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In Reply to: "Blow Up" posted by rico on April 21, 2004 at 09:13:07:

Have you seen it? I haven't, and imagine it's bad. But I always thought the two would make a fun double feature.

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Re: "Blow Out" - rico 07:19:56 04/24/04 (0)
I watched this last night. If you don't expect another "Blow Up" or "The Conversation" it is enjoyable.
Re: "Blow Out" - rico 10:44:09 04/21/04 (9)
Actually this Brian Depalma film is a tribute to both "Blow Up" and Coppola's "The Conversation". I have it on laserdisc and watch it now and again, most usually whrn I watch one of the others. It's far fetched but not bad.
- Re: "Blow Out" - patrickU 11:10:39 04/21/04 (4)
  It IS bad.
  - Re: "Blow Out" - Gee LP 11:47:46 04/21/04 (3)
    I think it's the best thing DePalma's ever done. The way he ties in his obsessions with voyeurism and technology and thrillers and humor...Travolta gives a great performance, and as it is pointed out in the film, Nancy Allen has a "great scream."
    I personally think DePalma has shot great sequences, but I don't know if he has directed a great film since 1981 and "Blow Out."
    - De Palma's best: an excellent film! The final sequence is - tinear 12:14:50 04/21/04 (0)
      as exciting and chilling as any of the Master's (Hitch, of course).
    - Re: "Blow Out" - patrickU 11:50:59 04/21/04 (1)
      I am not a Palma specialist but this one did not my love, it was some how amateurish I found back then, but it is long ago...Carry was nicer.
      - Re: "Blow Out" - Gee LP 18:35:52 04/21/04 (0)
        
        In Reply to: Re: "Blow Out" posted by patrickU on April 21, 2004 at 11:50:59:
        
        When "Carrie" came out, Pauline Kael reviewed it in the New Yorker. She said it would probably be DePalma's first big hit because it was his first film with "heart."
        Because my wife and I were in high school the year it came out(1976), seeing "Carrie" is a little like opening a yearbook for us. The clothes, the shoes, the hair! And I love the pop song DePalma uses in the background during Carrie's big slow dance "I Never Knew Someone Like You Could Love Someone Like Me." Really takes me back!
        I'd better watch out or I'll get nostalgic for the Seventies!
- The Conversation - Bulkington 11:07:05 04/21/04 (3)
  Great film. I guess I'm a little more intrigued now by Blow Out.
  - Re: The Conversation - mkuller 13:53:50 04/21/04 (2)
    The "Conversation" is a great film - I saw it for the first time this past weekend. I remember "Blow Up" being a great film in it's day - I wonder how it would hold up today. "Blow Out" on the other hand has no such pretensions - it's entertaining, but not great.
    Regards,
    Mike
    - The Conversation is my... - Harmonia 11:58:46 04/22/04 (0)
      ...favorite Coppola film and contains Gene Hackman's finest performance.
      I was knocked out when I saw it in college and I haven't changed my mind since. Yes, a great film.
    - Re: "The Conversation" - rico 15:45:04 04/21/04 (0)
      Coppola admits in the "extras" on the current DVD that the final "He'd kill US if he could" is indeed a different recording than the one we hear all throiugh the film. Somehow, knowing this does not (for me) diminish the overall power of this realization.

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