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Matty3

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1,244 posts

107 months

Saturday 13th March 2021
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Just watching this on some obscure channel, a rather good film. Not watched it for years.

Driveline Shunt

944 posts

165 months

Saturday 13th March 2021
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+1, superb score too. yes

Lincsls1

3,915 posts

163 months

Saturday 13th March 2021
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Yes, it was on the Horror channel.
Brilliant, heart warming film, epic score.
10/10

ruggedscotty

5,943 posts

232 months

Saturday 13th March 2021
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This is a fav of mine...

have watched it many many times and think that Bridges played it to a Tee....

the very idea that a souped up orange and black mustang was tooling around the country with an alien in it....

The scene with the apple pie, vegas, the truck.... and the deer... damn it, what a brilliant film it was...



those marbles...



jenny haden



And that deer scene...


So so many great moments in that film

Ozone

3,074 posts

210 months

Saturday 13th March 2021
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Driveline Shunt said:
+1, superb score too. yes
Totally agree. Love the main theme.

The Hypno-Toad

13,124 posts

228 months

Sunday 14th March 2021
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It's a stunning film with an excellent soundtrack. And its probably the only film that makes me cry.

"Let me come with you,"
"You can't. You will die,"
"I don't think I care,"

Even typing those lines brings a lump to my throat (although that might still be there following on from the news about Murray last night.) cry

ruggedscotty

5,943 posts

232 months

Sunday 14th March 2021
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SpudLink

7,595 posts

215 months

Sunday 14th March 2021
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Excellent film. Jeff Bridges is believably alien. Even the romance is touching.
The alien ship at the end must have been an early example of CGI.
It is probably the most mainstream John Carpenter film. Shows he could have had a career as a big budget Hollywood director. But then he probably wouldn’t have made They Live or In The Mouth of Madness.

shaunsmith

1,229 posts

240 months

Sunday 28th March 2021
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Such a lovely enjoyable film, Jeff Bridges and Karen Allen are superb, so is Charles Martin Smith.
Lump in my throat at the end again!

The score is magnificent, up there with John Barry’s OHMSS, I even rewound the credits to listen to it again, twice....

ruggedscotty

5,943 posts

232 months

Monday 29th March 2021
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Watched it this morning... yup. never ages..

j4r4lly

823 posts

158 months

Tuesday 30th March 2021
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Yes, totally brilliant film. I've watched it so many times and just love the 1980's vibe and the way it pokes it's nose into small town Americana and the characters encountered along the way. I love the scene with the deer and the brief encounter with the Chef when he's on the road alone. The dialog is superb.

I also had a massive crush on Karen Allen after seeing her in Animal House and then Starman......

ruggedscotty

5,943 posts

232 months

Tuesday 30th March 2021
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j4r4lly said:
Yes, totally brilliant film. I've watched it so many times and just love the 1980's vibe and the way it pokes it's nose into small town Americana and the characters encountered along the way. I love the scene with the deer and the brief encounter with the Chef when he's on the road alone. The dialog is superb.

I also had a massive crush on Karen Allen after seeing her in Animal House and then Starman......
yup..... I make maps... do you make money....? No I make maps....

Sounds like us all we work but hardly make money

The vegas bit was good,,,, be descreet.... and bingo he draws a jackpot.

SCEtoAUX

4,119 posts

104 months

Tuesday 30th March 2021
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Interesting but untrue fact: The film is set in Iowa and Meryl Streep turned down the role that went to Karen Allen. The working title was "The Jeff Bridges of Madison County".

p1doc

3,612 posts

207 months

Friday 2nd April 2021
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is a great film rivals thunderbolt and lightfoot for acting by jeff bridges