Making a comedy set in WWII-era Los Angeles was a great idea. Too bad they forgot to make it any good.
The film is not bad, but there are scenes that do not come to mind. What surprised me the most is that Iron Butterfly's In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida appears.
We need to pause and appreciate the significance of what De Palma has done in The Untouchables. He has achieved the rare feat of taking a movie that should've been 90 minutes, turned it into 120, and made it feel like 150. Connery is the only great thing in this film. De Niro, Costner and Garcia are comically bad. The score is excurciating. Camerawork is cheesy. And the moral of the story is that moral policing is dumb, dumb, dumb. Liked it a lot when I was 13. Not so much anymore.
Story: 6...glorifying the earlier version of America's stupid drug war
Script: 7
Performances: 6...Connery carries it alone
Misc.: 5
Influence: 8...for some reason this is still impactful
Overall: 6
One of the worst films I've ever seen. How people continue to make apologies for it is beyond me.
One of the most beautiful alien encounter films I've watched.
Boy, I got vision, and the rest of the world wears bifocals
Hersch always maintained this was his best. I don't know about that, but it is a good one. Fun early southern slasher.
I don't like sand. It's coarse and rough and irritating and it gets everywhere.
I wish I could just..wish away my feelings.
i liked this film more than the 1st one. & i didnt have to type out a short novel about it
Was pleasantly surprised with this one. Cool to see Michael X in a film like this, he was an interesting character and gets overlooked a lot. Not sure how much I trust the marketing of the film, what with the whole gag order thing, but it's the UK so who knows. All around good period heist film that I haven't seen mentioned enough.
I enjoyed this one quite a bit, but goddamn is that suit goofy.
This is one of the first movies my father showed me, when I was about 12 years old. That was over 30 years ago. To this day it is one of my favorite movies of all time. It is also the first movie I remember that made the specific point that not all German soldiers were Nazis. And there was quite some animosity between the military branches like the German Air Force towards the SS and Gestapo. There is this neat little scene in the office of the camp leading officer and it's awesome to see how he really doesn't even care about the Hitler salute. As a teenager that was an important distinction and it is sad that to this day a lot of people still don't know that a lot of German soldiers actually hated the Nazis and only kept on fighting for patriotism. The German officer even says he just hopes he can survive the war together with the prisoners as comfortably as possible. This was made in 1963. To this day not many WWII care to make a distinction between SS and other German military. For me this is the greatest triumph of this movie.
Look how they massacred my boys
This is without doubt the greatest film I've ever seen
One of the best
I can watch this film over and over again
I'm on Oh-ficial Clown business bitch, so watch this great movie!
Who would have thought a movie arguing about drapes for 2 hours would be boring?
There are a lot of good parts, but man, I really wish there was a better point of contention than drapes.
Do people not realize this actually happened? That's what makes it so disturbing.
Couldn't get into it. Probably a decent movie, it just wasn't my thing.
You can really taste the Dr. Seuss in this.
If they had just called this "Season of the Witch" and dropped the Halloween branding, this would have gone down as one of the better horror films of the 80s.
As of yet the only Black Metal documentary besides One Man Metal that I consider to be good.
This is an unavoidably political film, and I have always held some sympathy for Nixon, so my bias should be noted, but this may be one of the finer docudramas of the twentieth century. Stone humanizes Nixon, with equal deference given to his faults as well as his strengths. The writing is superb, the performances are exceptional... a fine film all around.
Not very good, but I had fun watching it.
I watched this, Joker, and The House That Jack Built in one night and this was by far the most enjoyable of the three.
One of the greatest closing scenes ever filmed.
Probably my favorite thing RLM ever did.
70s Narco crime done right!
