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Over the years, I somehow always missed out seeing Steve McQueen in "Bullitt ". After hearing all of you guys talking about how great it is, I watched it the other day, and was sorely disappointed. Did I miss something???
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Car chase on the big screen
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That 10 minutes was pretty cool, but didn't make up for the other 1 1/2 hours of dud.......
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it didn't age well. for its era, it was excellent and cutting edge. most old movies are dull by todays standards.
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McQueen has always bugged me. Overrated egomaniac.
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When "Vanishing Point" came out, I thought it was a cool movie, but then I watched it again a few years ago........not as I remembered.
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it didn't age well. for its era, it was excellent and cutting edge. most old movies are dull by todays standards. Nail on Head
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it didn't age well. for its era, it was excellent and cutting edge. most old movies are dull by todays standards. Nail on Head Same way with Star Wars when I was a kid. Now you can see the strings that x planes are hanging from.
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McQ has more shooting, the Duke, and car chases with a badass green car. It's a pretty terrible movie but I find it more enjoyable than Bullitt
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it didn't age well. for its era, it was excellent and cutting edge. most old movies are dull by todays standards. That's probably part of it, but I like a lot of other movies from that period, especially ones with the "Duke" in them. I just thought this one was completely emotionless.
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State of the art continues to grow....
Also, we get older and change. When I first saw Cool Hand Luke, I could identify with Luke. Last time I saw if he was a fuggin, trouble making punk who got what he had coming.
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the dukes westerns are an exception for the most part. the scenery, sets and cast really hold up.
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I still like it. I think it is a tightly scripted movie, and the lack of unrealistic action as we see in today's movies is a good thing, IMO.
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I still like it. I think it is a tightly scripted movie, and the lack of unrealistic action as we see in today's movies is a good thing, IMO. Unfortunately our society today has mass attention deficit disorder and requires an explosion, building collapse or computer generated monster every 90 seconds or so.
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When "Vanishing Point" came out, I thought it was a cool movie, but then I watched it again a few years ago........not as I remembered. The actor who played the desert Hippie/biker (with the nude girlfriend) who helps out Kowalski with some 'stay-awake' pills and to slip past a police roadblock, was also "Pea Eye" in the original, Lonesome Dove.
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Over the years, I somehow always missed out seeing Steve McQueen in "Bullitt ". After hearing all of you guys talking about how great it is, I watched it the other day, and was sorely disappointed. Did I miss something??? it's just you. Bullitt was a great movie. lol
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The car chase was good, probably one of the best especially for the period but I was born, some say hatched in San Francisco and the way it jumped from part of town to another and back kind of bugged the hell out of me, even when the movie first came out. I always did covet that Mustang though. Still do. Paul B.
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Over the years, I somehow always missed out seeing Steve McQueen in "Bullitt ". After hearing all of you guys talking about how great it is, I watched it the other day, and was sorely disappointed. Did I miss something??? it's just you. Bullitt was a great movie. lol This is true. The biggest problem with Bullit, isn't the movie but the viewer. Today the viewer is expecting what the movie industry has subjected us to, and we have forgotten real movie sets and filming. For instance, the last James Bond movie is so full of special effects, the whole story is lost in the movie and really doesn't mater. Special effects have replaced good writing and scripts...
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