(i know some ppl saw Hustle as a genre shoot-em-up, which was cloddish of them)
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 9 September 2018 15:54 (five years ago) link
voted for The End, although having not seen it in 30+ years, no idea if it holds up
― Darin, Sunday, 9 September 2018 15:54 (five years ago) link
I thought of both Deliverance and Hustle, but with Deliverance he wasn't yet a big star--he didn't really have a persona yet--and with Hustle, it just wasn't a big film. I was thinking more of something that would get him some critical acclaim, maybe even an Academy Award nomination; Starting Over seemed like that kind of film. (I sometimes get Starting Over and It's My Turn mixed up.)
― clemenza, Sunday, 9 September 2018 16:01 (five years ago) link
i'm not a huge Godfather devotee, but damn there was almost several terrible castings of Michael.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 9 September 2018 16:27 (five years ago) link
per a quick look at the b.o. charts, both Hustle and Starting Over were #17 in domestic b.o. in their respective years.
https://web.archive.org/web/20080605203026/http://www.boxofficereport.com/database/1975.shtml
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 9 September 2018 16:44 (five years ago) link
― clemenza, Sunday, September 9, 2018
He was always proud of the film and thought he'd get an Oscar nod (Clayburgh and Candace Bergen did instead).
― The Silky Veils of Alfred (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 9 September 2018 16:45 (five years ago) link
I don't recall it being very good. The pedigree did the work (ie, typical Oscar shit).
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 9 September 2018 17:04 (five years ago) link
it's muffled in that TV movie '70s way.
― The Silky Veils of Alfred (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 9 September 2018 17:07 (five years ago) link
the wall-to-wall carpeting absorbs the performances
― The Silky Veils of Alfred (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 9 September 2018 17:08 (five years ago) link
I once said that I’d rather have a Heisman Trophy than an Oscar. I lied.
Damn. The Academy hands out dozens of Oscars every year, like banana pellets at a primate research center. There's only one Heisman winner per year.
― A is for (Aimless), Sunday, 9 September 2018 18:39 (five years ago) link
Easily one of the strangest sets in film history. Ernest Borgnine's office in Robert Aldrich's Hustle (1975), all wood paneling and deep reds, with an incongruously black-and-white Los Angeles skyline seen out the window. No-one to my knowledge has ever attempted to explain this. pic.twitter.com/0BhJmuCR30— 𝕿𝖗𝖔𝖚𝖇𝖑𝖊 𝕰𝖛𝖊𝖗𝖞 𝕯𝖆𝖞 (@NickPinkerton) September 9, 2018
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 10 September 2018 02:35 (five years ago) link
ha ha! wow
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 10 September 2018 03:25 (five years ago) link
Film noir homage? Maybe Aldrich reused a shot from Kiss Me Deadly?
― Josefa, Monday, 10 September 2018 03:29 (five years ago) link
I watched Hooper last night for the first time - definitely enjoyable, much more in the Smokey & the Bandit vein.
Although I gotta say: Hal Needham’s movies look like fkn local news, they are SO workmanlike it’s almost depressing sometimes. The stunt sequence at the end was so cool but it was shot in such a “fuckit whatever” way that you miss the scope. Everything’s either close up or too far away, lol. But I do love how much room he gives Reynolds & the other actors to just be natural. Lots of personality, even if there is minimal (read: zero) flair
saw Smokey And The Bandit for the first time at a $5 screening this week: at first I was taken aback at the sometimes "set and forget" staging of some of the turnaround chase scenes, but it's not like there's no dynamics in other moments (the sense of propulsion in the Bandit / Cledus CB scenes!), and I ended up figuring that Needham was giving the viewer a perspective of what an IRL viewer might be startled by in those moments.
― Mighty Seething Bat (sic), Wednesday, 19 September 2018 20:18 (five years ago) link
yeah maybe he started out shooting stock film or something — it’s pretty funny once you start to notice it
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 19 September 2018 20:42 (five years ago) link
Watched Sharky’s Machine tonight. Kinda fun, definitely skeezy (though to answer a question from upthread, it’s not nearly as ugly as 52 Pickup; the scene where Burt slaps Rachel Ward around aside, most of the implied depravity is offscreen), but a bit overlong. This is actually time that I’ve managed to not like Charles Durning in a movie, which is a pretty dubious accomplishment. Henry Silva’s sicko villain was interesting, and there are some nicely staged sequences: I especially liked the mid-movie evidence processing montage sequence for it’s efficiency; Burt finds a nice way to avoid an info dump.
― Engles in the Outfield (cryptosicko), Saturday, 22 September 2018 03:49 (five years ago) link
*actually THE FIRST time
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, September 10, 2018 1:25 PM (one week ago)
― Josefa, Monday, September 10, 2018 1:29 PM (one week ago)
saw Vertigo on 70mm yesterday: San Francisco outside Midge's apartment window is a B&W still by day, colour film by night.
― Bitty Gingham Sheet (sic), Saturday, 22 September 2018 07:55 (five years ago) link
Just found out (via the 80s All Over podcast) that Burt turned down Terms of Endearment to do Stroker Ace, home of this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bRrhldHyfo
Jeezus.
― Engles in the Outfield (cryptosicko), Saturday, 22 September 2018 16:44 (five years ago) link
it's a WFMU show of Burt-related movie music
http://wfmu.org/playlists/shows/81415
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 23 September 2018 14:10 (five years ago) link
At Long Last Love is an "overlooked masterwork," says Richard Brody in this week's New Yorker. Hm.
― Josefa, Wednesday, 26 September 2018 23:07 (five years ago) link
director's cut showing in NYC along w/ Nickelodeon's
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 27 September 2018 00:08 (five years ago) link
Of interest: https://www.indiewire.com/2013/06/at-long-last-the-definitive-version-of-at-long-last-love-131623/
― Ubering With The King (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 27 September 2018 00:28 (five years ago) link
Also fwiw that BluRay Bogs talks about is oop.
― Ubering With The King (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 27 September 2018 00:29 (five years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Tuesday, 2 October 2018 00:01 (five years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Wednesday, 3 October 2018 00:01 (five years ago) link
I don't say this often but
Oh for fuck's sake
― Josefa, Wednesday, 3 October 2018 03:34 (five years ago) link
whutrmde @ ilx
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 3 October 2018 05:11 (five years ago) link
Found Fuzz in the library. (A Kino Lorber DVD--a couple of days after seeing Kino Lorber's The Image Book. Eclectic company.) It's not nearly as bad as you might fear...but after a promising start, not as good as you want it to be. MASH must have been the most influential film of the early '70s--you could probably list at least a couple of dozen attempts to duplicate all the stuff people liked about it. (The claustrophobic-movie-poster thread is a good place to find such films, including Fuzz.) Fuzz starts with Altman regulars Tom Skerritt and Bert Remsen; also, pre-American Graffiti Charles Martin Smith. Two really weird things: Raquel Welch is barely in it--10 minutes, maybe--and she and Reynolds have virtually no interaction at all, even though they're working out of the same precinct.
― clemenza, Saturday, 9 February 2019 02:03 (five years ago) link
Odd trivia: the writer of White Lightning and its sequel Gator once spent two years in a French prison for attempting to smuggle guns to the IRA in Northern Ireland. William W. Norton, who also co-wrote Big Bad Mama.
― Josefa, Wednesday, 8 December 2021 01:01 (two years ago) link