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"DIY viewing of obscure cinema" thread (movie trailers, comments) - C C - Mar 9, 2026
52 Pick-Up (1986)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090567
Currently, free with ads on Tubi TV and Pluto TV.
Basically a cat and mouse game revolving around a blackmail attempt. An explicit negative for some viewers would be the extortionists' graphic intersection with the porn industry of the mid-1980s. The chief villain is a charismatically vocal jerk who indulges in abrupt spasms of cruelty and violence.
Ann-Margaret seems to be there for no other reason than being Ann-Margaret (not much depth to her role). Though Roy Scheider's character only avoids similar because the script gives him more scenes with agency. Mildly above average (58% rating), though some critics back then like Ebert did praise it somewhat.
52 Pick-Up ... https://youtu.be/yK-ajlxnyOY
Precursors to this topic
The Ones Below (2015)
https://www.scivillage.com/thread-19925-post-82410.html
Time Lapse (2014)
https://www.scivillage.com/thread-19908.html
Out of the Furnace (2013)
https://www.scivillage.com/thread-19873.html
The Passion of Darkly Noon (1995)
https://www.scivillage.com/thread-19849.html
3 Women - Images - That Cold Day in the Park
https://www.scivillage.com/thread-19739.html
May (2002)
https://www.scivillage.com/thread-19646.html
Prey (2022)
https://www.scivillage.com/thread-19597.html
X Film Trilogy (2020s)
https://www.scivillage.com/thread-19522.html
Black Bear (2020)
https://www.scivillage.com/thread-19538.html
Night Crawler (2014)
https://www.scivillage.com/thread-19479.html
Wind River (2017)
https://www.scivillage.com/thread-19020.html
Hell or High Water (2016)
https://www.scivillage.com/thread-19007.html
Sicario (2015)
https://www.scivillage.com/thread-18985.html
RE: "DIY viewing of obscure cinema" thread (movie trailers, comments) - C C - Mar 10, 2026
Kill Me Again (1989)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097662/
Currently free on Tubi TV.
Classic film noir plot. Gullible private eye gets swept up in the machinations of a femme fatale carrying $850,000, who ran away from her psychotic, murdering boyfriend who stole from mobsters.
The studio never gave this movie a chance to fail properly at the box office, stopping promotion and distribution in the early going. The sweet revenge is that over the decades it rose from the ruins to a 100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Elsewhere, more realistic assessments place it between 60 and 75. Which is still far above the dismal fate that the end of the eighties consigned it to.
Kill Me Again ... https://youtu.be/8QV7l_6dX5c