I hate the construction of Carlito's Way
― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 4 January 2008 00:16 (sixteen years ago) link
you know, show the main character's death and tell the story in flashback - this storytelling conceit always annoys me
― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 4 January 2008 00:17 (sixteen years ago) link
didn't like Sunset Boulevard then?
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Friday, 4 January 2008 00:19 (sixteen years ago) link
i voted body double - i was also tempted by carlitos way which is only loved by me and french magazines
no way man, I love that movie.
― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Friday, 4 January 2008 00:20 (sixteen years ago) link
oh, Wilder makes up for it with the rest of the film
x-post
― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 4 January 2008 00:20 (sixteen years ago) link
...and bo jackson overdrive
― jhøshea, Friday, 4 January 2008 00:21 (sixteen years ago) link
and the real Bo Jackson.
― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Friday, 4 January 2008 00:23 (sixteen years ago) link
hmm, i'd be interested to see how 'the most overrated movie ever' does on this poll. third at best.
― darraghmac, Friday, 4 January 2008 10:30 (sixteen years ago) link
hate this guy but 'carlito's way'. prefer 'the untouchables' to the hitchcock rips thx.
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Friday, 4 January 2008 11:28 (sixteen years ago) link
I voted Scarface because fuck all the hataz, basically.
― Noodle Vague, Friday, 4 January 2008 12:11 (sixteen years ago) link
am not gonna see Casualties in time, so it's Femme Fatale, which renders all his previous thrillers superfluous.
I'll say this: he's better than Dario Argento.
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 4 January 2008 16:39 (sixteen years ago) link
i've used a camcorder once at a wedding, a coupla years back. i got most of the people in shot, although the lighting was poor.
moral of the story- I'm better than dario argento
― darraghmac, Friday, 4 January 2008 16:40 (sixteen years ago) link
Carlito's Way is one of Ally's favorite movies of all time - mine too.
Carrie.
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 4 January 2008 16:51 (sixteen years ago) link
eh ok maybe i was wrong - i seem to remember in another depalma thread everyone hated it
― jhøshea, Friday, 4 January 2008 16:53 (sixteen years ago) link
hate this guy -- That one guy that hit it and quit it, Friday, January 4, 2008 11:28 AM
This I knew.
― Eric H., Friday, 4 January 2008 18:19 (sixteen years ago) link
Dressed to Kill ftw
― Jeb, Friday, 4 January 2008 18:21 (sixteen years ago) link
But Blow Out is surprisingly watchable. Great ending.
― Jeb, Friday, 4 January 2008 18:22 (sixteen years ago) link
carlito's way is boring except for most scenes with sean penn. i'll go with 'femme fatale'.
― omar little, Friday, 4 January 2008 18:22 (sixteen years ago) link
Voted for Sisters. Pretty much been all downhill since though I tend to favor his unabashed exploitation trash more. (I like Black Dahlia more than Casualties Of War or The Untouchables)
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 4 January 2008 18:43 (sixteen years ago) link
we need a thread for Best De Palma Wenches.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Friday, 4 January 2008 18:45 (sixteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― ILX System, Monday, 7 January 2008 00:01 (sixteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― ILX System, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 00:01 (sixteen years ago) link
the bad guy has spoken
― darraghmac, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 00:04 (sixteen years ago) link
haha - I like how with these polls no matter how much whining there is from posters about the "no brainer"/most obvious winner, the obvious choices still win
― Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 00:11 (sixteen years ago) link
eh scarface is better than a bunch that got votes
― jhøshea, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 00:12 (sixteen years ago) link
surprised untouchables got shut out
― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 02:12 (sixteen years ago) link
Almost all the movies that got zero votes basically deserved to. Even Greetings is done better with Hi, Mom!
― Eric H., Tuesday, 8 January 2008 03:49 (sixteen years ago) link
I probably should've hedged my best and voted Dressed to Kill.
― Eric H., Tuesday, 8 January 2008 03:50 (sixteen years ago) link
I saw Obsession at the Castro in SF last year (after seeing it on TV in my yute), and it's way better than films that got votes.
― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 14:14 (sixteen years ago) link
Wedding Party should have gotten the Bonfire votes and Untouchables should have gotten 4 of the 7 Scarface votes. Then it'd be cool.
― da croupier, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 15:05 (sixteen years ago) link
and if the Fury and Blow Out got some of Body Double and Carlito's Way's votes.
― da croupier, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 15:07 (sixteen years ago) link
yeah, if only we all had second votes to invalidate the first votes of everyone else.
― darraghmac, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 16:45 (sixteen years ago) link
or just do it by TELEPATHY!
― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 16:48 (sixteen years ago) link
Obession is too dour. Even Femme Fatale manages to transgress its allegedly lurid De Palma milieu without resorting to Paul Schrader b.s.
― Eric H., Tuesday, 8 January 2008 17:57 (sixteen years ago) link
haha, IN A WORLD where BS plagues us... [controversial deletion re The Fury ]
― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 18:04 (sixteen years ago) link
much appreciated
― Eric H., Tuesday, 8 January 2008 20:57 (sixteen years ago) link
70yo today.
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 11 September 2010 17:40 (thirteen years ago) link
Mission: Impossible is really underrated. Femme Fatale didn't get enough love here. Surprised no Untouchables, if only because you'd assume somebody would have just wandered into the thread.
― a cankle of rads (Gukbe), Saturday, 11 September 2010 19:24 (thirteen years ago) link
Carrie >>>> Scarface
― Bo Jackson Cruise Control (San Te), Saturday, 11 September 2010 19:32 (thirteen years ago) link
the ceiling-hanging scene in M:I was stolen from jules dassin's topkapi
― Mosquepanik at Ground Zero (abanana), Saturday, 11 September 2010 19:42 (thirteen years ago) link
finale stolen from The Great Train Robbery iirc
― a cankle of rads (Gukbe), Saturday, 11 September 2010 19:49 (thirteen years ago) link
wouldve voted body double
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 11 September 2010 19:50 (thirteen years ago) link
mission 2 mars is really great, i think.
― swagula (Lamp), Saturday, 11 September 2010 19:53 (thirteen years ago) link
mission to mars is horrible! it's not even an interesting failure, it's just stupid.
― latebloomer, Saturday, 11 September 2010 23:41 (thirteen years ago) link
woulda voted Blow Out, but Body Double is some awesome shit.
― circa1916, Saturday, 11 September 2010 23:46 (thirteen years ago) link
I love Body Double. Watched it the other night, in fact!
I think Obsession is my favorite.
― latebloomer, Saturday, 11 September 2010 23:48 (thirteen years ago) link
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no wai the part where hes working out in the spaceship to van halen, also i mean the ending come on
― ice cr?m, Saturday, 11 September 2010 23:49 (thirteen years ago) link
I'll always be mystified as to how anyone considers Scarface anything but laughably bad.
― clemenza, Saturday, 11 September 2010 23:49 (thirteen years ago) link
im vaguely mystified that people take scarface at face value
― ice cr?m, Saturday, 11 September 2010 23:57 (thirteen years ago) link
OTM. can be applied to a lot of De Palma stuff.
― circa1916, Saturday, 11 September 2010 23:59 (thirteen years ago) link
I was worried that Carrie wouldn’t hold up but it does
― Dan S, Sunday, 17 November 2019 00:42 (four years ago) link
still really moved by the story and by Sissy Spacek’s performance
― Dan S, Sunday, 17 November 2019 00:47 (four years ago) link
My no. 2 horror movie of all time
― Οὖτις, Sunday, 17 November 2019 00:51 (four years ago) link
Obsession was a really pleasant surprise for me.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 17 November 2019 03:11 (four years ago) link
The Fury is one of the De Palma films I hadn’t seen before now. It is great too
― Dan S, Saturday, 23 November 2019 00:06 (four years ago) link
Yes, I loved that too.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 23 November 2019 00:50 (four years ago) link
as with Carrie there’s a lot to the story and the scenes all seem so vivid
― Dan S, Saturday, 23 November 2019 02:21 (four years ago) link
Also enjoyed Raising Cain a whole lot. But I think Body Double and Obsession are my absoloute favorites.
Didn't realize he had a film out earlier this year.
One of his next projects is described as "a horror film set in Hollywood and featuring a predatory movie mogul."Sounds like a risky move.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 23 November 2019 05:16 (four years ago) link
saw Scarface for the first time, it is very flamboyant. Pacino’s performance is histrionic but is kind of mesmerizing. I started feeling fatigued by it after the 2 hour mark though
― Dan S, Saturday, 14 December 2019 01:44 (four years ago) link
What they don’t tell you about Scarface is that Pacino’s character is actually a cyborg
― calstars, Saturday, 14 December 2019 03:44 (four years ago) link
I like that Blow Out combines the obsession and paranoia of The Conversation and Blow Up with the story, style, set pieces of Hitchcock
― Dan S, Tuesday, 17 December 2019 01:53 (four years ago) link
haven't been able to see Dressed to Kill or Body Double yet. I didn't really like Wise Guys
― Dan S, Thursday, 19 December 2019 03:05 (four years ago) link
Body Double is possibly my favorite, such an insane film
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 19 December 2019 03:35 (four years ago) link
Get to Know Your Rabbit (1971)
This caught my attention. Anyone seen it?
― A is for (Aimless), Thursday, 19 December 2019 03:42 (four years ago) link
I’ve seen Body Double at least three times in the past several years but it still exists in my mind as something I saw in between fever dreams as a kid on HBO in the middle of the night in the 80s.
― circa1916, Thursday, 19 December 2019 03:57 (four years ago) link
I also missed Obsession
― Dan S, Thursday, 19 December 2019 03:58 (four years ago) link
I never saw Body Double as a kid, but it absolutely exists in that kind of hallucinatory weirdness.
― circa1916, Thursday, 19 December 2019 04:00 (four years ago) link
Get to Know Your Rabbit is an interesting but unfunny experimental comedy
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 19 December 2019 16:17 (four years ago) link
Scarface has become weirdly underrated. It's a ridiculous movie in many ways, but has just as many brilliant elements as well.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Thursday, 19 December 2019 16:29 (four years ago) link
Dressed to Kill was really good as a thriller. I liked Angie Dickinson in it, also the way it both indulges in and criticizes viewers’ voyeurist fantasies. I thought the elevator scene, the subway scene, and the shower dream sequence at the end in particular were memorable. But its stereotypically negative view of a transgender woman as a killer was very retrograde
― Dan S, Monday, 30 December 2019 00:17 (four years ago) link
I liked that the ending mirrored the beginning
― Dan S, Monday, 30 December 2019 00:21 (four years ago) link
really liked Casualties of War, I think more than his previous film The Untouchables
― Dan S, Saturday, 18 January 2020 10:07 (four years ago) link