HH - Ice Station Zebra (1968) Discussion

[–] Post666Industrial 19 years ago

Because he had obsessive-compulsive disorder. His obsessive personality caused him to compulsively watch it. There is no rational reason why he would watch it; he may not have even particularly liked the movie. But somehow watching this movie releaved his irrational anxieties, so he watched it over and over.

The short version--he was crazy.

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[–] quipper72 19 years ago

Just wondering why he picked this and not a good movie.

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[–] quipper72 19 years ago

Just wondering why he picked this and not a good movie.

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[–] paratrooper629 19 years ago

For what it's worth. I attended a recently defunct Military school in Mo. ( Kemper ) in the 1970s. We would show movies in the auditorium on saturday nights ( or you could go uptown for whatever ). The 2 most requested movies were Ice station Zebra and the Dirty Dozen. ( Perhaps that says something about me and my classmates back in the 1970s? ). regardless- I still admire and enjoy " Mr. Jones" to this day. Soundtrack was absolutely fantastic!

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[–] csrcsr 19 years ago

quipper72: Ice Station Zebra is a very good movie, so it's not strange that Mr Hughes (or anybody else who loves good movies) wanted to see it over and over again.

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[–] Moor-Larkin 18 years ago

http://www.bugsweeps.com/info/howard_hughes/time-12-13-1976/pg26_a_640.jpg

Because he'd had enough of women?

In an interview with Dinah Shore not long before his death, Rock Hudson stated that Ice Station Zebra was his favorite film. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_Station_Zebra

Same reason?

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[–] jfacto 18 years ago

it prolly had more to do with the setting, ice is very sterile, it probably comforted him in someway.

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[–] jjman1 18 years ago

I think Rock liked it because the ice was cold, like ice cubes and he liked it on the rocks...and Hughes, well maybe he was so far gone he thought Hudson was cute...

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[–] johnsonent 18 years ago

I read somewhere that Truman Capote watched this movie 100 hundred times, because he thought it was well done. I myself have seen it at least a dozen times. When ISZ came out it was an exciting movie to see. Over the years it looses some of its edge. Technical stuff and special effects in the movies now days are so much more advanced. (We get spoiled) So when watching a movie that is close to forty years old, you don't get that same feeling for it as you did when it first came out. That dosen't mean you can't enjoy it though.

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[–] literati-2 17 years ago

I've watched this movie many, many -- maybe 40 or 50 -- times, over the years. I still love it. There's just something about it that appeals to me. Love the music, love the feel of the thing.
Not so crazy about Jim Brown in it -- seems like he's "acting" too much -- but at least his presence makes more sense in this flick than it did in The Dirty Dozen (nothing racist, just practical: why choose an African-American as one of the people who has to sneak into Germany and then into a castle filled with racist "Aryan" Nazis? He stands out and adds risk to the mission ... risk which could easily have been avoided).
Fact is, he was a popular cast addition, at the time, so ... he's in there.
Another strange thing (considering how much I enjoy this movie) is that I never felt Rock Hudson was the right guy for the role. I never "believed" him when he was irritated, didn't see him as the leader of a sub. I guess they thought he had the physical presence.
Well, no matter, in the end: I still love the film, flaws & all.

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[–] Moor-Larkin 17 years ago

I've watched this movie many, many -- maybe 40 or 50 -- times, over the years. I still love it.

Howard!! You're alive!!

I have always struggled to comprehend why Jonesy was so suspicious of Cap'n Anders - I mean, what were the chances of the Soviets (not exactly known for their racial equality efforts) having a black guy on hand to be their pretend Marine captain?

Maybe I shouldn't be thinking in terms of colour though. He was a Marine captain: end of story; it's just a pragmatic niggle of mine.

Oddly enough Patrick McGoohan made another film, called 'All Night Long', with key black characters but everyone behaved entirely colour-blind. It just wasn't an issue for the movie. The film was made in 1962 in Britain and there was a mixed marraige and a mixed love affair but the colour thing just did not crop up in the plot. A remarkable thing for those days and even nowadays perhaps.

Of course Mr. Brown's role did fit the stereotype: Black guy.... gets shot......
(Was that a Richard Pryor gag? Or Eddie Murphy? Or even Chris Rock?)

Big Jim kept himself well though didn't he. He looked as fit in 'Mars Attacks' as he had done nearly thirty years before.

http://theatrical-mcgoohan.mysite.orange.co.uk/

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