Which films have you seen lately Vol.22 Now with Smell-O-Vision.

[Clubber Lang]

Although it's been years, that was an exceptional movie. I'm glad you mentioned it as I'd like to rewatch it. It didn't do well at the box office, but then it was a rather small movie but was critically acclaimed with potential Oscar nods - especially young Reese and the movie itself. It's a black comedy/satire so with those types of movies ya kinda have to just go with the flow even if characters seem unlikable. It's considered one of the best teen movies ever made.

Reese two years earlier (96) starred in a wild comedy/crime/thriller that also did not do well at the box, but gained a cult.

Caught it late one night, it was called 'Freeway'

''Freeway is a 1996 American black comedy crime thriller film written and directed by Matthew Bright and produced by Oliver Stone. It stars Kiefer Sutherland, Reese Witherspoon and Brooke Shields. The film's plot is a dark take on the fairy tale "Little Red Riding Hood"

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[Broken_Erika]

It was anamoly.. I know it was filmed in a real high school, but most of the computers looked 'normal' for the time (giant beige boxes) whereas this looked like an Atari. Low profile, like a PS4. Black.

One of these perhaps?

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[Smellincoffee]

Reese two years earlier (96) starred in a wild comedy/crime/thriller that also did not do well at the box, but gained a cult.

Caught it late one night, it was called 'Freeway'

''Freeway is a 1996 American black comedy crime thriller film written and directed by Matthew Bright and produced by Oliver Stone. It stars Kiefer Sutherland, Reese Witherspoon and Brooke Shields. The film's plot is a dark take on the fairy tale "Little Red Riding Hood"

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Freeway is the film that made me interested in Reese Witherspoon. Her character was SO memorable in that one. "Git your () hands off my anatomy!")

One of these perhaps?

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Ooh, could be. Would have to rewatch, but that definitely fits the profile. Didn't realize NexT made anything other than the weird cube thing.

 

[Kyriakos]

I watched a movie called The Last of Sheila (1973). If you want plot twists, this is your movie.

Wow, this has James Mason. Is it worth watching then?

 

[Gori the Grey]

Buncha stars: Richard Benjamin, Dyan Cannon, Rachel Welch.

I think you'll like it, Kyr.

 

[Kyriakos]

Buncha stars: Richard Benjamin, Diane Cannon, Rachel Welch.

I think you'll like it, Kyr.

Ok I am sold

 

[Gori the Grey]

And not just for the stars (though Mason has a major role in what initially appears an ensemble, so if you like him, you'll like that) but for the plot.

 

[Kyriakos]

@Gori the Grey , it is indeed a nice movie
I am 30 something minutes from the end, but since I have noticed quite a few discrepancies I wish to first form my own theory as to what actually is happening. I have a theory (in the spoiler) but I sort of hope it's not it.

Spoiler :

The host wouldn't have known about the identity of the hit-and-run killer, and I suppose that card was fake, replacing the "alcoholic" one. Likely the cards weren't given to the person who had that trait, and maybe the host didn't know of any real traits; this was just a dumb game. What annoys me is why Lee confessed that she murdered - that's the bit I am trying to explain currently (I hope it's not as mundane as her husband knowing/suspecting she did the hit and run, then conspiring with Welch to have his wife freak out and expecting her to at least wound the host so that he could finish the job and allow her to confess - but it may be that). I'd like to think of an angle involving Mason too, though.

 

[Gori the Grey]

Not (entirely) it. (You've got many important bits of it, though.) You've got a twist ahead of you yet!

You are supposed to notice those discrepancies!

 

[Kyriakos]

Not (entirely) it. (You've got some important bits of it, though.) You've got a twist ahead of you yet!

You are supposed to notice those discrepancies!

I suppose that

Spoiler :

since this entire investigation is unofficial, in theory one could say that they did the hit and run simply so as to alert another person (who in fact did it and isn't a co-conspirator) that something fishy is going on. But if you are on that boat, in such a situation, you may well start thinking that all of the others know and the host isn't dead either, it's all a trap. In that the victim of the trap might indeed be Mason :/ I think that I will now start watching again...

 

[Gori the Grey]

It's time for you to finish it up.

It's funny that you did what you did: stop yourself and work out your solution. In my youth, there was a TV series based on Ellery Queen, and the show was designed where there was a moment when viewers had been given all the clues they needed to solve the mystery. If I remember right, the guy playing Ellery Queen even broke the fourth wall and said as much. So there was an exact point where you were supposed to be able to guess, and you knew it. Loved that show.

 

[Takhisis]

Cleef's pimp hand was strong, felt like them back-handers were never going to end...just talk woman! damn it!

IIRC it's not actually van Cleef's hand because he refused to hit women and that's why ‘his’ back is to the camera.

How all kids (and adults) reactions were when they first must of seen it -

Homer Simpson displays the proper attitude towards musicals and people randomly bursting into song.

 

[Kyriakos]

It's time for you to finish it up.

It's funny that you did what you did: stop yourself and work out your solution. In my youth, there was a TV series based on Ellery Queen, and the show was designed where there was a moment when viewers had been given all the clues they needed to solve the mystery. If I remember right, the guy playing Ellery Queen even broke the fourth wall and said as much. So there was an exact point where you were supposed to be able to guess, and you knew it. Loved that show.

I watched the rest now So my theory in post 991 was almost entirely it, apart from a minor movie ending twist (but that was a bit silly imo ^^).
Anyway:

Spoiler :

Mr Bean

Thanks for the nice movie suggestion!

 

[Gori the Grey]

Your guess was very strong (I changed "some" to "many")

Spoiler :

What I didn't think you'd yet figured out was that the RB character hijacked JC's game in order to line up his wife's confession. I also had in mind the way the Mason character was himself figuring out RB's actions. I guess there was no way you could know that at the point you broke off, but for me, it's those two things that make the plot interesting. That around JC's little game, one other character starts playing his own game, and then one other character starts playing a game on top of that.

Anyway, glad you liked it.

 

[Kyriakos]

Your guess was very strong (I changed "some" to "many")

Spoiler :

What I didn't think you'd yet figured out was that the RB character hijacked JC's game in order to line up his wife's confession. I also had in mind the way the Mason character was himself figuring out RB's actions. I guess there was no way you could know that at the point you broke off, but for me, it's those two things that make the plot interesting. That around JC's little game, one other character starts playing his own game, and than one other character starts playing a game on top of that.

The main plot did remind me of a motif in Agatha Christie, where

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something is presented as extremely important, but turns out it was artificially there. For example this is prominent in After the Funeral.

So I had already the model of a theory (and the clues throughout the movie were indeed a bit too heavy-handed...)
Though I didn't get the

Spoiler :

photo

one Mason got.

 

[Gori the Grey]

That one I got

Spoiler :

because of how much fuss JC made as he was lining up the photo

Written by Anthony Perkins and Stephen Sondheim!

 

[Kyriakos]

@Gori the Grey And, very fittingly, I think you now have to start the new thread!
(or if technically I should, I wish that you do as I have started others in the past)

 

[Gori the Grey]

Nah. You do it.

The thread I'm dying to get is Rants. I've got a perfect subtitle for the Rants thread.

Come join me for an 8-page exchange on Rants, so I can get the Rants changeover!

 

[Kyriakos]

Ok, here is the new thread: https://forums.civfanatics.com/thre...movie-shepherd-but-your-movie-hegemon.693972/