And I got the feeling that the ugly winter weather might delay such a package. The eBay purchase of NARROW MARGIN wouldn’t be here for a few more days at that point, and I checked the shipping information a few times over the next few days. The Blu-ray was indeed reference quality and looked superb on our 60” Sony. The wife and I watched it and were favorably impressed. Was NARROW MARGIN that bad? That forgettable? Was it a film that was so bad or under the radar that even Gene Hackman couldn’t elevate it?Īs expected, KNOWING arrived first. The other had so little information about it, I wasn’t even sure if it would be an anamorphic widescreen transfer. One would be a reference-quality Blu-ray. So an order through Amazon prime would have it in my hands in just two days.Īs the week proceeded, I anticipated the two movies that I was about to discover. Blu-ray was an option, and reviews were very positive for the Blu-ray as a near reference-quality disc. This was another that wanted to see and again a disc was in order. The premise looked interesting here too, even though it wasn’t really a train movie, the subway scene looked fascinating. The channel was in Spanish, so I wasn’t getting any help there, but with a bit of research, I found that this movie was called KNOWING and had been made in 2009. No, it was a subway, and that was Nicolas Cage I spotted. This appeared do-able, so I placed my order.Ĭoincidentally, another surf through the local TV channels had me stopping on what looked like another train movie. There I found what looked like the 2009 issue in supposedly good shape for a mere $7.99. Undaunted, I found some rather high prices for DVDs on Amazon so I checked eBay. Actually there were no reviews of any kind. Reviews – even mentions – here on HTF were few and far between. It appeared that one had been released in the early days of DVD, 1998, and a reissue appeared in 2009. There appeared to be two or three of those, I’m not sure. The first thing I discovered was that there was no Blu-ray. So rather than rent it from a streaming service, I opted to buy a copy. Hyams was familiar from OUTLAND and CAPRICORN ONE and HANOVER STREET and 2010, all favorites of mine. I noted that the director was Peter Hyams and Hackman’s co-star was Anne Archer. In the past year, I’d become enamored of THE FRENCH CONNECTION, so I thought this might be another Hackman movie that I might like. I looked it up quickly on IMDB and found out that it was a 1990 movie. I’d never seen it before and thought I might be interested in either streaming it or finding it on disc. The channel was one of those that runs older movies, maybe GRIT or THIS, I forget, but I looked up to see what movie it was. As a train fan, I’m always somewhat interested in movies that take place on a train, and this was one I didn’t recognize. While surfing through some broadcast channels last weekend, I stopped on an image of a train with some people chasing Gene Hackman.
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