I mean, seriously, Brian, what the hell?

Got the movie, got the soundtrack. I don't like them very much, except for "Dream of thee" which I do like even if haven't heard it in about 5 years perhaps.

I saw the movie twice. When I rented it in my local Blockbuster about 8 years ago and then when I bought the DVD.

It is fairly easy to find it in local supermarkets here in Mexico. There is a company called "Quality Films" that releases movies that a big label wouldn't normally release. Obviously, the releases are very simple in packaging and no special features are included.

Actually, I think I saw both the VHS and the DVD for sale a couple of weeks ago in my local Walmart.

I prefer the movies he made later. "Haute tension" is very good and his remakes of "The Hills have Eyes" and "Mirrors" are not too bad. I just found out he is up for directing Piranha 3-D, which should have some good ol' blood splatting coming at you from the screen in 3D in 2010! :D

On its own, Dream of Thee is a great track. It would have been a much stronger release as a single. I believe it would have been a hit, or at least a fan favorite.

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[QUOTE]French cinema is like French cheese - the French think it's something special because it stinks.[/QUOTE]

Greatness.

Give me Die Hard 2 over any French film.  Yes, I said Die Hard 2. 
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I cried over both those movies ... but in different ways.

It´s just a Soundtrack...what did you expect?

Anyway..I like french movies..I like French cheese..and I love France!!!

The soundtrack is worth the money just for the Furia Theme and Dream of Thee. Some of Brian's best work is on the CD IMO.

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FLASH! A-AAAAA!
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This answer sums it all up.

Dismissing the whole of French cinema as utter crap leads me tot suspect the author of such comments has an IQ under 80. Go watch [i]Ascenseur Pour L'Échafaud, [/i]for a start, then we'll talk.

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Dismissing the whole of French cinema as utter crap leads me tot suspect the author of such comments has an IQ under 80. Go watch [i]Ascenseur Pour L'Échafaud, [/i]for a start, then we'll talk.
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I know more about film than you could hope to learn even if you miraculously grew a brain. Fuck you for spouting random 50s films in vain hope you'll sound intellectual (but then, people claiming to like French film are intellectual poseurs without knowledge or taste.)

I happened to have seen the "Elevator" because, unlike the rest of you pretending to know shit about film, I actually STUDIED film and theatre. Imitators of Hollywood such as Malle and Truffaut were obligatory watching, even though my teacher privately agreed they were included for the sake of tradition rather than any merit they might have.

Shall I tell you what's wrong with "Elevator to the Gallows" ("Ascenseur Pour L'Échafaud"  - you can't translate it or you like to throw in a little French now and then like Delboy Trotter?)

Everything.

Cliche images of "decadent" Paris. Psychological cliches. Forced sense of anguish. Tattered storytelling. And, as in any French film to date, actors who can't fucking SPEAK AND MOVE AT THE SAME TIME.

The scene when Lois commits the murder is a typical, textbook example of a plot which doesn't know where it's going, so it goes into a shock mode. Then it's more unbelievable anguish and laughable suspense.

The only interesting thing about the film is the involvement of Miles Davis.

So, yeah, go read a book on film and then we can talk.

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FLASH! A-AAAAA!

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This answer sums it all up.




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Actually, no.

Even though Flash the movie is a fun camp, Flash the soundtrack is a professional high-quality movie score. There are different, even contrasting themes, built and developed to give a unique feel to a scene or character.

Furia has ONE basic I-IV-V progression on 90% of the album. That's almost NO material stretched over 20+ tracks. That's my gripe with it. Releasing it was like saying "No one saw the film and there's nothing much to listen to, but I'm counting on fans to buy anything that says 'Brian May' on the cover."

I've paid mine $45 from Amazon. Fuck that. Should have downloaded 'Dream of Thee' from a pirate site :-(

$45.

You've been robbed my friend.I wouldnt pay that supposing you paid me.

Wow, what a funny topic about french cinema ...
Hey guys, french movies aren't all "cerebral" ! Okay, we've also got some crap (depends on taste of course) but movies aren't great because they costed $100 millions or more ...

I suggest if you like police movies to watch "36 quai des orfèvres", or "MR73", recent movies with "Depardidoo (wtf?) and Daniel Auteuil. (Sorry I don't know the international english titles)

Oh and by the way, french aren't so arrogant and chauvinist ; it's a stereotype ... Here we also see the americans like fat hamburger-eaters ; it doesn't mean it's true ...

It always makes me laugh when I see a hollywood movie when one scene or the whole movie takes place in Paris ; or course the hero or the villain has an appartment with view on the eiffel tower ... Yeah here in Paris every appartment has view on the eiffel tower, because Paris is only 200 square meters ...

I never suggested the French, as a nation, were all arrogant and chauvinist. I criticise French film (and French moldy cheese - seriously, guys, what the fuck? That's disgusting food!), but, for example, I admire French athletes. I supported France in the finals of 2006 World Cup, and I was furious when that wanker Materazzi provoked the greatest European football legend of all times, Zinedine Zidane.

And please understand that it's not "either you love French cinema, or you love crap." Hollywood produces tons of crap, but who can deny Welles, Hitchcock, Kubrick, Coppola, Fleming, Branagh or Fosse are geniuses? And how about Tarkovsky from Russia, Kurosawa from Japan or Bergman from Sweden - I'm sorry, but 50s "film noir" looks like school plays next to them. How about modern Slavic film, the ruthless yet uplifting "Pretty Village, Pretty Flame" by Dragojevic or heart-shattering Time of the Gypsies by Kusturica (who's a despicable man, but very fine director.) How about Almodovar, del Toro, Ki-Duk, Matanic, Lee? All fresher, more interesting and better filmmakers than anything French film ever had to offer.

Yes, the Lumiere brothers invented the film technology and Georges Melies was the first to realise films can tell a fictional story. That's the great - in fact, crucial - and undeniable contribution of the French to the film. After that, it's downhill. At least in the 50s the likes of Truffaut and Godard were copying good Hollywood films, but today, you get Besson who's a poor man's Lucas and Jeunet, a poor man's Boyle.

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[b]P-Staker wrote: [/b]

I never suggested the French, as a nation, were all arrogant and chauvinist. I criticise French film (and French moldy cheese - seriously, guys, what the fuck? That's disgusting food!), but, for example, I admire French athletes. I supported France in the finals of 2006 World Cup, and I was furious when that wanker Materazzi provoked the greatest European football legend of all times, Zinedine Zidane.

And please understand that it's not "either you love French cinema, or you love crap." Hollywood produces tons of crap, but who can deny [b]Welles, Hitchcock, Kubrick, Coppola, Fleming, Branagh or Fosse[/b] are geniuses? And how about Tarkovsky from Russia, Kurosawa from Japan or Bergman from Sweden - I'm sorry, but 50s "film noir" looks like school plays next to them. How about modern Slavic film, the ruthless yet uplifting "Pretty Village, Pretty Flame" by Dragojevic or heart-shattering Time of the Gypsies by Kusturica (who's a despicable man, but very fine director.) How about Almodovar, del Toro, Ki-Duk, Matanic, Lee? All fresher, more interesting and better filmmakers than anything French film ever had to offer.

Yes, the Lumiere brothers invented the film technology and Georges Melies was the first to realise films can tell a fictional story. That's the great - in fact, crucial - and undeniable contribution of the French to the film. After that, it's downhill. At least in the 50s the likes of Truffaut and Godard were copying good Hollywood films, but today, you get Besson who's a poor man's Lucas and Jeunet, a poor man's Boyle.
[/QUOTE] Where's Martin Scorsese!?!?! Grrrr, I'll hurt you!!!!

Hitchcock is english, but of course his main movies are hollywood films.
Branagh is an Irish actor and director.

Coppola is from italian descent, but who cares he's american. :-D

And who are the other ones ? Welles, like in Herbert George ? Fleming like Ian ? and Fosse ? Sorry I'm not familiar with these guys, but it's probably because I know nothing in cinema or gastronomie, as we like other frenchmen only eat stinky chease :-D

I think that all the french movies you have ever watched are the one that 1) topped french box office 2) cross the atlantic to compete for an oscar in best foreign movie ...

And about Besson, he's probably more american than french in his film making, except of course what he did before Leon in 1994 ...

Furia is great, it has some of Brian's finest work as a composer and it proves the fact that he's able to write motives and phrases and make great variations.