― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Monday, 7 March 2005 07:04 (nineteen years ago) link
― charleston charge (chaki), Monday, 7 March 2005 07:09 (nineteen years ago) link
― Darius Rucker Lookalike (deangulberry), Monday, 7 March 2005 07:24 (nineteen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 7 March 2005 07:26 (nineteen years ago) link
― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Monday, 7 March 2005 07:28 (nineteen years ago) link
― Darius Rucker Lookalike (deangulberry), Monday, 7 March 2005 07:28 (nineteen years ago) link
― Stormy Davis (diamond), Monday, 7 March 2005 07:38 (nineteen years ago) link
― Darius Rucker Lookalike (deangulberry), Monday, 7 March 2005 07:39 (nineteen years ago) link
― Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Monday, 7 March 2005 08:42 (nineteen years ago) link
i remember wanting to and trying to like that "heart" movie when it came out
even "the conversation" isn't quite as good as it think it is
― mark s (mark s), Monday, 7 March 2005 09:31 (nineteen years ago) link
― Stormy Davis (diamond), Monday, 7 March 2005 09:37 (nineteen years ago) link
the actual surveillance stuff is classic csi-style impossi-tech which is fun but silly (cf also the absurd blow-up)
the parallax-view plot is even sillier (esp. when its plucking yr sleeve and saying THIS IS A METAPHOR FOR AMERICA YDO YOU SEE?) (cz NO IT'S NOT)
as proved at the end when all turns to shit he suddenly turns into an unknown jazz great!!? :o
i like it lots, it's VERY watchable and pays good attention to sound obv, when lots of movies don't really, but its rep as an "important studio-suppressed masterwork" has way distorted how ppl respond to it, i think
coppola has very little common sense, and that begins to be peekin out round the corners of this film
― mark s (mark s), Monday, 7 March 2005 09:52 (nineteen years ago) link
― mark s (mark s), Monday, 7 March 2005 09:54 (nineteen years ago) link
― charleston charge (chaki), Monday, 7 March 2005 09:54 (nineteen years ago) link
― Stormy Davis (diamond), Monday, 7 March 2005 09:59 (nineteen years ago) link
― Stormy Davis (diamond), Monday, 7 March 2005 10:02 (nineteen years ago) link
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/P/PEOPLE_COPPOLA?SITE=MTBIL&SECTION=ENTERTAINMENT&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
his new script,for "tetro" (with matt damon) was stolen from his computer.
maybe it is all for the good,if you think about his work in the late 15 years or so.
― Zeno, Friday, 28 September 2007 00:05 (sixteen years ago) link
rumble fish and apocalypse now are the only good ones
― J.D., Friday, 28 September 2007 02:28 (sixteen years ago) link
the cotton club seems really bad from the first ten minutes.
― ian, Friday, 14 August 2015 01:10 (eight years ago) link
Just rewatched Godfathers I and II with my girlfriend who'd never seen them. Probably 7th or 8th viewing for me? Anyhow, things I've always thought of as great have begun to show their age in a bad way : some silly/broad direction and performances (Caan, Brando at the top of I, most everyone around DeNiro in II, ...), pushy use of musical themes or "THE THEME"... plus a few other things. She loved the films. II is still wonderful to me.
― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Friday, 14 August 2015 10:07 (eight years ago) link
i've always chuckled at Sonny's beating of Carlo, where the punches AIN'T EVEN CLOSE.
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Friday, 14 August 2015 11:13 (eight years ago) link
Cotton Club gets better when Fred Gwynne and Bob Hoskins show up.
i've still to this day after 10 or so viewings, no idea what Micheal means when he says to Carlo "ah that game you played with my sister".. what game? the whole marriage? the big fight with her? still no idea. IMO I is *hella* complex when you haven't a) read the book or b) seen it before/ for ages.
― piscesx, Friday, 14 August 2015 13:32 (eight years ago) link
apocalypse now > godfather imo
― johnny crunch, Friday, 14 August 2015 13:35 (eight years ago) link
no idea what Micheal means when he says to Carlo "ah that game you played with my sister".. what game? the whole marriage? the big fight with her? still no idea.
The last big fight that got Sonny lured into coming over there so he could fall into the ambush at the toll gate.
― I might like you better if we Yelped together (Phil D.), Friday, 14 August 2015 13:38 (eight years ago) link
The whole exchange:
"You fingered Sonny for the Barzini people. Ahhh that little farce you played with my sister--you think that could fool a Corleone?"
― clemenza, Friday, 14 August 2015 13:52 (eight years ago) link
so Carlo deliberately beats her up so that Sonny goes after him again? mmhm gotcha. sadists these gangsters man.
― piscesx, Friday, 14 August 2015 14:11 (eight years ago) link
"Martin was kind when he said it's not cinema. He didn't say it's despicable, which I just say it is."
https://www.france24.com/en/20191019-coppola-backs-scorsese-in-row-over-marvel-films
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 21 October 2019 01:05 (four years ago) link
FFC otm
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Monday, 21 October 2019 03:04 (four years ago) link
Hell yeah.
― jmm, Monday, 21 October 2019 03:21 (four years ago) link
I'm more into these statements for the fan meltdowns than for the merits of the argument, tbh.
― jmm, Monday, 21 October 2019 03:28 (four years ago) link
I hope this doesn’t result in comic book fans boycotting his next microbudget art film
― “Hakuna Matata,” a nihilist philosophy (One Eye Open), Monday, 21 October 2019 04:31 (four years ago) link
he's planning a megabudget epic, i'm not sure funded by whom
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 21 October 2019 10:24 (four years ago) link
try his little-known 1931 debut, "say, what's the big idea?" starring lillian gish, mary pickford and janet gaynor― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Monday, March 7, 2005 2:28 AM (fourteen years ago) bookmarkflaglink
― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Monday, March 7, 2005 2:28 AM (fourteen years ago) bookmarkflaglink
Oh if this were only real.
FWIW I've seen Apocalypse Now, The Cotton Club, Peggy Sue Got Married, and Dracula. I can't remember if I completed Tetro because it was on a scratched-up library DVD.
If IMDB is worth the bandwidth on which it's printed, Coppola is working on something called Megalopolis ("An architect wants to rebuild New York City as a utopia following a devastating disaster"), starring Jude Law. I can't imagine a picture on this theme being made without the special effects that enable the MCU. Also, that scant information gives me an impression of Deluge meets The Fountainhead.
― Anne Hedonia (j.lu), Monday, 21 October 2019 12:50 (four years ago) link