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post #61 of 104
1/21/12 at 9:46am

I'm sitting here trying to come to grips with the fact that, for whatever reason, I never saw Clue.

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post #62 of 104
1/21/12 at 1:27pm

I find Murder by Death a much funnier film than Clue, but that's simply because everyone's funny bone reacts to different stimuli. I'd certainly be the first in line to buy a Blu of Murder by Death.

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post #63 of 104
1/21/12 at 2:11pm
I don't know -- naming CLUE in with those other titles is like saying, "ROSEMARY'S BABY, THE DUELLISTS, DRAGONSLAYER, HATARI!, SUNSET BOULEVARD and...THE BAD NEWS BEARS GO TO JAPAN. Btw, I think the first five titles I mentioned are more worthy of inclusion than all but maybe one or two that Paramount has lined up.
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post #64 of 104
1/21/12 at 2:25pm
Where's War of the Worlds?
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post #65 of 104
1/21/12 at 7:03pm
Yes, and WAR OF THE WORLDS.
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post #66 of 104
1/21/12 at 9:45pm
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Originally Posted by darkrock17 View Post

Murder By Death is where the idea of Clue came from.

Really? I thought it was the board game.

Doug
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post #67 of 104
1/21/12 at 9:49pm
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Where's War of the Worlds?

Good call! I'd LOVE to see War of the Worlds on blu-ray!

Doug
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post #68 of 104
1/22/12 at 2:27am
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Originally Posted by Douglas Monce View Post

Really? I thought it was the board game.
Doug

Clue or Cluedo in the UK was a game first, but Clue borrowed alot of elements from Muder By Death.
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post #69 of 104
1/22/12 at 6:04am
Am I the only one who is surprised by the amount of love for Clue here? I've always been a fan of it but I always thought it was a pretty poorly regarded movie.
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post #70 of 104
1/22/12 at 8:27am
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Am I the only one who is surprised by the amount of love for Clue here? I've always been a fan of it but I always thought it was a pretty poorly regarded movie.

Clue is a cult classic, the film didn't do well at the box office, but it's gone on to sell on VHS and DVD, as well as the countless airings on TV, especially Comedy Central back in the day.
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post #71 of 104
1/22/12 at 9:59am

much love for Clue, but i remember on its initial release going to two different showing just to see the different endings, that was part of the mystique to it, and yest it does owe to Murder By Death, which needs to be out as well,

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post #72 of 104
1/22/12 at 10:48am

Clue was a favorite of mine as a young kid in the late 80s. I wore out the VHS. I still love the film the same way I still love, say, The Goonies. I'm excited for this release.

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post #73 of 104
1/22/12 at 4:14pm
It be nice to see Clue get some decent special features, but that might be too much to ask for.
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post #74 of 104
1/22/12 at 5:24pm

you know what would be a killer feature, yep it has a cult following, Eileen Brennan and Madeline Kahn have both passed,  but it would be nice to have the cast in a retrospect, in one of the sets, from the film, the study maybe or the pool room and somewhat in character,

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post #75 of 104
1/22/12 at 5:36pm
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Originally Posted by dana martin View Post

you know what would be a killer feature, yep it has a cult following, Eileen Brennan and Madeline Kahn have both passed,  but it would be nice to have the cast in a retrospect, in one of the sets, from the film, the study maybe or the pool room and somewhat in character,


I think Eileen Brennan is still with us, unless she died today. smile.gif

 

 

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post #76 of 104
1/22/12 at 5:59pm
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I think Eileen Brennan is still with us, unless she died today. smile.gif


Elieen still alive she's 79.
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post #77 of 104
1/22/12 at 6:38pm

damn, i remember hearing of her having cancer, and just thought the worse, so everyone but miss white, into the study, and lets figure this out! what really went on in that house, , who really killed mister boddy

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post #78 of 104
1/22/12 at 7:42pm
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Originally Posted by dana martin View Post

damn, i remember hearing of her having cancer, and just thought the worse, so everyone but miss white, into the study, and lets figure this out! what really went on in that house, , who really killed mister boddy

 

Well as Mark Twin would say - "The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated."  smile.gif


 

 

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post #79 of 104
1/22/12 at 11:16pm
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Originally Posted by darkrock17 View Post

Clue or Cluedo in the UK was a game first, but Clue borrowed alot of elements from Muder By Death.

I've watched Murder by Death several times and tried real hard to like it, but the comedy in it seems really forced, and the mystery itself never seems to be a real who done it that you can solve, just a gag. I don't know I just don't feel that it is in the same league with Clue which I consider a great comedy classic.

Doug
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post #80 of 104
1/23/12 at 12:45pm
It'd be great to see A NEW LEAF get some kind of disc release at last, even if Paramount were to licence it out. It's a great movie and there's an interesting story (and a much longer Director's cut, I believe) to go along with it.
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post #81 of 104
1/24/12 at 8:04am
It doesn't look like the rest of the world is invited to the birthday party - certainly not the UK. There seems to be some kind of iPhone app to celebrate Paramount's Centenary, but with the exception of Polanski's Chinatown (coming out almost two months after the Region A release), there seems precious little in the way of catalogue titles coming out in the UK or Europe.

You can't even get a squeak out of the PR companies handling the publicity for Paramount, which is frankly amazing as you often can't get PR firms to shut up.
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post #82 of 104
1/24/12 at 8:22am
Really hoping for Ordinary People,and Terms of Endearment,
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post #83 of 104
1/24/12 at 1:40pm
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Really hoping for Ordinary People,and Terms of Endearment,


I'd love to have both of those, too.

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post #84 of 104
1/25/12 at 4:37am

So glad to see Hondo is coming out on blu this year. A great film from start to finish (well, the Indian attack at the end is a little drawn out, but I had read that Farrow was ill during it, and had the AD film that part). Regardless, it's a film I can watch again and again.

 

What I do not understand in this thread is the love for HATARI!. Now I'm about as big a John Wayne fan as there is, but I never felt HATARI! was even remotely his best work. The script is very basic, the writing is corny, and the secondary actors are weak. Even the great Red Buttons painfully overacts. The action scenes were first rate, and the color photography is nice to look at, but that doesn't help the juvenile mood of the film.

 

Instead of HATARI, how about The Shootist or Sons of Katie Elder. These are truly some of Duke's finer works.

 

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post #85 of 104
1/25/12 at 8:25am
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Originally Posted by jim_falconer View Post


So glad to see Hondo is coming out on blu this year. A great film from start to finish (well, the Indian attack at the end is a little drawn out, but I had read that Farrow was ill during it, and had the AD film that part). Regardless, it's a film I can watch again and again.

What I do not understand in this thread is the love for HATARI!. Now I'm about as big a John Wayne fan as there is, but I never felt HATARI! was even remotely his best work. The script is very basic, the writing is corny, and the secondary actors are weak. Even the great Red Buttons painfully overacts. The action scenes were first rate, and the color photography is nice to look at, but that doesn't help the juvenile mood of the film.

Instead of HATARI, how about The Shootist or Sons of Katie Elder. These are truly some of Duke's finer works.


Hatari! is an overall great movie, one of The Dukes, films I actually love. What makes Hatari! so memorable is Mancini's soundtrack. The soundtrack moves the film, not many soundtracks can do that.
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post #86 of 104
1/25/12 at 10:23am
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Originally Posted by jim_falconer View Post

So glad to see Hondo is coming out on blu this year. A great film from start to finish (well, the Indian attack at the end is a little drawn out, but I had read that Farrow was ill during it, and had the AD film that part). Regardless, it's a film I can watch again and again.

 

What I do not understand in this thread is the love for HATARI!. Now I'm about as big a John Wayne fan as there is, but I never felt HATARI! was even remotely his best work. The script is very basic, the writing is corny, and the secondary actors are weak. Even the great Red Buttons painfully overacts. The action scenes were first rate, and the color photography is nice to look at, but that doesn't help the juvenile mood of the film.

 

Instead of HATARI, how about The Shootist or Sons of Katie Elder. These are truly some of Duke's finer works.

 


I agree with you about HATARI.  I like the film as I do most Wayne films, but it's far from being one of my favorite Wayne films.
 

 

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post #87 of 104
1/25/12 at 11:01am
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Originally Posted by jim_falconer View Post


So glad to see Hondo is coming out on blu this year. A great film from start to finish (well, the Indian attack at the end is a little drawn out, but I had read that Farrow was ill during it, and had the AD film that part). Regardless, it's a film I can watch again and again.

What I do not understand in this thread is the love for HATARI!. Now I'm about as big a John Wayne fan as there is, but I never felt HATARI! was even remotely his best work. The script is very basic, the writing is corny, and the secondary actors are weak. Even the great Red Buttons painfully overacts. The action scenes were first rate, and the color photography is nice to look at, but that doesn't help the juvenile mood of the film.

Instead of HATARI, how about The Shootist or Sons of Katie Elder. These are truly some of Duke's finer works.


How about all three of them! Sorry, i don't agree with you about HATARI. I like HATARI because it is different from the usual John Wayne film, but still a John Wayne film and lots of fun. It would be great to see THE SONS OF KATIE ELDER (my favorite Wayne film) and THE SHOOTIST as well.
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post #88 of 104
1/25/12 at 1:01pm
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Originally Posted by jim_falconer View Post


So glad to see Hondo is coming out on blu this year. A great film from start to finish (well, the Indian attack at the end is a little drawn out, but I had read that Farrow was ill during it, and had the AD film that part). Regardless, it's a film I can watch again and again.

What I do not understand in this thread is the love for HATARI!. Now I'm about as big a John Wayne fan as there is, but I never felt HATARI! was even remotely his best work. The script is very basic, the writing is corny, and the secondary actors are weak. Even the great Red Buttons painfully overacts. The action scenes were first rate, and the color photography is nice to look at, but that doesn't help the juvenile mood of the film.

Instead of HATARI, how about The Shootist or Sons of Katie Elder. These are truly some of Duke's finer works.


Hatari! is one of my favorite films of all time. Its interesting to watch Howard Hawks later films. From about Rio Bravo on, he becomes less and less interested in the plot, and more interested in simple situations for the characters to react to. Hatari! is episodic and it meanders all over the place, but it is done so artfully, that I just don't care. I just enjoy spending a couple of hours with these people. And of course the score by Mancini is wonderful.

Another great Hawks/Mancini collaboration from this period is Man's Favorite Sport.

Doug
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post #89 of 104
1/25/12 at 1:13pm

My most vivid memory of Hatari after not having seen it for quite some time is that everyone smokes A LOT in this movie. I do need to haul it out and take another look at it.

 

(Seriously, I do remember the wonderful Mancini score and the great cinematography.)

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post #90 of 104
1/25/12 at 1:39pm
Hatari! is one of John Wayne's very few comedies he did along with Donavan's Reef and Mclintock.
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