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did anybody like this film


did anybody like this film

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It would have been an okay film if every part of it wasn't so half-assed. For one thing, the writer blatantly breaks the Chekov's Gun rule when we find out early on that Gar is an expert marksman but his marksman skills are never put to the test... instead, he ends up killing the monster with (of all the stupidest things) a ski pole.

Then there's that fifteen-minute stretch where Gar does not seem to notice or care that his wife is missing... eventually, he goes to look for her, but I had no idea that that was what he was doing, since he NEVER mentions being worried about her (and moments earlier, he's partying it up at the carnival)... I honestly thought he was just taking a mid-night ski.

(During said ski, the filmmakers are using a blue filter to make it look like night... except you can see the noonday sun over Gar's shoulder... this was some of the most agonizingly bad editing I've ever seen.)

The lone patrolman is killed by a Sasquatch... many scenes later, they're holding his funeral... I guess they found his body? Off-screen? And didn't tell us?

Most of the movie had me confused as hell... oddly enough, I never got bored, though... I wanted to see what happened next, even though I knew it wouldn't make sense... worth the watch, then.

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"The lone patrolman is killed by a Sasquatch... many scenes later, they're holding his funeral... I guess they found his body? Off-screen? And didn't tell us?"

When Bo and Yvette were in the barn the patrolman's body fell from the loft just before the Snowbeast tried to get in.

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I just watched this for the first time since I was a child.Like 5- 7 yrs.old.It holds a special place in my heart because of the memories it brings back of watching t.v with my dad.I was terrified when I was a kid.Granted it was 35 yrs or so ago.But after watching it now.I still feel it was a solid movie.

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I like watching Clint Walker and Bo Svenson movies, Sylvia Sidney is always a hoot, and Yvette is still pretty hot in this, so I give it some leeway.

When they made JAWS they had trouble with the mechanical shark, so Spielberg didn't show it a lot (that created suspense). It seems like they're trying to get the same effect here, but it's because the monster is a bit corny looking. I liked the movie, but I think the 1995 movie 'To Catch a Yeti' with Meat Loaf was more entertaining (at least it knew it was camp). It's your typical 70's fare.

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I did and still do :)

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