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  • 02-09-2010 12:49am
    #1
    Corsendonk
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    Watched this move about five years back and thought it was brilliant. Everyone remembers Francis Ford Coppola for the Godfather 1+2 and Apocalypse Now in the 70s but he managed time to direct and write this movie in between GF1 and 2. Gene Hackman gives a great lead performance.
    Anyone else seen the movie?


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  • #2
    MiloYossarian
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 380 ✭✭MiloYossarian


    yeah I saw it, it's absolutely fantastic. Must give it another watch soon. Must also give a watch to Blow Out, which Brian de Palma did, and said that it was inspired by the conversation.


  • #3
    bnt
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    Saw it on TV a few years ago - excellent, especially Hackman. Coppola basically made the studio an offer they couldn't refuse: let him make that, or no Godfather Part II. :cool:

    You are the type of what the age is searching for, and what it is afraid it has found. I am so glad that you have never done anything, never carved a statue, or painted a picture, or produced anything outside of yourself! Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.

    ―Oscar Wilde predicting Social Media, in The Picture of Dorian Gray



  • #4
    humanji
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    It's a cracking little film. It's got a fantastic twist and how they go about it is brilliant. Plus, you've jsut got to love Gene Hackman. Isn't Enemy Of The State a psuedo-sequel to it, or something?


  • #5
    tunguska
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    The conversation gets better each time I watch it. Very mature and intelligent movie, food for your brain. I'd heard a lot about it before Id actually gotten around to watching it so I had high expectations, especially having seen the Godfather and Apocalypse now. But I have to admit that I wasnt overly impressed the first time I saw it. I did like it, just couldnt understand why it had such a great reputation. But I was only a 19 year old kid at the time so I just didnt have the maturity to appreciate how good the conversation really was.
    Watched it again a few years later and I started to understand it more. And I watched it again just a few months ago and I think I finally really get why its so good. Love it. Hackman is top class.

    Blow Out is also another cracking conspiracy thriller in the same vein. Mainly for Travolta's career best performance. Apparently he was suffering from insomnia for the entire shoot so was on edge all the time, which adds to his performance.

    Also watched "The long Goodbye" again recently. Wow what film. The 70s had to have been the single greatest decade for films.

    *I realise Blowout was 1981.........but thats pretty close to the 70s!*


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