Motion Pictures (that anuse me)

[blombluss]

I thought mixing those two up was my sole domain, so phew!

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This week I watched Rebecca, because I read the book last week. Anyway the film was pretty good (although the film was better). Also I'm stuck watching all the rest of the films in my parents extensive collection of hitchcock boxset, so i've also watched vertigo (pretty amazing) and notorious (completely amazing)

hooray for hitchcock

I really liked the start and end of Rebecca but it lost me a bit in the middle. Also I really need to see Notorious again because I went into it knowing it was a friend's favourite Hitchcock film so I hyped it up and then was a bit disappointed.

I have four Hitchcock films on my shelves that I still need to see (Frenzy, Torn Curtain, Family Plot, The Paradine Case), I should follow your example and watch them.

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Now I finally know the difference between The Ladykillers and the Lavender Hill Mob. Nice work!

cheers! I get mixed up between The Ladykillers and the not-very-good Coen Brothers remake of The Ladykillers. One of them has a cat in it. But which one?

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I had never heard anything about notorious at all before somehow, and I loved it.

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I liked the way it answered the question of what if james bond was cary grant

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and also even more of a wildly unprofessional nob

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Today in my hitchcock mania i watched strangers on a train, which was absolutely brilliant for an hour and ten minutes, and then complete balls for twenty minutes

[vom]

that's my favourite one

[vom]

I'll complete balls you in a minute

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oh no!

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i did love most of it though. just not the tennis match or anything after.

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the baddy was such a creepy nutcase it was amazing

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Today I watched north by northwest, which is another hit o I film where Hitchcock answers the question of what if Cary Grant was James Bond, but by accident, and also his mother spends a quarter of the film telling him off

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This was good I liked it and also it was funnier than I expected

[Bruce Sato]

It is very good

I think I read once that Ian Fleming wanted Cary Grant to play Bond, but Grant said he was too old.

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He'd be too young these days.

[blombluss]

It is very good

I think I read once that Ian Fleming wanted Cary Grant to play Bond, but Grant said he was too old.

That's a real pity, as I reckons he'd have made an eggsbond.

[blombluss]

Today I watched north by northwest, which is another hit o I film where Hitchcock answers the question of what if Cary Grant was James Bond, but by accident, and also his mother spends a quarter of the film telling him off

Did you clock the bit in the background where the kid in the cafe scene puts his fingers in his ears before Eve Kendall fires the gun?

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the film is ruined for me now

[blombluss]

Good! Bwaah! Haaa! Haaaaaaaaaah!

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I like being Hitler.

[blombluss]

I like being Hitler.

Geoff Hitler.

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the wrong man - this was pretty harrowing

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but then it suddenly ends with a title card saying "its okay everything was fine in the end"

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so maybe it wasn't harrowing at all really

[blombluss]

I thought you meant The Wrong Mans, starring James Corden, for a bit, and got a tad confused!

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alfred hitchcock presents james corden is dead

[blombluss]

A rare foray into outright slapstick comedy from the master of suspense.

[endar]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIy8OhBIi5U

lol

[CandyDarling]

I had to do this after seeing that:

https://youtu.be/axKku1veseY

(This is also on my Patreon as a public post)

[blombluss]

Heh! I likes.

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hooray

[endar]

Amazing

[vom]

hehe very good!

[richschnauzer]

oh god why

https://youtu.be/fv_d8zSmVtA

[endar]

because the first one was more fun than it had any right to be

Tails can fuck off though.

sorry Murray

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back to hitchcock films today, and i watched the man who knew too much, which is absolutely brilliant for 90 minutes, and then has a fairly pointless extra 20 minutes superfluously added on the end, which was a bit of a shame.

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which version? I wasn't really into the later version, but still need to see the earlier one at some point because of lovely Peter Lorre

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it was the james stewart one

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if it had ended at the albert hall i think i would have loved it but then it went on and on for another 20 minutes

[vom]

Oh yeah the Albert hall bit is very good

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although considering they spend most of the film singing que sera sera, that bit should have been at wembley

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Rear window - this is one of those films like citizen Kane that I'd never seen but know absolutely the entire story of, due to cultural osmosis and also the Simpsons. But anyway it was brilliant still despite that

[vom]

ves so good

[blombluss]

The Detectives (Jasper Carrott / Robert Powell) episode 'Rear Window' is the film done for laughs in 28 minutes, and has Gareth Hunt in it!

It's jolly good fun, whereas the original is damn marvellous.

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I watched The Gay Divorcee, starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, yesterday.

It was nice, the dancing was good, and overall, it was quite soothing.

7/10

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Tonight's Hitchcock film was rope, which was like a sort of proto episode of Hannibal or something. It was good I liked it

[vom]

I really liked that one too

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The main character was even more of an amazing psychopath than the man in strangers on a train

[CandyDarling]

I went "review mad" over on Letterboxd. These were all written today:

Supervixens

Cipher (baffling anime thing I may have already mentioned once upon a time

Head (aka The Monkees film (RIP Mike Nesmith))