Best adaptation, ever:
Read the book first.
Posted on 08/10/2010 10:43:20 PM PDT by BuckeyeTexan
Best adaptation, ever:
Read the book first.
Movie scared the shit out of me, and I had been very comfortable in the water, even at night, before that.
Yeah, hype and all, but a helluva flic at the time...............
Yuck. Did Spielberg make that POS?
I saw that on a plane. I wish I hadn't. That tiny screen never makes for a good viewing experience.
I was pleasantly surprised by "There Will be Blood" from several years ago, especially considering that was a director with little or no motion picture experience. I don't know what else he's working on, but I'll be interested to see if he improves upon his maiden picture. Unfortunately, virtually no one saw that movie in the theater. I don't even know if it made a profit. Kids go to see crap, so we're treated to crap. This is the result of studios catering to the teenager.
There was the one where the woman flies on a jet to the tropics and the shark beats her there. Can they swim that fast?
Michael, I’m not familiar with this title, however I was just looking for a new book to read this evening, so I will see if I can order this title from amazon tomorrow. Thank you very much for the recommendation.
I just this second realized that the little cartoon clip that plays after the T.V. show “House” is from Jaws!
“That’s some bad hat, Harry.”
Greatness.
I recall Jonathan Winters’ remark after the movie came out, “I think they’re still swimming in the middle part of the country, there aren’t TOO many sharks in the Mississippi.”
I know that after I saw it, I got scared in a swimming pool, although I’m happy to report I was brave enough to tough it out and stay in ... so what if I die.
Hitchcock’s Shadow of a Doubt is definitely worth seeing. None of Sir Alfred’s other films come as close as this one does as something that could happen to one’s own family.
Not familiar with Slaughterhouse Five? Wow. You’re in for a good read. Start it on Friday after work.
After that try Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follet if you haven’t read it. Starz has an 8-part miniseries of it on right now. I’m just now reading it, so I’ll wait to see the miniseries. The sequel, World Without End, is supposed to be really good.
The Godfather is simply one of the best American movies ever made, period.
And if you like Hitchcock and Cary Grant, I think North by Northwest was the best film they ever did together. It also has James Mason as just about the suavest bad guy in movie history.
Oddly enough I’ve had a new appreciation for The Exorcist. I watched it a couple of times in the last two years, and found the roles of the Catholic Priests to be more heroic than I’ve seen them portrayed in any other movie.
It was a breath of fresh air.
All great, but let's add another couple Bogey greats, The Big Sleep and Treasure of the Sierra Madre.
I think I liked “There Will Be Blood” better the second time I saw it, at home on the big, big screen. For some reason, I appreciated it more. It was a really good movie. I don’t remember being distracted or anything at the theater, but I don’t remember thinking it was anything special.
How Richard Dreyfuss ever became a movie star is one of the great mysteries of the twentieth century.
After those two, the series went downhill quickly.
That is one of the stupidest plots I have ever read.
I can’t watch that movie. I tried several times. There’s something about it that literally makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand up and my skin crawl.
Great old movies everyone should see:
The Quiet Man (1952)
Giant (1956)
The Ten Commandments (1956)
Ben Hur (1959)
The Longest Day (1962)
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
A Man for All Seasons (1966)
The Godfather (1972)
The Sting (1973)
Rocky (1976)
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
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