Started 3-7-24. Finished 3-16-24.
Yeah, this is one of my favorite movies.
I wanted to love this so bad. It's such a classic, and everyone involved are such favorites of mine. I also hadn't seen it in 20 years, so I was hoping I'd find a new way in. Nope, Jake LaMatta is just so horrible and unsympathic. Just didn't work for me. Probably never will.
I didn't need the 2 hour director's cut, but I enjoyed this more than I expected to.
Really enjoyed this. I’d never seen it from start to finish before, but the movie was on heavy rotation on TV in the 90s, so I’ve probably seen all of it in parts.
Fred Gwynne as Jud is like the perfect Stephen King casting and performance.
This was excellent. A blind spot for me, I expected this to be schlockier than it turned out to be. Some of the creature designs were fantastic! Not every comedy bit lands, and there's some definite 80s overacting, but the 80s horror veteran cast is really, otherwise impressive!
Whoa. This was a total blind spot for me, and I’m so bummed to have discovered it while I’m older than the characters portrayed.
If I had seen this in high school or college it would have absolutely defined my personality for a while.
Ethan Hawke doesn’t miss. Winona Ryder is everything. This is so 90s it aches.
“I ride my own melt.”
Most of this actually works better than I expected. It’s definitely trying a John Wick world building kind of thing, but Jason Statham doesn’t have half of Keanu Reeves’s charisma. He’s honestly the worst part of the whole show. No nuance, no humor, no feeling. He’s going for cold, hard assassin, but it comes off as flat and—the absolute worst movie adjective—boring.