Duel (Collector's Edition)
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Movie Reviews of Duel (Collector's Edition)
Movie Review: The DVD Enhanced Sound Makes It Even Better!
Summary: 5 Stars
This is one of my favorite movies of all time. A simple uncomplicated script, minimal special effects, and a handful of actors, all come together in a suspence filled 90 minute Spielburg Made-for-tv movie that can still holds it own after 33 years. The DVD extras include a commentary from Stephen Spielberg that I found to be very interesting. Among other things, you'll learn that the entire movie was made in 12 days!
The DVD also dishes up a high quality picture and ENHANCED STEREO SOUND! After watching the VHS tape for many years with its bland mono-tv-like sound, it's a real treat to actually HEAR and FEEL the rumble of the evil truck's engine. You can even hear the 1970 Plymouth Valiant 6 cylinder engine roar into life everytime David Mann (Dennis Weaver) guns the engine!
Keep an eye out for the Pest Control vehicle on the side of the road during one of the chase scenes. It says "Grebleips" on the side of it, Spielberg spelled backwards.
Movie Review: One of the top 10 films of all time!
Summary: 5 Stars
I live in the UK, but you can be sure that I will be ordering the US DVD to replace my VHS tape!The film.
From the way it starts, with Dennis Weavers car backing out of the garage, to the scenes where he is travelling on the highway serve perfectly as a premise to the chace that follows.
There are plenty of cars about, but something about the red Plymouth upsets the driver of the tanker, and it blows it's horn in protest of the overtake.
Thereafter, the juggernaut chases Dennis's car at high speed across barren country, the juggernaut seemingly having massive speed and grip, whilst the Plymouth strains and slips on it's skinny cross-plies. Poor Dennis does not know what he is up against until the chase is well underway.
I can heartily reccomend this film (there are no chase films that can better it in my opinion), and if you have not seen it before, I will not spoil the ending for you. Order up your copy, and own a classic!
You will not be dissapointed.
Movie Review: Based on a true story !
Summary: 5 Stars
My brother and cousin enjoyed this movie very much since a family member of ours was involved in a similiar incident. This movie, I can almost say is based upon a true story about my Cousin who was involved in a similiar incident on Route 1&9 in North Arlington, New Jersey. After seeing the movie, he was able to divert his driving direction from the hazardous 18-wheeler truck that was in the process of making a sharp left turn. With brutal force, admiration, determination and motivation, my cousin was able to steer right off the road into a mudded swamp like ditch in the hopes of escaping this brutal 18-wheeler who almost crushed him and his Taurus while he screamed "KNAI!!!" and flooded his car into this swamp. Many thanks to Steven Speilberg, and the cast and characters that played in the movie Duel as well as the truck driver on route 1&9 for safely driving my cousin to my uncles home so he could resume his video game playing habits.Movie Review: influential and interesting 70's thriller
Summary: 5 Stars
AS many people know this was Steven Spielberg's first full motion picture and I really like this movie...as most people know it's the story of a Southern Cal 70's businessman travelling accross the desert to some business conference..and of course gets caught up with a mysterious unseen driver of some behemoth diesel truck...
the whole idea of the mystery truck driver and many of the specific camera shots and ideas from this movie have influenced a lot of directors in recent movies, including "Jeepers Creepers" and "Joy Ride" just to name a couple...but this is the original and it's a very cool psychological thriller of the "everyman" vs the mysterious dangerous "unknown person"...I think Spielberg pulled it off really well for a 1971 movie (I will say that this film SEEMS like it was filmed much later in the 70's then it was, which shows the influence Spielberg would have on film from then onward)
Movie Review: They should show this movie in driving school
Summary: 5 Stars
There are few things scarier than being on the road alone, stalked
by a faceless, nameless truck driver who is trying to kill you over
some road rage. Today the premise seems less plausible, but that in
no way undermines the suspense and the tension that's driven(no pun
intended) to the breaking point in this film.
Duel stars Dennis Weaver as a man who is hounded to no end by this
truck driver who stops at nothing to try and kill the poor beleaguered
family man. Duel is the beginning of Spielbergs foray into suspense
which would reach its peak in Jaws, and elements would be seen in
many of his other works like Jurassic park. Strictly speaking though,
Duel is a fantastic directorial debut from the man who has brought us
so many legendary films. It'll appeal to anybody who is a fan of
suspense, Hitchcock or Spielberg(obviously).