I can't believe none of you film gurus caught the plot similarities between "Point Blank" and the 1999 Mel Gibson opus "Payback." Both screenplays are based on hard boiled detective author Donald Westlake's novel "The Hunter."
-Tic
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Maybe it is belaboring the obvious, but amid all the other comparisons made in the comments on other threads for this film, nobody else bothered to point out this fact. Have you read any of the other threads?
Lighten up, pal.
-Tic
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Point Blank is the original and Mel's flop the remake.
Nothing exists more beautifully than nothing.
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It is "We" not "Us" film gurus.
Nothing exists more beautifully than nothing.
i dunno about all the this bickering. If you guys were true Lee Marvin fans youd show up at the guys house, beat the door down, beat the other man sensless, steal his wife,steal his booze, and then round it all off by smokeing an unfiltered cigarette.But you should read the book that both films are based off of. Its by Richard Stark and its really capturing the hard edged noir sense. By the way, im in the Bastard Sons of Lee Marvin (BSOL). We dress up as our favorite Lee Marvin characters and March in the Doo-Da parade in Pasadina,CA every year. Its really fun. We get drunk, smoke cigars, and spread the word of Lee.
shareeah, yeah, yeah, but a cigar is a smoke.
Nothing exists more beautifully than nothing.
'Payback' IS thematically similar to 'Point Blank'...then again, 'Payback' has a better ending!
sharehttp://www.donaldwestlake.com/wks_biblio.html
If you go to this link Donald Westlake AKA richard Stark wrote the book titled the Hunter which both of these movies are based on. Naturally they both veer from the story a bit. The main character is named "Parker" and there are other books in the series which deal with Parker and the Outfit,etc,etc. It's worth reading they are interesting novels but rather short.
'Payback' IS thematically similar to 'Point Blank'...then again, 'Payback' has a better ending!
That's right, beeyotches. My BSOL brother Dane speaks the truth.
-Brother Chino
Yeah, Payback is on cable right now, and the info summary says it's a remake of "Point Blank".
I thought Payback was okay, though. How many better movies of this theme have been done since the 80's?
Maybe if you realized the fact that they are both based on the same book, you wouldn't sound like such an idiot.
shareeveryone knows that!!
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yes you are right tranny man. same with anything else.
shareI love that bit where a naked John Vernon("Dean Wormer") gets his comeuppance and he falls to his death from an apartment complex! There's visible matte lines around his butt!
Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life, son!
Dead, naked, and bleeding is no way to go through life, son!
classic!
shareBecause everybody knows that! Now you can add Parker to the equation
Prostitute: What the *beep* are you doing?
Johnny: I'm gonna kill a bunch of people.