Kelly’s Heroes may be a half-assed war movie but it’s a pretty good caper movie.
Ooh, good one. That’s a great movie.
Al Pacino was hilarious in that. “I’m angry. I’m very angry, Ralph. You know, you can ball my wife if she wants you to. You can lounge around here on her sofa, in her ex-husband’s dead-tech, post-modernistic bullshit house if you want to. But you do not get to watch my fucking television set!”
Thunderbolt and Lightfoot and Kelly’s Heroes are both great caper/heist films in Eastwood’s c.v. that haven’t yet been mentioned, but my favorite is the unfortunately generically-titled Heist, written and directed by David Mamet and starring the incomparable cast of Gene Hackman, Danny DeVito, Delroy Lindo, and Sam Rockwell. Even the inclusion of Mamet’s anti-thespian wife Rebecca Pidgeon couldn’t bring it down. The humor, such as it is, comes from lampooning the conventions of heist and action movies, while the cast plays it straight, uttering Mamet’s particular dialect of criminality as if they walked out of a Raymond Chandler novel retooled by the Marx Brothers. Bobby Blane: Sometimes adrenaline gives people the shakes, some might think it’s cowardice, so maybe you’d want to pray about it.
Jimmy: I’m not a religious man.
Bobby Blane: There’s nothing wrong with prayer. We knew this firefighter, this trooper, who always caried a bible next to his heart. We used to mock him, but that bible stopped a bullet.
Jimmy: No shit.
Bobby Blane: Hand of God, that bible stopped a bullet, would of ruined that fucker’s heart. And had he had another bible in front of his face, that man would be alive today.
Stranger
Yes !! (I’d now scurry off to a Torrentz donwloading site, but am afraid that might be where my viruses are coming from. :smack: )
Pot? Meet Kettle.
It’s funny how tastes vary. I thought the original one was SOOOOO boring. I didn’t enjoy it at all.
Rififi is a granddaddy, if not the granddaddy of them all. It even has the element of the One Last Job as a part of the plot, and the heist itself is actually interesting.