CSI - Crime Scene Investigation
The original show from Las Vegas, excellent quality.
In Peter Biskind’s book “Easy Riders, Raging Bulls,” he quotes several people involved in Jaws with revealing details about how much was improvised as the shooting was going on. Spielberg reportedly disliked Peter Benchley’s original script.
Two other screenwriters were brought in to make major changes: a young John Byrum, and then the Pulitzer-Prize-winning playwright Howard Sackler. Weeks before shooting began, Carl Gottlieb was called in to make more changes. The crew was so unimpressed by Spielberg’s results during review of the rushes that they took to referring to the movie as “Flaws.” The delays didn’t sit well with the actors, either. Robert Shaw allegedly said “It was a story written by committee, a piece of .” Richard Dreyfuss also said at the time that he thought it would turn out badly, according to Biskind.
But the cast and crew rose to the occasion, as did the director. Apparently, Roy Scheider, Richard Dreyfuss, and Robert Shaw were making up many scenes at night, which they would shoot the next day. Scheider said: “Because we had nothing to shoot, we had so much time that we became a little repertory company. You had a receptive director, and three ambitious, inventive actors.” The studio wanted the shark scenes to be shot in a tank to save money; Spielberg insisted that they be shot in the ocean, which increased the time and cost of production.
In the end, the production went way over the time of the planned shooting schedule and budget, and Spielberg thought the movie was a disaster that would end his career. He was wrong, of course, but part of the success was due to the unprecedented advertising campaign. Never before had the studios spent so much money on advertising before a movie opened, and never had they opened a movie on so many screens across the country. The amount of money spent on the production and advertising set a precedent that thereafter allowed the studios to re-assert their dominance over the creators, as it also put enormous pressure on them to avoid financing films that would not have a good chance of filling a great many theaters and selling a lot of tickets. As Martin Scorsese put it bluntly after Star Wars was released: “Star Wars was in, Spielberg was in; we were finished.”
LOL I just ordered one…
The Personal History of David Copperfield (2019) with Dev Patel, Tilda Swinton, Hugh Laurie, and more. This was on one of my movie channels last night and I happened across it. It caught my attention and I liked it very much. I never actually read the book so I don’t know how much it adhered to the original story, but the characters were engaging and the plot(s) moved along quite nicely.
I had no idea the name Uriah Heep came from this lol (I suppose that’s obvious since I said I never read the book)
INFINITE 2021
Such a good movie! I highly recommend it if you like SciFi
we are glad y’all brought up Hitchcock.
here is one we really, really liked:
1. the girl with the gun is the hero.
2. 75 minutes of movie magic.
3. better than the remake.
now, our weekend will be Hitchcock.
just got 4 DVD’s from our library.
the good news is that his movies
are usually very short by
current standards.
which we
love.
I've seen at least 14 Hitchcock films, in addition to Hitchcock (2012).
All 14 films are rated 7.5 or higher on IMDb, and they're excellent.
I plan to watch more of his movies sooner or later.
of course, we watched The Birds.
more of a “character play”, really.
1. could the white hair vs. black hair be more obvious?
2. everyone wore their best even during this disaster.
3. at the end, they did what they should have done at the beginning…Get Out of There.
it is our opinion that this movie could stand a modern (CGI?) remake.
same plot, same characters, but updated. no telephone booth, for example.
a real MOVIE movie?
not TV nor Netflix, etc?
A lot of people like The Birds, but I saw it on the big screen, and thought it was horrible.
It's the worst Hitchcock film that I've seen by a wide margin.
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I also saw his last film, Family Plot (1976).
I don't remember it very well, but I do remember that it wasn't that great.
Oh yeah, a big one, too. Even got a sequel.
A disaffected soldier returns to his hometown to get even with the thugs who brutalized his mentally-challenged brother years ago.
Very good movie by Shane Meadows.
Dead Man’s Shoes
Chasing Waterfalls
Photographer Amy travels to a remote lodge to find mythical waterfalls and falls for handsome guide, Mark. They adventure to find the mystic waterfall and discover their true feelings
well, we found the Birds II, Land’s End: on TV, Showtime.
Ummm, didja click the link I gave?
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My daughter was just watching Ultraviolet. I was reading but kind of half watched it for a while. Wow, really bad, really really bad.
Just watched Monster Hunter.
Quite entertaining actually.