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Summary: my favorite movie
Review: This is the greatest movie ever made. It is funny, terrifying, disturbing and the look is pure hallucinatory splendor. I highly recommend that every man woman and child watch this movie as soon as you can. It will change your life. I hope a DVD version comes out soon. This film would be breathtaking in the DVD format.
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Summary: If Shakespeare made movies
Review: To me the mark of a well done intelligent movie is the discussion it provokes after the closing credits. This movie is brilliant! No two people agree on exactly what this movie is saying or even how to interpret the conclusion. Who is really insane? Who is faking? Who believes they are faking, but are insane? Who is sane at all? The questions extend to the audience itself. Each person and each viewing provides new perspectives into the movie and each viewers life experiences alter the perception just enough to provide different meanings for different people. There are so many nooks and crannies we only get a glimpse of that this movie can be viewed over and over each time offering a new and fresh perspective. If you can find this movie rent it, invite several friends over, and enjoy the discussion after.
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Summary: NINTH CONFIGURATION
Review: SLOW AT FIRST BUT BOY DOES IT PICKM UP AND fast, excellent movie well worth the used price , this one will make you think!
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Summary: An action movie for philosophy majors?
Review: William Peter Blatty is an accomplished writer. This does not automatically translate to "accomplished film director". That being said, "The Ninth Configuration" is assured a place in film cultdom. There's just something about characters stuck in the ol' Laughing House that endears them to filmgoers, especially with that sure-to-please spin of "It's a crazy world and its the ones they lock up who are the truly sane!" ("King Of Hearts", "Cuckoo's Nest", "12 Monkeys"). Blatty's inmates are philosophers all, spouting platitudes about theology, Shakespeare, astronomy, history, human psycholgy-basically sort of a post-grad school for people who you'd normally find on street corners screaming at traffic. A terrific cast, clever (and occasionally hilarious) dialogue and some truly original ideas keep the film afloat, despite the rather static and sometimes amateurish direction. Not for all tastes, but a perfect entertainment for those who crave the offbeat.
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Summary: This Film is Just Plain Good
Review: I've seen may films in my time. This has to be one of the strangest, but yet there is something about this film I love. I've seen a number of films where William Peter Blatty's stories have been transferred to film. The Exorcist, The Excorcist III (the book is titles Legion) and this film. Blatty used the same actors for some of these films. Jason Miller (who plays Father Damian Karras in The Exorcist) plays one of the inmates. Scott Wilson who plays Henshaw has a part of a very nervouse doctor in The Exorcist III. But the main part of this film that grips you is the role of Kane, played by Stacey Keach, who is a fine actor and plays this role to the hilt. The film takes you through the different minds of the inmates, guards, and the doctors. You get to see the doctors and work, the guards doing their best to undertand the patients, and then the inmates themselves. Who is crazy and who isn't? But the main question is: Is Kane the doctor or is he a madman? Watching this film and your questions will be answered. This film is just simply a great film. And how the AFI did not put this in the top 100 best films of all time is still a myestery to me.
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Summary: THE 9TH CONFIGUREATION
Review: LOVED IT . WAS RELIGOUSLY GEARED LIKE THE EXORCIST LOVE W.P. BLADDYS WORK HE SHOULD WRITE MORE
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Summary: Brilliant film that will make you think
Review: Into an old castle used as a political asylum by the U.S. government comes a new head shrink (Stacy Keach) who may be crazier than the rest of the inmates...and who may be the infamous "Killer Kane," responsible for a massacre in Vietnam. His presence proves to be disruptive...and oddly enlightening...to the assorted oddballs who populate the castle. William Peter Blatty wrote and directed this eccentric adaptation of his own novel, "Twinkle Twinkle Killer Kane." Laced with clever, often comical dialogue and sometimes heavy-handed symbolism, the film proves to be as unusual as anything ever produced by Hollywood. The film's occasionally uneven pacing can make parts of it a chore to watch. But for those who persevere, the movie proves to be quite satisfying in the end. Keach gives a standout performance as new shrink; Blatty uses the actor's natural aloofness to emphasize the character's detachment from reality. All of the supporting characters are great; they're mostly brilliant men who either got in the way of the wrong people, or failed at a critical mission, or simply knew too much. Shut away from the world, they become emotionally and spiritually despondent, seeking anything to give their lives meaning...and to keep their fading sanity alive. One is trying to perform Shakespeare using an all-dog cast; another truly thinks he's Superman. Yet despite their desperation, they're largely unnerved when Kane arrives, and rightly so, for he disrupts their existence in subtle ways...especially the doubting Captain Cutshaw...even as Kane's own sanity becomes questionable. The film has many standout moments, but the two most memorable have to be the amazing (and brutally violent) barroom fight, and the heavily symbolic ending, in which we have echoes of Michaelangelo's "Pieta." The film's ending may remind some of the finale to "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," and the two are indeed similar...but whereas Kesey was largely making a statement about the counterculture of the 60s (with a little religious symbolism thrown in), Blatty gives us a movie that is brutally honest about man's search for religious meaning, for God. The film isn't afraid to ask tough questions about faith and doubt. Like Kubrick, Blatty explores the theme of dehumanization; here, it is as a touchpoint for the film's more philosophical moments. Multiple viewings may be required to catch all of the symbolism and meaning within, but ultimately, it is worth the effort. A real underrated gem that's awaiting rediscovery...on DVD, perhaps? Fans of this may also like the powerful (but hard to find) Argentine film "Man Facing Southeast." It too, is replete with religious symbolism.
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Summary: director's cut not as good as original
Review: This highly unusual film is a must-see, but get hold of the original release. Once again a director has taken a very good film and muddled it with his 'director's cut'. The soundtrack has been improved, I must admit. The film is a strange tale that philosophically explores the reasons behind insanity. The only problem I have with it is that the Christian theology is heaped on a little too thick.
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Summary: One of a kind movie
Review: This movie is one of the best movies I've seen. Its realistic drama touched me. It should have won many Oscars including best picture. By the way I own the DVD format of the film with director's commentary, and you may find it at blackstar.co.uk.
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Summary: Gobble Gobble
Review: Inexplicably word is getting around that this is a good movie, so perhaps a nice splash of ice water is in order. "The Ninth Configuration," William Peter Blatty's 1980 film version of his novel "Twinkle, Twinkle, Killer Kane," is, scene after scene, a hideous mess. From the prologue, a hilariously incongruous blending of haunted mansion imagery with a twangy country-western song, to a freeze-frame coda that's like the end of an episode of "Quincy" or "Magnum P.I.," Blatty proves that he has zero sense of film rhythm or staging. The middle of the movie combines "deep" theological babblespeak with unhinged screwball comedy, and it plays something like Ingmar Bergman directing an Inspector Clouseau flick. The climax, an utterly pointless (and endless!) fight in a biker bar, is so unwatchable it's easy to imagine the MST3000 guys in the corner of the screen razzing it. (The ONLY way it should be watched.) Apparently, though, the film's pretentions have conned some people into thinking that something Deeply Significant is going on, but I'm not buying. The story goes Blatty laughed when he saw John Boorman's infamous flop "Exorcist II: The Heretic." Bad as that boondoggle was, his own film here is every bit the turkey.
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