ah the seventies
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 7 May 2014 16:43 (nine years ago) link
I gues sthere's an argument to be had over whether the film is racist just bcz racists in the audience laughed at the the racist cop.
If Kael thought this movie was "shocks for jocks," oh what she lived to see.
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 7 May 2014 16:48 (nine years ago) link
laughed with Doyle, I guess
fascinating to think of Jackie Gleason in that role anyhoo
idk if I would call the film racist just because it has a racist character as its ostensible protagonist (Doyle is unlikable in other ways as noted). It's not some terrible stretch of believability that a NY cop in the 70s would be racist.
― stadow shevens (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 7 May 2014 16:55 (nine years ago) link
I'm not sure the film endorses his point of view.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 7 May 2014 16:57 (nine years ago) link
of course not, but the question is his positioning as audience surrogate/hero (dogged, "good" at his job)
xp
no, I don't think it does, necessarily
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 7 May 2014 16:57 (nine years ago) link
the ambiguity about Popeye is one of the reasons I don't really love it - I don't want to root for him.
― stadow shevens (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 7 May 2014 17:05 (nine years ago) link
My problem with it isn't Popeye -- it's my not finding it particularly exciting.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 7 May 2014 17:08 (nine years ago) link
today you could knock over that woman w/ the baby carriage in the video game
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 7 May 2014 17:09 (nine years ago) link
in the street
― james lipton and his francs (darraghmac), Wednesday, 7 May 2014 17:18 (nine years ago) link
eh why go through the trouble when Obama could aim a drone at her
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 7 May 2014 17:19 (nine years ago) link
ooooh wadda woild wadda woild
― james lipton and his francs (darraghmac), Wednesday, 7 May 2014 17:23 (nine years ago) link
It's not exciting, but it is more reptilian and steely than most of its ilk.
― Cronk's Not Cronk (Eric H.), Wednesday, 7 May 2014 17:39 (nine years ago) link
Eh, the whole train sequence is pretty damn thrilling.
― Funk autocorrect (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 7 May 2014 18:56 (nine years ago) link
yeah srsly don't know why you bores prefer neon 007 fights in skyscrapers
(also TFC meant to be seen on a big screen)
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 7 May 2014 19:17 (nine years ago) link
I'd see most good 70s movies on the big screen, and just about every 21st century ones that I care about at home, if I could.
― Funk autocorrect (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 7 May 2014 19:19 (nine years ago) link
I hate James Bond movies!
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 7 May 2014 19:37 (nine years ago) link
the car chase scene is pretty unfuckwithable, sped up film and all, but one great setpiece doth not a great film make
and yeah I hate James Bond movies
― stadow shevens (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 7 May 2014 19:38 (nine years ago) link
This applies to Skyfall as well, so it's extra cheap to bring that one up here.
― Cronk's Not Cronk (Eric H.), Wednesday, 7 May 2014 19:39 (nine years ago) link
i'm extra cheap
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 7 May 2014 19:48 (nine years ago) link
That might have been the first AA broadcast I watched as a kid. I'm positive I watched the '72 show, when The Godfather dominated, not so sure about '71--chances are, I was sitting there with my parents watching. Chaplin got his honorary award that year; I'm sure that was genuinely worth seeing, after all those years in exile. Imagine there was a palpable uneasiness in the room during those early '70s AAs: all (or at least most) of the old-guard feeling things slipping away.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 7 May 2014 22:53 (nine years ago) link
when The Godfather dominated
Revisionist history.
― Cronk's Not Cronk (Eric H.), Thursday, 8 May 2014 03:32 (nine years ago) link
More like didn't-bother-to-check carelessness, but yes. The Godfather won picture/actor/adapted screenplay, all big, but Cabaret won many more (8-3), including director/actress/cinematography/editing. Proving yet again that Germans love David Hasselhoff. Or something.
― clemenza, Thursday, 8 May 2014 11:38 (nine years ago) link
or that Cabaret is better
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 8 May 2014 11:45 (nine years ago) link
Hmmm...So suddenly the Academy Awards is a reliable measure of quality. Morbius, your consistency is always something to behold.
― clemenza, Thursday, 8 May 2014 11:47 (nine years ago) link
When he's right, he's right.
― Cronk's Not Cronk (Eric H.), Thursday, 8 May 2014 12:26 (nine years ago) link
But let's save that fun discussion for whenever I actually poll 1972.
clemenza, I take Oscar discussions about as seriously as you take guys who don't hit 500 HR.
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 8 May 2014 14:16 (nine years ago) link
If you want to move it over to the general baseball thread, so as not to bore anyone further, I'd be most interested in seeing anything I've ever posted that indicates I use 500 HR a threshhold of excellence. (You may be thinking of a post where I'm trying to predict how the HOF voters will vote.)
― clemenza, Thursday, 8 May 2014 15:25 (nine years ago) link
just stop it
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 8 May 2014 15:27 (nine years ago) link
Oh, I agree. I just feel you like to say silly things, but don't like them questioned.
― clemenza, Thursday, 8 May 2014 15:29 (nine years ago) link
bcz THEY ARE SILLY AND MEANT TO BE
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 8 May 2014 15:31 (nine years ago) link
cept that The Godfather has several unintentional laughs, to Cabaret's zero
but back to '71 -- McDowell is my best actor in that race, he carries that film over its moral fuzziness.
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 8 May 2014 15:32 (nine years ago) link
I think we're the same age--were you watching when Chaplin got his big award that year?
― clemenza, Thursday, 8 May 2014 15:37 (nine years ago) link
Didn't watch the Oscars til Cuckoo's Nest '76
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 8 May 2014 15:38 (nine years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Wednesday, 21 May 2014 00:01 (nine years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Thursday, 22 May 2014 00:01 (nine years ago) link
weird choice from the board that is SO OVER Fight Club
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 22 May 2014 02:28 (nine years ago) link
some of us were never under it
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 22 May 2014 02:29 (nine years ago) link
better and more coherent than ACO, easily
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 22 May 2014 02:53 (nine years ago) link
Dislike both about equally...ugly.
― clemenza, Thursday, 22 May 2014 03:08 (nine years ago) link
The Last Picture Show > The French Connection > A Clockwork Orange >>> Fiddler on the Roof >>> Nicholas and Alexandra
Finished off this set today with 'Nicholas and Alexandra' which could actually be redeemable if it was just a tighter story around the abdication onwards. They had some really good acting talent ultimately wasted here.
― You (bleeping) need me. You can't Finn without me (fionnland), Saturday, 13 October 2018 21:52 (five years ago) link
Also Cybill Shepherd's eyes <3
― You (bleeping) need me. You can't Finn without me (fionnland), Saturday, 13 October 2018 21:53 (five years ago) link
I guess I should finally watch TLPS all the way through but (PVMIC) The French Connection is unbeatable imo
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 13 October 2018 22:16 (five years ago) link
Ya ever pick ya feet in Poughkeepsie?
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 13 October 2018 22:17 (five years ago) link
Hard at work on "Cybill Shepherd Eyes," my follow-up to the ill-fated "Karen Black Eyes."
― clemenza, Saturday, 13 October 2018 22:26 (five years ago) link