Can You Still Do the Thing with Your Eyes? The Phil Kaufman Poll

Rising Sun is such a mess. I liked a few moments--best was Wesley Snipes when the corporate creep beckoned him to park his car: "Wrong fuckin' guy, wrong fuckin' century." Connery seemed to waver back and forth between sly self-parody and plain bad acting; wasn't sure which sometimes. Couldn't follow the plot points around the murder, or just gave up trying.

Hemingway & Gellhorn is a fucking TERRIBLE movie. I switched it off 3/4 of the way through.

I voted Henry and June.

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Body Snatchers and The Right Stuff are contenders, but I watched The Unbearable Lightness of Being again last year and didn't cringe from the sexual politics -- a surprise. More epics should be this insouciant.

I've only seen Rising Sun and Quills, so I def need to see more by this guy (likely starting with IotBS and TRS).

Is Unbearable Lightness one of those where I should bother to read the book first?

I read the book first; it matters in this case insofar as the text has an intrusive narrator in the manner of an 18th century novel yet the thing remains insouciant.

Rising Sun is complete crap. How on earth you could fuck up a Crichton vehicle in 1993 is beyond me, but it's painfully terrible.

Voted The Right Stuff.

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Surprised. Thought The Right Stuff would win going away, and didn't think anything other than the top three would get votes.

i can't remember a thnk about unbearable lightness, either the film or the book, and I read it and saw the movie at least twice. I remember a bowler hat.