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I did enjoy the movie, but you are absolutely right.
Though I fall somewhere in between the two poles on this issue, I really don't appreciate being lectured by Hollywood screenwriters. A primary reason I don't bother with much big-studio output anymore is that I like intelligent, adult fare -- and The Town doesn't really cater to that. Most of what they produce is aimed at teenagers and children, and I'm neither.
As with men, women don't pay prostitutes for the sex.
They pay them to go away after.
It's actually an even worse title than you say.
The poster reads like SLOANE -- only later did I realize there was a tiny "Miss" to the left at a right angle.
Here's something to think about:
In the Post-Netflix era, all content is equal.
There are no channels or studios.
I can't often tell if a title is a movie or TV.
On your Roku or Apple TV, all you get are rows of boxes, none very big, each with a title and usually a single image.
A box with SLOANE and a picture of a redhead ... that appeals to whom, exactly?
Not me -- and I'm *exactly* the kind of person this picture was made for.
The title and poster give me nothing that says this is a "serious" end-of-year movie made for intelligent adults.
Do movie studios know we're actually seventeen years into the 21st century?
1. "Blind Alleys"
(by far)
2. "Reflection of Death"
3. "Poetic Justice"
4. "All Through the House"
5. "Wish You Were Here"
Truthfully, I liked them all.
Can't say that for the other Amicus 5-packs.
Only good things were 1) the original ad campaign, and 2) the premise of five normal-looking homicidal kids escaping from a mental instution. Back in 1974, that was a kinda original.
Kinda.
Horrible House on the Hill, actually.
That was the title on first release in LA in 1974, complete with a huge ad in the Times screeching, "CLOSE YOUR EYES WHEN SUSAN STEPS INTO THE TUB!!"
Wrong.
The wives are murdered, as we clearly see in the next to last scene.
Script author William Goldman confirms this in "Adventures in The Screen Trade."
The problem with your suggestion to go ahead and stay in the hotel is, to quote the late Gene Siskel, "Then the whole movie goes away."
"Dear, it's ONLY two days."
I felt sorry for the cat.
I hated that too.
And not just because it was another example of the yuppie mantra "NEVER say no to work. Work trumps all."
Earlier when he says, "It's ONLY two days, dear," I thought of Joanna and The Stepford Wives.
"It's going to happen BEFORE that. Don't you see?"
In movies like this, they never do.