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Where's Spock in the poster?
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Yes nice tribute to the pointy eared one.
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From Santa Mira to San Francisco.
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A remake of a superb Don Siegel film. I didn't think it came close to the original.
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Mar 6, 2015 - 11:18 PM
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Heath
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The 56 is a good film with its heart in the right place (actually anti McCarthy rather than red scare - Siegel said as much), but it IS a film of its time stylistically too - you're half expecting jack Webb to walk through the door with a warrant! Unfortunately, that period-style creates a kind of barrier for contemporary viewers who now may just see it as a quaint pulp antique. Actually, that's probably been the case for many decades - I saw the film in the early 70s as small kid and I thought it looked like an "old movie" even then!
Yet, dodgy perms and flared trousers aside, the 78 still has a modernistic liberal vibe to it, far closer culturally to us now than the original would have felt to 1970s audiences. Kauffman did a great job, and that pointy-scream thing remains totally iconic today. The cast are PERFECT, Adams and Sutherland have beautiful natural chemistry, and it features the best post Trek Nimoy performance I've seen - he really sells his progressive shrink character.
My only small quibble with the movie is some pretty dodgy "voice-over with character out of view" plot-fill dialogue that feels a bit lumpy. They probably ran out of money to re-shoot and just put Sutherland and Adams in a sound booth for half an hour. Ah well. But otherwise, yeah, great movie!
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