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<blockquote data-quote="Willie Oleson" data-source="post: 405021" data-attributes="member: 8">STRANGERS ON A TRAIN (1951)[ATTACH=full]53837[/ATTACH]An &quot;how to get away with murder&quot; story based on the novel by Patricia Highsmith, which I haven&#039;t read.Once that murder has happened, and the whole film collapses immediately afterwards, I realised that they wouldn&#039;t get away with murdering the most fun&nbsp; character (Guy&#039;s slutty greedy wife). Psycho dandy Bruno isn&#039;t sexy enough, tennis player Guy isn&#039;t likeable (or dislikeable) enough to sustain the intrigue, the romance is almost non-existent and then there&#039;s Barbara. Barbara with her stupid hair and pseudo-bluntness - the only reason I kept watching is because I hoped she&#039;d be murdered too.I understand that Bruno has to do something to put the screws on Guy, but the way it happens also means they are no longer the &quot;strangers on a train&quot;.What&#039;s left is a semi-stalker/semi-blackmail story that&#039;s neither sexy nor tense, and it also doesn&#039;t make sense that Bruno is plagued by the memory of Miriam&#039;s glasses.It&#039;s almost as if they&#039;re clutching at straws to make it suspenseful.The merry-go-round spinning out of control (which shoulda happened during LB Colby&#039;s birthday party) has written &quot;never press this button!&quot; all over it. Absolutely hilarious.There is a good story deeply buried underneath this boring mess and I think it should be considered for a remake. But very much remade.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Willie Oleson, post: 405021, member: 8"] STRANGERS ON A TRAIN (1951) [ATTACH type="full"]53837[/ATTACH] An "how to get away with murder" story based on the novel by Patricia Highsmith, which I haven't read. Once that murder has happened, and the whole film collapses immediately afterwards, I realised that they wouldn't get away with murdering the most [I]fun[/I] character (Guy's slutty greedy wife). Psycho dandy Bruno isn't sexy enough, tennis player Guy isn't likeable (or [I]dislikeable[/I]) enough to sustain the intrigue, the romance is almost non-existent and then there's Barbara. Barbara with her stupid hair and pseudo-bluntness - the only reason I kept watching is because I hoped she'd be murdered too. I understand that Bruno has to do something to put the screws on Guy, but the way it happens also means they are no longer the "strangers on a train". What's left is a semi-stalker/semi-blackmail story that's neither sexy nor tense, and it also doesn't make sense that Bruno is plagued by the memory of Miriam's glasses. It's almost as if they're clutching at straws to make it suspenseful. The merry-go-round spinning out of control (which shoulda happened during LB Colby's birthday party) has written "never press this button!" all over it. Absolutely hilarious. There is a good story deeply buried underneath this boring mess and I think it should be considered for a remake. But very much remade. [/QUOTE]

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