You got an all-out prize fight, you wait 'til the fight's over, one guy's left standing and that's how you know who's won: DAVID MAMET POLL

Where is THE BEAR?

call me crazy and i'm pretty sure i don't really mean it but i voted the edge over glengarry. heist>house of games>>>spanish prisoner.

Voted Glengarry.

can't figure out why he takes his name off ronin but leaves it on hannibal and hoffa.

It's not his film, and it doesn't use his text, but Vanya on 42nd Street is perhaps my favorite play adaptation.

voted house of games

LOVE vanya on 42nd st so much. did ilx ever do a louis malle poll?

voting for the Unit, just because

never saw any of the unit but that letter he wrote regarding network notes was priceless.

what's wrong with hoffa? it's like a handsome tv movie & therefore better than most of the stuff in this poll.

he wrote novels as well

can't figure out why he takes his name off ronin but leaves it on hannibal and hoffa.

― balls, Tuesday, November 23, 2010 7:33 PM (37 minutes ago) Bookmark

haha! I saw Hoffa the other day actually, pretty corny but I can see why DeVito left himself the juiciest part.

Saw AmBuff and Spanish Pris both when I was pretty young, and they sorta blew my mind, but I was 'over' him by Spartan. Heist is killer, mostly for the cast. Probably needs to stop directing his own stuff? Oleanna felt like a force of nature when I saw it, weird that it doesn't get talked about more. Have no idea what I'm gonna vote for here, tempted by Untouchables

also like vanya but dude is right, doesn't count. fuck with ronin to an extent, untouchables is watchable in parts - nice suits, state & main and the winslow boy are boring turkeys, wag the dog a car wreck we can charitably say written not by mamet but a coked-up committee plus tom hanks in big, house of games is both cheap and pretentious in a palma stylie, we're no angels - another car wreck, glengarry obv the masterpiece then? if u can view it apart from his other stuff it's perhaps not a set of gimmicky tropes hamly acted.

Where is THE BEAR?

― Bull fighting, Paris, hunting, suicide (kenan), Tuesday, November 23, 2010 6:31 PM (51 minutes ago) Bookmark

surely u mean the edge?

Despite pungent dialogue and a great Newman performance (lots of good supporting perfs too) The Verdict is hack work.l

Want to vote Glengarry Glen Ross but I always feel sort of bad voting in polls where I've not seen at least 1/2 of the options. :/

Despite pungent dialogue and a great Newman performance (lots of good supporting perfs too) The Verdict is hack work.l

― look at it, pwn3d, made u look at my peen/vadge (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, November 23, 2010 8:32 PM (43 minutes ago) Bookmark

Hah, I was gonna ask what people thought of the Verdict. It's very "worthy" but dull imo, aside from Newman... kinda the worst moralizing aspects of Mamet on display without the fun parts.

The Shawl is my favorite thing of Mamet's, and I've read just about everything and seen most of it. Edmond is really interesting, too.

http://img1.fantasticfiction.co.uk/images/c1/c8700.jpg

gotta be GGR, but I'm a little tempted by Things Change, which I remember really fondly but I haven't seen for years. I do remember that Don Ameche rules in it.

spanish prisoner 4 lyfe, love this guy, seen most of the above

http://i.imgur.com/U172I.gif

this was me when i first saw spanish prisoner

:0

That's me, having my mind not blown but assassinated by a second gunman (Steve Martin). boom, hseadhot bitch.

Watched Homicide on Netflix recently. Paranoid-crazy, but also very interesting -- main character (Mantegna) needs to decide whether he's more a cop or a Jew.

story of my life

I really enjoyed Homicide. Macy & Mantegna are good and there's some really mysterious Jews in it. I'd give it 4 out of 5 stars... but no more!

love campbell scott in spanish prisoner

love campbell scott in anything tbh

you wanted to go through the looking glass. how was it? was it more fun than miniature golf?

i fn love 'spartan'

glengarry glen ross is in my top 10 fav films, so duh.

house of games is awful

That's within a wafer of an SB, but I like you.

Real tempted to vote Homicide even tho it's not the "best".

you wanted to go through the looking glass. how was it? was it more fun than miniature golf?

i fn love 'spartan'

― rip whiney g weingarten 03/11 never forget (history mayne), Wednesday, November 24, 2010 3:44 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

otm, spartan hits a total sweet spot: twisty fucked up government spy conspiracy shit, rad dialog, val kilmer, no exposition

That's within a wafer of an SB, but I like you.

i can do better...

the real hustle > hustle > house of games

I'd never even heard of Spartan until now. Gotta check this out.

surely u mean the edge?

Shit. Yeah, I guess I do. I went to IMDB and everything, ready to prove u rong. I could have sworn that movie was called The Bear.

the bear is a childrens movie abt a cub who trips balls

the bear in the edge was also in a movie called the bear. as well as clan of the cave bear.

'An orphan bear cub hooks up with an adult male as they try to dodge human hunters.'

pretty edgy for a kids movie

the bear in the edge was also in a movie called the bear. as well as clan of the cave bear.

and Legends of the Fall.

the bear is a childrens movie abt a cub who trips balls

― ice cr?m, Wednesday, November 24, 2010 11:17 AM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark

rofl

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8CZn1bR_jg

@_@

i can do better...

the real hustle > hustle > house of games

Either that's a joke, or I'm from the United Kingdom of Kiss My Ass.

otm, spartan hits a total sweet spot: twisty fucked up government spy conspiracy shit, rad dialog, val kilmer, no exposition

― ice cr?m, Wednesday, November 24, 2010 11:44 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark

the ending is really bad and dumb and has william h. macy screaming mountains of exposition for no reason :[

i dont recall either of those aspects tbh :/

william h macy i kind of h8 tho, edmond was p dire

can't figure out why he takes his name off ronin but leaves it on hannibal and hoffa.

― balls, Wednesday, November 24, 2010 12:33 AM (21 hours ago) Bookmark

He didn't want to share credit for the screenplay of Ronin. It's vanity, not the quality of the product.

Spartan, btw. I have an irrational love for that movie.

"Never go into the desert."

It also has one of my favourite taglines of all time.

Taglines: She's missing.

that's the one

man i dunno, spartan ~should~ be catnip, but i remember being meh about it for some reason

I've seen it multiple times and I can't put my finger on why it should stand apart. It's the same theme (masculinity morality in an immoral world etc...) he's been on for a while I think. It's just done well.

Also State & Main is really, really underrated.

Surprised how many of these I've seen. voting GGR. am I the only one who liked Redbelt?

I liked Redbelt.

I guess it's kind of a lightweight compared to most of these, but curious to see if it gets a vote or two

Not a big fan of the guy as director (though he did a great job with "The Winslow Boy," that odd year when both Mamet and Lynch made G-rated movies). I do, however, have a soft spot for "The Edge" and "The Untouchables," as Hollywood pay-the-bills scripts (it's Mamet, really, that won Sean Connery his Oscar). Don't know what to make of the fact that his wives are inevitably the weak link of his auteur works, but really like "The Spanish Prisoner," and "GGR" might be the rarest of adaptations: a playwright adapts his own play and makes it better.

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Mamet will direct a film adaptation of his 1988 play Speed-the-Plow (only time I saw Madonna perform)

http://deadline.com/2016/09/david-mamet-speed-the-plow-directing-movie-adaptation-hollywood-play-1201827446/

how was she?

suited to the role

Killer Takedown of His New Weinstein Play: http://exeuntmagazine.com/reviews/review-bitter-wheat-garrick-theatre/