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Guilty As Charged: Super Sexy Thrillers: Now Disc. "9 1/2 Weeks" (1986)
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Zaz
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4/9 11:05pm
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RE: Guilty As Charged: Great Crime Thrillers: Now Disc. 4: "North by Northwest"
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3. "The French Connection:
"The time is just right for an out and out thriller like this," read the tagline from this '71 classic. The time since has never been wrong for the exploits of roughneck cop Popeye Doyle (Gene Hackman). He speeds through NYC chasing after a heroine cartel in cinema's all-time best chase scene. (To bust them, not score H.)"
Way, way too high a rating.
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yankee8255
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RE: Guilty As Charged: Great Crime Thrillers: Now Disc. 3. "The French Connection"
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Zaz posted:
What does Grant sound like, dubbed into German? I hear they keep certain actors for dubbing certain Hollywood stars.
Especially in older films, they use actors with incredibly generic voices speaking "Hochdeutsch" (the equivalent of Oxford English). It totally destroys John Wayne movies, for example.
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JohnWesleyDowney
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Zaz posted:
What does Grant sound like, dubbed into German? I hear they keep certain actors for dubbing certain Hollywood stars.
North by Northwest is on TMC right now. The big Mount Rushmore scene is still to come. 
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Zaz
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4/14 8:50pm
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RE: Guilty As Charged: Great Crime Thrillers: Now Disc. 3. "The French Connection"
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Next: "Rear Window"
"A man (James Stewart) apartment-bound with an injury entertains himself by peeping on his neighbors with binoculars. Sounds like something you'd see on Cinemax at 3AM -- but when said man witnesses what he thinks is a murder, it turns into Alfred Hitchcock's most crackling suspense flick ever. See, voyeurism is good."
Hitchcock could do this better than anyone, and proves it here.
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RE: Guilty As Charged: Great Crime Thrillers: Now Disc. 2. "Rear Window"
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My favorite film by Hitchcock just brillant in its execution.
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It's my understanding that Hitchcock chose Raymond Burr to play the villain in REAR WINDOW because he bore a resemblance to Hitchcock's old and much hated nemesis, producer David O. Selznick. And then he proceeded to do everything he could to make him look even MORE like Selznick. Talk about revenge!
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Zaz
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That's a true story. He *hated* Selznick.
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StarDude
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It's true that Selznick was a totalitarian producer. Restricting Hitchcock to stick completely to the source material for Rebecca.
Nonetheless, Rebecca is one of my favorite films.
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Zaz
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And...1. "The Silence of the Lambs"
"We'll never forget the first time we saw this heart-pounding masterpiece: the way Anthony Hopkins's gaze made our blood stop cold, the way Buffalo Bill said "lotion," the way Jodie Foster's blind basement search made the theater titter with panicked giggles. The lambs are screaming ... and we're right there with them."
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RE: Guilty As Charged: Great Crime Thrillers: Now Disc. 1. "The Silence of the Lambs"
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And on to:
18 Super-Sexy Thrillers
EXOTICA (1994)
"Bruce Greenwood brings his haunted everyman persona to bear as a man who turns to ecdysiast delights to distract him from life as he knows it. And Mia Kirshner works it as Christina, a schoolgirl stripper at the titular nightclub who turns off as she turns 'em on.
SEXIEST SCENE: Anything involving Kirshner, a uniform, and a stage."
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Zaz
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Next:
"BASIC INSTINCT (1992)
Gay rights groups took umbrage at Paul Verhoeven's bisexual-murderer flick, saying that it perpetuated harmful stereotypes, which may very well be true. But it was still a steamy procedural thriller, about a sex-addict cop (Michael Douglas) on the trail of a best-selling author (Sharon Stone) who might have killed her lover with an ice pick...just like in her books.
SEXIEST SCENE: On the dance floor, with Stone, Douglas, and Leilani Sarelle (who played Stone's part-time lover, Roxy), writhing to choice '90s synth."
I'm sure that's not the scene everybody remembers...
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Zaz
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RE: Guilty As Charged: Super Sexy Thrillers: Now Disc. "Basic Instinct" (1992)
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BOUND (1996)
"Violet (Jennifer Tilly) is a kept woman, all but imprisoned in a luxe high-rise by her mobster boyfriend, Caesar (Joe Pantoliano). It's only when she samples the liberating, lesbian charms of Corky (Gina Gershon) does Violet realize that she could have her cake — love and stolen mob loot — and eat it, too.
SEXIEST SCENE: When Corky and Violet engage in a little mattress roundelay. Those Wachowski brothers — who wrote and directed — sure know their way around a camera."
Hmmm...not seen this...
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yankee8255
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Zaz posted:
BOUND (1996)
"Violet (Jennifer Tilly) is a kept woman, all but imprisoned in a luxe high-rise by her mobster boyfriend, Caesar (Joe Pantoliano). It's only when she samples the liberating, lesbian charms of Corky (Gina Gershon) does Violet realize that she could have her cake — love and stolen mob loot — and eat it, too.
SEXIEST SCENE: When Corky and Violet engage in a little mattress roundelay. Those Wachowski brothers — who wrote and directed — sure know their way around a camera."
Hmmm...not seen this...
I still drool every time I think about this movie.
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Zaz
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Next: "MULHOLLAND DR." (2001)
"David Lynch can be freaky and weird, and freaky-weird, but he can turn up the heat when he wants to, as he did more than once in this Hollywood fantasia about an amnesiac (Laura Elena Harring) who joins forces with an aspiring actress (Naomi Watts) to unearth her identity.
SEXIEST SCENE: When Harring's Rita and Watts' Betty tenderly discover they share a deeper bond than their ID hunt."
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Spiderfan
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RE: Guilty As Charged: Super Sexy Thrillers: Now Disc. "Mulholland Drive" (2001)
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Awesome sexiness...but to this date I still can't wrap my head around that story.
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