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Post by masterofdisaster19 on Jun 13, 2007 12:33:53 GMT -5
You really thought he phoned it in? I thought he was powerful in the film... Now "Over the Top", "The Specialist"... those were phoned in. This was, what I thought, one of Sly's best performances! It was far from being his typical cliche' character in a physical role, I agree. He played a man who had suffered incredibly and did it well, I thought. But D-Tox, IMO, did have a strange eeriness to it. The killer was strange. The circumstances were completely bizarre. The set was incredibly elaborate and so glossy that I thought it was the interior of the USS Enterprise. I had the odd feeling that it was two script concepts combined into one movie. But what I really want to know is, Bum... Why the two titles? Eye See You and D-Tox? And I've seen both in different Blockbusters. |
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Post by thebumfromthedark on Jun 13, 2007 13:31:45 GMT -5
Movies often have several titles, depending on what the distributor of whatever territory wants to use. In Europe, Rocky II was called by the title of Sly's screenplay: "Rocky II: Redemption". In Japan, RB was released as "Rocky - The Final".
"Detox" was the original title when it was made in 1998, slated for a '99 release. The film was then deemed "unreleasable" and it sat on the shelf. The movie eventually wound up being released in (at least) the UK in 2000 as its original title. Hoping to finally make something off it, the studio (was it Universal?) retooled the movie (hence it's semi-disjointedness) and retitled it "Eye See You" (I guess based in lines on dialogue?) and sent it to DVD on December 31st, 2002.
In short, it's studio b.s.
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Post by masterofdisaster19 on Jun 13, 2007 17:40:27 GMT -5
Movies often have several titles, depending on what the distributor of whatever territory wants to use. In Europe, Rocky II was called by the title of Sly's screenplay: "Rocky II: Redemption". In Japan, RB was released as "Rocky - The Final". "Detox" was the original title when it was made in 1998, slated for a '99 release. The film was then deemed "unreleasable" and it sat on the shelf. The movie eventually wound up being released in (at least) the UK in 2000 as its original title. Hoping to finally make something off it, the studio (was it Universal?) retooled the movie (hence it's semi-disjointedness) and retitled it "Eye See You" (I guess based in lines on dialogue?) and sent it to DVD on December 31st, 2002. In short, it's studio b.s. "Unreleasable"? Geez, what a big insult that is to Sly. I mean, unreleasable has to be a step below "straight to video"... What a lowly condition for such a great actor. |
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Post by thebumfromthedark on Jun 13, 2007 21:03:15 GMT -5
Master, I hate to say this... but from 2000-2005, Sylvester Stallone could not open a movie. Almost everything he did went DTV. "Rocky Balboa" thankfully changed all that.
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