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Post by WarrenPeace on Mar 3, 2019 0:19:08 GMT
Re-watched it for the umteenth time the other night after not seeing it for awhile.
Overrated? Underrated? Just right?
Feel free to share any thoughts you have on this classic.
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Post by mortsahlfan on Mar 3, 2019 0:28:15 GMT
"I wish you'd stop being so good to me, boss"
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Post by WarrenPeace on Mar 3, 2019 0:35:20 GMT
"I wish you'd stop being so good to me, boss" Dog Boy: Well, lookie here. I knew they'd get you. Them chains and a bonus of a couple of years... Your running days are over forever, boy. Hell, I'd like to see you try to run again. You know, you getting so you smell so bad I can track you myself. Luke: Yeah, well, that ought to be easy for a genuine son of a bitch.
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Post by mortsahlfan on Mar 3, 2019 0:45:31 GMT
I think its overrated by more who underrated it. But I think I gave it a 7.5/10.. Should see it in the future, since I become a more rounded movie-lover.
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Post by WarrenPeace on Mar 3, 2019 0:52:34 GMT
I think its overrated by more who underrated it. But I think I gave it a 7.5/10.. Should see it in the future, since I become a more rounded movie-lover. I just found out that the actor who played the "Walking Boss," the one with "no eyes" and the only one who shot a gun in the movie, always wearing shades, passed away not that long ago. www.imdb.com/name/nm0940971/?ref_=tt_cl_t9 So he joins a bunch of others in the cast who have also passed away. RIP to: Dean Stanton Paul Newman George Kennedy Wayne Rogers Dennis Hopper Strother Martin "I see dead people."
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Post by mslo79 on Mar 3, 2019 1:18:44 GMT
I like it but it's overrated as Newman has definitely been in better movies, even back in those days like The Hustler (1961) (the role he was born to play!) and Butch Cassidy and the Sandance Kid (1969) etc.
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Post by bravomailer on Mar 3, 2019 2:21:50 GMT
Also deceased: Harry Dean Stanton, Luke Askew, Dennis Hopper, Clifton James.... Amazing cast.
8/10 from me.
Anyone remember when Strother Martin hosted SNL and played the boss of a French summer camp?
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Post by Archelaus on Mar 4, 2019 17:09:50 GMT
The movie is just right. It's a hallmark of the New Hollywood era. It's an interesting character study with relatable themes of non-conformity and defying authority. Paul Newman's performance is one of his best.
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Post by WarrenPeace on Mar 4, 2019 18:42:50 GMT
The movie is just right. It's a hallmark of the New Hollywood era. It's an interesting character study with relatable themes of non-conformity and defying authority. Paul Newman's performance is one of his best. Yeah, it came out at the time when the new generation was starting to make all these "Us vs Them" movies where the ones we root for end up getting shot to death. Such as Bonnie and Clyde, Easy Rider etc. Probably a reflection of the real life assassinations of heros that everyone in America admired.
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Post by drystyx on Mar 4, 2019 18:47:18 GMT
10/10 film can't be overrated.
Amazingly, Newman made his two very best films the same year. This one and HOMBRE. I choose HOMBRE as his very best, but this one is almost a tie, like an Alydar to an Affirmed, or Easy Goer to a Sunday Silence.
It's hard to understand why Newman chose this year to be in his two classic films. The only other Newman film that comes close is HUD. He probably expected EXODUS to fare better, and the only real trouble with EXODUS is that it lagged a lot.
After those four, his movies go way downhill.
I'm usually not into movies that glorify criminals, but this one is different. It really doesn't glorify the criminals. It more or less shows their faults.
The great thing about Luke is that he never tries to be the "hero". When he is first questioned about if he wants to be trouble. He shrugs and says meekly that he doesn't. He really just wants to get along, and in the meantime he makes some critiques that get him in trouble, but never in a loud or obnoxious way.
He becomes a legend, a working class hero out of sheer Nature. He never pushes to do it. He only pushes to be the best he can be.
This film comes a year after Guy Stockwell plays a similar character in a more relaxed depiction of Beau Geste. Both probably overlapped a bit in filming, so Luke really doesn't copy Beau, but the similarities are striking. It shows a mentality of some writers during that period to relax the hate and emotion so prevalent in the sixties.
It's unfortunate that this "relaxed" anti-hate was pushed aside in later movies, although Newman tended to choose roles in "relaxed anti-hate" movies.
The "anti-hate" attitude of Luke is obviously abhorrent to the modern day bubble boy, who would rather worship heroism that is more akin to the hijackers of 2001. The hate of extreme right and left proves that we need more films like COOL HAND LUKE.
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