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Post by naterdawg on Feb 24, 2017 3:02:36 GMT
Silent Siren said it was "awful," and that Eva Marie Saint was "ugly." She insinuated that Cary Grant was gay, too. The film is simply great, an intriguing tale of a man being in the wrong place at the wrong time. And the cornfield sequence is a classic, right up there with the shower murder in Psycho.
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Post by pippinmaniac on Feb 24, 2017 3:20:42 GMT
It is a great movie, one of my favorites. I loved everything about it, especially the settings. The house towards the end of the film was spectacular. The climax on Mt. Rushmore was exciting.
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Post by marshamae on Feb 24, 2017 3:41:49 GMT
It's full of brilliant set pieces and James Mason Leo G Carroll. Martin Landau, and Eva Marie Saint breath life into what could be rather cardboard characters. Grant seems ill at ease in some scenes, as though he is a square peg being forced into a round hole . But then you get wonderful scenes like him sneaking out of the hospital and responding to the woman who says stop, being trapped in Mason's house with his own fake gun, his spontaneous effort to disrupt the auction and all his scenes with Eva Marie Saint and Jessie Royce Landis. It's one I always enjoy although the finish, crawling over tge presidents' faces is much less exciting than the Statue of Liberty scene in Saboteur.
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Post by MooseNugget on Feb 24, 2017 7:04:29 GMT
It's a really fun ride if you ever see it.
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Post by alexhurricanehiggins on Feb 24, 2017 10:59:02 GMT
It's a great movie.
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Post by louise on Feb 24, 2017 16:27:02 GMT
i like it very much. exciting and amusing. cary Grant in great form.
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Post by teleadm on Feb 24, 2017 18:32:34 GMT
I usually see this as a Hitchcock bookend of his career, a best-of movie, in that he took all his best tricks up untill this movie, and re-used them though in other settings plus used a lot of tricks that never fitted in, in his earlier movies. Also a witty scene were a train goes into a tunnel (either it's just a scene or symbolic for something enterily else) for those who has never seen the movie I won't tell where in the movie that scene is.
It's one of those movies I can always watch on DVD, when I've runned out of ideas, I know what I'm gonna get and I will be entertained, in other words I love it.
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Post by naterdawg on Feb 24, 2017 18:49:29 GMT
The tunnel scene happens at the very end. Sorry, had to say it.
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Post by teleadm on Feb 24, 2017 18:59:24 GMT
The tunnel scene happens at the very end. Sorry, had to say it. Shhhhhhh Naterdawg!!!! LOL
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Post by shawshanked on Feb 24, 2017 19:05:00 GMT
North by Northwest is one of my favorite films of all time. One of the few films I know that effortlessly combined so many genres in one (Thriller, War, Romance, Comedy etc.) Great performances and sets as well.
Hitchcock really fired on all cylinders with this film. 9/10.
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Post by MooseNugget on Jul 11, 2017 7:57:12 GMT
I was going to go to bed but they just had to play this on TCM.
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Post by politicidal on Jul 11, 2017 14:53:12 GMT
It's probably my favorite Hitchcock movie.
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Post by kijii on Jul 11, 2017 17:27:51 GMT
This is one of my favorites. Is this the movie in which Cary Grant finds himself in a fancy auction and misbehaves (underbids) in order to get himself thrown out of the auction (in order to escape "the bad guys"). I loved this scene: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LzBN0aFPzw
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Post by vegalyra on Jul 11, 2017 18:50:59 GMT
Great film. Although not my favorite Hitchcock film (that goes to Vertigo). The crop sprayer trying to do Cary Grant in is wonderfully done. The auction house scene is funny as well, but seems like it's borrowed from other films, such as Bogart's All Through the Night.
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Post by naterdawg on Jul 11, 2017 23:57:03 GMT
I love how the crop duster miscalculates and ends up crashing! An explosive scene!
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Post by Flynn on Jul 12, 2017 2:57:50 GMT
I think it's a pretty good film (sometimes great) for most of its runtime, but I feel it runs out of steam when it gets to Mt. Rushmore. I just never care about that sequence, and I find it quite boring. Then when it cuts to the train at the end, I always feel cheated out of a good ending.
I feel that Hitchcock's reliance on McGuffins detracts from his films. We get to the end without properly wrapping up the plot, and this never fails to make me feel as though the brilliant actions scenes in the film were just fluff without any substance.
North By Northwest has great moments, but those moments never congeal into a great film in my opinion.
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Post by twothousandonemark on Jul 12, 2017 3:23:50 GMT
B+ Marred only by long run time, or what feels like it. Fun that Hitch wanted that crop dusting scene, man in the middle of absolutely nowhere, & simply wrote Grant's character to essentially go there for nothing.
I do appreciate hindsight acclaim when ppl say it delivered the James Bond cinematic formula without knowing it. Man in suit on the run, chasing & being chased, mystery people & places, action, etc.
I actually love the opening act at the house, being threatened & intoxicated to die on the road... only to survive & return to the house with everyone lying about it. Great fun in a weird way.
It would not make my top 100 if I had one.
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