Movie: The Phonebooth...

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Oh c'mon. Everyone knows you can only do that in the future.

The future is the only place you're likely to encounter a lizard like that.
 
I like the part where the shooter describes the exit wound from his rifle looking like a grapefruit or something but when he shoots the pimp you don't even see an entry wound much less a huge exit wound!:rolleyes:
 
The disembodied voice over the phone sounded too much like the movie trailer guy to me.

The whole damn movie was like one big trailer...

Scary. :)
 
I LOVE "Six String Samurai"! I found that movie on cable awhile back and it had a really great looking style. Crazy funk-punk, rockabilly soundtrack and the head dead, bad guy looked like Slash from Guns n' Roses with his skin off. I even liked the annoying little kid, after while. I think I'm gonna have to rent it again...


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What caught my attention was the part where BG said he was using hollow point bullets, and they "defragment" (I can't remember the exact word he used) so much on the impact that Police forensics would not be able to tell whether bullet that killed that pimp came from a rifle, or a 9mm Glock he stashed in the phone booth
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Well, to be fair, he could have been using a rifle in 9x56 Mannlicher-Schoenauer. With hollowpoints. Maybe.

I haven't seen the movie, but maybe I ought to. It seems to me, though, that it went pretty much straight to video after finishing its theater run, which is not typically a good sign.
 
When was the last time you actually saw a real, live phone booth anywhere, especially in a big city?
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That was played up in the beginning of the movie. This was the last booth left in NYC and it was due to be removed the next day.


Aside from the gun related shortcomings, I enjoyed the movie very much. I believe the script had been sat on for decades and was even pitched to Hitchcock. The movie was made with a very Hitchcock like style.
 
Saw "THE HUNTED" this weekend for the first time. Interesting film. They actually got a few things right...

1. If you're stabbed w/ something, LEAVE IT IN. Pulling it out makes it worse (Lady FBI remembered, TLJ didn't...:rolleyes: )

2. You CAN make a knife out of scrap metal. It just takes a little longer than BDT did it...

3. You CAN make a knife out of flint, and it will break when hit by a steel knife...

4. Johnny Cash ISN'T DEAD (for my wife's information)...

5. Pretty practical knife design. I may have to buy one... :D

6. Pretty practical knife-fighting information...

Everything else wasn't worth watching, but I'll probably buy the DVD anyway...:banghead:
 
When was the last time you actually saw a real, live phone booth anywhere, especially in a big city?
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Our local college has several in the student union. Yes, actually in the building. Same with the Smithsonian National Museum of Art, West wing, I believe.
 
What I don't understand about that movie, and what i would have done, is after he shoots the first person, and you know he is serious, say "I bet you won't shoot someone else." or something to that effect.

Goad him in to taking another shot, and then in the most erratic way possible, jump/skip/duck/run/roll around the corner and in to a building before the police even get there and stupidly accuse you of shooting anyone.

Its got to take him some time to chamber a new round and reaquire you as a target. Plus hitting an erratically moving target is difficult. I'd rather run and risk it than drag the movie on for another hour... :p

/Arcli9ht
 
This was a movie I was proud to have downloaded for free. It would have been a complete waste of money.

Now the concept.. guy targets bad people in an effort to cleanse society has some potencial... but it should be more along the lines of several character in Enemies Foreign and Domestic :)

It was full of half truths, some out right lies, and just utter sheeple feeding blather.

But hey.. what do you expect from hollyweird?
 
Abso-bloody-lutely pathetic. I'm soory, but the "click-clack" of the action, several times in a row, without him firing, eventually got to me.

When the cops were there, the victim could have thrown himself out of the booth and behind a car any time.

A shot from 4-storeys (?) up, at an angle, through a glass window, that just "nicks" the good guy's ear?? Give me a break!

And talk, talk, talk ... I actually fell asleep at one point!

Thank heavens I didn't pay to see it!
 
Boring, boring, boring.
Ridiculously stupid.

This movie has absolutely nothing worthwhile. Even the action scenes are so over the top (as in "that could never happen") that they aren't enjoyable.
 
Phonebooth has to be one of the worst movies I have ever rented. The biggest problem was the lack of different scenery. I got bored listening to the dialogue and looking at the phonebooth. I think it could have been more interesting if they had tried a little variety.

Just my $.02
 
pablo,

You must've had some expectation about plot & location when seeing a movie titled "Phonebooth"? ;)
 
Well, to be fair, he could have been using a rifle in 9x56 Mannlicher-Schoenauer. With hollowpoints. Maybe.
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Even if he did, I would think/hope they should be able to tell the difference between it and 9x19 out of Glock, by penetration depth, entry angle, exit would (maybe), etc.
 
CWL, o.k., I admit, I was expecting a plot based around a phonebooth, I just didn't expect the whole movie to take place there.

That gives me an idea for my OWN movie. Maybe called "Parking Garage".

:D :D :D
 
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