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actually i don't think looking dated is neccessarily a bad thing, in fact it is often a good thing

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 20 August 2004 03:49 (nineteen years ago) link

silent movies are so dated!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 20 August 2004 03:49 (nineteen years ago) link

anyway i just re-read easy riders raging bulls, god is that ever a fun book to read. you can read in a weekend, easy. lots of fun and many hilarious embarrassing spielberg stories.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 20 August 2004 03:49 (nineteen years ago) link

also as much as i rep for goodfellas i think gangs of new york may be the worst fucking movie i have ever seen

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 20 August 2004 03:50 (nineteen years ago) link

what hitchcock films look dated?

actually i don't think looking dated is neccessarily a bad thing, in fact it is often a good thing

I would kill to have that mad 60's pad from Rope. Or any of the cars in Vertigo. Or a Farley Granger suit from Strangers on a Train. Dated? No. Crazy crazy stylish.

― Harold Media (kenan), Friday, 20 August 2004 03:53 (nineteen years ago) link

i want the apartment from rear window if you know what i mean homina homina homina

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 20 August 2004 03:54 (nineteen years ago) link

Dated = this bloody embarassment of a haircut:

http://acpin.homestead.com/files/Luke_SKywalker.jpg

― Harold Media (kenan), Friday, 20 August 2004 03:56 (nineteen years ago) link

You want to watch Raymond Burr disrobe. xp

― Gear! (Gear!), Friday, 20 August 2004 03:57 (nineteen years ago) link

no you do

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 20 August 2004 03:57 (nineteen years ago) link

"he who smelt it dealt it" - henry iv part i

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 20 August 2004 03:58 (nineteen years ago) link

Oh! Miss Torso!

― Harold Media (kenan), Friday, 20 August 2004 03:58 (nineteen years ago) link

And as far as elegant furnishings go, it doesn't get better than Grace Kelley.

― Harold Media (kenan), Friday, 20 August 2004 04:00 (nineteen years ago) link

Dated = this bloody embarassment of a haircut:

Well, be fair: it was a long, long time ago in a galaxie far, far away.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 20 August 2004 04:01 (nineteen years ago) link

here's some wank material for you

http://www.gonemovies.com/WWW/WanadooFilms/Thriller/RearKiller1.jpg

― Gear! (Gear!), Friday, 20 August 2004 04:01 (nineteen years ago) link

I think the only things in the world that are truly dated are codpieces and formal hats.

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Friday, 20 August 2004 04:18 (nineteen years ago) link

I mean I see that Luke Skywalker haircut like hundreds of times a day.

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Friday, 20 August 2004 04:18 (nineteen years ago) link

Ha wait I was wrong they are coming back in THE FUTURE.

http://www.animalactors.co.uk/artman/uploads/a_clockwork_orange_large.jpg

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Friday, 20 August 2004 04:20 (nineteen years ago) link

Skywalker, I see dudes like him every day in Echo Park.

― Gear! (Gear!), Friday, 20 August 2004 04:29 (nineteen years ago) link

ERRB is surprisingly good - snotty and trashy, but enormously compelling even if you have little interest in the era or the mythologizing (like me).

I lurrrrrrved GONY when it came out, but after shelling out for the DVD I realized what a turd it was without the visceral theater experience. Daniel day-lewis was totally fucking electric and hilarious though (deniro really couldn't have pulled that off) and his moustache still dangles in my mind like the sword of damocles. He should be in EVERY MOVIE :(

― Ade (Adrian Langston), Friday, 20 August 2004 22:41 (nineteen years ago) link

Man, ERRB....I don't care who Spielberg fucked or how needy Scorsese was, it was just such a reductive piece of shit.

― Gear! (Gear!), Friday, 20 August 2004 23:20 (nineteen years ago) link

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i met his daughter, now i feel bad for her if her dad had a fucking cocaine period when she was a small child.

ERRB made me feel bad for Roman/Sofia Coppola, Francis comes off like an unreal dick for the last 3/4.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Friday, 20 August 2004 23:25 (nineteen years ago) link

that's why I don't like that book, it doesn't hit on much other than the scandalous shit and it doesn't provide much of an interesting context for their work nor does it discuss anything about the directors as artists. What's the point?

― Gear! (Gear!), Friday, 20 August 2004 23:37 (nineteen years ago) link

if you don't see the point in juicy gossip i can't help you

― s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 21 August 2004 15:51 (nineteen years ago) link

I spent a good three hours with the After Hours DVD last night, and was a little disappointed in the commentary. I was so excited about it, too -- "OMG I could listen to Marty talk all day long!" -- but it's not like that. It's "scene specific commentary," meaning that the movie skips from one scene to another while the commentary plays. Also, few details are given about the specific scenes that are playing. Marty just kind of gives a little history of the film, and, you know, there are books that do that already. Also, the DP does almost all of the talking. This is not without interest, but it's not what I wanted.

That said, the movie is great. I'd forgotten how unsympathetic the Griffin Dunne character is. He's not just some lonely schmuck who has bad luck, he's a lecherous bore who sets out to get laid, and would just as soon fuck the roommate as the girl he came to see. He only becomes sympathetic after his situation becomes *impossible*.

Question: what's with the Wizard of Oz shit? Is there anything to the fact that all the women he meets wear yellow, or that he just wants to go home?

Today: Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore and all the new Goodfellas stuff. I'm a little less optimistic about the commentary than I was when I started.

― Harold Media (kenan), Saturday, 28 August 2004 15:26 (nineteen years ago) link

Good thing I have this rented for two days. No way I can watch the extras immediately after watching the movie. It's such a fucking knockout. I need a rest.

― Harold Media (kenan), Saturday, 28 August 2004 19:15 (nineteen years ago) link

The 'film school' program on the Who's That Knocking... DVD sounds interesting.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Saturday, 28 August 2004 19:36 (nineteen years ago) link

one year passes...

i finally got around to watching the cast & crew commentary... so interesting and entertaining!

the "cop and crook" one however is a little zzzz. lots of awkward silences and throat-clearings.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 01:46 (eighteen years ago) link

i like it better than the godfather.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 02:48 (eighteen years ago) link

people who hate goodfellas need to be punched in the cock.

― strng hlkngtn: what does it mean? (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 02:54 (eighteen years ago) link

repeatedly.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 07:59 (eighteen years ago) link

with both fists

― gear (gear), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 08:05 (eighteen years ago) link

Would that amuse you?

― Dave B (daveb), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 08:06 (eighteen years ago) link

i think it's better than the godfather too... i think it might be the PERFECT MOVIE.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 15:52 (eighteen years ago) link

It would be perfect except for the mildly distracting aging problem. It's still amazing though. I might like The Godfather just a shade better, but that's not a slight on Goodfellas.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 16:09 (eighteen years ago) link

i wish i could have an opinion on the godfather but ive tried to watch it several times and i cannot for the life of me understand a word marlon brando is saying. its very frustrating and it makes me feel deaf.

ive been trying to push the sopranos on to pleasant plains for sometime now. since weve watch seasons 1-4 of curb your enthusiasm we need another show to compliment our twice weekly homestyle bake dinners. goodfellas is his favorite movie. does loving goodfellas = loving the sopranos?

― sunny successor (he hates my guts, we had a fight) (katharine), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 16:15 (eighteen years ago) link

punch me in the cock, guys!!

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 16:45 (eighteen years ago) link

well I don't hate it, I just have no desire to ever see it again.

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 16:46 (eighteen years ago) link

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 01:00 (eighteen years ago) link

I think it might be the perfect movie.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 01:03 (eighteen years ago) link

I want it to be the perfect movie, but Alex is right about the aging.

― I was CRYING when Magin Johnson did donuts in a magical AIDS thrfit store (dr g), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 01:14 (eighteen years ago) link

How did it age? During which part would a viewer say, "Oh, that is so 1990..."?

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 03:06 (eighteen years ago) link

the aging of the characters

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 03:11 (eighteen years ago) link

it hasn't aged, and neither did Ray Liotta in the film!

― gear (gear), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 03:13 (eighteen years ago) link

And DeNiro looked the same at 20 as he did at 50. He was born a 50-year old man, like Will Ferrell in that one skit.

But I don't care.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 03:15 (eighteen years ago) link

I thought DeNiro's aging was okay for the most part, Liotta didn't age as much as he started to sweat more over time. but a perfect film nonetheless.

― gear (gear), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 03:17 (eighteen years ago) link

What, Joe Pesci as a twenty-year old out front of the burning Tiki club didn't convince anyone?

Okay. I see where you all are coming from.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 03:43 (eighteen years ago) link

i don't really care about the aging... at least i don't think it detracts from the movie. in a way it sort of works, makes it almost more like a play

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 06:00 (eighteen years ago) link

...or not? i'm not sure, i'm struggling to articulate this, but it's just this non-realistic element that somehow just sits fine with me. almost like the movie exists in henry's memory, where everyone always looks the way you remember them

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 06:02 (eighteen years ago) link

yeah, i don't really care about the age thing, i'm always surprised when ppl say it detracts. i mean jimmy stewart is like 30 years too old for his part in the man who shot liberty valance, and it doesn't bother me at all.

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 07:08 (eighteen years ago) link

A lot of those guys has such intense early adulthoods that they may have looked 45 at 30.

Say what you will about Sorvino's gray dye, but the actors all did a champ job of acting old. Liotta convinced me of being a wild-eyed young punk to being a middle-aged tired coke addict.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 15:11 (eighteen years ago) link

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