now is time for the Brian De Palma's best film

oh, Wilder makes up for it with the rest of the film

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...and bo jackson overdrive

and the real Bo Jackson.

hmm, i'd be interested to see how 'the most overrated movie ever' does on this poll. third at best.

hate this guy but 'carlito's way'. prefer 'the untouchables' to the hitchcock rips thx.

I voted Scarface because fuck all the hataz, basically.

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.

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

Carlito's Way is one of Ally's favorite movies of all time - mine too.

Carrie.

eh ok maybe i was wrong - i seem to remember in another depalma thread everyone hated it

hate this guy
-- That one guy that hit it and quit it, Friday, January 4, 2008 11:28 AM

This I knew.

Dressed to Kill ftw

But Blow Out is surprisingly watchable. Great ending.

carlito's way is boring except for most scenes with sean penn. i'll go with 'femme fatale'.

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)

we need a thread for Best De Palma Wenches.

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the bad guy has spoken

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

eh scarface is better than a bunch that got votes

surprised untouchables got shut out

Almost all the movies that got zero votes basically deserved to. Even Greetings is done better with Hi, Mom!

I probably should've hedged my best and voted Dressed to Kill.

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.

Wedding Party should have gotten the Bonfire votes and Untouchables should have gotten 4 of the 7 Scarface votes. Then it'd be cool.

and if the Fury and Blow Out got some of Body Double and Carlito's Way's votes.

yeah, if only we all had second votes to invalidate the first votes of everyone else.

or just do it by TELEPATHY!

Obession is too dour. Even Femme Fatale manages to transgress its allegedly lurid De Palma milieu without resorting to Paul Schrader b.s.

haha, IN A WORLD where BS plagues us... [controversial deletion re The Fury ]

much appreciated

70yo today.

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.

Carrie >>>> Scarface

the ceiling-hanging scene in M:I was stolen from jules dassin's topkapi

finale stolen from The Great Train Robbery iirc

wouldve voted body double

mission 2 mars is really great, i think.

mission to mars is horrible! it's not even an interesting failure, it's just stupid.

woulda voted Blow Out, but Body Double is some awesome shit.

I love Body Double. Watched it the other night, in fact!

I think Obsession is my favorite.

mission to mars is horrible! it's not even an interesting failure, it's just stupid.

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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

I'll always be mystified as to how anyone considers Scarface anything but laughably bad.

im vaguely mystified that people take scarface at face value

im vaguely mystified that people take scarface at face value

OTM. can be applied to a lot of De Palma stuff.

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, September 11, 2010 11:49 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark

the van halen thing was stupid (mind-boggling to me how that's been help up by some De Palma stans as some kind of "pure joyous expression of cinema"--uuggghhhh stupid). the m&m's were stupid. the dialog was stupid. the alien hologram thingie was reeeeeaaallly stupid. especially when they showed dinosaurs evolving into wooly mammoths and shit (stupid!). the crying alien---beyond stupid---like "this is what stupid is" picture-in-the dictionary stupid. the ending is stupid.

i've seen this movie three times by now (stupid me). i love de palma as much as the next guy but "m2m" (stupid abreviation) is just a failure. stupid, stupid, stupid.

So people like Scarface because it's like Plan 9 from Outer Space? You're right, I didn't pick up on that. Did someone tell Pacino? It's hard to tell if he's in on the joke or not.

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I will give "M2M" that it has decent effects (except for the alien hologram crap) and a couple of okay-ish setpieces but the last act ruins any goodwill I had toward the movie by that point.

The Fury is one of the De Palma films I hadn’t seen before now. It is great too

Yes, I loved that too.

as with Carrie there’s a lot to the story and the scenes all seem so vivid

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.

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

What they don’t tell you about Scarface is that Pacino’s character is actually a cyborg

I like that Blow Out combines the obsession and paranoia of The Conversation and Blow Up with the story, style, set pieces of Hitchcock

haven't been able to see Dressed to Kill or Body Double yet. I didn't really like Wise Guys

Body Double is possibly my favorite, such an insane film

Get to Know Your Rabbit (1971)

This caught my attention. Anyone seen it?

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.

I also missed Obsession

I never saw Body Double as a kid, but it absolutely exists in that kind of hallucinatory weirdness.

Get to Know Your Rabbit is an interesting but unfunny experimental comedy

Scarface has become weirdly underrated. It's a ridiculous movie in many ways, but has just as many brilliant elements as well.

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

I liked that the ending mirrored the beginning

really liked Casualties of War, I think more than his previous film The Untouchables