Mothers and daughters…an incredibly complicated dynamic captured so well.
First of all, 1990 Dennis Quaid, I had no idea you were so attractive - “infatuation material” indeed. And the “delivery” line was hilarious.
Nancy Regan in her overdose dream was gold.
Wow, Meryl Streep is just the GOAT, and her and MacLaine together is just formidable.
“No pain, no gain”
”Well, no wonder I’m so hefty”
The dialogue throughout was so good.
“I’m in it for the endorphins”
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
There’s way too much going on here to do more than scratch the surface, but to sum it up: I loved it. Although, even after 120 minutes I’m still not convinced Kyle MacLachlan is the kinda guy of guy that can pull off an earring.
Some pretty wonderful, perplexing, even maddening characters and I really can’t say I understood any of them but that’s actually Blue Velvet’s strength. Frank is a diabolical lunatic, yes, but his character was fascinating and…
Young Dafoe!! I gotta say the casting for this was pretty spot-on. The Hackman-Dafoe dynamic was great and it could’ve totally been the focus of the movie but it also functioned really well as a side show, although it did feel like Dafoe would disappear and then suddenly pop back up again - I kinda wish he’d been a more consistent presence. Stephen Tobolowsky is just the perfect creepy, sinister kkk leader weirdo; they could not have found anyone better.…
Damn i already loved Cazale, definitely love him more now, but Meryl made me cry.
“Will you do good or will your heart fill with hate?”
Wow I really walked into that theater thinking I knew exactly how that was going to end. Compared with the 2002 version, the escape scene wasn’t as good because it didn’t have that delicious moment of realization and the betrayal as a whole wasn’t nearly as good because Fernand didn’t really plot against Edmond.
The mask, thankfully, offers a plausible explanation for Dantès not to be recognized.
I missed…
I absolutely loved so many things about this movie. Willem Defoe had some fantastic dialogue ("I have seen things in this world that would have made Isaac Newton crawl back into his mother's womb!"), the shadow of the hand reaching across the city, the scene with Hutter in the bed was so faithfully executed and evoked the same terrifying sense of inevitability as the 1922 version, but I did wish we saw more of a parade of coffins and it was also dumb that third night lasted like 10 minutes.
