what's wrong with hoffa? it's like a handsome tv movie & therefore better than most of the stuff in this poll.
― zvookster, Wednesday, 24 November 2010 01:11 (thirteen years ago) link
he wrote novels as well
― jed_, Wednesday, 24 November 2010 01:13 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― Megatherium americanum (Princess TamTam), Wednesday, 24 November 2010 01:18 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― zvookster, Wednesday, 24 November 2010 01:20 (thirteen years ago) link
Where is THE BEAR?― Bull fighting, Paris, hunting, suicide (kenan), Tuesday, November 23, 2010 6:31 PM (51 minutes ago) Bookmark
― Bull fighting, Paris, hunting, suicide (kenan), Tuesday, November 23, 2010 6:31 PM (51 minutes ago) Bookmark
surely u mean the edge?
― BIG MUFFIN (gbx), Wednesday, 24 November 2010 01:23 (thirteen years ago) link
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), Wednesday, 24 November 2010 01:32 (thirteen years ago) link
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. :/
― ENBB, Wednesday, 24 November 2010 02:11 (thirteen years ago) link
― 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.
― Megatherium americanum (Princess TamTam), Wednesday, 24 November 2010 02:17 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― no place running the schools (Eazy), Wednesday, 24 November 2010 03:39 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― a tenth level which features a single castle (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 24 November 2010 04:09 (thirteen years ago) link
spanish prisoner 4 lyfe, love this guy, seen most of the above
― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 24 November 2010 04:20 (thirteen years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/U172I.gif
this was me when i first saw spanish prisoner
― Pussy.ogg (Princess TamTam), Wednesday, 24 November 2010 04:24 (thirteen years ago) link
:0
― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 24 November 2010 04:29 (thirteen years ago) link
That's me, having my mind not blown but assassinated by a second gunman (Steve Martin). boom, hseadhot bitch.
― Pussy.ogg (Princess TamTam), Wednesday, 24 November 2010 04:36 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― no place running the schools (Eazy), Wednesday, 24 November 2010 04:38 (thirteen years ago) link
story of my life
― max, Wednesday, 24 November 2010 04:39 (thirteen years ago) link
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!
― Pussy.ogg (Princess TamTam), Wednesday, 24 November 2010 04:44 (thirteen years ago) link
love campbell scott in spanish prisoner
― max, Wednesday, 24 November 2010 04:45 (thirteen years ago) link
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'
― rip whiney g weingarten 03/11 never forget (history mayne), Wednesday, 24 November 2010 08:44 (thirteen years ago) link
glengarry glen ross is in my top 10 fav films, so duh.
― wheezy f baby (a hoy hoy), Wednesday, 24 November 2010 09:23 (thirteen years ago) link
house of games is awful
― e.g. delegates at a set age (ledge), Wednesday, 24 November 2010 09:28 (thirteen years ago) link
That's within a wafer of an SB, but I like you.
― Ravacious Fortune (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 24 November 2010 11:56 (thirteen years ago) link
Real tempted to vote Homicide even tho it's not the "best".
― Ravacious Fortune (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 24 November 2010 11:57 (thirteen years ago) link
― 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
― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 24 November 2010 16:44 (thirteen years ago) link
i can do better...
the real hustle > hustle > house of games
― e.g. delegates at a set age (ledge), Wednesday, 24 November 2010 16:46 (thirteen years ago) link
I'd never even heard of Spartan until now. Gotta check this out.
― Unfrozen Caveman Board-Lawyer (WmC), Wednesday, 24 November 2010 16:48 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― Bull fighting, Paris, hunting, suicide (kenan), Wednesday, 24 November 2010 17:16 (thirteen years ago) link
the bear is a childrens movie abt a cub who trips balls
― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 24 November 2010 17:17 (thirteen years ago) link
the bear in the edge was also in a movie called the bear. as well as clan of the cave bear.
― balls, Wednesday, 24 November 2010 17:18 (thirteen years ago) link
'An orphan bear cub hooks up with an adult male as they try to dodge human hunters.'
pretty edgy for a kids movie
― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 24 November 2010 17:19 (thirteen years ago) link
and Legends of the Fall.
― Bull fighting, Paris, hunting, suicide (kenan), Wednesday, 24 November 2010 17:22 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― ice cr?m, Wednesday, November 24, 2010 11:17 AM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark
rofl
― BIG MUFFIN (gbx), Wednesday, 24 November 2010 17:22 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8CZn1bR_jg
― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 24 November 2010 17:25 (thirteen years ago) link
@_@
― BIG MUFFIN (gbx), Wednesday, 24 November 2010 17:29 (thirteen years ago) link
Either that's a joke, or I'm from the United Kingdom of Kiss My Ass.
― Ravacious Fortune (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 24 November 2010 17:31 (thirteen years ago) link
― 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 :[
― Pussy.ogg (Princess TamTam), Wednesday, 24 November 2010 19:53 (thirteen years ago) link
i dont recall either of those aspects tbh :/
― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 24 November 2010 20:35 (thirteen years ago) link
william h macy i kind of h8 tho, edmond was p dire
― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 24 November 2010 20:36 (thirteen years ago) link
― 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.
― Gukbe, Wednesday, 24 November 2010 21:37 (thirteen years ago) link
Taglines: She's missing.
― Pussy.ogg (Princess TamTam), Wednesday, 24 November 2010 21:44 (thirteen years ago) link
that's the one
― Gukbe, Wednesday, 24 November 2010 21:53 (thirteen years ago) link
man i dunno, spartan ~should~ be catnip, but i remember being meh about it for some reason
― BIG MUFFIN (gbx), Thursday, 25 November 2010 00:49 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― Gukbe, Thursday, 25 November 2010 01:03 (thirteen years ago) link
Surprised how many of these I've seen. voting GGR. am I the only one who liked Redbelt?
― get off my lawn (rockapads), Thursday, 25 November 2010 01:51 (thirteen years ago) link
I liked Redbelt.
― Gukbe, Thursday, 25 November 2010 01:52 (thirteen years ago) link
I guess it's kind of a lightweight compared to most of these, but curious to see if it gets a vote or two
― get off my lawn (rockapads), Thursday, 25 November 2010 01:54 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 25 November 2010 02:02 (thirteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Thursday, 2 December 2010 00:01 (thirteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Friday, 3 December 2010 00:02 (thirteen years ago) link
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/
― The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 29 September 2016 15:39 (seven years ago) link
how was she?
― piscesx, Thursday, 29 September 2016 15:48 (seven years ago) link
suited to the role
― The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 29 September 2016 16:08 (seven years ago) link
Killer Takedown of His New Weinstein Play: http://exeuntmagazine.com/reviews/review-bitter-wheat-garrick-theatre/
― frustration and wonky passion (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 23 June 2019 04:31 (four years ago) link