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Post by Cat on Jun 14, 2021 18:35:24 GMT
Its time lapses were strange. I couldn't tell if after Larry Flynt were sentenced to 25 years, did he get out early to attend that rally, or did 25 years fly past? 25 years couldn't have passed, but how did Flynt get out of jail the first time?
Woody Harrelson did really well, especially when his speech impediment came in. Courtney Love surprised me. Edward Norton didn't because he's always good.
It's a good movie. Not great, but good. Very down the middle.
It's too bad the person who shot Flynt and his lawyer was never brought to justice. It seems very out of time (despite being a movie in the 90's about the 80's) that an assassin would be driven to assassination by pornography.
If the trial were as it appeared, then I'm glad the supreme court's ruling in Larry Flynt's favor was unanimous.
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Post by bravomailer on Jun 14, 2021 18:37:55 GMT
That was the first I saw of Edward Norton and I was deeply impressed.
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Post by movielover on Jun 14, 2021 19:31:16 GMT
Terrific movie. I wasn’t expecting to like it as much as I did.
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Post by politicidal on Jun 14, 2021 20:17:46 GMT
Apparently before his execution, a white supremacist and serial killer named Joseph Paul Franklin confessed to the shootings of Larry Flynt and a civil rights activist named Vernon Jordan.
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Post by Cat on Jun 14, 2021 20:45:36 GMT
Apparently before his execution, a white supremacist and serial killer named Joseph Paul Franklin confessed to the shootings of Larry Flynt and a civil rights activist named Vernon Jordan. Oh wow! How about that...
Crazy.
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Post by FridayOnElmStreet on Jun 14, 2021 21:13:11 GMT
7/10 Solid film.
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Post by darkreviewer2013 on Jun 15, 2021 9:58:27 GMT
Outstanding performances and the title character makes an excellent point about how ludicrous it is that society considers sexually explicit imagery obscene to the point of prosecuting its distributors (esp. a couple of decades back) while simultaneously glorifying violence and violent imagery.
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Post by darkreviewer2013 on Jun 15, 2021 10:03:25 GMT
Apparently before his execution, a white supremacist and serial killer named Joseph Paul Franklin confessed to the shootings of Larry Flynt and a civil rights activist named Vernon Jordan. I read about that. Apparently, he'd viewed a pictorial segment in one of Flynt's magazines depicting mixed-race sex and this was something that he was completely ideologically opposed to due to his deep-seated racist beliefs. There is a silver lining to his story though. Apparently, prison led him to interact with black people on a regular basis and he renounced his racism before his execution, stating "I saw they were people just like us."
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Post by Rey Kahuka on Jun 15, 2021 11:57:51 GMT
I'd need a wheelchair.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 15, 2021 12:16:06 GMT
Living Ina sealed vault never looked so glamorous
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Post by Vits on Jun 15, 2021 19:36:33 GMT
8/10
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Post by jcush on Jun 15, 2021 19:39:45 GMT
I think it's quite good. Harrelson's best film performance in my opinion, and Courtney Love is very good too.
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Post by Cat on Jun 15, 2021 20:03:14 GMT
I think it's quite good. Harrelson's best film performance in my opinion, and Courtney Love is very good too. He was excellent. By the time his speech impediment kicked in I felt like I was watching an Oscar worthy performance.
I'd never seen Courtney Love in a film before. She did great too. If I'd seen it at the time, I'd have known a star was being born in Edward Norton.
Totally agreed.
Woody Harrelson seems like he gets Flynt. He did a really good job of being somebody who doesn't have to be likable to be right. He had to go all the way to the highest court in the land before they stopped rolling their eyes at him for standing up for what's right.
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Post by Cat on Jun 15, 2021 20:04:56 GMT
Living Ina sealed vault never looked so glamorous It did look pretty damn comfy!
I haven't seen a bed that soft since Goldilocks and the 3 Bears.
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Post by TheGoodMan19 on Jun 15, 2021 21:38:07 GMT
Great movie. The three leads were awesome. Agree with everyone else, Norton was great but that's no surprise. So was Harrelson, my favorite of his, other than Three Billboards. Courtney Love was great too. Her life experience must have cam in handy in playing the whacked out Althea Flynt. Woody deserved an Oscar, but so did Billy Bob Thornton for Sling Blade, mmmmmm. Tough year, Norton was nominated, but the Primal Fear, not Larry Flynt. Up against Cuba Godding (Jerry Maguire), James Woods (Ghosts of Mississippi) and William H. Macy (Fargo). It's difficult to make a biographical film about a not too nice person and make him somewhat sympathetic.
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Post by Spitfire926f on Jun 15, 2021 22:27:33 GMT
I love it. I was touched he and Althea's love story. Their lifestyle isn't for everyone, but they genuinely got each other.
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Post by mikef6 on Jun 16, 2021 1:03:12 GMT
I'm sorry. I don't do impressions. But I can tell you how I liked the movie which I haven't seen since 1998.
I agree that Woody was very good and Courtney surprisingly so. I thought it was quite entertaining. I must have like it pretty much because I can still remember what I thought about it. I saw a lot of other movies in 1998 but when I look at their titles, I don't have a clue what they were about or who was in them.
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Post by hoskotafe3 on Jun 16, 2021 5:33:40 GMT
My main impression was "Geez, that young actor who played the lawyer was quite compelling, I wouldn't mind seeing him in something else."
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