― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Thursday, 19 August 2004 04:15 (nineteen years ago) link
I saw this movie for the first time in the early nineties, when I was a punk teenager. I immediately loved it and watched it again and again and again. It became the first DVD I ever bought, and will probably become the first DVD that I ever rebuy. The one I have now is a flipper!
I watched it six months ago, half expecting that some of the magic would have dimmed since I'm now a grown man in his thirties. I loved it even more. My favorite movie of all time. Fuck The Godfather.
And Good Lord, fuck After Hours at the same time. Is that all there is? He goes to work covered in paint, huzzah for metaphors.
― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Thursday, 19 August 2004 04:36 (nineteen years ago) link
― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 19 August 2004 04:38 (nineteen years ago) link
― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 19 August 2004 04:39 (nineteen years ago) link
― Gear! (Gear!), Thursday, 19 August 2004 04:42 (nineteen years ago) link
― Gear! (Gear!), Thursday, 19 August 2004 04:46 (nineteen years ago) link
Oh, and the deleted scenes. I wonder how much is on there? Dammit, I guess I'll have to get this tomorrow.
― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Thursday, 19 August 2004 05:02 (nineteen years ago) link
― Uh-Huh Him (Enrique), Thursday, 19 August 2004 08:01 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jimmybommy JimmyK'KANG (Nick Southall), Thursday, 19 August 2004 08:09 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jimmybommy JimmyK'KANG (Nick Southall), Thursday, 19 August 2004 08:11 (nineteen years ago) link
― G-L-O-R-I-A (Enrique), Thursday, 19 August 2004 08:14 (nineteen years ago) link
― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Thursday, 19 August 2004 08:15 (nineteen years ago) link
I can not like it because it's fucking horrible.
― Jimmybommy JimmyK'KANG (Nick Southall), Thursday, 19 August 2004 08:16 (nineteen years ago) link
― G-L-O-R-I-A (Enrique), Thursday, 19 August 2004 08:17 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jimmybommy JimmyK'KANG (Nick Southall), Thursday, 19 August 2004 08:23 (nineteen years ago) link
― ENRG (Enrique), Thursday, 19 August 2004 08:26 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jimmybommy JimmyK'KANG (Nick Southall), Thursday, 19 August 2004 08:29 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jimmybommy JimmyK'KANG (Nick Southall), Thursday, 19 August 2004 08:31 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dave B (daveb), Thursday, 19 August 2004 08:35 (nineteen years ago) link
― Uh-Huh Him (Enrique), Thursday, 19 August 2004 08:37 (nineteen years ago) link
― Uh-Huh Him (Enrique), Thursday, 19 August 2004 08:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jimmybommy JimmyK'KANG (Nick Southall), Thursday, 19 August 2004 08:56 (nineteen years ago) link
― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 19 August 2004 08:57 (nineteen years ago) link
― ENRG (Enrique), Thursday, 19 August 2004 08:59 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jimmybommy JimmyK'KANG (Nick Southall), Thursday, 19 August 2004 09:00 (nineteen years ago) link
How about the mountain of blow scenes in Scarface? They should be up there too.
― o. nate (onate), Thursday, 19 August 2004 09:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 19 August 2004 09:01 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jimmybommy JimmyK'KANG (Nick Southall), Thursday, 19 August 2004 09:02 (nineteen years ago) link
the obvious being that YOU'RE the dick!!!!
― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 19 August 2004 09:05 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jimmybommy JimmyK'KANG (Nick Southall), Thursday, 19 August 2004 09:09 (nineteen years ago) link
This is the key point I think, no-one, other than say Jonathan Demme or Tarantino can use popular music as a plot device as well as Scorsese. Take the music away it's a fine, well acted, above average mob movie. Put the soundtrack in, it's elevated to a work of genius. Whenever I hear the piano coda of 'Layla' I immediately think of the corpse swimming through the trash (and what a duffer the rest of Clapton's catalogue is).
― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Thursday, 19 August 2004 09:12 (nineteen years ago) link
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― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 19 August 2004 09:13 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 19 August 2004 09:16 (nineteen years ago) link
― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 19 August 2004 09:19 (nineteen years ago) link
And aside from my dislike of it on an aesthetic and emotional level, there's the whole rhetoric that surrounds it, which works on two levels. The first is the whole "oh but they're gangsters and cool and romantic and italian and just cool and it's such a cool film man I loe it when he shoves that thing in the back of the guy's neck" which is pretty easy to dismiss because it's utterly superficial. And then there's the level above that, which is what Henry's just wandered into, which is the use of film school technical talk to justify liking the film and take the film from being "a film I like" to "a great film", which then engenders a belief in the person delivering the rhetoric that it's absolutely impervious to criticism and that anybody who disagrees is just plain wrong and their opinion not worth considering. That whole "oh but the mis-en-scene is so great, and the lighting on the car outside the house and the way this shot cuts into the next and so on and the way blahblahblah", yes, technically it might be very well put together but that does NOT mean that everyone MUST necessarily like it. And that out-of-hand dismissal of someone else's opinion because you believe yours to be based in fact is total fucking rockism.
― Jimmybommy JimmyK'KANG (Nick Southall), Thursday, 19 August 2004 09:22 (nineteen years ago) link
― ENRG (Enrique), Thursday, 19 August 2004 09:27 (nineteen years ago) link
And I'm not saying that GF or TD are in themselves "lazy cultural experiences", because I'm not sure anything of itself it, but the way the rhetoric that surrounds these films directs the discourse of them suggests a lazy cultural experience on the part of many people viewing them, because they've already been canonised as 'classic' people simply sit and watch them and accept that classic status and repeat it by rote, instead of trying to actually engage with the film themselves. It's second-hand reactiosn to things, received wisdom masquerading as insight.
― Jimmybommy JimmyK'KANG (Nick Southall), Thursday, 19 August 2004 09:35 (nineteen years ago) link
― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 19 August 2004 09:37 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jimmybommy JimmyK'KANG (Nick Southall), Thursday, 19 August 2004 09:40 (nineteen years ago) link
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― ENRG (Enrique), Thursday, 19 August 2004 09:42 (nineteen years ago) link
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― Jimmybommy JimmyK'KANG (Nick Southall), Thursday, 19 August 2004 09:47 (nineteen years ago) link
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― Jimmybommy JimmyK'KANG (Nick Southall), Thursday, 19 August 2004 09:53 (nineteen years ago) link
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― Jimmybommy JimmyK'KANG (Nick Southall), Thursday, 19 August 2004 09:56 (nineteen years ago) link
― ENRG (Enrique), Thursday, 19 August 2004 09:57 (nineteen years ago) link