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Forum: General Movie Discussion 07-19-20
Forum: General Movie Discussion 07-19-20
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Film Podcast
Posted By DoubleReel
Film Podcast

For those of you who listen to podcasts, and would like a bit of nerdy film content, perhaps you'd be interested in my film podcast Double Reel?


It comes out monthly in a kind of magazine...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 06-30-20
Replies: 46
Favorite Remakes
Posted By DoubleReel
Re: Favorite Remakes

I have a complicated relationship with remakes. I hate so many of them, but that's because Hollywood seems now to be remaking everything as a matter of course and all the remakes are terrible.

Of...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 06-30-20
Replies: 81,494
Rate The Last Movie You Saw
Posted By DoubleReel
FX Murder By Illusion (UK title, think it was...

FX Murder By Illusion (UK title, think it was just called FX in the US). Hugely nostalgic look back at one of my favourite 80s films growing up. Still holds up, as long as you don't mind the usual...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 06-30-20
Replies: 8
What do you of Capricorn One (1977)
Posted By DoubleReel
Re: What do you of Capricorn One (1977)

I enjoyed it, a kind of mainstream, PG rated 70s conspiracy thriller lite. As a kid I was obsessed with the joke Sam Waterston's character was telling himself to keep his spirits up.
Forum: General Movie Discussion 06-22-20
Replies: 19
Was the movie The Doors supposed to make you hate Jim Morrison?
Posted By DoubleReel
Re: Was the movie The Doors supposed to make you hate Jim Morrison?

I think it's as simple as Oliver Stone idolised Morrison and has a thing for countercultural martyrs, and appropriated the story to tell his particular version of US history of that period
Forum: General Movie Discussion 06-22-20
Replies: 22
Terminator 2 Theatrical cut vs. Special Edition
Posted By DoubleReel
I don't personally think the film loses much...

I don't personally think the film loses much without those scenes. Likewise the Aliens Special Edition, apart from the scene about Ripley and her daughter the theatrical release didn't miss not...