Stylistic geniuses can be SO boring.
― Bud Huxtable (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 26 May 2009 23:17 (fourteen years ago) link
TAXI DRIVER owns this. Haven't seen Bound For Glory, but I doubt that matters.
― Oym a cripe... Oym a weer-dew... (circa1916), Tuesday, 26 May 2009 23:42 (fourteen years ago) link
I don't really feel like picking among Network, ATPM and Taxi Driver because I dig them all quite a bit. Haven't seen Bound for Glory, and Rocky is surprisingly good for a traditional sports movie.
― Your heartbeat soun like sasquatch feet (polyphonic), Tuesday, 26 May 2009 23:44 (fourteen years ago) link
KJB, I read the Agatha Christie book around the time Murder on the Orient Express came out, and the only director who would've been able to make that work in '74 might've been Mel Brooks. (hence the MAD parody is one I still remember)
you are such a doctrinaire auteurist, you old-fashioned boy. ;)
― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 27 May 2009 01:16 (fourteen years ago) link
(also Amadeus is one of the worst Forman movies I've ever seen; Hair is better)
― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 27 May 2009 01:18 (fourteen years ago) link
xp kjb: whom do you consider a stylistic genius?
― giving a shit when it isn't your turn to give a shit (sarahel), Wednesday, 27 May 2009 01:50 (fourteen years ago) link
Well the burden of proof's on you there.
KJB, I read the Agatha Christie book around the time Murder on the Orient Express came out, and the only director who would've been able to make that work in '74 might've been Mel Brooks.
Now that would've been worth seeing!
It's true. But then there's Curse of the Cat People, The Seventh Victim, Xanadu, The Apple, Marci X, Romy and Michele's High School Reunion, Crazy in Alabama, Twilight, The Gay Deceivers, Joan Crawford, Adrian, etc.
― Kevin John Bozelka, Wednesday, 27 May 2009 02:23 (fourteen years ago) link
OK, sometimes I exaggerate for effect with you Morbs, but no fucking way Hair is better than Across the Universe (which i haven't seen but looks like ass), much less Amadeus.
― nu hollywood (Eric H.), Wednesday, 27 May 2009 02:40 (fourteen years ago) link
Oh look, there are results.
― nu hollywood (Eric H.), Monday, 8 June 2009 16:34 (fourteen years ago) link
That's odd. How come there wasn't one of those automatic "poll results are in" posts?
― Kevin John Bozelka, Monday, 8 June 2009 22:41 (fourteen years ago) link
All the President's Men over Network, which is no more reactionary and a lot more civilized than Taxi Fucking Driver
― benbbag, Tuesday, 4 November 2014 00:41 (nine years ago) link
Even 12 Angry Men is just 12 great performances locked in a room.
― nu hollywood (Eric H.), Sunday, May 24, 2009 2:49 PM (5 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
It may be a tribute to Lumet that you don't notice how much more than that it is
― benbbag, Tuesday, 4 November 2014 00:44 (nine years ago) link
Showed Network to a crowd last night and it was surprisingly well received.
― "Minneapolis" (barf) (Eric H.), Friday, 9 February 2018 15:22 (six years ago) link
Didn't hurt that the crowd was very full of the core "they don't make them like that anymore" demo.
― "Minneapolis" (barf) (Eric H.), Friday, 9 February 2018 15:25 (six years ago) link
https://media.giphy.com/media/aEcujXyziE8qk/giphy.gif
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 9 February 2018 15:28 (six years ago) link
Many bathroom breaks during Beatrice Straight's monologue?
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Friday, 9 February 2018 15:37 (six years ago) link
Every good word in the English language is in that script.
― "Minneapolis" (barf) (Eric H.), Friday, 9 February 2018 15:43 (six years ago) link
"wainscoting"?
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Friday, 9 February 2018 15:43 (six years ago) link
Crusty ... but benign.
Owen Roizman's nomination doesn't make a lick of sense tho.
― "Minneapolis" (barf) (Eric H.), Friday, 9 February 2018 15:44 (six years ago) link
Two previous nominations... and got one later for Tootsie. They just liked him.
He did the urban grime thing well, as in French Connection and Pelham 123.
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Friday, 9 February 2018 16:03 (six years ago) link
Word is that cinematography guild was the most insular boys club backscratching branch in that era.
― "Minneapolis" (barf) (Eric H.), Friday, 9 February 2018 16:22 (six years ago) link
Good news for your audience: Hollywood never stopped making plenty of shrill tirades on "what's the matter with society."
― iCloudius (cryptosicko), Friday, 9 February 2018 16:30 (six years ago) link
well Wexler won in '76 for Bound for Glory, gotta give em credit for that. xp
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Friday, 9 February 2018 16:30 (six years ago) link
― "Minneapolis" (barf) (Eric H.
"cocksmanship"
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 9 February 2018 18:11 (six years ago) link
Nine years later, I would change my vote from Taxi Driver to All the President's Men.
― clemenza, Friday, 9 February 2018 22:23 (six years ago) link
It's cool, I just changed my vote from All the President's Men back to Network and now the two are tied for second place!
― "Minneapolis" (barf) (Eric H.), Friday, 9 February 2018 23:54 (six years ago) link
It's been a busy day.
― clemenza, Saturday, 10 February 2018 00:05 (six years ago) link
wd now write in Mikey and Nicky
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 10 February 2018 01:05 (six years ago) link
I wasn't here 9 years ago, but Taxi Driver is still the best and Network still sucks.
― iCloudius (cryptosicko), Saturday, 10 February 2018 01:43 (six years ago) link
were there ever consecutive Best Actress winners who played soulless villains besides Louise Fletcher and Dunaway?
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 10 February 2018 01:51 (six years ago) link
Closest case I could determine was Natalie Portman in Black Swan and Streep's Margaret Thatcher.
― "Minneapolis" (barf) (Eric H.), Saturday, 10 February 2018 15:26 (six years ago) link
Depends on what you think about Katherine Hepburn in On Golden Pond and Meryl Streep in Sophie's Choice
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 10 February 2018 15:35 (six years ago) link
Bette Davis '38/Vivien Leigh '39? Maybe they weren't entirely soulless.
― WilliamC, Saturday, 10 February 2018 19:43 (six years ago) link
I wasn't here 9 years ago, but Network is still the best and Taxi Driver still sucks.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 10 February 2018 19:51 (six years ago) link
you can deconstruct Scarlett O'Hara myriad ways, but she is clearly the heroine of GWTW
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 11 February 2018 06:44 (six years ago) link
(and so is BD in Jezebel from what i can recall)
btw I have come to the realization that Holden was about 18 months older than I am now when they shot Network, and no one yet has impugned my cocksmanship.
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Monday, 12 February 2018 16:35 (six years ago) link
Date more loquacious programming directors with father complexes.
― "Minneapolis" (barf) (Eric H.), Monday, 12 February 2018 16:39 (six years ago) link
Basically X agrees
Just curious, which of these should've won against ROCKY?— Eric Henderson (@ephender) February 14, 2024
― Rich E. (Eric H.), Wednesday, 14 February 2024 22:10 (one month ago) link