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Post by darkreviewer2013 on Mar 31, 2021 6:11:56 GMT
I'll go first.
In Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut - a movie I otherwise adore - the time reversal at the end is a repeat of what happened in the original movie and the bar scene at the end makes no sense as a result. It's the film's only significant weak point.
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Post by gw on Mar 31, 2021 6:33:43 GMT
The first 15 or so minutes of Paprika are pretty dull compared to the rest of the film.
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Post by OldAussie on Mar 31, 2021 8:52:12 GMT
The Godfather II - are we supposed to believe Fredo killed the machine gun assassins at the compound? (There's actually a great theory explaining this but the movie never confirms it)
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Post by Stammerhead on Mar 31, 2021 9:01:32 GMT
The abduction in Close Encounters. Apparently Spielberg didn’t think it was frightening enough so threw in everything he could think of and turned what should have been an emotionally intense scene into a bunch of pointless noise and light. I also disliked the scene where Roy Neary’s family leave him (way too long) but at least that was edited down in later versions.
I still love the film though
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Post by darkreviewer2013 on Mar 31, 2021 9:38:21 GMT
The Godfather II - are we supposed to believe Fredo killed the machine gun assassins at the compound? (There's actually a great theory explaining this but the movie never confirms it) I hadn't considered this before. A great movie regardless.
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Post by darkreviewer2013 on Mar 31, 2021 9:39:08 GMT
The abduction in Close Encounters. Apparently Spielberg didn’t think it was frightening enough so threw in everything he could think of and turned what should have been an emotionally intense scene into a bunch of pointless noise and light. I also disliked the scene where Roy Neary’s family leave him (way too long) but at least that was edited down in later versions. I still love the film though Believe it or not, I've never seen the film. One of a small number of vintage Spielberg films I've somehow never managed to catch.
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Post by wmcclain on Mar 31, 2021 12:21:33 GMT
Ben Hur: smooching the race horses.
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Post by Isapop on Mar 31, 2021 14:15:02 GMT
I would love to replace Ali MacGraw in The Getaway (1972). Her "snitty" acting style is a bad fit.
Replace with who? I nominate Ann-Margaret. I think she'd have been perfect for it.
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Post by sdrew13163 on Mar 31, 2021 14:21:12 GMT
The final construction building action sequence in The Dark Knight is not as effective as the rest of the movie (creatively or cinematically).
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Post by politicidal on Mar 31, 2021 14:42:41 GMT
The abduction in Close Encounters. Apparently Spielberg didn’t think it was frightening enough so threw in everything he could think of and turned what should have been an emotionally intense scene into a bunch of pointless noise and light. I also disliked the scene where Roy Neary’s family leave him (way too long) but at least that was edited down in later versions. I still love the film though Believe it or not, I've never seen the film. One of a small number of vintage Spielberg films I've somehow never managed to catch. Definitely check it out. |
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Post by marth on Mar 31, 2021 15:17:26 GMT
Inglorious Basterds, the scalping thing. Totally unnecessary.
I know, I know, it´s a Tarantino movie.
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Post by kolchak92 on Mar 31, 2021 15:19:36 GMT
The Shining I never really cared for Halloran being killed off. I wish Kubrick had just had Jack attack him maybe but he survives like his counterpart in the book. |
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Post by mortsahlfan on Mar 31, 2021 15:20:14 GMT
I would love to replace Ali MacGraw in The Getaway (1972). Her "snitty" acting style is a bad fit. Replace with who? I nominate Ann-Margaret. I think she'd have been perfect for it.
I would have replaced her with Gena Rowlands.
Great thread idea.... I'm still thinking, and may have to go down my list of favorites while I watch this trial.
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Post by Isapop on Mar 31, 2021 16:12:25 GMT
I would love to replace Ali MacGraw in The Getaway (1972). Her "snitty" acting style is a bad fit. Replace with who? I nominate Ann-Margaret. I think she'd have been perfect for it.
I would have replaced her with Gena Rowlands.
Hey, if I couldn't get Ann-Margaret, I'd definitely be happy with Gena Rowlands.
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Post by lowtacks86 on Mar 31, 2021 16:18:37 GMT
In Robocop the part where Dick Jones gets killed looks really bad, why did his arms suddenly grow ten feet long?  |
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Post by Prime etc. on Mar 31, 2021 16:19:43 GMT
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre--there's a scene where they are going through the jungle on the way to the mountain. And the music is that dum dum du dum du dum du dum ...but then it shows Howard cutting the vines and it switches to a whimsical kind of tune which I think it totally inappropriate for the scene. Doo doo do do do do doo do--like someone going mad on a flute or something.
I am intrigued by the Fredo issue. When was this? Did they show him shooting someone or was it implied?
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Post by Prime etc. on Mar 31, 2021 16:21:34 GMT
In Robocop the part where Dick Jones gets killed looks really bad, why did his arms suddenly grow ten feet long? Yeah it is such an awful model.
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Post by mikef6 on Mar 31, 2021 16:22:39 GMT
The Shining I never really cared for Halloran being killed off. I wish Kubrick had just had Jack attack him maybe but he survives like his counterpart in the book. I'm with you on that. The change was all Kubrick's idea and he could not be talked out of it.
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Post by mikef6 on Mar 31, 2021 16:23:23 GMT
In Robocop the part where Dick Jones gets killed looks really bad, why did his arms suddenly grow ten feet long? Yeah it is such an awful model.
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Post by Prime etc. on Mar 31, 2021 16:30:00 GMT
I'm with you on that. The change was all Kubrick's idea and he could not be talked out of it. I have seen a defense of that--Ramsey Campbell wrote a review of the film (in the mid 80s) and he felt it was effective to pull the rug out from under the audiences that read the book--they would be thinking: "oh no, now what will happen?" As a way of throwing off the audience, IF that was the intention. He set him up as a false hope--but I found his character was the most normal-behaving in the movie. Everyone else acted kind of weird.
I think it would have better to have Jack regain his senses--and then follow the book where he mutilates himself--that would have been really horrifying or unintentionally comical--but there wasn't enough personality displayed anyway. Only when Jack returns from the room-he seems to be more normal or pretending to be.
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