Boys From Brazil (1978)

Alan Smithee · June 16, 2006, 06:36:12 PM

Silly movie?

I wouldn't say it's bad, not bad enough like 'Megaforce', but goofy nonetheless.

What's funny is two top class aging actors wrestling around in a living room.

Herodotus · June 16, 2006, 07:01:24 PM

That is the best Laurence Oliver, Gregory Peck, James Mason and Steve Guttenberg film ever!: And it features one the all-time bad lines (if I recall it correctly): "What did you do you freaked out maniac?"

The Burgomaster · June 16, 2006, 08:11:05 PM

I must admit - - this is one of my "guilty pleasures."

RCMerchant · June 17, 2006, 04:39:31 PM

The Hitler kids! I'd like to see one of them placed with the Brady Bunch. Wow!

Neville · June 18, 2006, 06:28:52 AM

I liked it, in a serious way. Not as disturbing or effective as the book by Ira Levin, but still a very good adaptation. The Hitler kids looked goofy, this I will admit.

AndyC · June 18, 2006, 06:47:07 AM

I also like this movie. Of course, now it's hard to look at Gregory Peck without thinking of Joe Flaherty's impersonation of him as Mengele on SCTV. Mengele was the guest on a cooking show. "This meatloaf is brown. I think it should be blue." Whereupon he pulls out a syringe and injects it. Kind of a dumb gag, but it stuck with me, probably because the imitation was spot-on.

Ed, Ego and Superego · June 18, 2006, 04:09:07 PM

Ira Levin was the John Grisham or Michel Crighton of the 60's. He actually wrote some very effective stuff (Rosemary's Baby, for example). I also saw a couple of plays he wrote and they were creepy too. One was called Veronica's Room, I don't remember the other.

For those fans of Dr. Mengele films, I recommend Marathon Man as well. The bad guy there is based on him.
-Ed

Neville · June 18, 2006, 04:54:42 PM

Ira Levin. Whatever happenned to him? As I said, I found "The boys from Brazil" a great read, but I bough "Sliver" short after the film was made and it was utter crap. Hard to say it was written by the same person. Just like that book of the late Alistair McLean, "River of death". You wouldn't believe the same author who penned "Guns of Navarone" wrote that crap.

Ed, Ego and Superego · June 18, 2006, 08:15:17 PM

Apparently he is still alive. I think hes focusing on plays etc.
-Ed

LH-C · June 19, 2006, 10:51:14 AM

Remember, Levin also wrote 'The Stepford Wives'.

Just Plain Horse · June 20, 2006, 03:10:44 PM

AndyC Wrote:
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> I also like this movie. Of course, now it's hard
> to look at Gregory Peck without thinking of Joe
> Flaherty's impersonation of him as Mengele on
> SCTV. Mengele was the guest on a cooking show.
> "This meatloaf is brown. I think it should be
> blue." Whereupon he pulls out a syringe and
> injects it. Kind of a dumb gag, but it stuck with
> me, probably because the imitation was spot-on.

Peck as a Nazi... Sometimes the elements come together in such a way as to give us truly silly things. There's nothing wrong with a blonde-haired, blue-eyed meatloaf...unless you ask the Jews...