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u/retepoteil 19h ago
When I first sat down to watch this I thought it was gonna be terrible. But it was really suspenseful, good acting and was really up in the plot. Haven’t seen it in years but from what I remember a very good movie
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u/Key_Curve_1171 19h ago
Why did you suspect it would be bad?
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u/RogueAOV 17h ago
Whenever movies have such a cliched line such as 'Goddamn it man you dun made me hurt my dick hand',
my expectations are low.
They were significantly subverted.
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u/jetpack324 19h ago
I didn’t like Colin Ferrel as an actor at the time. I didn’t know much of the plot but I knew it took place in a phone booth. Just didn’t seem like a good movie plot + actor I didn’t like. Turns out he is a phenomenal actor and the movie was very well written; now it’s one of my top 10 favorite films. I am so happy to be so wrong about it all back then.
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u/DesperadoKz 19h ago
Fun fact: Michael Bay considered directing. When he met with the producers, the first thing he asked was "How can we get him out of the phone booth?"
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u/faverett28 18h ago
Forgive me ignorance, but what did he mean by that?
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u/DesperadoKz 18h ago
Probably more action.
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u/InterviewObvious2680 18h ago
still, this is a movie script for his type of directing and atmosphere setting.
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u/Eyre_Guitar_Solo 8h ago
It means he didn’t get the whole concept of the movie, which was to turn a limitation into a strength.
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u/Constant-Pianist6747 16h ago
Absolutely nobody talks about 16 Blocks anymore, but it was really good, IMHO. I worked at a theater at this time and audiences really liked it.
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u/BeacanWentFishn 18h ago
Discovering this movie in my mid teens made me appreciate smaller, intimate stories rather than automatically gravitate towards action blockbusters. Nothing against those either. Just watch movies
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u/TheRealZebraq 18h ago
I remember this movie being delayed after 9/11 happened. They pushed the release date by almost a year due to the “terrorism” aspect of the film. They also pulled the Spiderman trailer that featured a shot of the twin towers with a massive spider web between them and some helicopters stuck in it. Ahh, the good old days.
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u/fake_hugo 18h ago
Yesss thank god somebody talks about this. No movie will ever top the amount of stress I felt as a kid watching this (10-12yrs old). And the ending is also pretty neat, Imo. Very underrated movie, and the ratings dont mean anything, too.
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u/the_hucumber 13h ago
I bought this on a pirate dvd from the Kho San Road in Thailand.
That's a sentence that completely dates me and this movie
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u/crunchwrapsupreeeeme 19h ago
I remember it got a lot of bad reviews when it came out, but I thought it was good. I just rewatched it recently and it still holds up! The editing and the way it’s filmed is so early 2000’s and I love that, very nostalgic.
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u/AXXXXXXXXA 18h ago
Just rewatched it tonight and definitely holds up. Looks great. Awesome editing.
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u/escoemartinez 18h ago
It’s a shame they pulled this so fast around here anyway because of that DC sniper shit.
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u/Bananarama_Vison 10h ago
I remember this to be rather short, like 75min. But I think I would have to rewatch it, can hardly recall it, now that I think of it…
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u/BloodOk6235 6h ago
People really hated this movie but I thought it was decent. I think ita only real problem is that the concept (man can’t leave phone booth or he will die) can’t take up that much time. Not much can happen in that one physical space.
It’s basically the same idea of Speed except the bus could move. Things can happen when you can move. “Man in a Phone booth forever” is hard to stretch out as Interesting for 90+ minutes
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u/MyBodyStoppedMoving 19h ago
Few movies can pull off the “real time” thing successfully, meaning the 2 hours you watch it there’s only 2 hours passing in the movie. I thought this movie nailed it out of the park.