the vanishing

Started by sphinx, March 30, 2003, 01:24:04 AM

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godardian

#15
May 17, 2003, 12:42:25 PM
After a recent Criterion binge, I, too, own the DVD.

But I'm trying to watch them in chronological order. Which puts The Vanishing pretty far off, since I'm just now on The Lady Eve.

I'm really excited to see it now, though. I dunno if I've seen such a unanimous fondness for any other film here.
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MacGuffin

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January 04, 2004, 12:25:09 AM
The remake was on Bravo tonight, so out of curiousity I watched it to compare. Boy did it miss the mark. I thought it threw away everything that made the original great. The characters were not defined at all and it lacked suspense. It also lost the power of the driving obsession of the boyfriend to know what happened. Jeff Bridges' killer looked too much like a killer. What made the original so unnerving was that he was a family man and looked just like anyone else. Of course, I wasn't expecting them to keep the original ending, but I wanted to see how this version concluded. And, just as suspected, it was a Hollywood ending.
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#17
January 04, 2004, 12:58:43 AM
Few Spoilers (no ending spoilers though):

My friend's mom blind bought this (perhaps because she'd seen the remake, I dunno) and it's just crazy amazing how great this was. At first, I thought it was poorly made (I saw the camera crew once every 10 minutes, it was so weird how often they could be spotted in a reflection). But as it kept going, the story got better and better. I love the idea of the main character (it's been a while since I saw it) being completely obsessed with finding her and actually confronting her kidnapper, really damn cool. Such a strange find.
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March 18, 2005, 01:16:37 AM
Saw this tonight, right after 'the unbearbale lightness of being', and was just as disturbing, I think that anything Lynch has put out but Lynch is a different kind of disturbing. But, jeezus, this was a great film. Definitely getting it. Too bad there isn't really any extras.
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