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His Cape Fear is one of my favourite films, and superior to Scorcese's version in nearly every way.
Totally agree! Hated the remake, and as I said before, Mitchum is far more menacing than DeNiro biting lumps out of people!
I agree. J. Lee's original Cape Fear is superior to the remake. He was such a nice, kind, intelligent man, and, I think, because he wanted to keep working, he took the Cannon jobs, but he did love Charles Bronson.
Superman IV was much better in its full version. It was Warners, not Cannon, who wanted the cuts for the US release. But, due to the international release date, there was no time to do two very different versions, although Cannon's international version has two action scenes, the tornado sequence and the nuclear missile in Red Square, which were cut from the US release, but they were easy to keep.
I do recall you saying that originally Superman was supposed to rescue Lacy from the upper atmosphere rather than outer space. Then what was the deal with Jeremy during the “one small world” scene that got deleted? Because there’s that bit at the end where they both wave to the cosmonauts from the first scene, which suggests having both Lacy and Jeremy up in space with Superman was baked in.
I could actually roll with the idea of rescuing Lacy from space before she freezes to death. She’s only up there for like 30 seconds. But Supes bringing up Jeremy to have a chat? I have to imagine that was deleted partly because it was even more implausible.
To be honest I can't remember exactly what went on there with the kid in space. There were many inconsistencies during the making of the film as ideas changed. I liked Sidney Furie, he was friendly and treated us all with respect, but he had a loose understanding of Superman and his powers. At one point in the editing, he wanted to make Superman telepathic, can't recall which scene, but we had to remind him that is not one of Superman's powers.
It is surprising that Cannon’s international cut never made it beyond VHS/Laserdisc. Even SUPERGIRL had multiple cuts released on DVD. I wonder if that would be a rights issue entangled by MGM (and now Amazon) owning the Cannon film library, and WB could only put out their US cut.
Yeah, I think there were some issues re: Superman's powers. Chris Reeve was definitely on edge about that stuff when he joined us in the cutting rooms, although he was such a professional and nice guy, he never made his worries explicit, but you could sense his concerns.
Some examples..
Good point @TheSkyfallen06
@AstonLotus please be mindful of what you're posting. We have a dedicated Superman thread, where your videos would be suitable.
Getting somewhat back on topic here… They really should have waited before confirming the game.
I already moved the discussion to the Superman thread before you posted that.
I really don't want a murder-sim game for Indiana Jones, even if it's Nazis. I should be able to play an entire Indy game without murdering someone if I choose.
I agree with this. Also I love the flirting and the ending of TOD, and yes, Short Round.
Sure there is a lot of screaming but she is a lounge singer, unlike (ahem) Stacey Sutton.
I finally got around to seeing Dial of Destiny after avoiding spoilers these many months. My immediate reaction is that I liked it, but maybe didn't love it. It was really great to see Ford and Karen Allen. The beginning was so obvious CGI. The action standout was the horse/subway sequence (whose ending joke seems inspired by SF).
I liked that Indy ended up in a past of which he was in awe, where he could (maybe) stay/die, where he spoke the language...that was all true to the character and his profession. I didn't understand how the Nazi played by Mads could be *that* far off in time (the explanation is continental drift?!?).
I'm wondering if an earlier version of the script gave Indy the opportunity to go back in time to kill baby Hitler. I kind of think it did.
I also wished that Act III of the movie had a "test" for Indy as Raiders and Crusade did.
But in general, I did enjoy it and didn't find it egregious like the last film.
There was an early idea that the dial would take them back to WW2, but Mangold threw that out quite early as it didn’t work with the story.
What's missing on YouTube, for some strange reason, is the entire closing credits score. That's about 10 minutes (IIRC) of beautiful music, for which I insisted on remaining seated at the cinema twice, and that's another (you know what) shame.
The album seems to be missing the traditional end title march,along with all the new themes Williams composed for the film.
Edit: Double post.
The idea was, as with CR, he doesn’t have his mojo yet, so the march isn’t there. The film is very carefully thought about.
What irritated me during the film is Helena's theme played a lot, there were instances where Indys theme should have been playing and not Helena's IMO.
That was my take as well.
I'd say its the worst score of the Indy movies, but still decent overall. There wasn't any memorable themes that I noticed (a typical hallmark of Williams) which was disappointing. I also think the Indy theme wasn't used enough in the movie. It didn't have any of those uplifting moments when the Indy theme plays (like in Raiders when Ford climbs onto the submarine and the crew on the other boat start cheering).
I listened through the end credits the other day (wow, there are a lot of named credits on this movie!) and was surprised not to hear the Indy march at the very end wrap the film credits up like all previous ones have done.
My other gripe with the movie having seen it again is the lack of open titles and using the Paramount logo to replicate a mountain shape. As fan service, they should have done this, and not sure why they didn't.
The Lucasfilm logo transitioned into the film this time rather than the Paramount one.