voting 'jack'
― iatee, Tuesday, 21 June 2011 04:04 (twelve years ago) link
yeah rainmaker is not bad
― horseshoe, Tuesday, 21 June 2011 04:04 (twelve years ago) link
especially considering it's a grisham adaptation
oh wait I've seen that too
― iatee, Tuesday, 21 June 2011 04:05 (twelve years ago) link
maybe coppola just needed a dicaprio grade muse
― strongo hulkington's ghost dad, Tuesday, 21 June 2011 04:05 (twelve years ago) link
i guess in this horribly boring world we live in where Francis Ford Coppola can probably make any movie he wants, it's a good thing john grisham is around providing material.
― horseshoe, Tuesday, 21 June 2011 04:05 (twelve years ago) link
even pre-dicaprio scorcese made a ton of kind of offbeat-for-him movies, like kundun and age of innocence. those movies are bad, but scorcese seems like a dude of varied interests.
― horseshoe, Tuesday, 21 June 2011 04:06 (twelve years ago) link
he's dedicated himself to making inferior wine and spawning inferior filmmakers
― strongo hulkington's ghost dad, Tuesday, 21 June 2011 04:06 (twelve years ago) link
yeah i guess wine is his thing
― horseshoe, Tuesday, 21 June 2011 04:07 (twelve years ago) link
but he didn't have to make jack!
it was all the world gave to him!
― aguirre, the wrath of frogbs (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 21 June 2011 04:07 (twelve years ago) link
everybody else was making Home Alone spinoff sequels
wow harvell the wine snob
― balls, Tuesday, 21 June 2011 04:10 (twelve years ago) link
i have no idea the quality of his wine actually. i'm drinking bottom shelf vodka in convenience store lemonade.
― strongo hulkington's ghost dad, Tuesday, 21 June 2011 04:12 (twelve years ago) link
SORRY FRANCIS
i'm sure tucker is not bad (i've heard good things) but i never saw it, maybe b/c the title made it sound like a 7th grader's essay.
― omar little, Tuesday, 21 June 2011 04:14 (twelve years ago) link
the wine is deece... nothing to get to excited about but better than your typical grocery store selection.
― it's a meme i made and i like (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 21 June 2011 04:15 (twelve years ago) link
strongo never apologize, never look back
― lemon kerrang! (jjjusten), Tuesday, 21 June 2011 04:15 (twelve years ago) link
the cotton club is actually really good imo, awesome performances to be found and a better scene revolving around a watch than the one in pulp fiction.
― omar little, Tuesday, 21 June 2011 04:15 (twelve years ago) link
I think he's said Jack was one of the movies he did to pay off One From The Heart, but he says that about a lot of things.
― Bill, Tuesday, 21 June 2011 04:16 (twelve years ago) link
Diane Lane in the Cotton Club is pretty ace. She's in a bunch of these films now that I think about it.
― it's a meme i made and i like (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 21 June 2011 04:16 (twelve years ago) link
yeah she's in the outsiders, along w/ melanie meyrink
― balls, Tuesday, 21 June 2011 04:19 (twelve years ago) link
When I was in college, I had a chance to meet Robert Redford, and someone was nice enough to tell him I was the only one there who had seen "Quiz Show."
"So, what did you think?" he asked.
"Did you see 'Tucker?'" I asked back.
"No."
"Oh. I thought it was kind of like 'Tucker.'"
Still not sure if I meant that as a compliment or diss, but I seem to recall Tucker being good, or at the very least featuring another good Jeff Bridges performance.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 21 June 2011 04:24 (twelve years ago) link
Hammett should be on the list, not that it's so great but at least it's an "interesting" failure
― buzza, Tuesday, 21 June 2011 04:35 (twelve years ago) link
This period may be more underrated than Spielberg post-Private Ryan.
― scissorlocks and the three bears (Eric H.), Tuesday, 21 June 2011 04:48 (twelve years ago) link
As far as I'm aware, Jack is the only out-and-out terrrrrrrrrrrrrible movie here.
― scissorlocks and the three bears (Eric H.), Tuesday, 21 June 2011 04:49 (twelve years ago) link
rainmaker was enjoyable enough also i guess? probably in my top ten grisham adaptations
That might be the faintest praise with which one could damn a movie. Aside from maybe "probably in my top twenty Dean Koontz adaptations".
― SNEEZED GOING DOWN STEPS, PAIN WHEN PUTTING SOCKS ON (Deric W. Haircare), Tuesday, 21 June 2011 04:49 (twelve years ago) link
I'll vote for either One from the Heart or Tetro probably.
― scissorlocks and the three bears (Eric H.), Tuesday, 21 June 2011 04:50 (twelve years ago) link
Both of which are better than The Godfather Part II ffs.
― scissorlocks and the three bears (Eric H.), Tuesday, 21 June 2011 04:52 (twelve years ago) link
grisham > dean koontz
― strongo hulkington's ghost dad, Tuesday, 21 June 2011 04:54 (twelve years ago) link
Dracula. I haven't seen four of them, including the two biggest spectacles. I hope Tiger Woods has a better post-prodigy career. I had to look up "ffs" to translate Eric H.'s x-post. I was hoping it stood for "But I realize I'm the only person on earth who believes this," but no luck.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 21 June 2011 05:04 (twelve years ago) link
Deliberate gadflying ffs. But I definitely think the first Godfather is much much much much much much more enjoyable than Part Boring.
― scissorlocks and the three bears (Eric H.), Tuesday, 21 June 2011 05:05 (twelve years ago) link
i believed this about the Godfather II once in my life. then I figured out the DVD had to be in the player before hitting play.
― aguirre, the wrath of frogbs (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 21 June 2011 05:08 (twelve years ago) link
this is some opinion to have
i cant in good conscience vote for any of the movies that ive seen from this list
― Dr. Frog, B.S., M.S.E., Ph.D (Lamp), Tuesday, 21 June 2011 05:08 (twelve years ago) link
I'll accept that (wouldn't know either way, aside from the abysmal Koontz book I tried to read once), but the point was more: what are your top ten Grisham adaptations, and how bad does a movie have to be to fall outside of that top ten?
― SNEEZED GOING DOWN STEPS, PAIN WHEN PUTTING SOCKS ON (Deric W. Haircare), Tuesday, 21 June 2011 05:09 (twelve years ago) link
xxp There are some parts that aren't boring too, obv. That's why Toshiba invented chapter forward buttons I guess.
― scissorlocks and the three bears (Eric H.), Tuesday, 21 June 2011 05:09 (twelve years ago) link
I go back and forth--love them both. I was with Tetro for the first half, then I thought it went off the rails. And the younger brother's resemblance to Leonardo DiCaprio was a major distraction for me.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 21 June 2011 05:10 (twelve years ago) link
It was a major turn on for me.
― scissorlocks and the three bears (Eric H.), Tuesday, 21 June 2011 05:12 (twelve years ago) link
Anyway, we both named Nashville as one of our three favourite films. We must not break the peace that we have made here today.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 21 June 2011 05:13 (twelve years ago) link
coppola's dracula >> herzog's nosferatu
― moonship journey to baja, Tuesday, 21 June 2011 05:15 (twelve years ago) link
only seen stills of rumble fish ... No good.
er that should have read "no good??"
― moonship journey to baja, Tuesday, 21 June 2011 05:16 (twelve years ago) link
i really liked tetro. his best since rumble fish i think
― groovemaaan, Tuesday, 21 June 2011 10:12 (twelve years ago) link
voting for dracula cuz it's enjoyably bad and i'm a horror geek, but i don't like any of the films on this list. remember thinking that the cotton club was decent, but don't have much interest in revisiting it to make sure. have been curious about the last couple, especially tetro.
― And the piano, it sounds like a carnivore (contenderizer), Tuesday, 21 June 2011 10:21 (twelve years ago) link
didn't realise Rumble Fish was so hated, anyway it wins easy for me
― j/k lacan (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 21 June 2011 10:26 (twelve years ago) link
Tucker (easily one of his three best films) followed by Peggy Sue followed by Godfather III
― already president FYI (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 21 June 2011 10:53 (twelve years ago) link
Loved Tetro, followed by Peggy Sue and Tucker.
― The Edge of Gloryhole (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 21 June 2011 10:58 (twelve years ago) link
and, yeah, The Rainmaker (and Altman's Gingerbread Man) are good 'uns.
― The Edge of Gloryhole (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 21 June 2011 10:59 (twelve years ago) link
I like Tetro quite a bit.
― You Post on ILX (Simon H.), Tuesday, 21 June 2011 12:08 (twelve years ago) link
voted tucker, which almost seems to be a lost and forgotten film.
― Ward Fowler, Tuesday, 21 June 2011 12:11 (twelve years ago) link
New One's in Trouble:
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-features/francis-ford-coppolas-megalopolis-in-peril-1235284875/
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 10 January 2023 03:09 (one year ago) link
A truly brilliant paragraph right here:
Sources say Coppola, who has never made an effects-heavy movie, fired almost his entire visual effects team Dec. 9, with the rest of that department soon following. Mark Russell, a veteran whose credits include In the Heights and The Wolf of Wall Street, was leading the team as visual effects supervisor. (Coppola famously fired his visual effects department on Dracula 30 years ago.)
― but also fuck you (unperson), Tuesday, 10 January 2023 03:35 (one year ago) link
one from the heart got nothing here? all right
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Tuesday, 10 January 2023 04:19 (one year ago) link
Coppola says the everything is fine:
https://deadline.com/2023/01/francis-ford-coppola-no-truth-to-apocalypse-on-megalopolis-1235216222/
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 10 January 2023 23:12 (one year ago) link
3D Stake From the Heart got nothing here?
"You don't think going into bankruptcy's scary? It's so scary that it can make you suck your own blood!"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkWIh_IiL0o
― Halfway there but for you, Wednesday, 11 January 2023 17:27 (one year ago) link
Tom Waits wrote an exceptionally good tune for One from the Heart, though the Crystal Gayle version doesn't work as well and his own.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYwwpbStHZw
― The self-titled drags (Eazy), Wednesday, 11 January 2023 17:43 (one year ago) link
*as his own
this is kinda like choosing a kickball team from a herd of fat kids
I had a legitimate belly laugh at this.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 11 January 2023 17:54 (one year ago) link
I don't remember if I voted in this but if I did I'd have voted Tetro.
― ryan, Wednesday, 11 January 2023 18:03 (one year ago) link
https://thefilmstage.com/francis-ford-coppolas-new-re-edit-restoration-btwixt-now-and-sunrise-arrives-in-february/
― Beautiful Bean Footage Fetishist (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 11 January 2023 19:55 (one year ago) link
I love The Outsiders
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 11 January 2023 19:57 (one year ago) link
Apocalypse Now broke him.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 11 January 2023 19:58 (one year ago) link
Saw Rumble Fish in a one-off Alamo screening a couple of months back -- never had seen it before, stagey as hell and yet it worked.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 11 January 2023 20:09 (one year ago) link
Anyone see the revamped Cotton Club?
I thought Rumble Fish would be thought of as a cult classic around these parts but obviously.. not.
― piscesx, Thursday, 12 January 2023 03:47 (one year ago) link
Got through One from the Heart over a few nights. Wasn't sure I'd ever give it a go, but the Sam Wasson book made me curious. Such a weird, hollow film. Frederic Forrest is so ill-equipped to handle the lead role (and cursed with a Three Stooges haircut for most of the film). Felt embarrassed for H.D. Stanton (whose hair is worse) and Teri Garr too at different points (not her performance, more that she was dragged into this). I think Tom Waits' score is probably the worst thing about it. I've never seen La La Land: did it take some of its look from Coppola's film?
― clemenza, Monday, 5 February 2024 23:29 (three months ago) link
Ha, pretty brutal review from first line to last. Nastassja Kinski looks great in it though, right? iirc this film, like Bullitt, has one of those airport gate departure scenes that would now be impossible and thus inspire nostalgia.
― Josefa, Monday, 5 February 2024 23:57 (three months ago) link
xxp I actually saw that at the NYFF (having never seen the one that was ultimately released in theaters), and Coppola did explain how the Hines brothers bore the brunt of the cuts because of the racist bullshit the producers threw at him (i.e. the movie's too long and their characters only appealed to Black people). You can kind of tell what was cut because even though they found all those scenes, it feels like they didn't find the original camera negative and had to use inferior quality material to restore them. Not vastly inferior - it still looks like it came from 35mm film - but the picture quality definitely drops down during those scenes. Anyway, I have to say it's probably a massive improvement because the movie really lights up during those scenes - it's ridiculous that they cut them out because the rest feels so stiff in comparison, especially compared to the Hines brothers. Maurice (who just passed away) was at the screening, so at least he got to see it restored.
― birdistheword, Tuesday, 6 February 2024 00:00 (three months ago) link
At least Heaven's Gate has the two great sequences, the graduation and the roller-skating scene. I know it's seen by some as a great film now, but even if you don't share that view, there are those two sequences. One from the Heart has nothing.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 6 February 2024 00:08 (three months ago) link
I agree that the music doesn’t work at all.
― Josefa, Tuesday, 6 February 2024 00:12 (three months ago) link
I really really really liked tetro a lot
― brimstead, Tuesday, 6 February 2024 01:11 (three months ago) link
My intro to the rather hot to Alden Ehrenreich.
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 6 February 2024 01:40 (three months ago) link
to
One From the Heart had a couple of screenings at the local Alamo going and out of curiosity I went to see one and what a weird curio of a film. It's pretty obvious that Garr and Julia just have way better chemistry than Garr does with Forrest, while Kinski as a literal magic pixie dream girl means the only way the film even vaguely works plotwise is to read it as 'an abusive kidnapping hypocritical oaf finally pushes someone who deserves better too far, said person finds someone a lot better after all and flies off with him, while the oaf retreats into an unearned fantasy that probably is a sign of a breakdown.' And my god, when Kazan and Stanton start clicking immediately and then we follow Forrest as he runs off I was almost all "Are you insane? Stick with those two! They're fucking hilarious together!" It almost felt like Coppola was trying to puree several Bogdanovich films into one thing.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 30 April 2024 03:03 (six days ago) link