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That's fantastic!
I tried watching this movie with my 6 y/o a few months back and they didn't really engage. It takes a while to initially get going and then dies off again, then comes back. Needs a lot of patience.
I loved it as a kid in the '80s but times have really changed.
That scene really creeped me out at a kid watching this film. What they did to that poor cute little thing...
This movie was aimed more at a younger audience already, so was even further removed from the perfect balance of horror and comedy that was the first movie.
Perhaps they could do some kind of spin-off perhaps, away from the main cast and story, for kids.
The post-movie scene with the marshmellow men and the truck seemed really pointless to me. Like something they edited out and tacked onto the end or something.
You're right - they are very similar in appearance, but then there is the belief that people have a preference for a certain 'type' so it may be that way on purpose. Maybe he was drawn to these two women.
The two actresses were Melora Walters and Sheila Kelley. If you google them, you'll see.
Same... he is most memorable as Bishop for me.
I completely agree that this would have been better and given the film makers a much better scene.
Imagine everyone there staring in shock and awe at the sight of the explosion and mushroom cloud rising, and it's so strangely silent. Then it comes...
But... I don't think the effects available to the TV production at the time could have properly conveyed that effect, however, so we got what we got.
Perhaps easily influenced by whatever was behind it all, so insisted his drive wasn't the cause. And maybe a degree of self preservation, to protect himself / his reputation by desperately saying it isn't the drive.
Thank you for your suggestion, we are enjoying it 6 episodes in!
After having watched all the Dirty Harry films again recently and then seeing this, it felt like Eastwood and Siegel had some ideas about bringing a 'fish out of water' idea to the big city and showing how Coogan's methods would clash with urban police and the people living there.
I think they were able to fully refine such a character in Dirty Harry with his 'no-nonsense' approach to everything, which came out a few years later having the same actor and director.
Nice write-up. I watched this after all the Dirty Harry films as I wanted to see more of this kind of performance from Eastwood. It was interesting to see a character which is clearly unpredictable (as you say) and how he dealt with the 'city folks'. Overall, it's not something I'd probably watch again.
It's possible.
There was also the touching of Julie's breasts in the cop station and the scene where Clint is rough with / choking Linny, the other woman. Can't think of another mainstream American movie which might have things like this before 1968.
Well, it's about time! Just watched CETK a few weeks back. Maybe Roy will return to Earth now that they can make actors look decades younger.
Though I've really been hoping Spielberg will return to aliens / space, although I wish he will finally take us into outer space on the big screen for an epic adventure.
I think it was just to have him do something more in the scene.
Having watched all 5 films in a row recently, it was so tiring to see his superiors still going on at him about trashing this and that! And people calling him a dinosaur or mocking his old-fashioned ways. At least his partner survived this time.
The whole thing was so ridiculous but a lot of fun.
Sometimes the R/C car turned a corner well before the bad guy's car and drove straight down the road well before he could see it, so they really got out of sync a few times. And really, who can drive a real car like that AND drive the R/C car at the same time? Then it went onto the walking path and was behind all those parked cars, yet the bad guy kept it straight and eventually rejoined them on the road later.
The 1970s had settled into a string of crime, horror and generally dark films where having the bad guy win at the end was not uncommon. The sci-fi films up to then were generally serious and 'intelligent' in nature and then along came SW which was an adventurous 'popcorn' film and completely stirred up everything going on at the time and engaged with audiences of many ages. It was the film we didn't know we wanted!
ST: TMP has many well-known flaws but it certainly tried to carry on like SW hadn't happened. Too serious in tone, too slow, not enough going on or going places. I love both films in different ways but TMP's established property, amazing effects, beloved cast and great music could only take the film so far.
I heard the effects were completed so late that Wise simply couldn't get the time to edit them properly and they were just quickly put into the film, leaving Goldsmith to make it easier for us to sit through with the help of his wonderful score.
Then it was a rush job to get the films printed and flown to cinemas by the deadline, with the famous story being that the reels were still wet when they were being loaded into the projectors!
I have a feeling it was a case of Jaws with 'Bruce' not working so they had to scrap ideas and make do with what they could get, and just edit around it.
"This is a wish-fulfillment for little boys," is exactly what it is, as I remember the interview with the screenwriter and he said pretty much the same thing: the film was basically every boy's dream scenario at the time, that the video game they played and were good at would became real.
Amazing! Well we can probably say they'll be no more Indiana Jones, at least for a decade.
Whole new generations of people are born and grow up to be movie-going members of the world constantly, so they make films for them. A lot of young people who have gone to see this one probably have no interest in the original from 40 years ago.
It might kinda be like watching a 1984 remake of a 1944 film.
While the 2024 film may not engage so well with people who grew up with the 1984 version, people of the current generation would see the new film differently.
Studios also have huge write-offs when films flop and they take care of their tax arrangements very well so they continue to function, always seeking the next hit.