It's actually one of his best films.
― Pete Scholtes, Thursday, 11 August 2005 13:52 (eighteen years ago) link
― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 11 August 2005 13:54 (eighteen years ago) link
Well that's good, since Brando does what he can to wreck the first one.
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 11 August 2005 14:01 (eighteen years ago) link
― Phil Dellio (j.j. hunsecker), Thursday, 11 August 2005 17:42 (eighteen years ago) link
I prefer him in The Freshman, and Harry Belafonte in Uptown Saturday Night.
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 11 August 2005 17:46 (eighteen years ago) link
― Phil Dellio (j.j. hunsecker), Thursday, 11 August 2005 19:51 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 11 August 2005 20:07 (eighteen years ago) link
Fist of Fury (1972)Jeremiah Johnson (1972)Juggernaut (1974)Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart at the River Styx (1972)Mr. Majestyk (1974)New One-Armed Swordsman (1971)Turkish Delight (1973)
― fe zaffe (fezaffe), Thursday, 11 August 2005 20:53 (eighteen years ago) link
― Phil Dellio (j.j. hunsecker), Thursday, 11 August 2005 21:09 (eighteen years ago) link
― Pete Scholtes, Thursday, 11 August 2005 22:37 (eighteen years ago) link
― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 11 August 2005 22:38 (eighteen years ago) link
― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 11 August 2005 22:39 (eighteen years ago) link
Yes, vote early, vote often.
― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Friday, 12 August 2005 21:21 (eighteen years ago) link
Like the deleted scene after the door closes on Kay at the end of the movie, which shows her throwing a glass at the door, shattering it, and screaming, "Noooooooooooo!" It ends with a freeze frame of her face with her mouth open, and the credits roll over that.
― Pete Scholtes, Friday, 12 August 2005 23:44 (eighteen years ago) link
― richardk (Richard K), Friday, 12 August 2005 23:59 (eighteen years ago) link
― richardk (Richard K), Saturday, 13 August 2005 00:01 (eighteen years ago) link
9 MORE DAYS LEFT TO VOTE
― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Saturday, 13 August 2005 20:38 (eighteen years ago) link
― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Saturday, 13 August 2005 21:27 (eighteen years ago) link
― gear (gear), Saturday, 13 August 2005 21:30 (eighteen years ago) link
'mazing how one person's opinion is indicted for 'sweeping authority' when it's phrased like 5000 others. Ah, the $ of challenging Conventional Wisdom.
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 14 August 2005 13:19 (eighteen years ago) link
― Leeeeeeee (Leee), Sunday, 14 August 2005 17:59 (eighteen years ago) link
― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Sunday, 14 August 2005 18:15 (eighteen years ago) link
― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Sunday, 14 August 2005 19:07 (eighteen years ago) link
― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Sunday, 14 August 2005 20:04 (eighteen years ago) link
― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Sunday, 14 August 2005 20:13 (eighteen years ago) link
it also seems kind of snide and condescending, like altman wanted to make a renoir-style ensemble film but completely lacked renoir's wit and generosity.
― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Sunday, 14 August 2005 20:23 (eighteen years ago) link
― gear (gear), Sunday, 14 August 2005 20:27 (eighteen years ago) link
― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Sunday, 14 August 2005 20:49 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tom May (Tom May), Sunday, 14 August 2005 22:21 (eighteen years ago) link
― Phil Dellio (j.j. hunsecker), Sunday, 14 August 2005 22:49 (eighteen years ago) link
>The President's Analyst
late '60s.
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Monday, 15 August 2005 13:59 (eighteen years ago) link
― Phil Dellio (j.j. hunsecker), Monday, 15 August 2005 16:57 (eighteen years ago) link
― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 17:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― Pete Scholtes, Tuesday, 16 August 2005 21:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 23:17 (eighteen years ago) link
― Jimmy_tango, Wednesday, 17 August 2005 00:00 (eighteen years ago) link
― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 00:02 (eighteen years ago) link
(Network is my #6.)
― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 00:09 (eighteen years ago) link
Yeah, this is one of my favorite movies.
― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 00:13 (eighteen years ago) link
― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 00:17 (eighteen years ago) link
― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 00:18 (eighteen years ago) link
― walter kranz (walterkranz), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 00:18 (eighteen years ago) link
― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 00:22 (eighteen years ago) link
The speculative fiction line i totally agree w/ also, though it's brilliant (to me) b/c it never verges on impossibility or the territory that sci-fi works with...honestly, i am again and again hard-pressed to come up with a smarter screenplay ever written (hyperbole, but you get the idea).
― Jimmy_tango, Wednesday, 17 August 2005 01:43 (eighteen years ago) link
― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 02:18 (eighteen years ago) link
― Phil Dellio (j.j. hunsecker), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 03:55 (eighteen years ago) link
Yes, all the women in the first "Godfather" -- Kay, Mama, the topless Sicilian bride -- are pretty much stick figures, which is one reason men love the movie so much.
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 12:32 (eighteen years ago) link
Because ppl were just so damn shallow til Reagan was elected?
>long before we had a disdain for TV news<
Sorry, TV news was held in contempt by many literate folk loooong before Network.
Jonathan Rosenbaum hits about the right median, I think, esp re its misogyny:
Good campy fun from the combined talents of Paddy Chayefsky and Sidney Lumet; Chayefsky was apparently serious about much of this shrill, self-important 1976 satire about television, interlaced with bile about radicals and pushy career women, and so were some critics at the time.
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 12:41 (eighteen years ago) link
― Phil Dellio (j.j. hunsecker), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 14:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 14:58 (eighteen years ago) link