Posts by brightcobra91

She’s basically just a remake of her old
flick—I honestly have no clue if it's any good since I haven't seen 🤷

I'm basically figuring out 🤷 newsstands, profiles, algorithms (like when those discounts hit), recording stuff off the TV, long-term rentals, downloads, and all that good stuff 🤷

wearytinker8 said:So what's the deal with that Black guy in the cowboy hat at the end?
Supposedly, it was inspired by some real thing that went down in New York City. Like, they wanted to freak out the guy being interrogated to force a confession—but they also made it look so wild that if he tried to complain, nobody would believe him.
True or not... the scene is just hilarious. When that guy walked in, I honestly thought an Indian, a construction worker, a biker, and the rest of the Village People were gonna follow right behind him.

🤣 🤣you hit the nail on the head

Walter Fowler53 said:http://www.petitiononline.com/Vixens02/petition.html 🙂

did you sign 😉 😁?
now that I've watched her movie myself—gonna give it another spin soon, maybe catch something I missed the first time🤷 : enlightenment:

wearytinker8 said:Those were the first Golden Raspberries back in 1980—they had some pretty wild nominations too; Friday the 13th for worst film, plus Brian De Palma (Dress to Kill) and Stanley Kubrick (The Shining).

🤣

plus Anthony Hopkins, Michael Caine, and Marlon Brando 🤷
Everyone has a bad day 🤷 😁 ?
Nowadays we've got Scent of Women 😍 😍 😍

redorca11 said:I think his roommate/lover killed him because he was jealous of his relationship with Al Pacino...

So, all in all, there aren't many pieces left for me to finish my Al Pacino marathon. My take on "Cruising"? Well, it was an interesting ride, for sure. It’s such a different kind of role for Al Pacino—he really nailed it, though. Definitely not his career-defining moment or anything, but a solid effort overall. I actually liked the movie, except for that messy ending... that killer part totally tripped me up. Did anyone else catch that? Wasn't the first killer (that curly-haired Slash look-alike) the one who stabbed the guy in the back while he was tied to the bed, only to end up being the murder victim himself in the park later that night?!?

brightcobra91, you're not alone... I was cracking up at that dance scene just as much as you, and honestly, that part where Pacino is lifting weights and drawing on his eyebrows with a pencil before hitting the club... pure comedy...

An interesting experience, indeed 😁. Basically, I'm with you on the description, though I’d just add that the whole thing screams untapped potential to me—there was so much more story to tell and characters to flesh out, but... hey, I'm no William Friedkin 😁.
That dance scene was literally hilarious 🤣, though I'm not entirely sure if Friedkin was actually aiming for laughs with it 😁, especially since he's trying to show how uncomfortable and "suffocated" Pacino's character feels.
I did a little digging on IMDb, and there are theories that men started becoming attractive to Pacino's character 😁 (which explains why he kept saying he couldn't take any more and had to get out—it was all too much). So, by denying those feelings and trying to destroy them within himself, he became a killer of the same sex (psychology, right? 😁). The movie really makes that visual for us 😁. And didn't he actually attack the guy in the park who ended up in the hospital?
Whoever thinks that's the case 🤷. I definitely need to give this one another watch 😁

Just wanted to mention I was cracking up during two specific scenes 😳 — Al Pacino's dance 🤣 and that guy absolutely wrecking the other dude during the interrogation 🙏
anyone else 😁?

Joshua Jones97 said:I actually started this thread just to chat about the movie—it’s airing on basic cable this Thursday—but for some weird reason, the mods moved it over to the TV Movies section, where we aren't even supposed to talk about movies! 👎

Al Pacino Film Cycle: Night Crawling, an American movie(18)
(CRUISING, 1980.)

USA Network 10.24.2007 11:35 PM

Drama. New York City. After several bodies of gay men are found brutally murdered, the police realize they're hunting a serial killer. With zero solid leads, Captain Edelson (Paul Sorvino) notices the victims share similar physical traits and decides to turn an undercover cop, Steve Burns (Al Pacino), into a detective to infiltrate the gay community. Burns takes the job, but without telling his girlfriend Nancy (Karen Allen) what's really going on, he moves out of their shared apartment and into a shady building where his first neighbors happen to be gay. Burns immediately starts hitting the local hangouts, but the killer strikes twice more before the cops can catch a break. Finding himself backed into a corner, the detective begins to face a massive identity crisis...

Filmed during the twilight of the so-called "New Hollywood" era, the Hollywood crime drama "Night Crawling" stands as one of the most controversial pieces in American cinematic history. Based on the novel by Gerald Walker, the movie—written by both screenwriter and director William Friedkin—serves as a monument to the liberalism of 1970s American cinema, which eventually gave way to conservatism during the Reagan era. Back then, one of America's most prominent filmmakers, Friedkin, tackled homosexual themes in a way rarely seen, drawing fire from conservatives who couldn't stomach the graphic scenes, and from liberals who disliked the blunt portrayal of the gay scene as something dangerous and sickly. To be fair, Friedkin doesn't paint the gay population in a rosy light, but he’s just as ruthless with the other characters, so instead of calling him homophobic, you might be better off accusing him of misanthropy. Great American actor Al Pacino (Godfather, Scent of Women, Heat, Awaken) delivers one of his most unusual and demanding performances in "Night Crawling." Because of the intense violence and scenes of "male love" that were pretty explicit for mainstream cinema, "Night Crawling" faced major issues with censors. This year, it saw a limited theatrical re-release and a DVD launch, 27 years after its debut.

* Runtime: 98 min.
* Cast: Al Pacino, Paul Sorvino, Karen Allen, Richard Cox, Don Scardino
* Screenplay: William Friedkin (based on the novel by Gerald Walker)
* Director: William Friedkin

I just watched it for the first time recently—decent start, but the ending gets super messy and confusing, almost like they had to rush to wrap it up.

True story😁

Who actually figured this one out? Like, who actually killed the neighbor? I am totally lost here 😁
Can someone please explain this to me? 😳

Walter Fowler53 said:I remember seeing this on FTV about 2 or 3 years back during that Pacino film series—watched the first two, including Scarecrow and Bobby Deerfield—now I'm just waiting for 😳 😁

I hate you 😁
but man, I'd love to watch that 🙂

I'm seriously dying to see 👋 😍
if they could just air And Justice for All, Scarecrow, or Bobby Deerfield once in a while...
has any of that ever actually been shown 🤷

redowl90 said:2001: A Space Odyssey by Kubrick has one of the absolute best opening 20 minutes in cinema history—but then it just totally falls off a cliff, making it the worst movie ever made.

🤣 🤣 seriously? the worst movie EVER?
those are some big claims right there—☕

Maybe Josh thinks he's being clever by saying "more" 😁

Kevin Lopez43 said:The big takeaway was if you ask me 😉

alright 🙂

Kevin Lopez43 said:Most of the movies on this list are actually solid—no complaints there. I just can't get past how many Fellini and Godard flicks are on here... honestly, I think they're way overrated.

🙂 gonna say it again: to each their own! 😁

Kevin Lopez43 said:Blowup is an English title 😉—and just like the OP mentioned at the start, when we talk about foreign films, we mean stuff from outside the English-speaking world. So basically, they've totally left out all the British movies 🤮

total nonsense 👎 😢

Jerry Martin19 said:if you take a closer look, this list is pretty thin 🙂

at least one by Roman Polanski—and even Miloš Forman (if we aren't counting him as an American filmmaker)...

yeah, definitely feeling a bit hollow 🙂

Grace Doyle said:Don't even get me started on Rocky. 😬

Some of the worst Oscar winners that come to mind: The English Patient, Chicago, Titanic, The Departed, Shakespeare in Love, and so on...

Braveheart definitely doesn't belong on that list.

Taxi Driver should've taken it over Rocky that year😁

Alex Long8 said:I haven't actually sat down to watch Infernal Affairs, but honestly, it probably wouldn't have been worth my time anyway if those actors were just staring blankly at each other the whole time.

Man, some of the nonsense being posted here... 👎 😵

I caught this recently—honestly, the law is such a trip 😍.
Also, I was totally vibing with Flushed Away 🙂.
Seriously, I'd much rather hit up the theater for stuff like this than sit through some "epic" live-action flick 😁