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I like this movie

posted 18 years ago by angrybeavers13
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Why does everyone hate it? It's a great tribute to Sellers' performance as Clouseau. Yet this film is slammed all the time.

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[–] mikainen 17 years ago

I saw it yesterday again after 20 years and I enjoyed much more than I did in the 80's. Maybe it was just too similar than the earlier panthers (the new scenes) plus there were scenes from actual earlier films so it kind of felt just a repetition.

I wonder how popular it would have been had Sellers completed it. I think people would have been bored already with Clouseau.

[–] wallacesawyer 15 years ago

I enjoyed it. I think it's neat that much of it was made from deleted scenes. If I made movies, I'd probably do that. Instead of DVD features, I'd just splice the deleted scenes with new footage.

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[–] ScrambledMess 14 years ago

"so I don't know why the widow won the lawsuit."

Because Peter didn't want Edwards to use archive footage. He wanted to do it for Revenge already, two years before Peter died, but Sellers balked at this, insisting Revenge should consist of new footage only. And besides, it's pretty illegal to use footage of someone without their permission.

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[–] ScrambledMess 14 years ago

It is illegal to use someone in a movie without his or her permission. See Back to the Future part II. Crispin Glover (also) succesfully sued the producers after they used archive footage of him from the first film.

My interest also lies in seeing Sellers' performances. But, I don't want to watch something that he didn't approve of.

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[–] ScrambledMess 14 years ago

No Crispin is in it. A few times you can see him. It's just two or three shots or something, but he's there. All the other shots are that of a stand-in, Jeffrey Weissman (I spoke with him once actually).

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[–] ScrambledMess 14 years ago

I'll watch it soon and I'll tell you.

[–] ScrambledMess 14 years ago

More than a month has passed, but I've watched it. Four shots of Crispin (1 in the beginning and three during 1955, of which one was an outtake from the first one) and his picture being used a few times in the paper. Anyway, it's identity theft to use someone without his permission being given and that's what Crispin thought too. Peter Sellers was dead so he didn't have any say about his footage being used in this movie, which makes this movie a crime. I don't like this movie at all, but I do like Back to the Future part II (all of them), and I think that sequel turned out perfect and don't care about that identity theft at all. Weird isn't it? Maybe it's the fact that I care more about Sellers than about Glover, but Glover wasn't dead and at least he didn't have a 'starring' role and wasn't billed at all.

[–] first-things-first 11 years ago

I like it also. The slow parts are the journalist looking for clues. The rest of the movie is hilarious.

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