Rate/Rank the Woody Allen directed Films ( UPDATED)

Rate/Rank the Woody Allen directed Films ( UPDATED) Jan 17, 2020 9:59:37 GMT Vits likes this

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Post by Toasted Cheese on Jan 17, 2020 9:59:37 GMT

Jan 17, 2020 9:38:40 GMT Vits said:

Jan 17, 2020 1:10:30 GMT Toasted Cheese said:

I myself have rated Annie Hall a 9 and Love and Death a 7. I was wondering Mr. vits, what you find so appealing about these 2 Allen films you have rated highly yourself and what makes them stand out above the others.

They're both hilarious and showcase Woody's ability to balance absurd and cartoony gags with intellectual humor. And his performance is relatively toned down. Also, the release has to be taken into consideration when reviewing a movie for its originality. In a lot of the movies Woody made later, he recycled ideas, he took his neurotic schtick to annoying levels, and he wrote jokes that were bad or not as good as before.

Yes, he did tend to wring out his nebbish, neurotic and over-analytical philosophical persona to the 9th degree. We were just seeing the same character over and over again, but in a different surrounding. That was his pitch though and as he got older, he just cast different actors in the Allen mode.

He was fresh in the 70's and any staleness that did start to creep in, started as the 80's was beginning. 2 of my favorite Allen's from the 80s' don't star him, he is narrator though for the delightful and adorable Radio Days, but I really feel he capped off this decade with the thought provoking and both dramatic and humorous Crimes & Misdemeanors. This is my pick for best film of 1989.