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Yes, the original comic books, as well as the movies, are originally French. The names of most of the characters are plays on words and have to be adjusted accordingly in each language...

....says the guy who obviously never watched Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone in 3-D! Now, there's a movie that can make even Jaws 3-D seem like GWTW

Life sometimes truly does imitate art...

Probably too good for that material...

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It's one of those movies where some of the parts are just as entertaining as watching the whole thing from beginning to end.

BTW ... where is Ebert of late? Did I miss something? In and out of the hospital.

There is no need for smart-aleck comments. You're still insisting on the existance of alleged bribery without furnishing any proof. Isn't it obvious that studios don't need to bribe anyone? They already spend tens of millions on buying ads in TV, radio, newspapers and billboards. This is usually far more effective for big-budget movies than most critics reviews would be in any event. On the other hand, smart, intelligent, honest critics sometimes manage to help boost some small, independent American production that would otherwise very likely get lost in the shuffle.

Tnx for the reminder, Arkadin!

Well I'd say it just depends on how much you enjoy watching Gene Kelly... some of them are possibly only for diehard fans... in other words don't expect his movies from the late 50's to be as good as those from the early 50s. I like GK in just about anything, so I'm looking forward to all of them!

Anne, there's a huge difference between making irresponsible accusations about critics getting bribes for favorable reviews and simply pointing out that most positions in journalism aren't very well paid. It is generally a *well-known* fact that most journalism positions don't pay as much as other related fields, such as public relations. You, or anyone else on this thread for that matter, is almost certainly smart enough to do an internet search for average media salaries across different markets. The data is out there in the public eye. You cannot, however, claim that somebody can simply find evidence of bribery simply by doing an online search.

Well, me too, and I'm especially relieved because for most of the last 17 or 18 years, I've never been able to watch a good transfer of this movie... even the version that used to show on Fox Movie Channel looked awful.

Vera-Ellen was one of the best things in the movie!

Don't you just love it when someone gets desperate enough to start cutting and pasting other people's replies with the passion of a Scotland Yard detective in the hope that they might find the slightest fault with it? As it happens, yes, I have factual knowledge about it but can't really go into that without violating the privacy of other people. Nonetheless it doesn't take a genius to figure out that people who work for small news organizations don't get paid much. Of course, the issue is entirely irrelevant because you can't judge whether or not someone is good at what they do based exclusively on what they are paid for it.

There's always going to be a few movies that are critic-proof. But NY-based critics can sometimes help an independent low-budget movie get distribution that otherwise it wouldn't.

Well in this regard, we've come a long way since the 60s.

I take it you mean Tartkovsky's -- but it's "only" 165 minutes!

Murder on the Orient Express, hun?

Well, don't you think it's rather obvious that the money isn't necessarily going to be all that good, for anyone in any kind of journalism position, anywhere in America? Or do you think everyone who works in any newspaper or radio station anywhere in the U.S. -- right down to the very smallest town -- is making big buck$? It's really as obvious as can be, isn't it?

Julie, a six-film FA marathon sounds marvelous! I've been considering a 10-movie marathon with the Ultimate DVD set, but I'd probably spread it over two days.

Oh yeah, Night and the City was good, too!

No, I am not planning on a career being a movie critic, and it really is irrelevant in any event. You keep making assertions that are entirely unsubstantiated and making broad generalizations about a profession without having the dignity to admit that in every profession, there are very professional people and there are also a few bad apples. To pretend that any one profession is 100% bad is silly, hun.

I believe that would be correct! http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053240/

A few of the 2+ hour movies of recent years didn't seem long to me... Titanic, Schindler's List, The Departed seemed to move at a good pace. Other movies like Babel definitely felt overlong. Sometimes it can happen when a director gets to have certain clout and becomes indulgent and insists that he wants the cut that's 170 minutes long shown in theaters, when a better paced movie could tell the same story in maybe 135 minutes. But I don't really think that was the case with a lot of classic movies, except perhaps Wings.

The first that comes to mind is O. Henry's Full House, but only because I screened it recently. Other than that I'd go with Kiss of Death, but it's been a while since I watched it. Oh and Garden of Evil, which shows on FMC occasionally.