I mean it. This may be my all time favorite movie. Anyone else? Hello? Am I all alone?
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I don't understand how you can love that movie..
I have seen many 80's movies and love it since it's my childhood but "Into the Night" was a disapointment to me.
It's not really funny, not really romantic, not really nothing to me. Some parts where funny then nothing. Like when the model with the blue swimmsuit is running out on the beach to escape the bad guys, that was funny because she was giving them hard time and so ? They catch her and drowned her in the sea and she dies! And the camera shows her dead on the sand again and again.. Is it funny ? That's not funny and even ugly. And then nothing is dramatic after so there is no point. Later on you see dead bodies full of blood, breasts and guns. Is it a family movie ? I don't think so.. Is it an action movie ? Not really.. A mystery movie ? A romantic movie ? Nothing of these to me..
The movie has no rythme, it is slow and has a lot of good opportunities that are not really used in my opinon. It is boring and a shame that John and the screenwriter could not make it funnier or more interesting. It really had a lot of ingredients (actors, actress, cameo, situations, places), to make it really funny and you feel like, so ?? Now it's certainly going to be great and then it comes to nothing..
What a pitty with all this great cast!
It reminded me the great "After Hours" and some others 80's flick that I loved much more than "Into the Night". I really was looking and ready to watch a great Landis but was disapointed..
I know it's my opinion but when your database is huge (I have seen all the 80's flicks I could), "Into the Night" really is a disapointment.
I wish you a nice day and a lot of great movies!
*Lord of Movies*
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I don't mind the different genres but it seemed to be too drab as far as goldblum's performance; I expect it to be a bit more in the laughter department.
OK film, but could have been a lot more.
This is an old post, but I had to reply cos I agree with everything you said! I thought this movie was a bit of a mess. Not a pig sty, but still a mess. I found it really boring. The characters were boring. Similar movies like After Hours and Something Wild were way better. Particularly After Hours. Into The Night was very disappointing.
shareThose are both fantastic movies, among my all time faves--great great call. It was actually from seeing and loving Something Wild that I read a mention in a review how this film was in the same vein, making me want to check it out. In the early going, when this movie seemed more promising, I too thought of After Hours--but this is no After Hours, not by a long shot.
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'After Hours' is one of my all-time favorite films!
This one was fun, though.
Goldblum is golden. 'Vibes' is fun, too.
Carpe Noctem!
This is a much better crafted movie than it's given credit for being. Yes, the story line becomes somewhat convulated, but because of those various twists and turns it remains fresh.
Others have mentioned the many fine cameos turned in, but two of my favorite are Bruce McGill -- one of the finest supporting actors in the movies since the mid-'70s -- as Diana's Elvis-impersonating brother and Irene Papas as the leader of the SAVAK assassins. The confrontation between she and Ed is classic banter.
Another director who appeared is Roger Vadim, the French filmmaker most famous in the U.S. for directing Jane Fonda in "Barbarella" (they were involved romantically at the time). Also not mentioned is the fine actor Richard Farnsworth, best known for his work in Westerns, and "Body by Jake" Steinfeldt as a bodyguard.
Very '80s movie: not especially edgy, but very unpredictable. As another reviewer noted, excellent late night fare.
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It's an oddball mood piece of an 80's noir. I get nostalgic about it. "After Hours" is certainly a good comparison -- this, too is a "dusk til dawn" movie in the main, and it shares the seductive strangeness of "After Hours" (which one DOESN'T find in such other dusk-til-dawners as "American Graffiti" and, well, "From Dusk to Dawn.")
I think the B.B. King numbers which open ("Into the Night") and close ("Midnight Hour") the movie help set the mood, which starts downbeat and mysterious (...into the night), and ends on an upbeat note of happiness for Ed,and the mystery woman it turns out he could trust, after all.
All those directors appearing was evidently a show of support for John Landis, who had recently weathered a criminal trial for the deaths of Vic Morrow and two Vietnamese immigrant children during the filming of "The Twilight Zone" (1983.) Under Landis' direction, a helicopter had crashed onto the three victims during the filming of an action scene over a river, with explosives. Dan Ackroyd's cameo in "Into the Night" was also in support of Landis. Ackroyd called the "Twilight Zone" deaths: "a simple industrial accident" and felt that Landis was blameless.
I myself felt that Landis' ego had a LOT to do with those deaths on "The Twilight Zone." (He pushed his crew, kids, pilots and explosives as hard as he could to get a "great shot" in the middle of the night when the kids weren't supposed to be used on camera, and he blew it.)
But a jury acquitted Landis on the criminal charges and he evidently paid civil damages to the families of the dead. Landis managed to remount his career, with a few hits ("Trading Places," did he make "Living in America"? I can't recall.)
Still, "Into the Night" was a weird "redemptive movie" coming off of "The Twilight Zone": an unsettling mix of the comic, the cool, and the very, very violent. Landis pushed the taste barrier a bit when he cast himself as one of the "Four Stooges" -- Iranian assassin bumblers with a penchant for, nonetheless, brutally killing man, woman, and beast alike.
The years have burned away the sting of Landis' guilt, and what remains is an ode to mid-80's filmmaking that almost hurts in its nostalgia for that particular shiny, plastic, innocent time. Jeff Goldblum was never better as a lead -- centered, decent, intelligent -- and Michelle Pffeifer was definitely in her "delicate babe" period.
It's as a mood piece that "Into the Night" shines. One damn thing after another happens, all night long, all over L.A. The weirdness of the scene with "Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein" is on TV in the middle of the night sums it up pretty well for me.
All those directors cameo, but I rather liked Carl Perkins' tough turn as a bodyguard ("Mr. So-and-So Isn't here" "I just saw him" "He JUST LEFT"). Perkins, writer of "Blue Suede Shoes" and other hits, was believably tough, and there's Vera Miles turning up in her "Psycho II" mode near the end, along with Cult 60's Cool Guy Clu Gulager ("The Killers") as a Fed, and the regal and ominous Irene Papas ("The Guns of Navarone") as Ms. Big. This casting was sort of "Quentin Tarantino before his time."
My favorite movie? No. But one of my favorite EXPERIENCES at the movies. I remember being surprised and seduced by it when it came out in '85. It's a great memory of a fun decade.
And if John Landis WAS seeking redemption, maybe he realized: an interesting movie can almost make anyone forget the past.
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Contains a small spoiler: Naming my favorite movie would be impossible. It depends on mood and circumstances, but this is definitely a great movie. It has it all!! I think it´s the only video I ever gave my parents! I was shure that they would enjoy it too. There´s so much in there, that makes me laugh. For instance the elevator scene: "He´s a good dog", and then the imbecile thugs blast it away. Hilarious!!
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Excellently crafted. Imho, so much better than
what has started to pass for either comedy or
suspense these days.
I grew up in Los Angeles - been living here since 1954 - and this is (was) the best representation of what whas going on in the early 80's. John Landis really captured the "we have too much of everyting and we're out of control" feeling that flooded this city at that time. Plus, all the cameos make this a hilarious movie to watch if you are a serious film fanatic. I love it.
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i gotta say... it is one of my faves... but it's a little difficult to
say why... it has some really slow parts, but you never really know
what's gonna happen next, which is great of course...
i love the little part for david bowie.... so outta left field, but
he's really funny in it...
i also like when goldblum is meandering around the movie set...
goldblum is just such an odd duck... totally one of my favorite
actors...
i guess the movie is so original BECAUSE it's so slow in bewteen
the car chases and shootouts... it gives it a very unusual tone, but
before i start sounding like james lipton... i'll stop :)
Count me in as another fan of this film. Loved the BB King opening song.
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