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  Review by Adam ★★★½

  Jessica Lange supremacy

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  Review by 📀 Cammmalot 📀 ★★★½ 3

  Cinematic Time Capsule
  1981 Marathon - Film #34

  ”Do you feel like doing something?”
  “I’m doing it.”

  I’m no love expert, but it seems to me that the cause of most troubled relationships, tends to be one of three things: Infidelity, money troubles, or conspiracy to commit murder.

  I think Nicholson and Lange could have worked through the first two, but the conspiracy to commit murder was the one thing these lovebirds just couldn’t overcome.

  ”There’s always a way, Cora.
  If we just stick together.”

  
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  Review by Matt Singer ★★★

  Spoiler alert, there isn’t a postman in this at all, much less one who rings twice.

  (Not a masterpiece, but I thought Nicholson was sensational in this in full sociopath mode, staring at everyone he meets with those Jack Torrance eyes.)

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  Review by Slig001 ★★½

  Eighties version of the James M Cain novel - it tells essentially the same story as the 1946 film, but somehow manages to do it in a much less interesting way. David Mamet's screenplay heavily emphasises the sexual relationship between the two central characters (which couldn't be done in 1946) but this is at the expense of all the nuance of the plot. The film just sort of simmers along for two hours with barely any tension or suspense. Even the crux of the story - the part where the husband is murdered - is pulled off with little panache. Jack Nicholson and Jessica Lange have a good chemistry together, but I don't believe this relationship would lead to murder…

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  Review by Michael501 📺 ★★★ 2

  1981 In Review - March
  #11

  Itinerant troublemaker Frank Chambers (Jack Nicholson) has a meal at a roadside restaurant and meets devastating femme fatale Cora Papadakis (Jessica Lange). As it turns out, Cora is married to the restaurant's owner, Nick (John Colicos). Happy to have a visitor, Papadakis offers Chambers a job. Chambers stays on and begins to help himself to whatever he likes -- including Cora. The two dive headlong into a torrid romance and begin to plot the perfect murder.

  The Postman Always Ring Twice is a noir-thriller that reminds me of the film noirs made in the 1940's and 1950's. Ironically enough, this movie happens to be a remake of the 1946 film with the same name…

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  Review by jaime ✨ ★½ 1

  i didn't know what tf was going on the whole time HOWEVER in the first 20 minutes there was a legnthy shot of jack nicholson going to town on jessica lange's muff so safe to say i'm pretty shaken up

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  Review by Hot Take Nick ★★★½ 12

  Moral of the story: don’t hire a hitchhiker mechanic. 

  This had so many nice twists and turns in this. Kept me on my toes just enough. 
  Reminded me some of Bonnie & Clyde. 
  This also had some really nice close up shots that I liked. 
  I liked how this sort of flipped from romantic murder mystery to court proceedings in hour two. 
  I didn’t like the ending though. It was just way too jarring and kind of left you dissatisfied. 

  Now obviously Jack Nicholson is an all-time actor so I mean this as no disrespect. But his fake cry at the end was downright terrible. There’s a reason they didn’t show his face and you could only hear him trying to cry. 

  Overall, Jack Nicholson and Jessica Lange’s performances and the mini twists spread throughout the movie are enough to make this a pretty engaging movie.

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  Review by matt lynch ★★★

  Kind of reminded me of NEW YORK, NEW YORK in that it wants to meld an older style of filmmaking and theme to more contemporaneous sensibilities, leaving you searching for an oasis of narrative stakes in a desert of miserable characters, overheated emotions, and existential angst. Rewardingly scuzzy but sort of misguided.

  Discussed on Episode 60 of The Suspense is Killing Us.

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  Review by JBird ★★★

  The Postman will Always Ring Twice,
  Believing that should suffice.
  To stay employed,
  They'll want to avoid,
  Jack Nicholson since he's not very nice.

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  Review by TajLV ★★★★ 5

  My memory of this film was fading, and although I still haven't seen the 1946 original, I decided it was time for a refresher. What a great reminder of how superlative Jack Nicholson can be at the top of his game, playing the capricious drifter Frank Chambers. And what great sexual chemistry Jessica Lange can stir up when she's paired with the right leading man.

  I also enjoyed revisiting the cameos by Christopher Lloyd as a young salesman, Anjelica Huston as the gypsy lion tamer named Madge, and Michael Lerner as the clever shyster Mr. Katz. And I had forgotten how well John Colicos played his role as Greek immigrant Nick Papadakis, the husband of Cora (Lange) and owner of…

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  Review by realrzn ★★★ 2

  The random plot turns and the scorching hot chemistry between the two leads help propel this movie to be better than it honestly should have been.

  Jack Nicholson is the personification of the male ID - greed, lust, and sleaze all in one character. Michael Douglas definitely watched this performance and was like “yes, this is what I’ll base all my characters off of for the next 15 years.”

  Jessica Lange = complete bombshell that‘s able to go toe to toe with Jack.

  The overall weathered rural look to the film is a great touch.  

  The ending was definitely rushed and comes off weak (also we should never have Nicholson cry in a film), but all in all a decent flick.

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  Review by Podcasting's Brock ★★★½

  Waited the whole movie - not one postman shows up.

  What the hell?