08-24-2008, 03:38 PM
08-30-2008, 07:13 AM
Just catching up with the last few episodes thanks to a PC rebuilding exercise.
I love both of the two movies, The Duel is such an intense movie which I came to appreciate more thanks to the net as I learnt more about Spielberg although at the time as a McCloud Fan it was Weaver who I was into. I'm going to have to re-watch the movie more closely, missed the license plate reference to the trucks ongoing adventures. I watched something a while back (can't remember what, probably something on Biography) which had The Duel's production as a center piece and how it was shot and well the point is made that it wasn't Spielberg's first movie (being made for TV) but as you both said it was good enough to be a theatrical release.
The Car I watched on TV for the first time and with James Brolin did feel like a TV movie thanks to knowing him from his TV work, seems to be a common theme that so many movie stars became known to a generation only through television. The everyday slaughter of innocent townsfolk really worked thanks to the Car itself, it looked evil and the malevolence actually came across very well, it that hadn't worked the movie would have been a total failure.
I love both of the two movies, The Duel is such an intense movie which I came to appreciate more thanks to the net as I learnt more about Spielberg although at the time as a McCloud Fan it was Weaver who I was into. I'm going to have to re-watch the movie more closely, missed the license plate reference to the trucks ongoing adventures. I watched something a while back (can't remember what, probably something on Biography) which had The Duel's production as a center piece and how it was shot and well the point is made that it wasn't Spielberg's first movie (being made for TV) but as you both said it was good enough to be a theatrical release.
The Car I watched on TV for the first time and with James Brolin did feel like a TV movie thanks to knowing him from his TV work, seems to be a common theme that so many movie stars became known to a generation only through television. The everyday slaughter of innocent townsfolk really worked thanks to the Car itself, it looked evil and the malevolence actually came across very well, it that hadn't worked the movie would have been a total failure.