This is often on TCM in the UK.
I like the film but it is very dark.
There is one bit that always bothers me when I watch it.
They go to this women's flat,she is the girl of a criminal they know,they force their way in and more or less rape her,but she does not complain much and they treat it as an everyday event.
She might be associated with criminals but are we supposed to think this sort of thing is ok ?
I believe Maureen is a kept woman or whatever? Plus she didn't put up any kind of a fight and just seemed to accept having sex, so I don't think it was really rape as such?
"You're Only Supposed To Blow The Bloody Doors Off!"
Good film in it's day...
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Still is. Watched it again today. A *beep* brilliant little film!
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Yeah, it's on TCM all the time. I actually recorded it on my DVD player and made a DVD. It will do for now. They should release it on DVD though. It's a *beep* classic!
Very good. Someone rated "Get Carter" as 'one of the grittiest Britih films ever' but this one is even darker and harsher, and just as convincing.
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Did it ever even get released on VHS? The bloody thing is impossible to find!
Go to Criterion and ask them to work on Satyajit Ray films, a good Kwaidan rerelease.
I've got a thing about this brand of tense, tight-lipped, rugged thrillers with hitmen and robbers moving in a no man's land cityscape. '70s-early '80s tv crime series had the same rough, seedy quality sometimes ("Kojak", "The Gentle Touch") and outdid the later glamorous Miami Vice-style genre and the cartoonish violence of so many recent gangland flicks. This is a rather dark film, but very truthful, and almost as exciting as McQueen's Getaway.
At the audition I had to karaoke to "Smoke On The Water". I was 45. A very lonely experience.
Sitting Target is really exciting. I watched it again recently for the first time in years. I was surprised to see how well put-together it was and I was glad that I had forgotten a lot about the story and didn't remember how it ended! Although culturally it's quite dated (the misogyny is definitely something you wouldn't see in a current film) the construction of the story and the direction are still rock-solid. And Oliver Reed and Ian McShane are perfect in their roles.
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It is a dark and gritty movie but for me this is a large part of its appeal. The two escaped prisoners are no choir boys, there is no one to really cheer for but somehow that isn't a problem. There are only going to be losers in the end.
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Oh yeah this is a really awesome movie!
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