Gentleman thief" role, but he puts such a unique spin on it.
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