Why I Like This Film....



Enjoyed this movie on different levels:1)New Orleans 2)Good story 3)Great Cast 4)NOIR Film 5)Good ambience, etc.

The ending is really quite memorable and disturbing at the same time !

-mby

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Yeah! I love N'Awlinz, or atleast I did before the big one... Paul Newman was great as always, they don't make newmen like him anymore... It was interesting to see teenage Melanie Griffith, pre-booze and very much pre-Antonio...

I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.

Winston Churchill

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Miss Mr Newman;

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the flood escape scene was amazing, both for the time it was made, and even today -- and think, no CG needed!

I may be wrong on this, could THE DROWNING POOL be one of the first films to show how Russian Roulette is played. Most people would connect it otherwise to THE DEER HUNTER.

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Good question;

the climax is indeed climactic !

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Yeah, this movie is waaaay underrated. I even like it better than Harper. Don't forget that Drowning Pool has a great opening sequence too, with Paul Newman in the rental car.

What's the Spanish for drunken bum?

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yeah it's a shame this and harper are both pretty much forgotten and the scenes he had with Melaine were scary good she held her own next to a star as huge as him kind of like a young reese witherspoon does in twilight some 23 years later
"You know where I was? Taking a bath in champagne" Mimi from A New Kind Of Love

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If you want to see Paul Newman and Melanie Griffith together in another movie, check out "Nobody's Fool."

Remember in "Drowning Pool," when young Melanie, laying back on the motel room bed, asks Paul, "...don't you think I'm kinda sexy?" while her "assets" are barely retrained by a macrame bra ? Well....some years later, in "Nobody's Fool," an older Melanie 'flashes' her pert hooters at Paul for a full look-see.

A very nice 'set' !

CmdrCody

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Appears darker than Harper..

New Orleans, Cajuns are most ambient ~

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The ending is really quite memorable and disturbing at the same time !






When there's no more room in hell, The dead will walk the earth...

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I enjoyed Harper and thought Newman and all the cast were top notch in it, but hated the character of Lew Harper in that film. In this film, the mellowing of Harper made him more likeable. In the first film he purposedly portrayed him as totally unlikeable.

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Believe you are correct, Sir !

In the sequel there is a mellowing.. likability factor.. indeed.

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It is a very enjoyable film with a strange mix of romance and action. Had I paid better attention, I probably would have liked it more, but what a fun ride it was. 7/10 stars.

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Thankfully, this one has considerably less of that annoyingly "quirky" humor and self conscious "hipness" Harper desperately strove for. Cool location shooting and an overall better story, with darker implications, as well. Definitely an improvement over the somewhat vain 1966 movie.



"facts are stupid things" - Ronald Reagan

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Spot on

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Agreed. This film is pretty enjoyable. I love the sequence with the flooding of the room.

What do you think this is, a signature? It's a way of life!

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For all of the substandard "remakes" that Hollywood's pumping out these days, you'd think someone might get the bright idea to turn a few more of Ross Macdonald's novels into films.

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