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would have preferred statham as reacher, that's for sure. maybe too young though. kinda hard to tell how old statham is though. neeson in top form would have been perfect reacher. yeah, he's not perfect in parker. his americanisms are way off, but i didn't care, it was fun enough.

i said it before and i'll say it again, other than neeson, the governor would have been PERFECT reacher.

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dude has the ex-military bearing, the bulk and height, and he looks like he could snap you in two. and he looks like he doesn't have a problem being really quiet for weeks at a time.

when i read parker books i vacillate between picture him as lee marvin à la point blank and, for some reason, burt lancaster

hey u guys, movies have never been beholden to physical attributes in a novel. Rooster Cogburn is sposed to look like Grover Cleveland.

that would have just confused people

i'm going off the previous movies and comics tbh, not even the original book

I'd already seen Point Blank and Payback when I read the first Parker novels, but in my head he looked like a 30-something Robert Mitchum.

Croupier-era Clive Owen would work, if he were less cool.

Yeah, you all tell Statham he is too small.

the physical stuff about statham in the parker movie doesn't bother me. nor even his acting, particularly. but the writers make him do things that parker just wldn't do, imo. especially in the final scene wherein he breaks into an office guns blazing to off some baddies -- parker is much more subtle than that, and prefers to avoid killing ppl.

Hitchcock's Frenzy, apparently

(warning: maybe his most graphic and disturbing film)

Thankfully broke the surprisingly dull losing streak of the previous three movies. Is that the only Hitchcock up right now?

they used to have some UK-era hitchcock, don't know if that's still the case

dull losing streak of the previous three two movies

don't be dissin' Marnie, JiC

xp!

Yeah, Marnie is pretty good.

Y'all be lovin' "Marnie." That's cool. But for sure it's a drop-off of his, say, '51-'63 streak, no? Either way, man, this director had an impressively fruitful output, in several prolonged bursts.

I'd take it over at least half the films in that "streak." (Which actually starts in '46. Or '43. Or '40.)

Hitchcock does "The Streak."

You'd take "Marnie" over half of these?

Strangers on a Train (1951)
I Confess (1953)
Dial M for Murder (1954)
Rear Window (1954)
To Catch a Thief (1955)
The Trouble with Harry (1955)
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)
The Wrong Man (1956)
Vertigo (1958)
North by Northwest (1959)
Psycho (1960)
The Birds (1963)

There are four I'm not so hot on but the rest are pretty unimpeachable.

I think this is another streak:

Rebecca (1940)
Foreign Correspondent (1940)
Mr. & Mrs. Smith (1941)
Suspicion (1941)
Saboteur (1942)
Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
Lifeboat (1944)
Spellbound (1945)
Notorious (1946)

I didn't want to consider 40-63 a streak because in between the above comes The Paradine Case (1947) Rope (1948) Under Capricorn (1949) and Stage Fright (1950), which I consider less than what came before or after. Obviously those "lesser" films all have a lot going for them!

The only ones in the first group I'm SURE are better than Marnie are Rear Window and the last four (except I'm wobbly about The Birds).

But anyway, Frenzy is as perverse and bleak as a prime Bunuel, even.

how can you be wobbly about the birds? its the birds!! i got kinda unconditional love for that movie though. could probably watch it once a week.

oh hey wow i get to watch To The Wonder on streaming netflix now. i'll break out the good weed.

i still can't bring myself to watch there will be blood. its 4 hours long, right? and there are tons of brimstone preacher scenes? i hate that shit. unless its elmer gantry or a face in the crowd or night of the hunter.

if you end up not liking the brimstone preacher, then the movie will do things for you eventually

re: Hitchcock streaming, North by Northwest is on Amazon Prime

There Will Be Blood

I'm never watching it.

why not?

btw it's a misnomer there's never really any blood

a few milkshakes, though

more like bloodshakes

i thought it was pretty good

it is not 4 hours long

turn it off 20 mins before the end

I think "There Will Be Blood" is incredible, even the ending. There are much harder movies to watch. Certainly if you like "Night of the Hunter" you'll dig this one.

it's also pretty humorous, nowhere near as dry as some ppl might lead you to believe

marnie's my fave non-cary grant hitchcock

I'm totally going to revisit Marnie!

marnie is great, there will be blood is "fine" but definitely a movie i have 0 interest in seeing a second time.

same

Daniel Day Lewis acts so hard in that movie it's almost difficult to watch him

ditto with these guys

Like his performance is supposed to be brilliant because he has two very memorable lines and does a really good job at that old-timey voice, even though I get no feeling of any kind from him

i cld watch gangs of new york again. it's been a while. that movie, i thought, was more 'fun' than TWBB. and i like fun, believe it or not!!

Fun! That's exactly it. Movie should have been called There Won't Be Fun.

You guys are craaaazy, Blood was super fun.

For what it's worth, TWBB has the best brimstone preacher scene in history. Not the best brimstone preacher, though. That'll forever be Mitchum.

blood was super fun, every time ddl started talking and introducing his son, i loved it

I keep thinking bc of some sort of synaptic cross link that TWBB is a film of And The Ass Saw the Angel. Did anyone make a 4 hour movie of that yet with dd Lewis in it?

Marnie: the original tracks of herrmann's score need to come out in non-bootleg form by the end of 2014 or I give up on this fucking planet.