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Post by kolchak92 on Sept 23, 2024 0:51:49 GMT
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Which did you like better?
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Post by JudgeJuryDredd on Sept 23, 2024 1:11:47 GMT
Whatever one chooses, just know that there is a movie where Atticus Finch goes head-to-head with Harry Powell...Cape Fear.
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Post by moviebuffbrad on Sept 23, 2024 1:17:11 GMT
I'd probably go Hunter.
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Post by moviemouth on Sept 23, 2024 1:54:18 GMT
To Kill a Mockingbird
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Post by jcush on Sept 23, 2024 3:09:55 GMT
To Kill a Mockingbird
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Post by movielover on Sept 23, 2024 3:52:53 GMT
To Kill a Mockingbird
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Post by novastar6 on Sept 23, 2024 5:47:36 GMT
To Kill a Mockingbird
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Post by Archelaus on Sept 24, 2024 21:31:55 GMT
I just rewatched To Kill a Mockingbird last week. I suppose it's better because Gregory Peck gives a soaring performance as Atticus Finch, and the themes of racism and growing up are incredibly relevant. I still really like Night of the Hunter and it's still relevant in how a small community can be blinded by a con man's charisma.
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Post by telegonus on Sept 25, 2024 3:37:28 GMT
To Kill A Mockingbird. I used to love The Night Of The Hunter, but attempts to watch it over the last twenty or thirty years has soured me. From its opening scenes, it irritates me, turns me off. It feels phony, too ambitious for its own good; too obviously aiming to be a Great American Movie, it fails as a "mere" motion picture. This is my take on it anyway, and I can understand that many people strongly disagree with my assessment. It would have worked better (IMHO) if it had remained in the (roughly speaking) folk horror sub-genre.
Many brilliant people worked on The Night Of The Hunter: its director, Charles Laughton, its writer, James Agee, cinematographer Stanley Cortez; and the film as a whole doesn't live up to what were surely their high expectations. I feel bad about this, and I'm not a happy camper as I write this post. My respect for the creative people who made this picture is boundless, and while it seems to be aiming for masterpiece status; the effort is there, and indeed the talent, it falls short, way short.
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