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That bit was weird. He tells her to follow her heart, she even tells him the one she really likes is Randy, and she’s already going out with him, so it’s surely a done deal? Nope. Next thing she does is ditch Randy and go out with obvious-dickhead Tommy again.
I get the peer pressure but the film showed Julie as pretty resistant to all that, the film needed to really turn up the pressure. In fact, they had a whole subplot they could have drawn from - Tommy getting it on with Loryn, they could have used that to make Julie jealous and wanting Tommy’s affections again, but instead the film completely forgets about that rich dramatic vein it set up earlier.
Double fail.
I don’t think so, her heart clearly wasn’t in it.
What struck me is that nobody on stage seemed to notice a violent fight full of ‘waaaaa!’ kung-fu shouts going on metres away from them. The whole auditorium would have heard that shit.
It’s the kind of movie that no doubt lives in your heart forever when you watch it at a young age. I’ve just watched it and found it charming but it was a little too dated and corny to really draw me in.
It works because the main actors really sell it (even though they’re way older than their characters) and it has a great soundtrack, plus of course gratuitous boobs, and MILFs.
Yeah it’s weird how the subplot fizzled out. Same issue with the Loryn and Tommy subplot - great dramatic setup that just got dropped. It’s ropey screenwriting. I wonder if these things got lost in the edit for some reason, or the female director lacked story structure skills 🤷🏻♂️
Haha! I think you’re being too harsh on the movie, I found it charming, but it certainly does have an extreme 70’s aesthetic with all the yellow and brown interiors, general 70’s fashion vibe and the dad’s porn moustache.
Same as most every Hollywood movie - shit script.
WHY they insist on ploughing hundreds of millions of dollars into projects with shit scripts remains a mystery.
That poor whore was probably used on all the partners. There are photos of her eating Brimley’s asshole hard, as part of her ‘oral’ package.
I only hope she was well compensated 😞🙏
Isn’t it typical for a Frenchman to have a wife and family, but also a selection of mistresses?
Havana Club is a very common rum you can pick up anywhere. I hope they were drinking some special local version and not the usual supermarket brand 🤷♂️
Yes, a timeless plus excellent score to be sure.
Hackman was crushing pussy all day and night. Respect.
Wrong, it has a great piano score. Loved the ‘happy families’ music with his wife, the light jazz stuff and then the deep notes of the thriller-ey music toward the end. A much deserved Oscar-nom-nom-nom!
What’s funny is that he was running at bullet-speed yet it took him ages to catch up to his wife who was only like 20 metres in front of him and running in a slow, girly way flailing her limbs.
Cruise may struggle to cover much distance but he sure can run like hell.
Yeah the pacing is great, I never ‘felt the length’ so they got it right as far as I’m concerned, and with movies clocking in at 3 hours these days it breezed along just fine.
Yeah it’s great. I wish they still made movies like this, well plotted, great cast, thrilling yet full of surprises, and perhaps most of all… it assumes the audience has a brain.
Do they even make this genre of film anymore??
Why did Louie spare Armand?
Why was his coven ‘going to’ kill her?
It was a fun retreat and no doubt good for him but no way would an independent rough Philly cop feel at home permanently in an Amish community.