The Sting is - how you say? - a piffle.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 7 March 2018 21:40 (six years ago) link
xpost Maybe that was the tag for the sequel?
I mean, there are worse simple entertainments. Like The Sting II, I suppose.
I don't think it was for the sequel.
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 7 March 2018 21:44 (six years ago) link
The sting is great fun I wouldn't necessarily defend it as best picture tbf
― things you looked shockingly old when you wore (darraghmac), Wednesday, 7 March 2018 21:54 (six years ago) link
1973 was a weak Bedt Picture year. Only Cries and Whispers is remotely great.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 7 March 2018 22:00 (six years ago) link
my god A Touch of Class.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 7 March 2018 22:06 (six years ago) link
The Sting might be the most movie-as-comfort-food endeavor I've seen
― mh, Wednesday, 7 March 2018 22:12 (six years ago) link
like your average Dozvzhenko?
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 7 March 2018 22:14 (six years ago) link
Is it really any lesser than Butch Cassidy? (Maybe a little.) It just gets dumped on for winning the Oscar.
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 7 March 2018 22:21 (six years ago) link
It's a lot tighter than butch cassidy
― things you looked shockingly old when you wore (darraghmac), Wednesday, 7 March 2018 22:26 (six years ago) link
well, BC&SK is more languorous, what the kidz call a hangout movie. It has that unforgivable bike/Bacharch scene; George Roy Hill was all about musical anachronisms.
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 7 March 2018 22:30 (six years ago) link
The Sting is a good flick, it aired all the time on TV when i was a kid and i thought it was pretty breezy entertainment. pretty lightweight though i mean some woman gets shot through the head iirc, so it wasn't exactly totally lightweight.
― omar little, Wednesday, 7 March 2018 22:31 (six years ago) link
Redford's only Best Actor nod
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 7 March 2018 22:33 (six years ago) link
and James Earl Jones' dad gets killed in the first 15 minutes.
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 7 March 2018 22:34 (six years ago) link
(xpost) Didn't know that. He certainly would have been a better nominee in '72 for The Candidate than the two Sleuth guys (a film I don't mind, but Best Actor nominations?), and I'm kind of amazed neither guy was nominated for All the President's Men. I'd take them over everyone else except De Niro, although I guess I can see why they were passed over (probably had to be both or neither, and stepping back, I'm not sure which two of the five '76 nominees you'd eliminate).
― clemenza, Wednesday, 7 March 2018 23:07 (six years ago) link
The Shape of Water is going to be a Rain Man BP winner, remembered for one thing: she fucked the fish.
― flappy bird, Saturday, 10 March 2018 21:56 (six years ago) link
I don't ... remember Dustin Hoffman doing that?
― "Minneapolis" (barf) (Eric H.), Saturday, 10 March 2018 22:08 (six years ago) link
lol
remembered for one thing i mean.
― flappy bird, Saturday, 10 March 2018 22:23 (six years ago) link
https://youtu.be/_V0VM-cwzBI?t=1m2s
― adam the (abanana), Monday, 12 March 2018 05:06 (six years ago) link