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Stop cutting to "More" you idiots!


From 81 minutes in, how annoying was it to see the action scenes keep cutting to Madonna singing "More" in the nightclub?! Not only did it screw up the flow of the action, but we'd already heard the song when they rehearsed it for Big Boy. 

That's the biggest problem with having Madonna in this - they kept having to crowbar in scenes of her singing, no matter how much it fυсked up the movie.

Oh, and did we really have to hear her sing "Sooner Or Later" twice as well?

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That's the biggest problem with having Madonna in this - they kept having to crowbar in scenes of her singing, no matter how much it fυсked up the movie.


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That's one of the advantages of schtupping the director, though, eh?

Just watched a good chunk of the movie again today, and once again am reminded of the old saying, "I wouldn't fvck her with YOUR dick!" Gawd, she nearly single-handedly sinks this film, IMO.

Without going to the multiple threads that mention this, count me among those disappointed with Beatty declining to use prosthesis to give him either the "square-jawed" or "hawk-nosed" profile we all know Tracy has in the comic - at the very least, the use of one of those (but preferably both) would've gone a long way toward making him more "authentic," but I guess you Don't Mess With The Star's Good Looks...

There are SO many wonderful aspects to this film, though, that even those two points (glaring though they may be) aren't enough to dissuade me from recommending it.
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Wholeheartedly disagree. Even if it's Madonna singing, when you hire Stephen Sondheim to write music for your movie, you better bet it's going to be just as crucial to the plot as the characters and situations.

Besides, that song is a perfect song to juxtapose with Big Boy's downfall as its the entire plot, not to mention showing Big Boy's abuse to Breathless and the dancers paying off to keep his most legitimate business afloat

But that's just my opinion on the matter.

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I didn't have a problem with that. It was supposed to show what was going on in the club (the floor show) while the raid was going on outside.

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I watching it now and this movie has more montages than Rocky IV, well close to it anyway. I still like the movie though.

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I agree. A good film but way too much Madonna in it.

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