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Post by bravomailer on Mar 3, 2018 3:13:42 GMT
I think Casablanca is rather sappy – a 6.5/10.
The Slate article is ridiculously wordy – a 3/10.
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Post by Primemovermithrax Pejorative on Mar 3, 2018 6:03:25 GMT
"The film was a solid if unspectacular success in its initial run." |
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Post by BATouttaheck on Mar 3, 2018 6:12:23 GMT
"The film was a solid if unspectacular success in its initial run." Earlier Gruffimus Prime said : On wiki it says the movie was mot popular with audiences when released.
Pick a lane. Any lane !
Doghouse has said what I would like to have been able to verbalize. Sorry that you seem to have missed the full effect of this pretty amazing movie. It's infinitely re-watchable, imo. |
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Post by Primemovermithrax Pejorative on Mar 3, 2018 6:22:55 GMT
Well I thought he implied that it was popular with audiences when it came out. Certainly that wiki quote doesn't suggest it was a smash hit. I am not surprised--movies about war-especially when your family may be killed in the war being promoted, have probably never been a huge draw. El Cid is a film where there is a situation in which a character seems to choose war over love----however in that case there really are personal stakes--if he fails the castle is overrun and his family may be killed. That movie does resonate over time because there is nothing counter-intuitive in the message. I can watch it on a rare moon but its so corny. Isn't there a scene with Bogie driving a car? You know what it is too--Bogart is NOT a romantic lead type. He's good as a criminal with a heart of gold or some gumshoe etc, but that kind of part is very much controlled via the music. I prefer Treasure of the Sierra Madre and Bogie's romance with gold. |
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Post by BATouttaheck on Mar 3, 2018 6:38:50 GMT
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Post by Primemovermithrax Pejorative on Mar 3, 2018 6:44:58 GMT
Any more lip out of you and I'll haul off and let you have it. If you know what's good for you, you won't monkey around with Fred C. Dobbs. |
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