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03-21-2000, 04:56 PM

Tell me, where is the justice when films like Fight Club & Man on the Moon bomb at the box office? What is this world coming to.....anyhow....was curious if anyone out there has heard anything on a release of Duel on DVD?

Dehrian · 03-21-2000, 07:37 PM

Not lately. It was first tentatively announced last year, but then disappeared from radar along with BTTF. Everyone once in a while a new rumor pops up, but nothing concrete.

As for Man on the Moon, I can't agree. It had a great opening, and Carrey's performance was good, but the movie itself is a mess.

For instance, I, personally, was unknowledgable about the vagaries of Kauffman's career: how long he was on Taxi, how often he was on SNL, so forth. So, when he tries to get back on SNL, and they hold the viewer vote, and he's "kicked off", or "fired" as one headline read, I didn't know if he was actually a cast member at one point, or if he was just trying to get back on, or what the specifics were. And then there's the whole Taxi thing. We see the montage, we're told he's going to be on the show for five years, and then he goes off on a wrestling binge. Later, he gets the phone call telling him the show's cancelled, and all I could think was "The show was still on?" I thought it was over at that point. I didn't know he was doing both the wrestling and the show.

And then there's the whole thing with his wife: they meet at the Merv Griffin show and then part inauspiciously. Later, they're on a date. Well, how did that happen? How did that phone call go? How did he even get her number? I would have liked to have seen those things.

The whole point of the film is that nobody really knew Andy. So, instead, they decided to concentrate on his career. However, it does a remarkably poor job of it. The movie should have been half and hour longer to fill in some of these gaps. Perhaps show us more of him as a kid to try and explain how he got to be the person he was! That would have been interesting. Instead, what we got was basically Andy Kauffman's highlight reel as reinacted by Jim Carrey.

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03-21-2000, 07:37 PM	#2 (permalink)
Dehrian Actor Join Date: Jun 2000 Location: CA	Not lately. It was first tentatively announced last year, but then disappeared from radar along with BTTF. Everyone once in a while a new rumor pops up, but nothing concrete. As for Man on the Moon, I can't agree. It had a great opening, and Carrey's performance was good, but the movie itself is a mess. For instance, I, personally, was unknowledgable about the vagaries of Kauffman's career: how long he was on Taxi, how often he was on SNL, so forth. So, when he tries to get back on SNL, and they hold the viewer vote, and he's "kicked off", or "fired" as one headline read, I didn't know if he was actually a cast member at one point, or if he was just trying to get back on, or what the specifics were. And then there's the whole Taxi thing. We see the montage, we're told he's going to be on the show for five years, and then he goes off on a wrestling binge. Later, he gets the phone call telling him the show's cancelled, and all I could think was "The show was still on?" I thought it was over at that point. I didn't know he was doing both the wrestling and the show. And then there's the whole thing with his wife: they meet at the Merv Griffin show and then part inauspiciously. Later, they're on a date. Well, how did that happen? How did that phone call go? How did he even get her number? I would have liked to have seen those things. The whole point of the film is that nobody really knew Andy. So, instead, they decided to concentrate on his career. However, it does a remarkably poor job of it. The movie should have been half and hour longer to fill in some of these gaps. Perhaps show us more of him as a kid to try and explain how he got to be the person he was! That would have been interesting. Instead, what we got was basically Andy Kauffman's highlight reel as reinacted by Jim Carrey.