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MindzEye said:
His film career has been pretty, pretty good as well.

No Country
Zombieland
White Men Can't Jump
Hunger Games
Solo....which turned out to be one of the better modern star wars movies
Natural Born Killers
Thin Red Line for those Malick weirdos
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I don't recall Ted Danson being in Natural Born Killers.

I do recall one of his very early roles in 1979's "The Onion Field", with James Woods.
 
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The newish Elvis doc on Netflix about the 68’ special is great…..Conan, Springsteen, Wright Thompson (who’s new book ‘The Barn’ about Emmit Till is excellent), Billy Corgan and Robbie Robertson are all talking heads in it.

They do a great job of contextualizing where Elvis was at that point in his career, how unfulfilled he was as an artist after pumping out all those dreck movies & soundtracks, and also how big a swing it was for him to come out playing what he wanted at that age & perceived as past his rock n roll prime.

For all of us that didn’t live through it, it makes all those performances that night that much more powerful, especially the closer.



edit: I guess the Baz biopic prob covered all this pretty well too, but haven’t seen it, so me be redundant for those who have.
 
JackBurton said:
I get so pissed off the academy won't nominate comedic performances. candy was brilliant in that movie. Love Connery, but Candy was better that year and not even nominated. Merging comedy with dramatic moments is so difficult and very rarely does it ever work. This film is a masterpiece.
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Awards, award shows, reviews, reviewers, etc., are all mostly bullshit IMO.

I pay absolutely no attention to any of it.

If it's good, it's good. And vice versa. The viewer/consumer must be the judge of that, not some joker who thinks they are pertinent to my, or others, tastes.

Yes, it is a great movie. Candy was a genius.
 
axlsalinger said:

View: https://x.com/landofthe80s/status/1862120992081948979
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I paid to watch this in the theater when it first came out in 1987. Then a couple of days later I paid to see it a second time. A week after that, I paid to watch it a third time. I enjoyed it that much. And today, if ever I'm channel surfing and I happen to see it's on, I watch it.

And now I've discovered that they originally filmed about 2 more hours worth of that movie. They wound up cutting more film than the length of the actual theatrical release. There's an entire kind of dark subplot in which Steve Martin's wife is convinced that he is cheating on her and that "Del Griffith" is actually a woman he's sleeping around with. Id love it if they could find some of that footage and do a director's cut.
 
Heretic is an interesting and bold horror film. Hugh Grant is pretty dang good and creepy, and it has a plot about religion that feels kinda gutsy for 2024. Not a great, but pretty good.
 
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