1981 Directed by Bob Rafelson
This remake of the 1946 movie of the same name accounts an affair between a seedy drifter and a seductive wife of a roadside cafe owner. This begins a chain of events that culminates in murder. Based on a novel by James M. Cain.
Jack Nicholson Jessica Lange John Colicos Michael Lerner Anjelica Huston John P. Ryan William Traylor Jon Van Ness Brian Farrell Albert Henderson Christopher Lloyd Don Calfa Louis Turenne Thomas Hill Sam Edwards Joni Palmer Lionel Mark Smith Virgil Frye Brion James Ron Flagge Elsa Raven James O'Connell William Newman Raleigh Bond Glenn Shadix Tani Guthrie Carolyn Coates Kopi Sotiropulos
I have only seen Jessica Lange in roles from the current decade, already in the midst of her sixties. Unfortunately, she looks like a puckered up old prune, with the heavily lined face of someone who spent forty years of her life squinting cigarette smoke out of her eyes. When she attempts to assert herself as a sexy minx against the ravages of aging, she ends up appearing grotesque rather than desirable. Or maybe thats just me. Perhaps sixty is still sexy but I am an ageist prick.
Then last night I saw her as a fresh faced 22-year old in The Postman Always Rings Twice. Wow. As a young woman, her face was an alluring mystery, half hidden behind…
My memory of this film was fading, and although I still haven't seen the 1946 original, I decided it was time for a refresher. What a great reminder of how superlative Jack Nicholson can be at the top of his game, playing the capricious drifter Frank Chambers. And what great sexual chemistry Jessica Lange can stir up when she's paired with the right leading man.
I also enjoyed revisiting the cameos by Christopher Lloyd as a young salesman, Anjelica Huston as the gypsy lion tamer named Madge, and Michael Lerner as the clever shyster Mr. Katz. And I had forgotten how well John Colicos played his role as Greek immigrant Nick Papadakis, the husband of Cora (Lange) and owner of…
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I didn't finish this as I fell asleep about halfway through it. I wasn't even that tired but I think this thing just put me to sleep, I was that bored by it.
I'm not going to go back and attempt to finish it because my mind is really fighting me doing that (see, it can work for me sometimes) but what I will say is that sex scene was way more explicit than I was expecting. Absolute filth, I'm fucking disgusted....
....by the way they tossed that really nice-looking bread on the floor like that. I could have eaten that.
Good thing I take my antidepressants at this time of night because that ending really kicked me in the gut.
i didn't know what tf was going on the whole time HOWEVER in the first 20 minutes there was a legnthy shot of jack nicholson going to town on jessica lange's muff so safe to say i'm pretty shaken up
Pretty dull and pointless. Missing the snap of the original and even though it has a period setting this is frightfully dated in its attempt to frame sexual assault as kinky roughhousing.
Good thing I take my antidepressants at this time of night because that ending really kicked me in the gut.
"Will you use a glass? What are you, an animal?"
Felt like a 2 hour recap of a tv soap opera.
Two of the greats: Jessica Lange and Jack Nicholson
But apart from them, I found the film badly paced and the character motivation a little uneven
Well, I came here just to see Jessica Lange and stayed just for her. I remember when in my class, my teacher said "what is the best sex scene in cinema? The postman always rings twice". I mean... really? I think Frank just rapped Cora almost all the time and that's disgusting, not hot.
And also... where the hell was the postman.
Just giving it two stars because it was not bad, but I'm tired to see how man rape woman and people think "that's sexy".
A watchable thriller on its own terms, short of some repellent sexual politics. Overloud music cues stomp out all nuance from the lead performances. The ending sails past dark comic irony into silliness.
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