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daisyaday

gotta love that doorknocker

12 years 5 months ago

Louis Mazzini

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This movie needs a remake

There are already a dozen remakes. This is by far the best version.

10 years 10 months ago

The worst part of this movie was how unrealistic the main character acted after being in a wreck where all his friends were killed.

Zaroff was pretty cool but the build up until the hunt was way too uneventful and monotone. The chasing part was really good though and the scenery gave me a good flashback to king kong.

11 years 7 months ago

Emiam

6+/10
Exciting, good length, no masterpiece.

3 years 6 months ago

Siskoid

1932's The Most Dangerous Game suffers from being too well-known. Not the RKO movie, perhaps, but the short story it's adapting. Or maybe not even that, but the fact the title has entered the English idiom so we KNOW the big twist the first half of the movie is building to. The most dangerous game is man, and Great While Hunter Joel McCrae is going to become the hunted on a mysterious island own by a pulp/gothic supervillain called Count Zaroff (an effective Leslie Banks), and Fay Wray's gonna scream her head off as the romantic interest/damsel in distress. At 63 minutes, the film is efficient, yes, but doesn't allow anything but the island environment to be explored with the kind of depth necessary to make the adaptation to rise above its simple plot and moral. McCrea's character seems unphased about all his bestest friends dying in a shipwreck. Zaroff doesn't act true to his strange ethos by hunting a drunk man. It's all so thin. The race through the jungle, at least, is well realized, and Zaroff's final demise has a macabre viciousness to it at least. But without more emotional context for what happens, that violent last act doesn't grab me as much as it should.

4 years 8 months ago