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I have probably watched the scene of Kimbell diving off the dam for as long as the entire run time of this movie because I just love it so much, but I've only watched the whole film twice
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Sid Vicious posted:I have probably watched the scene of Kimbell diving off the dam for as long as the entire run time of this movie because I just love it so much, but I've only watched the whole film twice You should watch it again. It's just that good. And the first shot, the initial one, of Kimble jumping, is actually and legitimately Harrison Ford. (They used dummies for the rest.)
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Aug 13, 2018 18:45
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Timby posted:You should watch it again. It's just that good. And the first shot, the initial one, of Kimble jumping, is actually and legitimately Harrison Ford. (They used dummies for the rest.) I actually just watched it a couple weeks ago because my buddy wanted to watch it and then I found the dam clip on YouTube and have watched it oh 150 times since then. I also love that the joke the janitor makes in Scrubs about being in it was true I didn't realize that was an actual clip when I first watched Scrubs.
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Aug 13, 2018 19:20
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The Janitor was also in Crystal Skull
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Sid Vicious posted:I actually just watched it a couple weeks ago because my buddy wanted to watch it and then I found the dam clip on YouTube and have watched it oh 150 times since then.  GUY DID A PETER PAN RIGHT OFF OF THIS DAM JUST NOW, BOOM Can we do home now? NO.
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Aug 14, 2018 00:59
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Does anybody remember A Perfect World? It apes the cat-and-mouse element of The Fugitive, but with Clint Eastwood (who also directed) chasing down Kevin Costner, who is an escaped felon who takes an eight year old kid hostage while on the run. Both films share a lot of the same tonal DNA, and it feels like it would make a good double feature.
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Aug 14, 2018 04:09
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I have fond memories as a preteen watching this at least once a month with my stepfather since it was on HBO all the time.
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Fart City posted:Does anybody remember A Perfect World? It apes the cat-and-mouse element of The Fugitive, but with Clint Eastwood (who also directed) chasing down Kevin Costner, who is an escaped felon who takes an eight year old kid hostage while on the run. Both films share a lot of the same tonal DNA, and it feels like it would make a good double feature. That movie confused me as a kid because it got so much about Jehovah's Witnesses wrong that the entire premise took me out (they have huge issues as a religion, but the details were pretty off). I need to revisit it now that I don't care much about that stuff any more.
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My Fugitive memory is that I saw it the same night I saw Robin Hood: Men in Tights. A light comedy makes a nice appetizer for a more serious movie.
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After seeing this in theaters a friend of my sister's said "I like Harrison Ford. He's a good eeeeehhhhaaaaaactor" and his friends teased him about it for years and I still can't think of this movie without thinking about that.
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Aug 15, 2018 01:50
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I still can't stop thinking about harrison ford
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Davros1 posted:The Janitor was also in Crystal Skull His character's name was Agent Jan Itor
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I finally got around to my intended anniversary-related rewatch and:lizardman posted:"is it the one-armed man" and so (I guess I'll spoiler tag this just in case anyone youngsters out there haven't seen it) the only seemingly important revelation is that he isn't. I can't believe nobody corrected me on this! I swear I'd seen this movie at least twice when I wrote that post and apparently I still couldn't accurately recall certain plot developments correctly! It's also pretty odd because in the movie it's never really in question that, at the very least, the assailant Ford encounters in flashback is indeed a man with a prosthetic arm, so I'm not entirely sure what accounts for my confusion. On the bright side not being sure of the details of the last act of the movie helped keep it fresh while viewing. Welp, here's to another 25 years of forgetting the ending to The Fugitive!
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“I. Don’t. Care” is something I repeat to myself soooo much. This movie was somewhat hallowed in my house growing up. My second cousin worked on it and has a name in the credits, and my mom used to bring it up all the time. I typically watch it once a year around Christmas. It’s just a perfect movie.
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Aug 22, 2018 11:13
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Timby posted:turns out they're busting the landlady's son for child porn. Selling drugs to children, not porn. I just rewatched it last night and had a Mandela Effect moment because I thought it was sexual in nature too, but on rewind, the cop says "You like stringing out 12 year old girls?" and then "Your son's a drug dealer lady". Boywhiz88 posted:“I. Don’t. Care” is something I repeat to myself soooo much. This is another one though, everyone remembers that line as being badass or or whatever but watch the scene again, Tommy Lee is actually terrified and his "I don't care!" is more "that's not relevant information, buddy!" than anything.
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Aug 22, 2018 21:15
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precision posted:This is another one though, everyone remembers that line as being badass or Eh, it's pretty badass too because Ford is holding a gun on him and as far as Jones knows he's about to be killed. Ford says "I didn't kill my wife!", so you'd think the best way to de-escalate the situation and try to get him to put the gun down would be to feign interest. Say you believe him, say you'll do everything you can to help him prove his innocence. Instead Jones is just like hey whatever man I'm here to do a job and if you wanna kill me for it go right ahead. Then there's the extra bonus badass moment when Ford runs away and Jones immediately rises to his feet and draws another pistol from his vest.
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Aug 22, 2018 21:20
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Oh absolutely, just that in my head I had a totally different version of that line than what is actually in the movie, and I was shocked when I watched it last night. I thought it was a pronounced "I. Don't. Care." but it's not, it's just plain "I don't care, man!" with a dash of "I don't care, you maniac!" It's a great delivery.
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Aug 22, 2018 21:52
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Man, I don't know why, but I thought he said that to him in the car at the end.
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We're at the point we can probably rename the thread "We all misremember The Fugitive ITT"
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lizardman posted:We're at the point we can probably rename the thread "We all misremember The Fugitive ITT" I remember everything https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oe1q4T_Q3w
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I definitely remember the Simpsons parody of The Fugitive more than the actual film.
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Narzack posted:Man, I don't know why, but I thought he said that to him in the car at the end. The line gets reprised. Gerard lets Kimble out of his cuffs and gives him an icepack, Kimble says, "I thought you didn't care." There's a beat, then Gerard says, completely straight-faced, "I don't." Another beat, then he grins and says, "Don't tell anyone, okay?"
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Aug 23, 2018 01:24
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precision posted:I definitely did not remember how young and handsome Tommy Lee looked And thus began that span of a few years in the '90s when studios did their damnedest to make "Tommy Lee Jones, action movie star" a thing.
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Timby posted:And thus began that span of a few years in the '90s when studios did their damnedest to make "Tommy Lee Jones, action movie star" a thing. We got Men in Black out of it so who's to complain?
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Timby posted:And thus began that span of a few years in the '90s when studios did their damnedest to make "Tommy Lee Jones, action movie star" a thing. And the sequel project in the 10's starring Liam Neeson, although that turned out pretty well.
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Timby posted:And thus began that span of a few years in the '90s when studios did their damnedest to make "Tommy Lee Jones, action movie star" a thing. Only a year before, he'd been allowed to look halfway competent as the villain in a Steven Seagal movies (from the sameness director, even). Sure, Seagal beat him fairly effortlessly in the end but it's the thought that counts!
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I never stopped to consider just how typecast Tommy Lee Jones got after The Fugitive. Just off the top of my head, there's No Country For Old Men (law enforcement official tracking down a criminal at large), Double Jeopardy (law enforcement official tracking down a criminal at large), The Hunted (law enforcement official tracking down a criminal at large), Jason Bourne (law enforcement official tracking down a criminal at large), Men in Black (law enforcement official tracking down a criminal at large), *Batman Forever (law enforcement official tracking down a criminal at large) --this one especially!. Definitely helps that he covers a variety of genres, and he seems to manage to bring a slightly different flavor to each role regardless.
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Wheat Loaf posted:Only a year before, he'd been allowed to look halfway competent as the villain in a Steven Seagal movies (from the sameness director, even). Seagal doesn’t just beat him, he like, kills him three different times in like ten seconds. It’s the most hilariously Seagal-as-a-diva poo poo you can imagine.
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Fart City posted:Seagal doesn’t just beat him, he like, kills him three different times in like ten seconds. It’s the most hilariously Seagal-as-a-diva poo poo you can imagine. I'd love for Hard to Kill to be made today with Seagal's diva attitude. "Ok, but howabout my character doesn't actually go into a coma. He'd be too strong for that. The bad guys don't even actually shoots him. He dodges all the bullets. But the bad guys get away. So he fakes being in coma. Yeah, and then he sneaks out the hospital at night to hunt down the bad guys."
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lizardman posted:I never stopped to consider just how typecast Tommy Lee Jones got after The Fugitive. Just off the top of my head, there's No Country For Old Men (law enforcement official tracking down a criminal at large), Double Jeopardy (law enforcement official tracking down a criminal at large), The Hunted (law enforcement official tracking down a criminal at large), Jason Bourne (law enforcement official tracking down a criminal at large), Men in Black (law enforcement official tracking down a criminal at large), *Batman Forever (law enforcement official tracking down a criminal at large) --this one especially!. Has anyone seen The Hunted recently? I remember liking it when it came out.
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LesterGroans posted:Has anyone seen The Hunted recently? I remember liking it when it came out. It has a lot of promise but never really goes anywhere. The final showdown needed to be a lot better than it was. It's a script issue I think, Jones and Del Toro are good in it, as you'd expect.
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I forgot how great it was when Kimble risks capture to save that little boy's life after he's misdiagnosed, then does this little half-smile as he's wheeled away for life-saving surgery. Very decent mainstream movie.
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Megaman's Jockstrap posted:I forgot how great it was when Kimble risks capture to save that little boy's life after he's misdiagnosed, then does this little half-smile as he's wheeled away for life-saving surgery. Very decent mainstream movie. That kind of subtle facial acting is what Ford is all about. All of those little facial tics and expressions are a huge part of what makes Indiana Jones work. And it's the main criticism I had of Crystal Skull, a lot of situations where in the past Ford would've been trusted to sell a scene with his facial expressions, now we had to have a clunky one-liner instead. Indy was too talkative.
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Basebf555 posted:That kind of subtle facial acting is what Ford is all about. All of those little facial tics and expressions are a huge part of what makes Indiana Jones work. And it's the main criticism I had of Crystal Skull, a lot of situations where in the past Ford would've been trusted to sell a scene with his facial expressions, now we had to have a clunky one-liner instead. Indy was too talkative. WE. ARE GOING. TO DIE. 
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precision posted:Oh absolutely, just that in my head I had a totally different version of that line than what is actually in the movie, and I was shocked when I watched it last night. I thought it was a pronounced "I. Don't. Care." but it's not, it's just plain "I don't care, man!" with a dash of "I don't care, you maniac!" You're thinking of his "I. Don't. Bargain." mumbled to the pony tail dude after he ruined his hearing in his other ear. When this movie came out I saw it in the theater, and the opening train crash scene hooked me so hard, I immediately dragged half my friends to see it. I described it as "the opening scene of this movie kicked my rear end!" I oversold it a bit but it's still great. Gonna watch it again now in honor of the anniversary.
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LloydDobler posted:You're thinking of his "I. Don't. Bargain." mumbled to the pony tail dude after he ruined his hearing in his other ear. Ooh, good catch. LloydDobler posted:When this movie came out I saw it in the theater, and the opening train crash scene hooked me so hard, I immediately dragged half my friends to see it. I described it as "the opening scene of this movie kicked my rear end!" I oversold it a bit but it's still great. Just to temper your expectations a bit, on my rewatch I felt the train crash was probably the sequence most hurt by the passage of time, unfortunately: it's just a little too easy to tell Harrison Ford has been added into the shot(s) in post and it saps a lot of the suspense. It's still a well-staged set piece and fine overall, just don't expect to have your mind blown.
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yeah the train sequence hasn't aged well, but man people would not shut up about it at the time oh there's a thread idea. "CD posts from the 90s"
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I watched this movie on a whim for the first time in decades last night, it's uh, really loving good. Compared to movies now it's really refreshing to see characters that don't act like idiots for the sake of a plot, a good guy who goes out of his way to be a good guy even if it's risking everything, and some genuine tension. I also don't remember seeing any CGI! Really well done classic I feel like a lot of directors could learn from. Now I can't get enough of Tommy Lee Jones movies.
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precision posted:oh there's a thread idea. "CD posts from the 90s" "Y'all excited for Episode 1?"
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