i have edited my OP to delete the criticisms i made here, since after time has passed i have indeed concluded i was just in an odd mood when i posted them originally. lol
but i do appreciate all the comments below. (i will let the subject line remain.)
drugs...changed...everything..http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8MGBn3KawM&feature=related
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I agree with you. The first time you see it (especially if you saw it when it was first released when it was quite unique) it really impresses in many ways. Re-watches are fine, but they can't give the wallop the first watch does.
Man will never be free until the last king is strangled by the last priest
it was less intense the last time i saw it. tho, more comedic.
We're not soldiers and he's not the enemy. He's a pizza man.
Even the godfather II isn't as good after a repeat viewing, so what's your point. As for knocking Don's block after such a stern talking to, he seems like a complete nutter to me, the kind who wouldn't quit until one of you is dead. Reminds me of Pesci's character in Casino. What's great about the character is that he's scary without being violent.
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I agree with you. I've re-watched this film many times, but lately, I usually just fast-forward through much of Kingley's performance because I like the rest of the film better. Funny thing is, I actually find Ian Mcshane's character in some ways MORE scary than Don Logan. He was playing it so creepily low key. Quite the contrast.
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i totally agree!!!!!!!!!!!!!
creepy in a low key way. more effectively scary, bec of that
well said friend
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"Whats this day of rest sh!t? Whats this BULLLL SH_T? I dont f@ckin care! It dont matter to Jesus!"
I agree with you. I've re-watched this film many times, but lately, I usually just fast-forward through much of Kingley's performance because I like the rest of the film better. Funny thing is, I actually find Ian Mcshane's character in some ways MORE scary than Don Logan. He was playing it so creepily low key. Quite the contrast.
Well said.
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rewatched it today.... kinda got into it this time. this time the don logan 'middle' seemed to go on too long. but i really got into the opening scenes and everything right up to the convo between gal and don on the sunny patio with the two beers. what a shot! love the vistas there in spain. makes me wanna go see that
i find the london sequence to be a nailbiter, even though i've already seen it countless times. that teddy bass is so damn intimidating. also i love the brooding rolling music. i gotta buy this soundtrack!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Once there was a Hushpuppy, and she lived with her Daddy in the bathtub.
ian mcshane made this film. he really is the man. so intense.
they say the power in a movie is in the strength of its villain. i say, teddy bass is maybe the most chilling i have seen in film. i'd put him up there with waingrove from heat and chigurh in no country. seriously, there's few to match mcshane as teddy.
i guess, hmmmm. imo it's the authenticity he evoked. he was truly unimpressed. he ooozed death.
on a side note, have these fellas made any other films? far as i know this is a one hit wonder
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Once there was a Hushpuppy, and she lived with her Daddy in the bathtub.
I didn't care for this movie much the 1st time I saw it because when movies have characters with heavy Brit accents....sometimes its hard for me to understand what they are saying. I saw it twice more over the years & once was recently & I liked it better with repeated viewings. Movies are just so subjective.
If everybody thought the same about a movie....I don't think it would be a very good movie most of the time.
I think the thing with Kingsley was that he wasn't scary with his physicality....he was one of the sociopathic kind of scary folks....like he might stick a knife in your eye if he's in a bad mood. Actually, I do remember that he offered to put his cigarette out in the man's eye who suggested he put it out.
And when Gal told him he was happy with his life in Spain - Logan said, no way you're going to be happy, I won't allow it or words to that effect. He was like one of the nutso guys (usually the guy) who has a relationship with a woman & then starts mistreating her & she wants out and he tells her that if he can't have her - no one can & he'll kill her if she tries to leave. And then he does.
That happens too much in real life. There was a movie based on one of those events which was called "Star 80" about Dorothy Stratten directed by Bob Fosse & she was played by Mariel Hemingway. She was just starting to become famous after Hefner put her in Playboy as Playmate of the year in 1980.
Roger Ebert (RIP) gave it his highest rating which is 4 stars.
http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/star-80-1983
And I thought Ian McShane did a good job as a scary dude too. Just in the way he questioned Gal when he was having breakfast as to whether Logan ever left Spain. And I just find Winstone to be a likable actor. He played Nicholson's right hand man in The Departed. The movie where Scorcese finally won a best director Oscar. And the movie he was in called "The Proposition" with a lot of talented actors was quite a movie.
And call me sentimental....but I liked the romance between Gal & his wife & she knew Logan could end it. And when he called her from England b4 the job to try to calm her fears. And then asked her to just say his name one time & then he would be strong. OK - my 2 cents. Got a little carried away with the length.