One of my favorites. Had he lived…I bet he would’ve been the King of Noir.
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I saw Get Carter several months ago, I really liked it. the whole credit sequence is visually well done and sets the scene for northern England.
•leave London
•no scenery
•all industrial scrapyards
•nuclear plant
•scrapyards intensify
•home sweet home!
one of the better, grimy gangster pictures I’ve seen.
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We had a high of 98 today. New York is having a heatwave and I don’t have air conditioning. What can I do but rewatch “Dog Day Afternoon.”
A profound thought I had while watching it this time — John Cazale would have made a great Joker.
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Do The Right Thing is a good hot weather movie to rewatch as well.
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and the 7 Year Itch for lighter fare.
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Or, if you want to go the other way…
This did well when it was released before the age of airconditioned theaters (June 11, 1922).
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A friend recommended A.I. Artificial Intelligence. Alas we watched it. Worst movie I’ve seen in a long time. Actually we only watched part of it (ok, most of it); but it got late and we decided to finish it the next day. But we bagged it because we just didn’t care.
That’s the third Spielberg “Sci-Fi” movie I’ve disliked to one or extent or another. “Close Encounters” was OK. There was a definite sense of wonder at the beginning when Richard Dreyfuss was in the truck and lights pulled up behind him, and then went up. But I really don’t really remember what happened next, except for what I disliked – Dreyfuss making the tower out of mashed potatoes, the flying saucer with all the energy-wasting lights, the synthesizer business, the clichéd aliens, etc. And so much of the dialog had no point.
E.T. was a fun kid’s movie, I suppose, but again the dialog seemed pointless, as did the father buttering the bread then rolling an ear of corn in it. How did that advance the plot? What pissed me off the most was the way the movie made scientists look so evil and alien. Sigh.
A.I. was the worst though. Being sf readers, perhaps we expected too much. It just didn’t have any new ideas, except perhaps for ways of leaving plot holes. I did like some of the scenery, but the rest of the movie just didn’t hold together. Near the end, a reference to the “space-time continuum” being responsible for reuniting two characters for only a limited time was just pulled out of the ether–Balonium of the highest atomic weight.
Oh well.
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Beautiful turn of phrase!
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In my opinion, Spielberg has only ever made one good movie: Raiders of the Lost Ark. And I haven’t seem that since I was 10. He has a unique gift of creating characters I instantly hate.
And that’s the end of my rant.
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You ever see his work on “Night Gallery” and the TV movie, “Duel”?
And he directed “Jaws”, as well.
I’m not crazy about some of his stuff myself, but I recognize when someone’s good or at least pretty decent. I liked the characters in “Jaws” even if I didn’t like the movie itself; it’s the only film with Richard Dreyfuss in which I like his character.
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I agree that was a good one. So different from anything else at the time (as was true for the first Star Wars film).
BTW, a friend who has a FB account sent this around today:
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I agree Duel was pretty good.
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Dennis Weaver should get some of the credit for it being good, too.
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Yup. I want to slap everyone in that movie other than the shark.
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Aw, come on - I liked Roy Scheider and Robert Shaw!
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Oh, yeah. He was great in the movie.
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An early role for Daniel Stern!
And I forgot about Warren Oates - another one of my faves! But he’s in…a suit and tie?
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Spielberg has had 45 years to win me over. It’s not happening.
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