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post #1 of 13
11/5/10 at 5:20pm
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William Devane gets his revenge on Hulu.


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post #2 of 13
11/5/10 at 5:22pm
What did Hulu ever do to him?
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post #3 of 13
11/5/10 at 6:27pm
I was just thinking how I'd like to dress as Major Charles Rane next Halloween.

This is an excellent opportunity for everyone who hasn't seen this film yet.
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post #4 of 13
11/5/10 at 7:23pm
That's as much plot as anyone should get ahead of time on this one.
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post #5 of 13
11/5/10 at 8:06pm
That was a compliment. Droid does brevity.
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post #6 of 13
11/5/10 at 8:16pm
Thank you for the heads up, for some reason I always forget Hulu has movies.

Never seen this. Time to rectify.
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post #7 of 13
11/6/10 at 12:28am
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That's as much plot as anyone should get ahead of time on this one.
It was hard not to mention more. I really wanted to give a shout out to my favorite Tommy Lee Jones moment, when Devane says he's found a certain group of guys and with barely a pause and no questions asked, Jones says "I'll get my gear."
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post #8 of 13
11/6/10 at 11:19am
I think part of what I loved about my first viewing was having no idea what the inciting act was beforehand.
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post #9 of 13
11/7/10 at 3:07am
What a fantastic movie.
I was watching parts of it again and I realized what a good job Linda Haynes does. It could have wrecked the film but she pulls it off.

The inciting act is great because you get so invested in the story of Devane trying to integrate back into civilian life, it's like a big shock. That and seeing the guy I mostly knew from Knots Landing and Early Edition being all badass.
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post #10 of 13
11/7/10 at 3:30am
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The inciting act is great because you get so invested in the story of Devane trying to integrate back into civilian life, it's like a big shock.
Exactly! You're hit with all these compelling scenes of Devane trying to connect with his son, talking about being tortured to the local cop in the shed, and especially that scene on the couch where Devane sits in the near-dark, listening to his wife unload all this bad news on him, you're completely pulled into that story, then suddenly you're just "what the fuuuuuuuuuck did this movie just turn into??" Only the 70s, man.
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post #11 of 13
11/7/10 at 6:58am
I love seeing you get excited Phil.
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post #12 of 13
11/7/10 at 12:29pm
"What the fuck are you doing?"
"Fixin' to shoot a whole lot of people."

Made my theatre EXPLODE when this screened at the Drafthouse. A truly great slow burn revenge flick. And I agree--Devane is so good here, it's kinda sad he never really took off as a leading man. He's still had a pretty great career, so I doubt you'll see him complaining, but man, this is tops.
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post #13 of 13
11/8/10 at 1:27am
I already posted my over-cooked thoughts in the rolling thunder thread, but thanks (and this goes for the rest of you nerds) for putting this on my radar.
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