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who saw this at the cinema 20 years ago?

posted 4 years ago by bozo_500 (13225)
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remember it being out and a biggish hit and the link with Castaway was known about in film magazines etc. Ford and Pfeifer was a cool pairing(Ford still a huge above the title star with any more Star Wars unthinkable at that point, even more Indy a long way off) and it was obviously abit of a big deal of a movie like a modern day Hitchcock homage movie but maybe partly influenced by the success of the 6th Sense the previous year with all the ghosts/twists

I didn't see it until rental a few months after probably VHS from Blockbuster but must've been a cool thing to see at the cinema.. back then Hitchcock movies weren't so long ago as now (obviously) so alot of even causal movie fans would be tuned into stuff like Rear Window, Vertigo, North by NorthWest, Psycho, The Birds

[–] enriquesingh (1812) 4 years ago

Ford and Pfeiffer were both on their way down starpower-wise in the year 2000.
What was he coming from? Random Hearts and Six Days Seven Nights?
It had been 3 years since he had a hit with Air Force One.

I doubt the average moviegoer remembered Hitchcock in the year 2000.
I actually think Hitchcock and 'old-classic movies' were less accesible in the year 2000 than they are today!

I agree it was a biggish hit and Zemeckis was still somewhat riding on the success from Forest Gump.

I don't know how much The Sixth Sense could have influenced this movie, it was already filming when The Sixth Sense came out... I think it was 100% a Hitchcock homage and Zemeckis was not influenced by The Sixth Sense at all.

Just my 0.02

[–] whynotwriteme (7745) 4 years ago

I think I went to see it with my ex but we saw so many of these trashy thrillers back then that they all blend together.

[–] StinkyPoopyPants (3142) 4 years ago

I saw it with a friend and we enjoyed it 😊 The face in the cemetery at the end was much more obvious and haunting.

[–] TroyB (164) 3 years ago

I caught it in the theater that summer. It came out close to Hollow Man and I saw that too in the same week. It was a decent thriller but took too long to get started and it wasn't particularly memorable. More like by-the-numbers.

[–] Tommy (185) 3 years ago

I saw it in the theater and loved it. Creepy AF in the dark auditorium with very few other patrons. Even though it had the typical Zemeckis dick move of revealing a bit too much in the trailer, which left me a little befuddled during the first act, but otherwise a very underrated thriller.

[–] alexjohans0n (2094) a year ago

I saw it and loved it.

It did not age that well. I saw it again during covid.