The whole industry is blinded by Guillermo del Toro’s charms. He does seem like one of the most likable dudes among the big-name directors, but man.
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Rocky is actually my favorite 1976 movie, but yeah it’s pretty crazy that it won Best Picture over not only Network, but also Taxi Driver and All the President’s Men.
At least Network got three acting Oscars and a screenplay Oscar. All in all, the Academy has committed greater crimes against amazing movies.
Same reason it would today. It was too overtly political, while its competitor was a feel good version of a dope’s American Dream. Also, remember this was barely on the back of Nixon.
Hold.
He did not say it’s bad. Just that it’s at the bottom of the list.
Correct eyebooger?
No, I know. But when you classify something as easily the worst, it’s just conferring too much weakness unto a stone-cold masterpiece like Dog Day. There’s not that much space to get better than that movie.
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I like the title but that is because it was the name of a record store I went to growing up.
That’s fair. It was poor form to use that language for a masterpiece.
I’m not an Elvis fan and enjoyed the movie
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Yeah, my comment was meant to praise 12 Angry Men and Network, but I can see how the way I worded it unfairly disparaged Dog Day Afternoon. I shouldn’t have used “the worst” to describe a 9/10 vs 10/10 vs 10/10. That’s language for a 5/10 vs 8/10 vs 9/10.
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I love that Network was released when it was, because if you release that exact same movie now, it would feel too on-the-nose to be anything special. Even if all the acting and directing quality was at the same extremely high level.
It’s like how The Insider clearly improves even further with age because of how firm of a stand it took in the direction of “uhh, guys, everything just broke. Probably forever.” That was at least something an intelligent person could argue against in good faith then. It being proven right with time is a real additional credit to a movie that was already great.
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Incidentally @eyebooger have you seen Dr. Strangelove? Fail Safe being its sister movie that flopped badly from a financial standpoint is definitely an interesting comparison. They’re playing with very similar premises except that Strangelove is comedic and Fail Safe is deathly serious.
The final episode of Quantum Leap is the only Elvis movie I need.
That’s really Scott Bakula singing!
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Yes, but probably 20-25 years ago. Certainly due for a rewatch sometime soon.
I really don’t think Fail Safe is a worse movie. They’re just different. The flop was because they came out on the wrong end of litigation and got their release pushed back to keep it from coming out at the same time as Dr. Strangelove. By then, “Dr. Strangelove, but no jokes” just didn’t appeal to people.
It’s certainly the other great thing Henry Fonda did with Sidney Lumet.
Finally got around to watching this, it was quite good and the ending was well done
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Finally saw this one, loved all of it, thought it was one of Reichardt 's best. Doesn’t hurt to have Josh O’Connor who’s always great (and the “Haim drummer” doesn’t do much but if you see her you’re probably watching a good movie)
Might have been biased by the (unplanned) fact of seeing it in an
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Also saw Send Help which I thought was decently fun but didn’t really transcend its kinda tired premise. (Wondering how much of it was based on seeing Triangle of sadness and thinking “we should do that but fun”. It’s a 100x better movie but that’s a low bar).
Both actors are great though. Dylan O’Brien’s asshole laugh was the best part of the movie.
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Fathom Events is really going for it this year with its Big Screen Classics series. There are a few in there I might want to see.
Gonna be tough to resist seeing the chariot race from Ben-Hur on the biggest screen.
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Robert Carradine, Revenge of the Nerds and Lizzie McGuire actor, dies aged 71 Robert Carradine, Revenge of the Nerds and Lizzie McGuire actor, dies aged 71 | Film | The Guardian
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