Criminally underrated, mostly due to releasing the same weekend as Star Wars. Anyone else a fan of this movie?

  • skunch@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    9·
    1 year ago

    Good god this movie is TENSE. Check out the original French version from the 50s if you can find it. Wages of Fear. Goddamn my man.

    • Pixel_Monkay@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      By the time you get to the action in WoF you are so damn invested in it all that every moment is on a literal hair trigger… First time I watched this I was alone in my living room just saying “Oh shit-- jesus christ-- oh fuck” to myself the whole time.

      I have yet to watch Sorcerer but I do have it-- looking forward!

    • xXxBigJeffreyxXx@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      You wouldn’t know it from the first half hour! Can’t believe the studio needed to put out posters warning audiences that ‘only the first two scenes’ aren’t in English.

  • WhiteOakBayou@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    Thanks for turning me on to this. Cruising and Bug are two big favorites of mine. Also, Friedkin doing The Boys in the Band, The Exorcist, and The French Connection in three years in kind of insane

  • Recreational Placebos@midwest.socialEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    I feel like Friedkin is underrated as a director, he’s done some great movies even apart from the big ones (The Exorcist, The French Connection). Cruising, To Live and Die in LA, Bug, Sorcerer.

    Wages of Fear is one of my all time favorites, and while Sorcerer isn’t as good, it’s still worth watching. I’ve driven down some hairy unmaintained logging roads for work, so I always get excited when I see someone make bad driving decisions that they have no choice but to commit to. Can’t back up the hill, no room to turn around, guess we’re going over the bridge, guys!

  • niktemadur@kbin.social
    2·
    1 year ago

    Haven’t seen it yet, BUT… “Les Salaries De La Peur (The Wages Of Fear)” is one of my absolute favorite films.
    French cinema was KILLING it in the 1950s and 60s, one inspired banger after another, and another.

    I’ve been trying to watch Sorcerer, but I can’t find it in any country of the streaming services I use.

  • oxaphan@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    I was on the edge of my seat the whole time. Gotta get around to watching the original

    • ours@lemmy.filmEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      Don’t miss out on the original. This is one rare case where both the original and the remake are amazing and different enough. The original one has one of my favorite scenes ever.

  • ours@lemmy.filmEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    Fantastic movie. Those cold opening scenes sure are something else. I was confused and wondered if I had put on the right movie but quickly didn’t care because it was awesome.

  • Flyspeck@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    I saw this on the big screen at an Alamo a few months ago and it’s definitely tense and suspenseful once they get the trucks --that bridge crossing scene is so intense!