Anyone else blown away by this film?
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kathryn49 — 19 years ago(August 11, 2006 10:00 PM)
This is one of my (if not my absolute favorite) favorite movies. i love the seventies and it's films (even though i wasn't born yet) and this definately is top of the line and underappreciated. i was blown away by pretty much everything, the performances, the direction (pakula deserves way more credit) and the cinematography, it's dark yet incredibly unique. i've seen it countless times and have yet to tire of it. i personally paid more attention to the lovestory than the thriller portion of it, it's complex and makes you think (which makes some parts all the more better), unlike the cliche's of today's lovestories. and in some cases seeing it can make you think about a lot of things, love, sex, isolation, can you name any other movies that can do that so well? i didn't think so. why can't they make them like this anymore?
want to know what really sucks though? i can't buy the dvd because i'm underage.mpaa-goddamned hyppocrite squares!
hehehe.
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Catdubh — 19 years ago(August 13, 2006 06:43 AM)
I too love this film. It has become a favorite of mine. Sutherland and Fonda were wonderful.
I love Fonda's character, Bree Daniel. "You're very square". "We'll have a party". "What kind of party did you want?" "I'm just a nervous broad."
"was he a freak?"
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rrb — 19 years ago(September 26, 2006 08:47 PM)
It's great to see that so many of you adore this film, as I do. I was in high school when it came outit's one of many R-rated films I snuck into as a 15-year-old. That was such an incredible time in moviesMASH, Klute, French Connection, The GodfatherHollywood was just starting to release major studio films that were irreverent, gritty, sexually frank, sometimes shockingly violent (for the time)breaking new ground with works that are now considered classics. The New York of Klute is another aspect I love. Its presence is as strongly felt as any character'sits squalor, danger, luridness all add an unnerving atmosphere & implicit threat of violence. The acting's superb & subtle, the score spare and effective (I especially love the smoky "love theme"), and yessadly, they just don't make them like this anymore.
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rissypants15 — 16 years ago(November 15, 2009 09:26 AM)
I liked that the whole film seems dark, the directing was brilliant, and this movie is a huge tribute to the 70s. Watch it nowadays and it screams 70s. And it started the 70s movies movement. Im 15 and im a movie geek, i know what movies have done what and all that jazz. But this movie is why "pretty woman" exsists, hell it's why julia roberts exsists. its when people started to suddenly stop and look at people. And when you see a movie, that is sympathetic to a call girl , like this then you begin to understand. Breakfast At Tiffany's was supposed to be about a Call girl, but they changed it because they didn't thing that was proper for the screen. The only other movie ever like this, was Butterfield 8, which doesn't show the horrors of prostitution, but it was the first ever movie to make you sympatheize for a call girl.
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Eumenides_0 — 16 years ago(November 16, 2009 05:41 AM)
I like your enthusiasm for this movie, but how can it be a tribute to the '70s if the movie was made right at the start of that decade
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Eumenides_0 — 16 years ago(November 16, 2009 06:30 PM)
I know what you mean. It has an amazing atmosphere, the urban grittiness, the sleaziness, the human complexity, the moral ambiguity, the slow rhytm. It's a representative of what was great in the '70s. We'll never have cinema this great again
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rissypants15 — 16 years ago(November 16, 2009 07:57 PM)
exactly!!!!! yu jus knw more bout the 70s than i do,im 15lol. the only feel of the 70s is thru movies & they r everything
yu jus said they were. what yu said was actually quite beautiful.
"the crunch means it's working"