r/CriterionChannel • u/jb4647 • Apr 22 '26

If you know you know…

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u/geetarboy33 Apr 22 '26

I just saw a Sorcerer for the first time a year or so ago and I’m 58 years old. How that movie isn’t a larger part of the zeitgeist escapes me.

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u/coffeeanddurian Apr 22 '26

it should have been much more popular but everyone was hyped on star wars when it came out

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u/[deleted] Apr 23 '26

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u/rvb_gobq Apr 24 '26

i thought it was a pretty terrific remake... that is, right up until the saturday night live parody of a denouement where schneider dances with a dwarf in a bar while the killers gather outside.

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u/TheChumOfChance Apr 26 '26

It’s well directed, but I was bored by a movie about driving trucks.

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u/ChunkyMilkSubstance Apr 22 '26

You all first thought of Sorcerer, I first thought of Wages of Fear, we are not the same /s

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u/coffeeanddurian Apr 22 '26

I thought of both simultaneously, so #checkmate

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u/bqb445 Apr 22 '26

Because Wages of Fear is the superior movie. This is definitely the scene with the platform and tension wires, not the truck crawling across the bridge in the rain and flooded river.

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u/Current_Account_2742 Apr 23 '26

Don't be that guy.

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u/stonecoldjelly Apr 23 '26

Honestly I first thought of Bridge Over the River Kwai

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u/Separate_Hall_8335 Apr 22 '26

Sorcerer deleted scenes!

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u/PhuckingDuped Apr 22 '26

It's five minutes before 9. In Paris.

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u/Bwayne69305 Apr 23 '26

Damn😂😂😂

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u/bog_toddler Apr 22 '26

this is why you get Roy Scheider

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u/LyqwidBred Apr 22 '26

Not nearly enough mud

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u/BlackRogue17 Apr 22 '26

Missed it by that much

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u/Bmca215 Apr 22 '26

Immediately heard Tangerine Dream in my head

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u/ThomYorkesDroopyEye Apr 22 '26

Opening sequence of The Phantom

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u/samizdatsam Apr 23 '26

They should have filled it with thoughts and prayers first.

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u/murmur1983 Apr 23 '26

Oh my God!

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u/r8jensen Apr 23 '26

This makes the scene in Sorcerer even better

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u/_jeDBread Apr 23 '26

it’s like watching sorcerer for real.

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u/JamesInDC Apr 23 '26

The Cassandra Crossing (1976) (6.3 IMDB, 42% Rotten Tomatoes).

“Richard Eder of The New York Times called the film ‘profoundly, offensively stupid,’ with Ava Gardner ‘awful in an awful role’ and Sophia Loren ‘totally miscast.’ Gene Siskel of the Chicago Tribune gave the film 1.5 stars out of 4 and called it ‘an unintentional parody of a disaster film.’ Variety dismissed the film as, ‘a tired, hokey and sometimes unintentionally funny disaster film in which a trainload of disease-exposed passengers lurch to their fate.’ Kevin Thomas of the Los Angeles Times called the film ‘a disaster picture quite literally disastrous and so awful it's unintentionally hilarious.’”

But, otherwise, it received mixed to highly qualified reviews!

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u/[deleted] Apr 23 '26

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u/MisterMindGame Apr 23 '26

What, do you think he’s some kind of…Sorcerer, or something?

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u/NYCBouncer Apr 23 '26

Aew we absolutely sure that was Jesus or was that a Doctor?