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"Blow-out" is very good and often underrated.

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In Reply to: RE: DePalma's "Blow-out" is its equal. Exciting, fast-paced, and clever. Travolta is fantastic. nt posted by tinear on June 22, 2009 at 19:37:14

However.

I wouldn't go so far as to say it's the "equal" of The Conversation. It's well worth seeing, and surely one of Depalma's best, but it's not at possess the quality or sophistication of The Conversation, or even its inspiration, Antonioni's Blow Up. Blow Up remains indelibly a movie of its time but it still packs plenty of power with unforgettable images and a wonderful use of ambient sound - the park becomes one of the characters in the film. Blow Out is louder, brassier, more "pop", but imminently watchable.

You could have a super mid-century paranoia triple bill with The Conversation, Blow-Up and Blow Out.

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I've always admired, "The Conversation" but - tinear 06:19:49 06/24/09 (1)
found it a little dry, a little of a cerebral appreciation. It just never grabbed me like others such as "The Parallax View," or "Three Days of the Condor."
"Blow-out" doesn't have the more formal dramatic perfection of the Coppola film but TO ME it's as good for the sheer energy, suspense, and brilliant pacing. Allen is properly vulnerable and Lithgow is terribly menacing, almost as much so as Olivier in "The Marathon Man."
I'm driven to say that I think "Blow-up" is at another higher--- far higher--- level than either other film. Antonioni made many landmark, truly great films and I think it belongs up there with any of its more famous, critically appreciated films.
- Blow Up... - Harmonia 11:05:09 06/24/09 (0)
  ...stands apart from much of Antonioni's oevre. I just saw it again recently and it's still very powerful.
  
  Maybe I'm more "cerbral", who knows? The Conversation is tremendously exciting to me. :-)
  
  I like Spock over Captain Kirk too.

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