'Sleeper'
A place to talk about movies--old and new, good and bad, high art and high cheese. It's the place to place your kittens on the award winners, gossip about upcoming fims and discuss DVD releases and extras. Spoiler policy: White font all plot-related discussion until a movie's been in wide release two weeks, and keep the major HSQ in white font until two weeks after the video/DVD release.
I love The Thin Red Line (as I love all Malick movies). Just bought it on DVD.
Corwood is me. Except that I've had it on DVD for a couple of years.
Is TTRL one with Mel Gibson in it?
If he's in it, it's an insignificant cameo. I don't think he is. The only truly egregiuos cameo in it is John Travolta, and he's there for a minute maybe.
ETA: Gibson's not in it.
Mel Gibson's Vietnam movie is When We Were Soldiers and it is a really good movie--not a big, three-hour time suck like TTRL.
When We Were Soldiers
That's the one to avoid, then. I might give TTRL a shot. I'm trying to expand my choices now that I have Netflix. I don't feel that guilty spending the chump change it costs to rent anymore on a potential loser.
well, yeah, because it's prepaid, right?
On a completely different war-movie note, I have to ask if anyone else saw 1927's Wings last night on TCM. Not only was it an amazing film with incredible aerial sequences, and not only did Clara Bow kick all kinds of ass with a tremendous performance, but it had the single slashiest scene I've ever ever seen in an ostensibly heteronormative movie. A tender, mournful, genuinely moving and wrenching and utterly slashtastic death scene (right after this moment, when I groaned, "Oh, just kiss him already!", he kissed him already -- according to Wikipedia, the first known M/M kiss on film ever, anywhere). Slashier and more tender than that one Sam/Frodo near-death near-embrace, possibly slashier and more tender than anything in Brokeback Mountain, where there wasn't even any sub to the text.
I'm now incredibly curious about whether that scene pinged reviewers or audiences in 1927 at all, but my Google-fu for 8-decade-old film crit is apparently lacking.
"This movie needs way more gay"
Indeed.
Did you read the alt-text?
i wanted more MANLY ADVENTURE NARRATIVE and less WEAK ROMANCE WITH ILSA where the breen censorship code at the time forbade depicting a woman leaving her husband for another man anyway! we already know you will stay with your husband, ilsa! can we cut back rapid-fire quips between the captain and rick now please
On a completely different war-movie note, I have to ask if anyone else saw 1927's Wings last night on TCM. Not only was it an amazing film with incredible aerial sequences, and not only did Clara Bow kick all kinds of ass with a tremendous performance, but it had the single slashiest scene I've ever ever seen in an ostensibly heteronormative movie. A tender, mournful, genuinely moving and wrenching and utterly slashtastic death scene (right after this moment, when I groaned, "Oh, just kiss him already!", he kissed him already -- according to Wikipedia, the first known M/M kiss on film ever, anywhere)
I didn't, but back when AMC used to be allowed to show classic movies, I watched that one a couple of times, and I less than three it SO MUCH.
JZ, I just sent you the NYT review of the picture from Aug. 13, 1927. The word, "HoYAY!" does not appear in the article.
I just love the name on the byline: Mordaunt Hall.
