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Re: Excellent choices (Reply to this comment)
by naphtalia
I am not a Kubrick fan, but I adore Kurosawa. I keep trying to see more of Kubrick's stuff to see if I can find the appeal, but I can't. For me, he is like olives. I keep trying new kinds because everyone says how great they are, but I've yet to find any that don't make me gag....and that's Kubrick, too.
Talia
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Jan 22 '03
8:03 pm PST
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Great review and over view but... (Reply to this comment)
by brandon_m
No John Hughes ? ... ; )
- Brandon
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Aug 03 '02
10:17 pm PDT
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thinking about your question (Reply to this comment)
by artbyjude
and I don't see it...some critics are a little too glib in coming down with broad statements that can't be backed by anything but their own interpretation...or I could be wrong. I will now have to REALLY think about this..smell the rubber burning? Jude
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Apr 25 '02
1:42 am PDT
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Nice review (Reply to this comment)
by trphilip
and I gave it a VH, to show you that I have no hard feelings over your recent rating of my FMJ review. Keep up the good work.
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Oct 01 '01
6:47 am PDT
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nice review (Reply to this comment)
by Killa_T
I like the way your opinion is laid out. Keep up the good writin'
Killa_T
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Sep 09 '01
4:50 pm PDT
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A different perspective (Reply to this comment)
by rosaphile
I read all your recent movie decade lists, but I thought I'd limit my comments to one. I think I've probably seen less than a third of all the movies you listed (most of them Hitchcock movies), but it's fascinating to see a different perspective on movies! I (somewhat shamefacedly, admit I) am much more of a mainstream moviegoer, but if I get brave one of these days I might have to seek out some of these....
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Sep 07 '01
1:50 pm PDT
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Interesting Theory (Reply to this comment)
by seidswipe
I loved "MASH" and "Nashville" but I don't remember my female friends and/or dates being as enthusiastic about those two movies. "Buffalo Bill and the Indians" is an underrated movie which provides a completely different look at an american icon. I was fascinated by the focus on the character as opposed to Cody's legendary status. But it is not a macho western movie.
Those are my male views. The rest of the Altman movies are enjoyable or less so, and may well be better appreciated by women.
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Sep 03 '01
3:05 pm PDT
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Altman appeal (Reply to this comment)
by WilliamJones
Yeah, there's probably something to the notion that Altman films appeal more to women than men. Of course, Pauline Kael championed many of his films during her tenure at The New Yorker (even going so far as to withhold reviewing 3 Women [which she hated] -- perhaps the ultimate compliment a critic can pay).
3 Women, by the way, is very pro-woman. The message of that film might be: women can do fine without men.
Good list. Wouldn't be my choices, but we're all unique individuals, aren't we?
Bill
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Sep 01 '01
11:37 am PDT
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Well Done! (Reply to this comment)
by michealhead
I wholly agree with just about all of your selections being on my top 20, for that decade.
I'm a little surprised at the omission of Raging Bull, or Blue Velvet (well the latter does go to taste, I have any number of friends who detest it)
and thoroughly disagree with the choice of Kubrick's The Shining, which I found abysmal, Kubrick's weakest effort in his career (again to taste, that's another that tends to get arguments started between friends and I).
That's what is great about lists like this: it gives me a chance to look back across the films I love, and a good excuse to head down to the video store.
--Micheal
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Aug 30 '01
8:41 am PDT
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Interesting choices... (Reply to this comment)
by btomczak
Most of those films I've never heard of, let alone seen. I think "The Shining" is about the only one I have -- though I'll agree, it does belong on this list.
Thanks for a look at films most people haven't even considered seeing and probably ought to I suppose.
Benjamin
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Aug 30 '01
8:16 am PDT
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Excellent choices (Reply to this comment)
by dlockeretz
It's nice that people still appreciate Kubrick an Kurosawa.
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Aug 29 '01
5:04 pm PDT
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RE : Altman's flicks (Reply to this comment)
by artbyjude
Of the ones you mentioned, COOKIE'S FORTUNE, an offbeat look at life in the twisted South, is the only one that appeals to ME, and since the gender is correct, I add my name to the tally. This is a very interesting list, and it is a pleasure to read. Now I have to go back and check a few of them out...(work, work, work) I missed quite a few in the 80's, but there was also a LOT of garbage being produced, and I was less sophisticated in my appreciation then, as well as married to someone who would not watch a movie unless John Wayne was in it. Jude
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Aug 17 '01
6:41 am PDT
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