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Robert Harris

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Rupert Wainwright's Stigmata, has a wonderful cast, and seems to be covering some of the same ground as The Exorcist, a film that seems to have a higher following.

While some seem to feel that it's anti-church, or possibly anti-Catholic, I find it fits into a more anti-good film category.

Nonetheless, report on quality, I shall.

Stigmata is a good-looking Blu-ray, with quality audio.  No problems.

There are enough people out there, and like this film, to give it an initial 90 million dollar gross.  Perhaps they had all gone to multiplexes, were unable to get into their first (or second) choices, and had already visited concessions.

Image - 4

Audio - 4.5

Pass / Fail - Pass

RAH

 

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I recall seeing this when it first came out.


And recall nothing about it, other than the fact that I saw it.
 

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I saw this at the cinema twice (!). Once on holiday in New York when it came out (I remember they showed the teaser for The World is Not Enough before the film), and once months later when it was released in the UK.


Always a fun film - particularly Jonathan Pryce's over-the-top performance. The only reason I went off it slightly was accidentally watching an episode of 'The Millionaire Matchmaker' when director Rupert Wainwright was featured. To massively underplay it: he's a very odd man.


I'd really like to get this on Blu, but the HD version on Netflix will do for now.
 

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I'll second Oblivion138 - saw it, forgot it, don't want to revisit it. Too many movies of the last thirty years have had zero staying power with me. It isn't that my memory's fading as I get older...well, maybe. It's just that the iconography of the great American motion picture, you know, indelible images like the mirage in Lawrence of Arabia as example, seem few and far between these days. I can't recall a famous line from an American movie in the last few years, although I'll reserve my judgement for the industry to stop making disposable pulp and return to the halcyon days of crafting movie art, by simply stealing a quote from The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel. "We have a saying in India...everything will be alright in the end. If it isn't alright, then perhaps it isn't the end!"
 

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Absolutely right. The industry used to craft the disposable pulp too. Nowadays every movie is promoted to death until it's released, at which point they grab as much money as possible as fast as they can and it's on to the next one. The industry just wants us to buy tickets to their movies. They don't care if we actually see them.
 

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I just wish a 'real' movie would come out once in a while. By real, I mean, a Gone With The Wind, or a Casablanca, or a Citizen Kane, or a Ben-Hur, or a Doctor Zhivago, or a Sound of Music, or a My Fair Lady, or a Godfather, or a Star Wars, or a Gandhi, or an Out of Africa, or a Sense & Sensibility, or a Remains of the Day, or a Gladiator or a Moulin Rouge. You know - something that tests the senses, expands the cultural appreciation of movies as art, that speaks to the heart, head and soul, that cannot be properly digested in merely one viewing experience, that provokes endless debate among critics and laymen alike, that staggers the imagination with awe-inspiring professionalism.


I want to be impressed when I go to the movies; to be stimulated in ways that are not objectionable to my mother, daughter, sister etc., to find solace, enjoyment and be thoroughly entertained; to leave the theater either humming a song, wishing to buy the score, thinking of life not as a daily drudge but a series of tastes as well as tasks; something to make me want to take pride in my place in the human race instead of cringing and thinking less of my fellow man. It's been a VERY long time since American movies have done all this for me. Hence, I cling to the classics - those listed and a myriad of others that, to list them all herein, would truly embarrass the 'artists' of today and virtually eclipse their efforts with mind-boggling brilliance.


Where are are the William Wylers, the George Cukors, the David Leans and Hitchcocks of today? For that matter, how about a Joan Crawford or Marlon Brando on the horizon - not knock offs, cheap and deliberate, but worthy of the moniker 'star' in their own right and for their own body of work. I look to the stars only as they were - not as they are - and feel my heart sink just a little bit more. It isn't that there aren't any good, even great talents out there today. It's that they are being sacrificed or squandered in substandard product peddled as disposable tripe. Yuck, and who needs it? I used to. Alas, my drug of choice - the movies - has left me in severe withdrawal these days. Regrets.
 

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Robert Harris said:
Rupert Wainwright's Stigmata, has a wonderful cast, and seems to be covering some of the same ground as The Exorcist, a film that seems to have a higher following.

While some seem to feel that it's anti-church, or possibly anti-Catholic, I find it fits into a more anti-good film category.

Nonetheless, report on quality, I shall.

Stigmata is a good-looking Blu-ray, with quality audio. No problems.

There are enough people out there, and like this film, to give it an initial 90 million dollar gross. Perhaps they had all gone to multiplexes, were unable to get into their first (or second) choices, and had already visited concessions.

Image - 4

Audio - 4.5

Pass / Fail - Pass

RAH

Is this subtle humor at play here?
 

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