― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Friday, 5 May 2006 19:31 (seventeen years ago) link
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 5 May 2006 19:34 (seventeen years ago) link
― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Friday, 5 May 2006 19:36 (seventeen years ago) link
If John Waters should've directed Network, then Ken Russell should've directed Cuckoo's Nest.
― Eric H. (Eric H.), Friday, 5 May 2006 19:36 (seventeen years ago) link
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 5 May 2006 19:45 (seventeen years ago) link
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 5 May 2006 19:49 (seventeen years ago) link
You Can't Take It With You is a seminal stage comedy, but Capra and his writers basically threw out the last third for one of their most simplistic Big Business jeremiads.
I've cooled on Some Like It Hot over the years tho it's still a lark, but Wilder thought The Apartment was a makeup for SLIH losing to Ben-Hur. But I think the only other Wilder comedy that approaches The Apartment in sophistication is A Foreign Affair.
Eric, Russell def for Cuckoo!
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 5 May 2006 19:58 (seventeen years ago) link
cuckoo's nest was probably the third Best Pic I saw in a theater (after Oliver! and The Sting) but I haven't seen it in years, it's a much more sanitized rebel story than the psych-sprawl of the novel, and Big Nurse is basically a misogynist's straw woman (yeah, coming from a gyrophobe like me).
She creeps me the fuck out, in part because she never hisses or even raises her voice. She's every colorless school nurse who gave you an aspirin but wouldn't excusing your lateness for your next class.
Best Years is one of the only completely defensible BPs in history
I agree, Eric, but I rarely read an intelligent defense.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Friday, 5 May 2006 20:10 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Friday, 5 May 2006 20:12 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Friday, 5 May 2006 20:22 (seventeen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 5 May 2006 20:26 (seventeen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 5 May 2006 20:28 (seventeen years ago) link
- Pungent dialogue- Ambivalent treatment of women (Eastwood the director seems himself confused about the whores: are they victims or instigators?)- Munny's transformation from flu-ridden sadsack to the merciless psycho killer. It bothered me when I first saw it, but no longer.- Excellent perfs by Freeman, Hackman (another deserved Oscar), and all the prostitutes, even by the cute one who gets cut up.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Friday, 5 May 2006 20:33 (seventeen years ago) link
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 5 May 2006 20:40 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Friday, 5 May 2006 20:45 (seventeen years ago) link
― erklie (erklie), Friday, 5 May 2006 20:46 (seventeen years ago) link
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 5 May 2006 20:47 (seventeen years ago) link
I actually like Shakespeare in Love quite a lot, but, predictably, I was an English major.
― erklie (erklie), Friday, 5 May 2006 20:58 (seventeen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 5 May 2006 20:58 (seventeen years ago) link
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 5 May 2006 20:59 (seventeen years ago) link
― erklie (erklie), Friday, 5 May 2006 21:01 (seventeen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 5 May 2006 21:01 (seventeen years ago) link
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 5 May 2006 21:02 (seventeen years ago) link
Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer um slays SOTL.
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 5 May 2006 21:02 (seventeen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 5 May 2006 21:03 (seventeen years ago) link
ah, and we part ways again...
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 5 May 2006 21:04 (seventeen years ago) link
Explain.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Friday, 5 May 2006 21:07 (seventeen years ago) link
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Friday, 5 May 2006 21:09 (seventeen years ago) link
x-post
― erklie (erklie), Friday, 5 May 2006 21:09 (seventeen years ago) link
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― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 5 May 2006 21:11 (seventeen years ago) link
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― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Friday, 5 May 2006 21:28 (seventeen years ago) link
― Eric H. (Eric H.), Friday, 5 May 2006 21:43 (seventeen years ago) link
I don't see this at all. To me he's more like post-70s Nicholson - a caricature that's the same every time.
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 5 May 2006 22:03 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Friday, 5 May 2006 22:15 (seventeen years ago) link
Hmmm. There's an argument to be made that, whichever of the killers in SOTL you're talking about, you're misreading them, but I suppose it's neither here nor there if you simply don't like the movie. In any case it was certainly Demme's last good one.
Gene Hackman is one of my all-time favorite actors.
― phil d. (Phil D.), Friday, 5 May 2006 23:11 (seventeen years ago) link
don't read too much into this, i made it in 3 minutes
― a.b. (alanbanana), Friday, 5 May 2006 23:16 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Friday, 5 May 2006 23:27 (seventeen years ago) link
― a.b. (alanbanana), Friday, 5 May 2006 23:31 (seventeen years ago) link
― erklie (erklie), Saturday, 6 May 2006 00:05 (seventeen years ago) link
the apartment i like because of its britlleness, and how much it hates.
― anthony easton (anthony), Saturday, 6 May 2006 00:35 (seventeen years ago) link
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Saturday, 6 May 2006 00:53 (seventeen years ago) link
― erklie (erklie), Saturday, 6 May 2006 00:55 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Saturday, 6 May 2006 01:03 (seventeen years ago) link
― anthony easton (anthony), Saturday, 6 May 2006 01:46 (seventeen years ago) link
My ten (first half for real, second half a little devil's advocate):
01. Sunrise02. All About Eve03. How Green Was My Valley04. Annie Hall05. The Best Years of Our Lives06. Titanic07. The French Connection08. Ordinary People09. Million Dollar Baby10. Driving Miss Daisy
― Eric H. (Eric H.), Saturday, 6 May 2006 02:53 (seventeen years ago) link
― anthony easton (anthony), Saturday, 6 May 2006 03:03 (seventeen years ago) link
https://www.slantmagazine.com/film/every-best-picture-oscar-winner-ranked-from-worst-to-best/
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 16 February 2019 14:53 (five years ago) link
don't know the guys who wrote abt Gigi and My Fair Lady, but they're kind of embarrassing
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 16 February 2019 14:54 (five years ago) link
at first I thought, "but a lot of these 'What Should Have Won' choices are dubious too" before realizing they're only choosing from the other nominees
― Josefa, Saturday, 16 February 2019 15:50 (five years ago) link