If I have to, I will say I like it because it's not realistic. Maybe I shouldn't but dang it- I like this movie. Haven't seen it in a very long time but I always thought it was pretty good. James Spader is downright spine-chilling in the last 40 minutes. But the story is good, the dialogue is smart, the acting is remarkable, and it's a lot of fun. Hey- when you compare this to the WAY OVER-THE-TOP stuff he did in The Shining and The Witches of Eastwick, this is restrained! The ending is admittedly pretty bad (with all the leaping fight scenes and not very entertaining makeup effects). I thought Nicholson did a great job of playing a defeated businessman (or was he a writer? I can't remember his profession in the film!) only to become a crazy monster, etc. Demented?Įveryone under the sun pans this movie (especially horror fans) and I still don't know why.
(Seriously, why does Hollywood make all gay characters that big name stars are willing to play so damn lame and cliched?) One thing occurred to me and I find this amusing- did Hackman have the same relationship with candy as Adrian Grenier did with drugs in Cecil B. It can't be that hard- all he has to do is be boring. Everyone else is doing a great job and this would be downright fun if they could make this out to be less a tragedy about how playing straight for a night is somehow killing Williams' character inside. Doubtfire, every scene he's onscreen- I feel like he's about to implode from the weight of his own emotional self-destruction. If this is supposed to be a comedy, Robin Williams is really testing that theory. Not too many Travolta characters I really like. I think Kathy Bates is always great (even in The Waterboy).
I haven't seen it in quite awhile but I've seen it 3 times. I still think it's funny as a comedy even if it's not all that smart or daring. That's actually a glowing recommendation from me on a Hollywood drama. Sidney Lumet: Running on Empty (1988) - 8 I can't rate this film objectively, I'll always have a bias) The ones I rated are the only ones I actually cared enough to buy on DVD.Įlia Kazan: Splendor in the Grass (1961) - 10 (the perfect 10 is more for personal reasons rather than the film's actual merits. Joel & Ethan Coen: Most of these are n/a because I honestly do not remember much about the films although I know I watched them. John Woo: The Robinsons: Lost in Space (2004) - 6.5 (one of the rare times I make a comment: I watched this on youtube and while it's visually impressive, I can see why WB passed on picking it up for a series) Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) - 8
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