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1981 was indeed an awesome year for werewolf flicks! An American Werewolf in London, The Howling, and Wolfen (almost) formed a trifecta of horror flicks that remain unmatched to this very day. I kinda always thought that Wolfen was the weakest of the three though, a slow burn that exploited the "less is more" plot device applied to storytelling and was also a bit preachy here and there, combining ecological plight with the misfortune of Native Americans in a way that took me out of the story. I wanted to like this movie, but the preachiness sucked me right out of it. When speaking of 1981 and the year of great Werewolf flicks, this one is always a mere footnote due to that element.

1:00 Guy Hamilton had directed Goldfinger not GoldenEye

I thought it started off really strong, then rambled on too much but ended up on a very strong ending.

Fantastic treatise on one of my favorite movies. Well done, sir. This particular film continues to have the singular qualities of being both endlessly enjoyable and deeply thought-provoking.

The casting Lead on this movie nailed it - dream team!

Slight Correction, Hal Maguire, the DEA Agent is played by JT Walsh, not Bruce McGill.

Watched it 55 years ago and it was considered a top movie back then. I always thought it was an interesting topic.

Crichton was a good writer but he was a huge hypocrite and a bit of an ignoramus too. Climate change denier and an extremely paranoid man to boot. Flawed like anyone else, I’m sure.

You demoted Jim Brown. He was a Marine officer (Captain) not sergeant lol.

Just watched it, I thought it had a kind of boring first act, but I can appreciate what it did to try to drive the intrigue for the spy plot. Overall, I liked the arctic set and thought the second act was a worthy conclusion. I really appreciated the historical/background context, I think it did well to explain a lot of the decisions of the film. I think you could probably do the same movie today with some changes and make something excellent throughout. The movie could've done a little more interplay between characters during the trip, like that scene in the mess hall where the spy knows the exact deacceleration of the M16 in cold climates, or another sabotage would've been great.

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I've watched this movie several times over the years and I always got lost in all the colorful characters, so much so that by the end I never could figure out why the guy got shot.

The casting of Van Pallandt as the double crossing femme fatale was inspired as she reads as anything BUT this. As for the analysis, not bad, but in some senses, far too textually aggressive; this film is simply an extended fantasia on loyalty, (and this theme of loyalty is repeated throughout) though there's nothing really simple about that: Gould's Marlowe is a performance, a performance of loyalty to an idea of Marlowe...as is the film a performance of loyalty to Hollywood film itself...there's even the parallel between the conditional loyalty of the cat and the absolute (and delusional?) loyalty of the dog. I wish you'd had a chance to comment on the use of music in the film - and not just the use of 'Hooray for Hollywood' as the credits roll but John Williams' - yes, THAT Johnny Williams' canny theme that simply repeats and repeats across a range of genres: jazz, Califolk rock, tango, mariachi, doorbell and is cross cut to such brilliant effect during the title sequence: non-diegetic one moment, diegetic the next - and is even referenced AS music by the pianist in the bar...again, this repeating texture of the emptiness of loyalty. Also, it is only through the distance that Altman creates from his 'unlikable' characters that he is able to cast them into tragedy. The characters in 'Boogie Nights' are all too loveable to be tragic and therefore are not tragic (its not a tragic film; I don't think Anderson meant it to be). Tragic characters (Hamlet, Hedda Gabler) do not allow us to get too close: we admire tragic figures but you cannot love something you admire nor admire something you love; lovability renders things pathetically mortal (I use admiration here widely: we can admire the perverse, the toxic, the intense). The characters in 'Goodbye' and 'Nashville' are not inherently tragic but are figures in a broader, building tragedy: the end of Nashville is, for me, one of the most tragic scenes in American cinema - an apocalypse of the American psyche done to steel guitar...and, not to put too fine a point of it, an apocalypse of the psyche that has, in the fifty years since Nashville's release found its way out of the celluloid and into our daily lives. All posters are free to disagree with me, and I'm not trying to refute your review, only to give insight to what has drawn me to the film's brilliance time and again.

I agree with all of that. Thank you.

The other side of this echo chamber is that The Long Goodbye is an unmatchable, indulgent, smug and dull film. My opinion.

Best vampire flick ever made

That was a great film.

Bravo!

I think they should have made a sequel 10 years later when the advent of DNA science blows up the resolution of the original movie.

Here in 2025. They wiped their ahh with Thufir in part 2. In fact part 2 of all the dune version is to me the worse one.

Good retrospective, enjoyed the little infos and insights. I love the old movies, watch them from time to time again. Still great. The end of the first one blew me away, i was about 12 or something... and the end of part 3 made me super angry, oh man how they died... was so torn between anger and sadness.

Elliot Gould is good in small doses. He’s totally unconvincing in this role.

You need more subs. This was very well done and done in a very tasteful fashion, no underlying snobbery.

17:09-Linda Hunt (Shadout Mapes) was in Silverado, with Kevin Costner, and Kevin Kline, both, relative unknowns at the time. I understand there is a time crunch with all literature; it might not be as important as I think it is to include ‘Silverado,’ early eighties movie, specifically with the acting credits of Linda Hunt, before Dune. The only reason I pursue this comment, is because Shadout Mapes was who kept me from turning the movie 1/3 into the viewing of it, off. She screams, “Yeah!,” when Jessica, Paul the hero’s mother, answers Ms. Mapes’s question regarding the knife she is being given. It is a crys- knife. Mapes asks Jessica, her main charge, “What do the Fremen [the group of whom she is a spokesperson, centered in the desert of Arrakis] call this knife?” Jessica said, “It is a maker of- “Yeah!,” Ms. Mapes exclaimed, loudly. I possibly would not have finished the movie or read Dune, by Frank Herbert, which I got to do several years after seeing ‘Dune,’ back in 85; had not Shadout Mapes, played by Linda Hunt of Silverado fame, shouted loudly to Jessica, “Yeah!,” when Jessica said of the knife Mapes recently gave her, that it was a maker, interrupting in the midst of Jessica’s statement. Jessica was going to say the crys-knife was, ‘A Maker of Death,’ but Shadout Mapes screams, “Yeah,” immediately at the sound of the word, ‘maker.’ For the Fremen, who live in Arrakis’s desert, Makers are super-duper sized worms; from whom, the ‘Spice,’ a very important navigational tool in space travel, is derived & synthesized. Also, the teeth of these giant worms are what mainly comprise crys-knives. Because of Linda Hunt as Shadout Mapes, I love Dune, ‘84. She said, “Yeah!”

I couldn't disagree more about Beneath The Planet Of The Apes. I love this entry into the Apes Canon. An excellent continuation of the first movie.

Great video. Used to get the Starlog over in the UK very infrequently. I think I never managed to buy more than a dozen issues. In the UK there was Starburst magazine, which started just after Star Wars was released and I got from issue 1 and collected for quite a few years. After seeing your video I am going get the boxes down from the attic this weekend and see what I can find. Oh and the Doctor Who Appreciation Society is still running.

How about a show on The Maltese Falcon, 42nd Street, Laura, The Invisible man, Dark Passage, Mc Abe and Misses Miller, Ice Station Zebra, The dirty Dozen, The Eye Of The Needle.

I loved your show. I agree with what you said.

Bomb, lowest rating. Terrible movie. It never should have been made.

I really liked Starlog magazine, it had to be careful what it said since it needed to get photos and interviews from Hollywood. So, they were a David that was fighting a Goliath. But within the limits they had, they did a good job overall. I looked forward to getting my copy of the magazine every month.

I really liked the movie; it was a slow burn that works. However, I felt Mitchum's character shouldn't have killed his boss in the movie.

I felt the movie was too far ahead of its time. I loved the film. GRET MOVIE! It was quirky, unconventional, non-formulaic. And I loved the ending. Plus, I really liked the scene where he is in jail, and he says hello to a guy who he'd just befriended.

I liked THE HOT ROCK a lot and I enjoyed the scene where Redford said, "I am either going to get this rock or it is going to get me!" GREAT MOVIE! Would you do THE LONG GOOD-BYE, JUST WAIT UNTIL DARK, SILENT RUNNING, ASSUALT ON PRECINT 13, DARK STAR, THE WARRIORS, THE BIG SLEEP, TIME AFTER TIME.

Switched off after the presenter called Patrick McGooan " Jim:" McGooan. Just laziness.

Great movie. They don't make em like this anymore.

Awesome vid cheers for sharing

It’s Quattro Formaggio, not Quadro Formaji! You executed a beautiful triple-twisting double backflip in a piked position. But you didn’t stick the landing. 😢

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Jerry Goldsmiths music score was great!

Jerry Goldsmiths music score was great!

Jerry Goldsmiths music score was great!

Dotrice sounds like Keitel

Even when I watched this as a small child, I thought, "man. Hes lucky language and writing didnt change at all in those thousand, two thousand years." We couldnt understand anyone speaking english 700 years ago, let alone 1000+. Told my husband this, and he says, in jest, that apes were traditionalists and wouldnt change anything. Even though it was jest, I let him have it and took that as the legit explanation.

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I think Lee looking like a million bucks is a huge factor. Sleek and dangerous, we just wanted to look at him.

It’s Jim “Bahl-ton” not “Boo-ton.”

I absolutely hate horror movies as a genre due to the graphic violence and gore but i have exceptions- salem’s lot being one - i absolutely love it- after just having seen the nosferatu remake ( highly recommend) i can see how stephen king was heavily influenced by it and bram stoker

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I grew to like Robert Altman's The Long Goodbye. However, I always thought Leigh Brackett's script was better and Elliott Gould doesn't know how to successfully smoke a cigarette on screen. He doesn't ever enhale. It's frustrating to watch!

Love that movie too.