"The war allows RAPE to happen!" as a thesis is offensive both ways, because a. the war would still be awful if it didn't and b. people get away with rape all the time.
x-post he hates the SYSTEM
― da croupier, Friday, 30 November 2007 14:13 (sixteen years ago) link
is 2 DePalma pans in a row a record for Eric?
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 30 November 2007 14:30 (sixteen years ago) link
both movies have moments so startling and excellent that I'll still run off to see the next one, but I'm worried Femme Fatale's going to wind up THE DePalma film of the decade.
― da croupier, Friday, 30 November 2007 17:46 (sixteen years ago) link
or, as Jonathan Rosenbaum said ... of his career.
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 30 November 2007 17:48 (sixteen years ago) link
Instead of revamping Casualties Of War, he should have gone for Hi, Mom!
When I write this up, I intend to discuss the film's biggest faux pas: restaging the "Be Black Baby" sequence as this film's rape centerpiece. I hate to agree with Armond here, but at least as far as that sequence (and just about everything that follows) goes, his (Armond's) outrage is totally justified.
― Eric H., Tuesday, 4 December 2007 11:52 (sixteen years ago) link
Didn't actually PAN Dahlia other than to say it was not up to his standards. I haven't seen Wise Guys, but I'm sure that up against The Untouchables is a far more unrewarding twofer, though Redacted is probably the worst of the lot.
― Eric H., Tuesday, 4 December 2007 11:54 (sixteen years ago) link
Oh, and Femme Fatale is clearly going to be the De Palma film of the decade. That's not really a bad thing.
― Eric H., Tuesday, 4 December 2007 11:55 (sixteen years ago) link
yeah, I realized that after I reminded myself of what he did in the 90s.
― da croupier, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 18:23 (sixteen years ago) link
anyone care to opine on Bonfire of the Vanities? It's the only nineties De Palma I haven't seen. Is it worth another look? I saw the poster. Bruce Willis had hair!
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 18:34 (sixteen years ago) link
It's nothing special.
― Eric H., Tuesday, 4 December 2007 18:45 (sixteen years ago) link
http://youtube.com/watch?v=RkPDjqbPIu8
― omar little, Saturday, 8 December 2007 01:47 (sixteen years ago) link
My mom was a huge Tom Hanks fan through about Apollo 13, all his 80s-early 90s shit was in our VHS collection so I saw this movie quite a few times as a kid. Really hollow, not very DePalma-y. I REALLY need to get my hands on The Devils Candy again, as I read that book before I became a huge fan of his.
― da croupier, Saturday, 8 December 2007 04:47 (sixteen years ago) link
http://m1.2mdn.net/viewad/1639505/vertical4.gif
― and what, Thursday, 20 December 2007 19:38 (sixteen years ago) link
perhaps this will be of comfort to BdP: Do you know what that John Cusack Iraq war-widower movie that came out last month pulled in, total, during a December run in about 7 theaters?
$36,613. Total. Random home movies could do that.
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 25 January 2008 15:48 (sixteen years ago) link