This should be rated NC-17 for sheer emotional exhaustion. This thing is going to be with me forever!
The true Leone trilogy is The Good, the Bad & the Ugly, Once Upon a Time in the West & finally Duck, You Sucker! Who cares about the A Fistful of Dollars & For a Few Dollars More, or Once Upon a Time in America (alright, that's a fine movie, but not perfect). When I was a child, and naive, I thought this film was the weakest and slowest. Now I see through all the BS and find it's a perfect cinematic experience.
Surprisingly funny.
Let's live in a world where this is a forgotten film. Oh wait, we already do!
I have no bond with the original film (I was 30 before I ever saw it). But this movie is trash on its own terms. Neil LaBute seems to really hate women. Just look at how females are treated in his films (I’ve never seen his plays but of all of Shakespeare’s plays, he worked on The Taming of the Shrew).
Simply underrated.
Stupidly underrated film.
There are a lot of people who don't like this film. I think it's done something amazing. It took the lead male from the first film & showed his psychological response to how he interpreted the mystic that is in the first film. We see this in how he reacts to his 8 year old daughter’s youthful imagination. He suffocates her. There are NO CAT PEOPLE. And this film can stand alone. Amazing, better than Cat People.
Not what I thought it was going to be. I'm not sure I've ever seen a movie like this before. It gives one a very strange feeling.
I feel like this one is better than Old Boy and Lady Vengeance.
Oddly hilarious.
It's okay 'Powers That Be', it's probably best to not put Barry Lyndon on Blu Ray. In fact we should all just forget that this film ever was, it's only one of the greatest films by one of the greatest filmmakers, so I don't know why we should keep perserving it and putting it onto new mediums.
Joel is a jerk.
I was put on this earth to tell people that it is okay to like this terrible movie.
The sound production (what felt like dubbing) really stopped this from being a perfect film (this happened with Welles' Macbeth, though I don't think his version of Macbeth is all that good). Welles is the best Falstaff I've seen (in a non-Opera). A lot of people will say this film is better than they really think it is because Welles' loved it and they don't wish to feel like they've missed something. They didn't.
Every magical thing he introduced at the start would have a function at the end, look at the Dark Crystal were weird creatures would be on the screen for a millisecond then never return, that’s how you open up a world of wonder. Made up of simple emotional manipulation, simple story and visuals that got old within an hour (and leaves you with two hours of a cartoon). And BULLDOZERS!!!!!! REALLY!!?
As far as I can see, this is easily one of the most magical, creative, "deep", serious, funny and honest films I have ever seen.
That's B-E-E-T-H-....
This is the type of movie where one can seperate the film SNOBS, from people who LOVE film. This one of the most fun movies ever, and it never once takes it's self seriously.
Holy God what an amazing film! What an amazing Buñuel!
One of the most magical films ever made.
This was a pretty amazing film. I thought it was near perfect, then a Djini came in and sucked the life out of the picture.
This movie is amazing. I wouldn't have guessed it was a Kurasawa film if I didn't already know.
This picture is from Faces (I believe)
Maybe in the early seventies this was something, but it doesn't hold up well for me. The philosophy of the "crazy" lady one had an affair with I find mildly offensive.
That picture is from 'Chicago' not from the movie ALL THAT JAZZ.
AMAZING MOVIE!!!!!
This is so much better than The Good, The Bad and The Ugly.
Pixar forever!
I can't believe this is the movie Gilliam always wanted to make! It was kind of cliche' and boring.