Coppola post-Apocalypse Now

strongo never apologize, never look back

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.

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.

Diane Lane in the Cotton Club is pretty ace. She's in a bunch of these films now that I think about it.

yeah she's in the outsiders, along w/ melanie meyrink

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.

Hammett should be on the list, not that it's so great but at least it's an "interesting" failure

This period may be more underrated than Spielberg post-Private Ryan.

As far as I'm aware, Jack is the only out-and-out terrrrrrrrrrrrrible movie here.

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".

I'll vote for either One from the Heart or Tetro probably.

Both of which are better than The Godfather Part II ffs.

grisham > dean koontz

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.

Deliberate gadflying ffs. But I definitely think the first Godfather is much much much much much much more enjoyable than Part Boring.

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.

grisham > dean koontz

this is some opinion to have

i cant in good conscience vote for any of the movies that ive seen from this list

grisham > dean koontz

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?

xxp There are some parts that aren't boring too, obv. That's why Toshiba invented chapter forward buttons I guess.

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.

It was a major turn on for me.

Anyway, we both named Nashville as one of our three favourite films. We must not break the peace that we have made here today.

coppola's dracula >> herzog's nosferatu

only seen stills of rumble fish ... No good.

er that should have read "no good??"

i really liked tetro. his best since rumble fish i think

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.

didn't realise Rumble Fish was so hated, anyway it wins easy for me

Tucker (easily one of his three best films) followed by Peggy Sue followed by Godfather III

Loved Tetro, followed by Peggy Sue and Tucker.

and, yeah, The Rainmaker (and Altman's Gingerbread Man) are good 'uns.

I like Tetro quite a bit.

voted tucker, which almost seems to be a lost and forgotten film.

i prefer rumble fish to any of his other films (apocalypse possibly excepted).

Peggy Sue Got Married the only movie I straight-up love on this list, altho I should probably revisit the Outsiders.

voted Jack

lol

it's weird that he even bothers to make movies at all, it seems kind of obvious that he has no interest in the medium and hasn't for some time (unlike Scorcese)

his New York Stories entry is abominable

I guess I should see Tetro tho, I do enjoy Vincent Gallo hamming it up

http://www.renaud-bray.com/ImagesEditeurs/PG/594/594082-gf.jpg

rainmaker is pretty fun

dracula is a 'bad' movie but i cant get enough of the visuals and the atmosphere. some of those costumes are outta this world! and it has some really cool old-school special effects work if you're into that kind of thing (i am):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8NXzAEo5RM

Robin Williams IS Kevin Smith

dracula is def not "good" but still awesome

The movie begins with Karen Powell (Diane Lane) going into labor during a Halloween party and being rushed to the hospital by her husband, Brian (Brian Kerwin), and their friends. Although the delivery is successful, the baby is premature, born after only ten weeks of pregnancy, and is diagnosed with an exaggerated form of Werner syndrome (an aging disease) as stated by Dr. Benfante (Allan Rich) and Dr. Lin (Keone Young). According to them, as this very rare autosomal recessive disorder progresses, Jack Powell will age at a rate four times faster than normal children due to his internal clock that seems to be developing faster.

Ten years later, Jack (Robin Williams) is next seen as a 10-year-old boy in the body of a 40-year-old man, with a group of four boys telling possible stories of a "monstrosity" of a boy their age that cannot go to school. He scares them away by dipping a fake eye into slime and throwing it at them from his window. He is extremely childish as a consequence of his secluded life. He has only had contact with his parents and tutor, Lawrence Woodruff (Bill Cosby), who introduces the idea that he should go to public school. His parents initially balk at the idea of their son going there because he could be emotionally hurt.

When he first attends school, he is exploited by the other kids to win at basketball against bullies, and eventually to get adult magazines and other such items. As time goes by, he is accepted by them, beginning with Louis, as they discover that they like him. He attempts to be normal there, for example, when he deals with his first crush and heartbreak, and the relationship with his teacher, Miss Marquez (Jennifer Lopez). When he goes through a fall while attempting to leave school, he is rushed over to the hospital, where his doctor explains that he had suffered a shocking severe strain and also because of his Werner Syndrome condition, his internal clock is starting to run out. Realizing the dangers it might entail for his health, his parents decide to withdraw him from school, which upsets him.

He sneaks out of the house and goes to a bar where he gets drunk. He gets into a fight with an angry man (Edward Lynch) and gets arrested. Yet he is bailed out by Dolores, Louis' mother (Fran Drescher). When he returns home, he locks himself in his room and doesn't go out for weeks. His mother speculates that perhaps he realized the fragility of his life and is now scared of facing the outside world again. He also doubts the need to studying as he realizes that he wouldn't have the time to use any of the knowledge.

Meanwhile, his friends keep coming to his house, hoping that he would come out and play, but he refuses. Finally, Louis has an idea: he brings the entire class to Jack's house as they take turns yelling "Can Jack come out and play?" and participate in various games and fun activities right in front of the house. The next day he decides to go back to school.

Some years later, an elderly looking Jack and his four best friends are at their high school graduation. He delivers the valedictory speech, in which he reminds his classmates that life is short, and urges them to "make your life spectacular", as the five drive down the road and into their future lives.

Some years later, an elderly looking Jack and his four best friends are at their high school graduation. He delivers the valedictory speech, in which he reminds his classmates that life is short, and urges them to "seize the day", as the five drive down the road and into their future lives.

bleurgh

wait, wouldn't his body think it was like 180 years old by the time he graduated from high school

lol Jack.

Despite my love for Gary O, I don't think I've ever actually seen Dracula.

lol I can't read, never mind

Jack: Mom, am I a giant?

dracula is def not "good" but still awesome

^^^otm there's a lot of enjoyable things about it but it is just ridiculous and doesn't work on a basic level. I always lol at the old-school overlay of Oldman's eyes watching them on the train through the countryside or whatever

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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.

I agree that the music doesn’t work at all.

I really really really liked tetro a lot

My intro to the rather hot to Alden Ehrenreich.

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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.