Magical wholesome exterior, delicious chewy center. I have seen this movie so many times… er well… I thought. This was probably one of those family VHS tapes of ours where someone recorded it off TV (criminals!) but they started the tape at the end of the first act. I am definitely missing multiple of the first 20 minutes.
Yet FBDO resonates with me. Growing up, I was such a rule follower (I was so Cameron), and Ferris is just so…
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
For fourteen years I avoided this movie because I thought I knew the twist, I just could not figure out how Ruffalo fit into the mix. Was he real, was he a hallucination, who’s to say. And in the end, I was pleasantly surprised to find out I was more wrong than right!
I share this only to point out that even if you know roughly where this may be going, it is still a gripping thriller from start to…
An absolute murderers row of talent solely telling each other to f#$& off and this job is bulls&% and that, that is peak American cinema.
“I subscribe to the law of contrary public opinion... If everyone thinks one thing, then I say, bet the other way...”
The real star of this film was the SPAS shotgun that gets more screen time than any one character.
A story about your average Detroit cop trying to regain his identity, nothing fancy – just a cyborg, its directives, a RoboBeast, guns that are actually cannons… oh and a union strike. Good campy sci-fi and particularly liked all of the flipping to first person that gives the movie extra style. I’m not huge on one-man-army movies, but glad I have…
“Shut up and deal” is a stone cold closer – that should be right up there with the “You had me at hello”’s of all-time quote history. And that’s post-Shirley MacLaine’s big smile at the New Year’s party (after being solemn virtually the entire movie) that could have been the closer on it’s own!
Funny, sweet, very dark at times, The Apartment is engaging from start to finish. Jack Lemmon is perfect in this movie, covering a broad range of…
Which one is David Bowie? (I innocently had a terrible mix-up here, WHOOPS).
So interesting – I had to ask the internet whether this was a specific allegory or what book this was based on, and was surprised to learn this was an original story. The entire movie there’s this elegant balance of the fantastical and reality; it’s unclear if the fantasy world is something made in Ophelia’s mind, a coping mechanism, or this is actually a fantasy film after…
