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post #1 of 15
9/20/07 at 6:17pm
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It finally comes out in America and it has commentary IGNORE THE DTV BOX ART AND BUY THIS NOW GO GO GO
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post #2 of 15
9/20/07 at 6:21pm
Is this the one with Robert Forster?
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post #3 of 15
9/20/07 at 6:30pm
My review tonight, of course it was given attention in the pants bulge 2 weeks ago.
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post #4 of 15
9/20/07 at 8:40pm
Awesome! I hope Best Buy has it.
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post #5 of 15
9/20/07 at 9:15pm
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Originally Posted by Luca S.
Is this the one with Robert Forster?
Yep! And he's actually on the commentary track, which kicks butt.

They do have it at Best Buy. I was actually kinda surprised at that, but they usually carry budget-title horror flicks. It's only $10.
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post #6 of 15
9/20/07 at 9:17pm
Yeah, it's a great disc. Horrible, horrible art, though. Wish they went with that badass original poster-

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post #7 of 15
9/20/07 at 9:21pm
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Also, I think Robert Forster serves as a movie geek litmus test. If the only thing you know Forster from is JACKIE BROWN, you're not a true movie geek.

Similar to how if the only thing you know Orson Welles from is TRANSFORMERS: THE MOVIE, you're officially disembrained.
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post #8 of 15
9/20/07 at 9:23pm
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Originally Posted by Alex Riviello
Yeah, it's a great disc. Horrible, horrible art, though. Wish they went with that badass original poster-
Yeah, the art is some pure Sci-Fi channel shit, but what can you do? If Sci-Fi Channel had existed 25 years ago, I'm sure ALLIGATOR would have been a marquee movie for them.

The disc isn't super stacked, but its fucking ALLIGATOR. The fact that a studio put it out with a COMMENTARY is kinda mind-blowing. It's a neat little JAWS copycat, and great fun, but its the sorta movie that most people just barely remember.
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post #9 of 15
9/20/07 at 9:33pm
The original poster actually looks damn scary.
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post #10 of 15
9/20/07 at 9:39pm
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I like the scenes where its obvious a real-life gator on a half-scale model set. The effects work has the old sort of monster movie vibe where everything looks kinda phony, but it was clearly done with the best of intentions.
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post #11 of 15
9/21/07 at 9:54am
Any movie that you can describe the plot simply by restating the title is automatically great.

"Hey, watcha watching?"
"Alligator."
"Oh, what's it about?"
"Alligator."
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post #12 of 15
9/21/07 at 12:44pm
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Originally Posted by Brad Millette
Any movie that you can describe the plot simply by restating the title is automatically great.
I think the makers of Snakes on a Plane were banking on that logic.


I don't know what makes me giggle more, thinking that "manholes" (from the new DVD cover) is a double entendre... or imagining that "break out" (from the original poster) means that the gator just may throw down some cardboard and spin on his snout.
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post #13 of 15
9/21/07 at 1:16pm
Alligator! I haven't thought of this movie since I was a kid, yet I still vividly recall the tiny alligator getting ominously flushed down the toilet at the beginning of the film. If only society had known better.
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post #14 of 15
9/21/07 at 1:36pm
Wow, what a blast from the past. I loved this movie as a kid. The alligator destroying the limo scene gave me nightmares.
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post #15 of 15
9/21/07 at 3:04pm
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He kills the mayor of Chicago in this movie. That's a pretty big win for the alligator, I'd say.
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