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Batman Begins >>>>>>>> Tim Burton's first Batman flick.

wrong!!!! you just like bale more than keaton!!!

,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, Wednesday, 1 March 2006 18:05 (twenty years ago)

batman forever is seriously underrated

,,,,,,,,,,,, Wednesday, 1 March 2006 18:05 (twenty years ago)

If that was the only thing going for it in my mind then that awful thing with George Clooney as Batman would be my favorite film of all!

Allyzay Rofflesberger (allyzay), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 18:06 (twenty years ago)

It doesn't help that I find Halle Berry and Oliver Platt v. v. annoying.

gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 18:07 (twenty years ago)

Dick Tracy is great, for all the reasons noted by Morbs and Ally!! I got a soft spot for Beatty, but Bulworth seemed to try a little too hard to me...

Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 18:09 (twenty years ago)

Halle Berry and Oliver Platt ARE annoying.

Allyzay Rofflesberger (allyzay), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 18:09 (twenty years ago)

Bulworth is a piece of shit.

Zwan (miccio), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 18:12 (twenty years ago)

Hair washing machine!

http://www.famouslocations.com/images/movies/shampoo_.jpg

elmo, patron saint of nausea (allocryptic), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 18:15 (twenty years ago)

dick tracy is great! better than batman (88-97 version). batman begins is a shade better, though.

gear (gear), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 18:17 (twenty years ago)

Warren Beatty is what George Hamilton would be if he genuinely knew how to smile.

Aimless (Aimless), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 18:19 (twenty years ago)

he's looking more and more like arlen specter these days

gear (gear), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 18:22 (twenty years ago)

http://www.entertainment-news.org/images/thumbnails/warren-beatty-i-dont-want-to-run-for-calif-gov.jpg

Aimless (Aimless), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 18:29 (twenty years ago)

I've never understood what George Hamilton is famous for.

Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 18:31 (twenty years ago)

Talk about Reds, people.

Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 18:32 (twenty years ago)

In circa 1966 the whole Free World was agog to learn that the daughter of the President of the United States of America (I think it may have been Lucy Bird) was dating a bona fide Hollywood movie star (he was upgraded for this role) named George Hamilton. Our boy George (see what I did there?) punched his ticket for the Fame Train and never looked back.

Aimless (Aimless), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 18:40 (twenty years ago)

I've never seen Reds. I'll get around to it one of these days...

Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 18:43 (twenty years ago)

so George Hamilton has actually acted in movies? this is news to me.

Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 18:44 (twenty years ago)

Hamilton played Hank Williams.

Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 18:46 (twenty years ago)

godfather III!

gear (gear), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 18:46 (twenty years ago)

He was tolerable as the structuring central cipher around which revolved Brigitte Bardot and Jeanne Moreau in Viva Maria!.

Redd Scharlach (Ken L), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 18:47 (twenty years ago)

two french croissants and a slice of american cheese

gear (gear), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 18:49 (twenty years ago)

Love at First Bite!

Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 18:49 (twenty years ago)

discussing Hamilton on a Beatty thread is like discussing Dick York on a Nicholson thread.

Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 18:52 (twenty years ago)

That's a pretty weird metaphor, even though it seems to be completely correlary.

Allyzay Rofflesberger (allyzay), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 18:53 (twenty years ago)

"you just like bale more than keaton!!!"

A sure sign of insanity.

Nathalie (stevie nixed), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 19:00 (twenty years ago)

one year passes...
Happy 70th!

Also I have Reds outta the library.

Dr Morbius, Friday, 30 March 2007 20:25 (nineteen years ago)

I'd like to know who the Witness guy in Reds is who says of WWI-era socialism, "It didn't affect me personally, I like baseball."

Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 14:51 (nineteen years ago)

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)

lol gabbneb

Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 16:56 (nineteen years ago)

one year passes...

'shampoo', 'shamPOO' more like.

banriquit, Tuesday, 24 June 2008 21:59 (seventeen years ago)

I FUCKED 'EM ALL

Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 24 June 2008 21:59 (seventeen years ago)

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 (seventeen years ago)

it's the ultimate boomer movie

xpost

banriquit, Tuesday, 24 June 2008 22:02 (seventeen years ago)

great movie. not as good as McCabe and Mrs. Miller tho. Or Bonnie and Clyde.

Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 24 June 2008 22:04 (seventeen years ago)

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 (seventeen years ago)

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 (seventeen years ago)

...

banriquit, Tuesday, 24 June 2008 22:13 (seventeen years ago)

I could never understand what made him so desirable. Does he stick $20 bills in their vaginas?

to paraphrase another actor: "I've got the TEETH, I've got the HAIR"

Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 24 June 2008 22:14 (seventeen years ago)

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 (seventeen years ago)

i think being handsome, rich, and famous does it for a lotta chicks.

banriquit, Tuesday, 24 June 2008 22:18 (seventeen years ago)

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 (seventeen years ago)

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 (seventeen years ago)

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 (seventeen years ago)

all those things do not add up to a big package.

Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, 24 June 2008 22:23 (seventeen years ago)

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!

The Lothario dialogues.

dell, Tuesday, 24 June 2008 22:25 (seventeen years ago)

if you say so...

Aimless, Tuesday, 24 June 2008 22:31 (seventeen years ago)

four months pass...

Uh?

Actor Warren Beatty has filed a federal suit for control of comic-strip detective Dick Tracy.

The film idol bought rights to the character two decades ago from the Tribune Company in order to make his 1990 hit movie version of the square-jawed, tough-talking gumshoe. The sale allowed Tribune, the original publishers of the classic strip, to take back the rights if Beatty didn’t film another project.

Tribune, which owns the Los Angeles Times, recently sent Beatty a letter saying time is up and it is reasserting control of the character. But the actor claims he should retain the rights because he started filming a Dick Tracy TV special earlier this month.

His attorney declined to say where or when the program will air, but insists the 71-year-old is far from done with the detective.

“Warren has always viewed Dick Tracy as a very valuable, interesting iconic character,” said attorney Charles Shephard. “He has all sorts of creative thoughts about what he might do with this character.”

Great. The Dark Detective.

Ned Raggett, Friday, 21 November 2008 23:34 (seventeen years ago)

18 years? Sounds like he needed to stop dicking around.

snoball, Friday, 21 November 2008 23:40 (seventeen years ago)

'And all I do now...'

Ned Raggett, Friday, 21 November 2008 23:49 (seventeen years ago)

^^^ remove the humour and that's what Chinese Democracy sounds like...

snoball, Friday, 21 November 2008 23:56 (seventeen years ago)

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 (nine years ago)

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 (nine years ago)

one year passes...

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 (seven years ago)

Yeah thats about how i feel about it too

Οὖτις, Sunday, 17 June 2018 01:38 (seven years ago)

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 (seven years ago)

She is a terrible actress

Οὖτις, Sunday, 17 June 2018 01:59 (seven years ago)

well she's not even a compelling presence in this

the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 17 June 2018 02:00 (seven years ago)

This works:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJN5DO4Lvx0

morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 17 June 2018 02:31 (seven years ago)

two months pass...

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 (seven years ago)

That article is great, I loved Rules Don't Apply

flappy bird, Thursday, 13 September 2018 07:50 (seven years ago)

“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 (seven years ago)

six months pass...

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 (seven years ago)

*is she

recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 27 March 2019 02:11 (seven years ago)

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 (seven years ago)

seven months pass...

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 (six years ago)

It’s a good movie

flappy bird, Sunday, 27 October 2019 15:34 (six years ago)

three years pass...

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.

an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 12 February 2023 06:43 (three years ago)

it's fucking great and is making me wanna rewatch Dick Tracy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwYcwB_deG8

POLIZISTEN VERSINKEN IM SCHLAMM (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 12 February 2023 07:58 (three years ago)

if i were warren beatty, i would get two dozen of these outfits made and not wear anything but
he should also go back to dating madonna

POLIZISTEN VERSINKEN IM SCHLAMM (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 12 February 2023 07:59 (three years ago)

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 (three years ago)

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 (three years ago)

30 seconds no more Dick

waiting for a czar to fall (Neanderthal), Sunday, 12 February 2023 22:20 (three years ago)

two years pass...

Today is the day Warren Beatty's character in Heaven Can Wait was actually supposed to die.

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQwLORCGVNct_WmlJ9iMQZUN6NVv3niEI_KIQ&s

jaymc, Thursday, 20 March 2025 12:30 (one year ago)

If he passes today...

conspiracitorial theories (stevie), Thursday, 20 March 2025 14:36 (one year ago)

87 years old. If it happens, he had a great run and pretty much did everything he hoped to do, but he'd probably want to live to see the U.S. pull itself out of its fascist tailspin.

birdistheword, Thursday, 20 March 2025 18:21 (one year ago)


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