And Beatty actually made a comic-strip movie that LOOKED like one, instead of these gr*phic n*vel basement-boy jizzfests. I love when he says to Tess, slipping out of the opera, "I'll be back, I wanna see how it comes out."
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 17:43 (eighteen years ago) link
― ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, Wednesday, 1 March 2006 17:51 (eighteen years ago) link
Re: comic strip movies that look like comic strips, be more specific about what you are talking about because you'll find that a lot of these movies DO look like exactly what they are based off of. Just because they're not the versions you like doesn't mean they aren't imitating the look of the comic. This is not a defense of Frank Fucking Miller, just a comment. Though I do have to say I preferred Batman Begins >>>>>>>> Tim Burton's first Batman flick.
― Allyzay Rofflesberger (allyzay), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 18:01 (eighteen years ago) link
Bulworth is not a great movie, and I find its attitude too diffident/distant/cynical/unserious (it's what you think about politics if your major role in it is going to Hollywood events and sending people lots of money), but at least he's trying and I liked it a lot the first time around (it doesn't hold up that well).
Dick Tracy is ridiculous, but I think seriously underrated. Also perhaps the role best-suited for him.
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 18:03 (eighteen years ago) link
― Allyzay Rofflesberger (allyzay), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 18:04 (eighteen years ago) link
wrong!!!! you just like bale more than keaton!!!
― ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, Wednesday, 1 March 2006 18:05 (eighteen years ago) link
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― Allyzay Rofflesberger (allyzay), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 18:06 (eighteen years ago) link
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 18:07 (eighteen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 18:09 (eighteen years ago) link
― Allyzay Rofflesberger (allyzay), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 18:09 (eighteen years ago) link
― Zwan (miccio), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 18:12 (eighteen years ago) link
http://www.famouslocations.com/images/movies/shampoo_.jpg
― elmo, patron saint of nausea (allocryptic), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 18:15 (eighteen years ago) link
― gear (gear), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 18:17 (eighteen years ago) link
― Aimless (Aimless), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 18:19 (eighteen years ago) link
― gear (gear), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 18:22 (eighteen years ago) link
― Aimless (Aimless), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 18:29 (eighteen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 18:31 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 18:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― Aimless (Aimless), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 18:40 (eighteen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 18:43 (eighteen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 18:44 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 18:46 (eighteen years ago) link
― gear (gear), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 18:46 (eighteen years ago) link
― Redd Scharlach (Ken L), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 18:47 (eighteen years ago) link
― gear (gear), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 18:49 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 18:49 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 18:52 (eighteen years ago) link
― Allyzay Rofflesberger (allyzay), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 18:53 (eighteen years ago) link
A sure sign of insanity.
― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 19:00 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 30 March 2007 20:25 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 14:51 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 16:56 (seventeen years ago) link
'shampoo', 'shamPOO' more like.
― banriquit, Tuesday, 24 June 2008 21:59 (fifteen years ago) link
I FUCKED 'EM ALL
― Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 24 June 2008 21:59 (fifteen years ago) link
I skimmed through a biography of the man in a bookstore...one of the best examples of how being successful in yr chosen field, being filthy rich, and having virtually unlimited access to yr choice of sexual partners does not equal "happiness"
― dell, Tuesday, 24 June 2008 22:02 (fifteen years ago) link
it's the ultimate boomer movie
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― banriquit, Tuesday, 24 June 2008 22:02 (fifteen years ago) link
great movie. not as good as McCabe and Mrs. Miller tho. Or Bonnie and Clyde.
― Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 24 June 2008 22:04 (fifteen years ago) link
Still one of the best dressed men. I would kill to have his tailor who is oddly, Frank Foster, the now famous tailor responsible for fashionable skinheads (e.g. Nick Knight).
― Allen, Tuesday, 24 June 2008 22:06 (fifteen years ago) link
I could never understand what made him so desirable. Does he stick $20 bills in their vaginas?
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, 24 June 2008 22:12 (fifteen years ago) link
...
― banriquit, Tuesday, 24 June 2008 22:13 (fifteen years ago) link
to paraphrase another actor: "I've got the TEETH, I've got the HAIR"
― Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 24 June 2008 22:14 (fifteen years ago) link
in Mark Harris' new book about the films of 1967, Beatty comes off as the only guy who could irritate Godard and Truffaut equally.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, 24 June 2008 22:17 (fifteen years ago) link
i think being handsome, rich, and famous does it for a lotta chicks.
― banriquit, Tuesday, 24 June 2008 22:18 (fifteen years ago) link
he's a good-looking dude, of which there are no shortage of in Hollywood, obv...but, also, presumably he's managed to communicate a charismatic, sexay vibe
one of my favorite parts of the "Raging Bulls, Easy Riders" book is when it talks about him having whispery, hushed-toned late-night/early dawn conversations with Robert Towne. Please bring on the transcripts of that shit!
― dell, Tuesday, 24 June 2008 22:21 (fifteen years ago) link
The only time I ever found him hawt was watching him learn Russian in Reds (then the scene with the dog barking killed it).
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, 24 June 2008 22:22 (fifteen years ago) link
Think, alf, think. Not just hair or teeth. Skin. Clothes. Cheekbones. Manicure. Car. House. Power. Money. Fame. Not a lot of women can stand up to that package. xp
― Aimless, Tuesday, 24 June 2008 22:23 (fifteen years ago) link
all those things do not add up to a big package.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, 24 June 2008 22:23 (fifteen years ago) link
The Lothario dialogues.
― dell, Tuesday, 24 June 2008 22:25 (fifteen years ago) link
Rules Don't ApplyBudget: $25,000,000Gross: $3,580,979
Ishtar [adjusted for inflation]Budget: $117,034,290Gross: $30,588,910
― Ballistic: ILX vs. Sever (Eric H.), Monday, 12 December 2016 19:35 (seven years ago) link
(I know he didn't direct the latter, but just for comparison's sake.)
$25M is low-budget for a period piece.
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Monday, 12 December 2016 19:41 (seven years ago) link
I've been meaning to watch Reds for years and years. I'm unlikely to have 4 hours to spare to watch it in one go, would it ruin it if I tried to watch it episodically?
― There shouldn't be a thread for Dennis Perrin tweets (stevie), Wednesday, 14 December 2016 11:12 (seven years ago) link
if you must, I would go with halves; there's an intermission. It's only 3:20.
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 14 December 2016 12:03 (seven years ago) link
That sounds do-able, thanks Morbs.
― There shouldn't be a thread for Dennis Perrin tweets (stevie), Wednesday, 14 December 2016 12:21 (seven years ago) link
Rules is not bad! All three principals are pretty good, in fact. Steve Coogan has one very funny scene in a cockpit while HH sings a Jolson medley.
Steve Mnuchin was a producer and has a wordless cameo (alongside a small gem of an Oliver Platt performance).
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 29 March 2017 05:36 (seven years ago) link
Beatty literally closes the curtain on his career in his last scene, works as a masked autobiography in many ways.
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 29 March 2017 15:25 (seven years ago) link
80 today!
the Karl story:
http://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2017/02/warren-beatty-pauline-kael-love-and-money
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 30 March 2017 16:03 (seven years ago) link
didn't know the lead actress in RDA was Paperlate's daughter
good take here:
http://www.csmonitor.com/The-Culture/Movies/2016/1123/Rules-Don-t-Apply-Warren-Beatty-s-directorial-return-is-disarmingly-light
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 30 March 2017 18:21 (seven years ago) link
rewatched Dick Tracy; love Pacino, Headly, the production design/effects and most of the jokes.
don't like La Ciccone and the loudness/replication of Burton's Batman in the last half hour (down to Elfman scoring it).
this is the best Sondheim song in it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDUZgORmrSY
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 17 June 2018 01:17 (five years ago) link
Yeah thats about how i feel about it too
― Οὖτις, Sunday, 17 June 2018 01:38 (five years ago) link
Madonna has one good line reading where she sez about the Kid "What a cute little boy," like she wants to smother him.
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 17 June 2018 01:55 (five years ago) link
She is a terrible actress
― Οὖτις, Sunday, 17 June 2018 01:59 (five years ago) link
well she's not even a compelling presence in this
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 17 June 2018 02:00 (five years ago) link
This works:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJN5DO4Lvx0
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 17 June 2018 02:31 (five years ago) link
https://variety.com/2018/film/news/beatty-rules-dont-apply-test-audience-ethnic-1202935368/
“I’m not looking for acclaim for the movie,” wrote Beatty, who is 81. “The movie will be recognized for what it is. It’s that I want money to come back to our investors to cover the P&A shortfall, in order to compensate them for the mistake of our finally gambling on a higher awareness for a movie starring two unknown young people and an old guy who hasn’t been on the theatrical screen for 15 years.”
― Ubering With The King (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 13 September 2018 05:57 (five years ago) link
That article is great, I loved Rules Don't Apply
― flappy bird, Thursday, 13 September 2018 07:50 (five years ago) link
“One possibility discussed was that the public was just not interested in the film, its stars, or its subject matter.”
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Friday, 14 September 2018 13:26 (five years ago) link
My conclusions about Reds since my second viewing in 2006 remain unchanged: a confused movie made by a guy attracted to capital-I-ideas filtered through Old Hollywood notions of chivalry and moviemaking. When Jack Reed is burning dinner or bumping his head against chandeliers, I want to bury the DVD in the backyard. While the film captures Reed's magnetism (from what I've read about him), it misses his energy and commitment. To a degree I admire that Beatty, a product of the mummified remains of the studio system, conceived of Reed as a passive force, to the point of being topped by Lousie whenever they fuck often in the second half (their sex drives increase as the Revolution triumphs, yet anothe of the film's howlers).
Also, the film has no clue what to do about Louise Bryant. Is she untalented, hence her anger? Is he a frustrated talent? Is he Annie Hall, yelling "fuck" and throwing things and gibbering la-dee-da to herself?"
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 27 March 2019 02:10 (five years ago) link
*is she
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 27 March 2019 02:11 (five years ago) link
Just now had a vague memory of something about the way the talking heads were presented in Zelig being a critique of the way this was done in Reds.
― Theorbo Goes Wild (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 27 March 2019 02:43 (five years ago) link
Proud to say I still have my Rules Don’t Apply cocktail glasses, commemorating a movie I enjoy https://t.co/XKqX2P3kcd pic.twitter.com/SDZiLZork1— Splat! Prigge (@mattprigge) October 25, 2019
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 27 October 2019 14:28 (four years ago) link
It’s a good movie
― flappy bird, Sunday, 27 October 2019 15:34 (four years ago) link
https://screencrush.com/warren-beatty-dick-tracy-special-2023/
In Dick Tracy Special: Tracy Zooms In, TCM host Ben Mankiewicz invites film critic Leonard Maltin over to his office as he prepares for a Zoom call with the famous comic strip and movie cop, Dick Tracy. Tracy (Beatty) calls Mankiewicz and Maltin on Zoom — Beatty is seated in a black void while wearing Tracy’s trademark yellow hat and overcoat — first to compliment Mankiewicz on an interview he did with Beatty for TCM some time earlier. Then “Dick Tracy” explains his issues with the movie Beatty made about him in 1990, while he watches clips from the film. A good five minutes of this 30 minute show were literally just Warren Beatty dressed as Dick Tracy watching the Dick Tracy movie while muttering things like “Yes! Yes, that’s good!” and “No! No! That’s terrible!”...2023’s Tracy Zooms In special builds to Maltin adding the “real” Warren Beatty to the Zoom call, and — as Mankiewicz and Maltin look on in disbelief — the two Beattys get into a rambling debate about the Dick Tracy movie and moviemaking in general.
2023’s Tracy Zooms In special builds to Maltin adding the “real” Warren Beatty to the Zoom call, and — as Mankiewicz and Maltin look on in disbelief — the two Beattys get into a rambling debate about the Dick Tracy movie and moviemaking in general.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 12 February 2023 06:43 (one year ago) link
it's fucking great and is making me wanna rewatch Dick Tracyhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwYcwB_deG8
― POLIZISTEN VERSINKEN IM SCHLAMM (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 12 February 2023 07:58 (one year ago) link
if i were warren beatty, i would get two dozen of these outfits made and not wear anything buthe should also go back to dating madonna
― POLIZISTEN VERSINKEN IM SCHLAMM (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 12 February 2023 07:59 (one year ago) link
excellent, thx. this was the first movie i saw in a theater in america and still one of my favorite movies of all time.
― The field divisions are fastened with felicitations. (Deflatormouse), Sunday, 12 February 2023 08:41 (one year ago) link
Everytime Madonna comes onscreen=Tracy: "No no no..."
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 12 February 2023 21:35 (one year ago) link
30 seconds no more Dick
― waiting for a czar to fall (Neanderthal), Sunday, 12 February 2023 22:20 (one year ago) link