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Agreed.
Just watched all two hours and six minutes again.
I could never re-watch Goodfellas.
It was formally appealed to the 21-member MPAA appeals board. You need a 2/3 vote to be successful, and it was.
Prior to the advent of the PG-13 rating later that year, the “automatic language rule” meant an automatic R rating for any use of the “harsher, sexually-derived” vulgarities. With PG-13, a single use of the f-word in a non-sexual context was allowed.
F-bombs had been allowed before in PG films. The first instance was 1976’s “The Front” in which the protagonist uses it in his final defiant payoff. Later that year, “All The President’s Men” used it many times. In fact, “rat fucking” was a plot point — an actual term used by the actual subjects in the story. Both were formally appealed, and were successful on the basis of historical accuracy.
The only use of the word in “Tank” that I recall was Jim Garner saying, “That’s the best fuckin’ apple cobbler I’ve ever tasted.” How they argued that line was indispensable I have no idea.
BTW, movies are never re-rated unless the producer applies for it.
The original rating always stands unless surrendered or revoked.
Fantastic.
11 out of 10.
Makes you want to stand up and deliver ...a cheer.
Angel was always smart, as the zero scene shows.
He was afraid he wouldn’t look cool lobbing around books and actual doing well. A lot of this movie is Angel’s journey to the final realization that he is destined for better. That day comes when his loser banger friend beats him up and leaves him in the street.
Even at the beach after surviving the test he is reluctant to join them for a victory swim — still afraid he’ll look uncool hanging with the math nerds.
“The identities of the students were revealed only after irregularities were found.”
That would include the school or class attended.
That scene has always disturbed me because it felt like the movie supported Escalante’s view.
It may just be showing that even he is not immune to racist thoughts but I doubt it.
Since director Menendez has never done a commentary track, we’ll likely never know.
Cuz you heard that puts hair on your chest?
Newsflash, macho man: all whisky has water added.
Every bottle ever made.
Rhetorical.
Yes, the movie is very orange.
But why was it chosen?
Seems related to the exalting of violence, as in A Clockwork Orange.
50 pts.
You don’t make a beloved idol irrelevant by killing him.
That makes him immortal.
She made a great Cat burglar.
Everyone.
Average?
Not hardly. This was a major release, one of the year’s most expensive productions. It was released in fall —not summer — when more serious movies surface. I saw it in a theater in 1985 after a relentless, month-long trailer campaign. They had high hopes for this, expecting it to be the first entry of a successful franchise. None of that happened, and today it is a truly forgotten title.
Not really.
It’s a great theme, and could have been a classic had it been all orchestral instead of a few horns, a snare, and a crapload of weak 80’s synths. Same problem with “The Right Stuff” — the production sounds unbearably cheesy today.
There’s not a lot about 80’s films or music that was built to last.
Couldn‘t disagree more.
While I hate most 80’s flicks and more especially their cheesy synth soundtracks, this is NOT one of them. I love this music, and in fact copied it off to cassette from cable to play in my friend’s convertible BMW as we drove to lunch on sunny days. It’s by James Newton Howard, an Oscar-nominated composer and one of the very best keyboardists of the time (hear his brilliant work on Elton John’s hit, “Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word” and others). He was married to Rosanna Arquette, namesake of the #2 smash “Rosanna” because she dated drummer Jeff Porcaro, who played drums on Newton-Howard’s groundbreaking direct disc for Sheffield Labs in 1984. Small world!
BTW, though the original poster indicated a Dolby Stereo mix I never saw a theater or video release in stereo — including the recent Blu-Ray. All versions are mono and the soundtrack was never released on any format. Which sucks, because a stereo version exists somewhere.
If you watch her contemporary interview on the new Blu-Ray, you might be surprised as I was how smart she is. At least now, anyway. Seemed like an airhead at the time and not attractive to me, but now ... damn. She has mos def taken care of that bod, too.
That one scene introduced Brimley to the world and got him work for the rest of his life.
I had actually seen him three years previously in “The China Syndrome,” but this was his career-maker.
Exactly.
“I could talk a blue streak but wouldn’t nobody listen.”
And?
What a fuck-nut who can’t even get the date right.
You feel woozy and a little high.
It hits quick.
If he’d had 100 mg he would have felt it in seconds but after several of the allotted ten minutes he’s still making plans with Marta. Dumb.
Guess that’s how “movie time” works: short enough to create suspense yet somehow always enough to get whatever the plot needs done.
Awful and distracting.
Wrecked his character and took me out of the picture.