Posts by Samuel Scott54

I guess this might be his best work, maybe even better than Duel.

Finally got around to watching "Heart of Glass." It’s such a fascinating movie, though I guess it wouldn't be quite the same without that soundtrack. The music is just beautiful!

I guess Chazz is basically like a nine-year-old who witnessed a murder right there on the streets of the Bronx. He's pretty much Calogero from the movie.

dustyfalcon7 said:I'm not sure about the "copying" label. That feels a bit harsh for De Palma. To me, it felt more like an upgraded version of a Giallo.

It’s basically cinematic homage. Dressed to Kill is actually a remake of Obsession.

And De Palma isn't the only one who grew up idolizing Hitchcock. Claude Chabrol was definitely influenced by him, and so was Dario Argento, the master of Giallo.

dustyfalcon7 said:To me, "Dressed to Kill" feels more like an Italian Giallo than something by Hitchcock.

Sorry, I guess the whole idea was just a riff on Psycho.

Morgan Brown4 said:Look, Hitchcock’s influence is huge, but let's not get carried away here. It’s definitely not just some "everyday" movie.

Think about Dressed to Kill, Blow Out (where you can see some Antonioni too), Raising Cain, Body Double, Obsession, Sisters, or even the whole femme fatale vibe...

It’s nothing wrong, though—De Palma himself actually admitted who his idols and his "godfather" are.

I guess you could say De Palma is a true student of Hitchcock; almost every single one of his movies feels like a little homage to him, so I think you really have to look at his entire body of work to get the full picture.

I honestly think Obsession and Sisters are his absolute best work.

He’s definitely an actor who can come off as a bit full of himself, almost like he feels the need to be the biggest star in every single scene. I guess it makes sense why he lands lead roles in movies that feel just as over-the-top as he is. He was probably at his absolute best back when he was a younger actor—I mean, films like >, >, >, or even > were pretty solid... He’s got a huge filmography with some real gems in there, though I suppose there's plenty of trash mixed in too. As for the main one, I wasn't exactly blown away.

I guess Mike Tyson was never really known for his intellect. Back when he was just a kid, he actually thought he could take on a gorilla in a cage. Honestly, a male gorilla would probably kill any man out there.

It was a solid movie, I guess, but nothing special. Honestly, I think Hitchcock's Rear Window is way better.

That's interesting! I haven't actually seen Heart of Glass yet, I guess.

I mean, that whole Herzog and Kinski connection? Honestly, it’s probably the wildest thing in cinema history to me.

Whenever I hear Werner Herzog mentioned, I immediately picture Kinski’s crazy face from Aguirre, Dracula, Nosferatu, or Woyzeck...

Steven Newman50 said:It’s all fair, really—it’s just that they aren't quite as famous as those epic hero movies. I guess later criticisms hit on that exact point, since he tended to focus on heroic figures and sometimes leaned into promoting elitism.

I honestly think those are just critiques from people who only scratched the surface of Kurosawa. In my opinion, you shouldn't have "critics" weighing in on Kurosawa if they haven't even seen Stray Dog, Drunken Angel, The Quiet Duel, Scandal, or I Live in Fear.

I mean, I don't know what kind of film critics these Kurosawa fans are, missing out on his entire run through the 40s and 50s!

Steven Newman50 said:Watching *Ikiru* kind of reminds me of Ozu's style. It’s a bit of a departure for Kurosawa, since he's mostly known for those epic heroes, samurai, and big historical dramas set in the USA. But I guess this is a nice change of pace!

It’s not really true that he didn't do those kinds of films. In his 40s and 50s, he actually made several non-samurai movies, which I think I mentioned earlier in this thread. Honestly, some of those films are probably among Kurosawa's absolute best!

How many more movies about Al Capone do we actually need?

The whole movie really hit me hard. It’s such a simple story, yet so incredibly moving—it follows this man trying to find purpose in life only when he realizes how quickly it's slipping away.

I can definitely see some parallels here with Italian Neorealism, like the stuff from Umberto D. The films just feel like they come from the same soul.

I guess Kurosawa is at his absolute best when he isn't doing those samurai epics. Besides Ikiru, he did Stray Dog (Nora Ina), which is a super solid noir crime flick, and then there's I Live in Fear, that drama about an industrialist where you barely even recognize Mifune. Oh, and Quiet Duel with Mifune too... they're all the kind of movies that really stick with you and make you think.

Ikiru is just a masterpiece, maybe one of Kurosawa's absolute best.

I honestly thought this was going to be a remake of that Langov classic from 1944, but I guess it’s actually something else entirely.

Lol, I honestly don't know if this is actually true, but there's some talk going around about Rocky III being in the works, and apparently the bad guy might be the son of Clubber Lang from Rocky. And get this—he’d be played by none other than Deontay Wilder, the current undefeated WBC champion in the heavyweight division.