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.
130 minute running time so 30 minutes too long … 90s action movie, bus crash, train crash, dam dive, helicopters, subway fights, one-armed men, evil Big Pharma, Ralph “Who-are” Cifaretto, Tommy Lee Jones playing a jerk, which he does naturally … some nicely done twists, but this was just too damn long. John Farr recommended this one: “Over two three decades after its initial release, it's worth another peek if you haven't seen it since. As to first-timers — well, it'd be a crime to miss it.” Nah, you can miss it.
Provasic
128 minute running time so 28 minutes too long … as if Hitchcock had made a soft-core porn thriller … this movie made a 22-year-old boy I know pretty horny at the time, but it just makes me laugh now … Verhoeven really went to town with all the Hitchcock stuff, the music, San Francisco, the blonde, the brunette, the rivalry, etc. Gorgeous police shrink has fake eyeglasses, Newman as D.A. in the classic leg-crossing scene, black and white Lotus Esprits (see why we had that poster of a red one on the bedroom wall?), lesbian love (super risqué in 1992), Lieutenant sniffs Douglas’s gun after the I.A. guy is shot (big laugh), no way a cop could afford that apartment in S.F., even in the early 1990s, lots of mentions of cocaine, Pizza Hut box for product placement, Michael Douglas age 48 in da club wearing a V-neck sweater with nothing underneath (another big laugh), Miss Crawford County, Pennsylvania’s bod still good at age 34, Douglas beat the hell out of that Mustang driving it up those S.F. steps, and he’s just fine after being hit by a car and then backed over … “magna cum laude pussy” (another big laugh), “She’s evil! She’s brilliant!” (another big laugh). Michael Douglas has a fantastic smoker’s voice, so much so that I think he got throat cancer (let me google that), so yeah, this is a classic in many ways (but not a John Farr reco). It’s way too long and dumb to get a green-go, though it’s good for laughs 30 years after the fact, and should be seen for nostalgia reasons.
Exactly what do you have in mind, Newman?.
138 minute running time so 40 minutes too long … cellphones fairly new in 2003 and smartphones non-existent … Terrible fake Boston accents throughout … Sean Penn is sort of a so-so actor, I don’t know why he’s showered with praise, and he even won an Oscar for this?!? Give me a break. Big goofball Tim Robbins as best supporting actor a little more believable, but nah … hated the ending of this with Laura Linney saying her husband was a king and they’d rule this town, it’s just so dumb, cut all that out. Also cut out the storyline of Kevin Bacon and his silent wife, and cut out Dave’s wife losing her mind at the end, becoming a mumbling village idiot … the story is basically good (Dennis Lehane), abduction, trauma, childhood bonds, damaged adults, could he be a killer etc., but the movie was way too long and the acting was lame, Clint Eastwood needs a firm editor. John Farr recommended this but I sure wouldn’t.
110 minute running time so ideally I could have cut out about 10 minutes, but I thought this movie was GREAT and I enjoyed every minute of it … I have no idea how it got into my queue, it’s not a John Farr recommendation, but I’m glad that it did … it’s a green-go for sure. Good story, well written, good acting, attractive people … loved it. Bitchy Julianne Moore with her bob cut smoking up a storm and driving a big Beemer. Surprised that I’ve never heard of this movie before.
Don’t f*ck with me, retard.
137 minute running time which means FORTY minutes too long, can you imagine sitting through all of this? It was like a full-employment act movie for old fogey British actors… I was very pleased to see Emily Watson though, who astonished me in Breaking the Waves (a great movie), and there was Kelly Macdonald, who is a brilliant actress … I can’t stand these Upstairs Downstairs period dramas… but John Farr liked it (predictably).
