FFA Movie Poll - 1974 Countdown Monday is here. (1 Viewer)

[El Floppo]

Beatty's talent as an actor is to absorb the characters he portrays.  It's almost like the opposite of acting in a way.  Cary Grant was another star who did this but in a much less understated style than Beatty.  

He was also smart enough to understand that audiences came to see him, which made him the most important part of a project.  He was a hired hand on The Parallax View but he produced and Shampoo and a number of other properties.  He was able to build interesting films around him with scripts he believed in and talented people on the other side of the camera

He was a client for a few weeks... We were one in a long string of architects he hired and fired. This was before smart phones and remote email access... He had no qualms about calling my boss at 1am over the weekend- very and unrealistically demanding. We were relieved to lose the project.

 

[El Floppo]

while not similar in theme, "After Hours" is also out his wheelhouse, and is one of the great hidden gems of the '80s -  i rank it right behind "Something Wild" and "Repo Man" - it's a dark and quirkily comedic flick (HORSCHT!!!1! KIKI!!1!) -just like one feels like they need a shower after TMC, you'll need a nap after toiling with Griffin Dunne's duress in "AH".

Love it and need to rewatch- it's been a while. Still give an edge to KoC maybe if only for the performances.

 

[wikkidpissah]

while not similar in theme, "After Hours" is also out his wheelhouse, and is one of the great hidden gems of the '80s -  i rank it right behind "Something Wild" and "Repo Man" - it's a dark and quirkily comedic flick (HORSCHT!!!1! KIKI!!1!) -just like one feels like they need a shower after TMC, you'll need a nap after toiling with Griffin Dunne's duress in "AH".

i watch After Hours every time every time i miss the Lower Manhattan that is no more. No more party posses of gay Nazis, Voice reporters, record company secretaries, trannie hookers, closeted professors, lost bikers, junkie drummers, desperate Susans and a Park Ave dentist in solid gold glasses picking up the tab

 

[otb_lifer]

i watch After Hours every time every time i miss the Lower Manhattan that is no more. No more party posses of gay Nazis, Voice reporters, record company secretaries, trannie hookers, closeted professors, lost bikers, junkie drummers, desperate Susans and a Park Ave dentist in solid gold glasses picking up the tab

it definitely ain't no "Friends"

 

[KarmaPolice]

It still is so weird to me that Scorsese directed that. It is so out of his wheelhouse. Is there even another movie of his anywhere similar to Alice in genre, theme, etc?

He has been able to all sorts of stuff that people might not consider "the usual" fare from him.   Hugo, Kundun, After Hours stand out as out of his wheehouse, but not anything that felt similar to Alice.  

 

[El Floppo]

He had been able to all sorts of stuff that people might not consider "the usual" fare from him.   Hugo, Kundun, After Hours stand out as out of his wheehouse, but not anything that felt similar to Alice.  

Didn't he do a period manners piece too? About Washington Square?

 

[Eephus]

Didn't he do a period manners piece too? About Washington Square?

The Last Temptation of Edith Wharton

 

[Ilov80s]

Never saw Hugo and even Age of Innocence is a movie about a guy in NYC so it's still pretty squarely in the Scorsese zone. Alice is a movie about women, set in small town Western America. That seems way out of his typical range.

 

[wikkidpissah]

Never saw Hugo and even Age of Innocence is a movie about a guy in NYC so it's still pretty squarely in the Scorsese zone. Alice is a movie about women, set in small town Western America. That seems way out of his typical range.

Hugo is my favorite Scorsese next to Goodfellas & New York, New York

 

[Eephus]

i watch After Hours every time every time i miss the Lower Manhattan that is no more. No more party posses of gay Nazis, Voice reporters, record company secretaries, trannie hookers, closeted professors, lost bikers, junkie drummers, desperate Susans and a Park Ave dentist in solid gold glasses picking up the tab

I rewatched After Hours about six months ago for the first time since its original release.  I appreciated the nostalgia of the 80s and what my brain felt like on cocaine but I didn't think it's some underappreciated masterpiece.

It's Scorsese and Michael Balhaus so it's visually interesting of course but at its core, there's a soulless and sadistic script that places the lead in harm's way only to be improbably delivered to a more impossible situation.  It was fun for a while but I grew tired of the characters and cyclical plot.  It did inspire a genre of similar films like "Adventures in Baby Sitting" and "Date Night".

 

[wikkidpissah]

The Last Temptation of Edith Wharton

The Kung Pao at Hop Kee

 

[wikkidpissah]

I rewatched After Hours about six months ago for the first time since its original release.  I appreciated the nostalgia of the 80s and what my brain felt like on cocaine but I didn't think it's some underappreciated masterpiece.

It's Scorsese and Michael Balhaus so it's visually interesting of course but at its core, there's a soulless and sadistic script that places the lead in harm's way only to be improbably delivered to a more impossible situation.  It was fun for a while but I grew tired of the characters and cyclical plot.  It did inspire a genre of similar films like "Adventures in Baby Sitting" and "Date Night".

but you'd get a # from someone you bumped up @ Mudd Club and that's the kinda thing you'd go through. this wasnt even my crazy musicbiz ####, just a hookup in SoHo, Chelsea, West Village. i mean, @ that time, people with jewelry were getting their hands hacked off w machetes, i couldnt get into the Spring St Station one morning cuz a guy'd been shot 4 times w a bow & arrow in the stairwell and, after a girl was killed @ Columbia from a cornerstone falling on her, rolling cinder blocks down upon pedestrians became a fad.

 

[otb_lifer]

but at its core, there's a soulless and sadistic script that places the lead in harm's way only to be improbably delivered to a more impossible situation.   

"Goodfellas" down?  

but you'd get a # from someone you bumped up @ Mudd Club and that's the kinda thing you'd go through. this wasnt even my crazy musicbiz ####, just a hookup in SoHo, Chelsea, West Village. i mean, @ that time, people with jewelry were getting their hands hacked off w machetes, i couldnt get into the Spring St Station one morning cuz a guy'd been shot 4 times w a bow & arrow in the stairwell and, after a girl was killed @ Columbia from a cornerstone falling on her, rolling cinder blocks down upon pedestrians became a fad.

i gotta believe i stepped on your ####### shoe at least once up 'round here 

 

[Ilov80s]

I am on Spring Break all week if anyone wants to hit me up with some 2010 recommendations- anything outside of the big hits and award winners would be cool.

 

[Binky The Doormat]

I am on Spring Break all week if anyone wants to hit me up with some 2010 recommendations- anything outside of the big hits and award winners would be cool.

Exit Through the Gift Shop

Get Him to the Greek (silly fun)

Inside Job (2008 financial crisis)

 

[El Floppo]

Exit Through the Gift Shop

Get Him to the Greek (silly fun)

Inside Job (2008 financial crisis)

Mentioned already, but Winter's Bone and Tiny Furniture.

 

[El Floppo]

This is post kids for me, so my movie viewing-especially for foreign and indie- went way down. Would appreciate some recommendations in those

 

[otb_lifer]

 Tiny Furniture.

as someone who put "Cheerleader" in my top 5 for '99, gimme a 1-10 recom. on this one

 

[El Floppo]

as someone who put "Cheerleader" in my top 5 for '99, gimme a 1-10 recom. on this one

Have you seen HBOs Girls? It's basically the prequel to the first season in movie form. From memory, one of the first movies to capture a lot of what's funny and infuriating with millennials. I thought it was great- 8/10

 

[Ilov80s]

This is post kids for me, so my movie viewing-especially for foreign and indie- went way down. Would appreciate some recommendations in those

This was kind of the beginning of my discontent with movies and turning much more to TV and books. It was only in the last 2 years that I’ve gotten back into films.

 

[El Floppo]

This was kind of the beginning of my discontent with movies and turning much more to TV and books. It was only in the last 2 years that I’ve gotten back into films.

So....no.

 

[otb_lifer]

Have you seen HBOs Girls? It's basically the prequel to the first season in movie form. From memory, one of the first movies to capture a lot of what's funny and infuriating with millennials. I thought it was great- 8/10

no.

but i dig the premise of watching bereft of preconceived expectations/hangups via the series.

on the short list to view 

 

[Ilov80s]

So....no.

Nothing beyond all the big obvious movies.

 

[El Floppo]

no.

but i dig the premise of watching bereft of preconceived expectations/hangups via the series.

on the short list to view 

Win win- see the movie. If you don't like it (and I'd be a bit surprised if you don't), you don't have to see Girls. If you do, you get to see Girls (imo the first season or two are fantastic).

 

[otb_lifer]

Win win- see the movie. If you don't like it (and I'd be a bit surprised if you don't), you don't have to see Girls. If you do, you get to see Girls (imo the first season or two are fantastic).

preface this by saying that i have long disassociated stars from their politics ... has kept me entertained for quite a good stretch 

but Dunham's a tough sell - main reason i've abstained - it's kinda archaic, and against my usual sensibilities, but, it is whut it is 

will still watch the flick, might be the impetus for me to binge ...

 

[krista4]

There were a lot of paranoid thrillers in the wake of Vietnam and Watergate.  A number including this one Executive Action, Blow Out and Winter Kills involved assassinations and others featured a shadowy political-industrial complex as the enemy.  They had a dark inevitability about them that you rarely see at the movies these days. 

Gordon Willis was the cinematographer on The Parallax View.  He had a pretty good 1974 because he was also the DP for Godfather Part II.

Do you recommend any of these?  At first I thought, "Oh yeah, Blow Up was a fantastic movie!" but then realized you said Blow Out.  I haven't seen any of these three.

I rewatched After Hours about six months ago for the first time since its original release.  I appreciated the nostalgia of the 80s and what my brain felt like on cocaine but I didn't think it's some underappreciated masterpiece.

It's Scorsese and Michael Balhaus so it's visually interesting of course but at its core, there's a soulless and sadistic script that places the lead in harm's way only to be improbably delivered to a more impossible situation.  It was fun for a while but I grew tired of the characters and cyclical plot.  It did inspire a genre of similar films like "Adventures in Baby Sitting" and "Date Night".

I haven't seen it since it was originally in theatres, but loved it.  Wonder if I'd think it held up.

I am on Spring Break all week if anyone wants to hit me up with some 2010 recommendations- anything outside of the big hits and award winners would be cool.

I haven't looked at the 2010 list yet but previously recommended to Gr00vus the French film The Illusionist, in addition to some of those already named by others.  I'll try to look at the list in the next day or so.

 

[El Floppo]

as someone who put "Cheerleader" in my top 5 for '99, gimme a 1-10 recom. on this one

And btw... All that talk about my family friends who wrote and directed it? He did that for Pumpkin, not cheerleader 

ETA...

 

[krista4]

I decided to take a quick look through 2010 and am running through seeing very few and then realized...I was working 90-100 hour weeks that year (and 2011 and 2012).  I'm going to need some recommendations, too.

I second or third or fourth the recommendations of Winter's Bone, Restrepo, Exit Through the Gift Shop, Tiny Furniture, and I add Animal Kingdom (fantastic smart thriller), Get Low (but I'm a sucker for Robert Duvall), Another Year (but i'm also a sucker for Mike Leigh), Never Let Me Go (rare successful film adaptation of a book), 127 Hours (I guess not exactly a "small" movie), Black Swan (not really "small" either), and Blue Valentine (rawr).

 

[KarmaPolice]

I am on Spring Break all week if anyone wants to hit me up with some 2010 recommendations- anything outside of the big hits and award winners would be cool.

@Ilov80s-

Maybe not outside the box enough, but movies that I remember from that year: Black Swan, Never Let Me Go, Rabbit Hole, Incendies, Animal Kingdom, Marwencol.

ETA: I watched Cemetery Junction for the first time a couple weeks ago and enjoyed that as well. 

 

[KarmaPolice]

I still need to get to Tiny Furniture this week too. 

 

[El Floppo]

@Ilov80s-

Maybe not outside the box enough, but movies that I remember from that year: Black Swan, Never Let Me Go, Rabbit Hole, Incendies, Animal Kingdom, Marwencol.

I thought Black swan was terrible.

 

[KarmaPolice]

but Dunham's a tough sell - main reason i've abstained

It's a reason I have stayed away from Tiny Furniture too.  Actually, I don't even know if she's in it. 

 

[otb_lifer]

And btw... All that talk about my family friends who wrote and directed it? He did that for Pumpkin, not cheerleader 

ETA...

thanks, Flop

 

[KarmaPolice]

I thought Black swan was terrible.

Might be my top point getter for the year.  I love Aronofsky, and like the movie as a companion to The Wrestler. 

 

[KarmaPolice]

I decided to take a quick look through 2010 and am running through seeing very few and then realized...I was working 90-100 hour weeks that year (and 2011 and 2012).  I'm going to need some recommendations, too.

I second or third or fourth the recommendations of Winter's Bone, Restrepo, Exit Through the Gift Shop, Tiny Furniture, and I add Animal Kingdom (fantastic smart thriller), Get Low (but I'm a sucker for Robert Duvall), Another Year (but i'm also a sucker for Mike Leigh), Never Let Me Go (rare successful film adaptation of a book), 127 Hours (I guess not exactly a "small" movie), and Blue Valentine (rawr).

@krista4 - Get Low is 2009.

 

[El Floppo]

It's a reason I have stayed away from Tiny Furniture too.  Actually, I don't even know if she's in it. 

She wrote and started in it.

Do you not like Girls? Or just her? If it's the former, don't see the movie. The latter I can separate the person from the movie... and I must have missed whatever reason there was to not like her.

 

[El Floppo]

Might be my top point getter for the year.  I love Aronofsky, and like the movie as a companion to The Wrestler. 

I loved his first few and loved the wrestler. Black swan was gratuitous waste of time claptrap for me.

 

[krista4]

@krista4 - Get Low is 2009.

Oops, thanks.

 

[El Floppo]

thanks, Flop

Lol. Pumpkin was kind of fun though...

 

[The Dreaded Marco]

I am on Spring Break all week if anyone wants to hit me up with some 2010 recommendations- anything outside of the big hits and award winners would be cool.

A few repeats here, a few I haven't seen mentioned yet:

Exit Through The Gift Shop

Who Is Harry Nilsson (And Why Is Everybody Talkin' About Him)?

Rabbit Hole

Waiting for Superman

Greenberg

Blue Valentine

 

[krista4]

A few repeats here, a few I haven't seen mentioned yet:

Who Is Harry Nilsson (And Why Is Everybody Talkin' About Him)?

  I recommend this one, too.

 

[KarmaPolice]

She wrote and started in it.

Do you not like Girls? Or just her? If it's the former, don't see the movie. The latter I can separate the person from the movie... and I must have missed whatever reason there was to not like her.

Never seen Girls, and I have no problem separating people from movies either.  Just one I haven't gotten around to. 

 

[KarmaPolice]

Waiting for Superman

Uh oh. 

 

[The Dreaded Marco]

Uh oh. 

What'd I do?

 

[KarmaPolice]

What'd I do?

He posted last page how much he hated that one.  

 

[wikkidpissah]

Not everyone may have seen my favorite 2010 flick (now that Get Low has been changed for some reason), I Love You, Philip Morris, but you gotta like Jim Carrey to dig it. Social Network is the only flick getting 20 points from me in the '10 crop.

 

[The Dreaded Marco]

Not everyone may have seen my favorite 2010 flick (now that Get Low has been changed for some reason), I Love You, Philip Morris, but you gotta like Jim Carrey to dig it. Social Network is the only flick getting 20 points from me in the '10 crop.

I had ILY,PM on my original 2010 list but saw that it was from 2009 on IMDB so I scratched it off. 

 

[KarmaPolice]

Not everyone may have seen my favorite 2010 flick (now that Get Low has been changed for some reason), I Love You, Philip Morris, but you gotta like Jim Carrey to dig it. Social Network is the only flick getting 20 points from me in the '10 crop.

imdb shows ILYPM as 2009 too.  

Most of the foreign movies I has written down that I saw on 2010 lists are 2009 per our rules.  

2009 lists are going to kick ###!

 

[wikkidpissah]

dang - that moves Winter's Bone (i weep thru most of it when it's replayed now, just watching what JLaw generates in her role) to my fave, with my Top 2 reclassified. 2010 will be the latest year i was paying enough attention to have a list and now i cant get no pleasure from it t'all

 

[The Dreaded Marco]

He posted last page how much he hated that one.  

He may have hated this doc, but I hope he'll give the Harry Nillson doc a shot anyway (if he hasn't already seen it).