blow out is unbearable for travoltas ponderous epiphany of the whole thing. watching those gears turn, ugh.
― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 16:49 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 16:57 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 16:59 (seventeen years ago) link
― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 17:07 (seventeen years ago) link
I think Dressed To Kill is good and creepy all the way through (that STD letter, sheesh.)
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 17:22 (seventeen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 17:36 (seventeen years ago) link
sean penn's jewfro alone is worth the price of admission.
― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 17:39 (seventeen years ago) link
Is Alfred jokily or unintentionally conflating Stallone and Travolta? Stayin' Alive trauma?
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 18:02 (seventeen years ago) link
― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 18:08 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 18:11 (seventeen years ago) link
― elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 18:12 (seventeen years ago) link
The Fury, however, is not.
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 18:14 (seventeen years ago) link
― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 18:15 (seventeen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 18:15 (seventeen years ago) link
I have, and quite recently. Only a matter of time before it's everywhere.
― elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 18:17 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 18:17 (seventeen years ago) link
― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 18:19 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 18:20 (seventeen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 18:24 (seventeen years ago) link
― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 18:25 (seventeen years ago) link
Pacino's narration is one of the more successful of the last few decades. Just the right weary pitch.
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 18:27 (seventeen years ago) link
eh, maybe - I think his dry spell didn't really end til "Boogie Nights" (which is also pre-Soderbergh)
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 18:32 (seventeen years ago) link
apparently guzman recently moved near my dad's rural vermont town and adopted a bunch of third world orphans - so they cross paths at the price chopper; my dad channeling his inner aging hippy say something like hey man, i like you and i like what you're doin' you're allll right!
no word yet on guzman's reply. (story relaying interrupted by me and my sister's uncontrollable laughter).
― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 18:33 (seventeen years ago) link
― gear (gear), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 18:37 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 18:56 (seventeen years ago) link
How odd. The Fury IS my favorite movie ever. Or close enough, at any rate.
― Eric H. (Eric H.), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 19:19 (seventeen years ago) link
― Eric H. (Eric H.), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 19:36 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 19:41 (seventeen years ago) link
― Eric H. (Eric H.), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 19:42 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 19:44 (seventeen years ago) link
― Eric H. (Eric H.), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 19:54 (seventeen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 19:57 (seventeen years ago) link
Has de Palma commented on why he stopped working with d.p. Stephen Burum after eight films? I see Burum is almost 67, and his last credit is a Lindsay Lohan vehicle.
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 20:18 (seventeen years ago) link
― Eric H. (Eric H.), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 20:21 (seventeen years ago) link
The Fury has one of John Cassavetes' best performances -- he's the actor/fraud of Rosemary's Baby 10 years after Damian exacted his revenge.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 20:32 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alicia Titsovich (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 20:39 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alicia Titsovich (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 21:06 (seventeen years ago) link
Not that I'm doubting your commitment toward embracing the light here, but what exactly constitutes cake in this context?
― Eric H. (Eric H.), Thursday, 7 September 2006 06:08 (seventeen years ago) link
I was thinking of the Hitchcock quote "Some films are slices of life, mine are slices of cake." (Let's assume he was being disingenuously modest, as I generally find more life in him than in, say, Kazan.)
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 7 September 2006 12:44 (seventeen years ago) link
And it killed my TV set!!!
(Sorry Eric ... I wish one of my bourgeois faves, like Babette's Feat, on you and Armond White for this one.)
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 13:49 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 13:50 (seventeen years ago) link
I read it in college and I need to do it again.
― Zwan (miccio), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 14:04 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dr. Alicia B. Titsovich (sexyDancer), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 14:53 (seventeen years ago) link
“anybody who can’t see the wit and impressive morality of The Fury really has no business in this profession, and I absolutely do believe that anybody who can’t see it in The Fury doesn’t really like movies.”
-Armond White (ok, he is completely kerrraaazy sometimes)
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 15:06 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dr. Alicia B. Titsovich (sexyDancer), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 15:17 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 15:23 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 15:48 (seventeen years ago) link
― Eric H. (Eric H.), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 16:05 (seventeen years ago) link
― Eric H. (Eric H.), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 16:06 (seventeen years ago) link