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Oh, no, I read the book as a tween, remember it fondly, have a copy or two, the Ballantine Books edition, glance at it every once in a while. The thing is.........the movie is nothing like the book. In fact, the movie "Escape" https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067064..._flmg_t_39_act
is closer to that book, in the stunts, than the movie in question. BUT.........to each their own.
Somewhere around, in an old file, I have a digital copy of the script showing some of the changes. Even Richard Rush didn't know how his edits and the short shooting schedule would turn the film into a classic Jungian work. As you say, to each their own.
Thought of one more movie I've seen bits and pieces of more times than I could tally - "Rocky Horror Picture Show." You don't show it every week for years, and check on the audiences without knowing it.
I forgot about "Jesus Christ Superstar"! We saw it in the theater maybe 15 times or so. I was almost 8 when it debuted. My sister and I know every word and I still remember most of the choreography. We used to blast "Simon Zealots" and practice our jumps and leaps into the pool - too much fun!
We got a copy when we first got a VCR, then DVD and of course a digital copy. We watch it every Easter. So at least 45 times since the first VHS and along with the 15 times in the theater for a minimum of 60 times.
I've watched all three of the Extended Versions of the Lord of the Rings movies every year since the DVDs first came out, including all of the 'making of', behind the scenes discs.
I've since added The Hobbit trilogy as well, though not back to back with LOTR - that would be too much
Oh, no, I read the book as a tween, remember it fondly, have a copy or two, the Ballantine Books edition, glance at it every once in a while. The thing is.........the movie is nothing like the book. In fact, the movie "Escape" https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067064..._flmg_t_39_act
is closer to that book, in the stunts, than the movie in question. BUT.........to each their own.
Thanks for the link, didn't know the book. The Stunt Man was filmed in San Diego, my home base, and we enjoy picking out locations vs studio scenes. No, they didn't demolish Hotel Del Coronado...
Somewhere around, in an old file, I have a digital copy of the script showing some of the changes. Even Richard Rush didn't know how his edits and the short shooting schedule would turn the film into a classic Jungian work. As you say, to each their own.
Thought of one more movie I've seen bits and pieces of more times than I could tally - "Rocky Horror Picture Show." You don't show it every week for years, and check on the audiences without knowing it.
Never seen much of the RHPS. Mimicked it, sort of, yes, but have really never seen the flick.
Interestingly enough, seeing part of movies is how it was in the service in that for the nightly movie, rarely saw all of it or at least, all of it in one sitting, for there was always more work to do than movie sitting time. In the end, with some flicks, I did a lot of fast forwarding in a sitting, watching what I had not seen, skipping thru what I had seen.
I have no idea of the number of times I've seen any one movie. There is no movie I watch repeatedly the way I did long ago, but the one I return to most over the years is The Shawshank Redemption. If I could keep only one movie, that would be it.
Never seen much of the RHPS. Mimicked it, sort of, yes, but have really never seen the flick.
Interestingly enough, seeing part of movies is how it was in the service in that for the nightly movie, rarely saw all of it or at least, all of it in one sitting, for there was always more work to do than movie sitting time. In the end, with some flicks, I did a lot of fast forwarding in a sitting, watching what I had not seen, skipping thru what I had seen.
We tried to use "Wizards" as a midnight cult film, but it failed. IIRC, "Heavy Metal" did better, but not anywhere near as well as "Rocky Horror." FWIW, "Rocky Horror" is a riff on the segment in Woody Allen's "Everything You Wanted to Know About Sex" that stars John Carradine.
I had similar experiences with watching many films in bits and pieces. When the theatres went from singles and twins to multiplexes, the pre-public screenings to check for film flaws went away. The films came in at the last minute and there just was not the time to check reel order, splices, and such.
We tried to use "Wizards" as a midnight cult film, but it failed. IIRC, "Heavy Metal" did better, but not anywhere near as well as "Rocky Horror." FWIW, "Rocky Horror" is a riff on the segment in Woody Allen's "Everything You Wanted to Know About Sex" that stars John Carradine.
I had similar experiences with watching many films in bits and pieces. When the theatres went from singles and twins to multiplexes, the pre-public screenings to check for film flaws went away. The films came in at the last minute and there just was not the time to check reel order, splices, and such.
Well, again, to each their own.
"Heavy Metal" is just not my kind of movie, but "Wizards" is. "Everything/Sex" I have never seen that much of except the Tony Randall scenes.
Finally, when theaters went to multiplexes, my overly healthy theater movie watching habit went away. As oppose to stopping in a movie house for the afternoon matinee, they became too far away with too many people ...... and usually at too much. Too much the effort to be fun anymore.
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