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Post by Jerk on Feb 12, 2017 20:57:21 GMT
This is a wonderful 70's crime film. The dialogue and characters are great. And Robert Mitchum gives a great performance.
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Post by pimpinainteasy on Feb 13, 2017 14:23:52 GMT
yes, its awesome.
Dear Peter Yates,
you made an edgy film that was true to the book by George.V.Higgins. The Friends of Eddie Coyle is about a bunch of crooks squealing on each other to escape jail sentences. The film is mostly entertaining dialog. The people (actors), places or events are not given too much space. The characters and the plot develops almost entirely through the sparse but often realistic and witty dialog. The film is set in a a male world. There is a lot of machismo. For example, a couple of the crooks casually discuss a woman's vagina. Someone like Tarantino would have tried to emphasize the best dialogs if he had directed this film. What I mean is that most directors would have tried to create a huge event if they had dialogs like the ones in the movie. But your directing style is unromantic and sparse. It was original and faithful to the book. The tension is caged in because of which the film never really rises above a certain level of entertainment. The gangsters in the film are total losers without any honor. They would rat each other out and kiss establishment ass in a second. Norman Mailer expressed surprise for the book - "that so good a first novel was written by the fuzz." I have not watched another gangster flick like The Friends of Eddie Coyle. Robert Mitchum was effortlessly brilliant as Eddie Coyle - a small time gangster who is on his way down. Well done, Peter.
Best Regards, Pimpin.
(10/10)
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Post by Deleted on Feb 13, 2017 15:25:49 GMT
Excellent film, with great performances and fine use of locations.
Peter Yates said somewhere that "The Dresser" and "The Friends of Eddie Coyle" were his favorite films out of all the ones he made.
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Post by Eyeball on Feb 22, 2017 2:32:48 GMT
I give it 8/10.
Great performances throughout.
Especially Robert Mitchum, Peter Boyle and Richard Jordan.
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Post by meandmybigmouth on Feb 22, 2017 22:19:49 GMT
Great gem. The shop owner, out of blue Recommended it me. Said he wishes it to be more known.
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Post by telegonus on Feb 23, 2017 3:31:58 GMT
Wonderful film, and a great character study. It's also a great picture of Boston and its surrounding cities and towns from what's now long ago, and much of the area has changed beyond recognition. Robert Mitchum played (truly) Eddie Coyle without a trace of vanity.
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Post by Jerk on Feb 25, 2017 18:40:37 GMT
Wonderful film, and a great character study. It's also a great picture of Boston and its surrounding cities and towns from what's now long ago, and much of the area has changed beyond recognition. Robert Mitchum played (truly) Eddie Coyle without a trace of vanity. That's a perfect way to describe Mitchum's performance.
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Post by wmcclain on Mar 25, 2017 0:53:09 GMT
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Post by mikef6 on Apr 14, 2017 18:49:51 GMT
Eddie Coyle’s friends – and Eddie himself – are low-level career criminals who work in the Boston area. Some of them are getting a little above themselves by pulling off a couple of successful bank robberies. This is making law enforcement angry and anxious to stop the spree. This sets off a series of double-crosses, betrayals, and reprisals. Coyle is facing a prison sentence so is trying to raise money to take care of his family while he’s gone so he supplies guns to the bank robbers. At the same time, he wants to earn some clemency, so plots with a Treasury agent to give up his gun supplier. Robert Mitchum inhabits Eddie Coyle in one of his best performances. Almost as good is Peter Boyle as a fellow snitch for the cops. This is almost a quintessential ‘70s movie. Director Peter Yates (Bullitt) uses a lot of Boston area locations giving a distinct flavor to the place and time. A fine movie.
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Post by hi224 on Apr 14, 2017 20:20:02 GMT
Adding on to what someone said regarding Mitchum he certainly seemed like he had no limitations when it came to acting, definitely a fearless actor.
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Post by geode on Oct 11, 2017 1:43:27 GMT
This is a wonderful 70's crime film. The dialogue and characters are great. And Robert Mitchum gives a great performance. I will have to check it out again. I haven't encountered it since I saw it in first release
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Post by geode on Aug 13, 2019 7:38:34 GMT
I think they should make a sequel, "The Enemies of Eddie Coyle"....
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