| Author | Message | ||
     Gcw (Gcw) Username: Gcw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.170.200.175 |
..Skyplussed this a couple of weeks ago, gonna watch it tonight. I believe this is a good 'un? gcw | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 86.156.32.207 |
Is that Jerry Lewis? | ||
| Gcw (Gcw) Username: Gcw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.170.200.175 |
Yes, and Robert De Niro in pre-gurning days. gcw | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.3.65.135 |
You've never seen it??? And I thought I was a film duff... | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.3.65.135 |
Btw, it's brilliant. In a sick and twisted way. | ||
| Gcw (Gcw) Username: Gcw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.170.200.175 |
..I can't have seen everything Gary! Will be settling down to watch it shortly.... gcw | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.3.65.135 |
Yes, but...but... Anyone who hasn't seen a film that I have needs shooting. There's really no hope for them, seriously. | ||
| Gcw (Gcw) Username: Gcw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.170.200.175 |
It's the only film you've seen isn't it Gary.. Bonekickers don't count. gcw | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.3.65.135 |
No, I've seen Cannonball Run, too. | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 86.156.32.207 |
No point in watching films at all. They are obviously visual fabrications compared to the imaginary worlds created by book-fictions and music. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.3.65.135 |
I used to think that, but then I watched some good ones... Or are you just being all Dessy again. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.3.65.135 |
There's certainly something in the notion that the visual sense is tyranical in our culture, but (good) films are about far more than mere imagery. | ||
| Huw (Huw) Username: Huw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 218.168.181.152 |
Rupert Pupkin is a great character. Another Scorcese film that I think is somewhat underrated is AFTER HOURS. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.3.65.135 |
I love Casino, too: a real symphony of dazzling technique and some singularly great scenes. | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.154.242.64 |
GCW - KING OF COMEDY is bloody excellent, and has almost always been in my ever-changing top ten films of all time. I love it! Gary F - CASINO is very good, but I always felt cheated by that opening shot of DeNiro being blown up into the air, when you later find out he wasn't... | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.154.242.64 |
Huw - I love AFTER HOURS too - saw that in an empty cinema on its release; what a waste... | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.16.86.121 |
KING OF COMEDY? Excellent. Plain old excellent. There are scenes in here make you squirrrrrrm... you're laughing, and squirrrrrrming... kind of like with THERE WILL BE BLOOD, the only other laugh/squirm movie I can think of (to this level). Or maybe it was just me. | ||
| Gcw (Gcw) Username: Gcw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.170.200.175 |
Ok...So watched King Of Comedy this last night, well Soozy didn't like like it, but I didn't really expect her too (We have Blue Velvet lined up next week...I have tried to explain Lynch to her, but she insists on having a look..). I liked it, not a classic nor entirely satisfying, De Niro I thought was, even then showing signs of the 'mugging' which has become his trademark these days, though to be fair, this film probably benefited from it, Sandra Bernhart was ok as the crazed fan...But Lewis was superb...He must have had about 5 lines at most, but his face & expressions spoke volumes. He was great, and I bet he loved the role. Some of the squirm scenes were superb, it's an uncomfortable film, and ambivalent too...The message is difficult to pin down..Was Pupkin a talentless loser, or a talented one who just didn't have the strength of character to work at his chosen love? (note, how he wanted to jump straight from nothing to TV without having to work the clubs). I found the ending a little heavy handed (and what happened to Sandra Bernhardt?) understand why it flopped at the cinema, liked it for it's what it attempted even if it wasn't entirely successful. A film on a similar theme, which I enjoyed was 'The Asassination Of Richard Nixon'. gcw | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.145.131.124 |
I found it kind of like THE OFFICE. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.145.131.124 |
Des; you need a bit of Roeg in your soul. Watching film can be wonderful, especially old film. Content and story are often irrelevant; it's the textures of worlds gone that is so magic. Old sunlight. |