tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5110147752122772426.post3465454411191379470..comments2024-03-28T10:33:39.051-07:00Comments on Horror Movie A Day: The Card Player (2004)BChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06480847497966171794noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5110147752122772426.post-44792482131556376002008-05-19T02:31:00.000-07:002008-05-19T02:31:00.000-07:00I'll weigh in here as a dissenting voice. Didn't l...I'll weigh in here as a dissenting voice. Didn't like this one at all... Argento can usually wring tension out of just about any scenario but even he couldn't make watching people sitting around watching computer card games very interesting. I thought it had its moments but was pretty bad overall.Danhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07527634771122333837noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5110147752122772426.post-58865389043913754252008-05-14T08:25:00.000-07:002008-05-14T08:25:00.000-07:00I was starting to think I was the only one who lik...I was starting to think I was the only one who liked this film; glad to see another good review of it. "Sleepless" is kind of in the same vein of being more of a crime procedural, but it definitely has more of an Argento flair than this one. Overall, I found "TCP" to be much better than a lot of Argento's latest offerings.Jonathanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09548468568645800735noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5110147752122772426.post-49124337943857772102008-05-14T01:06:00.000-07:002008-05-14T01:06:00.000-07:00Well lets see... Bird with Crystal Plumage (in fac...Well lets see... Bird with Crystal Plumage (in fact, nothing before Deep Red), Mother of Tears (not out here yet), Sleepless, and Two Evil Eyes. Not too shabby...BChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06480847497966171794noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5110147752122772426.post-72029530397694046802008-05-14T00:56:00.000-07:002008-05-14T00:56:00.000-07:00I quite enjoyed this one as well, and agree that i...I quite enjoyed this one as well, and agree that it's very un-Argento in style. Obviously it's a giallo so it's still Argento, but the use of the card game and computers just isn't him.<BR/><BR/>I haven't seen <EM>Do you like Hitchcock?</EM> as it doesn't seem to be availbe on region 2 DVD, which is weird. That's the only Argento film I haven't seen so I need to remedy that one.<BR/><BR/>(Yes, I sat through the horrible <EM>Phantom of the Opera</EM> and still have no idea why he even bothered with that one. <EM>And</EM> the <EM>Mother of Tears</EM> DVD arrived the other day - and whilst being ok it's definitely not vintage Argento, and somewhat lacking in style and elegance... I preferred the Mater Lacrimarum that appeared in <EM>Inferno</EM> but I digress...)<BR/><BR/>Out of interest, which Argento films haven't you seen?pot head pixiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04043225264662244387noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5110147752122772426.post-41313495437011936402008-05-13T20:15:00.000-07:002008-05-13T20:15:00.000-07:00This film came so close to being great; I just wis...This film came so close to being great; I just wish it had gone all the way. Three or four things really bug me (the details of defeatng a foe at poker, the unbelievably enthusiastic response of the police when their ringer wins a hand, and the Perils of Paulene ending). Other than that, it was as you say a good straight-forward thriller. Yeah, it lacked the usual Argento flourishes, but it also lacked the nonsense that marred films like PHANTOM OF THE OPERA.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com