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Post by thomasjerome on Aug 16, 2022 18:21:04 GMT
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Post by stephen on Aug 16, 2022 18:29:03 GMT
I was looking for a reason to rewatch Das Boot. Shame it had to be under these circumstances. Go easy, Wolfgang.
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Post by SZilla on Aug 16, 2022 18:51:25 GMT
R.I.P. Wolfgang. Das Boot is an incredible film and The Neverending Story, In the Line of Fire, and Air Force One are a lot of fun.
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Post by therealcomicman117 on Aug 16, 2022 18:56:59 GMT
RIP!!! I was hoping he would come out of retirement to make another major movie that wasn't just that random German remake, especially as Poseidon was just one movie and failure, so this is sad. One of the great directors when it came to big budget Hollywood fare. In The Line of Fire, Outbreak, Air Force One, The Perfect Storm, and Troy all in a row. Hell of a run at the box office.
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Post by urbanpatrician on Aug 16, 2022 18:59:39 GMT
Great blockbuster director. Kids looked down on Neverending Story in elementary school/middle school, but it was a children's classic whether you liked it or not. See you later my man. Guess this just makes me realize the times we're in that all the icons of my childhood starts dropping one per week.
I just told my mom about this..... she says she remember Air Force One and The Perfect Storm. I don't know if she's seen anything else tho. I guess this just means 1994-2000 were the best times for me and my family.
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Post by ibbi on Aug 16, 2022 19:18:13 GMT
Dude made so many blasts of varying kinds and varying degrees in that run from In the Line of Fire to Troy, and I think The Perfect Storm, in particular, is a criminally underrated movie.
Still, he made it into the pantheon for Das Boot alone. No matter how deep into Hollywood stupidity he eventually sank, that thing hasn't aged a day.
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Post by wallsofjericho on Aug 16, 2022 19:21:27 GMT
RIP. Great director.
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Post by pacinoyes on Aug 16, 2022 19:22:47 GMT
RIP In The Line of Fire is a near perfect thriller mainstream pic - smart, wildly entertaining and cleverly character based. Peteresen was also quite clever in how he used actors there - the way he frames the Malkovich performance greatly enhances it as a classic villain (in shadow, emphasizing his voice and his own comical (to us) / frightening madness, shoots him from the back and over the shoulder - so he's unpredictable and hard to read - as we can't quite get a handle on him in several ways - his look, motivation, temperament) Also the way he frames Clint by comparison - in (the) light - often outdoors, surrounded by history - often runnning like he's chasing history constantly and how history may judge the Clint character and how he judges himself......... and his own absurd humor his great Lincoln line - staged as an inspired throway........the pic is greatly enhanced by how thought out it is .......about the humans in the story - Petersen was very cognizant not to get lost among mechanics or mere machinery in his films:  |
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Post by pupdurcs on Aug 16, 2022 19:30:13 GMT
RIP
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Post by sirchuck23 on Aug 16, 2022 21:16:57 GMT
RIP
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Post by Pavan on Aug 17, 2022 13:59:16 GMT
RIP.
Das Boot is a masterpiece. Troy and Air Force One are two of my favorite guilty pleasures.
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Aug 18, 2022 21:07:17 GMT
goddamn, I wish I could occasionally wake up to good news about someone awful dying like Trump or Charles Koch or McConnell instead of another cool actor or director  Air Force One is special because I think it was the very first R-rated movie I ever saw (heavily edited on TV at a hotel but still!). Rest in peace Mr. Petersen. |
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