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[struth]

First Blood (1982), 4k bluray.




After watching a rough cut of the film, which was about three hours long, Sylvester Stallone and his agent claimed that the film was so bad that it made them sick. Stallone also feared that the film would kill his career, and he attempted to buy all the footage and destroy it. When he couldn't do that, he suggested that the producers cut much of his part and let the rest of the characters tell the story. After heavy edits, the film was cut down to 93 minutes and set a precedent for future action movies.

[Mikeandvan]

First Blood (1982), 4k bluray.




After watching a rough cut of the film, which was about three hours long, Sylvester Stallone and his agent claimed that the film was so bad that it made them sick. Stallone also feared that the film would kill his career, and he attempted to buy all the footage and destroy it. When he couldn't do that, he suggested that the producers cut much of his part and let the rest of the characters tell the story. After heavy edits, the film was cut down to 93 minutes and set a precedent for future action movies.

Classic film, pared back, lovely austere camera work.

[Mikeandvan]

Man who fell to earth. Nicolas Roeg, brilliant just like another of his films, Performance.

[struth]

2001: A Space Odyssey, 1968... was it that long ago??

classic space si-fi.. 4k bluray




Stanley Kubrick calculated that it would take one person 13 years to hand draw and paint all the mattes needed to insert the assorted spacecraft into the starry backgrounds. Kubrick hired 12 other people, and did the job in one year.

At the premiere screening, 241 people walked out of the theater, including Rock Hudson, who said, "Will someone tell me what the hell this is about?" Sir Arthur C. Clarke once said, "If you understand '2001' completely, we failed. We wanted to raise far more questions than we answered." Clarke later expressed some concern that the film was too hard to follow, and explained things more fully in the novelization and subsequent sequels.

The movie was not a financial success at first. MGM was planning to pull it back from theaters, but several theater owners persuaded them to keep showing the film. Many owners noticed increasing numbers of young adults attending the film. They were especially enthusiastic about watching the "Star Gate" sequence under the influence of psychedelic drugs. This helped the film to become a financial success.

Stanley Kubrick worked for several months with effects technicians to come up with a convincing effect for the floating pen in the shuttle sequence. After trying many different techniques, without success, Kubrick decided to simply use a pen that was adhered (using newly invented double-sided tape) to a sheet of glass and suspended in front of the camera. In fact, the shuttle attendant can be seen to "pull" the pen off the glass when she takes hold of it.

[struth]

amazing film especially for 65/68... this web site has some info on how complex it was to shoot..

http://cinematyler.com/archives/749



https://hartzog.org/j/2001beyondanalysis.html

[struth]

The Anderson Tapes (1971)





The apartment building in the movie is in reality the Convent of the Sacred Heart, whose address is indeed the one given as that of the building, 1 East 91st Street.

One of the burglars looks into a sack taken out of the safe and exclaims in delight, "Double eagles!" The double eagle is a $20 gold coin, no longer made. One of them is now worth several thousand dollars.

[struth]

To Have and Have Not, 1944... bogey meets bacall; the rest was history..

[Barry]

To Have and Have Not, 1944... bogey meets bacall; the rest was history..

One of my favourite films.

[Barry]

The Anderson Tapes (1971)

Think I saw this many years ago - but if I did, I don't remember anything about it.

[struth]

Think I saw this many years ago - but if I did, I don't remember anything about it.

crime caper... not bad, but without ever hitting the heights i guess... some good acting performances tho.