101 minute running time, so the perfect length. Movie set in 1944 Louisiana on a segregated army base … honest about racism and murder and self-hatred. I enjoyed it and recommend it. Green-go. Rare to see a movie with an almost all-black cast. This was a John Farr recommendation and I second it.
We need ·doctors, lawyers, generals -- senators! Stop thinkin' like a niggaI [In the script but less heavy-handed on the screen]
Balck Ice, Deep Carve, Crystal affixed, $95
116 minute running time so 16 minutes too long ... I liked this one ... it's a thriller of sorts ... I make fun of Hanoi Jane, but she was truly beautiful and a very talented actress, and may have been at her peak here at age 40 ... young Meryl Streep makes an appearance ... I'm surprised I hadn't heard of this movie, I guess Fred Zinnemann made several good movies (High Noon, of course) and this was definitely one of them. This is a green-go. John Farr says this is a personal favorite.
113 minute running time so 13 minutes too long … starring NYC and its iconic coffee cup … 1989 pre-cellphone and internet so society not yet destroyed … Al Pacino as mid-life crisis cop … interesting how closely he re-played this role in Heat (1995) and they even re-used the who? who? what are you, an owl? bit of dialogue in the latter movie … Ellen Barkin a strange femme fatale with her weirdly crooked smile, though she does have great tits … John Goodman (6’2”) fat even as a young man … father from Six Feet Under was in a lot of movies in the late 80s, but I never learned his name (Richard Jenkins, I’ll never remember that) … the story wasn’t terrible, I liked the twist, but I don’t think I’d recommend this, though John Farr does.
I believe in animal attraction.
141 minute running time so 41 minutes too long. I’ve seen a lot of Lanthimos movies and liked them all, he’s my kind of nut, but I can’t imagine the general public can watch these. He clearly does some serious drugs and comes up with some wacky ideas, but he’s very funny … a lot of scenes in Poor Things made me laugh out loud … I missed maybe 20% of the dialogue because I couldn’t hear it or it was unclear; I will have to re-watch with subtitles once it comes out on disc (I saw it in the theater). Emma Stone is a good sport and has guts to take on a role like this (lots of screwing).
Bad whore
100 minute running time so the perfect length … W.D. By (written and directed by the same person, i.e., somebody’s baby) … Mimi Rogers has amazing, huge tits, just heavenly … she plays the world’s sexiest phone operator by day who is a swinger by night … meets long-haired David Duchovny, sexiest man alive with his shirt off … soft-core porn in the beginning turns into heavy, dark movie about religion and the Rapture (the Second Coming) … how weird can a movie be?!? What in God’s name did the public make of this movie back in 1991? Just bizarre… Yellow rating alone for Mimi Rogers’ amazing bones and breasts… this was a John Farr reco. I can’t imagine anyone ever gave Tolkin money to make another movie after this one. He’s like a horny sex fiend who is also interested in deep questions and inexplicably tries to combine the two.
[Knock, knock] You have to believe. If you don't, you go to Hell.
102 minute running time so the perfect length… fed into the conspiracy theories that came out of the tumultuous 1960s, political assassination, shadow government, CIA stuff, distrust of the Warren Commission report, the investigative reporter as hero (Watergate era), etc. … Warren Beatty plays Jim Morrison, sexiest man alive with the movie contracts to prove it, bra-less Paula Prentiss and her fabulous breasts in white sweater … shocking ending … this movie should be a double feature with The Conversation (also from 1974). There are some nice touches in this movie such as the damn spill gates flood, the redneck sheriff, and the final scene with runaway golf cart on the convention floor. I guess it’s a green-go, though this was a re-watch for me so I sort of sped through it. It’s a John Farr reco too.
Jealous ex-lover face … my favorite scene
112 minute running time so 12 minutes too long … this was a weird one, a combination prison break / existential drama / runaway train action movie starring John Voight and his goofy Hispanic accent … the real reason I saw this (other than it being a John Farr recommendation) was it had Rebecca De Mornay in it, and I loved her in The Hand That Rocks the Cradle… mid-1980s sexism still pretty strong, a lot of cussing in this movie. Yellow rating at best.
The only person on the whole train is a woman.
130 minute running time so 30 minutes minutes too long… young Al Pacino… I forgot how funny this movie is, they’re all such nitwits, both cops and robbers. I also totally forgot about the sex change angle, but of course it’s a tragedy in the end. This is a John Farr recommendation and I’d recommend it too if it were 30 minutes shorter.
He doesn't have plan. It's all a whim.
101 minute running time so a perfect length … movies from the early 90s are the end of an era, right before cell phones and the internet destroyed everything … this is really cute, Nic Coppola playing a doofus (again) and skinny-assed Bridget Fonda (nepo babies both) along with Rosie Perez, who was annoyingly fun, not unlike the role Luis Guzmán played in Out of Sight … the undertaker from Six Feet Under, also co-starring NYC and the old coffee cups, I don’t know who else I recognized… this was not from John Farr, but from the same person who recommended The Hand That Rocks the Cradle, which I also really liked. I tried to send “Elizabeth Ervin” an email and a tweet in thanks, but received no response.
This is feel-good stuff, wholesome fun for the whole family, green-go, recommended. No swearing, no tattoos, no cell phones, plus goofy, often slightly racist humor is a win!
You want a sick day, get sick.
No sound is key.
183 minute running time … that’s over three hours long, but amazingly I didn’t fast forward much, so it must have been well made … it was hilarious how incompetent the police were, and these were rich white people who got murdered, which makes it doubly shocking. The actor who played Manson was really good (meaning really scary). Prosecutor Bugliosi comes across well, which is not surprising since he wrote the script. This was a John Farr recommendation.
Blackie will wipe out whitey…
110 minute running time but felt like forever… Who cares about these lowlife Italian guys, other than Marty Scorsese? … gritty early 1970s Manhattan … went to fast forward after 20 minutes and never looked back .. stars Harvey Keitel and Bob De Niro… I just didn’t care. John Farr recommended it, but I sure don’t.
Positively No Gambling
91 minute running time, which is a good length, but I still watched this one on fast forward since it was weird and had pedo vibes … Jodie Foster not acting her age (being precocious) … Ramón Antonio Gerardo Estévez played a gorgeous pedophile (I guess that’s why John Farr recommended this one) … I wasn’t thrilled with this and certainly wouldn’t recommend it.
You’re a regular hippie, huh?
122 minute running time so 22 minutes too long … Hanoi Jane (she’s a good actress), long-haired Michael Douglas and old Jack Lemmon playing a serious role (very well) … nuclear power (a pity Douglas says nuke-you-ler, but Fonda pronounced it perfectly), women’s lib, corporate greed and bad guys, public safety … don’t forget that Three Mile Island happened on March 28, 1979 and Chernobyl happened April 26, 1986, so this movie was pretty timely! I guess everybody should see this one and John Farr also recommended it, so I’ll make it a green-go even though it’s 22 minutes too long.
Don’t worry your pretty head about a nuclear meltdown.
121 minute running time so 20 to 30 minutes too long … my DVD wasn’t subtitled so I couldn’t watch it on fast forward so I just fast forwarded it without the dialogue… I saw this 25 years ago and liked it then but wasn’t thrilled with it on re-watch, just too long and predictable (“greed ain’t good”) and sort of second-rate acting … Billy Bob playing his usual simpleton, Bill Paxton with a bad haircut, a very pregnant Bridget Fonda, which was nice to see … looked like it was filmed in my neck of Appalachia, but no, that was Minnesota. John Farr recommended it, but I wouldn’t.
See how simple it is?
114 minute running time so 14 minutes too long … Martin Scorsese has made only a couple of great movies and this is one of them, a green-go for sure. Robert De Niro is so good, Cybill Shepherd, 12-year-old Jodie Foster, Harvey Keitel, they’re all good… the story is good (though 14 minutes too long) and well told (Paul Schrader script), holds up great nearly 50 years later … America in the early 1970s was about as low as it got in modern times, just brutal … I liked the fantasy ending, I think that was a Scorsese joke on “happy” Hollywood endings, because Travis is in hell for sure. John Farr recommends it too: “alienation in an urban wasteland.”
Taking me to a place like this is about as exciting to me as saying, “Let’s f*ck.”
110 minute running time so 10 minutes too long, but I enjoyed this one, green-go. It stars Eddie Norton and his lisp, Paul Giamatti and his pimply forehead, and Jessica Biel and her great bones. I fell in love with Biel because of Season One of The Sinner. She’s both smart and beautiful, a rare combo in Hollywood.
Anyway, this is a fun story, well told. I had heard nothing about this movie, so went in with no expectations, which is always best. John Farr recommends it too.
