This is one of my favorite movies. Mickey Rourke's best performance imho and the cinematography is amazing. And of course Diane Lane is great and damn cute too...
The sealed world is exactly why they were allowed to shoot it in New York, because it didn’t stereotype the Italian Americans as one way. Lol but the trouble was there and it hasn’t got anything to do with ethnic or races or anything except just individual races going crazy.
Did anybody else notice the insane amount of shot similarity to gladiator? The slave trader with the fly swatter, throwing ur weapon at the ruler watching u fight, holding ur crying face against the filthy dead feet of ur hung lover, I'm sure I could go on. I haven't sat thru Spartacus is it basically the same movie?
Fun fact: S.E. Hinton (writer of Rumble Fish & The Outsiders & many more) plays a cameo in the scene where Motorcycle Boy & Rusty James are talking about his fear of being alone. She is the "hooker" that propositions Rusty James & then Steve at the bottom of the stairs.
So laughably stupid it boggles the mind that anyone could rave about it. I think the torment that people see in Hackmans' performance is the torment of agreeing to do this film. THAT is why he didn't want to do another small picture.
This movie was ahead of its time. Explore how technology is going to affect our lifes, providing deep information instantenously about us to other entities (the scene of car chase is an extraordinary example) and the alienation of our relationships because of that. A masterpiece that overcome the test of the time.
Ebert was right in 1979. Siskel’s take, in retrospect, comes off as almost amateurishly tangential and beside the point of the film’s now-obvious, lightening-in-a-bottle genius. Roger saw what many couldn’t see at the time.
It has it's faults, but there is plenty to love about Rumble fish. I do wonder if I over rate it because of the way it looks and the brilliant soundtrack thou.
The movie was genius i.m.o. I think the reason Gene didn't like it, is because he's never had to live a hard life. The movie's plot was simple. It was Rusty James trying to find himself like every other teenager in their life. His brother was his hero, because his father was a horrible role model. His brother had already been through the craziness of their parents divorce, and had come back to I believe help his brother. My dad was a horrible father figure too. I grew up on an army base during the Vietnam war, and when he came back. He was a very violent person. He eventually left our family for another women, then conveniently committed suicide a few weeks later when I was nine. So I understand where this moving is coming from. Maybe thats why Gene didn't get it.
That's kind of a silly argument You don't have to be in the mob to enjoy Goodfellas He didn't have to live in the slums to love Pixote I grew up in the Bronx and I didn't think Rumble Fish was good It was ok , not terrible, but very muddled plot wise
They really did. This movie was phenomenal i.m.o. But when you have never lived a life like their's. It's really hard to understand the full meaning of the movie.
Siskel and Ebert don't know shit. I've seen the movie at least 100 times - and it is an absolute masterpiece. I love "Lawrence of Arabia" as well - but for dramatic impact, "Spartacus" does far more in less time. Kubrick and Douglas were at their best, the cast was excellent and the score by Alex North is just brilliant. The movie is arguably one of the best set during the time of Ancient Rome.
I never realized back when I was a kid how stupid These two dumbass critics are. My God if they made a movie like this these days… All they make now are superhero bullshit movies Coppola was among the last great Directors of real artistic movies.
I wonder what led Coppola to cast Gene Hackman. Hackman is fantastic in this but it's so unlike any characters he had played before. I wonder if Coppola saw something specific that persuaded him that Hackman was right for the role.
Hello..... According to Francis Ford Coppola's autobiography, he originally had written the character of Harry Caul with Marlon Brando in mind to portray the role. However, Brando declined Coppola's offer to portray the role much to Coppola's dismay...... Therefore Gene Hackman was cast to portray the role of Harry Caul & the rest is history.....
@@johnjacobs5199 Thanks for your response. I'm glad Brando wasn't cast. I don't think he would have been right for it at all. Did Coppola explain why he chose Hackman?
Used the love theme at my Greek father's funeral. (Although the tape stopped playing halfway!!) Love this movie. So poignant that Varinia and Spartacus' baby ride off into the sunset with Batiatus, endowed with Graccus' money, owner of the Gladiator school, to start a new life.
I’ve tried to watch it several times but it is the antithesis of SK’s revolutionary approach to film. The diagetic score, in particular, Mickey Mouses every plot point, telling the audience how to feel. Much of the photography looks like studio bound technicolor. It has its moments, but it feels like SK was directing with one hand tied behind his back.
Wonderful score by Alex North, wonderful photography by Russell Metty, Kubrick should have directed his following films with two hands tied behind his back, they could have been better.
S'not bad, but the whole movie was produced because Kirk Douglas was pissed off that Charlton Heston (not Jewish) had the starring role in Ben Hur, which was a better film IMO.
Ben Hur is a wonderful epic once it gets going. But it is marred by that lengthy opening sequence blathering on about a religious myth and that myth later being brought up again in the film. If it just stuck to the main story of Ben Hur it would stand higher in my opinion. Not containing religious nonsense makes Spartacus so much better than Ben Hur.
Spartacus may not be as good as Lawrence of Arabia (I agree with this) but that is really nitpicking. Spartacus is an absolutely brilliant film. Fantastic! It stands way up there among epics and beats most of them in my opinion. Just an amazing achievement by all who created it.
Freado sets Mike up with whores because to him that’s the best gifts to give. 😅hahaha what a great idea. He can’t believe everyone else isn’t a whoremonger like him.
Many of Roger Ebert's critiques were so blatantly WRONG that I can't even understand how they gave him his own TV show! For example, him not calling "Spartacus" an epic is the one of the most idiotic statements I've ever heard about films, and I'm 76-years old. Don't believe me? Take a look at the ending battle scene, a scene so huge that it could have never even been made today with the use of actual extras, only CGI. And take another good look at the huge CAST, consisting of the greatest film and stage actors who ever lived. By ANY use of the term, the sheer scope and size of this monumental film qualifies it as a bona fide epic for all time, including "Ben Hur."
I saw it in the theater as a kid and didn’t like it. It came out on TV years later and did a 180 and loved the film. Fast forward to today and I put it in the top ten movies of all time.
