Clue the Movie- Page 2

[Reginald Tresilian]

Posted: 8/8/09 at 5:45pm

The people who like this movie like it a lot. The relationship with my bf nearly didn't survive the great Clue vs. Murder by Death Debate of 2007.

I'm with JoeKv: Murder by Death without the jokes.

[bschneid76]

Posted: 8/8/09 at 6:13pm

Well, even though I enjoyed Clue, it doesn't hold a candle to Murder by Death, but that had a better writer. Though I still enjoy the entire cast of clue, especially Eileen Brennan as Mrs. Peacock.

[Reginald Tresilian]

Posted: 8/8/09 at 6:15pm

I didn't not like it; I just didn't find it funny.

Except for Madeline Kahn. She's breathtaking.

[CATSNYrevival]

Posted: 8/8/09 at 10:01pm

This is probably my most favorite movie of all time. I'm sad to see all the dislike. I think it's hysterical though it is a very specific sort of "inside-joke" comedy that I can understand a lot of people not finding very funny. I definitely didn't get a lot of the jokes when I was younger, but every time I watch it I find something else that I didn't quite get the last time I watched it and that's one of my favorite things about it.

[eatlasagna]

Posted: 8/8/09 at 10:43pm

i'm gonna have to rent Murder by Death... is it out on DVD?

Posted: 8/8/09 at 10:55pm

I don't know the character names- none of them were dressed in their signature color (Another odd thing I thought) but Michael McKean's character's secret was that he was being blackmailed for being gay. Later he says it was all just an act.

In Murder by death Sam Spade is being blackmailed because Twain picked him up in drag in a gay bar in San Francisco. Later he explains he was undercover working a case.

And while some of this cast was wonderful- Murder by Death? Maggie Smith & David Niven? Alec Guinness? Peter Falk? Eileen Brennan, Elsa Lancaster, Peter Sellers, Nancy Walker, TRUMAN CAPOTE? Man I HAVE got to go see that movie!

[Reginald Tresilian]

Posted: 8/8/09 at 11:00pm

There's also a companion of sorts called "The Cheap Detective." It's a spoof of basically every famous Bogart film. So Peter Falk runs a detective agency ("at the corner of 3rd and Bulldyke") in San Francisco--which has been invaded by the Nazis.

Madeline Kahn plays the mysterious woman (a la Mary Astor), Eileen Brennan is a chanteuse (Miss Betty de Boop--"from the islands"; when asked "Virgin or Caribbean," her response is "Well, let's just say I came back a caribbean"). Dom DeLuise, James Coco, Marsha Mason, Stockard Channing . . .

Great fun.

[CATSNYrevival]

Posted: 8/8/09 at 11:23pm

I don't know the character names- none of them were dressed in their signature color (Another odd thing I thought) but Michael McKean's character's secret was that he was being blackmailed for being gay. Later he says it was all just an act.

In Murder by death Sam Spade is being blackmailed because Twain picked him up in drag in a gay bar in San Francisco. Later he explains he was undercover working a case.

Clue is a spoof so I would assume that similarity was intentional. But, not everyone who saw the film in theatres could have made that connection as he only admitted to having a wife in one of the endings and it was a toss up as to which ending you would see when you saw the movie in theatres. Now all the endings are included on the DVD and usually shown together on television.

[eatlasagna]

Posted: 8/9/09 at 12:14am

well it's never really explicity known if mr. green was gay as an act... if you look at the two endings when it was just one killer in the group, there is nothing there that insinuates that it was all an act... but in the finale where everyone but him is the killer, i thought him saying that was just to be ironic... the way he said it was very ambiguous.. it could've been true or it couldn't have been true...

as for the colors... i loved how mrs. white was dressed in all black... mrs. peackock had that crazy hat to make her very peacockish... the professor had his little smoking pipe, colonel mustard spoke in his army talk... mrs. scarlett was just very sexual... i just never really expected there to be any colors...

man... i STILL love this movie and it's STILL my favorite movie of all time but this thread sure is making me think about it more.. haha..

[CATSNYrevival]

Posted: 8/9/09 at 12:43am

I've always assumed that because he was a plant the identity was just a cover and he really did have a wife. Though, there's a slight plot hole in Mr. Body not recognizing that one of the men being blackmailed maybe looked a little different... unless they'd never met.

[spiderdj82]

Posted: 8/9/09 at 1:22am

"Michael McKean's character's secret was that he was being blackmailed for being gay"

That's not true. In the scene where Tim Curry's character is saying why they are all there, McKean's character stands up and says that he is not going to wait and says that he is gay. Tim Curry's character makes a face and starts flipping through the cards as to say, "Wait, what?!?" It was something created not the real blackmail.

[bschneid76]

Posted: 8/9/09 at 7:27am

"Would anyone care for fruit or dessert?"

I wished they would have done a TV series based on the funny young adult books. They were always fun to read. I collected them all and still go back and enjoy the quick read. I always thought those stories would translate well on the TV screen.

[DMsquared2]

Posted: 8/10/09 at 3:31am

"Communism was simply a red herring."

[FeelingElectric]

Posted: 8/10/09 at 6:53am

I can't believe no one had mentioned my favorite lines of the movie:

Colonel Mustard: How many husbands have you had?
Mrs. White: Mine or other women's?
Colonel Mustard: Yours.
Mrs. White: Five.
Colonel Mustard: Five?
Mrs. White: Yes, just the five. Husbands should be like Kleenex: soft strong and disposable.
Colonel Mustard: You lure men to their deaths like a spider with flies.
Mrs. White: Flies are where men are most vulnerable.
Colonel Mustard: Right!

[CATSNYrevival]

Posted: 8/10/09 at 9:00pm

Mrs. White: Oh, my. No one can get into that position.

Prof. Plum: Sure they can. Let me show you...

Mrs. White: Get off me!

[Dre2387]

Posted: 8/12/09 at 12:21am

I just bought Murder By Death for $10 and I started watching it and realized that I had seen it before. I must not have really liked it because I forgot I had seen it.

I have to say, yes, great cast, and some good jokes, but it felt like it went by really fast. Clue was so much better. So many more quotable lines. Also, though i love Peter Sellers, his Wang annoyed me so much. and Clue didn't have anyone pretending to be anyone else. like how, in the end *SPOILER ALERT* Truman Capote ripped off his mask and was the maid. In Clue, they didn't need to do that.

[Bettyboy72]

Posted: 8/12/09 at 12:27am

Film Trivia: Clue was filmed on the Murder By Death set. They just altered it a little bit.

[bobby_luvs_bway]

Posted: 8/12/09 at 7:52pm

"Film Trivia: Clue was filmed on the Murder By Death set. They just altered it a little bit."

Sorry Bettyboy, that is incorrect.

[CATSNYrevival]

Posted: 8/12/09 at 10:17pm

I like the bit of trivia about the fourth ending that, I guess, could still be out there somewhere along with deleted scenes featured in the trailer that are not in the final film. That footage would be a real find.

[Shannon Bo Dannon]

Posted: 8/13/09 at 1:28am

One of my favorite movies ever! I think it's very funny but not in a way where I was cracking up. It's a subtle and smart kind of humor to me.

[adamgreer]

Posted: 8/13/09 at 10:49am

What happens in the 4th ending?

[Leia947]

Posted: 8/13/09 at 11:06am

from IMDB.com:

"There was actually a fourth ending scripted and shot, in which Wadsworth committed all the murders out of a twisted need for perfection in his life. He reveals that he poisoned everyone with a slow-acting toxin in their drinks. It ended with Wadsworth being killed by dogs as he attempted to escape by car from the house. The rather grim nature of the ending is probably why it was never released. It was never shown because the film makers thought the ending would have been too obvious - it only survives in the novelization and the storybook, which features but a single photo from that ending (the Chief punching Wadsworth in the stomach)."

"A fourth ending was shot for the film, but was never released, possibly because it was considered too morbid. It features Wadsworth killing Boddy, and then revealing to the guests that he has poisoned them all so that there will be no witnesses and he will have committed the perfect crime. As he runs through the house to disable the phones to prevent the guests from calling a hospital and locking the doors, the evangelist from earlier returns, followed by the police, who disarm Wadsworth. Wadsworth then repeats the confession he had given earlier to the guests. When he arrives at the part about meeting Colonel Mustard at the door, he steps through the door, closes it, and locks it, leaving all the guests trapped inside. The police and guests escape through a window, while Wadsworth attempts to make a getaway in a car, only to hear the growling of a German Shepherd from the back of the car (who presumably kills him)."

"There was a fourth ending shot, but subsequently dropped from the film due to the fact that director Lynn did not like or approve of it. Shots of this ending are included in the movie storybook. It had Wadsworth as the solo killer of the bunch, explaining that he killed everyone out of the need for perfection in the world, that all of life's consistencies were not good enough, and further tells the six 'victims' that he has poisoned the champagne he served and unless they find an antidote in three hours, they'll die. Police show up soon enough and trap Wadsworth, but not for long. He gets away from the chief and leaves, locking all the people in the mansion. But as he steals a police car, he notices a 'smell' (the dog dropping smell from the beginning of the film) and realizes the Doberman from earlier is now in the police car, and it lunges for him. The police car crashes, and Wadsworth is dead. This implies that the others got out okay now that the windows were not guarded by the Doberman any longer."

Updated On: 8/13/09 at 11:06 AM