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But the next question is who should play Clarisse in the remake? It'll have to be somebody good, somebody who can do the character justice, but today I really don't think they can afford to have anybody famous or well known do it.
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Well with all due respect, she had to be that way when portraying Linda, she had no life, which is the equivalence of the lives of a lot of people today, frighteningly enough. But I liked her as Clarisse, but I do think for the remake she should be regular 17 and crazy and not a 20 year old love interest to Montag.
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Not nearly as clear as the book however. There were a lot of good things in there that were left out of the movie. That's why I hope when and IF the remake ever gets off the ground, they have more of Captain Beatty's dialogue in it, more of the things Clarisse's uncle points out, more of Montag's realization of what it is he does, and what it results in, i.e. the book lady killing herself. And Faber...as much as I liked the first movie focusing on Clarisse and Montag, they really need to have Faber in the remake, explaining how the public quit reading of its own accord and that the fires were just an afterthought.
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Who has seen this movie when it airs on TCM and what did you think of it?
And while we're on the subject, let's talk about the remake that's been worked on for over 10 years and is still no closer to being done. The word is that the director, can't get anybody in Hollywood to greenlight it, even though they know it's a great idea, and the reasoning for this is they won't greenlight it because they don't know how they'll market it to 13 year olds. How is this logic? Just because a movie is rated PG-13 does not mean it's made directly for teenagers.
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It would make sense. Such things as Frankie felt are best described by somebody who knows.
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Now, is it just me...or does anybody else prefer Frankie when she is that way, instead of at the end? I DON'T like movies where in the beginning the girl is a tomboy and then at the end of it she's wearing dresses and hung up on boys and all that stuff, I don't like that, and it seems most movies with tomboys DO do that. Aye carumba, it takes me back to We Boys Together, the book that talks about movies used to involve male chums so close together and they never so much as looked at a girl until they were all grown up, which changed shortly prior to all those awful teen beach movies.
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Who remembers this movie from the 80s? I know a lot of people say that it's bad, it's...I don't know, they don't like the actors, they don't like the acting, they don't like any of it. Other people say 'this scared me SO much as a kid, then I saw it as an adult and thought 'what was I so scared of?' Well I saw it for the first time at 19 and it FREAKED me out...and people always compare it to the British movie Threads...but I don't know, it seems Threads gets too much attention and the Day After not enough. You know, it's a very depressing movie, it's very dark, very bleak, and yet for some reason, I'd love to see it again. What's everybody else think? Has anybody else here seen it?
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Who here who has seen the movie feels they can relate to Frankie? Growing up I know I sure did...I often felt the same things that she ranted and raved about, I just never thought enough of it to say anything about it. Oh but I can certainly relate to when she's screaming at people 'that's not what I meant, that's not what I'm trying to say at all!' and when Berenice told her she was too mean to live and she replied 'I know it!', that certainly brings back memories for me. Anybody else?
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They are not the same, they are similar. If my memory serves, I do believe that Dr. Wells, who was in the '59 movie, was a character in the Circular Staircase, I can't be sure of the Bat because in the previous movies there was Dr. Vanreese, and a Dr. Moretti I believe.
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This is one movie I don't think they've ever shown on TCM. Not in the years I've been watching anyway. I know it used to show on Cinemax a loooong long time ago from time to time...but I don't ever recall TCM airing it...which is a bit odd considering how many of Vincent Price and William Castle's movies they do show every year. Who's seen the movie? Did you like it? And do you think TCM should show it sometime?
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Who has seen this movie? I caught it once a couple years back and taped it, and I liked it very much, unfortunately, I lost the tape. When it came on again a couple months back, I taped it again, and made an extra copy so I can't lose it this time. It's a good movie, I think, it's just too bad that TCM only shows it once or twice a year at best.
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Except by the time Crane Wilbur made the movie, the plot had changed a lot. it was no longer a comedy/mystery, and Lizzie was no longer the frightened maid who set a bear trap for the Bat and ran and hid under the bed. I also liked how they changed the details about Dr. Wells so he wasn't just the county doctor who nonchalantly walks into the middle of what's going on.
Here's something about the 1926 original though. It's said this movie partly inspired Bob Kane to make Batman...he just took the hooded figure and made him the hero instead of the enemy...but it seems to me the movie had something else that might've inspired him. Anybody who's seen the original will recall when the house goes dark, and a round light shines in with a bat in the center of it, and Lizzie screams 'it's the Bat!', but the butler goes out and finds it's just a moth in the car headlight. Note however it's very similar to the infamous Bat signal.
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I wouldn't know about that. But it's funny, everybody remembers Dirty Harry...people think it's such a great movie...I didn't feel that way about Dirty Harry...I like Clint Eastwood, but did not care for the movie too much. I loved Walking Tall though.
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Has anybody here seen this movie? I saw it last night for the first time and I liked it...but people don't seem to want to remember it, they want instead to remember the remake with The Rock. I like the original, what about everybody else? I especially think it's good because the real Sheriff Buford Pusser was a technical consultant for the movie...it's too bad they killed him because otherwise we would've seen him as himself in the sequel.
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It always seemed to me, though, that Jim and Judy had the wrong fathers. Anybody else notice this? Like Judy's father would probably have no trouble telling Jim how to be a man, and Jim's father would have no problem being openly affectionate towards Judy.
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I think Wizard of Oz is the ONLY film I've seen from 1925...except maybe shorts from Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd and Charlie Chaplin...oh but I loved it, I loved that it was so different, it was odd that the scarecrow and the lion and the tinmen weren't originally that, but just the farmhands in disguise, but that was funny, especially with the real lion...and all those stunts they did in the movie, especially near the end, WOW! My mother and I watched all that, just in awe at all the stuff they did and you know it was really dangerous stuff back then and they didn't always have stunt people to stand in for the stars.
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All the Muppet movies (prior to Muppets in Space anyway) should be out on DVD. The original ones especially...and they should be at an affordable price, so often I saw the tapes going for $50. But another one that needs to come out on DVD is A Muppet Family Christmas...I think it IS on DVD, but it, AND the VHS tape have cut out several scenes so the whole version could only be found on television, but THAT has not been shown for about 20 years either.
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It's Mary Roberts Rinehart. I've read both the novel, The Bat, AND the play, The Bat, which she wrote with Avery Hopwood...of course they mention that in the opening credits for the 1959 film...the book is great, the play is downright hilarious though. However, I also read The Circular Staircase, and I found that to be a good one as well. However, if memory serves, The Circular Staircase was written about 1914, but The Bat was written in 1926.
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I loved these movies both, I wish the Underground would show them again. I know Foxy Brown is the better remembered one but I always thought Coffy was the superior of the two movies. What's everybody else think of them?
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I don't get it. The Nanny is a very good movie, downright nerve wracking and terrifying in some parts...why hasn't TCM shown it in the more recent years? They've shown it ONCE in all the years I've watched TCM, about 6 or 7 years back around Halloween and never again since. Why? Surely there are more people out there who like it. Aren't there? It would be good if they'd show it around Halloween this year...Bette Davis can scare anybody in that role, I think.
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Oooohhh I loved this movie the first time I saw it a couple years back...my mother and I dragged my older brother in to see some of it and he said 'already you can tell it's better than the 1939 one, there's no singing'. So true, so true...no offense to the classic but this was such a great movie because it was so different, it was SOOOOOOOO funny, we laughed about the whole time. I wish they'd show it again soon. Anybody else here see it with Larry Semon and Oliver Hardy?
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Agreed. I thought Alice was going to be a kid. I mean if she's 19 and going BACK to Wonderland to defeat the queen, shouldn't it be called "Alice Returns to Wonderland" instead or something?
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LOVE this movie...I saw it once several months back...it is SO funny! Especially at the drive-in. And Frank Gorshin was great in it too, he wasn't the Riddler yet at that time but it seems to me some of that shines through in his character in That Darn Cat as well.
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But Clarisse is supposed to be 17, (well 16 really), and some adults can play teenagers well but I wonder if such could be the case for this one.