Do yourself a favor. Go watch the trailer, think to yourself, “Wow, that looks like it might be a great film,” and leave it at that.
I’ve never been a huge Brian De Palma fan, and I should have remembered that when I went to see this film. I kept thinking that it might […]
Mmm-hm. Reckon I’d like some o’ dem french fried potaters. Mmm-hm.
Yes, yes. So I’m 6 years late to the “imitating that guy from Sling Blade” party. Sosumi. I like the way he talks. 🙂
“That guy” in question is Karl, a somewhat mentally unstable fellow played by Billy Bob Thornton, who also wrote and […]
I wanted to like this movie. I really wanted to like this movie. As it turns out, though, this is one of those select few films that drag in the beginning and the end, yet are compelling in the middle. I suppose that’s a risk you run when you make a movie based on a […]
I have to admit, when the opening credits came on, and the cheesy 60s music started, I thought I would find it hard to take this movie seriously… but with all the humor (intentional and unintentional) it drew me in, and in the end, made me think, which, to me, is what a good film is all about.
It’s a very funny picture, a good part of it being the nervous tension that you feel right along with the characters. It keeps being funny all the way through, while hitting some big home runs when it comes to actually addressing the issues of prejudice. An incredible movie that still hits its mark 35 years later.
:: 1967 :: dir. Stanley Kramer :: 
