A Great Movie? Why? (scene, documentary, must-see, Woody Allen)
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My favorite movie is Quackser Fortune has a Cousin in the Bronx (starring Gene Wilder).
It is my favorite movie because it can make you laugh and cry at the same time. And anything that Gene Wilder is in cannot be anything but brilliant.
Other favorites are "The Frisco Kid" for much the same reasons and "Paradise Alley" which is just a really, really good movie. (stars Sylvester Stallone)
Speaking of Jack Lemmon, and speaking of American Beauty... Save the Tiger (1973) is a wonderful film; arguably one of Lemmon's best performances. It is rather a 70's version of American Beauty; a man questioning his married, upper-middle class existence and looking for something meaningful. I highly recommend it.
I also love Paul Mazursky's An Unmarried Woman (1978), an unvarnished look at a woman reeling from her broken marraige and reassembling her life. Jill Clayburgh is terrific in this, as is the supporting cast. Plus, it's a great snapshot of 1970's NYC.
Save The Tiger! I love it, that's truly great movie, also read the book by Steve Shagan. Not a great book in its delivery; Shagan was a Hollywood screenwriter who tried his hand at a couple novels. His novels were made into movies though, and I'd say it was more due to their dramatic worth than his connections in the film industry. What a theme, two partners of a failing designing business in the garment industry, Lemmon and another Jack who's last name escapes me must choose between outdated ethics and financial ruin, guys of the WWII generation struggling with the new morality of the late Vietnam ear as well as their advancing years....
"Jackie Brown" is my favorite American big-studio release. It did not insult my intelligence with a totally impossible scenario. The acting was excellent by evryone, and it had a good script about a fairly compex plot. It moved at a good pace, had just the right amount of action, people had real pesonalities. The only thing I could not relate to was the ending. If Pam Grier is revving up a sports car with lots of cash on the seat beside her, and says "come with me"---I go. But, then, that would be the expected ending, cut to the beach in the Caribbean, and roll the credits. This movie was better than that.
I loved DeNiro in that movie, his character a burnt out ex-con returning to L.A., and hooking up (in the old sense of the term), with Samuel Jackson, who stacks up well against the acting guru as a fast talking, manipulative drug dealer. Jackson's inhouse "girlfriend", who DeNiro hooks up with, (in the new sense of the term), is Bridget Fonda, who shows she can handle the HW's she's in the ring with in this Tarrantion film. I have to admit I'm not a big Tarrantino fan, though I do get the allure. For me he tends to get a little too ugly, and though I don't like my reality based fiction to be sugar coated, I dont like it to be sensationalized either; and in my opinion Quentin does that to a degree. Just my particular taste.
Paradise Alley, the early Stallone movie, I believe right between Rocky I and II, has ambience to spare. You can always pick out a Stallone script, almost like a Capra movie, dealing with a hard-scrabbled reality with a smirk, with a cathartic seemingly involuntary humor. Stallone as always is funny, as is his supporting cast. Even otherwise stonefaced Armand Assante can't help but crack a smile or two. Heard that the two New York Italians liked each other on that set, had a good enough rapport to work together one or two times later, in the other kind of Stallone movies, the ones where he takes himself too seriously and/or is just going for the mega-buck, and he sure knows how to do that too!
Save The Tiger! I love it, that's truly great movie, also read the book by Steve Shagan. Not a great book in its delivery; Shagan was a Hollywood screenwriter who tried his hand at a couple novels. His novels were made into movies though, and I'd say it was more due to their dramatic worth than his connections in the film industry. What a theme, two partners of a failing designing business in the garment industry, Lemmon and another Jack who's last name escapes me must choose between outdated ethics and financial ruin, guys of the WWII generation struggling with the new morality of the late Vietnam ear as well as their advancing years....
Jack Gilford, a marvelous character actor...I still remember his solioquy about when 'craft' meant everything in their business...it goes back to your comments about American ethics and how everything changed after Vietnam.
Jack Gilford, a marvelous character actor...I still remember his solioquy about when 'craft' meant everything in their business...it goes back to your comments about American ethics and how everything changed after Vietnam.
The Last King of Scotland. Forrest Whittaker made me believe he was Idi Amin. During scenes where he was giving an oration, you really got captivated in his speech and almost believed he truly wanted a better Uganda. In the scenes where he became bat sh*t crazy, you were actually scared of him. You could even feel sympathy for the young Scottish doctor. You understood how and why he became Amin's right hand man, and hoped he would find his way out of the h*ll that was his life at the time.
The Last King of Scotland. Forrest Whittaker made me believe he was Idi Amin. During scenes where he was giving an oration, you really got captivated in his speech and almost believed he truly wanted a better Uganda. In the scenes where he became bat sh*t crazy, you were actually scared of him. You could even feel sympathy for the young Scottish doctor. You understood how and why he became Amin's right hand man, and hoped he would find his way out of the h*ll that was his life at the time.
I actually saw part of that movie. It was good until I got to the dismemberment scene. I am not into gore and don't want to look at it no matter how germane it might be to the story (or historically accurate). It would have been a much better movie without it. I turned the tv off at that point and picked up a copy of something to read instead. Sad that so many good movies are ruined by gratuitous gore, sex, violence and such. I have always liked Forrest Whittaker as an actor.
I actually saw part of that movie. It was good until I got to the dismemberment scene. I am not into gore and don't want to look at it no matter how germane it might be to the story (or historically accurate). It would have been a much better movie without it. I turned the tv off at that point and picked up a copy of something to read instead. Sad that so many good movies are ruined by gratuitous gore, sex, violence and such. I have always liked Forrest Whittaker as an actor.
20yrsinBranson
I know just what you mean, Branson. There are some movies I will not watch because they are just too hard, not matter how well done, no matter how realistic, Schindler's list is one, Sophie's Choice, the flashback scenes, especially the one where she is forced to make her choice between her children's lives, Raging Bull, though I'm a big fan of Scorsese and DeNiro, and boxing as well, I just can't take the hate in that movie, the scene where Jake beats his brother in front of his wife and kids, just too ugly, and gore, realistic or not, germaine or not, always rings a little sensational for me. I always think that they could have done without it.
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