Letterboxd — Your life in film

This was mostly a mess, but I love the car chase, I love Shelly Duvall, and I love Milhouse, the absolute legend.

A visual treat.

There’s one scene in here - the one that’s reminiscent of a famous Batman scene - that will leave you wanting the full-on Billy Wilder horror movie that we never got. The film is quite well made but despite all the critical acclaim this received, I was left kind of cold by it. Certain scenes do a good job at selling Don’s spiral, but others are too melodramatic. I think that not being able to give this my full attention probably hurt my enjoyment.

60% of this movie is James Cagney shouting and pointing, and it’s great.

I know this movie has inspired tons of interesting discussion and interpretations but my main takeaway was that we don’t talk enough about how great Tears for Fears are.

Always fun to watch a movie and realize that Community based a whole episode off of it. This was a good character piece with some great visual flair from Scorsese.

Love the score and it all the cast delivered - especially Piper Laurie - I just never connected with it emotionally.

A good movie that is really hurt by its structure. Separating the mystery & most of the flashbacks and character development into distinct halves gives it an odd feel, especially when the mystery is not that hard to solve.

Russell is great and Zoe Bell rocks but I never really got on the movie’s wavelength, especially during the first half. Maybe the version in Grindhouse would work better for me.

Very 2000s for better or for worse but I’m just a sucker for a good heist movie.

It’s no Face/Off but it is very dumb in very fun ways.