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I enjoyed this movie that stars Michael Shannon's doppelgänger. (Please don't be upset with me for saying that. This is my first Steven McQueen movie. 😅) Enjoy the reaction! Thanks for watching. ❤️

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The Blob (1958) | Full-Length Watchalong Reaction

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Tyler Foster

Surprised you enjoyed this one. For me, this is the one I would suggest people just outright skip. I found it unbelievably boring. The actual Blob stuff at the end is okay but the rest was a real slog -- although that was way back in 2014, so who knows, maybe if I watched it again, I'd like it more...it did take a couple of viewings to fully embrace the 1988 one, although I never found that one boring.

Tyler Foster

I've probably posted this before, but one of my most oft-cited stories that involves Steve McQueen: if you've ever seen a poster and been annoyed by the placement of the names in relation to the faces, it's probably mismatched contractually, and the film The Towering Inferno was one of the most famous instances of how detailed these negotiations can be. The movie stars both Paul Newman and Steve McQueen, who apparently did not get along on set. When it came to doing the posters, both actors demanded top billing and neither was willing to budge. Finally, 20th Century Fox came up with a compromise. McQueen would go first horizontally, but Newman's credit and image had to come first vertically. Problem solved -- much to the chagrin of people bugged by contemporary posters and home video covers with mismatched names and faces: one actor negotiated their image first left to right, and a different one negotiated their photo first. If they fixed it, they'd get sued!

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I can see why people would find this movie boring, but I think I was just far too interested in seeing what the remake drew from that I didn't find it boring.