The protagonists of In the Company of Men were mighty loathsome.
Katie Holmes in Batman Begins . Sanctimonious little ****
Touché! 
Daniel
someone FINALLY said it!!! I can’t stand that whole blair witch cult thing. omg.
and what’s with the close-ups, UP the runny noses? gross! :smack:
thanks. I had to get that out. Been holding that one in for a long time. lol.
- what, no happy jewish girls smilie??! waaaa…
wow, so true. Matt Damon was really quite interesting in it… and Phillip Seymour Hoffman- really was asking for it, wasn’t he??!
btw, I find Matt much more interesting that Ben… I think he’s smarter.
(that could start a whole new debate.)
That is the mark of a truly good murder mystery. Though the part where Jude Law gets it----- ack. gives me shivers…
There’s another one like that---- it’s the sequel too, I think… has John-now I am overacting to my overacting— Malkovich in it… Ripley’s Game???
Parts of it are ludicrous, completely disjointed from the story, just come out of nowhere…
Though it’s great in some ways. Especially the photography.
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The Sweet Smell of Success.
Taxi Driver–I just didn’t get it…DeNiro’s character was nuts at the beginning and nuts at the end and he was being haled as a hero!
Five Easy Pieces a movie about a self-centered jerk.
You should go rent it on dvd and watch it again. It’s about the loss of innocence, and redemption… even though De Niro IS crazy… so it’s kind of like “against all odds…”
And he really loves this girl- played by Jodie Foster- amazing role----- and people relate to that---- because we all yearn for that kind of feeling again. Travis wanted to take the bitterness and ugliness out of people, and the cynicism.
Harvey Keitel’s pimp character exemplifies that… and the girl represents the innocence, and De Niro is the savior. No matter what others thought of him, and even when he was being really bitter himself, he saw himself as the good guy, and the saviour.
It’s not ‘typical’ of that style, or subject matter, which would be say a “pretty woman” kind of movie- though they are similiar. One is “underground” the other is “high class…”
Views of life. that’s what they are. Scorsese is the master at it. There is one by Nicholas Roeg- who has made some great movies-- called “Whore” that is just terrible. I am pretty sure he did it. It’s very cliche ridden, and plays to the “dumb-downed” crowd who rail against exploitation, but are the first ones in line to see it.
Taxi Driver still holds up too.
Scorsese goes for the intellect. Obviously. Just my humble view of it.
Max Fischer in Rushmore. It’s not a good sign when the protagonist is being punched out by the bully and you find yourself rooting for the bully.
yes, but he got him in the end. It may be “morally” wrong, but in the movie, it saved his life, and Jodie’s character…Iris. No small coincidence that she has the name of a flower. * Martin Scorsese …Homicidal passenger in Travis’ cab*
Scorsese plays one of the “demons” that Travis is trying to wipe out from his thoughts, and what he see’s as the dregs of society…
and he accomplishes that. Quite effectively. (good or bad.)
goodmorning.
"What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil. "
- Friedrich Nietzsche, /Beyond Good and Evil.
It’s no longer a question of staying healthy. It’s a question of finding a sickness you like. -Jackie Mason (1934 - )
Put them all in one movie, you could get ‘Magnolia’s eating raoul, and cruise…’
Kieran Culkin, in Igyby goes Down… No one makes any sense, but the boy is cute. And the rest of the cast too.
Sean Penn in Assassination of Richard Nixon. Very good, intellectual (read=slow)
movie, very disturbing, but the guy is such an oblivious moron- goes beyond the “hopeful jerk” that you can usually skip past.
Kudos to Don Cheadle, for being the voice of reason, and playing one of the best parts in a good/bad movie that I have ever seen. Also- the boss, played by Jack Jones, who is an Australian who always plays Americans! Saw this one at the TFF with all parties present- except N. Watts, who plays SP’s wife. Jack Jones is a great actor, though he’s also the biggest blow-hard, sanctimonious ****, I have ever seen. He acted as though HE directed the movie himself. (He more often than not, plays these types too.)
Directed by Niels Mueller. In his defence, he’s relly nice, and wonderfully enthusiastic about the movie, and it is a very intense movie, though painful to watch. Don Cheadle wasn’t there. Missed his plane or something. thanks to SP’s PR man for the free tix!!
Photos are mine. (c) dm
goodmorning.
Campbell Scott in Roger Dodger, a jilted lover who decides to get straight with the world by humiliating the living shit out of his teenage nephew, who has come to him to learn about women.
“They Shoot Horses, Don’t They”
“The Last Tango in Paris”
“Rushmore”
Gone With the Wind - Scarlett O’Hara. Love the movie, but just want to smack that needy, selfish little twit upside the head every time I see it.
This just in from Joel and the 'bots:
Joe Don Baker in Mitchell.
Deconstructing Harry, terrible movie with the real life asshole Woody Allen playing just as big of an asshole on screen.
Deconstructing Harry- was that the one where he goes to hell, and he’s a mysoginist pig??? ack. You’re right.
Kyle MacLachlan, in everything since Blue Velvet— what’s with the whiny little girl faces he makes?? tho I must admit he was very good in the episode of Law & Order- Special Victims Unit, that was on 2 nights ago. He played a guy who kills the kid who killed his son. the kid was an evil brat. He was found ‘not guilty’ because he was a psychiatrist, and he played them like a fiddle. that was good.
Blue Velvet: Love the movie- Dennis Hopper should have gotten an Oscar for that part, easily. (did he get any awards?) The first time I saw it, he made me cringe, tho only in awe, and a bit of fear— on subsequent viewings, I see the brilliance of this man. He was in Rebel without a cause (1955) and Giant (1956) with James Dean, after all. The part where Isabella Rossellini runs naked and crying across the lawn- though I know it’s in contex; for shame.