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    From August Abolins@2:460/58 to All on Sun Nov 29 18:16:10 2020
    Has anyone here enjoyed a film that was deemed a financial failure at the box-office? EYE OF THE BEHOLDER (1999) was one such film - but I thought it was rather well done in a dark, psycho twisted kind of way. An investigator is tasked to track down a serial killer and tends to protect the killer from being discovered.

    Another is CURDLED. A murder-scene cleaning lady gets obsessed with the potential stories behind the murders and ends up confronting a suspect. I thought that one was very stylish - especially the combination dancing/fighting scenes.

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  • From Al@1:153/757.2 to August Abolins on Sun Nov 29 08:03:44 2020
    Re: movies as $ failures, but still good!
    By: August Abolins to All on Sun Nov 29 2020 06:16 pm

    Has anyone here enjoyed a film that was deemed a financial failure at the box-office? EYE OF THE BEHOLDER (1999) was one such film - but I thought it was rather well done in a dark, psycho twisted kind of way. An investigator is tasked to track down a serial killer and tends to protect the killer from being discovered.

    Outland (1981) was a flop I think, but I liked it.

    Another more recent flop that I liked was Surrogates.

    I don't think they were disasters but they didn't do well.

    Ttyl :-),
    Al

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  • From August Abolins@2:460/58 to Al on Sun Nov 29 19:56:13 2020
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    Re: movies as $ failures, but still good!
    By: August Abolins to All on Sun Nov 29 2020 06:16 pm

    Has anyone here enjoyed a film that was deemed a financial failure at the
    box-office? EYE OF THE BEHOLDER (1999) was one such film - but I thought
    it was rather well done in a dark, psycho twisted kind of way. An investigator is tasked to track down a serial killer and tends to protect
    the killer from being discovered.

    Outland (1981) was a flop I think, but I liked it.

    Another more recent flop that I liked was Surrogates.

    I don't think they were disasters but they didn't do well.

    Ttyl :-),
    Al

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    I am going to give Outland a try. I missed that one (primarily because I was still in university and didn't pay attention to films in theatre very much). But I like Sean Connery - and in this film - he actually wanted the role.

    Surrugates sounds interesting too. Bruce Willis brings some good fun in most of his films. A couple of oldies of his - which also seemed to be box-office bombs - are Hudson Hawk and Last Man Standing. The first is a comedy/action flick. The latter is a classy dark film noire kind of thing - the ending is superb.


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  • From August Abolins@2:221/1.58 to Al on Mon Nov 30 09:08:00 2020
    Hello Al!

    ** On Sunday 29.11.20 - 08:03, Al wrote to August Abolins:

    Outland (1981) was a flop I think, but I liked it.

    Another more recent flop that I liked was Surrogates.


    I just watched them both, last night (when I probably should
    have been doing something else.)

    Outland looked VERY familiar. So.. it is very likely that I
    saw that in the theatre waaay back then afterall. I still
    liked it this time around too. That part where the sherrif is
    marked for death - the suspense was pretty good - as we wait
    for how he will outsmart the assassins - very Die Hard like.
    I had a couple "science" issues with it especially what
    happens when the space suits would decompress.

    Surrogates (2009) was pretty good too! I had never seen that
    one. I especially liked the scene where the handcuffed
    character gives computer instructions to the other person
    "..and then hit Enter". The person hits Enter - nothing
    happens. "Hit Enter! hit Enter!". Hitting Enter nothing
    happens! Then he shouts "Oh.. SHIFT-Enter!" I had to laugh
    out loud at that one.

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