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Maybe, as far as a corner-turning milepost, this is the A-ball equivelent of Dickey's near-perfect game last season.
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Also worth considering: There's Pacino (a fine actor), Pacino with DePalma (a cartoon), and Pacino with Lumet (a revelation).
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Those eyebrows look projectable.
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Also popping to mind is The Main Event (1979), Tough Enough (1983), and Homeboy (1988). Requiem for a Heavyweight is a tough thing to watch, because I'm so used to Jackie Gleason having a great big heart underneath all his assholish bluster, you keep looking for it in this movie too, only to find out that he's barely got any humanity at all.
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I gave it 2.5. If I could edit that vote. I'd probably drop a half a star due to ghastly geriatric sex jokes. Who does the polling that produces the data that says America can't get enough geriatric sex humor?
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Pants.
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So yeah, as my description implies, but the marketing does not, this film opens with some pretty violent tsunami footage. All tsunami-weary folks may wish to steer clear.
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We didn't get far either.
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We also get the fantasy --- amid all the gripping realism ---of white dudes tough enough to hang in there in a sport dominated by men of color.
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John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: How is it they keep making boxing movies... ? Because unlike MLB, Hollywood doesn't do mandatory steroid tests, and giving your top actors a chance to show off their 'roidy torsos by getting topless and sweaty and bloody is money in the bank.
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You folks got to include an option for half a star. You've just got to.
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Who is Harry Nillson -and why is everybody talkin about him?
Edgy MD replied to a topic in Film Review Forum
I have no problem with calling a CD an album. Or a digital package of downloadable songs for that matter. Anybody who corrects you on this should be avoided. -
Vic Sage wrote: probably my least favorite of the Cameron Crowe ouevre ... Then you've wisely spared yourself an evening with Elizabethtown.
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Yeah, but other than that, it was a turd. I gave it 4.5.
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One and a half from me. I just can't believe they can't frame the decision of young Winona's life as a choice between two equally contemptable, equally self-interested assholes --- each bent on exploiting and consuming whatever spirit she has left. That's the choice Gen-Xers have? Between giving your sex to corporate douchebags or Byronic ones? Women of earth, there's a third way!
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Four recent Gen-X college graduates with broken professional compasses share a life, drugs, and general contempt for the society they are struggling to enter with their souls intact. The bonds of their common alienation hold fast even as treat each other unspeakably.
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That's how rich Bob Hope was. He has his regular grave and his fucking grave.
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An island beach community is menaced by a 30-foot great white shark. The police chief, obstructed by the self-interest of local politics, goes shark hunting with an academic and a grizzled salty sea dog.
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Yeah, that was Stoltz. I have a little trouble accepting this as a watermark for "my generation," even though the characters were about my age. Though I liked a lot of grunge, I never fully trusted it or gave myself to it, as much as folks three or four years younger. It makes sense that Seattle folk were early adopters of course, but for that reason, these folks kind of stand apart from representing a broader cross-section of their national peers at the time. They are caught here as earlier adopters of gourmet coffee also. My brother was convinced he saw me in the Ethan Hawke-portrayed solipsistic slacker of Reality Bites. When I saw the film, I wanted to punch him in the face for the comparison. Probably before I saw the film, even.
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John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: One of those flicks that I always watch when it comes on, partly in horror for the douchy railroad guy ("Good coffee and good tunes"). STFU. It's a great theme of literature: "Coming of age, marked by destroyed illusions." And the huge zoom-in on Tom Skerritt's (a pretty big-shotty supporting player for a one-scene part) oily smile as he says NO really underscores the explosion of the illusions in the young man's soul. Campbell Scott also has this monologue where he says, "My dad left home when I was eight. He said to me, 'Have fun. Stay single.' I was eight!" I can't watch the scene without picturing George C. Scott, shaved head and all, walking out on his family to command some army with his riding crop. It has a talking mime, but I'm sure there are others in filmdom.
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Who is Harry Nillson -and why is everybody talkin about him?
Edgy MD replied to a topic in Film Review Forum
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Best parts of the soundtrack were non-Seattlian.
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Xavier McDaniel stars in Cameron Crowe's tale of the dating scene in Seattle among young scenesters with earnest careers and terrible taste.
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That's pretty much where I am, except to say that casting Neill and Dern and Attenborough were off-book choices that were just as effective as the obvious ones. That said, what an impressive spread on the voting.
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Well, I wouldn't argue with that. But that's true of a lot of films --- most even --- and some of them are still OK. Like Titanic and maybe Mary Shelly's Frankenstein, you get the idea that if the filmmakers really believed in the message of the danger of man's hubris, they'd've not made these films in the first place.
