True, but she was also (by then) a bit too old for the role. Unless the role was rewritten for her.

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She wanted to appear in Hitchcock's Marnie, apparently, but Prince Rainier vetoed it. He vetoed every movie offer she received and banned her films in Monaco entirely. Let us say it was not exactly a love-match.

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"You can't erase icing."

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Just noticed this.

Really? Why? Because it was true to life or some other reason(s)? Not critical, just curious.

For one thing, Ron Howard used actual weightlessness to show weightlessness. Those weightless scenes were filmed in the Vomet Comet*. Second, while the movie did contain some errors, it's probably the most accurate representation of space flight ever presented in a non-documentary film. In all, it was an excellent movie. That's just my opinion, of course.

*Think of the challenges this presented. The weightlessness only lasts for about 45 seconds, so the actors had to very quickly hit their marks and do the required actions and say their lines before they were hit with a roughly 2G pullout. It took dozens of arcs (I've heard it was over 100) to shoot all of the scenes. That alone is a pretty remarkable piece of film work, IMO.

It is a very good movie, for the reasons you mention and for some good acting, IMO.

Oh, yes. There are some films where it becomes pretty obvious that the acting is irrelevant to the director, that Telling a Great Story is the goal, and how it's told is not the point. (See pretty much any version of Beowulf.) However, Ron Howard recognized that it's also important to Interest Your Audience!

I'm currently watching the original 3:10 to Yuma; my review today will be a comparison of the two. Yesterday's was The Desperate Hours, Humphrey Bogart's penultimate film and the last one in which he played a gangster.

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"Now everyone was giving her that kind of look UFOlogists get when they suddenly say, 'Hey, if you shade your eyes you can see it is just a flock of geese after all.'"

"You can't erase icing."

"I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!"

Apollo 13 rocks. I still get wet-eyed at the end.

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Me too, Kai.

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I loved it over-all but am I the only one who thought the movie unraveled at the end right about where Llewelyn Moss checked into that last motel and after he finshes making small talk with that woman by the pool? My brother bought it and I've watched it three times now, the last time with sub-titles.

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Okay--it is my considered film buff's opinion that the original 3:10 to Yuma is vastly preferable to the remake. On occasion, I decide about halfway in what rating I'm going to give the movie; only seldom, in those cases, do I revise that. In the case of the '07 Yuma, I did indeed revise it. Downward. I really, really disliked the last five minutes, especially compared to the last five minutes of the original.

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"Now everyone was giving her that kind of look UFOlogists get when they suddenly say, 'Hey, if you shade your eyes you can see it is just a flock of geese after all.'"

"You can't erase icing."

"I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!"

Well, I think it's time you find a news column to write for, at the very least. With your literary skills, at least you'd get paid! (Yes, Gillianren, you're worth it - don't sell yourself short. Put the feelers out).

If a movie just stinks from the get-go, there's no reason to continue watching it. I recall several published TV reviews where either one or both of the reviewers quit about 10 minutes into the film. They simply said so. Sometimes they agreed. Sometimes they did not. The point is that there is no reason to continue watching any film which either offends our sensibilities or is just pure bunk. I've left the cinema twice, and both times was refunded the price of my ticket (and I'm no movie reviewer). Nothing wrong with that!

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I liked the remake, but didn't consider it to be anything special. I'll have to add the original my queue, based on what you say here.

Film writing is one of the hardest fields to break into, especially if you haven't been to an actual film school, which I haven't. I'm working on independent film scholarship, but the only film class I've ever taken was called "The History of the Twentieth Century Through Film," which is not at all the same.

I am, however, considering writing a book when I finish my library viewing project. I've mentioned this before, but I'm working my way through our public library system's DVD catalog in alpabetical order. This is, as you can well imagine, a lengthy process. One of the movies I'm planning to watch today is The Detective Story, however, so I'm plugging right along with it. If I do write the book, and if it gets published, I stand a shot in the dark at getting a job doing this.

Also, the local paper wouldn't hire me because I attended the college I did and wrote for the school paper. They told one of my coworkers from the paper that--and made it perfectly clear to one of my friends who'd left the paper before I got to it.

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Gillian

"Now everyone was giving her that kind of look UFOlogists get when they suddenly say, 'Hey, if you shade your eyes you can see it is just a flock of geese after all.'"

"You can't erase icing."

"I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!"

What have they got against your old school? And why would they let that issue be a deal-breaker even if the individual was otherwise outstanding?

Seems pretty irrational on the face of it. Some sort of personal grudge in play?

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Well I once got paid for a film review. I reviewed Escape From L.A. (which had just come out on VHS) for SFX magazine and earned £25 or £30 for it.

I remember little about the film or the review. I'm pretty sure I made a comment about it being more of a remake than a sequel (to Escape fro New York), and probably made a remark to the effect that it felt even more dated than the original.

Some things really are best forgotten.

Incidentally, I ordered the beautiful Solaris from Amazon the other day. It was going for £7.97, whereas the remake was going for £3.97. In yer face, Clooney travesty!

The quality of our school paper does tend to go in cycles, as with any other school paper, it's true. I happen to have been there during one of the really, really good years, however, and certainly an individual's skill is more important. However, my alma mater, The Evergreen State College, has a bit of a reputation, and our local newspaper not only believes it but encourages others to believe it as well. To hear them, every time anything goes wrong in the whole of Olympia, Lacey, and Tumwater (three smallish cities with essentially overlapping boundaries), it's probably our fault.

Why? Your guess is as good as mine. It's true that our school tends to lean pretty heavily to the Left and the paper very, very slightly to the Right, but since if they were seriously that far off from Evergreen politically, they wouldn't sell many papers in town, that's probably not it. (Olympia's a very liberal city.)

I'm better than a lot of their writers. I'm certainly better than whoever they had as copy editor when I was in college. ("Pouring" over a map? I ask you!) Corey, my friend from the paper, was a fine, fine reporter and a pretty good writer as well. But it didn't matter, because we'd all worked on The Cooper Point Journal.

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Gillian

"Now everyone was giving her that kind of look UFOlogists get when they suddenly say, 'Hey, if you shade your eyes you can see it is just a flock of geese after all.'"

"You can't erase icing."

"I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!"

It depends on whether you're doing it as entertainment or a hobby, or for your job. If reviewing the shows is your job, then not watching the entire presentation is refusing to meet your obligations.

On the other hand, I'm sure the remake is better than Night Train to Mundo Fine!

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Funny you should mention that. Just today I was reading an article in a technical journal with a subsection titled "Pouring over Matrices". I did the eyeroll thing.

Turned out it was all right -- it was a pun, referring to a mnemonic used in matrix multiplication.

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Yeah, The Olympian just needs a new copy editor.

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Gillian

"Now everyone was giving her that kind of look UFOlogists get when they suddenly say, 'Hey, if you shade your eyes you can see it is just a flock of geese after all.'"

"You can't erase icing."

"I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!"