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I met yesterday on television one of the worst films of R Scott: black rain. One thing interesting to note: the camera plans to go to the house of bad yakusa are dentical to that of the arrival of deckard to his apartment (ennis-brown) and there is a reuse of the interior decor of the apartment.
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black rain ...one of my fav movies along with year of the dragon. ,but it's not BLADE RUNNER "the movie"

@ which Minute is this ?!

I always liked Black Rain, although to be honest I've only seen it once a long time ago. Still, I enjoyed it.

Joel

I watched it again the other night. I bought it on DVD some months back because I enjoyed it so much on TV. Sometimes I think Ridley Scott was born to make noir detective movies. He is so good at making use of any environment he's presented with and making it look interesting and pleasing to the eye, without going overboard and making it too artsy and irritating. He uses the same techniquies in Black Rain that he used in Blade Runner, only this time in a real-world environment.

There's a lot to say about Black Rain. One negative thing I have to say, though, is it's too long and seems to drag on at some points.

Gee, where have I heard that critisizm before about one of his movies?

Well, looks like I'm gonna' have to put this on my Netflix list......

CTR

Geee. I don't know, where?

Maybe it's a ridley thing.

Mmmm... there is? well... it's been a long time since a watch this one but it's not a bad movie. I liked it very much when it came. Anyway, the style of the movie and the look and feel can be described as BR light in a way. At least in my opinion. It's definitive a RS movie.

I clearly remember the fight/chase with the motorcycles at the end
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Thanks for pointing this flick out! I'll definitely check it out!

You know a movie with great rain?.........Apocalyse Now ,with Martin Sheen and Marlon Brando, my fav. war picture. See the redux edition.

I think Michael Douglas would have been a great Deckard ,if he was the same age as he was, when he was in Black Rain.

If Michael Douglas had been cast as Deckard instead of Harrison Ford, he would've had it written into his contract that the moviemakers include the bit where Sean Young's legs were greased up with oil during their love scene. Also, he would've insisted that the love scene between Deckard and Rachel was extended to 10 minutes, scored to the same Vangelis music cue as found in Taffy Lewis' Snake Pit, and featured a second female replicant in a menage a trois. He would've also demanded that Zhora administer oral pleasure to Deckard before she beat him up, and he would've turned Deckard into a chain-smoking, coke-snorting burnout. In other words, he would've made Ridley Scott get Joe Eszterhas instead of David Peoples to do the rewrites on Hampton Fancher's screenplay

Seriously, don't get me wrong - I don't think Michael Douglas is a terrible actor, I even own a DVD copy of 'Wall Street' (a movie I love and hate equally). But whenever I think of "the cinema of Michael Douglas," it usually makes me stop and chuckle over his, er, general creative tendencies

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You hit the nail on the head wrt the oevre of Michael Douglas.

Now Kirk, OTOH...THERE'S an AC-tor!!! Even now, with his voice permanently changed by the stroke, he's amazing. Yes, he tended to gnaw the scenery back in the day, but gotta love him.

Hmmm...Kirk Douglas as Inspector Bryant...that would have been interesting casting.

Right on msgeek -- Kirk Douglas is a seriously underrated actor. (Can't believe I still haven't seen him as V. Van Gogh in 'Lust For Life,' but I love Tim Roth in Robert Altman's 'Vincent and Theo' and don't know how anyone could top that...but if anyone could, it's Kirk )

Of course he was fantastic in Kubrick's 'Paths of Glory' and 'Spartacus,' but my favorite performances of his are in Jacques Torneur's 'Out of the Past' and especially in Vincente Minnelli's 'The Bad and the Beautiful'. He's so @#$% brilliant as the charming, corrupt and slimy movie producer Jonathan Shields, he's Gordon Gekko (or - seriously - even Eldon Tyrell) 30 years before his time.

Kirk Douglas was Van Gogh. The local people of Auvers-sur-Oise thought Vincent had literally returned while Kirk was filming there. See this film.
Anthony Quinn totaly embodies Paul Gauguin, as well.

As far as Michael goes... I wholeheartedly concur with the above testimony. For most of his movies, anyway.
I watched one of his better ones IMHO last night "The Star Chamber"(1983)
Didn't care for "Black Rain" when it came out & recently sat-through it again... in vain. Sorry Ridley