― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 5 May 2006 20:26 (eighteen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 5 May 2006 20:28 (eighteen years ago) link
- Pungent dialogue- Ambivalent treatment of women (Eastwood the director seems himself confused about the whores: are they victims or instigators?)- Munny's transformation from flu-ridden sadsack to the merciless psycho killer. It bothered me when I first saw it, but no longer.- Excellent perfs by Freeman, Hackman (another deserved Oscar), and all the prostitutes, even by the cute one who gets cut up.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Friday, 5 May 2006 20:33 (eighteen years ago) link
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 5 May 2006 20:40 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Friday, 5 May 2006 20:45 (eighteen years ago) link
― erklie (erklie), Friday, 5 May 2006 20:46 (eighteen years ago) link
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 5 May 2006 20:47 (eighteen years ago) link
I actually like Shakespeare in Love quite a lot, but, predictably, I was an English major.
― erklie (erklie), Friday, 5 May 2006 20:58 (eighteen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 5 May 2006 20:58 (eighteen years ago) link
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 5 May 2006 20:59 (eighteen years ago) link
― erklie (erklie), Friday, 5 May 2006 21:01 (eighteen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 5 May 2006 21:01 (eighteen years ago) link
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 5 May 2006 21:02 (eighteen years ago) link
Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer um slays SOTL.
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 5 May 2006 21:02 (eighteen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 5 May 2006 21:03 (eighteen years ago) link
ah, and we part ways again...
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 5 May 2006 21:04 (eighteen years ago) link
Explain.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Friday, 5 May 2006 21:07 (eighteen years ago) link
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Friday, 5 May 2006 21:09 (eighteen years ago) link
x-post
― erklie (erklie), Friday, 5 May 2006 21:09 (eighteen years ago) link
― erklie (erklie), Friday, 5 May 2006 21:10 (eighteen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 5 May 2006 21:11 (eighteen years ago) link
― erklie (erklie), Friday, 5 May 2006 21:15 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Friday, 5 May 2006 21:28 (eighteen years ago) link
― Eric H. (Eric H.), Friday, 5 May 2006 21:43 (eighteen years ago) link
I don't see this at all. To me he's more like post-70s Nicholson - a caricature that's the same every time.
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 5 May 2006 22:03 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Friday, 5 May 2006 22:15 (eighteen years ago) link
Hmmm. There's an argument to be made that, whichever of the killers in SOTL you're talking about, you're misreading them, but I suppose it's neither here nor there if you simply don't like the movie. In any case it was certainly Demme's last good one.
Gene Hackman is one of my all-time favorite actors.
― phil d. (Phil D.), Friday, 5 May 2006 23:11 (eighteen years ago) link
don't read too much into this, i made it in 3 minutes
― a.b. (alanbanana), Friday, 5 May 2006 23:16 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Friday, 5 May 2006 23:27 (eighteen years ago) link
― a.b. (alanbanana), Friday, 5 May 2006 23:31 (eighteen years ago) link
― erklie (erklie), Saturday, 6 May 2006 00:05 (eighteen years ago) link
the apartment i like because of its britlleness, and how much it hates.
― anthony easton (anthony), Saturday, 6 May 2006 00:35 (eighteen years ago) link
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Saturday, 6 May 2006 00:53 (eighteen years ago) link
― erklie (erklie), Saturday, 6 May 2006 00:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Saturday, 6 May 2006 01:03 (eighteen years ago) link
― anthony easton (anthony), Saturday, 6 May 2006 01:46 (eighteen years ago) link
My ten (first half for real, second half a little devil's advocate):
01. Sunrise02. All About Eve03. How Green Was My Valley04. Annie Hall05. The Best Years of Our Lives06. Titanic07. The French Connection08. Ordinary People09. Million Dollar Baby10. Driving Miss Daisy
― Eric H. (Eric H.), Saturday, 6 May 2006 02:53 (eighteen years ago) link
― anthony easton (anthony), Saturday, 6 May 2006 03:03 (eighteen years ago) link
― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Saturday, 6 May 2006 03:04 (eighteen years ago) link
― Eric H. (Eric H.), Saturday, 6 May 2006 04:00 (eighteen years ago) link
Foster is what give SOTL its reason for being; Hopkins isn't scary or believable, he's just a pro at not blinking.
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 6 May 2006 17:21 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Saturday, 6 May 2006 17:34 (eighteen years ago) link
― a.b. (alanbanana), Sunday, 7 May 2006 04:12 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Monday, 8 May 2006 12:35 (eighteen years ago) link
's here.
but was there a newer one?
― pisces, Thursday, 28 February 2008 01:52 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.ofcs.org/the-best-of-the-best-picture-oscar-winners-part-6/
22. Gone With the Wind (1939)23. 12 Years a Slave (2013)
Ouch.
― Eric H., Tuesday, 4 March 2014 22:36 (ten years ago) link
Eric pointed out this marvelous juxtaposition:
― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 4 March 2014 22:41 (ten years ago) link
Oops. Goddamn cell phones.
DMD at #80 is ridic though