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Ignoring your childish bait, I would say Dustin Hoffman is arguably the greatest film actor in history.
Three decades was not long enough for you to learn not to make a fool of yourself in print.
Script could have been a LOT better.
It sucked.
Good cast, good premise, great location/setting for an action thriller.
All wasted on a C-grade execution.
Ugh.
Hollywood never so much interested in actual things, like reality. But this here work takes the Oscar for Most Stupid Rewrite of Physical Laws. Not just magical power plants, but exploding transformers that set nearby swimmers aflame. Without killing them.
Because if they made it realistic with mud, benzene, motor oil and bacteria, the whole movie would go away.
Jack is saying a marine only needs to take off his hat to pee because he is just a giant dick.
Standard McD's patty today?
1.6 ounces.
Of what, we're not exactly sure.
In Five Easy Pieces, our friend Jack learned it was definitely NOT just as easy to have it the way you want it.
Powerful indeed.
Never seen this subject handled so deeply and candidly.
The Tale we tell ourselves is the one that matters.
Even in the new online-everything world of 2018, HBO original films still command.
"Whatever reason" = porn star.
After a brief flirtation mid-decade with legitimizing porn (and resulting in the highest-budget skinflicks ever made), by decade's end it had passed. No one wanted a porn star in their mainstream flick, no matter how beautiful.
The industry saw that she could act and carry a lead.
They just didn't care.
Titters?
When I saw this at a Los Angeles Cronenberg festival in 1981, complete with the star of Shivers in tow -- that line brought HOWLS and ROARS of laughter.
I had one, but I'm not sure you want it.
Are you aware it's the heavily-edited R-rated version?
There are more than 73 cuts.
I saw it in a theater in 1977 (the only version available from 1976 till the early 90's).
It's quite a different movie -- almost more like a melodrama.
Agreed re the employment scene. Very unexpected -- surreal, even -- yet made believable.
The father was one of the film's best characters.
I noticed those also.
Like you, I'm very tired of the pandering and virtue-seeking one-sided liberal cultism.
There is one thing that's special: the shock comic bits.
That first scene where she suddenly jumps out of the car, Mom screams, then Ms Bird reappears in a pink cast -- all in mere seconds -- had me laughing hard.
It's good but not Best Pic material.
Same goes for Get Out.
Haven't seen many of the other nominees, but while I liked these two neither is fit to carry out the garbage for Three Billboards.
Um ... yeah ...
Girls aren't the best judge of a woman's attractiveness.
(Or perfume ...
Or dresses ...
Or ... )
Don't know about smoldering (I'm a guy), but this movie got Sam Elliot work for the rest of his life.
Two years on Mission:Impossible?
Nothing.
Then this in 1972.
First horror movie I remember whose (preposterous) premise was "sold" to me by the lead actor's credibility. Wondering if we're in danger or not, we look to the smartest guy in the room -- the quiet educated one with the cameras. Does he look worried? Then maybe we should be, too. Get a peek at his face in the trailer clip. He may speak softly, but his eyes show he is scared to death. That's everything to a movie about insects conspiring to murder people. He carries it off almost single-handed. That's screen presence.
And the industry took notice. Four years later when Paramount was looking for the lead in "Lifeguard", they checked out this flick and hired him. And a star was born.
Noticed it right away as well.
The track has been featured on other film soundtracks including Ben Wheatley’s High-Rise and Noah Baumbach’s The Squid and the Whale as well as the television series Mr. Robot, and many commercials. Probably one of the better electronic music tracks ever. A perennial.