RE: The Last Movie You Watched
September 6, 2022 at 7:59 am
(This post was last modified: September 6, 2022 at 8:00 am by Fake Messiah.)
(September 5, 2022 at 6:40 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: ‘Once Upon A Time In America’ (1984)
I resisted watching this for a long time, chiefly because 3 hours and 49 minutes struck me as hard to sit through. But, it’s often touted as one of the all time great gangster films, so I thought I’d see what I’d been missing.
Made it to about 45 minutes. What a dreary, uninteresting mess.
Boru
Yeah, that pretty much sums up my opinion of that movie.
I was recently watching movies by Samuel Fuller. His early movie "Steel Helmet" is great, a masterpiece. War movie that was very anti-Hollywood in its portrayal of war and very dramatic which was an anomaly back in those days when it was made. And if you watch it you will see that Spielberg and Lucas were fans of it.
Then I watched his successor movies "Fixed Bayonets" and "Park Row" which were more formulaic and thus not that good.
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