Miscellaneous Movie Musings

tod · 09-26-2009, 10:55 AM

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Originally Posted by Gemini Cricket

Psycho - Rewatched this one for the umteenth time. Still love it. Robert Osborne introduced it on TCM and noted that the film's score was all strings. I guess I hadn't noticed that before. Pretty cool. I also chuckled at one line of dialogue Janet Leigh says at the beginning, "For this, we have to meet in secrecy to be secretive". Something like that. Funny.

It's filled with lines like that. "Mother -- what is the phrase? -- isn't quite herself today."

Herrmann's all-strings score is one of his masterpieces. Cue 17 -- "The Murder" -- is still used as a terror cue.

--t

tod · 09-26-2009, 11:02 AM

I saw a new movie at a screening the other night. "I'm Good at Freaky."

It's a fictionalized imagining of what happened when Phil Spector and Lana Clarkson got together. Claustrophobic and intense. The actors are good and the story is fascinating -- when she holds a gun to HIS head you wonder if this time it's going to turn out different.

It was shot in three marathon days by B-movie guys, and it is probably going straight to video, so keep an eye out for it.

--t

LSPoorEeyorick · 09-29-2009, 07:45 AM

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Originally Posted by tod

Cue 17 -- "The Murder" -- is still used as a terror cue.

Well, yeah, it's only the most famous scary cue ever.

Gemini Cricket · 09-30-2009, 04:17 PM

It's been awhile since I watched the movie version of Hair. I gotta say, I forgot what a piece of crap the movie is. There's no comparison to the stage musical. It's awful.

Ghoulish Delight · 09-30-2009, 04:34 PM

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It's been awhile since I watched the movie version of Hair. I gotta say, I forgot what a piece of crap the movie is. There's no comparison to the stage musical. It's awful.

But have you seen it....on weeeeeed?

Yeah, still pretty terrible. But at least you laugh a lot more that way.

Gemini Cricket · 09-30-2009, 04:38 PM

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But have you seen it....on weeeeeed?

No. But the play... Like I said, it's wonderful.

09-26-2009, 11:02 AM	#2
tod In the Close-Up Gallery Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 33	New movie I saw a new movie at a screening the other night. "I'm Good at Freaky." It's a fictionalized imagining of what happened when Phil Spector and Lana Clarkson got together. Claustrophobic and intense. The actors are good and the story is fascinating -- when she holds a gun to HIS head you wonder if this time it's going to turn out different. It was shot in three marathon days by B-movie guys, and it is probably going straight to video, so keep an eye out for it. --t __________________ Any world that I'm welcome to is better than the one I come from. -- Donald Fagen & Walter Becker
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Gemini Cricket ... Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 13,244	It's been awhile since I watched the movie version of Hair. I gotta say, I forgot what a piece of crap the movie is. There's no comparison to the stage musical. It's awful.
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