Clue (The Coli Movie Club)
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also cant wait to watch this again, i had this on VHS when i was a kid. love a good mystery/whodidit type film and this shyt is straight comedy from what i remember
also everyone should sub to this #movieclub hashtag and make sure its posted in the OP from now on
also cant wait to watch this again, i had this on VHS when i was a kid. love a good mystery/whodidit type film and this shyt is straight comedy from what i remember
You would be hard-pressed to find a better assemblage of top notch character actors all together in one film than you have in Clue. Everyone was perfectly cast and all were given time to shine but the MVP of the entire movie was Tim Curry. Dude did everything in Clue and was the madcap glue that held this farcical whodunit together. I loved how plot developments were thrown at the audience at hyperspeed which I enjoyed but could see how it would become a bit much for some people. I also liked that the movie was very tight with a brisk running time of under 90 minutes.
As for the alternate endings...my favorite was the one where everyone was a killer and Tim Curry was Mr. Body.
I give Clue: The Movie 3 Roger Eberts out of 5 :ebert::ebert::ebert:
As for the alternate endings...my favorite was the one where everyone was a killer and Tim Curry was Mr. Body.
I give Clue: The Movie 3 Roger Eberts out of 5 :ebert::ebert::ebert:
I will pass on this one
Hmmm........
So.....Clue. I didn't really have any expectations for this movie coming in, and I wasn't entirely sure what kind of movie to expect. The movies started out traditionally enough, with guest showing up to this house for a dinner hosted by someone they don't know and with other guests they ostensibly don't know. Things slowly unfold and we realize that everyone is somewhat linked...and this part of the story was actually pretty interesting. Each actor gets a chance to shine as they reveal exactly what they've done to "earn" they way to the table. But as soon as the movie turns to the goofy, almost slapstick, style in the 2nd act, I thought it lost quite a bit of steam. Some of the word play was pretty funny, but something about the tone of the movie or how the lines played just fell sort of flat. There were some pretty damn funny individual moments though, particularly when they were "covering up" the murders when the cop showed up.
Things turned interesting again when Curry gets to his rapid-fire, almost manic explanation of how each victim was murdered. It's at this point where the three endings comes into play. While each ending is entertaining enough in it's own right, it felt a little cheap. Because all three endings are plausible, it blunts any intrigue built up in the preceding 70 minutes of "murder mystery."
I was entertained enough by the film, although it feels very dated.
5/10.
Things turned interesting again when Curry gets to his rapid-fire, almost manic explanation of how each victim was murdered. It's at this point where the three endings comes into play. While each ending is entertaining enough in it's own right, it felt a little cheap. Because all three endings are plausible, it blunts any intrigue built up in the preceding 70 minutes of "murder mystery."
I was entertained enough by the film, although it feels very dated.
5/10.
The three endings thing was a part of a little thing they were doing with the three endings was releasing prints of the movie with different endings so each theater would get a different one similarly to how you can have different endings in a game of clue. On home video releases, they're blended together to look like what we saw
Yeah I know, and I knew that going in, as I've heard people bring that up on podcasts or whatever
That said, it's more interesting in concept than it was in execution. Part of the entertainment I get from murder mystery films is trying to follow the story and think along with the detective...or whichever characters are trying to figure things out. But when it's revealed that there are so many plausible endings, it makes all of that thinking/playing along meaningless, because the film didn't show us enough to actually reach any conclusions on our own. I imagine this is true on rewatch also, although I won't be doing that.
That said, it's more interesting in concept than it was in execution. Part of the entertainment I get from murder mystery films is trying to follow the story and think along with the detective...or whichever characters are trying to figure things out. But when it's revealed that there are so many plausible endings, it makes all of that thinking/playing along meaningless, because the film didn't show us enough to actually reach any conclusions on our own. I imagine this is true on rewatch also, although I won't be doing that.
Yeah I know, and I knew that going in, as I've heard people bring that up on podcasts or whatever
That said, it's more interesting in concept than it was in execution. Part of the entertainment I get from murder mystery films is trying to follow the story and think along with the detective...or whichever characters are trying to figure things out. But when it's revealed that there are so many plausible endings, it makes all of that thinking/playing along meaningless, because the film didn't show us enough to actually reach any conclusions on our own. I imagine this is true on rewatch also, although I won't be doing that.
After watching it several times I go with the first two endings because they're both plausible and aside from one hole in the 3rd, the ending on that is plausible as well.
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Yeah I havent seen the movie in a long time. But i remeber towards the end when he started adding all the clues up and ... well I'll just leave it right there.. lol
creepy comedy..
Lol you gotta review it breh
Roaden Polynice
Superstar
I can't really front though, when I was a kid I thought Ghostbusters 2 was the scariest shyt I've ever seen in my life.
Vigo the Carpathian...
Roaden Polynice
Superstar
Clue though:
I have vague memories of Clue as a kid. I remember flipping through the channels one time and coming upon it and just seeing Tim Curry walking around a big house and I changed the channel.
That was my memory of Clue. It was undoubtedly Clue, to be sure. But I dunno why I didn't watch it. And I've known of its existence but I've never ever come across anyone who is like, "Man, I love me some Clue: The Film" even though apparently it's a huge cult classic?
Like I've never heard anyone mention this film in real life.
That said, I enjoyed it, to an extent, and I'm glad I watched it now, because I reckon if I watched it when I was younger I wouldn't have picked up on all the jokes that are peppered throughout.
But it ultimately falls flat for me at least. I get all the jokes. I get the gags, but only a few actually merited me laughing out loud (I work for the State Department, and I'm a homosexual! Tim Curry: :ugghh: ). I feel like it's a genuine historical curio than a really great film. I say that because the idea of three endings being sent out to different theaters is a superb idea and must've been some
shyt in the past. Perhaps I'm wrong, someone let me know, but thinking about it today it even has me like
And I can see why critics probably hated that shyt. An example of this in contemporary times I can think of is The Devil Inside when the film ended and the screen said to go to a website to learn more. Which on the face of it is bullshyt but you can see what they were trying to do (I guess) and the link might be sorta specious between the endings of Clue and The Devil Inside, but the point is that for me at least, I always at least give the filmmakers a little bit of credit when they attempt something different. No matter how lazy or hamfisted or how ill-thought out that idea might be.
And that's why I can give Clue a pass, because it's so goddamn earnest at the end of the day. It goes 100% and believes wholeheartedly in what it is trying to accomplish, and, fukk, that's all we can ask for in film and in life I reckon
That was my memory of Clue. It was undoubtedly Clue, to be sure. But I dunno why I didn't watch it. And I've known of its existence but I've never ever come across anyone who is like, "Man, I love me some Clue: The Film" even though apparently it's a huge cult classic?
Like I've never heard anyone mention this film in real life.
That said, I enjoyed it, to an extent, and I'm glad I watched it now, because I reckon if I watched it when I was younger I wouldn't have picked up on all the jokes that are peppered throughout.
But it ultimately falls flat for me at least. I get all the jokes. I get the gags, but only a few actually merited me laughing out loud (I work for the State Department, and I'm a homosexual! Tim Curry: :ugghh: ). I feel like it's a genuine historical curio than a really great film. I say that because the idea of three endings being sent out to different theaters is a superb idea and must've been some
shyt in the past. Perhaps I'm wrong, someone let me know, but thinking about it today it even has me like And I can see why critics probably hated that shyt. An example of this in contemporary times I can think of is The Devil Inside when the film ended and the screen said to go to a website to learn more. Which on the face of it is bullshyt but you can see what they were trying to do (I guess) and the link might be sorta specious between the endings of Clue and The Devil Inside, but the point is that for me at least, I always at least give the filmmakers a little bit of credit when they attempt something different. No matter how lazy or hamfisted or how ill-thought out that idea might be.
And that's why I can give Clue a pass, because it's so goddamn earnest at the end of the day. It goes 100% and believes wholeheartedly in what it is trying to accomplish, and, fukk, that's all we can ask for in film and in life I reckon
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