Films/DVD Asylum

Here's a few

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In Reply to: RE: Now that I have Robbery movies.. posted by Bill the K on March 04, 2025 at 21:43:10

Runaway Train
Escape from New York
Stalag 17
The Rock
Shawshank Redemption
Escape from Alcatraz
Room
Papillon

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Runaway Train is to me a neglected classic.
Rebecca de Mornay: "You're an ANIMAL!!"
Jon Voigt: "Worse. HUMAN"
...and a fantastic performance by Eric Roberts

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All great and more recently... Heretic ... N/T - musetap 11:03:24 03/08/25 (1)
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"Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination" -Michael McClure
- I finally watched Heretic and was pleasantly surprised at how compelling it was. thumbs up! nt - PhilJ 12:06:00 03/08/25 (0)
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I like Runaway Train too, but. . . - Chris from Lafayette 02:20:39 03/08/25 (0)
. . . as for Rebecca de Mornay, well, an actress she ain't - at least IMHO. Near the end, when she says, "He knows what he wants to do!" (as her voice trails off unconvincingly) - it never fails to make me wince! In fact, it became a joke over the years at our house - from time to time (and out of the blue), each of us would suddenly deliver the line just as she did - to the amusement of the rest of the family!

But that's OK - I agree with you that it's still a great movie! ;-)

And I love their use of a movement from the Vivaldi Gloria (in a heavy, romantic Russian performance) near the end too - great use of music there, perfect for the scene! Speaking of which, the director, Andrei Konchalovsky, also did a production of Boris Godunov in Italy, using Mussorgsky's original version rather than the more colorful Rimsky-Korsakov version - also available on blu-ray.

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