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I_Wear_Pants
04-18-25, 08:07 AM
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Greetings, all! I decided to wear pants to watch movies, with the goal of posting reviews, based on pants, here, so I started that in the witching hour of April 18, 2025, when I couldn't sleep. And here... we... go!

I envision "The Day I Wore My Pants" being sung like SpongeBob's "The day I ripped my pants."

I_Wear_Pants
04-18-25, 08:07 AM
The inaugural day I wore my pants, I watched Taking of Pelham One Two Three (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072251/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_3_tt_3_nm_5_in_0_q_Taking%2520of%2520the%2520P) with Robert Shaw, Walter Mathau, and Martin Balsam, amongst many others, directed by Joseph Sargent. It's a tale of a few disgruntled people hijacking a train with passengers in order to hold it for a ransom of $1 million.

The plot is fairly basic, and works really well. From what I saw, the story is secondary to the characters and the suspense. I found the characters enjoyable, and I found the suspense pretty tense, so it succeeded on both counts. The ending almost got me, and then it didn't, and then it got me differently, and I grinned. Actually there was good humor throughout the film. It's mild and subtle, and worked great.

Overall I was entertained throughout. I thought everyone did a fine job with whatever task was handed him or her, whether it be cast or crew. Solid film.

Eight Pants out of Ten

TheManBehindTheCurtain
04-18-25, 10:51 AM
The inaugural day I wore my pants, I watched Taking of Pelham One Two Three (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072251/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_3_tt_3_nm_5_in_0_q_Taking%2520of%2520the%2520P) with Robert Shaw, Walter Mathau, and Martin Balsam, amongst many others, directed by Joseph Sargent. It's a tale of a few disgruntled people hijacking a train with passengers in order to hold it for a ransom of $1 million.

The plot is fairly basic, and works really well. From what I saw, the story is secondary to the characters and the suspense. I found the characters enjoyable, and I found the suspense pretty tense, so it succeeded on both counts. The ending almost got me, and then it didn't, and then it got me differently, and I grinned. Actually there was good humor throughout the film. It's mild and subtle, and worked great.

Overall I was entertained throughout. I thought everyone did a fine job with whatever task was handed him or her, whether it be cast or crew. Solid film.

Eight Pants out of Ten

I remember at the time of release it was considered a fresh plot twist. No one had ever come up with the idea of hijacking a subway car. Also: how quaint a $1 million dollar ransom seems now.

I_Wear_Pants
04-18-25, 04:01 PM
I remember at the time of release it was considered a fresh plot twist. No one had ever come up with the idea of hijacking a subway car. Also: how quaint a $1 million dollar ransom seems now.

Yeah nowadays it'd be $20 million or something. I wonder if the dollar amount was arbitrary and there as a MacGuffin? I forgot; hijacking a subway car was a pretty original idea. It worked too.

Robert the List
04-21-25, 04:36 AM
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