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Post by dimaggio on Feb 17, 2017 17:18:23 GMT
www.imdb.com/title/tt0056218/?ref_=rvi_ttFrank Sinatra at his best.I reccomend it.do you like this movie? if you come in five minutes after picture begins you don't understand anything,but when you have see it all you'll swear there's never ever been anything like this film before or after.
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Post by naterdawg on Feb 18, 2017 0:23:41 GMT
www.imdb.com/title/tt0056218/?ref_=rvi_ttFrank Sinatra at his best.I reccomend it.do you like this movie? if you come in five minutes after picture begins you don't understand anything,but when you have see it all you'll swear there's never ever been anything like this film before or after. Incredible movie. Never miss it when it shows up on Turner. I also have the DVD. Fine performances all around, but Sinatra holds it all together. Nail-biting suspense, and Angela Lansbury is a mega-bitch! Highly recommended! |
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Post by Moviefan on Feb 18, 2017 5:12:25 GMT
Excellent film. I own the Criterion blu ray. Definitely a must see. Great performances and really well written and entertaining.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 18, 2017 12:37:26 GMT
One of my favorite films. I have watched it over and over. Check out the message board for the film at IMDb while it is still there. Some very interesting discussions.
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Post by naterdawg on Feb 18, 2017 15:29:09 GMT
One of my favorite films. I have watched it over and over. Check out the message board for the film at IMDb while it is still there. Some very interesting discussions. The scary thing is...could such a thing happen? |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 18, 2017 16:48:02 GMT
^Another scary thing is...HAS such a thing happened?
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Post by naterdawg on Feb 18, 2017 20:39:17 GMT
Good question! I do know that Sinatra had a financial stake in The Manchurian Candidate, and he had it pulled from distribution after the Kennedy assassination. So, it obviously hit a little too close to home.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 19, 2017 2:55:48 GMT
www.imdb.com/title/tt0056218/?ref_=rvi_ttFrank Sinatra at his best.I reccomend it.do you like this movie? if you come in five minutes after picture begins you don't understand anything,but when you have see it all you'll swear there's never ever been anything like this film before or after. Incredible movie. Never miss it when it shows up on Turner. I also have the DVD. Fine performances all around, but Sinatra holds it all together. Nail-biting suspense, and Angela Lansbury is a mega-bitch! Highly recommended! It's been a personal fave since I was a kid, though one sequence is uncomfortably depressing for me. As for the acting, Harvey is superb (as always), Sinatra acts the amateur he was (sorry), but Lansbury was absolutely unforgettable. It's a very original and very heavy story (read the book, too), scary enough to be a horror story. It was withheld from release because of the JFK assassination which occurred shortly beforehand and the story's political nature. |
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Post by naterdawg on Feb 19, 2017 3:14:52 GMT
What's the one sequence uncomfortably depressing to you? The beginning, with the fake garden club meeting? Or when he kills his girlfriend and her father?
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Post by Deleted on Feb 19, 2017 3:25:39 GMT
What's the one sequence uncomfortably depressing to you? The beginning, with the fake garden club meeting? Or when he kills his girlfriend and her father? The latter; it is very disturbing to me especially since he doesn't really know what he's doing and the victims are loving people who trust him and cannot understand. It's just too sad for me to watch so I don't. I couldn't believe it the first time I saw it and have never gotten over it. |
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Post by naterdawg on Feb 19, 2017 5:28:14 GMT
I know. It's horrific. The Raymond Shaw character was doomed from the beginning.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 19, 2017 13:01:00 GMT
I know. It's horrific. The Raymond Shaw character was doomed from the beginning. He was doomed by being born to his particular mother. The story is very Freudian and sad to the extreme. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 19, 2017 16:00:56 GMT
I need to correct two statements made by gottaluvafriend. First, the film was not withheld from release. Second, Kennedy was assassinated more than a year after the film came out.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 19, 2017 16:18:39 GMT
I need to correct two statements made by gottaluvafriend. First, the film was not withheld from release. Second, Kennedy was assassinated more than a year after the film came out. First, see the following...
emanuellevy.com/review/manchurian-candidate-1962-the-politics-of-release-and-re-release-4/...which addresses why I posted what I did. Second, while I appreciate being "corrected" I appreciate even more being corrected courteously. Lesson: when posting, everyone, including llanwydd, had better post very carefully from now on. |
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Post by naterdawg on Feb 19, 2017 16:50:17 GMT
Very interesting essay! Thanks for posting that.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 19, 2017 19:43:38 GMT
note to gottaluvafriend:
You are the one who is not being courteous. How could you possibly take offense to what I wrote? And you think "better post carefully from now on" is courteous? Sounds more like a threat. Go fck yourself.
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Post by danielplainview on Feb 20, 2017 14:21:05 GMT
Incredible film.
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Post by naterdawg on Feb 20, 2017 14:56:08 GMT
note to gottaluvafriend: You are the one who is not being courteous. How could you possibly take offense to what I wrote? And you think "better post carefully from now on" is courteous? Sounds more like a threat. Go fck yourself. Relax. |
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Post by dimaggio on Feb 25, 2017 19:15:28 GMT
of course a good movie.
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