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[PowellPressburger]

Originally Posted by RiFiFi1955

I hear a lot of talk about pre-ordering Christine this Friday but not too much about The Fury. Is there not that many people out there that love this film as much as me?

I'll be preordering both titles myself. The Fury isn't a great film but it has its moments. The John Williams score is really good though. I still have a copy of the 2 disc cd OOP score. Curious if it will get a new cd re-issue.

[RiFiFi1955]

Originally Posted by PowellPressburger

I'll be preordering both titles myself. The Fury isn't a great film but it has its moments. The John Williams score is really good though. I still have a copy of the 2 disc cd OOP score. Curious if it will get a new cd re-issue.

Yeah this is what I am suprised about P&P, I have been hearing seeing a lot of people feel The Fury is only a decent film while I think it is freakin fantastic on every level. It is just a huge favorite of mine...we all have those favorites you know

[jstxanothrxstory]

Originally Posted by RiFiFi1955

I hear a lot of talk about pre-ordering Christine this Friday but not too much about The Fury. Is there not that many people out there that love this film as much as me?

It's probably because Christine is a guaranteed pre-order sell-out.

[Clark Kent]

When is The Song Of Bernadette being released? That will be a nice addition to my collection.

[rdodolak]

Originally Posted by Clark Kent

When is The Song Of Bernadette being released? That will be a nice addition to my collection.

March 26. Preorders begin on March 1.

[SolidBlu]

Originally Posted by ROclockCK

very nice!

[Belloche]

Originally Posted by RiFiFi1955

I hear a lot of talk about pre-ordering Christine this Friday but not too much about The Fury. Is there not that many people out there that love this film as much as me?

I would have thought the De Palma love would rival the love for Carpenter. I can't wait to get it.

[Aclea]

Although Christine was pretty much critically reviled and a big bomb outside the US in its day - when I was working in a UK cinema the audience never reached double figures in the evenings and it was the only film we ever played that nobody at all showed up for several of the afternoon shows - it has Carpenter and King going for it from a sales perspective and has seen its reputation grow a bit over the years. The Fury, even though it was intended as a big mainstream blockbuster, is pretty much forgotten by most people and much more of a cult niche title. It's a very mixed bag, with Kirk overacting his little heart out and taking his shirt off at every opportunity but on the plus side there's that magnificent John Williams score, some great setpieces and, the clincher for me, John Cassavettes exploding several times in slow motion. I always preferred it to Carrie, but I'm under no delusions there are many people with the same opinion, so it's one that could go either way in terms of a fast sell out.

[NoirFan]

Originally Posted by Aclea

Kirk overacting his little heart out and taking his shirt off at every opportunity

The latter was in his contract! Overacting with Kirk Douglas is par for the course, really.

[Aclea]

Originally Posted by NoirFan

The latter was in his contract! Overacting with Kirk Douglas is par for the course, really.

You're not joking: he must have taken his clothes off more times than Sylvia Kristel back in the 70s. Martin Amis recalls Kirk insisting on having the robot say "That man is so virile" when he ran by in Saturn 3. Apparently Stanley Donen told him "Don't argue, just just put it in the script and we'll lose it in the edit." Still, we can be thankful that we didn't get to see the Douglas buttocks as well in this one.

[BarnDoor]

The Fury is worth it for the last 5 minutes alone.

[klauswhereareyou]

I'm much more psyched for The Fury, but that's because it's a film that I really enjoy, it has one of my favorite film score isolated, and De Palma is my favorite director.

[ROclockCK]

Originally Posted by Belloche

I would have thought the De Palma love would rival the love for Carpenter. I can't wait to get it.

I suspect this will be a lot like the NOTLD '90 / Enemy Mine pre-order Belloche...only on steroids. Both of those October titles set a blistering pace out of the gate, but after the former sold out, the latter quickly levelled-off and settled into a more normal TT sales pattern (according to SAE's always trustworthy cart, almost 1200 of Enemy Mine are still available). In this case, the wildcard is that both Christine and The Fury (man, I still chuckle over that pairing) are horror titles, and the latter has an OOP CD soundtrack, which makes its IST a hotter-than-usual draw. So I think many - if not most - of the day one sales will probably be for both movies.

Speaking as an old fart who was already an adult when he saw both movies theatrically, then once apiece on DVD, my interest in them is very asymetrical; I'm looking forward to seeing Christine again primarily for the fun of rediscovering something I haven't seen in at least a decade, which also happens to tickle the vintage car buff in me. Plus, although not yet confirmed (at least that I'm aware of), I suspect there's a better than 50% chance that this will be another Sony 4k job, like Fright Night. As for De Palma's The Fury, that one has always been a more uneven experience for me...even my previous viewing on DVD was primarily for its Williams score plus a few of the better staged set pieces. I still regard it as a mostly good movie, albeit with a bit too much sidebar star-pampering filler (like

[Show spoiler]a lot of that chase sequence where Douglas in his skivvies ends up crawling through the apartment window of the elderly couple

) - that kind of cutesy Hollywood schtick belonged in some other movie.

One way or the other, it will be interesting to see how it all plays out on Friday. BTW, has anyone heard more about the possibility of a Keith Gordon signing for Christine?

[jrsl76]

Both of this weeks pre-orders are among the more exciting for me. I am a fan of early De Palma, but I am a huge John Carpenter fan so Christine was always the more exciting title.

I was a young child when it came out, but I first saw it sometime around the late eighties and have really liked it ever since. Not in my top tier of Carpenter, but still one I like a whole lot.

[captveg]

Nevermind

[Clark Kent]

Christine will outsell The Fury by 2 to 1 or even 3 to 1.

[captveg]

Originally Posted by Clark Kent

Christine will outsell The Fury by 2 to 1 or even 3 to 1.

And, quite frankly, having just watched both, rightly so.

[kngtmat]

Sorry but Christine was not reviled or bombed and none of the fans I know from all over the World have said otherwise.


I like Thunderheart but I wouldn't pay more than $16 to maybe $20 the most. The only reason why I am getting Christine because it is my all time favorite book/movie & car plus I'm not waiting 3 more years.

[Aclea]

Originally Posted by kngtmat

Sorry but Christine was not reviled or bombed and none of the fans I know from all over the World have said otherwise.

It was when it opened, regardless of its reputation today: it did okay in the US but next to nothing internationally and at the time was regarded as Carpenter's worst film. Which probably helped seal its cult status, especially since Carpenter would go on to make some much more unpopular films in the 90s.

[kngtmat]

Also I have seen many things about Christine from back then that say no such things either and I'm not just talking about stuff from the U.S.